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Geoffrey Palmer (ichthyologist)
Geoffrey Palmer may refer to: Politicians *Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 1st Baronet (1598–1670), English lawyer and politician *Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 3rd Baronet (1655–1732), English politician, member of parliament (MP) for Leicestershire *Geoffrey Palmer (MP for Ludgershall) (1642–1661), briefly member of parliament for Ludgershall *Geoffrey Palmer (New Zealand politician) (born 1942), New Zealand politician and lawyer, prime minister of New Zealand, 1989–1990 Others *Geoffrey Palmer (actor) (1927–2020), English actor *Geoff Palmer (footballer) (born 1954), English footballer *Geoff Palmer (scientist) (1940–2025), professor of grain science *Geoffrey Palmer (real estate developer), American real estate developer *Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer (1882–1957), Irish composer *Geoff Palmer (musician) (born 1980), pop punk and folk punk musician *Geoffrey Palmer, co-wrote the Huey Lewis and the News song "Couple Days Off "Couple Days Off" is a song performed by Huey Lewis and the New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 1st Baronet
Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 1st Baronet, Serjeant-at-law, SL (1598 – 5 May 1670) was an England, English lawyer and politician. Early life and family Born in East Carlton, East Carlton, Northamptonshire, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts, BA from Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1616 and a Master of Arts (Oxbridge), MA 1619. He was admitted to the Middle Temple on 14 June 1616 and called to the bar on 23 May 1623. He married Margaret Moore, daughter of Francis Moore, a serjeant-at-law of Berkshire, by whom he had six children: *Thomas Palmer (died young) *Sir Lewis Palmer, 2nd Baronet, Lewis Palmer (1630–1713) *Geoffrey Palmer (MP for Ludgershall), Geoffrey Palmer (1642–1661) *Edward Palmer *Elizabeth Palmer *Frances Palmer Career Palmer was elected to the Long Parliament in 1640, representing Stamford (UK Parliament constituency), Stamford. He was a manager of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Strafford's impeachment, giving advice on points of law and the procedural rights of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 3rd Baronet
Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 3rd Baronet (1655–1732) of East Carlton Hall, Northamptonshire was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1722 Palmer was born on 12 June 1655, the eldest son of Sir Lewis Palmer, 2nd Baronet of Carlton Park, Northamptonshire and his wife Jane, Palmer, daughter of Robert Palmer of Carlton Scroop, Lincolnshire. He was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1672. He married Elizabeth Grantham, daughter of Thomas Grantham of Goltho, Lincolnshire. and Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire on 2 February 1681. Palmer was appointed a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber in about 1704, a post he held until 1714. In 1707, he stood unsuccessfully at a by-election for Leicestershire but a year later at the 1708 general election he topped the poll for the constituency. He was an inactive Member, but voted against the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell in 1710. He was re-elected MP for Leicestershire in 1710 and was listed as a ‘Tory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Palmer (MP For Ludgershall)
Geoffrey Palmer may refer to: Politicians *Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 1st Baronet (1598–1670), English lawyer and politician *Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 3rd Baronet (1655–1732), English politician, member of parliament (MP) for Leicestershire * Geoffrey Palmer (MP for Ludgershall) (1642–1661), briefly member of parliament for Ludgershall *Geoffrey Palmer (New Zealand politician) (born 1942), New Zealand politician and lawyer, prime minister of New Zealand, 1989–1990 Others *Geoffrey Palmer (actor) Geoffrey Dyson Palmer (4 June 1927 – 5 November 2020) was an English actor. His roles in British television sitcoms include Jimmy Anderson in ''The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'' (1976–79), Ben Parkinson in ''Butterflies'' (1978–1983) ... (1927–2020), English actor * Geoff Palmer (footballer) (born 1954), English footballer * Geoff Palmer (scientist) (1940–2025), professor of grain science * Geoffrey Palmer (real estate developer), American real estate developer * Geoffrey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludgershall (UK Parliament Constituency)
Ludgershall was a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire, England, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act. Ludgershall is a town north-east of Salisbury Salisbury ( , ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers River Avon, Hampshire, Avon, River Nadder, Nadder and River Bourne, Wi .... The population was 535 in 1831. Members of Parliament 1295–1640 1640–1832 Sources * Robert Beatson, ''A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament'' (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) * ''Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803'' (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) * J E Neale, ''The Elizabethan House of Commons'' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949) * J Holladay Philbin, ''Parliamentary Represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Palmer (New Zealand Politician)
Sir Geoffrey Winston Russell Palmer (born 21 April 1942) is a New Zealand lawyer and former politician who was a member of Parliament from 1979 to 1990. He served as the 33rd prime minister of New Zealand for a little over a year, from August 1989 until September 1990, leading the Fourth Labour Government of New Zealand, Fourth Labour Government. As Minister of Justice (New Zealand), minister of justice from 1984 to 1989, Palmer was responsible for considerable reforms of the country's legal and constitutional framework, such as the creation of the Constitution Act 1986, New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, Imperial Laws Application Act 1988, and the State Sector Act 1988. He served as president of the New Zealand Law Commission, from 2005 to 2010. Early life and education Palmer was born in Nelson, New Zealand, Nelson. His father was Leonard Russell Palmer and his mother was Jessie Patricia (). He attended Nelson Central School, Nelson Intermediate School and Nelson College. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Palmer (actor)
Geoffrey Dyson Palmer (4 June 1927 – 5 November 2020) was an English actor. His roles in British television sitcoms include Jimmy Anderson in ''The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'' (1976–79), Ben Parkinson in ''Butterflies'' (1978–1983) and Lionel Hardcastle in '' As Time Goes By'' (1992–2005). His film appearances include ''A Fish Called Wanda'' (1988), '' The Madness of King George'' (1994), '' Mrs Brown'' (1997), ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' (1997) and ''Paddington'' (2014). He also made guest appearances in television series such as '' The Avengers'', ''Doctor Who'', ''Fawlty Towers'' and '' Bergerac''. Early life and education Geoffrey Dyson Palmer was born on 4 June 1927 in North Finchley, Middlesex. He was the son of Frederick Charles Palmer, who was a chartered surveyor, and Norah Gwendolen (née Robins). He attended Highgate School from September 1939 to December 1945. He served as a corporal instructor in small arms and field training in the Royal Marines during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Palmer (footballer)
Geoffrey Palmer (born 11 July 1954) is a former professional footballer, who spent almost his entire career with Wolverhampton Wanderers. Career Palmer was born in Cannock, Staffordshire. He spent 16 years with Wolves, playing 495 times for the club in total. A Wolves fan throughout his childhood, he joined as an apprentice in July 1970 and turned professional on his seventeenth birthday the following year. After remaining in the reserves over the next two seasons, he made his senior debut on in the FA Cup 3rd/4th Place Play Off against Arsenal. The right-back retained his place through the rest of the 1973–74 season at the expense of Gerry Taylor, which culminated in winning the League Cup after a 2–1 victory over Manchester City at Wembley. After two seasons where his appearances were hampered by injuries, he was an ever-present in the side that won the Second Division championship in 1976–77, and missed just three league games over the next two seasons. He won a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Palmer (scientist)
Sir Godfrey Henry Oliver "Geoff" Palmer (9 April 1940 – 12 June 2025), was a Jamaican-British academic and human rights activist who was professor emeritus in the School of Life Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. Palmer discovered the barley abrasion process while he was a researcher at Heriot-Watt University under the guidance of Anna Macleod. In 1998, Palmer was honoured with the American Society of Brewing Chemists Award of Distinction, considered the "Nobel Prize of brewing". In 1989, he became the first black professor in Scotland, becoming a professor emeritus after he retired in 2005. He was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours."First black university professor knighted" ''Herald Scotland'', 31 December 2013. |
Geoffrey Palmer (real Estate Developer)
Geoffrey Harrison Palmer (born May 11, 1950) is an American billionaire real estate developer and major political donor to the Republican Party. Early life and education Palmer is the son of architect and developer Daniel Saxon Palmer, who was born as Dan Weissinger in Budapest, Hungary, in 1920. He is of Jewish descent. He was raised in Malibu, California. Palmer attended Santa Monica College before transferring to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he earned a degree in finance. Palmer then earned a juris doctor from Pepperdine School of Law. Career After clerking for a California superior court judge, Palmer decided to pursue real estate development of multifamily housing instead of law as a profession, founding GH Palmer Associates in 1978. Palmer opened his first major development in Santa Clarita, California in 1985. During the 1990s, Palmer focused on building more than 2000 market-rate housing in downtown Los Angeles and its suburbs. In 2001, Palmer completed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer
Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer (, 8 October 1882 – 29 November 1957) was an Irish composer, mainly of operas and vocal music, among them the first musical settings of poems by James Joyce. Biography Palmer was born of Protestant Irish parents in Staines, Middlesex (England). He grew up in South Woodford, near London, where his father, Abram Smythe Palmer, was vicar at Holy Trinity Church. He studied at Oxford where, in 1901, he was the youngest Bachelor of Music in college history. Between 1904 and 1907 he studied composition with Charles V. Stanford at the Royal College of Music, London. He moved to Ireland in 1910 where he was initially active as a church organist in Dublin suburbs. From his early twenties he suffered from multiple sclerosis, which made a professional independence increasingly difficult. In the last decades of his life, Palmer was confined to a wheelchair and depended upon the care of his two sisters, who were running Hillcourt, a private girls' boarding schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Palmer (musician)
Geoff Palmer (Geoffrey Palmer born January 17, 1980, in Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States), also known by the stage name Geoff Useless, is an American musician from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, now living in Madison, Wisconsin. He played bass and provided backing vocals for The Queers straight out of high school, and played guitar and did lead vocals for The Guts and The Nobodys. In early 2011, he did a folk punk solo project with other musicians around Portsmouth called The Geoff Useless (Band). Currently, he co-writes songs for, and plays lead guitar in, a traditional rock and roll /powerpop band called The Connection. The Connection's debut album ''New England's Newest Hit Makers'' was released in the Summer of 2011. It, and subsequent releases, captured the attention of Steve Van Zandt, E Street Band member and creator of the popular Sirius XM Radio Station, Little Steven's Underground Garage. Over about a one-year period, Van Zandt went on to name four Connection songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Couple Days Off
"Couple Days Off" is a song performed by Huey Lewis and the News and released as a single from the album '' Hard at Play'' in 1991. The single peaked at No. 11 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and No. 4 on the Canadian ''RPM Revolutions per minute (abbreviated rpm, RPM, rev/min, r/min, or r⋅min−1) is a unit of rotational speed (or rotational frequency) for rotating machines. One revolution per minute is equivalent to hertz. Standards ISO 80000-3:2019 def ...'' 100 Hit Tracks chart, and it reached the top 40 on the charts of Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. "Couple Days Off" was the band's final top-20 single on the Hot 100. Track listings US cassette single and Japanese mini-CD single # "Couple Days Off" – 4:56 # "Time Ain't Money" – 4:46 7-inch and Australian cassette single # "Couple Days Off" (short edit) – 3:15 # "Time Ain't Money" – 4:46 12-inch single :A1. "Couple Days Off" (LP version) – 4:57 :B1. "Time Ain't Money" – 4:46 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
