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Insley
Insley may refer to: *John Insley Blair (1802–1899), American entrepreneur, railroad magnate, philanthropist *Deborah Ann Insley Dingell (born 1953), Democratic Party politician * Earl Insley (1911–1958), American football coach and player * Jill Insley, financial journalist for The Sunday Times * Lawson Insley, 19th-century daguerreotyptist in Australia and New Zealand * Tere Insley, New Zealand Māori architect *Trevor Insley (born 1977), former American football wide receiver * Will Insley (1929–2011), American painter, architect, planner of utopian urban models *John Insley Blair Larned John Insley Blair Larned (October 5, 1883 – December 3, 1955) was a suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, serving from 1929 to 1946. Early life and education Larned was born on October 3, 1883, in Chicago, Illinois, the son o ... (1883–1955), suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island See also * Insley Manufacturing Co. produced heavy construction eq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Insley
Trevor Insley (born December 25, 1977) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Nevada Wolf Pack from 1996 to 1999. Insley is the only player in NCAA Division I-A history to gain 2,000 receiving yards in a single season. He is one of two players in all division NCAA history to hold this distinction. Insley holds the current records for receiving yards (2,060 as a senior) and receiving yards per game (187.3 as a senior) at the Division I-A level. Insley possesses the second most career receiving yards in Division I-A history with 5,005 yards. His other records include most 200 yard receiving games (6), second most 100 yard receiving games (26), and third most career receptions (298). Insley was signed as an undrafted free agent in 2000 by the Indianapolis Colts. His three-year NFL career with the Colts and the Houston Texans ended in 2002. He was allocated by the Colts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Insley
Will Insley (October 15, 1929 – August 12, 2011) was an American painter, architect, and planner of utopian urban models. As a painter of geometric abstraction, he is known for his large-area geometrical picture elements. Biography Insley studied at Amherst College, in Amherst, Massachusetts. He also had his first solo exhibition there. In 1955, he received his master's degree in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. From 1965 on, Insley developed wall fragments for spaces in utopian cities which he believed should be adapted to a better human way of thinking and trading i.e. The Interior Building - the inner building that man is to build externally. This utopia was his central work: a planned "Onecity" in the middle of the United States with 160,000 square miles of converted area for the entire population. He created plans, elevations, wall fragments and models which are systematically structured. From 1966 on, he was a guest lecturer at several universiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Insley
Jill Insley is a financial journalist for ''The Sunday Times'' writing for ''Question of Money''. Investment cat In a 2012 portfolio stock valuation Stock valuation is the method of calculating theoretical values of companies and their stocks. The main use of these methods is to predict future market prices, or more generally, potential market prices, and thus to profit from price movement � ... challenge by ''The Observer'', Jill Insley's pet cat, Orlando, outperformed a team of professional investors. In reaction, Insley wrote "''My cat is a genius.''" References {{DEFAULTSORT:Insley, Jill English non-fiction writers English women writers English journalists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Insley
Earl Frank "Jiggs" Insley Jr. (October 26, 1911 – January 29, 1958) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at his alma mater, Arizona State College at Flagstaff—now known as Northern Arizona University—from 1954 to 1955, compiling a record of 3–15. Insley was also the athletic director at Arizona State–Flagstaff from 1949 to 1958. Insley attended Gallup High School in Gallup, New Mexico, from which he graduated in 1930. At Arizona State–Flagstaff, he letterd in football and basketball. In 1932, he completed a pass on a fake PAT to upset the Arizona Wildcats. Insley was killed in a car crash, on January 29, 1958, east of Show Low, Arizona Show Low is a city in Navajo County, Arizona. It lies on the Mogollon Rim in east central Arizona, at an elevation of 6,345 feet (1,934 m). The city was established in 1870 and incorporated in 1953. According to the 2020 United States census, .... Head coaching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawson Insley
Lawson Insley was a daguerreotyptist who operated in Australia and New Zealand during the 19th century. He worked in portraiture and captured the earliest known portrait of Māori subjects. Insley arrived in Sydney in 1850. He set up a daguerreotype studio on George Street in September that year. Throughout the 1850s, Insley travelled between Australia and New Zealand, setting up studios and offering his services in portraiture. His most significant portrait was that of Caroline and Sarah Barrett, the daughters of trader Dicky Barrett and his wife Wakaiwa Rawinia. It was taken in New Plymouth New Plymouth () is the major city of the Taranaki region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after the English city of Plymouth, in Devon, from where the first English settlers to New Plymouth migrated. The New Pl ... in 1853. He also took New Zealand's oldest surviving photograph, a portrait of Edward Catchpool in 1852. References New Zealand phot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Insley Blair
John Insley Blair (August 22, 1802 – December 2, 1899) was an American entrepreneur, railroad magnate, philanthropist, and one of the 19th century's wealthiest men. Early life Blair was born at Foul Rift in White Township, New Jersey, just south of Belvidere, the fourth of ten children of James Blair and Rachel Insley. At the age of two, his family moved to a farm near Hope Township, New Jersey. As a youth, Blair displayed a keen interest in the acquisition of wealth. At the age of ten, he is reported to have told his mother, "I have seven brothers and three sisters. That's enough in the family to be educated. I am going to get rich." The young Blair began earning money by trapping wild rabbits and muskrats and selling their skins at a price of sixteen for a dollar. The next year, Blair began working at a general store owned by his cousin John, and at the age of seventeen he founded a store of his own with his cousin as an equal partner, located in Butt's Bridge, New Jers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Ann Insley Dingell
Deborah Ann Dingell ( ; ; November 23, 1953) is an American politician serving as a U.S. representative from Michigan since 2015, representing the state's 6th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she succeeded her late husband, John Dingell, who was the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history. Dingell is active in several organizations in Michigan and Washington, D.C., and serves on a number of boards. She is a founder and past chair of the National Women's Health Resource Center and the Children's Inn at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is also a member of the board of directors for Vital Voices Global Partnership. She is a 1975 graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She worked as a consultant to the American Automobile Policy Council. She was a superdelegate for the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Life and career Descended from Howard Fish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tere Insley
Alexandra Tere Insley is a New Zealand Māori architect. Insley is of Te Whanau-a-Apanui descent. Biography Insley studied architecture at the University of Auckland The University of Auckland (; Māori: ''Waipapa Taumata Rau'') is a public research university based in Auckland, New Zealand. The institution was established in 1883 as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Initially loc ..., graduating in 1980. She first worked for the Ministry of Works and Development, then in 1990 she established her own practice, Kauri Architects. References New Zealand women architects University of Auckland alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Te Whānau-ā-Apanui people New Zealand architects New Zealand Māori architects {{NewZealand-architect-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Insley Blair Larned
John Insley Blair Larned (October 5, 1883 – December 3, 1955) was a suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, serving from 1929 to 1946. Early life and education Larned was born on October 3, 1883, in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Walter Cranston Larned and Emma Locke Scribner. He was educated at the Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois, and The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. In 1905, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College. He graduated with a post-graduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1908. He then studied at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity in 1911. He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1935, and a Doctor of Laws from Hobart College in Geneva, New York, in 1946. Career Ordained ministry Larned was ordained a deacon in 1911 and a priest in 1912. He then served as curate a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insley Manufacturing Co
Insley may refer to: *John Insley Blair (1802–1899), American entrepreneur, railroad magnate, philanthropist *Deborah Ann Insley Dingell (born 1953), Democratic Party politician *Earl Insley (1911–1958), American football coach and player *Jill Insley, financial journalist for The Sunday Times *Lawson Insley, 19th-century daguerreotyptist in Australia and New Zealand *Tere Insley, New Zealand Māori architect *Trevor Insley (born 1977), former American football wide receiver *Will Insley (1929–2011), American painter, architect, planner of utopian urban models *John Insley Blair Larned John Insley Blair Larned (October 5, 1883 – December 3, 1955) was a suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, serving from 1929 to 1946. Early life and education Larned was born on October 3, 1883, in Chicago, Illinois, the son o ... (1883–1955), suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island See also * Insley Manufacturing Co. produced heavy construction equipme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Insley
In spring and summer 1864 Fort Blair, Fort Henning and Fort Insley were constructed to help protect the town and post of Fort Scott from Confederate forces. Fort Insley was named for Capt. Martain H. Insley. It was located just northeast of town, about 1½ blocks northeast of the main part of the post of Fort Scott. It overlooked Buck Run Creek. Each blockhouse was built of sawed wood slabs or thick boards, which were covered with rough boards. Each had a wood shingle roof and had ports for aiming rifles and small cannon. Each was two stories tall. Each blockhouse was surrounded by log palisades covered on the outside by earthworks, which in turn were surrounded by wide, deep ditches. Fort Insley was the largest of the blockhouses, measuring X . It was garrisoned by a detachment from the 6th Kansas and served as an ammunition storehouse. The three blockhouses helped protect Fort Scott in October 1864 when Maj. Gen. Sterling Price retreated south during his failed invasi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
