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Thomas Simpson (other)
Thomas Simpson (1710–1761) was a British mathematician and inventor. Thomas, Tom, or Tommy Simpson may also refer to: Sports * Tom Simpson (footballer) (1879–1950), English footballer for Port Vale and Bury * Duke Simpson (1927–2021), real name Thomas Leo Simpson, American baseball pitcher and member of 1953 Chicago Cubs * Tommy Simpson (footballer, born 1904) (1904–after 1928), Scottish football outside right active in the 1920s * Tommy Simpson (footballer, born 1931) (1931–2015), Scottish football defender active in the 1950s * Thomas Simpson (cricketer) (1879–1961), English cricketer * Thomas Simpson (footballer) (1933–2016), Australian footballer * Tom Simpson (1937–1967), English road racing cyclist of the 1960s * Tom Simpson (ice hockey) (born 1952), Canadian ice hockey player * Tom Simpson (golfer) (1879–1???), English professional golfer * Tom Simpson (cricketer) (born 1974), English cricketer Arts and entertainment * Thomas Simpson (composer) (1582–c. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Simpson
Thomas Simpson FRS (20 August 1710 – 14 May 1761) was a British mathematician and inventor known for the eponymous Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals. The attribution, as often in mathematics, can be debated: this rule had been found 100 years earlier by Johannes Kepler, and in German it is called Keplersche Fassregel, or roughly "Kepler's Barrel Rule". Biography Simpson was born in Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire. The son of a weaver, Simpson taught himself mathematics. At the age of nineteen, he married a fifty-year old widow with two children. As a youth, he became interested in astrology after seeing a solar eclipse. He also dabbled in divination and caused fits in a girl after 'raising a devil' from her. After this incident, he and his wife fled to Derby. He moved with his wife and children to London at age twenty-five, where he supported his family by weaving during the day and teaching mathematics at night. From 1743, he taught mathematics at the Roy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Family
''My Family'' is a British sitcom created and initially co-written by Fred Barron, which was produced by DLT Entertainment and Rude Boy Productions, and broadcast by BBC One for eleven series between 2000 and 2011, with Christmas specials broadcast from 2002 onwards. ''My Family'' was voted 24th in the BBC's " Britain's Best Sitcom" in 2004 and was the most-watched sitcom in the United Kingdom in 2008. As of 2011, it is one of only twelve British sitcoms to pass the 100-episode mark. In April 2020, BBC One began airing the series from the first episode in an 8 pm slot on Friday nights; along with this, all 11 series were made available on BBC iPlayer. The show chronicles the lives of the Harpers, a fictional middle-class British family. Set in Chiswick in west London, it stars Robert Lindsay and Zoë Wanamaker as husband and wife Ben and Susan Harper, with Kris Marshall, Daniela Denby-Ashe and Gabriel Thomson as their children Nick, Janey and Michael. Background In 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Joseph Simpson
Thomas Joseph Simpson (November 6, 1921 – January 28, 2017) was one of the first radar operators in Royal Canadian Navy history. Simpson was credited with having "saved hundreds of lives by locating U-boat 1302" and a recipient of the Royal Navy's Distinguished Service Medal (United Kingdom). Role in sinking U-boat 1302 His role in March 1945 helped sink the German U-boat 1302 -- that was fully loaded with 14 torpedoes -- in St George's Channel between Ireland and the United Kingdom. Simpson, then 23, was aboard His Majesty's Canadian Ship ''HMCS La Hulloise'', that was sailing with HMC ships ''Strathadam'' and ''Thetford Mines'' in Escort Group 25. Their task was to protect a 31-ship convoy that was sailing from Halifax in Canada to England. Even though the Battle of the Atlantic was nearly over, the U-boats were still posing a constant threat there. The Royal Canadian Navy website comments: As one of the Royal Canadian Navy's (RCN) first radar operators, Simpson’s role i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Edward Simpson
Thomas Edward Simpson (August 10, 1873 – July 16, 1951) was a Canadian politician and businessman. Simpson was born on a farm in Dufferin County, Ontario on August 10, 1873. In the 1890s he moved to Sault Ste. Marie and started a furniture business that he operated until 1943. He became involved in municipal politics, being elected a town councillor in 1908. He was elected town mayor in 1909 and acclaimed to that office in 1910. In April 1912, Sault Ste. Marie became incorporated as a city. Simpson became the city's second mayor and the first elected to the role. (Under the terms of incorporation, William H. Munro the town mayor in 1912 was made the first city mayor following incorporation until the end of his term.) Simpson was re-elected as mayor of the city in 1914. He served in federal politics from 1917 to 1935, representing the electoral district of Algoma West in the House of Commons. He was first elected in the 1917 federal election as a member of Robert Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas C
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Idaho * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts and entertainment *Thomas (Burton novel), ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Blantyre Simpson
Thomas Blantyre Simpson (27 July 1892 – 18 October 1954) was a Scottish advocate and sheriff. Life He was born at 8 Bruntsfield Crescent in Edinburgh the son of Sir Robert Russell Simpson (1840-1923) and his wife, Helen Dymock Raleigh. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy (1900 to 1911) then studied law at Oxford University. In the First World War he was commissioned into the Royal Scots, rising to the rank of captain. He completed his Law studies after the war and qualified as an advocate in 1921. He was Treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates 1937 to 1954. In 1944, he became King's Counsel and on the coronation of Queen Elizabeth was Queen's Counsel. In 1952 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross, David King Murray, Lord Birnam, John Cameron, Lord Cameron and Douglas Guthrie. He was Sheriff variously of Caithness, Sutherland, Orkney and finally Perth and Angus. He died on 18 October 1954, ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Simpson (explorer)
Thomas Simpson (2 July 1808 – 14 June 1840) was a Scottish Arctic explorer, fur trader and cousin of Governor Sir George Simpson of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). He is known for helping chart the northern coasts of Canada as well as his mysterious death by violence while traveling near the Turtle River in what was then part of the Territory of Iowa (now the U.S. state of North Dakota). The circumstances of Simpson's final hours—in which he allegedly killed himself after gunning down two companions—have long been a subject of controversy. Early life Thomas Simpson was born in Dingwall, Ross-shire, Scotland, the son of magistrate and schoolteacher Alexander Simpson (1751–1821) by his second wife Mary, who had helped raise Thomas' cousin Sir George Simpson. He had a half-brother, Aemilius, and a full brother, Alexander. Simpson was a sickly and timid youth, avoiding rough sport. After his father's death the family ended up in financial distress, but despite this h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Simpson (engineer)
Thomas Simpson (1755–1823) was a British civil engineer. Career Simpson was born in Blackwell, Carlisle and began his career in 1778 as a millwright until being appointed an inspector and engineer of the Chelsea Waterworks. He later also became an engineer at Lambeth Waterworks Company. He contributed to the introduction of iron fresh water pipes and replacement of wooden mains in London and throughout the United Kingdom, testifying before a Parliamentary select committee in 1821 that he had invented a method of making spigot and socket joints watertight by filling them with hemp or flax and then covering them in lead. He also built a workshop to repair and maintain steam engines in 1785, which his son James Simpson took over and developed into James Simpson and Co. Ltd, later Worthington-Simpson Ltd, which after several further mergers currently trades as Flowserve The Flowserve Corporation is an American multinational corporation and one of the largest suppliers of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Simpson (architect)
Thomas Simpson (1825–1908) was a British architect associated with the seaside town of Brighton. As architect to the Brighton and Preston School Board and the equivalent institution in neighbouring Hove, he designed "a distinguished List of former board schools in Brighton and Hove, group of board schools" during the late 19th century, when the provision of mass education was greatly extended. Many of these schools survive and some have Listed building, listed status. He also worked on five Nonconformist (Protestantism), Nonconformist chapels for various Christian denominations, using a wide variety of materials and architectural styles. He was the father of Sir John William Simpson and Gilbert Murray Simpson, who both became architects. Biography Simpson was born in 1825 in Scotland, where he trained as an architect. After travelling in Germany, he later moved to Brighton and he started his professional career Articled clerk, articled to James Charnock Simpson, his uncle. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Simpson (architect Of Nottingham)
Thomas Simpson FRS (20 August 1710 – 14 May 1761) was a British mathematician and inventor known for the eponymous Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals. The attribution, as often in mathematics, can be debated: this rule had been found 100 years earlier by Johannes Kepler, and in German it is called Keplersche Fassregel, or roughly "Kepler's Barrel Rule". Biography Simpson was born in Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire. The son of a weaver, Simpson taught himself mathematics. At the age of nineteen, he married a fifty-year old widow with two children. As a youth, he became interested in astrology after seeing a solar eclipse. He also dabbled in divination and caused fits in a girl after 'raising a devil' from her. After this incident, he and his wife fled to Derby. He moved with his wife and children to London at age twenty-five, where he supported his family by weaving during the day and teaching mathematics at night. From 1743, he taught mathematics at the Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Simpson (musician)
Tom Simpson (born 7 January 1972) is a Scottish DJ and musician, best known as the former keyboardist of the alternative rock band Snow Patrol. Having been with Snow Patrol as a touring member since 1996, he became a permanent member in 2005, before leaving in August 2013. Biography Tom Simpson attended Monifieth High School in Angus, Scotland. He went to the art school in the University of Dundee, the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, and has a degree in drawing and painting. He had no musical leanings as a youngster, but always had aspirations of being a scratch/mix DJ. He started deejaying when he was 17, and used to run a few clubs in Dundee, in whose university Gary Lightbody studied at the time. Lightbody used to visit one of these clubs, and met Simpson one day, and the two ended up becoming friends. Simpson, at the time did not know Lightbody was in a band. However, one day, Lightbody invited him to the university to watch Snow Patrol (his band) play a con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Simpson (actor)
Thomas Simpson was an English stage actor of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. His surname is sometimes written as Sympson. He joined the United Company from the 1687–88 season, but his early roles are unknown. Following the 1695 split he stayed at Drury Lane with Christopher Rich's company and acted in a number of roles until 1702. From 1703 he William Bullock and William Pinkethman operated a theatrical stall at Bartholomew Fair.Highfill, Burnim & Langhans p.96 Selected roles * King in '' Agnes de Castro'' by Catherine Trotter (1695) * Hottman '' Oroonoko'' by Thomas Southerne (1695) * Curio in '' Neglected Virtue'' by Charles Hopkins (1696) * Mufti in ''Ibrahim, the Thirteenth Emperor of the Turks ''Ibrahim, the Thirteenth Emperor of the Turks'' is a she-tragedy written by Mary Pix, first performed in 1696. Pix's first play, it purported to describe incidents in the life of Ibrahim, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. The numbering is correct ...'' by Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |