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Cedric Carter | |
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| Born | Cedric Oswald Carter 26 September 1917 |
| Died | 12 March 1984 (aged 66) |
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| Fields | Human genetics |
| Workplaces | University of London |
Cedric Oswald Carter (26 September 1917 – 12 March 1984) was a British medical geneticist and eugenicist. According to Peter Harper, Carter was "probably the single person who most influenced the development of medical genetics as a clinical specialty" during the late 1960s and 1970s.[1]
The son of a Royal Navy captain, Carter was born in Port Said in present-day Egypt on 26 September 1917. He was educated in England, specifically at Winchester College, Queen's College, Oxford, and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. After graduating, he served as a medical officer in the 8th Indian Division of the British Indian Army, where he eventually became a major before leaving the Army in 1946. He then resumed his medical training and achieved his Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (MRCP) in 1948.[2][3][4]
From 1948 to 1951, Carter was a research fellow at the Great Ormond Street Hospital (then known as the Hospital for Sick Children) in London, England. During the following four years, he was a part-time research fellow in genetics at the same hospital, as well as a part-time secretary for the Eugenics Society. He served as editor of the Eugenics Review from 1950 to 1952 and as secretary of the Eugenics Society from 1952 to 1957. He joined the Medical Research Council’s Clinical Genetics Unit at the Institute of Child Health, London as a staff member in 1957, and succeeded John Alexander Fraser Roberts as the Unit's director in 1964, remaining in this role until his retirement in 1982. He founded the Clinical Genetics Society in 1970 and served as its first president. He became professor of clinical genetics at the University of London in 1975, also holding this position until his retirement. He served as president of the Eugenics Society from 1972 to 1976.[2][3]
Carter was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1964 and received a gold medal for his services to pediatrics from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 1971. He was named Galton Lecturer by the Eugenics Society in 1971 and Darwin Lecturer by the same society in 1978, and was named an honorary fellow of the Japanese Society of Human Genetics in 1980. The Clinical Genetics Society honoured Carter by establishing the annual Carter Medal and Carter Lecture.[5]
Carter married Peggy Hope, who had worked at St Thomas' Hospital as a nurse. The couple had seven children and twenty-nine grandchildren. Carter died "suddenly and unexpectedly" on 12 March 1984, at his home in Keston, Kent, England.[3]
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Cedric Oswald Carter (26 September 1917 – 12 March 1984) was a British medical geneticist and eugenicist. According to Peter Harper, Carter was "probably the single person who most influenced the development of medical genetics as a clinical specialty" during the late 1960s and 1970s.
Cedric Levan Richmond (born September 13, 1973) is an American attorney, politician, and political advisor who is a senior adviser to the Democratic National Committee. A member of the Democratic Party, Richmond represented the 101st district in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2000 to 2011. Richmond was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2021. His district included most of New Orleans. From 2017 to 2019, Richmond chaired the Congressional Black Caucus. Beginning with his third term, he was the only Louisiana Democrat serving in either chamber of the United States Congress. In 2019, he was named the first national co-chair of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. On September 5, 2020, he was named a co-chair of Biden's presidential transition. On November 17, 2020, Richmond announced he would leave Congress in January 2021 to serve as Senior Advisor to the President and director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, which Biden renamed the White House Office of Public Engagement.
Carter is an English language surname and given name that means "one who uses a cart" with presence throughout the British Isles including England, Ireland, and Scotland. It is derived from Anglo-Norman careter or caretier with linguistic root origins tracing from the Latin Carettarius ultimately originated from the Celtic word cairt, meaning "cart". Over time, through word evolution, it evolved to describe the person who drove the cart to move goods. The word cairt is still used in Gaelic. The Celtic word cairt has its origins in the Proto-Indo-European word "kars" or "kart", which referred to a wheeled vehicle. The surname, depending on origin may also have derivation from "cairtear," a Gaelic term for tourist or sojourner. In England, the earliest recorded use of the surname Carter dates back to 1192–1193, as evidenced by the entry of Norman knight Rannulf le Caretier in the Pipe Rolls of Huntingdonshire. This record appears during the reign of King Richard I, also known as Richard the Lionheart who ruled from 1189 to 1199. Close to a century later, on the Hundred Rolls of 1273, a census of Wales and England, includes six early bearers of the surname: Jocius Catetarius in Oxfordshire, Juliana le Cartere in Cambridgeshire, Nicholas le Carter in Oxfordshire, John le Cartere in Norfolk, Robert le Caretter in Huntingdonshire, and Margaret le Careter in Huntingdonshire. The Poll Tax of Yorkshire from 1379 lists Richardus Carter as another bearer of the surname in an Anglicized form. Following the Norman invasion of Ireland in the 1100s, Roman Catholic English-derived Carters also arrived in Ireland and settled into walled towns established by the Normans. These Anglo-Normans assimilated into Irish culture, adopting Irish Gaelic customs, language, and religion, becoming what is referred to in Irish historiography as "more Irish than the Irish themselves." The later English and Scottish Protestant planter settlers in Ireland who arrived between the 1550s and 1700 and mainly settled in Ulster during the plantation of Ulster, established the Ulster Protestant community and remained a distinct class and group. The surname was also frequently used as a shortened, Anglicized form of the Irish surname McCarter, particularly by immigration clerks in the United States and Canada in the 19th century and early-20th century, or by families themselves aiming to shorten the name by dropping the "Mc." The Statutes of Kilkenny in 1366, which aimed to curb the decline of the Hiberno-Norman Lordship of Ireland, established that every Englishman or Irish living amongst the English use the English language and adopt English naming and customs or be thrown in jail and lose property. It was declared for those Irish living in The Pale, to take an English surname either after a town, colour, trade, or office, which also contributed to the proliferation of Anglo and Anglicized surnames. Today, Carter is the 44th most common surname in the United States and 56th most common in England. In Ireland it is ranked between McGarry and Cannon where it is found with greatest frequency in County Laois as the 70th most common surname and also has significant presence in Dublin, Cork, and Limerick. In Scotland it is found with greatest frequency in the Outer Hebrides. The Carter surname is common among African Americans as formerly enslaved people lost their family names long before the Emancipation and 13th Amendment to their masters (who were typically of English or Scottish descent), or through the common mixing found between Irish immigrants and free African Americans in Northern cities and communities such as Five Points and Seneca Village in New York City and elsewhere in the United States, such as New Orleans. This name is common among African Americans capable of tracing their roots back to the southern United States or Caribbean from the early 20th century and prior, with some 35% of name holders of Carter in the United States being of African American descent and it being the 22nd most common surname for Black Americans.
Austin Cedric Gibbons (March 23, 1890 – July 26, 1960) was an American art director for the film industry. He also made a significant contribution to motion picture theater architecture from the 1930s to 1950s. Gibbons designed the Oscar statuette in 1928, It is believed to have been inspired by a statue of the Egyptian god Ptah which Gibbons saw in the collection of his friend William Randolph Hearst. He tasked the sculpting to George Stanley, a Los Angeles artist. He was nominated 39 times for the Academy Award for Best Production Design and won the Oscar 11 times, both of which are records.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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