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Thomas Forster (other)
Thomas Forster was an English politician and landowner. Thomas Forster may also refer to: Politics *Thomas Forster (MP for Liskeard), in 1399, Member of Parliament for Liskeard *Thomas Forster (MP for Lincoln) (1406–1415), Member of Parliament for Lincoln *Thomas Forster (of Adderstone) (1659–1725) Member of Parliament for Northumberland for 1705–1708 and High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1703 Science & mathematics *Thomas Furly Forster (1761–1825), English botanist *Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster (1789–1860), English astronomer and naturalist *Thomas Emerson Forster (1802–1875), English mining engineer *Thomas Forster (mathematician) (born 1948), British set theorist and philosopher Others * Thomas Forster (painter) (1676/7–after 1712), English portraitist * Tom Forster (baseball) (1859–1946), baseball player * Tommy Forster (1894–1955), English footballer * Tom Forster (coach), American gymnastics coach *Thomas Forster (dancer) (born 1980s), English ballet dance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Forster
Thomas Forster (1683 – October 1738), of Adderstone Hall, Northumberland, was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1716. He served as a general of the Jacobite army in the 1715 Uprising and subsequently fled to France. Early life Forster was baptized on 29 March 1683, the eldest son of Thomas Forster (1659-1725) of Adderstone, MP for Northumberland from 1705 to 1708. His mother was Frances Forster, daughter of Sir William Forster of Bamburgh Castle. He was educated at Newcastle School, and was admitted at St John's College, Cambridge on 3 July 1700. In 1701, he inherited, with his aunt Dorothy Crew (wife of Lord Crew, Bishop of Durham) the estates of his uncle Ferdinando Forster, of Bamburgh and Blanchland. The estates had incurred substantial debts, and in 1704 the creditors instituted actions in Chancery to force the heirs to sell them. Career Forster was returned as Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Northumberl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liskeard (UK Parliament Constituency)
Liskeard was a parliamentary borough in Cornwall, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, and then one member from 1832 until 1885. The constituency was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. History The parliamentary borough was based upon the community of Liskeard in the south-eastern part of Cornwall. Sedgwick estimated the electorate at 30 in 1740. Namier and Brooke considered it was about 50 in the 1754–1790 period. The right of election before 1832 was in the freemen of the borough. This constituency was under the patronage of the Eliot family, which acquired the predominant interest by 1722. There were no contested elections between at least 1715 and 1802. In the early 19th century the Whigs attempted to expand the electorate to include householders. During the 1802 general election, 48 householders claimed the right to vote but their ballots were rejected by the Mayor (see the note to the 1802 electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Forster (MP For Lincoln)
Thomas Forster (fl. 1406–1415), of Lincoln, was an English politician. He was elected Mayor of Lincoln for 1407–08 and a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Lincoln Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * Linco ... in 1406, May 1413 and 1415. References 14th-century births 15th-century deaths English MPs 1406 English MPs May 1413 English MPs 1415 Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Lincoln Mayors of Lincoln, England {{15thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Forster (of Adderstone)
Thomas Forster (1683 – October 1738), of Adderstone Hall, Northumberland, was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1716. He served as a general of the Jacobite army in the 1715 Uprising and subsequently fled to France. Early life Forster was baptized on 29 March 1683, the eldest son of Thomas Forster (1659-1725) of Adderstone, MP for Northumberland from 1705 to 1708. His mother was Frances Forster, daughter of Sir William Forster of Bamburgh Castle. He was educated at Newcastle School, and was admitted at St John's College, Cambridge on 3 July 1700. In 1701, he inherited, with his aunt Dorothy Crew (wife of Lord Crew, Bishop of Durham) the estates of his uncle Ferdinando Forster, of Bamburgh and Blanchland. The estates had incurred substantial debts, and in 1704 the creditors instituted actions in Chancery to force the heirs to sell them. Career Forster was returned as Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Northumberla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northumberland (UK Parliament Constituency)
Northumberland, was a County constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1290 to 1707, then of the Parliament of Great Britain The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. The Acts ratified the treaty of Union which created a new unified Kingdo ... from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament. The constituency was split into two two-member divisions, for Parliamentary purposes, by the Reform Act of 1832. The county was then represented by the Northumberland North and Northumberland South constituencies. Members of Parliament MPs 1290–1640 MPs 1640–1832 Elections The county franchise, from 1430, was held by the adult male owners of freehold land valued at 40 shillings or more. Each elector had as many votes as there were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Furly Forster
Thomas Furly Forster (5 September 1761 – 28 October 1825) was an English botanist. Life Forster was born in Bond Street, Walbrook, on 5 September 1761, the eldest son of Edward Forster the Elder and his wife Susanna Furney. His father retired to Walthamstow in 1764, and, being an admirer of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, brought up his son on his principles. From his uncle Benjamin Forster he acquired a taste for antiquities, coins, prints, and plants. He was introduced to the Linnean system of classification by the Rev. John Dixon, and was further encouraged in his studies by Joseph Cockfield of Upton, Michael Tyson, Sir John Cullum, and Richard Warner, author of the ''Plantæ Woodfordienses'' (1771). Forster was one of the first fellows of the Linnean Society, and he visited Tunbridge Wells annually. From 1796 to 1823 he mainly resided at Clapton, and, as he had grown hardy plants in his home at Walthamstow, then devoted himself to greenhouse exotics, giving assistance to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster
Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster (9 November 1789 – 2 February 1860) was an English astronomer, physician, naturalist and philosopher. An early animal rights activist, he promoted vegetarianism and founded the Animals' Friend Society with Lewis Gompertz. He published pamphlets on a wide variety of subjects, including morality, Pythagorean philosophy, bird migration, Sati, and "phrenology", a term that he coined in 1815. Life Forster was born in London, the eldest son of Thomas Furly Forster of Walthamstow who was a botanist, and follower of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He did not have the conventional classical literary education, but learned some science from his uncle Benjamin Meggot Forster. The Great Comet of 1811 aroused his interest in astronomy, a science which he continued to pursue, and eight years later, on 3 July 1819, he himself discovered a new comet. He declined a fellowship to the Royal Society in 1816 as he disliked some of the rules. He matriculated at Corpus Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Emerson Forster
Thomas Emerson Forster (20 October 1802 – 7 March 1875) was an eminent English mining engineer. Early years Thomas Emerson Forster was born on 20 October 1802 at Garrigill, a hamlet on the left bank of the South Tyne river in Cumberland. The district is called the Manor of Alston Moor. It was a mining area, with valuable lead mines and some small coal beds. Westgarth Forster, one of his father's cousins, published a book in 1816 called ''A section of the Strata from Cross Fell to Newcastle-on-Tyne''. The family moved to Hebburn, near the mouth of the river Tyne, where Foster was educated. When he was fifteen he was apprenticed to Mr. Wade, one of the owners of Hebburn Colliery. Career Thomas Forster learned from his relative, Westgarth Forster, and from John Buddle, head viewer of the colliery. When just over 20 years old he was appointed resident viewer at Walker Colliery near Wallsend, Northumberland. After two years he was given a senior position at Hetton Colliery, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Forster (mathematician)
Thomas Edward Forster (born 12 April 1948) is a British set theorist and philosopher. His work has focused on Quine's New Foundations, the theory of well-quasi-orders and better-quasi-orders, and various topics in philosophy. Forster is an Affiliated Lecturer at DPMMS, Cambridge, a bye-fellow at Queens' College, and holds honorary appointments for many other organisations worldwide, including the Center for Philosophy of Science in Pittsburgh, the Centre National de Recherches de Logique in Belgium, and the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Auckland. Amongst his undergraduate supervisees are Rosi Sexton, Richard Taylor, Rebecca Kitteridge, Doug Gurr, Sarah Flannery and Ursula Martin. Forster was awarded the J.T. Knight Prize as a PhD student at Cambridge in 1974. His article "The Iterative Conception of Set" was recognised by the Philosophers' Annual as one of the ten best philosophy articles of 2008. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Forster (painter)
Thomas Forster (1676/7 – after 1712;Coombs 2004. ) was an English portrait draughtsman and miniaturist. Works Forster is known from a number of small portraits in pencil on vellum, and according to Lionel Cust they are "drawn with exquisite care and feeling".Cust 1889, p. 21. The majority of these were no doubt intended for engraving as frontispieces to books, and the following were so engraved by Michael Vander Gucht and others: John Savage, Sir Thomas Littleton, the Speaker, William Lloyd, Bishop of St. Asaph, Humphry Hody, John Newte, and others. Unlike David Loggan, Robert White, and John Faber Senior, who drew portraits "ad vivum" in the same style, Forster does not appear to have been an engraver himself. A number of his drawings were exhibited at the special Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures at the South Kensington Museum in 1865; they included Robert, Lord Lucas, Archbishop Ussher, Sir Thomas Pope Blount, Baronet, Lady Blount, John, Lord Somers, and Admiral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Forster (baseball)
Thomas W. Forster (May 1, 1859 – July 17, 1946) was an American professional baseball player who played second base in 1882 for the Detroit Wolverines of the National League and from 1884–1886 for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys and New York Metropolitans The Metropolitan Club (New York Metropolitans or the Mets) was a 19th-century professional baseball team that played in New York City from 1880 to 1887. (The ''New York Metropolitan Baseball Club'' was the name chosen in 1961 for the New York ... of the American Association. External links Baseball players from New York (state) Detroit Wolverines players Pittsburgh Alleghenys players New York Metropolitans players 19th-century baseball players 1859 births 1946 deaths Major League Baseball second basemen Washington Nationals (minor league) players Albany (minor league baseball) players New York New Yorks players New York Quicksteps players East Saginaw Grays players Saginaw Greys players Milwaukee Brewer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
