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Picton River
Picton may refer to: Places Australia *Picton, New South Wales, Australia * Picton, Western Australia, an industrial suburb of Bunbury * Picton East, Western Australia, a locality in the Shire of Dardanup * Picton River, a river that joins the Huon River in Tasmania Canada *Picton, Ontario, Canada ** CFB Picton, a former military installation Chile *Picton, Lennox and Nueva, islands off Tierra del Fuego, Chile New Zealand *Picton, New Zealand ** Picton (New Zealand electorate) United Kingdom *Picton Castle, in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK *Picton, Cheshire, England, UK *Picton (ward), an electoral ward of the Liverpool City Council, England, UK *Picton, North Yorkshire, England, UK People * Cesar Picton (c. 1755 – 1836), from slave to successful businessman in England * James Picton (1805–1889), Liverpool architect * James Allanson Picton (1832–1910), British author, philosopher and politician * Thomas Picton (1758–1815), Welsh general who led British forces in the Peninsul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picton, New South Wales
Picton is a small town in the Macarthur region of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. The town is the administrative centre of the Wollondilly Shire local government area. Picton is located southwest of the Sydney CBD. The town is part of the far southwest fringe of Greater Sydney and is located relatively close to other major suburbs, such as Camden and Campbelltown. History Picton was first explored by Europeans in 1798 and remained beyond the limits of legal settlement until 1821. Following the discovery of good land in the interior and the settlement of Bong Bong and the Goulburn areas, Governor Macquarie authorised the building of the new Great South Road between Sydney and the Southern Highlands in 1819. This opened up the Picton area to settlers, including Henry Colden Antill, who established a property in 1822. Picton developed when a new line of the Great South Road was cut over the Razorback Range from Camden, and especially after the railway arrived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picton, North Yorkshire
Picton is a hamlet and civil parish located in the north of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately south from Yarm, south from Middlesbrough, and just over west from the A19 road. The name of the village derives from Old English and means "Pica's farm or settlement." Up until the 1850s, the village was spelt as ''Pickton'' with the old spelling being cut into the Picton Liberty stone which marked the boundary between the parishes of Picton and Kirklevington. The parish had a population of 108 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 135 at the 2011 Census. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. It lies just south of the border with the Stockton-on-Tees unitary authority. A stream which lies east of the village is called the Picton Stell. Every year Picton holds a show on the third Saturday in July. The event has horse, dog, craft and horticulture competitions, and traditi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1848 Grand National
The 1848 Grand National Steeplechase was the tenth official annual running of a handicap steeplechase horse race at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool on Wednesday, 1 March. It attracted a then record, field of 29 competitors for a prize valued at £1,015 to the winner. The race was won by Lieutenant Josey Little on Captain William Peel's Chandler trained by Tom Eskrett. Lieutenant Little wore Captain Peel's colours of white silks with black sleeves and cap. The horse won in a time of 11 minutes and 21 seconds, forty-two seconds slower than the course record set the previous year. With the proceeds of the race Lieutenant Little was able to purchase his promotion to the rank of captain in the 1st King's Dragoon Guards. Tom Olliver earned the distinction of being the only rider to have taken part in all ten official renewals of the race, finishing second on The Curate. The race was marred by the fatal falls of three competitors at the same fence in the latter stages of the second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picton (racehorse)
Picton may refer to: Places Australia *Picton, New South Wales, Australia * Picton, Western Australia, an industrial suburb of Bunbury * Picton East, Western Australia, a locality in the Shire of Dardanup * Picton River, a river that joins the Huon River in Tasmania Canada *Picton, Ontario, Canada ** CFB Picton, a former military installation Chile *Picton, Lennox and Nueva, islands off Tierra del Fuego, Chile New Zealand *Picton, New Zealand ** Picton (New Zealand electorate) United Kingdom *Picton Castle, in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK *Picton, Cheshire, England, UK *Picton (ward), an electoral ward of the Liverpool City Council, England, UK * Picton, North Yorkshire, England, UK People * Cesar Picton (c. 1755 – 1836), from slave to successful businessman in England * James Picton (1805–1889), Liverpool architect * James Allanson Picton (1832–1910), British author, philosopher and politician * Thomas Picton (1758–1815), Welsh general who led British forces in the Penins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Picton
The SS ''Picton'' was a British steamship, chiefly known for its involvement in the events of the Halifax Explosion. History At the time of the Halifax explosion, ''Picton'' was moored next to the sugar refinery wharf, having earlier run aground and damaged her stern post and rudder. Her cargo (food-stuffs and explosives) was being removed by a party of 80 longshoremen so that she might be safely repaired. They had gotten as far as her ballast, 1,500 tons of fused shells, when the blast happened. She was only a hundred feet away from the SS ''Mont-Blanc'' when the fire began. The superintendent foreman, Frank Carew, realised the danger and, along with his men, had the hatch covers closed and secured when the ''Mont-Blanc'' went up. Carew, his two assistants and 68 of the men were killed and stripped by the blast. A 1-ton boulder, presumably lifted from the harbour bottom by the blast, landed on the ship. Only ten of the crew survived, in varying conditions of hurt. A party of b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picton (1815 Ship)
''Picton'' was launched in 1815 at Bristol. She made three voyages to the West Indies and one to St. Petersburg. Her first master was Charles Mountstephens. She enters '' Lloyd's Register '' in 1816 with Mountstevens as master and trade London-Jamaica. Then on 27 January 1817 John Morris replaced Mountstephens, shortly after her change of ownership. ''Picton'', Morris, master, was outbound on a voyage to Barbados when she wrecked on Foreland Point between Minehead and Ilfracombe during a storm on 20 January 1820.''Lloyd's List ''Lloyd's List'' is one of the world's oldest continuously running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734. It was published daily until 2013 (when the final print issue, number 60,850, was published), and i ...'№5459./ref> Two crewmen died of exposure but a woman passenger and the rest of the crew were saved. (The same storm claimed a number of other vessels.) Citations References *Farr, Grahame E., ed. (1950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Picton
Christopher James Picton (born 13 January 1983) is an Australian politician representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Kaurna for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party since the 2014 state election. He has served as the Minister for Health and Wellbeing in the Malinauskas ministry since March 2022, previously shadowing the role while in opposition. Political career Prior to being elected to parliament, Picton was chief-of-staff for his predecessor John Hill and later a staffer for Nicola Roxon, the federal Minister for Health and Attorney-General. Picton was appointed as a member of the Cabinet of South Australia in September 2017 as Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, and Minister for Road Safety; and served in these roles until Labor lost the 2018 state election. After Labor won the 2022 state election, Picton was appointed as Minister for Health and Wellbeing in the Malinauskas m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Picton
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton (24 August 175818 June 1815) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. He fought in the Napoleonic Wars and died at Waterloo. According to the historian Alessandro Barbero, Picton was "respected for his courage and feared for his irascible temperament". The Duke of Wellington called him "a rough foul-mouthed devil as ever lived", but found him capable. While his military prowess is not in doubt, as a colonial administrator he was cruel even by the standards of the time. He approved the use of torture during his governorship of Trinidad. He was put on trial in England for approving the illegal picketing of a 14-year-old girl. Though initially convicted, Picton later had the conviction overturned arguing that Trinidad was subject to Spanish law, which permitted the use of torture. Controversy over his use of torture has revived in recent years and Picton's role in the Atlantic slave trade has also come under scrutiny (he was a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Allanson Picton
James Allanson Picton (8 August 1832 – 4 February 1910) was a British independent minister, author, philosopher and Liberal politician. Picton promoted a philosophy known as Christian pantheism. Life Picton was born at Liverpool, the eldest son of Sir James Allanson Picton and his wife Sarah Pooley. His father was an architect and supporter of the Liverpool Free Library. He was educated at the High School, and at the Mechanics' Institute and joined his father's architectural practice at the age of 16. Three years later he decided to study for the ministry and joined the Lancashire Independent College and Owens College, Manchester. He achieved a first in classics and in 1855 was awarded MA at the University of London. In spite of allegations of heresy, in 1856, he was appointed to Cheetham Hill congregational church at Manchester. There he gave a course of popular lectures to the working classes, but one of his sermons revived the allegation of heresy and in 1862 he went t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Picton
Sir James Allanson Picton (2 December 1805 – 15 July 1889) was an English antiquary and architect who played a large part in the public life of Liverpool. He took a particular interest in the establishment of public libraries. James Picton was born in Liverpool to William Picton, a joiner and timber merchant, and entered his father's business at the age of 13. He later joined the office of Daniel Stewart, an architect and surveyor, eventually taking over the business. Picton designed some important buildings in Liverpool, including the corn exchange and Richmond Buildings, an office block, now demolished.C. W. Sutton, ‘Picton, Sir James Allanson (1805–1889)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200 accessed 11 January 2009 He became a member of the town council in 1849, and in 1851 a member (and later chairman) of the Wavertree local board. He started to campaign for a public library for the borough and in 1852 an Act of Parliament wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesar Picton
Cesar Picton ( – 1836) was a British merchant of West African descent. Born in West Africa, he was presumably enslaved by the time he was about six years old. He was subsequently brought to England by a British Army officer in 1761 and given as a servant to the Anglo-Welsh politician and lawyer Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, mostly living in Norbiton near Kingston upon Thames in Surrey. Picton eventually left the Philipps' family service and became a wealthy coal merchant in Kingston. Early life The person who would become known as Cesar Picton was born in Senegambia, mostly likely into an Islamic family. In 1758, the British capture of Senegal during the Seven Years' War led to Senegambia, which was a major region of the Atlantic slave trade, to be occupied by the Kingdom of Great Britain. A British Army officer, serving as part of the occupational force, purchased a young boy who had been sold into slavery by the age of six and brought him back to England. The offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picton (ward)
Picton ward was an electoral division of Liverpool City Council centred on the Edge Hill, Liverpool district of Liverpool. Background The ward was first established in 1953 and its boundaries were changed in 1974, 1980 and 2004 before being dissolved in 2023. 1980 boundaries The ward boundary was changed for the 1980 elections. A report of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England published in November 1978 set out proposals for changes to the wards of Liverpool City Council, maintaining the number of councillors at 99 representing 33 wards. Picton ward was represented by three councillors. The report describes the boundaries of Picton ward as "Commencing at a point where Smithdown Road meets the eastern boundary of Smithdown Ward, thence generally northeastwards, generally northwestwards and southeastwards along said boundary to the southern boundary of Kensington Ward, thence eastwards along said boundary to Rathbone Road, thence southwestwards along said roa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
