Richard Eden (priest)
Richard Eden may refer to: * Richard Eden (translator), English alchemist and translator * Richard Eden (actor), Canadian actor, screenwriter, and producer * Richard J. Eden, British theoretical physicist * Richard Eden (MP) for Sudbury (UK Parliament constituency) Sudbury was a parliamentary constituency which was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. History A parliamentary borough consisting of the town of Sudbury in Suffolk, the constituency returned two Memb ...

Richard Eden (translator)
Richard Eden (c. 1520–1576) was an English alchemist and translator. His translations of the geographical works of other writers helped to foster enthusiasm for overseas exploration in Tudor period, Tudor England. Early life Richard Eden, the son of a cloth merchant, attended Christ's College, Cambridge and then Queens' College, graduating BA in 1538 and MA in 1544. As a protégé of Thomas Smith (diplomat), Sir Thomas Smith, Eden associated with intellectuals such as John Cheke and Roger Ascham and served in a minor Treasury position from 1544 to 1546. From the late 1540s Eden worked for Richard Whalley, who would be Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1595. He was salaried at £20 per annum as he sought the secret of turning base metal into gold. Eden set out to translate Vannoccio Biringuccio's ''De la pirotechnia'' into English and had completed the first 22 chapters in 1552, but he made the mistake of lending out the manuscript and was unable to retrieve it. However, he include ...
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Richard Eden (actor)
Richard Eden (born 1956) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as Alex Murphy / RoboCop in the television series '' RoboCop: The Series'' and has enjoyed a prolific career on stage, television, and in independent films. Richard has received multiple awards and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy The Daytime Emmy Awards, or Daytime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the New York–based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (N ... in 1987 for his role as Brick Wallace on '' Santa Barbara''. He and his wife, Shannon, currently create projects for television and film. References External links * 1956 births Living people Canadian male television actors Canadian male film actors Canadian male voice actors Male actors from Toronto {{US-tv-actor-1950s-stub ...
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Richard J
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ...
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Richard Eden (MP)
Richard Eden may refer to: * Richard Eden (translator), English alchemist and translator * Richard Eden (actor), Canadian actor, screenwriter, and producer * Richard J. Eden, British theoretical physicist * Richard Eden (MP) for Sudbury (UK Parliament constituency) Sudbury was a parliamentary constituency which was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. History A parliamentary borough consisting of the town of Sudbury in Suffolk, the constituency returned two Memb ...