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Thomas Robertson (Australian Politician)
Thomas, Tom or Tommy Robertson may refer to: *Thomas Robertson (priest) (fl. 1532–1559), Anglican archdeacon of Leicester and dean of Durham *Thomas Alexander Robertson (1909–1973), better known by his pen name of "Vagaland", Shetland poet *Thomas Bolling Robertson (born 1950), American diplomat, ambassador to Slovenia 2004–2008 *Thomas Campbell Robertson (1789–1863), British civil servant in India *Thomas Chalmers Robertson (1907–1989), author, ecologist and conservationist from South Africa *T. W. Robertson (Thomas William Robertson, 1829–1871), English dramatist and stage director *Hamza Robertson (Tom Robertson, born 1982), English singer *T. A. Robertson (Thomas Argyll Robertson, 1909–1994), Scottish MI5 intelligence officer *Thomas Dolby (Thomas Morgan Robertson, born 1958), musician *Thomas Robertson (minister) (died 1799), co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh *Thomas S. Robertson, Scottish-born American professor of marketing *Thomas Graham Robertson, Lor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Robertson (priest)
Thomas Robertson was an English clergyman and Dean of Durham in the Tudor era. Robertson was from Wakefield, Yorkshire and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1532 he published a book on grammar dedicated to the Bishop of Lincoln and was rewarded by being appointed Archdeacon of Leicester in 1541. He served on a number of commissions, including the one producing the ''Bishop's Book'' under Archbishop Thomas Cranmer and the one which investigated the validity of the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves. He was also selected to join a group set up by the king to produce a standard Latin grammar. In 1549 he was one of the committee led by Archbishop Cranmer which produced the First Prayer Book of Edward VI. A conservative at heart, he was appointed Dean of Durham under Mary I, keeping his Archdeaconry ''in commendam''. On the accession of Queen Elizabeth he refused to subscribe to the Oath of Supremacy in 1559 and consequently forfeited his offices and retired to private li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas J
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served since 1991 as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. President George H. W. Bush Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination, nominated him to succeed Thurgood Marshall. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African Americans, African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and has been its List of United States Supreme Court justices by time in office, longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. He has also been the Court's oldest member since Stephen Breyer retired in 2022. Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. After his father abandoned the family, he was raised by his grandfather in a poor Gullah community near Savannah, Georgia. Growing up as a devout Catholic, Thomas originally intended to be a priest in the Catholic Church but became dissatisfied with its efforts to combat racism and abandoned his aspiration to join the clergy. He gradua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Robertson (Scottish Footballer)
Thomas Hawthorn Robertson (1908 – 1962) was a Scottish footballer who played mostly as an outside right, though in his early career he was also utilised as a right back. He played in the Scottish Football League's top division across a decade for Ayr United, Ayr United FC and Clyde, with his most significant achievement coming at its end, when he was a member of the Clyde team that won the in |
Tom Robertson (rugby Union)
Tom Robertson (born 28 August 1994) is an Australian rugby union football player. He currently plays for the in Super Rugby. Robertson's position is prop, and he can play on either tight-head or loose-head side. Early life Robertson was born in Wellington, New South Wales, and spent his early years in Dubbo where he played junior rugby for the Dubbo Kangaroos. He later attended St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, where he played in the 1st XV rugby team as a loose-head prop. He was selected for the Australian Schoolboys side in 2012, winning the Trans-Tasman Shield in New Zealand. Career After joining the Sydney University rugby club and making his debut in the Shute Shield, Robertson was selected to represent Australia at the 2014 IRB Junior World Championship hosted by New Zealand. Later that year he was chosen in the Sydney Stars squad to compete in the inaugural National Rugby Championship. Robertson began studying for a medical degree at Sydney University in 2016, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Robertson (Australian Footballer)
Thomas Arthur Robertson (2 November 1876 – 24 July 1942) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ... (VFL). References External links * * 1876 births 1942 deaths Australian rules footballers from Melbourne St Kilda Football Club players Brunswick Football Club players People from North Melbourne {{AFL-bio-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Robertson
Thomas Robertson (17 October 1876 – 13 August 1941) was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside left. He was part of the Heart of Midlothian team that won the Scottish league title in 1897. He also played for Liverpool between 1898 and 1902, helping them to the Football League title in 1901. Life and playing career Born in Scotland, Robertson played for East Benhar Heatherbell, Motherwell, Fauldhouse and Hearts – it is reported that the Edinburgh club took him on after an impressive performance making up their numbers in a reserve game at Fauldhouse. He went on to win the Scottish League title with Hearts in 1897. Robertson was signed along with John Walker for £350 by Liverpool manager Tom Watson in March 1898. He made his debut in a Football League Division One against Sheffield Wednesday on 11 April 1898, scoring his first goal in the same match. The winger had a very successful time at Anfield missing just a single game in his first two seasons at the clu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Robertson (footballer, Born 1875)
John Thomas Robertson (1875 – 8 December 1923) (usually referred to as Tom and sometimes as Jack) was a Scottish footballer who played at full-back around the turn of the 20th century for various clubs in England, including Stoke, Liverpool (where he was a member of the side which won the Football League championship in 1900–01) and Southampton (where he won the Southern League title in 1902–03 and 1903–04). Football career Stoke Robertson was born in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, before moving 25 miles north-west to Newton Mearns, near Glasgow. After playing as an amateur for his local village team and for St Bernard's of Edinburgh, he started his professional football career with Stoke of the English Football League First Division in May 1894. In each of his first two seasons with Stoke, when Robertson generally played as a half-back, he only managed 13 league appearances for the first-team. After spending the next two years at other clubs, firstly in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Robertson (footballer, Born 1864)
Thomas Robertson (28 December 1864 – January 1924) was a Scottish association football, footballer, who played for Cowlairs F.C., Cowlairs, Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa, Queen's Park F.C., Queen's Park, St Bernard's F.C., St Bernard's and Scotland national football team, Scotland. Career Robertson was the son of a dairyman who had a lease over a field close to Possil Park. He made his debut as a 16 year old in a Scottish Cup replay for Possil Bluebell F.C., Possil Bluebell against the Third Lanark A.C., Third Lanark Rifle Volunteers in 1880, replacing half-back Harry Davies, who was unavailable. As an apprentice engineer at the Hyde Park Locomotive Works, he moved to Northern F.C., Northern, which had links with the works, after Blue Bell broke up; by 1888 he was playing with Northern's rival Cowlairs F.C., Cowlairs, and by 1890 he was with Queen's Park F.C., Queen's Park. He was a winner of the Scottish Cup with both Queen's Park (1890 Scottish Cup final, 1890, 1893 Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Robertson (baseball)
Thomas Griffin Robertson (September 12, 1887 – 1947) was an American merchant and baseball player and coach. Born in Clinton, South Carolina, Robertson attended Clemson College (now University). He played on the baseball team from 1905 through 1907, playing second base, shortstop, and pitcher. Robertson played minor league baseball from 1907 through 1909 for teams in the South Carolina South Carolina ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders North Carolina to the north and northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, and Georgia (U.S. state), Georg ... and Virginia Leagues. He returned to Clemson to coach the team in 1914, leading the squad to a 16–6 record. References 1887 births 1947 deaths People from Clinton, South Carolina Baseball players from Laurens County, South Carolina Clemson Tigers baseball players Spartanburg Spartans players Roanoke Tigers players Rock Hill Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Robertson (Ontario Politician)
Thomas Robertson (January 25, 1827 – September 6, 1905) was a lawyer and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Hamilton in the House of Commons of Canada from 1878 to 1887 as a Liberal member. He was born in Ancaster, Upper Canada, the son of Alexander Robertson, a Scottish immigrant, and Mathilda Simons. Robertson was educated at the University of Toronto, studied law with John Hillyard Cameron and was called to the bar in 1852. He married Frances Louisa Reed in 1850. He served as the first Crown Attorney for Wentworth. Robertson ran unsuccessfully for the federal seat in Wentworth South in 1867. In 1873, he was named Queen's Counsel A King's Counsel (Post-nominal letters, post-nominal initials KC) is a senior lawyer appointed by the monarch (or their Viceroy, viceregal representative) of some Commonwealth realms as a "Counsel learned in the law". When the reigning monarc .... References * * 1827 births 1905 deaths Members of the House of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Robertson (Nova Scotia Politician)
Thomas Robertson (September 13, 1852 – April 19, 1902) was a Canadian civil servant, entrepreneur and politician. Robertson was a Liberal member of Parliament for the electoral district of Shelburne in the House of Commons of Canada from 1878 to 1887, a Nova Scotia Liberal member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1894 to 1902, and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly in 1902. Born in Barrington, Nova Scotia, the son of Robert Robertson and Sarah Richan, he worked in the provincial Department of Public Works and Mines and in the office of the provincial secretary as well as in the immigration branch of the federal Department of Agriculture. In 1884, he married Josephine Hume Allan. Robertson was president of the Barrington and Cape Island Steam Ferry Company and of the Coast Railway Company, nicknamed "Tom Robertson's Wheelbarrow Railway" and later taken over by the Canadian Northern Railway. He established a newspaper, the ''Cape Sable Advertiser'', which opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Robertson (Australian Politician)
Thomas, Tom or Tommy Robertson may refer to: *Thomas Robertson (priest) (fl. 1532–1559), Anglican archdeacon of Leicester and dean of Durham *Thomas Alexander Robertson (1909–1973), better known by his pen name of "Vagaland", Shetland poet *Thomas Bolling Robertson (born 1950), American diplomat, ambassador to Slovenia 2004–2008 *Thomas Campbell Robertson (1789–1863), British civil servant in India *Thomas Chalmers Robertson (1907–1989), author, ecologist and conservationist from South Africa *T. W. Robertson (Thomas William Robertson, 1829–1871), English dramatist and stage director *Hamza Robertson (Tom Robertson, born 1982), English singer *T. A. Robertson (Thomas Argyll Robertson, 1909–1994), Scottish MI5 intelligence officer *Thomas Dolby (Thomas Morgan Robertson, born 1958), musician *Thomas Robertson (minister) (died 1799), co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh *Thomas S. Robertson, Scottish-born American professor of marketing *Thomas Graham Robertson, Lor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
