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# Albert Gregorius

Albert Jacob Frans Gregorius, or Albert Jacques François Grégorius (26 October 1774, Bruges - 25 February 1853, Bruges) was a Flemish-Belgian portrait painter and Director of the art academy in Bruges.

## Biography

He was born into a poor, laboring family. His drawing abilities were observed by François van der Donckt, a local portrait painter who took him in, gave him his first lessons and helped him enroll at the art academy. Gregorius was there from 1791 to 1793 and won several awards.
In 1801, he went to Paris, where he was apprenticed to Joseph-Benoît Suvée, who was also from Bruges. Not long after, Suvée went to Rome to become Director of the French Academy, but Gregorius was able to find a position in the studios of Jacques-Louis David. In 1805, he was back in Bruges, making preparations to enter the Prix de Rome, but fell ill and was unable to participate.
After his recovery, he returned to Paris and remained until 1835. He soon established a reputation as a portrait painter and formed an association with other expatriate Flemish artists ("De Club van de Belgen"). After exhibiting in the Ghent Salon, he entered the Paris Salon in 1812 and would continue to display there annually until his departure. In addition to the usual French nobility, he is also known for his portrait of August Wilhelm Schlegel, which is now on display at Coppet Castle.
At the age of 61, he received an appointment as Director of "De Vrije Academie" (now "De Stedelijke Academie") in Bruges. He served until 1852, when he was forced to resign after clashes with colleagues, students and city officials over his conservative approach to art. His best-known student was Ford Madox Brown.
Curiously, on his death certificate he was described as a "widower", but his wife's name was unknown. It has been speculated that he was briefly married during his long stay in France and had no close relatives he cared to notify.

## Sources

* "Gregorius, Albert Jacob Frans". In: Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Vol.14: Giddens–Gress. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1921, pg.580 (Online)
* Gregorius, Albert in: Dictionnaire des peintres belges (Online)
# Albert Grenier

Joseph Jacques Albert Grenier (born 31 August 1939, in Shawinigan) is a Canadian pianist, academic, and university administrator. From 1979–1998 he was director of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal (CMM).

## Life and career

Grenier studied piano with Georges Savaria both privately and at the CMM from 1952–1957. After earning a bachelor's degree from the Université de Montréal in 1957, he pursued further studies with Jean Doyen and Vlado Perlemuter at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1960 he was given honourable mention at the Maria Canals International Music Competition in Spain. From 1962–1964 he was a pupil in the graduate program at the Badische Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe where he studied under Yvonne Loriod and earned a Master of Music degree in 1964.
Grenier actively worked as a concert pianist from 1962–1973, during which time he performed in concerts and recitals throughout Canada, France, and Germany. He was a soloist with Badische Staatskapelle, the CBC Quebec Chamber Orchestra, and Orchestre Symphonique de Québec among other orchestras. From 1967–1974 he taught acoustics and piano at the Cégep de Saint-Laurent and from 1967–1974 he taught on the piano faculty at the Université de Montréal (UM). While teaching at the UM he also earned a doctorate from that school in 1971 with his dissertation entitled 'Sonate pour deux pianos de Bruce Mather.
# John Halligan Jr.

John Halligan Jr. (4 May 1876 – 11 December 1934) was an admiral of the United States Navy in the early 20th century.

## Biography

Halligan, born on 4 May 1876 in South Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from the United States Naval Academy at the head of his class in 1898. He served during the Spanish–American War in the armored cruiser USS Brooklyn, flagship of Commodore Winfield S. Schley. During World War I he was chief of staff to Vice Admiral Henry Braid Wilson Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, France, and for his outstanding performance of duty he received the Distinguished Service Medal.
After the Armistice, he commanded the battleship Ohio, and in 1925 became chief of the Bureau of Engineering with the temporary rank of rear admiral. After qualifying as a naval aviation observer, he commanded the aircraft carrier Saratoga from September 1928 to April 1929. He served as Assistant Chief of Naval Operations in 1930, and in 1933 became Commander Aircraft, Battle Force. Appointed Rear Admiral in 1930, Halligan died at Puget Sound, Washington, 11 December 1934, while serving as Commandant, 13th Naval District. He was interred at the United States Naval Academy Cemetery on 17 December 1934.

## Namesake

In 1943, the destroyer USS Halligan (DD-584) was named in his honor.
# John Hamilton (Ontario politician)

John Hamilton (1802 – 10 October 1882) was a businessman, a political figure in Upper Canada and member of the Senate of Canada.
He was born in Queenston in 1802, the son of Robert Hamilton. He was educated in Queenston and Edinburgh, Scotland and first worked as a clerk in Montreal, Quebec. In 1824, with his stepbrother Robert, he established the Queenston Steamboat Company which operated a number of ships transporting goods on Lake Ontario. In 1831, he was appointed to the Legislative Council of Upper Canada for Queenston and, in 1841, he was re-appointed to its successor, the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada for Canada West. In the 1840s, due to increasing competition, he moved to Kingston, where he operated a business moving goods between Kingston and Montreal. In 1857, after his former competitors had gone bankrupt, he began operating on Lake Ontario again. In 1847, he became president of the Commercial Bank of the Midland District. Although his relationship with the bank was useful to his shipping business, his lack of attention to the bank's business may have contributed to its failure.
He was a co-founder of Queen's College at Kingston, later Queen's University, and became chairman of the board of trustees in 1842.
A Conservative, he was appointed to the Senate on 23 October 1867 by royal proclamation following the Canadian Confederation of 1867. He served in that capacity, representing the province of Ontario and Kingston until his death. He died at Kingston in 1882.
# John Inglis (shipbuilder)

John Inglis LLD (1842 in Glasgow – 1919) was a Scottish engineer and shipbuilder who managed the well-known shipyard A. & J. Inglis in Pointhouse Glasgow, which had been set up by his father Anthony Inglis and his uncle John Inglis.

## Career

He was brought up at 76 Clyde Street in the Anderson district of Glasgow.
John Inglis left school at the age of 14 years and entered Glasgow University where, although his objective was engineering science, he studied the Arts. He gained high distinctions in Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Engineering Science. On completion of his academic studies he then was apprenticed as an engineer in the shipyard of his father and uncle, just like any other candidate for an engineering profession. To prepare himself for the foreseeable managing role he moved from department to department, from machine shop to drawing office, from moulding loft to building yard, and gained experience in all aspects of the business.
In 1867 he married Agnes Denny, a daughter of the famous Dumbarton shipbuilding family. In 1884 after the death of his father he took over the management of the family owned shipyard A. & J. Inglis.
He was skilled and very keen yachtsman and applied his knowledge to the company's yacht design. The yachts designed and built by A. & J. Inglis were leading the field. The shipyard became famous by building the British Royal Yacht Alexandra and the Egyptian Royal Yacht SS Safra El-Bahr and consequently the Khedive of Egypt conferred on him the award of Commander of the Order of Osmanieh.
Glasgow University gave him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, and the Institution of Engineers & Shipbuilders in Scotland elected him as their President in 1893. In 1900 the Institute of Marine Engineers conferred upon him the same honour. He was also selected of Lord Goschen’s Naval Boilers Committee and was a Director of the North British Railway Company along with several other honorable appointments.
In later life he lived at 4 Princes Terrace in the Dowanhill district of north-west Glasgow.
He died on 13 July 1919. He is buried in the Glasgow Necropolis. The grave lies at the north end of one of the north-south rows on the eastern side of the upper plateau.

## Family

He was married to Agnes Denny (d.1925). Their sons included Dr Anthony Inglis, George Alexander Inglis and James Denny Inglis.
# John Daly (Irish Member of Parliament)

John Daly (1834 – August 1888) was an Irish Nationalist politician. He was elected to the United Kingdom House of Commons as a Home Rule League Member of Parliament (MP) for Cork City at the 1880 general election, and joined the new Irish Parliamentary Party in 1882. He resigned his seat on 11 February 1884.
# Albrecht von Bernstorff

Albrecht von Bernstorff may refer to:
* Albrecht von Bernstorff (diplomat, born 1809), Prussian ambassador and foreign minister
* Albrecht von Bernstorff (diplomat, born 1890), German politician and member of the resistance to Nazi Germany, grandson of the above
# Alberte

Alberte is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Alberte Brun (1918–1991), French pianist
* Alberte Pullman (1920–2011), French chemist
* Alberte de Campou (1935–2022), French sprinter
* Alberte Aveline (1939–2018), French actress
* Alberte Winding (born 1963), Danish singer and actress
* Alberte Pagán (born 1965), Spanish filmmaker
* Alberte Kjær Pedersen (born 1998), Danish runner
* Alberte Kielstrup Madsen (born 2000), Danish handball player
* Alberte Vingum (born 2004), Danish soccer player
# Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium

Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium (AGRC), is a consortium of 4 international companies which agreed in 2018 with the government of Uganda, to invest in, construct, operate and co-own the Uganda Oil Refinery on the Eastern shore of Lake Albert. It consists of General Electric of the United States, Yaatra Ventures LLC of the United States, Intracontinent Asset Holdings Limited of Mauritius and Saipem SPA of Italy.

## Overview

Ugandan government geologists estimate Uganda’s oil reserves at 6.5 billion barrels, of which approximately 1.7 billion are considered recoverable. In 2016, the selected lead investor in the refinery project, RT Global Resources of Russia, pulled out of negotiations. Negotiations with the alternative investor, a consortium led by SK Engineering of South Korea also broke down.
In 2018, new bids for a lead investor in the refinery attracted over 40 applicants. The second round of selection, identified the Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium as the entity offering the best terms for construction of the Uganda Oil Refinery, estimated at US$4.27 billion.

## Composition

As of 2018 the Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium included the following 4 companies:
Composition :
| Rank | Name of Owner |
| 1 | General Electric of the United States |
| 2 | Yaatra Ventures LLC of the United States |
| 3 | Intracontinent Asset Holdings Limited of Mauritius |
| 4 | Saipem SPA of Italy |

## Agreement

On 10 April 2018, the Consortium signed a definitive agreement with the government of Uganda, committing to design, develop, finance, construct, operate and maintain the planned 60,000-barrel-per-day Uganda Oil Refinery in Kabaale, Buseruka sub-county, Hoima District, on the Eastern shore of Lake Albert in the Western Region Uganda. The signing of this Project Framework Agreement, allows the consortium to begin the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED), Project Capital and Investment Costs Estimation (PCE) and environmental impact assessment and social impact assessment. Uganda has ambitions to produce first oil by 2025.
# Alberto Alonso

Alberto Julio Rayneri Alonso (22 May 1917 – 31 December 2007) was a Cuban dancer and choreographer, the brother of Fernando Alonso and brother-in-law of Alicia Alonso (née Martinez). He was influential in the development of the Cuban style of ballet, a combination of Russian and Western techniques with a Latin style.

## Biography

Alonso was born in Havana, and attended Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. On returning to Cuba, he began ballet training in 1932 at the Sociedad Pro-Arte Musical arts school in Havana with Nikolai Yavorsky. He studied in Paris with several teachers including Preobrazhenska and Idzikowski, and danced with the Ballets Russes de Colonel W. de Basil from 1936 to 1940, performing principal roles in several ballets created by Michel Fokine. He subsequently danced with the Ballet Theatre from 1943 to 1945, in works created by Fokine, George Balanchine and Leonid Massine. Back in Cuba in 1948, he co-founded with Alicia and Fernando Alonso the Ballet Alicia Alonso, which would eventually become the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, being its artistic director and choreographer.
From 1942 he also worked as ballet master and choreographer, creating several works including Antes del Alba (1948, music by Hilario Gonzalez, libretto by Francisco Martínez Allende), Rapsodia Negra (1953, music by Ernesto Lecuona), El Solar (1965, music by Tony Taño, filmed as Un día en el solar by Eduardo Manet), Espacio y movimiento (1966, music by Stravinsky, prize for best choreography at Varna in 1968), Un retablo para Romeo y Julieta (1969, to the music of Roméo et Juliette by Berlioz), etc. His most well-known ballet is Carmen Suite (1967), to music by Rodion Shchedrin; it was created for Maya Plisetskaya in the Bolshoi Ballet, and simultaneously for Alicia Alonso in the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, and later it has been re-created by several other companies.
He was married from 1939 to 1944 to the Ballets Russes Canadian dancer Alexandra Denisova. Later he married Elena del Cueto, a Cuban dancer, until 1962, when she left for the United States with their two daughters. In 1964 he married the Cuban Rumba dancer and actress Sonia Calero. They were married until his death and had a son, Alberto Jr.
He left Cuba in 1993 with his third wife, and settled in Gainesville, Florida, where he became master artist in residence at the Santa Fe Community College and resident choreographer for the Dance Theater of Santa Fe. He continued choreographing for several companies including New York's Ballet Hispanico in 1994, and re-creating Carmen for Svetlana Zakharova in the Bolshoi Ballet in 2005.
Alonso died from heart failure in his adopted hometown of Gainesville, Florida, at age 90.
The minor planet 58373 Albertoalonso was named after Alonso in 1995.
# John James Chalon

John James Chalon RA (27 March 1778 – 14 November 1854) was a Swiss painter active in England. He treated a wide range of subjects — landscapes, marine scenes, animal life, and figure-pieces.

## Life

He was born at Geneva, of an old French family who had taken refuge there after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He went to England when quite young, and entered the Schools of the Academy in 1796. His first picture, 'Banditti at their Repast,' appeared in 1800. In 1808, he, his brother Alfred Edward Chalon, and some friends, founded the Sketching Society, and in the same year he joined the Water-Colour Society, but in 1813 he seceded from it, and again devoted himself to painting pictures in oil for the Royal Academy. He was elected an Associate of that institution in 1827, and an Academician in 1841.
In 1847 he was seized by an attack of paralysis, and, after a long and painful illness, died at Kensington in 1854. He is buried in a family vault (plot no.6179) on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.

## Works

In 1820 Chalon published a series of Sketches from Parisian Manners.
He was fond of the scenery of Switzerland, the land of his father and mother, and some of his finest landscapes are faithful transcripts of its mountains and lakes. Among these, a very noble work is his 'Castle of Chillon,' its lonely white walls strongly contrasting with the dark mountains that rise behind them, and glittering in the ripple of the clear blue lake. Amongst his later productions were 'Gil Blas in the Robbers' Cave,' in 1843, and the 'Arrival of the Steamer at Folkestone,' in 1844. The Gallery of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, possesses his 'Napoleon on board the Bellerophon,' painted in 1816, and in the Sheepshanks Collection at the South Kensington Museum are 'Village Gossips,' painted in 1815, and 'Hastings, Fishing Boat's making the Shore in a Breeze,' painted in 1819.
# Aleksandr Galkin

Aleksandr Galkin may refer to:
* Aleksandr Galkin (footballer) (born 1948), Russian football coach and former football player
* Aleksandr Galkin (chess player) (born 1979), Russian chess player and grandmaster
* Aleksandr Galkin (general) (born 1958), Russian military officer
# Aldgate (disambiguation)

Aldgate may refer to:
* Aldgate, one of the city gates of the City of London and a road near the site of Aldgate. Now a Ward of the City of London
* Aldgate tube station in the City of London
* Aldgate East tube station in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
* Aldgate, Rutland a village in the County of Rutland, England
* Aldgate, South Australia, a town in the Adelaide Hills in Australia
# Aldgate bus station

Aldgate bus station serves the Aldgate area of the City of London, England. The station is owned and maintained by Transport for London and located directly south of Aldgate tube station.
Also known as Minories bus station or lay-by, it was the first dedicated bus station in the City of London, and was formerly a major coach station and trolleybus terminal.

## Trolleybus terminal

The City of London Corporation prohibited trams and trolleybuses from entering the square mile - Aldgate was therefore used as a terminal on the edge of the city. Opened in the 1930s, by 1947 it was the busiest bus station in London with 1,358 departures a day. Trolleybus services ceased in 1961. In 1964 it was rebuilt as a bus and coach station.

## Green Line Coach Station

Aldgate was the base for Green Line Coaches serving Essex, while other Green Line routes operated out of Green Line Coach Station at Victoria.

## Recent history

In January 2015 the bus station closed in connection with adjoining roadworks. It reopened in April 2016.
The air rights from forty feet upwards above the bus station were transferred from BRB (Residuary) Limited on its abolition in 2013 to London and Continental Railways.

## Services

As at January 2020, it was served by five London Buses routes.
# Alec Dickson

Dr Alexander Graeme Dickson CBE (23 May 1914 – 23 September 1994) was the founder of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO).
Dickson graduated from Oxford University in 1935 and worked as a foreign correspondent in Central Europe during the rise of Hitler. He also helped groups of young people in the slums of Leeds and London. The Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia resulted in Dickson working in refugee relief. Reportedly, his name was number 57 on a list of those to be arrested by the Gestapo. After the war, Dickson spent 15 years in Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia, training indigenous young people as community leaders and animateurs.
In 1951, Dickson married writer, artist and campaigner Mora Dickson (née Robertson) (20 April 1918 – 17 December 2001), author of A Chance To Serve (1976) recounting the beginnings of VSO.
The Dicksons worked with refugees on the Austro-Hungarian frontier in 1956-57; this inspired them to found Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) in 1958. VSO was created to send volunteers to developing countries, and Dickson's idea came from his own "Christian but non-denominational faith". The first 16 volunteers went to Sarawak, Ghana, Nigeria and Zambia having responded to an article in The Sunday Times, written by Alec Dickson but credited to Lancelot Fleming, then Bishop of Portsmouth.
On leaving VSO in 1962, the Dicksons formed Community Service Volunteers, which focused on UK-based volunteer projects.
The Alec Dickson Trust was established after Dickson's death in 1994. It "supports young people who, through volunteering or community service, aim to enhance the lives of others, particularly those most marginalised by society".

## Awards

Dickson became a MBE in 1945 and a CBE in 1967. A plaque marking the London house where he died was erected by the Bedford Park Society.
Dickson was an honorary National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) Board Member.
An NYLC award was named after him: Alec Dickson Servant Leader Award, awarded to "exemplary leaders who have inspired the service-learning field, positively impacting the lives of young people, and motivating others to take up the banner of service"
# John Jackson (minister)

John Jackson (c.1621–1693) was an English nonconformist minister. Intruded as a fellow during the Parliamentary visitation of the University of Cambridge, he was expelled in 1650 as a result of the engagement controversy, and was an ejected minister of 1662.

## Life

The son of Arthur Jackson, he matriculated in 1638 at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. there in 1643. He was made a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1644, by the parliamentary visitors.
In 1650 Jackson refused to take the required oath, supporting the legitimacy of Parliamentary rule, and was expelled from his college. In London he was made rector of St Benet Paul's Wharf, by Oliver Cromwell. In 1662, after the Uniformity Act required him to read the Book of Common Prayer, he was barred from his church for refusing. He was also deprived of another living, Molesey in Surrey.
Continuing to reside at Molesey, Jackson spent time writing. He made a living by correcting proofs. Later in life he was a preacher at Brentford. He died in the London area.

## Works

Jackson wrote Index Biblicus, a concordance, and a memoir of his father (1682) in Annotations upon the Whole Book of Isaiah.
# John Jackson (military chaplain)

John Jackson (fl. c. 1700 – 1717) was an Anglican priest who served as the first chaplain to the garrison at St John's, Newfoundland. He is credited with building the first Anglican church in Newfoundland and present-day Canada.
Jackson was appointed chaplain of the St. John's garrison in 1700 and sailed to Newfoundland with his wife and eight children in 1701. It is possible that Jackson also served as chaplain on Sir John Norris and Sir John Gibsone's 1697 expedition to the island. Initially, Jackson's salary of fifty pounds per annum depended on tithes from the civilian population, but by 1703 he was recognized by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
He arrived to a tense atmosphere, pitting officers against their soldiers and the town's civilians. Jackson consistently opposed the officers and was accused of sowing "discord among the inhabitants". Jackson repeatedly wrote to his superiors in England complaining about the behaviour of the officers, including Michael Richards and Thomas Lloyd.
Over the winter of 1704–1705 a group of officers, including Richards and Lloyd, complained to the Board of Trade in London that Jackson was a disruptive influence and requested his recall. In 1705 Jackson and his family (now eleven children) left Newfoundland aboard Falkland. The ship ran aground in Sandwich Bay, Kent. There were no deaths, but the family lost most of their possessions.
In 1709 Jackson took a post as curate in Dursley, Gloucestershire. He married a woman named Mary Bissett in 1710. (The fate of his first wife is unknown; she may have died in Newfoundland.) In the same year, he became rector of Uley.