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Roger Lewis
Roger Lewis may refer to: * Roger Lewis (biographer) (born 1960), Welsh academic, biographer and journalist * Roger Lewis (American football) (born 1993), American football player * Roger Lewis (businessman) (1912–1987), American business executive * Roger K. Lewis (born 1941), American architect and urban planner See also * Wm. Roger Louis (born 1936), American historian {{hndis, Lewis, Roger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Lewis (biographer)
Roger Lewis (born 26 February 1960) is a Wales, Welsh academic, biographer and journalist. He is best known for his biographies, ''The Life and Death of Peter Sellers'', and ''Erotic Vagrancy'', about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Biography Lewis was born in Caerphilly, Glamorgan in 1960. He was raised in Bedwas, Monmouthshire, and educated at Bassaleg School in Newport, Wales, Newport. He then attended the University of St Andrews, graduating Master of Arts (Scotland), MA, then Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained the Master of Letters, MLitt degree, both with British undergraduate degree classification#First Class Honours, first class honours. He became a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, in 1984.Stephen Masty"Roger Lewis – Modernist, Moralist and Wit" ''The Imaginative Conservative'', 30 May 2012, accessed 28 October 2021 Lewis has contributed literary journalism to the ''Daily Express'', ''Daily Mail'' and ''Daily Telegraph''. He has written biographies of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Lewis (American Football)
Roger Lamonte Lewis Jr. (born November 27, 1993) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Bowling Green Falcons, earning third-team All-American honors in 2015. In 2016, Lewis was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Giants. Early life Lewis attended Pickerington High School Central in Pickerington, Ohio. He became a star football player at the school and he earned scholarship offers from 17 Division I schools. During his senior year in 2012, Lewis was charged with two counts of rape. It was alleged that he raped a classmate in the basement of another classmate's house on December 2, 2011. The second charge alleged that Lewis raped the same classmate again in the back seat of her car on January 6, 2012. A jury acquitted Lewis of the first charge and deadlocked on the second charge, resulting in the judge declaring a mistrial. Lewis avoided a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Lewis (businessman)
Roger Lewis (January 11, 1912 – November 12, 1987) was an American business executive. He was the CEO of General Dynamics from 1962 to 1970 and was the first CEO of Amtrak from 1971 to 1975. From 1953 to 1955, he was the Assistant United States Secretary of the Air Force. Biography Roger Lewis was born in Los Angeles and graduated from Stanford University in 1934. After college, he worked at Lockheed in the sheet metal shop. He remained with Lockheed in progressively higher positions through World War II when he was the company's director of materiel. After Lockheed, he went to Canadair and, in 1950, took a job as vice president of sales and management for Curtiss-Wright. In 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower nominated him as the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Materiel. The Senate confirmed his nomination on April 3, 1953, and he was sworn in on April 4. Eisenhower awarded him the Medal of Freedom for his service. After leaving the government, he went to work for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger K
Roger is a masculine given name, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic languages">Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ("spear", "lance") (Hrōþigēraz). The name was introduced into England by the Normans. In Normandy, the Franks, Frankish name had been reinforced by the Old Norse cognate '. The name introduced into England replaced the Old English cognate '. ''Roger'' became a very common given name during the Middle Ages. A variant form of the given name ''Roger'' that is closer to the name's origin is '' Rodger''. Slang and other uses From up to , Roger was slang for the word "penis". In ''Under Milk Wood'', Dylan Thomas writes "jolly, rodgered" suggesting both the sexual double entendre and the pirate term "Jolly Roger". In 19th-century England, Roger was slang for another term, the cloud of toxic green gas that swept through the chlori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |