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Stow (surname)
Stow is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Alexander W. Stow (1805–54), American jurist *Augustine Stow (1833–1903), South Australian politician *Baron Stow, (1801–1869), American Baptist minister, writer and editor *David Stow (1793–1864), Scottish educationalist *Gardner Stow (c. 1789–1866), American lawyer *George William Stow (1822–1882), English-born South African geologist and ethnologist *Hamilton Hobart Stow (1837–1905), American oil well operator *Horatio J. Stow (c. 1809–1859), New York lawyer and politician *James Stow (c. 1770–in or after 1823), English engraver *Jefferson Stow (1830–1908), English-born newspaper editor and magistrate in South Australia *Jennifer Stow, Australian biologist *John Stow (c. 1525–1605), English historian and antiquarian *Sir John Montague Stow (1911–1997), politician from Barbados *John Stow (priest), Archdeacon of Bermuda from 1951 to 1961 *Joshua Stow (1762–1842), founder of Stow, Ohio *Marietta Stow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander W
Alexander () is a male given name, name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Aleksander, Oleksandr, Oleksander, Aleksandr, and Alekzandr. Related names and diminutives include Iskandar (name), Iskandar, Alec, Alek, Alex, Alexsander, Alexandre (given name), Alexandre, Aleks (given name), Aleks, Aleksa (given name), Aleksa, Aleksandre, Alejandro, Alessandro, Alasdair, Sasha (name), Sasha, Sandy (given name), Sandy, Sandro, Sikandar (other), Sikandar, Skander, Sander (name), Sander and Xander; feminine forms include Alexandra, Alexandria (given name), Alexandria, and Sasha (name), Sasha. Etymology The name ''Alexander'' originates from the (; 'defending men' or 'protector of men'). It is a compound of the verb (; 'to ward off, avert, defend') and the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Montague Stow
Sir John Montague Stow (3 October 1911 – 16 March 1997) was a British colonial official who served in various roles. The son of Indian civilian Sir Alexander Montague Stow, John Stow was born in Simla, India, and was educated at Harrow and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He joined the Colonial Administrative Service in 1934 and was posted as a cadet to Nigeria. In 1938 he was appointed administrative officer in Kenya, and was seconded to The Gambia later that year as assistant district officer. From 1947 until 1953 he served as the British government's Commissioner of Saint Lucia. In a later role, he was the last governor of the former colony of Barbados, serving from 8 October 1959 until 29 November 1966, and following Barbados obtaining independence from the United Kingdom on 30 November 1966, Stow was appointed as the first governor-general of Barbados, a position he served until 18 May 1967. He died on 16 March 1997, aged 85. See also * List of governors of Barbados * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selina Catherine Stow
Selina Catherine Stow (1870-18 August 1956) was a British botanist and the first female President of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union. Biography Stow was born in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Her father, T. Stow, was a naturalist. Her primary interest was in botany and she regularly undertook fieldwork recording plants. In 1903 she recorded the grass '' Vulpia unilateralis'' as new Britain. She worked with fellow botanists W.W. Mason, A. Bennet, J. Britten, W.H. Beeby, F.A. Lees, and Canon Fowler in contributing to the first ''Checklist of Lincolnshire Plants'', published in 1909 by E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock. In 1914 she was elected as the first female President of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union; The Rev. Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, a fellow naturalist, wrote a biography of Catherine Stow's presidency in 1919 and noted that she was probably the first female President of any society of naturalists in Britain. Her Presidential address was on the subject of plant galls. After t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randolph Isham Stow
Randolph Isham Stow (17 December 1828 – 17 September 1878) was an English-born Australian Supreme Court of South Australia judge. Early life Stow was born in Framlingham, Suffolk, England and baptised at Water Lane-Independent, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England on 28 May 1829, the eldest son of the Reverend Thomas Quinton Stow and his wife Elizabeth, ''née'' Eppes. The family migrated to Adelaide, South Australia in 1837; Randolph and his brothers Jefferson and Augustine were educated at home by their father and at a school run by D. Wylie. M.A. Career and education Randolph Stow showed great ability as a boy and was articled (apprenticed by contract) to a firm of lawyers, Messrs. Bartley and Bakewell. Shortly after the completion of his articles Stow became a junior partner in the firm. In 1859 Stow started a business for himself. Later, Stow was a partner with T. B. Bruce (1862–1872) and F. Ayers. Stow was a member of the South Australian House of Assemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randolph Stow
Julian Randolph Stow (28 November 1935 – 29 May 2010) was an Australian-born writer, novelist and poet. Early life Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, Randolph Stow was the son of Mary Campbell Stow née Sewell and Cedric Ernest Stow, a lawyer. Stow attended Geraldton Primary and High schools, Guildford Grammar School, the University of Western Australia, and the University of Sydney. During his undergraduate years in Western Australia he wrote two novels and a collection of poetry, which were published in London by Macdonald & Co. He taught English literature at the University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia and the University of Leeds. Career He also worked on an Aboriginal mission in the Kimberley, which he used as background for his third novel ''To the Islands''. Stow further worked as an assistant to an anthropologist, Charles Julius, and as a cadet patrol officer in the Trobriand Islands off the east coast of New Guinea. In the Trobriands h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Stow
Percy Stow (1876 – 10 July 1919) was a British director of short films. He was also the co-founder of Clarendon Film Company. He was born in Islington, London, England. He was previously associated with Cecil Hepworth from 1901 to 1903, where he specialized in trick films. Percy Stow was an early partner of Cecil Hepworth, regarded as one of the founders of the British film industry. The Clarendon Film Company was founded in 1904 by H.V. Lawley and Percy. The company was formed at Limes Road and its distinctive logo carried the abbreviation CFC. Filmography Stow directed 293 short films including the first cinematic adaptation of ''Alice in Wonderland''. * 1902 ''How to Stop a Motor Car'' * 1903 ''Alice in Wonderland (1903 film), Alice in Wonderland'' * 1903 ''The Unclean World'' * 1904 ''The Mistletoe Bough (film), The Mistletoe Bough'' * 1905 ''Willie and Tim in the Motor Car'' * 1906 ''Rescued in Mid-Air'' * 1907 ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1907 film), The Pied Piper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montague Stow
Montague Haslam Stow (21 July 1847 – 7 September 1911) was an English cricketer who played in 16 first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and other amateur sides between 1867 and 1871. He was born at Whinmoor, Leeds, Yorkshire and died at Monifieth, Angus, Scotland. Stow was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. As a cricketer, he was a right-handed middle-order batsman and an occasional wicketkeeper, and although his record appears modest by modern standards, he was an integral part of the Cambridge team for three seasons from 1867 to 1869, and was captain in his final year. In all three seasons he won a Blue by appearing in the University Match against Oxford University, and as captain he led his team to victory in the 1869 game. After he left Cambridge University he played in only one further first-class match, a game between two "Gentlemen" sides in 1871. Stow graduated from Cambridge with a Bachelor of Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marietta Stow
Marietta L. B. Stow (1830 or 1837–1902)Sherilyn Cox Bennion: ''Equal To The Occasion: Women Editors On The Nineteenth-Century West.'' University of Nevada Press, 1990, , p. 98 (). was an American politician and women's rights activist. Throughout her career in law and politics, Stow advocated for women's suffrage, access to political office, and probate law reform. Personal life Marietta Stow grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and worked as a teacher there throughout her early adulthood. Marietta Stow financed her own causes; she lectured about young girls working in dangerous shops and helping the orphaned daughters of Union Soldiers. After getting divorced in her early twenties, she later went on to marry Joseph Stow at the age of thirty-six. Three years later, Marietta Stow went back out into the political realm and became an active suffragette. Nine years before women were granted the right to vote in California, Marietta Stow died of breast cancer in 1902. Activism for women' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Stow
Joshua Stow (April 22, 1762October 10, 1842) was an American lawyer, judge, and pioneer. He was the founder of Stow, Ohio, served in the Connecticut House of Representatives, and was a judge of Middlesex County, Connecticut. Biography Born in Middlefield, Connecticut, (then the Connecticut Colony, part of British America) as a young man, he volunteered for service in the American Revolutionary War, serving under Colonel Heman Swift from 1781 until the end of the war. After the war, he was employed as a surveyor and accompanied Moses Cleaveland on his 1796 mission to survey what was then called the Connecticut Western Reserve (now northeastern Ohio). The Connecticut Western Reserve was a patch of land claimed by the state of Connecticut due to the language of their original charter from King Charles II of England. On the Ohio mission, which surveyed the area around the mouth of the Cuyahoga River where it meets Lake Erie, Stow was the company's commissary manager, responsible ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stow (priest)
The Ven. John Waters Stow, MA (17 January 1912 – 3 July 1971) was Archdeacon of Bermuda from 1951 until 1961. He was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Ripon College Cuddesdon; and ordained in 1938. After a curacy in East Wickham he was a Chaplain in the RNVR from 1939 to 1944 when he moved to Portsmouth to serve a second curacy at St Mary, Portsea. He was Rector of St. George, Bermuda from 1947 to 1961; and then of Hatfield until his death."Deaths." ''The Times ''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its si ...'' (London, England), Tuesday, 6 July 1971; pg. 26; Issue 58217 References 1912 births 1971 deaths Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II 20th-centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stow
John Stow (''also'' Stowe; 1524/25 – 5 April 1605) was an English historian and antiquarian. He wrote a series of chronicles of History of England, English history, published from 1565 onwards under such titles as ''The Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles'', ''The Chronicles of England'', and ''The Annales of England''; and also ''A Survey of London'' (1598; second edition 1603). A. L. Rowse has described him as "one of the best historians of that age; indefatigable in the trouble he took, thorough and conscientious, accurate – above all things devoted to truth". Life John Stow was born in about 1525 in the City of London parish of St Michael, Cornhill, then at the heart of London's metropolis. His father, Thomas Stow, was a Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers, tallow chandler. Thomas Stow is recorded as paying rent of 6s 8d per year for the family dwelling, and as a youth Stow would fetch milk every morning from a farm on the land nearby to the east owned by the Poor Clares, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustine Stow
Augustine Stow, J.P., (3 August 1833 – 29 May 1903) was a politician in colonial South Australia, member of the South Australian House of Assembly for West Torrens from November 1862 to 1864, and for Flinders from October 1866 to 1868. Stow was born in Halstead, Essex, England, the son of the Rev. Thomas Quentin Stow and his wife Elizabeth, ''née'' Eppes; Augustine was the brother of Randolph Isham Stow and Jefferson Pickman Stow. The family arrived in South Australia in the ''Hartley'' in 1837. He married Elizabeth Augusta Frew on 10 September 1867. On 19 March 1869, Stow was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council (in the days when all members were voted in by the whole colony, "The Province"), resigning in September 1871. Stow was Chief Secretary in Henry Strangways' Ministry for 18 days in May 1870. In 1877 he entered the Government service, and in April 1884 was appointed Registrar of Probates, and Chief Clerk in the Supreme Court. He was also Commissi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
