Mary Rolleston
Elizabeth Mary Rolleston( 30 March 1845 – 4 June 1940), known as Mary Rolleston, was a New Zealand homemaker, political hostess and community leader.
She was born as Elizabeth Mary Brittan in Castleton, Dorset, England in 1845.
Her parents were Joseph Brittan, a surgeon and newspaper proprietor, and Elizabeth Mary Brittan( née Chandler).
She had five siblings, two of whom died in infancy and a fortnight after the birth and then death of the last child in 1849, her mother herself died.
The surviving siblings were Joseph( Joe), Arthur, and Frances( Frank).
Mary Brittan married William Rolleston on 24 May 1865 at Holy Trinity Avonside.
She died in Christchurch on 4 June 1940.
Joseph Desfosses
Joseph Arthur Roméo Desfossés( November 3, 1897 – April 1, 1980) was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada.
He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1951 to 1959 sitting with the Liberal caucus in opposition.
Larry Gray
Larry Gray is a Chicago musician known for his compositions and skill on the double bass and cello.
His primary teachers were Joseph Guastafeste, longtime principal bassist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and cellist Karl Fruh.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Svein Knutsson
Svein Knutsson
( Old Norse:" Sveinn Knútsson") c. 1016 – 1035, was the son of Cnut the Great, king of Denmark, Norway, and England, and his first wife Ælfgifu of Northampton, a Mercian noblewoman.
In 1017 Cnut married Emma of Normandy, but there is no evidence that Ælfgifu was repudiated, and in 1030 Cnut sent her and Svein as regents to rule Norway.
However, their rule was considered oppressive by the Norwegians.
They imposed new taxes and harsh laws that made them unpopular and they were expelled in 1034.
Joseph Abbott (Canadian priest)
Joseph Abbott (baptized 10 June 1790 – 10 January 1862) was a Canadian clergyman in the Anglican Church of Canada, and the father of John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, the third Prime Minister of Canada.
Joseph Abbott was baptized in Little Strickland, in the United Kingdom.
His parents were Joseph Abbott and Isabella Abbott.
He is known for writing two books, "Memoranda of a settler in Lower Canada; or, the emigrant in North America" and "Philip Musgrave; or memoirs of a Church of England missionary in the North American colonies".
Thomas Pearson (bishop)
Thomas Wulstan Pearson, O.S.B.( 1870 – 1938) was an English prelate who served as the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Lancaster from 1924 to 1938.
Born in Preston, Lancashire on 4 January 1870, he was ordained a priest in the Order of Saint Benedict on 26 September 1897.
He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Lancaster by the Holy See on 18 December 1924.
His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 24 February 1925.
The principal consecrator was Frederick William Keating, Archbishop of Liverpool, and the principal co-consecrators were Joseph Butt, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster and Robert Dobson, Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool.
He died in office on 1 December 1938, aged 68.
Bruce Campbell Hopper
Bruce Campbell Hopper( August 24, 1892 – July 6, 1973) was a World War 1 aviator, newspaper reporter, author, historian, and lecturer who served as an associate professor of government at Harvard University from 1930 to 1961.
He was an early expert on the Soviet Union, authoring influential articles, informing US State department policy, and lecturing extensively for over thirty years.
Among his many students were Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy.
Dr. Hopper advised John F. Kennedy on the completion of his thesis at Harvard, eventually published as" Why England Slept".
Svein Kristensen
Svein Ragnar Kristensen( born 22 January 1946) is a Norwegian civil servant.
Having graduated as siv .øk. from Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, he embarked on a career as a civil servant, working in the Ministry of Local Government( 1973 – 1977), the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority( 1977 – 1984) and the National Insurance Administration( 1985 – 1996).
In 1996 he was hired as a sub-director in the Norwegian Tax Administration.
Following the death of Tax Director Bjarne Johannes Hope, Kristensen became acting Tax Director on 1 July 2006; the appointment became permanent that December.
In 2013 he was succeeded in this post by Hans Christian Holte.
Mervin Kelly
Mervin Joe Kelly( February 14, 1895 Princeton, Missouri – March 18, 1971) was an American physicist and engineer, and president of Bell Labs from 1951 to 1959.
His parents were Joseph Fenimore and Mary Etta( Evans) Kelly.
He married Katherine Milsted in 1915.

Question: Were Joseph Desfosses and Svein Kristensen of the same nationality?
Answer: no