algernon

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Definition of algernon in English English dictionary

A male given name

{i} family name; male first name

given name, male

Parsons Sir Charles Algernon Swinburne Algernon Charles Cecil of Chelwood Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil 1st Viscount

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

born April 5, 1837, London, Eng. died April 10, 1909, Putney, London English poet and critic. After attending Eton and the University of Oxford, Swinburne lived on an allowance from his father. His verse drama Atalanta in Calydon (1865) first showed his lyric powers. Poems and Ballads (1866), containing some of his best work, displays his paganism and masochism and provoked controversy; a second series (1878) was less hectic and sensual. His verse is marked by emphatic rhythms, much alliteration and internal rhyme, and lush subject matter. His health collapsed in 1879 and he spent his last 30 years under a friend's guardianship. His early poetry is noted for innovations in prosody, but his later poetry is considered less important. Among his outstanding critical writings are Essays and Studies (1875) and monographs on William Shakespeare (1880), Victor Hugo (1886), and Ben Jonson (1889)

Algernon Swinburne

a British poet whose best-known work is Atalanta in Corydon, a tragedy in ancient Greek style (1837-1909)

Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood

born Sept. 14, 1864, London, Eng. died Nov. 24, 1958, Tunbridge Wells, Kent British statesman. The son of the marquess of Salisbury, he served during World War I as minister of blockade and as assistant secretary of state for foreign affairs. He was one of the principal draftsmen of the League of Nations covenant in 1919 and, as president of the League of Nations Union (1923-45), one of the League's most loyal workers until it was superseded by the United Nations. In 1937 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Sir Charles Algernon Parsons

born June 13, 1854, London, Eng. died Feb. 11, 1931, Kingston Harbour, Jam. British mechanical engineer. He began work at the Armstrong engineering works in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1877 and formed his own company to manufacture turbines and other heavy machinery in 1889. He developed the multiple-stage turbine in 1884 and had introduced it in power plants to generate electricity by 1891. Modern steam and nuclear power plants still use turbines of this type to turn their generators. He demonstrated his marine turbine in Turbinia, a vessel that attained a speed of over 34 knots in 1897; Parsons turbines made high-speed ocean liners possible

Hyphenation

Al·ger·non

Turkish pronunciation

älcırnän

Pronunciation

/ˈalʤərnän/ /ˈælʤɜrnɑːn/

Etymology

() From Old French als gernons ‘having mustaches’, from als (contraction of a and les) + gernon, variant of grenon ‘mustache’, from a Germanic source, related to Old High German grana ‘mustache’, Old English granu ‘mustache’, Old Norse grǫn ‘mustache, (upper) lip’.