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His father, an electrician and amateur footballer in the lower leagues, named him in honour of Scottish striker Denis Law.
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Although Robson had signed professionally, his father insisted he continue to work as an electrician.
Miller was born in Olney, Maryland, and raised in Montpelier, Vermont, the fifth of seven children of a nurse mother and a carpenter / electrician father.
Kenneth Clarke's father ( also named Kenneth ) worked as a mining electrician and then a watchmaker and jeweller.
His mother, Sharon Rae ( née Tedrick ), was a welfare worker, and his father, William Costner, was an electrician and later utilities executive at Southern California Edison.
Cherry's father Del was an amateur athlete and worked as an electrician with the Canadian Steamship Lines.
His father was a journeyman electrician and the family lived in many rural locations in the Midwest & Western U. S. during his youth, attending 15 different schools.
When he was six years old, his father, Aubrey II, was killed as an innocent bystander in a domestic dispute while he was working as an electrician.
D ' Amato was familiar to the environment of cinema through his father who worked as an electrician at Cinecittà.
The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) lists the earliest reference to the Essex man as one from 7 October 1990 in the ( conservative ) Sunday Telegraph, although a reference to 26 January 1990 issue of Campaign: " Representative < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > of new Essex man, working-class, father electrician, right-wing, keen hanger, noisily rambunctious, no subtlety ".
Krol's father held various occupations, working as a machinist, barber, carpenter, plumber and electrician ; his mother worked as a maid at a hotel in Cleveland.
The former, knowing that the latter is from a poor family, introduces himself as an electrician to make her fall for him, though he is later revealed as the son of a rich landlord ( T. S. Balaiah ), who Kannamma's father Murugan ( S. V. Subbaiah ) is working for as a labourer.
The family moved to Vancouver, Washington, where his father worked as an electrician for Warren Construction Company.
father and amateur
His father, a professional engraver and an amateur landscape painter, took his sons on numerous hunting expeditions, and imparted to them his knowledge and love of nature.
Capp's father, a failed businessman and reportedly an amateur cartoonist, introduced him to drawing as a form of therapy.
His father was a successful jack-of-all-trades in the arts, a painter of miniatures, sculptor, decorative stonemason, and amateur musician ; his mother was the nearly illiterate daughter of a master wigmaker.
His father, Robert Victor Britten, was a dentist, and his mother Edith Rhoda Hockey, a talented amateur musician who gave Britten his first lessons in piano and notation.
She never revealed who was the father of her child ; speculation exists that he was the offspring from a liaison with an equally young amateur painter named Boissy, or with the well established painter, Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, or even with Renoir ( see below under Utrillo's Paternity ).
* Joseph Jackson Lister ( 1786-1869 ), Quaker, amateur opticist and physicist, inventor of the modern microscope and the father of Joseph Lister ; spent his early married life in Stoke Newington.
His father, Niels Jørgensen, was a house painter and amateur musician who, with his abilities as a fiddler and cornet player, was in strong demand for local celebrations.
Serling's father had worked as a secretary and amateur inventor before having children, but took on his father-in-law's profession as a grocer in order to earn a steady income.
Paray's father, Auguste, was a sculptor and organist at St. Jacques church, and leader of an amateur musical society.
His father was Robert Stanley Wilcoxon ( known as " Tan "), manager of the Colonial Bank in Jamaica, and his mother Lurline Minuette Nunes, who had been an amateur theatre actress.
The fictional Ellery Queen created by Dannay and Lee is a mystery writer and amateur detective who helps his father, a New York City police inspector, solve baffling murders.
His father was an apothecary, and an amateur collector of minerals, coins, fossils, and insects from around the world.
Teagarden's father was an amateur brass band trumpeter and started young Jack on baritone horn ; by age seven he had switched to trombone.
During the winter of 1789-90 he directed the amateur concerts in Kassel, failed to gain an employment with the Schwerin court which forced him, by now married and father of four children who all died in infancy, to hit the road one more time.
* Abraham Hayward ( 1801 – 1884 ), writer and essayist who, with his father Joseph Hayward, an amateur horticulturist of ' Westhill ', Silver Street, Lyme Regis, successfully brought a landmark case in the 1840s on behalf of the citizens of Lyme Regis, to maintain a permanent right of way for the town's citizens across the cliffs to Axmouth and Seaton.
Her mother, Dorothy Deanne ( née Keaton ; 1921 – 2008 ), was a homemaker and amateur photographer ; her father, Jack Newton Ignatius Hall ( 1921 – 1990 ), was a real estate broker and civil engineer.
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, young Steve received his first exposure to music from his mother, Bertha, whom he described as a remarkable non-professional jazz-influenced singer, and his physician father, George, known as " Sonny " who, in addition to his profession as a pathologist, was a jazz enthusiast and accomplished amateur recording engineer.
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