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George Butler (Carlisle MP)
George Butler may refer to: Arts and entertainment * George Butler (filmmaker) (1944–2021), American filmmaker * George Butler (record producer) (1931–2008), American record producer * George Bernard Butler (1838–1907), American painter * George Edmund Butler (1872–1936), English landscape and portrait painter * George "Wild Child" Butler (1936–2005), American blues musician * George Butler (artist) (born 1985), British artist and reportage illustrator Education * George Butler (1819–1890), English divine and schoolmaster * George Butler (headmaster) (1774–1853), his father, English schoolmaster and churchman Law and politics * George Edwin Butler (1868–1941), American lawyer and author * George Howland Butler (1894–1967), United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic * George Slade Butler (1821–1882), English lawyer and antiquary * Sir Geoffrey G. Butler (George Geoffrey Gilbert Butler, 1887–1929), British Member of Parliament for Cambridge Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Butler (filmmaker)
George Tyssen Butler (12 October 1943 – 21 October 2021) was a British-American filmmaker and photographer, and a pioneer of the theatrical documentary. Some of his most popular films include ''Pumping Iron'' (1977), which introduced a wider audience to Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, ''The Endurance'' films, retelling Ernest Shackleton, Sir Ernest Shackleton's saga of Antarctic survival, and ''Going Upriver, Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry'' (2004), about his friend John Kerry's leadership in the peace movement. Butler's films are known for their combination of high artistic, educational and entertainment values, as he believed well-crafted documentaries can hold their own against dramatic features. In addition to his feature-length documentary classics, Butler has also produced acclaimed IMAX features, such as the award-winning ''Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure'' (2001) and ''Roving Mars'' (2006). Early life Born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey G
Geoffrey, Geoffroy, Geoff, etc., may refer to: People * Geoffrey (given name), including a list of people with the name Geoffrey or Geoffroy * Geoffroy (surname), including a list of people with the name * Geoffroy (musician) (born 1987), Canadian singer and songwriter Fictional characters * Geoffrey the Giraffe, the Toys "R" Us mascot * Geoff Peterson, an animatronic robot sidekick on ''The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson'' * Geoff, a character from the cartoon series ''Total Drama'' * Geoff, Mark Corrigon's romantic rival on ''Peep Show'' Other uses * Geoff (Greyhawk), a fictional land in the World of Greyhawk ''Dungeons & Dragons'' campaign setting See also * Galfrid * Geof * Gofraid/Goraidh * Godfrey (name) * Gottfried * Godefroy (other) * Goffredo * Jeffery (name) * Jeffrey (name) * Jeffries * Jeffreys * Jeffers * Jeoffry (cat) * Jeff Jeff is a masculine name, often a short form (hypocorism) of the English given name Jefferson or Jeffrey, which comes f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Butler (bishop)
George Butler (13 February 1815, Limerick – 3 February 1886, Limerick) was an Irish Roman Catholic bishop. Butler was educated at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, and ordained in 1838. He spent his whole career in Limerick, as a curate, then a parish priest, and finally as dean of its cathedral. He was consecrated on 6 June 1864 and died in post. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity A Doctor of Divinity (DD or DDiv; ) is the holder of an advanced academic degree in divinity (academic discipline), divinity (i.e., Christian theology and Christian ministry, ministry or other theologies. The term is more common in the Englis ... (DD). References 1815 births Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth 1886 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland Roman Catholic bishops of Limerick Christian clergy from County Limerick {{Ireland-RC-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Butler, 5th Marquess Of Ormonde
James George Anson Butler, 5th Marquess of Ormonde (18 April 1890 – 21 June 1949) was the son of James Arthur Wellington Foley Butler, 4th Marquess of Ormonde and American heiress Ellen Stager, daughter of Union General Anson Stager. Biography George Butler was born at 21 Park Lane, London, the home of his paternal grandmother the Dowager Marchioness of Ormonde. In 1899 his parents, then known as Lord and Lady Arthur Butler, acquired a lease of a London Townhouse of their own at 7 Portman Square. In 1901 Lord and Lady Arthur purchased a medium-sized Country Manor with 170 acres at Gennings Park in Kent. George completed his school at Harrow, before enrolling at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He joined the 1st Life Guards and saw active service during the First World War, during which he was wounded. He retired from the British Army in 1920, but retained the Rank of Major in the Reserve of Officers. Inheritance Upon the death of his uncle, James Butler, 3rd Marque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Butler (cricketer, Born 1900)
George Stephen Butler (16 December 1900 at Marlborough, Wiltshire – 21 September 1969 at Kingswear, Devon), played first-class cricket for Somerset in one match in 1920 and Minor Counties cricket for Wiltshire from 1920 to 1939. While appearing for Wiltshire, he also played in seven first-class matches, mostly for teams representing the Minor Counties as a whole against touring sides in the 1930s. Educated at Marlborough College, Butler was a right-handed opening or middle order batsman. He bowled only seven overs in first-class cricket, and his bowling style is not known, but in Minor Counties cricket he was a fairly regular bowler in his early career, sometimes opening the bowling for Wiltshire. His one match for Somerset came against Oxford University in 1920, and he made only seven and two in a low-scoring match that was over inside two days. That was the limit of his first-class county cricket, but in 1927, having played regularly for Wiltshire, he appeared in a second f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Butler (cricketer, Born 1810)
George Butler (20 February 1810 – 23 April 1887) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1841 to 1852. He was mainly associated with Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Nottinghamshire. The club's limited overs team is called th ... and made 36 known appearances in first-class matches. CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 August 2009. References 1810 births 1887 deaths[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lee Butler
George Lee Butler (born June 17, 1939), sometimes known as Lee Butler, is an American retired military officer. He was commander in chief, United States Strategic Command, and the last commander of Strategic Air Command. Following his retirement from the military he became active in the nuclear disarmament movement, calling for the outright abolition of nuclear weapons. Early life and education Butler was born in 1939 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and graduated in 1957 from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Air Force Academy in 1961 and a master's degree in international affairs from the University of Paris in 1967. He completed Squadron Officer School in 1964, Air Command and Staff College in 1970, and Armed Forces Staff College in 1974. Military career Butler was commissioned in June 1961 and received undergraduate pilot training at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona, followed by basic instructor school a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Harris Butler
George Harris Butler (1840 – May 11, 1886) the nephew of a Massachusetts Congressman, was appointed Consul General in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1870. He dismissed all consular agents, auctioned off their commissions, and purchased dancing girls. Shortly before his recall in 1872, he was involved in a brawl with three former Confederate officers. Background and career Butler was born in Massachusetts but spent his formative years in California. During the Civil War he was a lieutenant in the 10th US infantry and later a quartermaster and ordnance officer, resigning in 1863. He was a theatre critic and talented writer, contributing to various publications including Wilkes' ''Spirit of the Times''. His drinking bouts often got him into trouble despite the best efforts of his friends and family. In 1870 his uncle, Congressman General Benjamin Franklin Butler, who had some influence with President Ulysses S. Grant, was instrumental in getting him a job as US Consul General in Alexandr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George D
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George William Butler
George William Butler was an American state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Sharkey County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1884 to 1894. In 1884 he served on the Committee of Engrossed Bills. In 1890, he was described as one of six Republicans in the Mississippi House. He and G. W. Gayles were the last two African Americans to serve in the Mississippi House for the next 74 years when Robert G. Clark served. See also * African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900 More than 1,500 African-American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern sta ... References African-American state legislators in Mississippi Republican Party members of the Mississippi House of Representatives People from Sharkey County, Mississippi 19th-century Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Slade Butler
George Slade Butler (1821–1882) was an English lawyer and antiquary. Life Butler was the son of Richard Weeden Butler, a surgeon in practice at Rye, Sussex, by his third wife, Rhoda Jane, only daughter of Daniel Slade, of London and Rye. Born at Rye on 4 March 1821, he was educated at a private school at Brighton. He was admitted a solicitor in Hilary term, 1843. He was in business in Rye, where he held the town-clerkship and the registrarship of the county court. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in March 1862, and died in Rye on 11 April 1882. Works Butler's ''Topographica Sussexiana'' originally appeared in the ''Collections'' of the Sussex Archaeological Society, and was later reprinted in one volume; it is a bibliography listing of the publications relating to the county of Sussex Sussex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. 'South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Butler (record Producer)
George Butler (September 2, 1931 – April 9, 2008) was a prominent American jazz record producer, executive and A&R man. He worked for a number of well-known jazz record labels from the 1960s to the 1990s including Blue Note Records, Columbia Records and United Artists Records. He signed and launched the careers of a number of now famous artists including Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr. and Nnenna Freelon. Biography Butler was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and studied at Howard University before earning a master's degree in music education from Teachers College, Columbia University. In the early 1960s, he began working as an A&R executive for United Artists Records, where a few years later he was instrumental in establishing its Solid State Records jazz subsidiary.Jason Ankeny"Dr. George Butler" AllMusic. He took over the running of subsidiary label, Blue Note, in 1972, helping to increase interest in the jazz format with numerous jazz-soul crossover projects aimed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |