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Pusey
Pusey may refer to: People * Caleb Pusey (c. 1650–1727), friend and business partner of William Penn * Chris Pusey (born 1965), Canadian ice hockey player * Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882), English churchman * Ernest Pusey (1895–2006), World War I veteran and oldest living person in Florida * Frederick Taylor Pusey (1872–1936), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives * Jacqueline Pusey (born 1959), Jamaican sprint athlete * Jason Pusey (born 1989), Gibraltarian footballer * Joshua Pusey (1842–1906), American inventor of the paper matchbook * Mavis Pusey (1928–2019), Jamaican-born painter * Merlo J. Pusey (1902–1985), American biographer * Nathan Pusey (1907–2001), American educator and 24th president of Harvard University (1953–1971) * Philip Pusey (1799–1855), English agriculturalist and Member of Parliament * Philip E. Pusey (1830–1880), English Aramaicist * Peter Pusey (born 1942), British physicist * Stephen Pusey (born 1952), British-born art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caleb Pusey
The Caleb Pusey House, built in 1683 near Chester Creek in Upland, Pennsylvania in the United States, is List of the oldest buildings in Pennsylvania, the oldest English-built house in Pennsylvania. It is the only remaining house that William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, is known to have visited. Caleb Pusey was a friend and business partner of Penn's. They came over together in 1682 along with prefabricated mills intended for grinding flour and cutting lumber. Pusey served as manager of the mills until his retirement in 1717. Since about 1960, the building and grounds have been owned by the Friends of the Caleb Pusey House, Inc. The house was in very poor condition, but was restored and the property has since been operated as a historic house museum. Caleb Pusey Caleb Pusey was a Quaker last maker (a maker of wooden foot molds for Shoemaking, cobblers) and a friend and business partner of William Penn, the founder of the Province of Pennsylvania. A native of the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pusey House, Oxford
Pusey House () is an Anglican religious institution and charitable incorporated organisation located on St Giles', Oxford, United Kingdom, immediately to the south of Pusey Street. It is firmly rooted in the Anglo-Catholic Prayer Book tradition of the Church of England and was founded in 1884 in memory of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. The house was established as a "House of Piety of Learning" with a library and chapel, both of which remain open and in use today. One of the original intentions of Pusey House was to house Pusey's collection of books and, since its foundation, the house has come to possess many artifacts relating to Pusey and the Oxford Movement, with the house's library and Archive holding one of the country's most significant collections of material pertaining to Anglo-Catholicism. The house holds daily services in its chapel, as well as regular lectures and events. Puse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Bouverie Pusey
Edward Bouverie Pusey (; 22 August 180016 September 1882) was an English Anglican cleric, for more than fifty years Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. He was one of the leading figures in the Oxford Movement, with interest in sacramental theology and typology. Early years He was born at Pusey House in the village of Pusey in Berkshire (now administratively a part of Oxfordshire). His father, Philip Bouverie-Pusey, who was born Philip Bouverie and died in 1828, was a younger son of Jacob des Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone; he adopted the name of ''Pusey'' on succeeding to the manorial estates there. His mother, Lady Lucy Pusey, the only daughter of Robert Sherard, 4th Earl of Harborough, was the widow of Sir Thomas Cave, 7th Baronet, MP before her marriage to his father in 1798. Among his siblings was older brother Philip Pusey and sister Charlotte married Richard Lynch Cotton. Pusey attended the preparatory school of the Rev. Richard Roberts in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Pusey
Peter Nicholas Pusey (born 30 December 1942) is a British physicist. He is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Edinburgh.People directory University of Edinburgh, retrieved 2016-03-12. Research Pusey is a pioneer of (DLS) and is known for elucidating the structure and dynamics of concentrated s. He contributed to the development, underlying theory and applications of DLS. He was among the first to apply photon correlation techniques and ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pusey And Jones
The Pusey and Jones Corporation was a major shipbuilder and industrial-equipment manufacturer. Based in Wilmington, Delaware, it operated from 1848 to 1959. Shipbuilding was its primary focus from 1853 until the end of World War II, when the company converted the shipyard to produce machinery for paper manufacturing. The yard built more than 500 ships, from large cargo vessels to small warships and yachts, including '' Volunteer'', the winner of the 1887 America's Cup. History The company began in 1848, when Joshua L. Pusey and John Jones formed a partnership in Wilmington, Delaware, to run a machine shop in space rented from a whaling company. The shipyard sat between the Christina River and the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1851, Edward Betts and Joshua Seal, who were operating an iron foundry in Wilmington, purchased an interest in the business. The name of the company became Betts, Pusey, Jones & Seal. In 1854, Pusey and Jones built the first U.S. iron-hulled s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pewsey
Pewsey is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish at the centre of the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire, about south of Marlborough, Wiltshire, Marlborough and west of London. It is within reach of the M4 motorway and the A303 and is served by Pewsey railway station on the Reading to Taunton line. The parish includes the settlements of Kepnal to the east, Pewsey Wharf (on the Kennet and Avon Canal) to the north, Sharcott to the west, and Southcott on the south-east. History The place name comes from the Old English "peose", or "piosu" meaning "pea" "island," collectively meaning "island, or dry ground in marsh, where peas grow." Archaeological excavations on Pewsey Hill show evidence of a settlement in the 6th century. In the Tudor dynasty, Tudor era, the Manorialism, Manor of Pewsey belonged to the Duchess of Somerset. Several of the village's houses were built in this era: the timber framing, timber framed cruck house at Ball Corner, Bridge Cottage on the Avon a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pusey, Oxfordshire
Pusey is a village and civil parish east of Faringdon in the Vale of White Horse district in Oxfordshire, England. It was historically part of Berkshire. The village is just south of the A420 and the parish covers about . History Pusey seems to be a Saxon settlement. Its toponym is derived from the Old English ''pise ēg'', meaning "pea island". The Domesday Book of 1086 records the village as ''Pesei''. The Pusey family held the manor of Pusey from Saxon times. There is a tradition that it was granted to the family by Cnut the Great, by the delivery of a horn (an Anglo-Saxon form of land tenure known as " cornage"). The Pusey Horn is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In Anglo-saxon an inscription on the horn reads: "Kyng Knowde geue Wyllyam Pewte thys horne to holde by thy land" ("King Canute gave William Pusey this horn to hold by tthe land") In 1753, the family built Pusey House (not to be confused with Pusey House, Oxford), a Grade II* listed country hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highlands East, Ontario
Highlands East is a township municipality located in Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada. History The township was formed on January 1, 2001, through the amalgamation of the former townships of Bicroft, Cardiff, Glamorgan, and Monmouth. Communities Cardiff Cardiff is a former mining community; Bicroft and Dyno Mines opened in 1956 and closed several years later. The chief mineral being mined in Cardiff was uranium. Cardiff is located on Highway 118 between the towns of Bancroft and Haliburton. The Cardiff Elementary School is a small school. The community also has a Royal Canadian Legion hall, a Catholic and United church, an outdoor pool, which is popular during the summer, a post office, a municipal office, a library, and a skating rink that doubles as an outdoor basketball and floor hockey court. The entrance to the townsite, off of Highway 118, is marked by a large metal sculpture of a dragonfly. Gooderham Gooderham is bordered on the south end of the municipality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pusey, Haute-Saône
Pusey () is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan .... The town is located near Vesoul. See also * Communes of the Haute-Saône department * Communauté d'agglomération de Vesoul * Arrondissement of Vesoul References Communes of Haute-Saône {{Vesoul-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Mills Pusey
William Henry Mills Pusey (July 29, 1826 – November 15, 1900), an American banker, was a one-term Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 9th congressional district in southwestern Iowa from 1883 to 1885. Born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Pusey attended the Washington and Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, and was graduated in 1847. He studied law and was admitted to the bar but did not engage in extensive practice. Moving to Iowa, he entered into the banking business in Council Bluffs in 1856.Benjamin F. Gue, " History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Vol. 4 (William H. M. Pusey)" pp. 217-18 (1902). He served as member of the Iowa Senate from 1858 to 1862, representing a 22-county district in sparsely populated western Iowa. In 1882, Pusey became the first Democrat elected to Congress from southwestern Iowa since the outbreak of the Civil War, defeating Republican nominee (and future Congressman) Albert R. Anderson. While ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William A
William is a masculine given name of Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman conquest in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will or Wil, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, Billie, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie). Female forms include Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a compound of *''wiljô'' "will, wish, desire" and *''helmaz'' "helm, helmet".Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Pusey
Stephen Pusey (born 1952) is a New York-based artist of Irish People, Irish and British People, British descent known for Abstract art and earlier work as a painter of figurative community murals in London, UK. Early life and education Stephen Pusey was born on 24 June 1952 and studied painting at Saint Martins School of Art, London, UK from which he graduated in 1975. Career From 1977 to 1982, Pusey painted large outdoor community murals on the exteriors of buildings, the most notable of which were the Covent Garden, Earlham Street mural, 1977 and the mural ''Children at Play'' on the Brixton Academy in 1982. His debut solo exhibition in the USA was at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in 1986, after which he moved permanently to New York City. In the years that followed his work included experimentation with digital media and Net Art in addition to painting, drawing and sculpture that combined calligraphic gesture that veered from the figurative to Abstraction. In 1994 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
