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Edmund Wright (other)
Edmund Wright may refer to: * Edmund Wright (d.1583), MP for Steyning, Sussex *Sir Edmund Wright (lord mayor) (died 1643), Lord Mayor of London * Edmund Wright (architect) (1824–1888), architect and Mayor of Adelaide * Edmund Wright (footballer) (1902–1978), English goalkeeper See also *Edward Wright (mathematician) Edward Wright (baptism, baptised 8 October 1561; died November 1615) was an English mathematician and cartographer noted for his book ''Certaine Errors in Navigation'' (1599; 2nd ed., 1610), which for the first time explained the mathematical b ... (1561–1615) * E. M. Wright (1906–2005), mathematician {{hndis, Wright, Edmund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Wright (lord Mayor)
Sir Edmund Wright (died July 1643) was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1640. Swakeleys House Wright was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. On 23 June 1629 he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Cordwainer ward. He was Sheriff of London in 1629 and 1630. In 1629, he purchased the grounds of Swakeleys House from John Bingley, who had undertaken extensive remedial work on an existing 13th century structure in the groundsBowlt, Eileen. M. (1996) ''Ickenham & Harefield Past''. London: Historical Publications , p.19—probably timber-framed and wattle filled.Hughes, Morris. W. (1983) ''The Story of Ickenham''. Uxbridge: London Borough of Hillingdon , p.24 Between 1629 and 1638 he rebuilt the house as a brick structure.Newbery, M; Cotton, Carolynne; Packham, Julie Ann & Jones, Gwyn. (1996) ''Around Ruislip''. Stroud: The Chalfont Publishing Company , p.19 In 1640 Wright became Lord Mayor of London The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Wright (architect)
Edmund William Wright (4 April 1824 – 5 August 1888) was a London-born architect in the colony of South Australia. He was List of mayors and lord mayors of Adelaide, mayor of Adelaide for 10 months in 1859. He designed many civic, commercial, ecclesiastical, and residential buildings in Adelaide city centre and its suburbs, in styles influenced by French Renaissance architecture, French and Italian Renaissance architecture, Italian Renaissance, as well as Neoclassical architecture. He collaborated with other notable architects E. J. Woods, Isidor Beaver, and Edward Hamilton (Australian politician), Edward Hamilton in designing some of the most notable buildings. Early life and education Edmund William Wright born on 4 April 1824 in Fulham, London. He was the son of Stephen Amand Wright, who was Master of Ordnance at the Tower of London, and Lucy Elizabeth, née Tomkins. Wright spent holidays in France, as there were French relatives, and it is thought that memories of these in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Wright (footballer)
Edmund Wright (7 March 1902 – 1978) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League for Brentford and Aston Villa Aston Villa Football Club (commonly referred to as simply Villa) is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club, founded in 1874, compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The team have p .... Career statistics References 1902 births English men's footballers English Football League players Brentford F.C. players Men's association football goalkeepers Worcester City F.C. players Aston Villa F.C. players Footballers from the London Borough of Waltham Forest People from Leytonstone 1978 deaths 20th-century English sportsmen {{England-footy-goalkeeper-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Wright (mathematician)
Edward Wright (baptism, baptised 8 October 1561; died November 1615) was an English mathematician and cartographer noted for his book ''Certaine Errors in Navigation'' (1599; 2nd ed., 1610), which for the first time explained the mathematical basis of the Mercator projection by building on the works of Pedro Nunes, and set out a reference table giving the linear scale multiplication factor as a function of latitude, calculated for each minute of arc up to a latitude of 75°. This was in fact a table of values of the integral of the secant function, and was the essential step needed to make practical both the making and the navigational use of Mercator charts. Wright was born at Garvestone, Garveston in Norfolk and educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he became a Oxford fellow, fellow from 1587 to 1596. In 1589 the college granted him leave after Elizabeth I of England, Elizabeth I requested that he carry out navigational studies with Azores Voyage of 1589, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
