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George Webb (soldier)
George Webb may refer to: * George Webb (bishop) (1594–1642), Anglican bishop in Ireland * George James Webb (1803–1887), British-American composer * George Webb (judge) (1828–1891), judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria * George William Webb (1853–1936), Scottish born architect * George Webb (politician) (1886–1958), member of Canadian Parliament * George A. J. Webb (1861–1949), Australian portrait painter * George C. Webb, American art director * George Webb (actor) (1912–1998), English actor * George Webb (American actor) (1887–1943) * George Webb (musician) (1917–2010), British jazz musician Sportspeople * George Webb (cricketer) (1857–1931), English cricketer * George Webb (footballer, born 1888) (–1915), English international football player for West Ham United * George Webb (footballer, born 1991), English football player for Bournemouth See also * George Webb Restaurants, a Wisconsin restaurant chain * George Webbe (other) {{hndis, Webb, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Webb (bishop)
George Webb (1581–22 June 1642) was an Anglican bishop in Ireland during the first half of the Seventeenth century. Webb was born in Wiltshire and educated at University College, Oxford. He was Vicar of Steeple Ashton then SS. Peter & Paul, Bath, Somerset, Bath. He was Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Charles I of England, King Charles I, who nominated him as Bishop of Limerick on 6 October 1634; his son Theophilus took his place at the Bath church. Works by Webb include ''The Practice of Quietness''. He died of dysentery in King John's Castle (Limerick), Limerick Castle (King John's Castle) on 22 June 1642 during the siege of Limerick (1642), siege of the castle, by the Irish troops of Garret Barry (soldier), Garret Barry. The local Protestant population, including the bishop, had sought refuge in the castle following an armed uprising and were besieged there without supplies for some four weeks. Webb died two days before the Protestants capitulated and his body was carried out and ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George James Webb
George James Webb (June 24, 1803 - October 7, 1887) was an English-born American composer, conductor, music educator, and organist. He was known for writing " Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus". Webb composed the hymn-tune known as "Webb" whilst sailing from England to the United States: the tune is also known as "Morning Light". Life and career George James Webb was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England on June 24, 1803. He trained as a musician in his native city under Alexander Lucas, and began his career as an organist in Falmouth, Cornwall. In 1830 he resigned his post and immigrated to the United States where he initially settled in Boston, Massachusetts as the organist at Old South Church. In Boston, Webb taught on the faculty of the Boston Academy of Music where he was conductor of the school's orchestra. He also worked as conductor of both the Handel and Haydn Society and The Musical Fund Society. He became a protege of Lowell Mason, and collaborated with him on a variety o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Webb (judge)
George Henry Frederick Webb (1828 – 26 September 1891) was a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. Webb was born in London, England, the son of Samuel Ody Webb, a naval officer, and his wife Isabella, ''née'' Sweet. As a youth Webb entered the office of William Brodie Gurney, the famous parliamentary shorthand writer, and soon became proficient in stenography. Webb emigrated to Melbourne, Victoria, in 1852, and was for some time a reporter on ''The Argus''. In 1855 Webb was appointed shorthand writer to the Government of Victoria. Having decided to embrace the legal profession, he attended the lectures on law given at the University of Melbourne by Henry Samuel Chapman and Wilberforce Stephen and subsequently read in the latter's chambers. In 1860 Webb was called to the Victorian Bar and appointed a lecturer on law at the University of Melbourne. The latter appointment he quickly resigned, as also the position of Government shorthand writer in 1866. Having for a long perio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George William Webb
George Webb (1853–1936) was a Scottish-born architect who had a business in Reading, Berkshire, England. He in known for designing the Ellangowan Hotel (''Ellengowan'' in ref.) in Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland in 1898. The interior of this hotel was used to portray the "Green Man" public house in ''The Wicker Man ''The Wicker Man'' is a 1973 British folk horror film directed by Robin Hardy (film director), Robin Hardy and starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt and Christopher Lee. The screenplay is by Anthony Shaffer (writer ...'' (1973). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Webb, George William 1853 births 1936 deaths 19th-century Scottish architects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Webb (politician)
George Robert Webb (10 July 1886 – 20 July 1958) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Gananoque, Ontario and became an insurance agent by career. Webb was mayor of Gananoque, Ontario at one time. He owned and operated George R. Webb Insurance Agencies, and also the automotive retail firm Webb Motor Sales. He was elected to Parliament at the Leeds Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built aro ... riding in the 1945 general election and served one term, the 20th Canadian Parliament, then did not seek re-election in the 1949 election. References External links * 1886 births 1958 deaths 20th-century Canadian businesspeople 20th-century mayors of places in Ontario Members of the House of Commons of Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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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 Leonard Hamblin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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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 Leo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Webb (actor)
George Augustus Webb (6 March 1912 – 30 December 1998) was a British actor, best known for television, including his role as " Daddy", the father of snooty Hyacinth Bucket in the sitcom ''''. The son of Henry Augustus Webb (1880–1926) and Gertrude (née Bolingbroke), Webb was born at 41 St Luke's Road, Paddington
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George Webb (American Actor)
George Webb may refer to: * George Webb (bishop) (1594–1642), Anglican bishop in Ireland * George James Webb (1803–1887), British-American composer * George Webb (judge) (1828–1891), judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria * George William Webb (1853–1936), Scottish born architect * George Webb (politician) (1886–1958), member of Canadian Parliament * George A. J. Webb (1861–1949), Australian portrait painter * George C. Webb, American art director * George Webb (actor) (1912–1998), English actor * George Webb (American actor) (1887–1943) * George Webb (musician) George Horace Webb (8 October 1917 – 10 March 2010) was a British pianist considered by many as the father of the traditional jazz movement in Britain. He grew up with a love of early jazz recordings, principally those made by the New Orleans m ... (1917–2010), British jazz musician Sportspeople * George Webb (cricketer) (1857–1931), English cricketer * George Webb (footballer, born 1888) (� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Webb (musician)
George Horace Webb (8 October 1917 – 10 March 2010) was a British pianist considered by many as the father of the traditional jazz movement in Britain. He grew up with a love of early jazz recordings, principally those made by the New Orleans musicians; and in his playing he tried to re-create the style of such bands as King Oliver's. Webb "worked as a machine gun fitter in the Vickers-Armstrong factory at Crayford. The son of a former music hall artiste turned fishmonger, he was a keen jazz enthusiast and self-taught amateur pianist. He took it upon himself to organize lunchtime entertainment at the factory, assembling scratch bands from among the workers." With his band, George Webb's Dixielanders, he played regularly and famously at The Red Barn public house at Barnehurst, Kent, from the early 1940s. "No one has ever seriously challenged their claim to have been the first British revivalist jazz band". They made several recordings and BBC radio broadcasts. The Dixielanders d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Webb (cricketer)
George William Webb (23 October 1857 – 26 December 1931) was an English professional cricketer, umpire and cricket coach. Webb played in two first-class cricket matches for Kent County Cricket Club.George Webb CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-12-19. Early life Webb was born at Derringstone, part of Barham in in 1857. His father, James, was a publican who ran ''The White Horse'' in nearby . His mother, Harriet, came from[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Webb (footballer, Born 1888)
George William Webb (18 July 1888 – 28 March 1915) was an English amateur footballer who spent most of his career playing at centre-forward for West Ham United in the Southern League, as well as making seven appearances for the England national amateur football team and two for the full national side. Football career Webb was born in Poplar in Middlesex and educated at Shaftesbury Road School. He was the stepson of George Hone, who was involved in the creation of Thames Ironworks and became a director of West Ham United. In August 1905, Webb had a pre-season trial with West Ham, going on to make occasional appearances for their reserve team, while playing for various amateur sides in the Ilford area. He made his debut for West Ham's first team on 9 April 1909, when he scored the only goal in a match against local rivals, Leyton. On 5 February 1910, he scored a hat-trick in a 5–1 victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers of the Football League Second Division in the Second ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |