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Ed Thompson
Edward Thompson or variants may refer to: Politicians * Edward Thompson (of Sheriff Hutton) (c. 1639–1701), English landowner and politician * Edward Thompson (1697–1742), British MP and Lord of the Admiralty * Edward Thompson (FDNY Commissioner) (1913–1995), American firefighter, Fire Commissioner of New York City * Edward Charles Thompson (1851–1933), Member of Parliament for North Monaghan, 1900–1906 * Edward Herbert Thompson (1857–1935), US diplomat and archaeologist * Ed Thompson (Texas politician) (born 1950), American politician * Ed Thompson (Wisconsin politician) (1944–2011), American businessman and politician Sports * Edward Thompson (footballer) (1894–1918), English footballer * Eddie Thompson (businessman) (1940–2008), Scottish businessman and football club chairman * Eddie Thompson (Canadian football) (1917–1943), Canadian football player and WW2 airman * Eddie Thompson (cricketer) (1907–1982), English cricketer * Eddie Thompson (rugby union ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Thompson (of Sheriff Hutton)
Edward Thompson (ca. 1639 – 6 August 1701) was an English landowner and politician. Edward and his brother Sir Henry Thompson were wine merchants of York; Edward became the principal mover of the business after his brother moved to his new estate at Escrick in 1668. He was a particular friend of Andrew Marvell. During the reign of Charles II, Edward bought the estate of Sheriff Hutton for his own country residence. He was Lord Mayor of York in 1683. Drake, Francis (1736), ''Eboracum'': or, The history and antiquities of the city of York, from its original to the present times: Together with the history of the cathedral church, and the lives of the archbishops of that see ..., Printed by W. Bowyer for the author, p. 366 He was three times Member of Parliament for York York is a cathedral city with Roman Britain, Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers River Ouse, Yorkshire, Ouse and River Foss, Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Healy Thompson
Edward Healy Thompson (1813, Oakham, Rutland - 21 May 1891, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) was an English Roman Catholic writer. Life Thompson was the son of Robert and Mary Costall Thompson. His father was a tax surveyor successively at Oakham, Bath, and Salisbury. The poet Francis Thompson was his nephew. He was educated at Oakham School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Having taken Anglican orders, he obtained a curacy at Calne, Wiltshire. The clergyman poet William Lisle Bowles was a neighbour in nearby Bremhill. After some years of the Anglican ministry at Marylebone, Ramsgate, and elsewhere, he became a Catholic in 1846. He published as his defence, "Remarks on certain Anglican Theories of Unity" (1846).Burton, Edwin. "Thompson." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Thompson (musician)
Edgar Charles Thompson, known professionally as Eddie Thompson (31 May 1925 – 6 November 1986) was a British jazz pianist. Biography Thompson was born blind in London, England. After studying at the same school for the blind as George Shearing, he recorded with Victor Feldman in the late 1940s and also with the Carlo Krahmer Band at the Paris Jazz Fair in 1949. In the 1950s, he worked with Tony Crombie (making records with Crombie under his own name), Vic Ash, Freddy Randall and Tommy Whittle and was house pianist at Ronnie Scott’s from 1959 until 1960. From 1962 to 1972, he lived and worked in the US at Hickory House, a well-known jazz club (started up in 1933) at 52nd Street, Manhattan, New York. He led his own trio featuring Len Skeat and Martin Drew, which recorded an album with Spike Robinson. Thompson also formed a duo with Roger Kellaway. Thompson was considered by many to be a 'dazzlingly inventive player' during his early recording career. Thompson w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Thompson (Royal Navy Officer)
Edward Thompson (c. 1738–1786) was an English Royal Navy officer who rose to the rank of commodore, known also as a literary figure with the nickname "Poet Thompson". Life The son of a merchant of Kingston upon Hull, he received his early education at Beverley, and later at Hampstead under Dr. Cox, formerly of Harrow School. He is said to have made a voyage to Greenland in 1750. In 1754 he was on board an East Indiaman and made a voyage to the East Indies. On his return to England he entered on board , a 64-gun-ship, as a midshipman. Two years later, on 16 November 1757, he passed his examination and was promoted to be lieutenant of , in the North Sea and the Channel; ten days later, in December 1758, he was moved into with Captain Peter Denis. During the Seven Years' War he was in the long blockade of Brest through the summer of 1759, and was present at the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November in March 1760 he accompanied Denis to , in which he stayed till the end of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Maury (DD-401)
The second USS ''Maury'' (DD-401) was a in the United States Navy. She was named for Matthew Maury, and was one of the most decorated US Naval vessels of World War II. History ''Maury'' was Keel laying, laid down on 24 March 1936 by Union Iron Works, Union Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California, and Ship naming and launching, launched on 14 February 1938; sponsored by Miss Virginia Lee Maury Werth, granddaughter of Commander (United States), Commander Maury. The ship was Ship commissioning, commissioned on 5 August 1938. On speed trials, ''Maury'' reached 42.8 Knot (unit), knots, far in excess of her design speed of 36.5 knots and the highest speed ever achieved by a U.S. Navy destroyer. Assigned to the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Pacific Fleet after commissioning, ''Maury'' was operating out of Pearl Harbor when the United States entered World War II. She was steaming with the aircraft carrier en route to Hawaii from TF 8 operations near Wake Islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Thompson (engineer)
Edward Thompson (25 June 1881 – 15 July 1954) was an English railway engineer, and was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway between 1941 and 1946. Edward Thompson was born at Marlborough, Wiltshire on 25 June 1881. He was the son of an assistant master at Marlborough College. He was educated at Marlborough before taking the Mechanical Science Tripos at Pembroke College, Cambridge, earning a third class degree. Thompson's academic background contrasts with that of his predecessor Nigel Gresley, who had also attended Marlborough, but then gained practical experience as a pupil at Horwich Works. Career NER, GNR, LNER After graduation Thompson worked in both industry and the railways for a while. By 1910 he was assistant divisional locomotive superintendent on the North Eastern Railway (NER), in which capacity he gave evidence at the inquiry into the fatal accident between two goods trains at Darlington on 15 November 1910. In 1912 he was ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Maunde Thompson
Sir Edward Maunde Thompson (4 May 1840 – 14 September 1929) was a British palaeographer and Principal Librarian and first Director of the British Museum. He is noted for his handbook of Greek and Latin palaeography and for his study of William Shakespeare's handwriting in the manuscript of the play '' Sir Thomas More''. Biography Thompson was born in Jamaica, where his father, Edward Thompson, was Custos of Clarendon Parish. His mother was Eliza Hayhurst Poole, also of Clarendon. He was educated at Rugby and at University College of Oxford University. In 1864, he married Georgiana Susanna McKenzie from an old Scots-Jamaican family. They had one daughter and three sons. He served as Director and Principal Librarian of the British Museum from 1888 to 1909. Kenyon, Sir Frederic G., ''Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, 1840–1929.'' London: H. Milford, 1929. He set high standards for the staff of the museum, and worked hard to improve the accessibility of the collections to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Thompson (actor)
Edward Thompson (1898–1960) was an actor in the United States. He appeared in several films with African American casts. He worked on films with his wife Evelyn Preer, Spencer Williams, and other prominent African American actors including in Al Christie productions. He played in various theater productions as an actor, including in a musical dancing role in '' Darktown Follies''. He was born James Edward Thompson. He married fellow actor Evelyn Preer. Her second husband, they were both with the Lafayette Players in Chicago. They married February 4, 1924, in Williamson County, Tennessee, Tennessee (while in Nashville). The couple had a daughter in 1932. Thompson starred in the 1929 Al Christie film '' Oft in the Silly Night'', as Temus Robinson. Filmography * ''The Melancholy Dame'' (1929) as Permanent Williams. * '' Framing of the Shrew'', 1929, as Privacy Robson. *'' Brown Gravy'' (1929) *''The Lady Fare'' (1929) *'' Oft in the Silly Night'' (1929). as Temus Robinson *'' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Kramer Thompson
Edward Kramer Thompson (January 15, 1907 – October 8, 1996) was an American writer and editor. He was the editor of ''Life'' from its early days as a weekly and was the founding editor of '' Smithsonian'' magazine. Biography Thompson was born in 1907 in St. Thomas, North Dakota, to Edward T. Thompson, a dry goods business proprietor and local banker. After finishing high school at 15, he went with his mother to Grand Forks, North Dakota, at the age of 16 to begin his studies at the University of North Dakota. His first wife was Marguerite Maxam, from Montana, whom he married in 1928. The first of his two sons, Edward T. Thompson would become the editor of ''Reader's Digest''. He would move to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with his family in 1929 to work for the ''Milwaukee Journal'' where he would remain until 1937. ''Life'' While at the ''Milwaukee Journal'' he also worked as a stringer for ''Time'' which brought him to the attention of Henry Luce who was thinking about introducing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Roffe Thompson
Edward Roffe Thompson, who wrote as E.T. Raymond or Edward Raymond Thompson, (27 December 1891 – 13 October 1973) was an English author and journalist. He was the editor of ''John Bull'' magazine and wrote a number of biographies of British political figures and celebrities. He wrote an early self-help book, ''The Human Machine: Secrets of Success'' (1925). Early life Edward Thompson was born in Settle, Yorkshire, on 27 December 1891, the son of Edward Charles Thompson, a foreman store keeper.Edward Roffe Thompson England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007. Family Search. Retrieved 20 April 2018. He received his higher education at the |
Edward John Thompson
Edward John Thompson (9 April 1886 – 28 April 1946) was a British scholar, novelist, historian and translator. He is remembered for his translations from Bengali into English and his association with Rabindranath Tagore, on whom he wrote two books including a critical biography. Early life Thompson was born in Hazel Grove in Stockport, England, the eldest of six children of the Wesleyan missionary couple John Moses Thompson and Elizabeth Thompson who had served in South India. His father died before he was 10 and his mother brought up the children under financially strained circumstances. Thompson was educated at the Kingswood School and later worked at a bank in Bethnal Green to support his mother and siblings. He joined Richmond Theological College, was ordained a Methodist minister and gained a degree from the University of London. In 1907 he published his first collection of verse, ''The Knight Mystic''. In India He was sent to India in 1910 to teach English liter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Thompson (footballer)
Edward Peter Thompson (born 8 January 1983) is an English footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Harlow Town. He signed for Dagenham & Redbridge from Wingate & Finchley Wingate & Finchley Football Club is an English football club based in Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet. The club are currently members of the and play at The Maurice Rebak Stadium in North London. History The club was established in ... in the summer of 2007, after impressing in a number of pre-season friendly matches. He was released in January 2009 after long-term knee problems and later joined Thurrock. External links * Living people 1983 births English men's footballers English Football League players Wingate & Finchley F.C. players Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. players Harlow Town F.C. players Men's association football goalkeepers Place of birth missing (living people) {{England-footy-goalkeeper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
