Alfred Charles Gimson (; 7 June 1917-22 April 1985 ) was an English phonetician.

Gimson was educated at Emanuel School London, and University College London, where later in 1966 he became Professor of Phonetics, and in 1971 head of the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics.

Sir Franklin Charles Gimson, KCMG, KStJ, ( Chinese: 詹遜, 10 September 1890-13 February 1975 ) was a British colonial administrator, who served in Ceylon from 1914 to 1941, and later, the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong and the Governor of Singapore.

After spending more than three years in Stanley Internment Camp as an internee, Gimson was freed in August 1945, upon the Liberation of Hong Kong.

Gimson was the first Governor of Singapore from 1946 to 1952 who reinstalled the civil administration in Singapore.

Gimson was born on 10 September 1890 in Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire, England to the Rev.

Gimson left the Customs in March 1929 and was appointed as an Additional Assistant to the Director of Education.

In February 1932, Gimson was appointed Assistant Government Agent of Trincomalee and in December 1933, appointed Assistant Government Agent of Kegalle.

Gimson was promoted to the post of Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong in 1941 and arrived at the colony on 7 December, just the day before the Japanese Army initiated its unexpected and sudden large-scale invasion to Hong Kong.

Since the Governor was interned elsewhere, Gimson became the representative of the former government who was responsible to deal with the Japanese over the issue of transfer of power.

In March 1942, Gimson was finally sent to Stanley Internment Camp where most British colonial officials and expatriates were interned.

As the highest ranking British official in the camp, Gimson became the chairman of the Council and was also responsible to negotiate with the Japanese on matters relating to the camp.

Since Harcourt was asked to form a military government by London, Gimson transferred the power to him and the military government was officially formed on 1 September.

Harcourt himself became the head of the military government and Gimson was appointed Lieutenant Governor by him.

Yet, the creation of the office of Lieutenant Governor was deemed unsuitable by the Colonial Office and therefore Gimson was soon replaced by a Chief Civil Affairs Officer and his team sent from London on 7 September.

Gimson himself was in fact in poor health as a result of more than three years of internment.

Gimson was married to Margaret Dorothy Ward, MBE in 1922.

Gimson assumed the post of the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong in December 1941.

Under the patronage of the Bathurst family, the Cirencester area, notably Sapperton, became a major centre for the Arts and Crafts movement in the Cotswolds, when the furniture designer and architect-craftsman Ernest Gimson opened workshops in the early 20th century, and Norman Jewson, his foremost student, practised in the town.

Andrew Gimson, biographer of Boris Johnson, reported about the club in the 1980s: " I don't think an evening would have ended without a restaurant being trashed and being paid for in full, very often in cash.

Although Seymour's order arrived late on 23 August, Gimson had declared himself " Acting Governor " and had started to prepare for a " provisional government " on 16 August after knowing Japanese had surrendered.

Gimson spent his time back in the United Kingdom in retirement.

Following in March 1948, Gimson allowed six of the twenty-five seats in the Legislative Council to be elected.

These included such names as Lilias Armstrong, Harold Palmer, Ida Ward, Hélène Coustenoble, Arthur Lloyd James, Dennis Fry, A. C. Gimson, Gordon Arnold, J. D.

NOAD includes a diacritical respelling scheme to convey pronunciations, as opposed to the Gimson phonemic IPA system that is used in NODE.

Faced with the difficulty of defining RP, many writers have tried to distinguish between different sub-varieties: A. C. Gimson in earlier editions of his book proposed Conservative, General, and Advanced ; Conservative RP refers to a traditional accent associated with older speakers with certain social backgrounds ; General RP is often considered neutral regarding age, occupation, or lifestyle of the speaker ; and Advanced RP refers to speech of a younger generation of speakers.

Later editions ( e. g. Gimson 2008 ) use General, Refined and Regional.

However, journalist Andrew Gimson, writing in The Spectator, cast doubt upon the official version of events.

Furniture designed by Ernest Gimson, Edward William Godwin, Charles Voysey, Adolf Loos and Otto Wagner are among the late 19th century and early 20th century examples in the collection.

The nearby Swithland Wood had been previously bought from the estate by William Gimson, who sold it to the Leicester Rotary Club.

The four steam engines were built in Leicester by Gimson and Company and today are rare examples of Woolf compound rotative beam engines.

* Alfred C. Gimson

Among those represented are Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo and the Century Guild, William De Morgan, May Morris, Ernest Gimson, Sidney Barnsley, George Jack, C. F. A. Voysey, Harry Powell, Selwyn Image, Henry Holiday, and Christopher Whall.

These include ` The White House ' in North Avenue designed in a variation of the Arts & Crafts style by Ernest Gimson in 1898 and 22 Avenue Road, designed in the modernist style by Fello Atkinson and Brenda Walker of James Cubitt and Partners in 1953.

He also worked closely with A. C. Gimson and J. D.

six days after war was declared he appointed Raymond Fosdick chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities ( the CTCA ).

Jefferson Lawrence was alone at the small, perfectly appointed table by the window looking out over the river.

Dr. Gordon N. Ray, Provost, Vice-President and Professor of English in the University of Illinois, was appointed Associate Secretary General.

In 1800, Manthey went abroad and Oersted was appointed manager of the Lion Pharmacy.

In a course for supermarket operators, a district manager who had been recently appointed to his position after being outstandingly successful as a store manager, found that in supervising other managers he was having a difficult time.

So was the attack upon Charles E. Bohlen when Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Moscow.

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

In October 1944, he was appointed state warden and chief of the Forest Fire Section.

Vincent G. Ierulli has been appointed temporary assistant district attorney, it was announced Monday by Charles E. Raymond, District Attorney.

Her husband recently was appointed vice president of the university, bringing them back here from the east.

A notable example of this was the discussion of Christian unity by the Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, Dr. Heenan, and the Anglican Archbishop of York, Dr. Ramsey, recently appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.

" After repeated calls on Grant to defend Washington, Sheridan was appointed and the threat from Early was dispatched.

Aristotle was appointed as the head of the royal academy of Macedon.

Johnston remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Taylor to the U. S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December 1849.

Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.

Among his staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.

Suleiman ibn Kutalmish was the son of the contender for Arslan's throne ; he was appointed governor of the north-western provinces and assigned to completing invasion of Anatolia.

In 1950, van Vogt was briefly appointed as head of L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics operation in California.

In 1787 a bishop of Nova Scotia was appointed with a jurisdiction over all of British North America ; in time several more colleagues were appointed to other cities in present-day Canada.

In time, it became natural to group these into provinces and a metropolitan was appointed for each province.

He was also appointed organist for the Bach Concerts of the Orféo Català at Barcelona and often travelled there for that purpose.