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Burbidge
Burbidge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur Burbidge (–1890), English cricketer * David Burbidge (born 1943), British aristocrat * Eileen Burbidge (born 1971), American-British venture capitalist * Frederick Burbidge (cricketer) (1832–1892), English cricketer * Frederick William Thomas Burbidge (1847–1905), English explorer and botanist * Geoffrey Burbidge (1925–2010), English astronomy professor * George Burbidge (1847–1908), Canadian lawyer, judge and author * John Burbidge (1718–1812), English soldier, land owner, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia * John W. Burbidge (1936–2023), Canadian professor of philosophy * Leslie William Burbidge (1891–??), English World War I flying ace * Margaret Burbidge (1919–2020), British-born American astrophysicist * Maurice "Moss" Burbidge (1896–1977), pioneering Canadian aviator * Michael Francis Burbidge (born 1957), American Roman Catholic Bishop * Nancy Tyson Burbidge (1912–197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Francis Burbidge
Michael Francis Burbidge (born June 16, 1957) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Arlington since 2016. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia from 2002 to 2006 and as Bishop of Raleigh from 2006 to 2016. He served as Chair of the Pro-Life Activities for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops from 2021 to 2024. Biography Early life and education Michael Burbidge was born on June 16, 1957, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Francis and Shirley (Lilley) Burbidge. He has a brother, Francis Burbidge. Upon being confirmed, Michael Burbidge chose Francis as his confirmation name. As a teenager, he worked at a Sears department store. Burbidge graduated from Cardinal O'Hara High School in Springfield, Pennsylvania, in 1975. Having decided to become a priest, he entered St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and a Master of Theology degree from St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Burbidge
Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, FRS (; 12 August 1919 – 5 April 2020) was a British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist. In the 1950s, she was one of the founders of stellar nucleosynthesis and was first author of the influential B2FH paper. During the 1960s and 1970s she worked on galaxy rotation curves and quasars, discovering the most distant astronomical object then known. In the 1980s and 1990s she helped develop and utilise the Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. Burbidge was also well known for her work opposing discrimination against women in astronomy while also opposing positive discrimination. Burbidge held several leadership and administrative posts, including director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (1973–1975), president of the American Astronomical Society (1976–1978), and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1983). Burbidge worked at the University of London Observator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Tyson Burbidge
Nancy Tyson Burbidge (5 August 1912 – 4 March 1977) was an Australian systemic botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator. Early life and training Burbidge was born in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire. Her father, William Burbidge, was the son of the Rev. Edward Burbidge of Backwell, and graduated B.A. from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1892. Following his father as a cleric, he was ordained deacon in the Church of England in 1897, and priest in 1898. He was a curate in Leeds from 1897 to 1900, then for five years was with the Bush Brotherhood in Longreach, Queensland. Returning to England, he married in 1906 Mary Eleanor Simmonds. She was the daughter of Alexander Hague Simmonds of Burnt Ash Hill, Lee, London, and his wife Hannah Tyson of Baltimore, a granddaughter of Nathan Tyson and Martha Ellicott Tyson. Mary Simmonds was educated at Newnham College from 1897 to 1900. She taught at a school in Sydney from 1900 to 1904, and at the City of London School for Girls 1904 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Burbidge
Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge (24 September 1925 – 26 January 2010) was an English astronomy professor and theoretical astrophysicist, most recently at the University of California, San Diego. He was married to astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge and was the second author of the influential B2FH paper which she led. Early life and education Burbidge was born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, a small market town in the Cotswolds, where he attended grammar school. His father, also Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge, was a builder. He first attended the University of Bristol to study history, but changed to physics, receiving his degree in 1946. In 1947, he went to London and received his PhD from University College London (UCL) in 1950. While at UCL he worked with Professor H. S. W. Massey who was then head of the department of mathematics. Career and research With his wife Margaret Burbidge he worked at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Cambridge, before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick William Thomas Burbidge
Frederick William Thomas Burbidge (1847–1905) was a British explorer who collected many rare tropical plants for the famous Veitch Nurseries. Biography Burbidge was born at Wymeswold, Leicestershire, on 21 March 1847, was son of Thomas Burbidge, a farmer and fruit-grower. Burbridge entered the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at Chiswick as a student in 1868, and proceeded in the same year to the Royal Gardens, Kew. Here he showed skill as a draughtsman and was partly employed in making drawings of plants in the herbarium. Leaving Kew in 1870, he was on the staff of ''the Garden'' from that year until 1877. In 1877 Burbidge was sent by Messrs. Veitch as a collector to Borneo. He was absent two years, during which he also visited Johore, Brunei, and the Sulu Islands. He brought back to Great Britain many remarkable plants, especially: *pitcher plants, such as "Nepenthes rajah" and "N. bicalcarata"; *orchids, such as " Cypripedium laurenceanum", " Dendrobium burbidg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Burbidge
David Lovell Burbidge, (born 15 October 1943) was Chairman of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) & chaired the successful Sounds of the Future Campaign to raise £12.5m, former chairman of the Coventry City of Culture Trust having led the successful campaign to win the 2021 UK City of Culture title, Chairman of Burbidge & Son Ltd and also a deputy lieutenant of the West Midlands, former board member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), founding chairman of Furniture Makers Hall and Freeman of the City of London (1979). Early life Burbidge was born on 15 October 1943, and educated at Shrewsbury School and then Keble College, Oxford where he achieved a Master of Arts in Law. Now a businessman and philanthropist noted mainly for his work in arts and culture. His roles have included High Sheriff of the West Midlands County, Councillor on the Warwick District Council, Chairman of the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and Chairman of the Central Campaign for the transfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Burbidge
Eileen Burbidge MBE (born 16 June 1971) is a British-American venture capitalist based in London, UK. She is a founding partner of Passion Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm that has invested in Monzo, Go Cardless and Lulu, a private social network for single women. Early life and education Burbidge was born on 16 June 1971 in Chicago to a civil engineer father and a mother who worked in finance. She was educated at Naperville Central High School and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science in computer science. Career Burbidge started her career working as an engineering associate at GTE and Verizon Wireless. She then worked in marketing roles at Apple and Sun Microsystems. She had brief stints as business development director at Openwave followed by the 12 Entrepreneuring incubator. In 2004 she moved from the United States to London to pursue a career with Skype. After working at Skype, Burbidge launched Passi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie William Burbidge
Captain Leslie William Burbidge (born 10 March 1891, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England, date and place of death unknown) was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories. He flew as an observer/gunner in Bristol F.2 Fighters in 20 Squadron.Franks ''et.al.'' (1997), pp.6–7. Pre-World War I Leslie William Burbidge was the son of Reverend E. O. Burbidge. The younger Burbidge worked for a shipyard in St Helens, Lancashire, from 1910 to 1914. He was fluent in both French and Italian, and gave a home of record in Le Havre when he joined the Royal Flying Corps.Franks ''et.al.'' (1997), p.6. World War I service Military appointments On 1 August 1915 he was promoted from Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant. Temporary Captain Burbidge was appointed an Adjutant in the Army Service Corps on 1 June 1916. He was superseded as Adjutant on 30 July 1917. On 7 October 1917, Burbidge was transferred to the RFC's General List, with seniority backdated to 10 September. Aerial victories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burbidge Baronets
The Burbidge Baronetcy, of Littleton Park in the County of Middlesex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 25 January 1916 for Richard Burbidge, who was managing director of Harrods Harrods is a Listed building, Grade II listed luxury department store on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, England. It was designed by C. W. Stephens for Charles Digby Harrod, and opened in 1905; it replaced the first store on the ground ... from 1890 to 1917. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baronet, who also was chairman of Harrods. His son, the third Baronet, was chairman and managing director of Harrods. His son, the fourth Baronet, had no issue and on his early death in 1974, he was succeeded by his first cousin once removed, the fifth Baronet. He was the son of Herbert Edward Burbidge, second son of the first Baronet. As of 2022, the title is held by his grandson, the seventh Baronet, who succeeded in 2019. Burbidge baronets, of Litt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Burbidge
Arthur Burbidge (c. 1836 – 18 December 1890) was an English cricketer. Burbidge's batting (cricket), batting style is unknown. He was born at Camberwell, Surrey. Burbidge made his first-class cricket, first-class debut for Surrey County Cricket Club, Surrey against Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club, Cambridgeshire in 1857 at Fenner's, before playing in the return fixture between the two sides at The Oval. He later made two further appearances in first-class cricket, for the Gentlemen of the North against the Gentlemen of the South in 1861 and ''for'' the Gentlemen of the South against the Gentlemen of the North in 1862. In his four first-class matches, Burbidge scored 54 runs at an batting average (cricket), average of 7.71, with a high score of 13. He died at Swanage, Dorset on 18 December 1890. His brother Frederick Burbidge (cricketer), Frederick also played first-class cricket. References External linksArthur Burbidge at ESPNcricinfo {{DEFAULTSORT:Burbidge, Arthur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Burbidge
George Wheelock Burbidge (6 February 1847 – 18 February 1908) was a Canadian lawyer, judge and author. After being called to the bar of New Brunswick in 1872, he became a partner in the Saint John, New Brunswick law firm of Harrison and Burbidge. In 1882, Burbidge was appointed federal Deputy Minister of Justice. He is noted for having conducted the prosecution of Louis Riel during his trial for treason following the North-West Rebellion of 1885. In October 1887, he subsequently became the first justice of the Exchequer Court, the predecessor to the modern Federal Court of Canada. Two of his rulings that are considered especially important :* ''Samson v. The Queen'', (1888) 2 Ex. C.R. 30 (concerning the value of land expropriated by the Crown) :* ''St. John Gas Light Co. v. The Queen'', (1895) 4 Ex. C. R. 326 (one of the first judicial pronouncements on environmental pollution) Burbidge was also active in community affairs. Elected president of the Associated Charities of Ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Burbidge
Sir Richard Burbidge, 1st Baronet (2 March 1847 – 31 May 1917) was an English merchant. Biography He was born in Wiltshire, educated at Devizes and Melksham, and at the age of 13 was apprenticed to a provision merchant in Oxford Street, London, afterwards starting in business as a provision merchant at the age of 19. Fourteen years later he became general superintendent of the Army and Navy Auxiliary Stores. In 1882 he was appointed general manager of Whiteley's, Westbourne Grove, and in 1891 entered the service of Harrods, Brompton Road, of which he was afterwards managing director. By 1916, he had increased its profits from £16,000 to over £200,000, and it had become one of the largest of the London stores. He also did a good deal to ensure shorter working hours for shop assistants. Burbidge was the “private citizen” who anonymously presented about £30,000 to the fund for acquiring the Crystal Palace for the public in 1913. During World War I, he was responsible for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
