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Thomas Wright (mayor)
Thomas Wright may refer to: Entertainment * Thomas Wright (writer) (fl. 1604), English writer * Thomas Wright (engraver) (1792–1849), British engraver and portrait painter * Thomas Wright (antiquarian) (1810–1877), British antiquarian and writer * Thomas Wright (social commentator) (1839–1909), English social commentator * Thomas J. Wright, film and television director, active since 1986 * Thomas Lee Wright (born 1953), American writer and filmmaker * Thomas M. Wright (born 1983), Australian actor/director Politics * Thomas Wright (lord mayor) (died 1798), Lord Mayor of London in 1785 * Thomas C. Wright (born 1948), American politician * Thomas E. Wright (born 1955), North Carolina House of Representatives * Thomas Wright (Utah politician), American politician Science * Thomas Wright (astronomer) (1711–1786), English astronomer and mathematician * Thomas Wright (geologist) (1809–1884), Scottish surgeon and paleontologist * Thomas Wright (mathematical instrumen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wright (writer)
Thomas Wright (1561-1624) was an English Recusancy, recusant and early Passions (philosophy), emotion theorist. Wright is known for his work ''The Passions of the Minde in generall.'' Wright is a possible candidate for the priest Ben Jonson referenced during the trials for the Gunpowder Plot. Life Wright was born in York. He studied at the Jesuit Douai Seminary and the English College in Rome, then returned to England in 1595 carrying intelligence regarding Spanish military strategy. Though he remained a Catholic priest, Wright left the Society of Jesus because of his English sympathies and distaste with Robert Persons, Robert Parsons' support of plots against Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth. By 1596 Wright had upset Matthew Hutton (archbishop of York), Matthew Hutton, the Archbishop of York, and was imprisoned for his vocal recusancy. Wright finished ''Passions of the Minde'' shortly before his escape from prison, and published it shortly thereafter. In ''Passions of the Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wright (cricketer, Born 1842)
Thomas Wright (29 April 1842 – date of death unknown) was an English cricketer. Wright was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm roundarm slow-medium. He was born at Willington, Derbyshire. Wright made his first-class debut for Nottinghamshire against Yorkshire in 1868 at the Dewsbury and Savile Ground. He made eight further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Yorkshire in 1874. In his nine first-class matches, Wright scored a total of 138 runs at an average of 9.20, with a high score of 25. References External linksThomas Wrightat ESPNcricinfo ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and ''StatsGuru'', a ...Thomas Wrightat CricketArchive {{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, Thomas 1842 births Year of death unknown People from Willington, Derbyshire C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Wright (other)
Tom Wright may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Tom Wright (American actor) (born 1952), American screen and theatre actor * Tom Wright (architect) (born 1957), designer of the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates * Thomas M. Wright (born 1983), also known as Tom, Australian actor/director * Tom Wright (Australian playwright) (born 1968), Australian theatre writer and director * Tom Wright (1923–2002), Scottish poet, dramatist and television writer whose short story inspired the movie '' Hannibal Brooks'' * Tom Wright, also known as Cube::Hard and Stargazer, English record producer and owner of the music label RFUGrey * Tom Wright, former producer of '' The Bugle'' podcast Sports * Tom Wright (Australian footballer) (1882–1916), Victorian Football League player * Tom Wright (baseball) (1923–2017), Major League Baseball player between 1948–1956 * Tom Wright (cricketer) (born 1983), English cricketer * Tom Wright (curler), American curler * Tom W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wright (surveyor General)
Thomas Wright (1740–1812) was the surveyor general for Prince Edward Island and an author. He was taken prisoner during the American Revolution in the Raid on Charlottetown (1775) The Raid on Charlottetown of 17–18 November 1775, early in the American Revolutionary War, involved two American privateers of the Marblehead Regiment attacking and pillaging Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, then known as St. John's Isl .... In 1763, Wright assisted Captain Samuel Johannes Holland in surveying St. John's Island (which has since been renamed Prince Edward Island). In 1770, Governor Patterson appointed him to the Council. He also became the Surveyor General (1773) and a Supreme Court Judge (1774). The following year he was taken prisoner in the American privateer raid on Charlottetown. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, Thomas History of Prince Edward Island 1740 births 1812 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Guthrie Wright
Thomas Guthrie Wright WS FRSE FSA(Scot) (1777–1849) was a Scottish lawyer and antiquarian. Life He was born in Edinburgh in 1777 the son of Charles Wright a stationer and bookseller living and trading from Parliament Square on the Royal Mile. He trained as a lawyer in at Edinburgh and qualified as a Writer to the Signet in 1802. From 1806 until death he was Auditor to the Court of Session in the Edinburgh courts. In 1820 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir David Brewster, Thomas Allan and Joshua Henry Davidson . At this time he was living at 2 Charlotte Square, a magnificent townhouse by Robert Adam. In 1830 he was living at 6 St Colme Street on the fashionable Moray Estate in Edinburgh's West End. He died in Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas A
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), a 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Yates Wright
Colonel Thomas Yates Wright, MBE, VD (1869–1964) was a British planter, who was a cricketer and legislator in Ceylon. He was a tea planter and served in the Legislative Council of Ceylon and the Senate of Ceylon. Born in Lancashire, Wright went to Ceylon in 1889 as a planter. He was an all-round sportsman, playing cricket, Rugby football, hockey and polo. He represented Matale and Kandy Sports Club at cricket and played for the Up-Country XI from 1893 to 1919. He represented All Ceylon in several matches in the 1890s. He was the founding President of Ceylon Athletic Association He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Ceylon Planters' Rifle Corps (CPRC). Lieutenant Wright served in the Second Boer War from 1900 to 1902 with the Ceylon contingent from the CPRC and went on the serve as the commanding officer of the CPRC from July 1904 to February 1912 with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was awarded the Volunteer Officers' Decoration and retired as a colonel. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas F
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 Edward Wright
Colonel Thomas Edward Wright, soldier and penal administrator, of the 39th Regiment was the third commandant of the second convict settlement at Norfolk Island, from August 1827 to 1828. He is reported, by Aaron Price, a convict turned Constable and Overseer, to have replaced the chain-gang's heavy irons with light irons, and encouraged the breaking of land for agriculture. In October 1827, while walking home from a farm unarmed, Wright was assaulted with a club by an absconded convict, Patrick Clynch, but was able to fend off the blow. Clynch made several more attacks in the following days on overseers and guards, and was eventually shot dead. Although the matter was investigated at the time, it flared up more than a year later, when Wright was accused of ordering Clynch to be shot although he knew he was already in custody. He was tried for murder but the prosecution case (led by W. C. Wentworth) collapsed as it had been, according to Governor Darling, "supported by the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Charles Wright
Thomas Charles Wright (1799–1868) was an Ireland, Irish-born naval admiral. He was the founding-father of the Ecuadorian Navy, and a general in Simón Bolívar's army. He is regarded as a leading militarist in Ecuador's and other South American countries' struggle for independence. Childhood Thomas Wright was born in Queensborough, Drogheda, Ireland, on 26 January 1799, to Joseph Wright and Mary Montgomery. At the age of 11, he was sent to the Royal Navy college at Portsmouth, regarded at the time as the finest in the world, where he was educated to become an officer. Career in the Royal Navy Following his junior officer training, he embarked to a sea voyage, at age 14 on board under the captaincy of George Stuart. On this vessel he sailed to the east coast of the United States where he was engaged in Blockade, blockading activities in the squadron of Admiral John Borlase Warren. In 1817 he returned to England having attained the junior officer's rank of midshipman. South A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wright (philanthropist)
Thomas Wright (1789–1875) was a prison philanthropist. Biography He received his education at a Wesleyan Sunday school, and when fifteen years old was apprenticed to an ironfounder, ultimately becoming foreman of the foundry at £3.10s. a week. In 1817, after a few years of indifference to religion, he joined the congregationalists, and was deacon of the chapel in Grosvenor Street, Piccadilly, Manchester, from 1825 to the end of his life. Among the labourers in the same workshop with him was a discharged convict, whom he saved from dismissal by depositing £20 for the man's good behaviour. This circumstance directed his attention to the reclamation of discharged prisoners, and about 1838 he obtained permission to visit the Salford prison. As he was at work at the foundry from five in the morning until six in the evening, he could spend only his evenings and his Sunday afternoons at the prison, where he became the trusted friend of the inmates, for large numbers of whom on their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wright (controversialist)
Thomas Wright (d. 1624?), was an English Roman Catholic controversialist, who was ordained priest in the reign of Queen Mary, and became one of the readers of divinity in the English College, Douai at the time of its foundation in 1569. Life It is said that he had previously taught theology and Hebrew at Milan, and had also been professor of divinity both in Spain and at Louvain. He graduated D.D., and was ‘always regarded as one of the ablest divines and controvertists of his time.’ In 1577 he was working in Yorkshire, and was soon afterwards committed as a prisoner to York Castle, where he engaged in a conference with Dean Hutton and other Church of England clergy. He was ‘tossed about from prison to prison till 1585, when he was shipped off at Hull, and sent into banishment.’ He took refuge at the English College of Douay, then temporarily removed to Rheims. He was vice-president and then became Dean of Courtray. In 1622 he was at Antwerp, where Marco Antonio d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
