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Collinson
Collinson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Cliff Collinson (1920–1990), English footballer * Fred Collinson (1874–1915), English footballer and soldier * Geoff Collinson, Australian horn player and Head of Brass at the University of Melbourne * Harry Collinson Owen (1882–1956), British journalist and author * James Collinson (1825–1881), Victorian painter who was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood * John Collinson (cricketer) (1911–1979), English cricketer * John Collinson (historian) (c.1757–1793), English cleric and historian of Somerset * Laurence Collinson (1925–1986), British and Australian playwright, actor, poet, journalist, and secondary school teacher * Les Collinson (born 1935), English professional footballer * Madeleine Collinson (1952–2014), Maltese-British model and actress; twin of Mary Collinson * Mary Collinson (born 1952), Maltese model and actress; twin of Madeleine Collinson * Patrick Collinson (1929–2011), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Collinson
Clifford Collinson (3 March 1920 – September 1990) was an English association football, footballer who played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Manchester United F.C., Manchester United during the 1946–47 season. Born in Middlesbrough, in north-east England, Collinson was spotted playing for Urmston Boys Club towards the end of the World War II, Second World War and joined Manchester United as an amateur in May 1946. He turned professional in September 1946, before making his debut for the club in a scoreless draw away to Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa on 2 November 1946. He went on a run of seven consecutive games, culminating with a 2–1 defeat to Blackburn Rovers F.C., Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park on 14 December 1946. However, he was not able to claim the "number one" jersey from Jack Crompton on a regular basis and never played for the club again. External linksProfileat StretfordEnd.co.uk at MUFCInfo.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Collinson, Cliff 1920 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Collinson
Philip Collinson (born 26 August 1970) is a British television producer. He was initially an actor, before switching to working behind the cameras in the industry as a script editor and writer on programmes such as ''Springhill'' and ''Emmerdale'', later becoming the producer of ''Peak Practice'', ''Doctor Who'' and ''Coronation Street''. Career Collinson has produced several series for the BBC, including the comedy drama ''Linda Green'', and the first seasons of 1950s-set ''Born and Bred'' and paranormal thriller ''Sea of Souls''. In January 2004, he started work as the tenth full-time in-house producer of the BBC science-fiction programme ''Doctor Who''. While he was an actor, the role of Alexander in the 1999 Channel 4 drama '' Queer as Folk'' was written especially for him by his friend Russell T Davies. However, after Antony Cotton auditioned for the production team, Davies and his fellow producers felt they had no choice but to offer the role to him instead of Collinson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Surnames
English is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots language, Scots, and then closest related to the Low German, Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is Genetic relationship (linguistics), genealogically West Germanic language, West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by Langues d'oïl, dialects of France (about List of English words of French origin, 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collinson Point Provincial Park
Collinson Point Provincial Park is a provincial park on Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is located between Mount Galiano and the western approaches to Active Pass. The area is 24 hectares, with c. 500 metres of waterfront. Description The park shares a long common border with Mount Galiano Community Park, of which it is a ''de facto'' extension. Most of the remaining boundary is constituted by the shoreline. History The park was established in 2004, by acquisition from a private owner. Prior to 1988, the property had belonged to the forest company MacMillan Bloedel as part of its Galiano holdings, which itself had previously belonged to the Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Company (which acquired them by colonial grant). MacMillan Bloedel built the Phillimore Point Trail which passes through the Park. Geology The main feature is soft sandstone of the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group, frequently exposed, otherwise with a thin overburden of podzolic soil. The sandstone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Collinson, Northwest Territories
Fort Collinson was a trading post operated by the Hudson's Bay Company (Post Number B.405) located on Victoria Island in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is situated on the Prince Albert Peninsula on the north side of Walker Bay, just north of Minto Inlet. Previously known as Fort Brabant the post opened in 1928 when it was moved from its prior location at Alaervik on the north side of Prince Albert Sound. Named in honour of Sir Richard Collinson, an English naval officer and explorer of the Arctic, the post closed in 1939 when it was transferred to Holman, now Ulukhaktok. References Further reading * Condon, R.G. ''East meets West: Fort Collinson, the fur trade, and the economic acculturation of the northern Copper Inuit Copper Inuit, also known as Kitlinermiut and Inuinnait, are a Canadian Inuit group who live north of the tree line, in what is now the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut and in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Ter .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collinson Ridge
The Cumulus Hills () are several groups of largely barren hills in Antarctica. Divided by the Logie Glacier, they are bounded by Shackleton Glacier on the west, McGregor Glacier on the north and Zaneveld Glacier on the south. The exposed rock in this area was observed on a number of occasions to give rise to the formation of cumulus clouds, considered to be very rare at this elevation. The hills were named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Features named by the expeditions 1957 ... (1961–62) because of these clouds. References * Hills of the Ross Dependency Dufek Coast {{DufekCoast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collinson Peninsula
The Collinson Peninsula is located on eastern Victoria Island in Canada's Nunavut territory. The Storkenson Peninsula lies to the north, while M'Clintock Channel is to the east. It is named after Richard Collinson, officer of the Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ..., and Arctic explorer who voyaged through this area in 1853. References Peninsulas of Kitikmeot Region Victoria Island (Canada) {{KitikmeotNU-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Collinson
Cape Collinson (), also Hak Kok Tau (), is a cape located near Ngan Wan between Siu Sai Wan and Big Wave Bay at the eastmost point of Hong Kong Island. It faces Tathong Channel. Name The cape is named for Major-General Thomas Bernard Collinson (1821-1902), a Royal Engineers surveyor serving in Hong Kong and later in New Zealand who, then holding the rank of lieutenant, surveyed Hong Kong Island from 1843 to 1846. Features Cape Collinson Road runs from Chai Wan up the slope of Pottinger Peak to the east coast until it reaches south of the Cape Collinson Correctional Institution in Tso Tui Wan. Right before reaching the east coast, the road intersects with the connection point of a hiking route running south from Siu Sai Wan Promenade (via Leaping Dragon Walk) to Shek O Country Park and Big Wave Bay (via Pottinger Peak Country Trail). Siu Sai Wan Promenade connects with Cape Collinson Path, another hiking path which runs east near the cape where a lighthouse is erected. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Robert Collinson
William Robert Collinson (August 26, 1912 – June 1, 1995) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Education and career Born in Chariton, Iowa, Collinson received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Drury College in 1933 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1935. He was in private practice in Kansas City, Missouri from 1935 to 1936, and then in Springfield, Missouri until 1941. He was a prosecuting attorney for Springfield from 1941 to 1944. He was in the United States Navy towards the end of World War II, from 1944 to 1946 and became a lieutenant. He returned to private practice in Springfield from 1946 to 1949. He was a Judge of the Circuit Court of Missouri from 1949 to 1965. Federal judicial service On July 14, 1965, Collinson was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to a joint seat on the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Edward Collinson
William Edward Collinson (4 January 1889 – 4 May 1969) was a British linguist and, from 1914 to 1954, Chair of German at the University of Liverpool. Like Edward Sapir and Otto Jespersen, he collaborated with Alice Vanderbilt Morris to develop the research program of the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). From 1936 to 1939, he was Research Director of IALA. Under Collinson's guidance, methods of compiling international word material were tested at Liverpool. In 1939 IALA moved from Liverpool to New York and E. Clark Stillman succeeded Collinson as Research Director. Alexander Gode, editor of the first English-Interlingua dictionary published in 1951, remained in contact with Collinson which had collected much of linguistic material in the University of Liverpool. Collinson wrote a popularization book in Esperanto about linguistics : ''La Homa Lingvo'' ("The Human Language") in 1927. He was also a collaborator of ''Centro por Esploro kaj Dokumentado'' and '' Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Septimus Collinson
Septimus Collinson (11 September 1739 – 24 January 1827) was provost of Queen's College, Oxford. Collinson was the seventh son of Joseph and Agnes Collinson, was born at Gotree, near Hunsonby, Cumberland. He was brought up at Great Musgrave, Westmoreland, where his parents had purchased a small estate. He began his studies at Appleby Grammar School, and then went to Queen's College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1763 and M.A. in 1767 (Cat. of Oxford Graduates, ed. 1851, p. 142). In 1778 he was presented to the rectories of Dowlish Wake and Dowlish West, Somersetshire. He graduated B.D. in 1792, and D.D. in 1793. For some years he was one of the city lecturers at Oxford. In 1794 he accepted the college living of Holwell, Dorsetshire, but remained there only about two years, as in 1796 he was appointed provost of Queen's College on the death of Dr. Thomas Fothergill. In 1798 he obtained the Lady Margaret professorship of Divinity at Oxford, to which is annexed a prebend of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Collinson
Robert Whiteley Collinson (6 November 1875 – ) was an English first-class cricketer, who played two matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1897 as an amateur. Born in Moss Side, Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Collinson was a right-handed batsman, who scored 58 runs in total, with a best of 34 against Gloucestershire, for an average of 19.33. His other match was against Somerset in 1897, which was his first-class cricket debut. Collinson also appeared in two non first-class matches for Yorkshire against Durham in 1896, scoring 82 at Feethams, Darlington. He also played for Norfolk in the Minor Counties Cricket Championship in 1910 and 1911. He played his early cricket with Halifax C.C. and Collinson also played rugby union for Yorkshire. In the late 1890s Collinson studied in Zürich, at the chemical engineering department at the Federal Polytechnic School. During this time he played football and joined the Anglo-American Club Zürich. A curiosity in this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
