Cheevers
Cheevers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Augustine Cheevers (1686–1778), Irish clergyman * Gerry Cheevers (born 1940), Canadian ice hockey player * Hamp Cheevers (born 1996), American football player * Luke Cheevers (born 1940), Irish singer * Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers (Sarah Cheevers 1608–1664), English Quaker activists See also * Cheever Cheever is an English surname. It is from Anglo-Norman French , chevre ‘goat’ (Latin capra ‘nanny goat’), applied as a nickname for an unpredictable or temperamental person, or a metonymic occupational name for a goatherd. Notable people wi ...

Katherine Evans And Sarah Cheevers
Katherine Evans (1618–1692) and Sarah Cheevers (1608–1664) were English Quaker activists who were held captive during the Roman Inquisition in Malta, between December 1658 and August 1663. During and after their captivity, Evans and Cheevers published several books that were critical of the Catholic Church and the Inquisition and promoted their own Quaker beliefs. Life and family Not much is known about the early lives of Evans and Cheevers. However, by the time of their arrest, both Evans and Cheevers were married with children. They did not have extensive educations, but did know how to read and write fluently. This was not unusual for middle-class women in the interregnum period. Neither Evans nor Cheevers left full documentation of their conversion to Quakerism, but were both missionaries in Scotland by 1653. They did not yet know each other. By 1655, Evans encountered her first trouble with the law when she was banished from the Isle of Wight. Later in 1655, with other ...
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Gerry Cheevers
Gerald Michael Cheevers (born December 7, 1940) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) and World Hockey Association (WHA) between 1961 and 1980. Cheevers is best known for his two stints with the Boston Bruins, whom he helped win the Stanley Cup in 1970 and 1972. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985. He was the first to decorate his goaltender mask with stitch markings where a puck had struck, leading to the contemporary tradition of goaltenders decorating their masks with distinctive stitches. Playing career Cheevers's hockey career began in 1956 at the age of 16 when he played for the St. Michael's Majors of the Ontario Hockey Association. The right to sign him to an NHL contract was held by the Toronto Maple Leafs (with whom he played two games) until the Boston Bruins drafted him in 1965, despite Toronto general manager Punch Imlach trying to slip Cheevers through unselected by listing him as ...
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Hamp Cheevers
Hamp Anferenee Timmone Cheevers (born December 23, 1996) is an American former college football player who was a defensive back for the Boston College Eagles. He earned first-team All-American honors in 2018. Cheevers was signed by the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL) after going unselected in the 2019 NFL draft. He later had stints with the Atlanta Falcons and Oakland Raiders in the NFL, and with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the Canadian Football League (CFL). Early life and education Cheevers was born on December 23, 1996, in Gainesville, Florida. He attended Trenton High School in Florida and played on both sides of the field, on offense as a wide receiver and running back and on defense as a defensive back. There, he was an all-state selection and was named second-team small school All-American by MaxPreps. He was team captain as a senior and helped lead his team to the Florida 1A State Championship while being named Small School Player of the Year b ...
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Luke Cheevers
Luke Cheevers is a traditional Irish singer from Ringsend, Dublin, now living in the north side of the city. He is a member of An Goilin Singers Club in Dublin which was founded by Tim Dennehy and Donal De Barra in 1980. Cheevers is known for his distinctive Dublin repertoire and style. See also *Traditional Irish Singers *List of people from Dublin Dublin, as the capital city of Ireland and the largest city in Ireland, has produced many noted artists, entertainers, politicians and businesspeople. Also include are people affiliated with Dublin before the creation of the Republic of Ireland. ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cheevers, Luke Living people Irish folk singers Irish male singers Musicians from County Dublin 1940 births ...
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Augustine Cheevers
Augustine Cheevers (1686 – 1778) was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman A member of the Order of Saint Augustine (OSA). Cheevers was born in Killian, County Galway in 1686, one of the six sons of John Chevers and Ellis Geoghegan. Dr. Cheevers was Bishop of Ardagh from 1751 to 1756Bishop Augustine Cheevers
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