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Herbert Carter (other)
Herbert Carter may refer to: * Herbert Carter (pilot) (1919–2012), member of the Tuskegee Airmen * Herbert Augustine Carter (1874–1916), English recipient of the Victoria Cross * Herbert Dyson Carter (1910–1996), Canadian scientist, writer, and Communist propagandist and organiser * H. E. Carter (Herbert Edmund Carter, 1910–2007), American biochemist and educator * Herbert James Carter Herbert James Carter (23 April 1858 – 16 April 1940) was an English-born Australian schoolmaster and entomologist. __NOTOC__ Early life Carter was born at Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, the son of James Carter, farmer, and his wife Mary Ann ...
(1858–1940), English-born Australian schoolmaster and entomologist * Herbert S. Carter (1869–1927), American physician and writer * Herbert St Maur Carter (1878–1957), Irish-born British military officer, doctor and surgeon * St George Henry Rathborne (1854–1938), wrote under the pseudonym Herbert Carter {{hndis, Carter, Herbert ...
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Herbert Carter (pilot)
Herbert Eugene Carter (September 27, 1919 – November 8, 2012) was an American military officer of the United States Air Force. He was a member of the original thirty-three members of the Tuskegee Airmen. He flew 77 missions with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. Childhood and family Carter was born in Amory, Mississippi on September 27, 1919. He was one of ten children in his family. His father, George Washington Carter, was African-American, while his mother, Willie Ann Sykes Carter, was Native American. George Washington Carter was Amory's superintendent of utilities, "a prominent position for a black man of that era." Education and military training Carter's parents sent him to Tuskegee, Alabama at age sixteen to continue his education. There, he lived with his older brother, who also ran the grocery store where Herbert worked. He finished high school in Tuskegee and went on to Tuskegee University. Carter enrolled in the university's branch of the Civilian Pi ...
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Herbert Augustine Carter
Major Herbert Augustine Carter VC (26 May 1874 – 13 January 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was the son of the vicar of St Erth in Cornwall and served in two campaigns in East Africa. Details Carter was 29 years old, and a lieutenant in the Poona Mounted Infantry, Indian Army, during the Third Somaliland Expedition when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 19 December 1903 during a reconnaissance at Jidballi, British Somaliland, when two sections were retiring before a force of Dervishes who outnumbered them by thirty to one, Lieutenant Carter rode back alone, a distance of 400 yards, to the assistance of an Indian private who had lost his horse and was closely pursued by a number of the enemy. The man was so badly wounded that it took three attempts to get him on to the horse. In ...
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Dyson Carter
Herbert Dyson Carter (February 2, 1910 – 1996), known as Dyson Carter, was a Canadian scientist, lecturer, writer, and Communist propagandist and organiser who served as president of the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society from 1949 to 1960. During his fifty-year writing career, Carter produced hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, dozens of short stories, and 17 books including five novels. Many of his non-fiction books and articles popularized scientific ideas and discoveries or reported on medical advances. In the 1930s and 1940s, many of his articles appeared in popular magazines in Canada and the United States and three of his books were published by large commercial publishers in the United States and widely reviewed. He occasionally used the pseudonym Warren Desmond for popular fiction that he would otherwise would not have been able to sell in the United States due to McCarthyism. Early life Carter was born in Saint John, New Brunswick to Gertrude and Willi ...
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Herbert James Carter
Herbert James Carter (23 April 1858 – 16 April 1940) was an English-born Australian schoolmaster and entomologist. __NOTOC__ Early life Carter was born at Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, the son of James Carter, farmer, and his wife Mary Ann, ''née'' Freeman. He was educated at Aldenham school, Hertfordshire, and at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1881. He was also a keen cricketer. Career Migrating to Australia (arriving on the ''Potosi '' on 19 February 1882) Carter was made assistant mathematics master at Sydney Grammar School, later becoming senior mathematics master. In 1902 he became principal of Ascham girls' school until 1914. During World War I, Carter became a founding member of the executive committee of the Australian branch of the British Red Cross Society. Carter became interested in the study of the Coleoptera (beetles and weevils), he joined the Linnean Society of New South Wales and was a member of its council from 1920 to 1939, an ...
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Herbert may refer to: People Individuals * Herbert (musician), a pseudonym of Matthew Herbert Name * Herbert (given name) * Herbert (surname) Places Antarctica * Herbert Mountains, Coats Land * Herbert Sound, Graham Land Australia * Herbert, Northern Territory, a rural locality * Herbert, South Australia. former government town * Division of Herbert, an electoral district in Queensland * Herbert River, a river in Queensland * County of Herbert, a cadastral unit in South Australia Canada * Herbert, Saskatchewan, Canada, a town * Herbert Road, St. Albert, Canada New Zealand * Herbert, New Zealand, a town * Mount Herbert (New Zealand) United States * Herbert, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Herbert, Michigan, a former settlement * Herbert Creek, a stream in South Dakota * Herbert Island, Alaska Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Herbert (Disney character) * Herbert Pocket (''Great Expectations'' character), Pip's close friend and roommat ...
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Herbert St Maur Carter
Lieutenant Colonel Herbert St Maur Carter (7 May 1878 – 10 February 1957) was an Irish-born British military officer, doctor and surgeon, who served with the Royal Army Medical Corps and the British Red Cross. He was decorated by both the British and Serbian governments and Mentioned in Dispatches three times. References External linksBiography He was born in Ireland, the son of Major Edward Augustus Carter, 1st Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters, and the Hon Mary Hannah Augusta Hemphill of Clifton House, Dublin, daughter of Charles Hemphill, 1st Baron Hemphill. His great=grandfather was Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton, the sixth son of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa Jane Russell, the daughter of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford. St Maur Carter was initially educated at Framlingham College, Suffolk, he then studied medicine and surgery at Trinity College, Dublin where he qualified M.B., B.Ch. with honours in 1904, and proceeded to MD the same year ...
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