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Charleton (name)
Charleton is a given name or surname. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Brent Charleton (born 1982), Canadian basketball player *Buddy Charleton (1938–2011), American musician *Henry Charleton (1870–1959), British politician * Peter Charleton (born 1956), Irish judge *Rice Charleton (1710–1789), English physician and researcher * Robert Charleton (1809–1872), Quaker manufacturer and philanthropist *Robert Charleton (judge) (died 1395/6), English judge * Walter Charleton (1619–1707), English writer Middle name *George Charleton Barron (c. 1846–1891), English entertainer See also *Lewis de Charleton (died 1369), medieval bishop of Hereford * Carleton (given name) * Charleson *Charleston (name) *Charlton (given name) Charlton is an English-language masculine given name that may refer to: * Charlton Brooker (born 1971), English satirist commonly known as Charlie Brooker * Charlton Brosius (1876–1956), American Army officer * Charlton Eagle (born 1963), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Charleton
Brent Charleton, CFA, (born 11 April 1982) is a Canadian businessman and former basketball player who currently serves as the President and chief executive officer for an industrial technology company called EnWave Corporation. Retrieved on 29 August 2018. After graduating from Simon Fraser University in 2005, Charleton was a professional basketball player for three consecutive years, competing in both the New Zealand National Basketball League and Australian National Basketball League. Retrieved on 6 August 2018. Early life and education Brent Charleton was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. He is the oldest of three, having two younger sisters. His father has the New Zealand nationality, while his mother is Canadian. After graduating from Carson Graham High School in 2000, Charleton attended Simon Fraser University, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Major in Criminology. While attending Simon Fraser University, he was President of the Stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddy Charleton
Elmer Lee "Buddy" Charleton (March 6, 1938 – January 25, 2011), was an American country musician and teacher. Known primarily for his work as a pedal steel guitarist in Ernest Tubb Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), m ...'s Texas Troubadours band, Charleton played on numerous songs such as ''Waltz across Texas'' and instrumentals ''Cool it'', ''Honey Fingers'', ''Almost to Tulsa'' and ''Rhodes-Bud Boogie''. When Buddy's touring career came to a close, he became involved with Billy Cooper's Music in Orange, VA working as a pedal steel instructor for many years. Buddy's teaching work greatly influenced the next generation of pedal steel guitarists. References External links Official website of Buddy Charleton* Pedal steel guitarists 1938 births 2011 deaths 20th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Charleton
Henry Charles Charleton (1 March 1870 – 8 October 1959) was a British train driver, trade unionist and Labour Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1922 to 1931 and from 1935 to 1945. Early life and family Charleton was born in Kentish Town, in London. His father Henry Charleton was an engine-driver on the Midland Railway. The younger Henry was educated at Mansfield Place Board School, which he left at age 12. He worked initially as an assistant to a blacksmith, before following his father into the Midland Railway. He rose through the grades and eventually became a driver. In 1897, Charleton married Louisa Jane Alcock from Kentish Town. They had one son. Career Whilst working on the railways, Charleton studied at the St Pancras Working Men's College, and became active in the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR). In 1919 he compiled the ''Locomotive Men's Conditions of Service'' in 1919, and later became a member of the NUR's executive committee. He was el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Charleton
Peter Mitchel Andrew Charleton (born 11 April 1956) is an Irish judge who has served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland since June 2014. He previously served as a Judge of the High Court from 2006 to 2014. Early life He was educated at St Mary's College, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and King's Inns. He was the auditor of the College Historical Society between 1977 and 1978. His immediate predecessor was Mary Harney. He was in the final of the Irish Times Debate in 1977 and won the Benchers' Trophy for legal debate with Alex Schuster in 1979. As auditor of the CHS, his inaugural address was on the subject of "Republicanism Reviewed" and featured contributions from Conor Cruise O'Brien, John A. Murphy, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Mairéad Corrigan, Noël Browne and John Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough. Legal career He was called to the Bar in 1979, and became a senior counsel in 1995. He was the first senior counsel to appear in an Irish court without a wig, fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rice Charleton
Rice Charleton (1710–1789) was an English physician, medical researcher, and Fellow of the Royal Society. Life Charleton was educated at the University of Oxford, where he took the degrees of M.A., M.B., and M.D. He settled in practice at Bath, Somerset, was elected physician to the Bath General Hospital 2 June 1757, and then lived in Alfred Street. He belonged to the Royal College of Physicians. Charleton wrote on the chemistry of mineral waters, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 3 November 1747. He then retired from the Society, in 1754. He resigned his post at the hospital 1 May 1781, and died in 1789. Works In 1750 Charleton published ''A Chemical Analysis of Bath Waters''. The book describes a series of experiments to determine the mineral constituents of the thermal springs at Bath. The chemical system of Hermann Boerhaave was followed. He published a second tract ''An Inquiry into the Efficacy of Bath Waters in Palsies'', and reprinted it in 1774, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Charleton
Robert Charleton (1809 – 5 December 1872) was a Quaker, Recorded Minister and a prominent citizen of Bristol, England. He was a philanthropist and ran a pin-making factory which was noted for its good employment practices. He was an advocate of total abstinence and peaceful relations between nations. Family He was the son of James and Elizabeth Charleton of Bristol. James died at Ashley Hill, Bristol, in 1847. After a business training under H. F. Cotterell, a land surveyor at Bath, became the proprietor of a pin manufactory at Kingswood, near Bristol, in 1833, and continued that business until his retirement in 1852. He married, on 13 December 1849, Catherine Brewster, the eldest daughter of Thomas Fox of Ipswich. He died at his residence, Ashley Down, near Bristol, on 5 December 1872. Pin making Robert Charleton ran one of the largest factories in East Bristol, at Two Mile Hill, Kingswood, from 1831 to 1852. It was inspected by Elijah Waring, the Sub-Commissioner for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Charleton (judge)
Sir Robert Charleton SL JP (died 1395/6) was an English Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and a member of several parliaments. Biography Charleton is first recorded in July 1375, when he was made a commissioner of the peace for Wiltshire and Somerset; from here on his appointments were spread over much of England, including a September 1377 investigation in Wiltshire examining men who claimed to be exempt from work under the Domesday Book, one of three investigations created as a response to the surge of peasant unrest in Wiltshire, Devon and Surrey due to the 'great rumour'. When the Peasants' Revolt broke out in 1381 Charleton was one of the justices tasked in June 1381 of punishing rebels in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, and was appointed to a similar commission in March 1382, this time just for Gloucestershire, tasked with punishing rebels and also breaking up large gatherings of peasants with the county militia. In January 1383 he was appointed a Serjeant-at-law, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Charleton
Walter Charleton (2 February 1619 – 24 April 1707) was a natural philosopher and English writer. According to Jon Parkin, he was "the main conduit for the transmission of Epicurean ideas to England".Jon Parkin, ''Science, Religion and Politics in Restoration England: Richard Cumberland's De Legibus Naturae'' (1999), p. 149. Life He was the son of the rector of Shepton Mallett in Somerset, where he was born 2 February 1619. He received his early education from his father, and when sixteen entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, under the tuition of John Wilkins. At the early age of 22 (1641) he received the degree of M.D. and in the same year was appointed physician to Charles I, who was then at Oxford. In 1650 Charleton settled in London, and was on 8 April admitted a candidate of the College of Physicians. A royalist, he was appointed physician to the exiled king Charles II but remained in London writing, in Russell Street, Covent Garden. :s:Charleton, Walter (DNB00) He was continue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Charleton Barron
George Charleton Barron (c. 1846–1891) of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, was a Gateshead-born actor, mimic, elocutionist and general entertainer. Early life George Charleton Barron was born in Gateshead about 1846. He started work as a clerk, working on the Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne and worked for a time with his relative Ralph Blackett, moving on to become a commercial traveller. He was like so many, young and gifted, and yearning for a life on the stage, so he left the area. Unfortunately, the career as an actor was brief; he returned to Newcastle, where he played dramatic roles which, aided by his ability, made him a great favourite. He was much sought after by his wide circle of friends for social gatherings and could speak both Scottish and Tyneside dialects. Early death In his prime he was struck down with an abscess on the head. Despite a seemingly successful operation, several days later he suffered a relapse and died shortly after. George Charleton Barron die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis De Charleton
Lewis de Charleton (died 23 May 1369) was a medieval Bishop of Hereford in England. Life Charleton was educated, it is said, at both Oxford and Cambridge, but was more closely connected with Oxford, of which he became a doctor of civil law and a licentiate, if not also a doctor, in theology. In 1336, he became prebendary of Hereford Cathedral, of which see his kinsman Thomas Charlton was then bishop. He next appears, with his brother Humphrey, as holding prebends in the collegiate church of Pontesbury, of which Baron Charlton was patron. In 1340, Adam of Coverton petitione to the king against him on the ground of obstructing him in collecting tithes belonging to St. Michael's, Shrewsbury. A royal commission was appointed to inquire into the case, which in 1345 was still pending. Lewis had apparently succeeded Thomas the bishop to this prebend, and on his resignation in 1359 was succeeded by Humphrey, who held all three prebends in succession. In 1348, he appears as signing, as do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carleton (given Name)
Carleton is a given name. Those bearing it include: * Carleton Watkins (1829–1916), American photographer * Carleton Clement (1896–1917), Canadian fighter pilot * Carleton Bartlett Gibson (1863–1927) * Carleton Coon (musician) (1898–1932), American musician of Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra * Carleton Wiggins (1848–1932), American painter * Carleton Tufnell (1856–1940), English cricketer * Carleton Ellis (1876–1941), American chemist * Carleton Winslow (1876–1946), American architect * (Ernest) Carleton Bass (born 1876), Irish-born bullfighter in U.S. * Carleton Rea (1861–1946), English botanist * Carleton Lewis Brownson (1866–1948), American classical-languages scholar and academic administrator * George Carleton Lacy (1888–1951), American missionary in China * Carleton O'Brien (1903–1952), American racketeer * Carleton Roy Ball (1873–1958), American botanist * Carleton Bruns Joeckel (1886–1960), American librarian and scholar * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charleson
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Charleson is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Surname *Bill Charleson (1929–1983), Australian rules footballer *Ian Charleson (1949–1990), Scottish actor *Leslie Charleson (born 1945), American actress *Mary Charleson (1890–1961), Irish silent film actress Middle name *Ian Charleson Hedge (1928–2022), Scottish botanist See also *Carleson (other) *Charleston (name) *Charleton (name) Charleton is a given name or surname. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Brent Charleton (born 1982), Canadian basketball player *Buddy Charleton (1938–2011), American musician *Henry Charleton (1870–1959), British politician * Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
