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Henry Hughes (actor)
Henry Hughes may refer to: * Henry Hughes, 19th century British locomotive builder, see Brush Traction * Henry Hughes (1850s), stained-glass window designer and partner in the firm Ward and Hughes Ward and Hughes (formerly Ward and Nixon) was the name of an English company producing stained-glass windows. History Ward and Hughes was preceded by the company Ward and Nixon, whose studio was at 67 Frith Street, Soho. They created a large w ... * Henry Hughes (cricketer) (born 1992), English cricketer * Henry Hughes (director), American film director * Henry Hughes (New South Wales politician) (fl. 1850s), Australian politician * Henry Hughes (sociologist) (1829–1862), American lawyer, sociologist, state senator and Confederate officer from Mississippi * Henry Hughes (Vicar Apostolic of Gibraltar) (1788–1860), Irish-born Roman Catholic bishop and Franciscan friar * Henry George Hughes (1810–1872), Irish judge and politician * Henry Kent Hughes (1814–1880), pastoralis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brush Traction
Brush Traction was a manufacturer and maintainer of railway locomotives in Loughborough, England whose operations have now been merged into the Wabtec company's Doncaster UK operations. History Hughes' Locomotive & Tramway Engine Works Henry Hughes had been operating at the Falcon Works since the 1850s, producing items such as brass and iron cast parts for portable engines and thrashing machines. In 1860 Henry Hughes announced he had entered into a partnership with William March who had extensive experience in the timber trade, and this would be added to the existing business of "engineers and manufacturers of railway plant", with the business to be called Hughes and March. In March 1863, Hughes announced it was making a steam locomotive designed for contractors and mineral railways. This was an with a 200 psi boiler pressure and cylinders of 10 inch bore and 15 inch stroke. In 1866, Hughes announced a sale of timber and associated equipment from the "Falcon Railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ward And Hughes
Ward and Hughes (formerly Ward and Nixon) was the name of an English company producing stained-glass windows. History Ward and Hughes was preceded by the company Ward and Nixon, whose studio was at 67 Frith Street, Soho. They created a large window for St Stephen Coleman Street, London. James Henry Nixon worked on the restoration of the famous medieval stained glass at St. Neots in Cornwall as early as 1829. The firm became a favourite of Charles Winston, which helped them gain prestigious commissions like the east window of Lincoln Cathedral. In 1857 Nixon died and his pupil, Henry Hughes, became the partner of Thomas Ward, and the business was renamed Ward and Hughes. Henry Hughes died on the 17th February 1883 and was buried in a family vault (no.14843) on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. T. F. Curtis took over the firm and continued production as T. F. Curtis, Ward and Hughes until the late 1920s. Works by Ward and Hughes In England: * St. Michael's Church, Sow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hughes (cricketer)
Henry Christopher David Hughes (born 11 September 1992) is an English former first-class cricketer. Hughes was born at Manchester and was educated at Uppingham School, where he captained the school cricket team, before going up to Oxford Brookes University. While studying at Oxford Brookes, he made two appearances in first-class cricket for Oxford MCCU in 2015, playing at Oxford against Worcestershire and Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, former county in South East England, now mainly within Greater London. Its boundaries largely followed three rivers: the River Thames, Thames in the south, the River Lea, Le .... Hughes struggled at first-class level, scoring 7 runs in the four innings' in which he batted, with a top score of 4. Notes and references External links 1992 births Living people Cricketers from Manchester People educated at Uppingham School Alumni of Oxford Brookes University English cricketers Oxfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hughes (director)
1st Lieutenant Henry "Hank" Hughes IV is an American film director and former Paratrooper for 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team. He is best known for directing and co-writing the short-film ''Day One'' as a part of his graduate project at American Film Institute. ''Day One'' received critical appraisal and earned him a Best Narrative (short) Gold Medal at 42nd Annual Student Film Awards, BAFTA US Student Award at 2016 BAFTA/LA Student Film Awards, and Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film nomination at 88th Academy Awards. He is a graduate of Boston University. Filmography Awards * Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual Academy Awards ceremony. The award has existed, under numerous names, since 1957. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate awards, ''Best Short Subject, On ... - nominated * Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Academy of Television Arts and Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hughes (New South Wales Politician)
Henry Hughes was an Australian pastoralist and politician. He was an appointed member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1851 to 1853. Hughes was a squatter and large landowner and stockholder at Gowrie Station on the Darling Downs, in what is now Queensland. He was reported to have been one of the first white colonists in the area. He was appointed a magistrate there in 1846. In 1848, along with a colleague, Isaac, he purchased " Westbrook" in addition to his existing landholding; it was transferred to him alone in 1850. In 1851, prior to his appointment, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the elected Brisbane-based Stanley Boroughs seat in the Legislative Council, in which he had variously been referred as the "pro-transportation" or "squatting" candidate. He had strongly advocated the importation of convicts into Moreton Bay, having gone so far as to travel to England to wait upon the Secretary of State for the Colonies. He was an "unflinching advocate" of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hughes (sociologist)
Henry Hughes (1829–1862) was an American lawyer, sociologist, state senator, and Confederate Colonel from Mississippi. He developed the economic notion of warrantism and supported the re-establishment of the African slave trade. Life and career Early life Hughes was born on April 17, 1829, in Port Gibson, Mississippi.James Oscar Farmer, ''Metaphysical Confederacy'', Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1999, pp. 103-10/ref>Luther Lee Bernard, ' doi:10.2307/2570953, Henry Hughes, First American Sociologist', ''Social Forces'', Vol. 15, No. 2 (December, 1936), pp. 154-174Drew Gilpin Faust, ''The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830—1860'', Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 198/ref>James B. Lloyd, ''Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967'', Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, p. 24/ref>John R. Shook, ''Dictionary of Early American Philosophers'', Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2012, p. 56/ref> His fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hughes (Vicar Apostolic Of Gibraltar)
Henry Hughes, O.F.M. (1788–1860) was an Irish-born Roman Catholic bishop and Franciscan friar who served as the Vicar Apostolic of Gibraltar from 1839 to 1856. Born in Wexford, Ireland on 26 June 1788, he was appointed the Vicar Apostolic of Gibraltar and Titular Bishop of ''Heliopolis in Augustamnica'' by Pope Gregory XVI on 15 March 1839. His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 21 March 1841; the principal consecrator was Giacomo Filippo Fransoni, Cardinal-Priest of ''Santa Maria in Ara Coeli'', with Ignazio Giovanni Cadolini, Titular Archbishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ... of ''Edessa in Osrhoëne'', serving as co-consecrator. Bishop Hughes resigned in 1856 and died on 12 October 1860, aged 72. References 1788 births 1860 death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry George Hughes
Henry George Hughes (10 August 1810 – 22 July 1872) was an Irish judge, politician, and third Baron of the Court of Exchequer. In 1850 he was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Longford in 1856. Background and early career He was born in Dublin, eldest son of James Hughes, solicitor, and Margaret Morton, daughter of Trevor Stannus Morton, also a solicitor. They lived on Capel Street.Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' John Murray London 1926 Vol.2 p.302 He went to a private school at Jervis Street, Dublin and matriculated at Trinity College Dublin in 1825, but did not proceed to a degree. He entered the King's Inns in 1830, and Gray's Inn in 1832. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1834, Queen's Counsel in 1844. He practised at the Chancery Bar and rapidly built up a very large practice; he became renowned for his mastery of Chancery procedure, which was then very complex. His book ''Chancery Practice' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Kent Hughes
Henry Kent Hughes (c. 1814 – 30 August 1880), usually referred to as H. Kent Hughes, was a pastoralist and politician who sat in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1868 to 1875 representing the seats of Victoria and later, Port Adelaide. Early life Hughes was born in England, possibly the son of Thomas Hughes, dyer, of Bunhill Row. He married Jane Hilditch (died 4 June 1890). They travelled to South Australia on the barque ''Raleigh'', arriving at Port Adelaide on 15 January 1851. Hughes was, for a considerable period (at least 1838 – 1844) in the colony of Victoria; he was one of a party, with Peter Snodgrass MLC, a Mr. Murdoch, a Dr. Dixon and one James Murdoch, who pioneered settlement in the Goulburn Valley in Victoria. With two brothers he founded the property, later the town, of Avenel, often cited as named for a Gloucestershire village with which had a connection (though information on its whereabouts is lacking), his previous property in England, or S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry P
Henry may refer to: People and fictional characters * Henry (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters * Henry (surname) * Henry, a stage name of François-Louis Henry (1786–1855), French baritone Arts and entertainment * ''Henry'' (2011 film), a Canadian short film * ''Henry'' (2015 film), a virtual reality film * '' Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer'', a 1986 American crime film * ''Henry'' (comics), an American comic strip created in 1932 by Carl Anderson * "Henry", a song by New Riders of the Purple Sage Places Antarctica * Henry Bay, Wilkes Land Australia * Henry River (New South Wales) * Henry River (Western Australia) Canada * Henry Lake (Vancouver Island), British Columbia * Henry Lake (Halifax County), Nova Scotia * Henry Lake (District of Chester), Nova Scotia New Zealand * Lake Henry (New Zealand) * Henry River (New Zealand) United States * Henry, Illinois * Henry, Indiana * Henry, Nebraska * Henry, South Dakota * Henry County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Castree Hughes
Henry Castree Hughes (29 May 1893 – 1 January 1976), known as H. C. Hughes or Hugh Hughes, was a British architect and conservationist. He spent his entire career in Cambridge, where he practised architecture from 1923, latterly as Hughes and Bicknell with Peter Bicknell, and lectured in design at the School of Architecture of the University of Cambridge (1919–32). As an architect, he is best known for his Modernist buildings of the 1930s, particularly the Mond Building (1931–32) and Fen Court, Peterhouse (1939–40), although much of his output was traditional in style. He also carried out restoration work on cottages, Cambridge college buildings, and churches, including the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral. He was an elected fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He lobbied on issues relating to the conservation of the countryside surrounding Cambridge, and was instrumental in the foundation of the Cambridge Preservation Society in 1928. Early life and educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Estcourt Hughes
Henry Estcourt Hughes (15 September 1869 – 17 April 1951) was a South Australian Baptist minister and temperance activist, editor and author. History Hughes was a son of James Hughes (c. 1826 – 26 June 1892) and Elizabeth Jane Hughes, née Pounsett, of Morphett Vale, in which region he grew up and trained with his father as a saddler before deciding on a career as a Baptist minister. On 8 September 1891 he began training at Way College under Revs. Silas Mead and William A. Bell. His application for a second year of training (and residence) to coincide with his university studies was rejected due to lack of funds. He successfully completed the first year of a B.A. degree at the University of Adelaide, but quit after one year, citing health problems. and for much of the following year toured England and Europe. He returned to Adelaide and in 1894 was ordained in the Baptist church. Ministry He was ministering at the Mannum, South Australia, Mannum church in 1895 when he was gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
