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Colquhoun
Colquhoun ( ) is a surname of Scotland, Scottish origin. The "l" is typically silent per developments in the Phonological history of Scots, Scots language. Phonetically, MacOlquhoun is similar to McElhone, MacElhone/MacIlhone and therefore Colquhoun may sometimes derive from the Gaelic name ''Mac Giolla Còmhghan''. ''Còmhghan'' is derived from ''comh'' ("together") and ''gan-'', ''gen-'' ("born").. Calhoun (surname), Calhoun, Colhoun (other), Colhoun, Calhoon, Colhoon, Cohoon, Hoon, Cahoun, and Cahoon are variants of the surname Colquhoun. They are generally found as simplifications and respellings, though all of them can occur from unrelated sources. In particular, Calhoun (surname), Calhoun is from the Irish language, Irish variant of Colquhoun. People with the surname Arts and entertainment * Alan Colquhoun, architect and architectural theorist * Alexander Colquhoun (artist) * Archibald Colquhoun (translator), Archibald Colquhoun, translator * Amalie Sara Colquhoun, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Clan Colquhoun
Clan Colquhoun ( ) is a Highland Scottish clan. History Origins of the clan The lands of the clan Colquhoun are on the shores of Loch Lomond. During the reign of Alexander II, Umphredus de Kilpatrick received from Malduin, Earl of Lennox, the estates of Colquhoun, Auchentorily and Dumbuck. The clan chief's early stronghold was at Dunglass Castle, which is perched on a rocky promontory by the River Clyde. Dunglass was also close to the royal Dumbarton Castle, of which later Colquhoun chiefs were appointed governors and keepers. The chief's title was that of the Barony of Luss which came to the clan when Sir Robert of Colquhoun married the heiress of the Lord of Luss in about 1368. 15th and 16th centuries During the minority of James II of Scotland, Sir John Colquhoun was appointed governor of the royal Dumbarton Castle. However he was murdered during a raid at Inchmurrin in 1439. He was succeeded by his son, another Sir John, who rose to be Comptroller of the Roya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ithell Colquhoun
Ithell Colquhoun ( 9 October 1906 – 11 April 1988) was a British painter, occultist, poet and author. Stylistically her artwork was affiliated with Surrealism. In the early 1930s she met André Breton in Paris, and later started working with Surrealist automatism techniques in her writing and painting. In the late 1930s, Colquhoun was part of the British Surrealist Group before being expelled because she refused to renounce her association with occult groups, including the Ordo Templi Orientis and the Fellowship of Isis. Despite her break with the movement, Colquhoun was a lifelong adherent to Surrealism and its automatic techniques. Colquhoun was born in Shillong in British India, but brought up in the United Kingdom. After studying at Cheltenham Ladies College and the Slade School of Art, she lived briefly in Paris before moving back to London. She spent the latter part of her life in Cornwall, where she died in 1988. Biography Margaret Ithell Colquhoun was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Amalie Sara Colquhoun
Amalie Sara Colquhoun (20 March 1894 – 16 June 1974) was an Australian landscape and portrait painter who is represented in national and state galleries. In addition to painting landscapes, portraits and still lifes, Colquhoun designed and supervised the construction of stained glass windows for three of Ballarat's churches, St Andrew's Kirk, Lydiard Street Uniting Church and Mount Pleasant Methodist Church. She studied in both Melbourne and Sydney, exhibited in England and Australia and taught in the school she started with her husband in Melbourne. Biography She was born Amalie Sara Field in Murtoa, a town in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia to parents Alfred Francis Field, a blacksmith, and Louisa Caroline, née Degenhardt, both Australian born. They moved to Ballarat in 1904 where Amalie studied drawing and design at the Ballarat Technical Art School, becoming the Art Mistress there in the mid-1920s. She was described by Harold Herbert as one of the most brillia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alexander Colquhoun (artist)
Alexander Colquhoun (15 February 1862 – 14 February 1941) was a Scotland, Scottish-born Australians, Australian painter, illustrator and art critic. Early life and training Colquhoun was born the youngest child of Margaret (née Wright) and Archibald Colquhoun, merchant on 15 February 1862 and lived at 166 Hospital Street, Glasgow. Migrating to Australia on the ''Loch Vennachar, Loch Vennacher'' when he was fourteen, the family arrived in Melbourne in 1876. The eldest daughter Margaret died soon after their arrival in Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, where they settled and where the oldest son Archibald, who had trained in Glasgow, practiced at the Alfred Hospital before moving to Bendigo Hospital where in 1880 he was appointed resident surgeon, but died 9 November 1892 shortly after his resignation earlier that year. Alexander may have had preliminary art training in Glasgow from his father, but the first classes he attended in Australia were at the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
CDawgVA
Connor Marc Colquhoun ( /kəˈhuːn/ ''kə-HOON''; born 26 July 1996), known online as CDawgVA, is a Welsh streamer, YouTuber, voice actor, and podcaster currently based in Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with the Kadokawa-backed agency GeeXPlus. Career Colquhoun created his YouTube channel CDawgVA in February 2014. In November 2019, Colquhoun moved to Tokyo to begin working as an influencer for the Kadokawa-backed agency GeeXPlus. The effort was to help promote/introduce anime and Japanese culture to the rest of the world through his content. In February 2020, Colquhoun joined Joey Bizinger (The Anime Man) and Garnt Maneetapho (Gigguk) in creating and hosting a weekly podcast called '' Trash Taste'', where they discuss anime, manga, otaku culture, and their experiences while living in Japan. The first episode was released on 5 June 2020, all episodes are available on YouTube, Spotify, and iTunes. In both 2020 and 2021, Colquhoun was a presenter at the Crunchyroll Anime Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Frances Mary Colquhoun
Frances Mary Colquhoun (28 February 1836 – 29 July 1920) was a Scottish writer. Early life Known as Mary, she was born in Edinburgh in 1836, the eldest daughter and second child of John Colquhoun and Frances Sarah Fuller Maitland. Her father was a sportsman, author of ''The Moor and the Loch'' and former army officer. Her mother was the author of ''Rhymes and Chimes''. She grew up in Duddingston and then Royal Terrace, Edinburgh in a "sternly Presbyterian" and well-connected family. She and her siblings also spent time in stately homes in England and Scotland. She had four sisters and four brothers. Her sister Lucy Bethia Walford became a popular Victorian novelist and wrote about the family in ''Recollections of a Scottish Novelist.'' Her aunt was the Scottish novelist Catherine Sinclair. Clan and the Highlands Mary was the granddaughter of Sir James Colquhoun, Baronet of Luss and Clan Chief of the Colquhouns of Luss. She was 'intensely Highland in her sympathies, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Robert Colquhoun
Robert Colquhoun (20 December 1914 – 20 September 1962) was a Scottish painter, printmaker and theatre set designer. Colquhoun was born in Kilmarnock and was educated at Kilmarnock Academy. He won a scholarship to study at the Glasgow School of Art, where he met Robert MacBryde with whom he established a lifelong homosexual relationship and professional collaboration, the pair becoming known as "the two Roberts". In the summer of 1938 Colquhoun and MacBryde set off on a travelling scholorship to France and Italy. Whilst in Paris they met up with their friend from Arbroath, the Irish realist painter Patrick Hennessy also on a similar scholorship, the three travelling south together that autumn slowly by train to Marseille and some months later to Genoa and Rome. Colquhoun served as an ambulance driver in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War. After being injured, he returned to London in 1941 where he shared studio space with MacBryde. The pair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alan Colquhoun
Alan Harold Colquhoun (27 June 1921 – 13 December 2012) was an English architect, historian, critic and teacher. Biography Colquhoun was born in Eton, Buckinghamshire on 27 June 1921 and attended Bradfield School. He went on to study architecture at the Edinburgh College of Art and the Architectural Association in London. In the Second World War Colquhoun was a captain in the Bengal Sappers and Miners, at Roorkee, India, where he first met future friend and architectural colleague Robert Maxwell. Colquhoun started his career as an architect at London County Council (LCC), and then in the practice of Lyons Israel Ellis where he designed the Bridgnorth Girls' School in Bridgnorth Shropshire, now listed Grade II. Work In 1961 Colquhoun co-founded the architectural practice Miller and Colquhoun, remaining a partner until 1989. Highlight of their buildings are a noted refurbishment of Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, Forest Gate High School, the Chemistry Building of Royal Holl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Archibald Colquhoun (politician)
Archibald Campbell Colquhoun (8 September 1756 – 8 December 1820) was a Scottish politician and lawyer from Glasgow. He served as Lord Advocate—the highest position in the Scottish legal system. Life He was born Archibald Campbell in Glasgow in 1756, the only son of John Campbell of Clathick, Perthshire, (later Lord Provost of Glasgow 1788/90), and his wife Agnes Colquhoun, the only child of Laurence Colquhoun of Killermont, Dumbartonshire. On succeeding to the estate of Killermont upon the death of his father in 1804, he assumed the additional surname and arms of Colquhoun. He studied Law at Glasgow University graduating in 1769 and was admitted an advocate in 1768 and appointed Sheriff of Perth from 1793 to 1807 and Rector of Glasgow University from 1807 to 1809. On the downfall of the ministry of All the Talents, he was appointed Lord Advocate on 28 March 1807. At this time, a high ratio of the Scottish patronage of high level legal positions was in the hands of the Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Christian Colquhoun
Christian Colquhoun is a mechanical designer who has navigated his career into toy design, prop design and construction, special effects, mechanical effects makeup, and miniatures for motion pictures, television, and other forms of media, working for Mattel, Boss Film, Stetson Visual Services, New Deal Studios, Industrial Model and Design, and Stan Winston Studios. He served as a mechanical designer on '' MouseHunt'' and ''Small Soldiers'', puppeteer and effects supervisor on ''Inspector Gadget'', animatronic effects supervisor on ''Galaxy Quest'', and weapons designer for ''Van Helsing'' and ''Firefly''. Additional film work of Colquhoun's includes ''RoboCop'', '' Resident Evil: Extinction'', ''Live Free or Die Hard'', '' Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'', '' Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'', ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'', '' Minority Report'', '' Team America: World Police'', '' The Island'', ''True Lies'', ''Toys'', ''Hook'', ''Intervi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Joe Colquhoun
Joe Colquhoun (7 November 1926 – 13 April 1987) was a British comics artist best known for his work on '' Charley's War'' in ''Battle Picture Weekly''. He was also the first artist to draw ''Roy of the Rovers''. Biography Born in Harrow, Middlesex, Joe Colquhoun served in the Royal Navy during World War II, and won a place at Kingston School of Art on his return. His career in comics began in 1951 in Jungle Trails, and he went on to work for IPC Media on titles such as ''Lion'', and later ''Tiger'', where he drew ''Roy of the Rovers'' for six years, from 1954 to 1960, despite having no interest in football. In the early 1970s he worked mainly for IPC's humour comics '' Buster'' and ''Cor!!'', until Battle Picture Weekly came along in 1976. For Battle he drew ''Soldier Sharp: the Rat of the Rifles'' and ''Johnny Red'' before editor Dave Hunt assigned him to work on Pat Mills' First World War story ''Charley's War'' in 1978. After ''Charley's War'' finished in 1986 Colquhoun d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Glenn Colquhoun
Glenn Morton Colquhoun (born 1964) is a New Zealand poet and general practitioner. Life Colquhoun was born in Papakura, Auckland, and practises medicine on the Kāpiti Coast. He lives in Waikawa Beach. Colquhoun's first book of poems, ''The Art of Walking Upright'', was published in 1999. It has been said the book is a love letter to the people of Te Tii, the Northland town where he was living at that time. ''An Explanation of Poetry to My Father'' was published and written in 2001. Written in the middle of his work on ''Playing God'', the book was a distraction for Colquhoun from that work. The poems are an explanation of why the son of a builder would go and write poetry. ''Playing God'', Colquhuoun’s third book, was published in 2002 to critical acclaim and popular support. It has sold over 10,000 copies in New Zealand and in 2007 was published in the United Kingdom. ''How We Fell'' (2006) is a collection of love poems written to Colquhoun’s ex-wife. It is the candid s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
