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Coode Canal
Coode is a surname. Notable persons with that name include: * Arthur Coode (1876–1940), cricketer * Ed Coode (born 1975), British rower * Jim Coode (1951–1987), Canadian football player * John Coode (Governor of Maryland) John Coode (c. 1648 in CornwallFebruary or March 1709) is best known for leading a rebellion that overthrew Maryland's colonial government in 1689. He participated in four separate uprisings and briefly served as Maryland's governor (1689–1691) a ... ( 1648–1709), English rebellion leader and politician * John Coode (engineer) (1816–1892), English civil engineer * Mark James Elgar Coode (born 1937), British botanist See also * Coode Canal, Australia * Coode Island, Australia * Coode Peninsula, British Columbia, Canada * Coode Street jetty, Western Australia {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Coode
Arthur Trevenen Coode (5 February 1876 – 28 December 1940) was an English first-class cricketer active 1898–1901 who played for Middlesex. He was born in St Helier, Jersey and died in Hazlemere Hazlemere is a large village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, northeast of High Wycombe on the A404 leading to Amersham, which intersects with the B474 at Hazlemere. To the north of the village is the hamlet of Holmer Green, whi .... References 1876 births 1940 deaths English cricketers Middlesex cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Coode
Edward Coode, MBE (born 19 June 1975) is a British rower, twice World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist. Early life Born in Cornwall in 1975, Coode boarded at Papplewick School and Eton College. He studied marine biology at University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Keble College, Oxford, and rowed in the Oxford crew at the 1998 Boat Race. Career Coode won his first World Championship in 1999, as a substitute in the British men's coxless four, rowing with Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell. When Tim Foster returned to the four, Coode was put into the coxless pair with Greg Searle. They finished fourth at the 2000 Sydney Olympics having led for most of the race and being overtaken by three crews in the last 600 m, finishing 12/100th of a second (about 2 feet) out of third place. In 2001, he won a second World Championship in the men's coxless four with Steve Williams, Rick Dunn and Toby Garbett. In 2002, he missed the World Championships due to injury, Josh W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Coode
James Edward Coode (October 22, 1951 – June 17, 1987) was an American football and Canadian football player. He played college football for the University of Michigan from 1970 to 1973 and professional football for the Detroit Wheels (two games in 1974) and the Ottawa Rough Riders (1974–1980). He was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 1979 and died in 1987. University of Michigan A native of Mayfield Heights, Ohio, Coode enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1969 and played college football as an offensive tackle for Bo Schembechler's Michigan Wolverines football teams from 1970 to 1973. As a junior, he started every game at left tackle for the 1972 Michigan Wolverines football team that compiled a 10-1 record and was ranked No. 6 in the final AP Poll. As a senior, he started nine games at right tackle for the undefeated 1973 Michigan Wolverines football team that compiled a 10–0–1 record and was ranked No. 6 in the final AP Poll. Professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Coode (Governor Of Maryland)
John Coode (c. 1648 in CornwallFebruary or March 1709) is best known for leading a rebellion that overthrew Maryland's colonial government in 1689. He participated in four separate uprisings and briefly served as Maryland's governor (1689–1691) as the 1st Leader of the Protestant Associators. Biography Coode was born in Penryn, Cornwall, Kingdom of England about 1648, to a wealthy Cornish family. He attended Oxford University when he was 16 years old. Coode and his father had a falling out the year before, as young Coode was said to be behaving "sinfully." In 1668 Coode became an Anglican priest. In 1672, he journeyed to Maryland. Coode served as a minister briefly in the colony, but soon renounced his priesthood in order to marry Susannah Slye. Susannah’s father, Thomas Gerrard, was an important figure in the colony, but had his grievances towards the ruling Calvert family. This relationship helped influence Coode's growing disfavor towards the Maryland government. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Coode (engineer)
Sir John Coode (11 November 1816 – 2 March 1892), English civil engineer, known for harbour works. Life He was born at Bodmin on 11 November 1816. He was educated at Bodmin Grammar School and after leaving school entered his father's office. His natural tastes, however, were not for law but for engineering ; he was therefore articled to James Meadows Rendel of Plymouth, and on completion of his pupilage he worked for some years for that gentleman and on the Great Western Railway. In 1844, he set up in business for himself in Westminster as a consulting engineer, and remained there till 1847. In that year he was appointed resident engineer in charge of the great works at Portland harbour, which had been designed by Rendel. On the death of the latter in 1856, Coode was appointed engineer-in-chief, and retained that post until the completion of the work in 1872. This harbour provided the largest area of deep water of any artificial harbour in Great Britain, and was a work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark James Elgar Coode
Mark James Elgar Coode (born 1937) is a British botanist, taxonomic author and authority in the field of Elaeocarpaceae. Graduated in 1961 at the University of Cambridge, he moved to the University of Edinburgh, starting to work as an assistant to Peter Hadland Davis on the ''Flora of Turkey'' project, funded by the Science Research Council and based at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; in recent years, together with James Cullen, who worked on the same project, he was the taxonomic author of some plants (for example ''Abies nordmanniana'' subsp. ''equi-trojani''). In 1966 he was appointed senior botanist in the Botanical Division of the Forest Department of Lae, Papua Niugini, a role that allowed him to collect and study several plant species of the mainland of PNG and of New Ireland, writing a forest manual on Combretaceae and working on the Melanesian '' Terminalia''. In 1972 he was the first taxonomist assigned to work on the '' Flore des Mascareignes'' project at Kew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coode Canal
Coode is a surname. Notable persons with that name include: * Arthur Coode (1876–1940), cricketer * Ed Coode (born 1975), British rower * Jim Coode (1951–1987), Canadian football player * John Coode (Governor of Maryland) John Coode (c. 1648 in CornwallFebruary or March 1709) is best known for leading a rebellion that overthrew Maryland's colonial government in 1689. He participated in four separate uprisings and briefly served as Maryland's governor (1689–1691) a ... ( 1648–1709), English rebellion leader and politician * John Coode (engineer) (1816–1892), English civil engineer * Mark James Elgar Coode (born 1937), British botanist See also * Coode Canal, Australia * Coode Island, Australia * Coode Peninsula, British Columbia, Canada * Coode Street jetty, Western Australia {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coode Island
Coode Island is a former island at the convergence of the Yarra and Maribyrnong Rivers, 4 km west of central Melbourne, Australia. The island was formed by the excavation of the Coode Canal in 1887, and became connected to the mainland in the 1930s. Today the low-lying land is part of the Port of Melbourne, and is used as the site of Swanson and Appleton Docks and their associated container storage and rail yards, as well as a number of chemical storage facilities. History Before the 1880s, the area of Coode Island was an expansive low-lying wetland. The island became isolated from the mainland after the Coode Canal was dug to shorten the length of the Yarra River in 1886. A shipping canal was constructed to the south of the existing course of the river through Fishermans Bend, to allow access from the Port of Melbourne to Yarraville. The boundaries were the canal on the south, the Maribyrnong River on the west and the Yarra River on the north and east. Once form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coode Peninsula
The Coode Peninsula is a small peninsula on the inner side of the larger Malaspina Peninsula in the Sunshine Coast area of the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada, projecting into Malaspina Inlet just south of Okeover Inlet. Name origin According to Captain Walbran, the peninsula was named after Captain Trevenen Penrose Coode of , the flagship of Rear Admiral Joseph Denman, who was commander of the Royal Navy's Pacific Station from 1864 to 1866. Another name attribution is from Sir John Coode, nephew of Vice-Admiral Charles Vinicombe Penrose Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Vinicombe Penrose (20 June 1759 – 1 January 1830) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet. Naval career Penrose joined the Royal Navy in 1775. He took part in the Battle of ... and first lieutenant of under Captain Pender.Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions, quoted in BC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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