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Tom Baker (other)
Thomas or Tom Baker may refer to: Politicians *Thomas Cheseman or Thomas Baker ( 1488–1536 or later), Member of Parliament for Rye *Thomas Baker (died 1625), Member of Parliament for Arundel *Tom Baker (Nebraska politician) (born 1948), member of Nebraska Legislature *Thomas Guillaume St. Barbe Baker (1895–1966), Fascist activist and former British Army and RAF officer * Colonel Thomas Baker (1810–1872), founder of Bakersfield, California Sports * Thomas Baker (cricketer) (born 1981), English cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Northamptonshire County Cricket Club * Tom Baker (footballer, born 1934), Wales international football player, commonly called George * Tom Baker (bowler) (born 1954), American bowler * Tom Baker (1930s pitcher) (1913–1991), Major League Baseball pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants * Tom Baker (1960s pitcher) (1934–1980), Major League Baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs * Tom Baker (footballer, born 1905) ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cheseman
Thomas Cheseman or Baker (c. 1488–1536 or later) was an English politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) of the Parliament of England for Rye Rye (''Secale cereale'') is a grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop. It is a member of the wheat tribe (Triticeae) and is closely related to both wheat (''Triticum'') and barley (genus ''Hordeum''). Rye grain is u ... in 1523. References 1480s births 16th-century deaths Politicians from Carlisle, Cumbria English MPs 1523 {{16thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baker (missionary)
Thomas Baker (6 February 1832 – 21 July 1867) was a Methodist missionary in Fiji, known as being the only missionary in the archipelago to be killed and eaten, along with seven of his Fijian followers. The incident occurred in the Navosa Highlands of western Viti Levu in July 1867, and the rock used to kill Baker is still displayed in the village of Nabutatau. The soles of his leather sandals, which were also cooked by the cannibal tribe, are preserved at the Fiji Museum in Suva. Records show that Baker was killed and eaten as a result of him touching a chief's head, which is considered disrespectful in Fijian culture. Final mission In July 1867, Baker led a party into the interior of Viti Levu, passing through the Taukei ni Waluvu's Christian enclave on the East bank of the Wainimala River. When Baker met a local chief of Navatusila, Baker presented a British comb as a gift and attempted to persuade him to convert to Christianity. When the chief refused, Baker decided to take h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baker (musician)
Thomas Baker was a nineteenth-century composer and musical producer. A violinist, Baker came to the United States from England with the orchestra of Louis Antoine Jullien in 1853. His first Broadway production, ''Novelty'', opened at Laura Keene's Variety House on February 22, 1856. In 1861, Baker published the first "sheet-music publication of any black spiritual", ''Song of the Contrabands''. His efforts were later criticized as betraying a lack of knowledge of black music, for having "turned the slave song into a parlor ballad in 6/8 time". He was credited with writing the music for the 1866 stage production ''The Black Crook'', which premiered at Niblo's Garden in New York City, using a melodrama and a French ballet troupe whose venue burnt to the ground while they still rehearsed. The "result was an unprecedented triumph", and was one of the major events in the early history of the extravaganza. The production "is frequently cited as the first real precursor to the twentie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baker (Peasants' Revolt Leader)
Thomas Baker, an English landowner, was one of the leaders who initiated the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Thomas Baker's holding was "Pokattescroft alias Bakerescroft" in Fobbing. This holding still exists, although by the time of the 19th-century tithe map it had become known as Whitehall Six Acres Randal Bingley, ''Hanged on the 4th of July'' (in Panorama - the Journal of the Thurrock Local History Society, 1996) Role in the Revolt The Peasants' Revolt was triggered by incidents in the Essex villages of Fobbing and Brentwood. On 30 May, John Brampton attempted to collect the poll tax from villagers at Fobbing. The villagers, led by Thomas Baker, a local landowner, told Brampton that they would give him nothing and he was forced to leave the village empty handed. Robert Belknap, Chief Justice of Common Pleas, was sent to investigate the incident and to punish the offenders. On 2 June, he was attacked at Brentwood. By this time the violent discontent had spread, and the count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baker (artist)
Thomas Baker (9 October 1809 – 10 August 1864) was a English Midlands, Midlands landscape painter and watercolourist often known as "Baker of Leamington" or "Landscape Baker". Born in Harborne, Birmingham, Baker was a student of Vincent Barber (1788–1838) at the Barber family's Charles Street Academy in Birmingham. Exhibiting publicly with the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham Society of Artists from 1827 onwards, he painted landscapes throughout Warwickshire, the Midlands and the Welsh border regions and occasionally producing depictions of the Lake District, Scotland and Ireland. More often than not Baker's landscapes include cattle, although sheep and human figures are also fairly common in his works. Baker kept comprehensive records of his work and usually signed each major picture "T Baker", dated it to the year and numbered it on the back. Smaller pieces, studies and pencil sketches tend to be signed "T.B." (sometimes to be found playfully hidden aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baker (antiquarian)
Thomas Baker (14 September 1656 in Lanchester, Durham – 2 July 1740) was an English antiquarian. Life He was the grandson of Colonel Baker of Crook, Durham, who won fame in the English Civil War by his defence of Newcastle upon Tyne against the Scots. Thomas was educated at the free school at Durham, and went on to St John's College, Cambridge, where he later obtained a fellowship. Lord Crew, bishop of Durham, collated him to the rectory of Long Newton in his diocese in 1687, and intended to give him that of Sedgefield with a prebend had not Baker incurred his displeasure by refusing to read James II's Declaration of Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specially excepted from William III's Act of Indemnity. Baker, though he had opposed James, refused to take the oaths to William; he resigned Long Newton on 1 August 1690, and retired to St John's, in which he was protected till 20 January 1716/1717, when he and twenty-one others were deprived of their fel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baker (entomologist)
Thomas C. Baker is an American entomologist, focusing in study of insect pheromones and odor-mediated behavior, neuroethological studies of olfaction, identification and development of insect attractants for IPM systems, and development of olfaction-based biosensors and chemical ecology, currently Distinguished Professor at Pennsylvania State University and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons .... References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Pennsylvania State University faculty American entomologists Cornell University alumni Michigan State University alumni {{US-entomologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baker (college President)
Thomas Stockham Baker (March 28, 1871 – April 7, 1939) was an American scholar and educator who served as the second President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Early life Thomas Stockham Baker was born in Aberdeen, Maryland on March 28, 1871, to Cornelia E. (née Stockham) and John H. Baker. He attended public schools in Baltimore County. He studied at Johns Hopkins University, graduating in 1891 with a Bachelor of Arts. He did graduate work at the University of Leipzig in Germany, then returned to Baltimore to complete his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins in 1895. His thesis was titled ''America as the Poetical Utopia of Lenau and the Politico-Literary Ideal of Kürnberger and Young Germany''. Career He became a police reporter for the Baltimore News and then a music critic for the ''Baltimore Sun''. In 1895, he became an associate professor of German at Johns Hopkins. From 1900 to 1908, he taught German language and literature at Johns Hopkin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas E
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas, OP (; it, Tommaso d'Aquino, lit=Thomas of Aquino; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest who was an influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism; he is known wi ... (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Baker (professor)
Tom Baker (born 1959) is professor of law and a scholar of insurance law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Education Baker holds both a BA (1982) and a JD (1986) from Harvard University. Professional career Baker clerked for Judge Juan R. Torruella of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He then practiced with the firm of Covington and Burling in Washington, DC. He served as an Associate Counsel for the Independent Counsel investigating the Iran-Contra affair. Before joining Penn Law in 2008, he was Connecticut Mutual Professor of Law and director of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut School of Law. One of his students at UConn Law was future U.S. Senator Chris Murphy. His research explores insurance, risk, and responsibility in a wide variety of settings, using methods and perspectives drawn from economics, sociology, and history, as well as law. He is co-founder of the Insurance and Society Study Group, an informal a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Baker (American Actor)
Tom Baker (August 23, 1940 – September 2, 1982) was an American actor who starred in the Andy Warhol film ''I, a Man'' (1967). He was a close friend of Jim Morrison of The Doors. Early life Baker was the son of Tom Baker Jr. and Ellie, military parents who retired in San Francisco. His older sister married and then divorced a well-known British Formula 1 racer. He was of Irish descent. Career Baker started his career as a stage actor in New York City and assisted Norman Mailer in the stage adaptation of Mailer's novel ''The Deer Park''. Once he moved to Hollywood, he acted in a series of B movies. He also continued to do stage work, directing the 1973 premiere of ''The Grabbing of the Fairy'', a masque by Michael McClure. He produced and directed his own film, ''Bongo Wolf's Revenge'' in 1970. The cast included Severn Darden and P. J. Proby. A number of people from Jim Morrison's circle of friends worked on the production including Paul Ferrara, Babe Hill and Frank Lisc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Baker
Thomas Stewart Baker (born 20 January 1934) is an English actor and writer. He is well known for his portrayal of the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'' from 1974 to 1981.Scott, Danny. (17 December 2006)"A Life in the Day: Tom Baker" '' The Sunday Times''. Later in his career, Baker performed in the television series '' Medics'' (1992–1995), '' Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)'' (2000–2001) and '' Monarch of the Glen'' (2004–2005). He also provided narration for the television comedy series '' Little Britain'' (2003–2006) and '' Little Britain USA'' (2008). His voice, which has been described as "sonorous", was voted the fourth-most recognisable in the UK in 2006. Early life Thomas Stewart Baker was born on Scotland Road in the Vauxhall area of Liverpool on 20 January 1934. His mother, Mary Jane (''née'' Fleming), was a cleaner and devout Catholic. His father, John Stewart Baker, was a seaman and largely absent f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
