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Elliston
Elliston can refer to: Places * Elliston, Indiana, U.S. * Elliston, Montana, U.S. *Elliston, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ** Elliston Ridge Air Station, radar station in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada * Elliston, South Australia **District Council of Elliston * Elliston, Virginia, U.S. *Elliston-Lafayette, Virginia, U.S. * Joseph Elliston House, a ca. 1817 house in Brentwood, Tennessee, U.S. *Lands of Elliston, Parish of Lochwinnoch in Scotland Given name: * Elliston Campbell (1891–1990), Australian electrical engineer and philanthropist * Elliston Rahming, Bahamian diplomat, criminologist, educator and politician Surname: * George Elliston (1883–1946), American journalist * George Sampson Elliston (1875–1954), British military officer and politician * Grace Elliston (died 1950), American theatre actress * Henry Twiselton Elliston (1801–1864), English musical composer and inventor * Jesse Elliston (died 1853), proprietor of Elliston & Cavell, a former department sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliston, Montana
Elliston is a census-designated place (CDP) in Powell County, Montana, Powell County, Montana, United States. The population was 225 at the 2000 United States Census, 2000 census. The town is most likely named after Northern Pacific Railroad director John W. Ellis. By the mid-1880s, Elliston was flourishing as a center for gold and quartz mining. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land. Climate This climate, climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Elliston has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 225 people, 89 households, and 64 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 104 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliston, Indiana
Elliston is an unincorporated community in Fairplay Township, Greene County, Indiana, United States. History Elliston was named for Mr. Ellis, a pioneer. A post office was established at Elliston in 1885, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1910. It was the site of a rare triple crossing, a place where three railroad lines cross in the same location. The Bedford and Bloomfield Branch of the Monon Railroad, the Evansville and Indiana Railroad (later part of the New York Central Railroad), and the Indianapolis Southern/Illinois Central Railroad all met at a small station owned by the E&I. The Monon and E&I crossed at grade while the IS/IC crossed directly overhead. Only the station and IS/IC bridge remain today. The bridge is still in active service as part of the Indiana Rail Road The Indiana Rail Road is a United States Class II railroad, originally operating over former Illinois Central Railroad trackage from Newton, Illinois, to Indianapolis, Indiana, a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Robert Elliston
Canon Sydney Robert Elliston Master of Arts, MA (1870 – 23 October 1943) was a journalist, vicar, and canon (priest), canon of Ripon Cathedral. Two of his brothers were William Rowley Elliston and George Elliston (politician), George Elliston Member of Parliament, MP. He was involved with the formation of the Ripon Diocesan Board of Finance in 1913, and was its secretary from 1914 to 1935. At his funeral it was said of him that, "The diocese of Ripon owed a great debt to the work of Canon Elliston in laying down sound principles of Church finance." While looking after the finances of Ripon diocese, he was at the same time vicar of one of north-east England's Barber churches: the Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall (1880), designed by William Swinden Barber.''Pateley Bridge and Nidderdale Herald'', 31 July 1880: "Killinghall: consecration of a new church at Killinghall". On microfilm at Victoria Library, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England Life His grandfather William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert William Elliston
Robert William Elliston (7 April 1774 – 7 July 1831) was an English actor and theatre manager. Life He was born in London, the son of a watchmaker. He was educated at St Paul's School, but ran away from home and made his first appearance on the stage as Tressel in ''Richard III'' at the Old Orchard Street Theatre in Bath in 1791. There he was later seen as Romeo, and in other leading parts, both comic and tragic, and he repeated his successes in London from 1796. In the same year he married Elizabeth, the sister of Mary Ann Rundall, and they would in time have ten children. He acted at Drury Lane from 1804 to 1809, and again from 1812. From 1819 he was the lessee of the house, presenting Edmund Kean, Mme Vestris, and Macready. He bought the Olympic Theatre in 1813 and also had an interest in a patent theatre, the Theatre Royal, Birmingham. Ill-health and misfortune culminated in his bankruptcy in 1826, when he made his last appearance at Drury Lane as Falstaff. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Thorpe Elliston
Joseph Thorpe Elliston (1779 – November 10, 1856) was an American silversmith, planter and politician. He served as the fourth mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, from 1814 to 1817. He owned land in mid-town Nashville, on parts of modern-day Centennial Park, Vanderbilt University, and adjacent West End Park. Early life Elliston was born in 1779 in Culpeper, Virginia. He moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where he was trained as a silversmith by Samuel Ayers from 1795 to 1798, when he moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Career Elliston began his career as a silversmith in Nashville in 1798. He was the owner of a store on the corner of Union Street and 2nd Avenue in modern-day Downtown Nashville, which he ran with his nephew, also called John Elliston. The store burnt down in March 1814, but he opened a new one shortly after. He designed cutlery for President Andrew Jackson, which later became part of the collection of The Hermitage. He also designed jewelry with silver and gold. In 1811, El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Elliston
Jesse Elliston (3 March 1806 – 26 July 1853) was a proprietor of Elliston & Cavell, which became the leading department store in Oxford, England. Elliston was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, to James and Mary Ann Elliston. He was baptised a Baptist. He owned a draper's shop in central Oxford when his sister, Sarah Elliston of Summertown in north Oxford, married John Cavell on 9 April 1835. As a result, Elliston made Cavell a partner of the shop, which then became known as Elliston & Cavell. It went on to become the largest department store in Oxford for many years, until its eventual conversion to a Debenhams store. In 1853, after feeling unwell for a week, the 47-year-old Elliston collapsed and died suddenly while walking in the Banbury Road Banbury Road is a major arterial road in Oxford, England, running from St Giles' at the south end, north towards Banbury through the leafy suburb of North Oxford and Summertown, with its local shopping centre. Parallel and to the west is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Twiselton Elliston
Henry Twiselton Elliston ( c. 1801 – 1864), was an English musical composer and inventor. Life Elliston was born in or about 1801, the second son of Robert William Elliston and the nephew of Mary Ann Rundall. He resided during most of his life at Leamington, where his father had formerly leased the theatre. Having decided on adopting music as his profession, he received a careful training, and became a sound theoretical musician, and an able performer on the organ and several other instruments. On his father presenting an organ to the parish church of Leamington, Elliston was elected organist, and held the post till his death. In the subsequent enlargement of the organ he exhibited considerable mechanical ingenuity, and invented a transposing piano on a new and simple plan. He was an early member of the choral society of Leamington, and whilst he was associated with it the society produced the ''Messiah'' and other great works during a three days' musical festival. Elliston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Elliston
Grace Ellliston (1878 or 1881 – December 14, 1950) was an American theatre actress. Elliston was born Grace Rutter in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1899, she appeared in the Broadway play ''Wheels Within Wheels''. Her Broadway appearances included ''The Country Cousin'', ''The Shadow'', ''Arizona'', ''The Rector's Garden'', ''The Helmet of Navarre'', ''Her Husband's Wife'', ''Ourselves'', ''The Lion and the Mouse'' and ''A Blot in the 'Scutcheon'', among others. Her final Broadway credit was ''The Lucky One'' in 1922. Elliston died in December 1950 at the Crestwood Nursing Home in Lenox, Massachusetts Lenox is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The town is in Western Massachusetts and part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Pittsfield Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,095 at the 2020 United States census .... She was cremated. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Elliston, Grace 1870s births 1880s births 1950 deaths A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sampson Elliston
Captain Sir George Sampson Elliston MC (27 July 1875, Ipswich – 21 February 1954) was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackburn from 1931 to 1945. Ellison was educated at Ayerst Hall, Cambridge, Framlingham College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1901. However, he subsequently became a doctor by profession and served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during and after the First World War World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to .... First elected MP for Blackburn in 1931, Elliston was re-elected in 1935. References * External links * 1875 births 1954 deaths People educated at Framlingham College Alumni of St Edmund's College, Cambridge Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Royal Army Medical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Elliston
George Elliston (1883 - October 7, 1946) was an American journalist. Biography George Elliston was born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. She graduated from Covington High School. Elliston worked as a reporter for the '' Cincinnati Times-Star'' and later as the Society Editor for that newspaper. She married Augustus Coleman in 1907 and lived briefly with him in St. Louis. She and Coleman separated, and Elliston lived simply and alone in Cincinnati for the remainder of her life. Upon her death in Madisonville, Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 7, 1946, Elliston bequeathed to the University of Cincinnati to establish a chair "to promote the cause of poetry". The university inaugurated the Elliston Poet-in-Residence Program in 1951. Composer Margaret McClure Stitt set many of Elliston's poems to music. Notable Elliston poets * John Ashbery * Wendell Berry * John Berryman * Lynn Emanuel * Robert Frost * Alice Fulton * Louise Glück * Albert Goldbarth * Marilyn Hacker * Donald Hall * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliston Campbell
Elliston can refer to: Places *Elliston, Indiana, U.S. *Elliston, Montana, U.S. *Elliston, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ** Elliston Ridge Air Station, radar station in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada *Elliston, South Australia **District Council of Elliston *Elliston, Virginia, U.S. *Elliston-Lafayette, Virginia, U.S. * Joseph Elliston House, a ca. 1817 house in Brentwood, Tennessee, U.S. *Lands of Elliston, Parish of Lochwinnoch in Scotland Given name: * Elliston Campbell (1891–1990), Australian electrical engineer and philanthropist * Elliston Rahming, Bahamian diplomat, criminologist, educator and politician Surname: *George Elliston (1883–1946), American journalist *George Sampson Elliston (1875–1954), British military officer and politician *Grace Elliston (died 1950), American theatre actress *Henry Twiselton Elliston (1801–1864), English musical composer and inventor *Jesse Elliston (died 1853), proprietor of Elliston & Cavell, a former department store in Oxf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliston Rahming
Elliston Rahming is a Bahamian diplomat, criminologist, educator and politician. Biography Born in Black Point, South Andros, Bahamas (April 25, 1954) to Daisy and Ishmael Rahming, he attended Bahamas Academy and college preparatory at Rochester Cooperative College in Rochester, NY. Education Rahming earned a bachelor's in Sociology from Bethune–Cookman University. He later earned a masters in social work and Ph.D with an emphasis in Criminology from George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) is a private research university in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1853 by a group of civic leaders and named for George Washington, the university spans 355 acres across its Danforth .... He is a graduate of the Houston, Texas-based Anger Management Training Institute as an Anger Resolution Therapist and has completed study tours of forty prisons in fifteen countries. Career He serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
