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List Of People With Given Name Thomas
{{short description, People with given name Thomas This article lists notable people with the given name Thomas. * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. ca. 647–648), Christian bishop of Dunwich * Sir Thomas à Beckett (judge) (1836–1919), Australian solicitor and judge * Thomas Boylston Adams (1772–1832), Massachusetts legislator and judge and brother of John Quincy Adams * Thomas Boylston Adams (1910–1997), Massachusetts executive, writer, and political candidate * Thomas Amarasuriya (1907–1979), Sri Lankan planter and politician * Thomas Anders (born 1963) German singer, songwriter and record producer * Thomas Andrew (photographer) (1855–1939), New Zealand photographer who lived in Samoa from 1891 * Thomas Andrews (1873–1912), British businessman and shipbuilder * Thomas of Ashborne, English controversialist * Thomas Austin (pastoralist) (1815–1871), English settler in Australia who introduced rabbits into Australia in 1859 * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas (bishop Of The East Angles)
__NOTOC__ Thomas was an early medieval Bishop of the East Angles. He was consecrated between 647 and 648 and died between 652 and 653. He was bishop for five years. Bede described Thomas as having been "from the province of the Gyrwas" and deacon to Felix of Burgundy.Bede, ''Ecclesiastical History'', iii, 20. References External links * Bishops of the East Angles {{England-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bertrand-Hudon
Thomas Bertrand-Hudon (born October 11, 1996) is a Canadian professional football running back for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football at Delaware State. Early life Bertrand-Hudon was born in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. He played CEGEP football at Champlain College Lennoxville. College career Bertrand-Hudon played college football for the Delaware State Hornets from 2018 to 2022. He did not appear in any games in 2018. He played in eight games in 2019, rushing 111 times for 508 yards and five touchdowns. Bertrand-Hudon appeared in all five games of the COVID-19 shortened 2020 season, recording 46 carries for 198 yards. He played in only three games during the 2021 season due to injury. He appeared in 11 games in 2022, rushing 75 times for 282 yards and five touchdowns. Professional career At the 2023 CFL Combine, Bertrand-Hudon finished first in the shuttle (4.16 seconds). He was selected by the Saskatchewan Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Child (photographer)
Thomas Child (1841–1898) was an English photographer and engineer best known for his pioneering photography work in China. Child produced a large body of photographs during his time in Beijing in the 1870s and 1880s, a time when virtually no other photographers operated in the city. During the two decades he spent in China, Child compiled the earliest comprehensive photographic catalogue of the customs, architecture, and people of late Qing dynasty Beijing. A keen photographer of architecture, some of Child's images are among the earliest and the only known photographic records of their architectural subjects. Life and work Thomas Child was born in Shropshire, England, in 1841 to John and Elizabeth Child. In 1870, Child was hired by Sir Robert Hart to join the Chinese Maritime Customs Service as a gas engineer, and left England for Beijing with his photographic equipment in June of that year. Child lived in Beijing until 1889. When he arrived in Beijing, the city was still lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher. Known as the "Sage writing, sage of Chelsea, London, Chelsea", his writings strongly influenced the intellectual and artistic culture of the Victorian era. Carlyle was born in Ecclefechan, a village in Dumfriesshire. He attended the University of Edinburgh where he excelled in mathematics and invented the Carlyle circle. After finishing the arts course, he prepared to become a minister in the Burgher (Church history), Burgher Church while working as a schoolmaster. He quit these and several other endeavours before settling on literature, writing for the ''Edinburgh Encyclopædia'' and working as a translator. He initially gained prominence in English-language literary circles for his extensive writing on German Romanticism, German Romantic literature and philosophy. These themes were explored in his first major work, a semi-autobiographical philosophical novel entitled ''Sartor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cardozo
Thomas Whitmarsh Cardozo (December 19, 1838 (p. 186) – April 13, 1881) was an American educator, journalist, writer, and public official during the Reconstruction Era in the United States. He adopted the name Civis as a '' nom de plume'' and wrote as a correspondent for the '' New National Era'', founded by Frederick Douglass. He was the first African American to hold the position of State Superintendent of Education in Mississippi. Early life Thomas Whitmarsh Cardozo was born in 1838 in Charleston, South Carolina, as the youngest of five children. His father, Isaac Nunez Cardozo, was part of a well-known Sephardic Jewish family and was a weigher in the U.S. Customs House of Charleston for 24 years, until his death in 1855. Thomas's mother was Lydia Weston, a freed slave of mixed ancestry who was a seamstress. He had two older brothers, Henry Weston Cardozo and Francis Lewis Cardozo, and two older sisters, Lydia Frances Cardozo and Eslander Cardozo. In Charleston, Thomas w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas De Cantilupe
Thomas de Cantilupe (25 August 1282; also spelled ''Cantelow, Cantelou, Canteloupe'', List of Latinised names, Latinised to ''de Cantilupo'') was Lord Chancellor, Lord Chancellor of England and Bishop of Hereford. He was canonised in 1320 by Pope John XXII. He has been noted as "an inveterate enemy of the Jews", and his demands that they be expelled from England were cited in the evidence presented for his canonization. Origins Thomas was the third son of William de Cantilupe (died 1251), William II de Cantilupe (died 1251) (anciently ''Cantelow, Cantelou, Canteloupe, etc'', List of Latinised names, Latinised to ''de Cantilupo''), 2nd Feudal barony of Eaton Bray, feudal baron of Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire, who was steward of the household to King Henry III (as his father William de Cantilupe (died 1239), William I de Cantilupe (died 1239) had been to Henry's father King John). Thomas's mother was Millicent (or Maud) de Gournai (died 1260), a daughter of Hugh de Gournai and wido ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Calma
Thomas Edwin Calma (born 1953), is an Aboriginal Australian human rights and social justice campaigner, and 2023 senior Australian of the Year. He was the sixth chancellor of the University of Canberra (2014-2023), after two years as deputy chancellor. Calma was the second Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person to hold the position of chancellor of any Australian university. Calma has been involved in Indigenous affairs at a local, community, state, national and international level and worked in the public sector focusing on rural and remote Australia, health, mental health and suicide prevention, education, justice reinvestment, research, reconciliation and economic development. Calma's 2005 ''Social Justice Report'' – focusing on Indigenous health equality – was the catalyst for the Close the Gap campaign. Calma served as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner from 2004 to 2010 and as Race Discrimination Commissioner from 2004 unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bunday
Thomas Richard Bunday (September 28, 1948 – March 15, 1983) was an American serial killer who, from 1979 to 1981, committed a series of murders of young women and girls in the city of Fairbanks, Alaska. At the time of the killings, Bunday was serving at the Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, and for a long time avoided suspicion. Despite confessing to the crimes, Bunday was not immediately arrested due to a legal mistake and remained at liberty for another eight days until his apparent suicide in a motorcycling accident, during which, for unknown reasons, he did not make any effort to evade justice. Early years Thomas Bunday was born on September 28, 1948, in Nashville, Tennessee. He was the younger of two children in the family, his elder brother Ralph being 15 years older than him. Bunday spent his childhood and youth in a socially unfavorable situation: his father, a World War II veteran, suffered from mental disorders and was aggressive towards his wife and younger son. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Brugis
Thomas Brugis (fl. 1640?) was an English surgeon. Biography Brugis was born probably between 1610 and 1620, since he practised for seven years as a surgeon during the civil wars. He does not record upon which side he served. He obtained the degree of doctor of physic, though from what university does not appear, and settled at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, where he describes himself as curing "(by God's help) all sorts of agues in young and old, and all manner of old sores that are curable by art". Brugis wrote ''The Marrow of Physicke'', London, 1640, 4to; and ''Vade Mecum, or a Companion for a Chirurgion'', of which the first edition appeared, London, 1651, 12mo, and the seventh 1689, in the same size. The popularity of this little book shows that it must have been useful, but there is nothing original in this or in the earlier work. Perhaps the only notable thing in the ''Vade Mecum'' is a small contribution to forensic medicine, in the shape of rules for the reports which a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Thomas Brodie-Sangster (born 16 May 1990) is an English actor. As a child actor, he gained recognition for his roles in the commercially successful films ''Love Actually'' (2003) and ''Nanny McPhee'' (2005). He voiced Ferb Fletcher, Ferb in the first four seasons of ''Phineas and Ferb'' (20072015), and subsequently gained wider attention with his roles as Jake Murray in ''Accused (2010 TV series), Accused'' (20102012), Jojen Reed in ''Game of Thrones'' (20132014) and Newt in the Maze Runner (film series), ''Maze Runner'' trilogy (20142018). Continued acclaim ensued with the independent films ''Nowhere Boy'' (2009), in which he portrayed Paul McCartney, ''Bright Star (film), Bright Star'' (2009), and ''Death of a Superhero'' (2011). Brodie-Sangster received praise for his roles in the miniseries ''Godless (TV series), Godless'' (2017) and as chess champion Benny Watts in ''The Queen's Gambit (miniseries), The Queen's Gambit'' (2020), both for Netflix; his performance in ''The Quee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bourchier (cardinal)
Thomas Bourchier (140430 March 1486) was a medieval English cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Chancellor of England. Origins Bourchier was a younger son of William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu (died 1420) by his wife Anne of Gloucester, a daughter of Thomas of Woodstock (1355–1397), youngest son of King Edward III. One of his brothers was Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex (died 1483), and his great-nephew was John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, the translator of Froissart. Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham was his half-brother. He was educated at the University of Oxford, after which he entered the church and obtained rapid promotion. Career After holding some minor appointments he was consecrated Bishop of Worcester on 15 May 1434. In the same year of 1434 he was Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and in 1443 was appointed Bishop of Ely. In April 1454 he was made Archbishop of Canterbury, and became Lord Chancellor of England in March 1455. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Blake Glover
Thomas Blake Glover (6 June 1838 – 16 December 1911) was an Anglo-Scottish merchant in Bakumatsu and Meiji-period Japan. Early life (1838–1858) Thomas Blake Glover was born at 15 Commerce Street, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire in northeast Scotland on 6 June 1838, the fifth of eight children, to Thomas Berry Glover (1806-1878), a coastguard officer from Vauxhall, London and Mary Findlay (1807-1887) from the parish of Fordyce, Banffshire. Thomas Blake Glover spent the first six years of his life in Fraserburgh, which was fast expanding as a fishing and trading port. In 1844, the family moved first to coastguard stations at Grimsby, then Collieston in Aberdeenshire, then finally to the Bridge of Don, by Aberdeen, Thomas senior having by this time been promoted to Chief Coastguard Officer. Young Thomas was educated first at the recently opened parish school in Fraserburgh, then in primary schools in Grimsby, Collieston, and finally at the Chanonry School in Old Aberdeen. Upo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
