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Vere (other)
Vere may refer to: Surname * Charles Broke Vere (1779–1843), British soldier and Member of Parliament * Charlotte Vere, Baroness Vere of Norbiton (born 1969), British politician * Francis Vere (1560–1609), English soldier * Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565–1635), English military leader Given name * Vere Benett-Stanford (1840–1894), MP for Shaftesbury * Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland (1645–1693), British peer and MP for Peterborough and for Kent * Vere Fane, 5th Earl of Westmorland (1678–1698), British peer and member of the House of Lords * Vere Fane (MP) (fl. 1818), MP for Petersfield and Lyme Regis * Vere Bonamy Fane (1863–1924), general in the British Indian Army * Vere Fane, 14th Earl of Westmorland (1893–1948), British peer and equestrian * Vere Monckton-Arundell, Viscountess Galway (1859–1921), British poet and philanthropist * Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere (1699–1781), British peer and politician * Vere Bird (1910–1999), first P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Broke Vere
Major-General Sir Charles Broke Vere (21 February 1779 – 1 April 1843), ''Given name#Name at birth, né'' Broke, was a British soldier and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament. Life He was the son of Philip Bowes Broke and the younger brother of Rear-Admiral Philip Broke, Sir Philip Broke, 1st Baronet. After service during the Battle of Castricum, Broke fought under the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington in the Napoleonic Wars and later rose to the rank of Major-General. For his gallantry at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 he was awarded the Russian Order of St. Vladimir and the Dutch Order of Wilhelm. In 1822 he took the surname of Vere in addition to Broke. In 1825, upon Wellington's recommendation, he was appointed ''aide-de-camp'' to King William IV of the United Kingdom, William IV, a post he held for twelve years. He also represented East Suffolk (UK Parliament constituency), East Suf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vere Lorrimer
Vere Lorrimer (8 June 1920 – 1 October 1998) was a British television producer and director. His work as director included many BBC dramas including ''Compact'', '' Doomwatch'', ''Dixon of Dock Green'', and ''Blake's 7''. He later moved on to producing, overseeing the final series of ''Blake's 7'' in 1981, the second series of '' Tenko'' in 1982 and the drama serials ''The Dark Side of the Sun'' and '' Maelstrom''. He also had a cameo as a tour guide in the 1988 ''Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...'' serial '' Silver Nemesis''. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lorrimer, Vere 1920 births 1998 deaths BBC television producers British television directors British television producers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xaver Hohenleiter
Franz Xaver Hohenleiter (also known as ''Schwarze Veri, Schwarzen-Veere, Schwarzer Vere, Schwarze Vere'' or in Swabian dialect as ''Schwaaz Vere, Schwarz Vere'' or ''Vere''; 1788 – 20 July 1819) was a notorious German criminal. As a leader of a band of robbers, he was active between 1817 and 1819 in the border regions of the Kingdom of Württemberg, the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Background The period towards the end of and immediately after the Napoleonic Wars resulted in the uprooting of a large number of people, mostly peasants. Combined with the reorganisation of Southern Germany's political map, the mediatisation of smaller formerly independent territories, which in some cases changed hands several times before being incorporated into larger entities (the Kingdom of Württemberg, the Grand Duchy of Baden, the Kingdom of Bavaria, the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and the Principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen), led t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egwene Al'Vere
''The Wheel of Time'' is a series of high fantasy novels by American author Robert Jordan, which began with ''The Eye of the World'' in 1990. Jordan wrote the first 11 novels of the series, and the prequel novel '' New Spring'' (2004), before his death in 2007. The final three novels—'' The Gathering Storm'' (2009), ''Towers of Midnight'' (2010), and '' A Memory of Light'' (2013)—were co-written by American author Brandon Sanderson. The series features 2787 distinctly named characters. ''The Wheel of Time'' follows the characters Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon, Perrin Aybara, Egwene al'Vere and Nynaeve al'Meara, teens from a remote village whose important destinies are recognized by Moiraine Damodred, a powerful member of the Aes Sedai. In this world, the pattern of human existence is determined and maintained by the cosmic Wheel of Time, which is rotated by a magical force called the One Power. Rand and his friends are among those, like the Aes Sedai, who possess the ability ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vere Language
The Gwèri or Vere language Were also known as Kobo or Mom Jango, is a member of the Duru branch of Savanna languages. It is spoken across the northern Nigerian–Cameroonian border. Names Vere is a cultural and geographical cover term that may include several completely distinct language varieties. The Kobo (in three villages north of the Chamba Leko area) are the only group of people known as ''Vere'' in Cameroon. Kobo is spoken in Béka commune, Faro department, North Region. Raymond Boyd had collected data from an ethnic Samba informant in Tignère speaking a language called Mome or Nya Kopo "language of the mountain", which he had learned from his mother. The lexicon is very different from "''Kobo''" as documented by ALCAM (2012), although both are clearly Adamawa languages The Adamawa languages are a putative family of 80–90 languages scattered across the Adamawa Plateau in Central Africa, in northern Cameroon, north-western Central African Republic, southern C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vere Island
Fair Island, also called Vere Island, is a former community on the northeast coast of the island of Newfoundland. Together with other nearby communities it comprises an area called Bonavista North. These communities have a shared history in that they were settled by people from England, predominantly from the West Country - Dorset, Devon Somerset and Hampshire. Geography On the northeast coast of Newfoundland in Bonavista Bay, just east of Centreville, lie a group of islands close to the shore line called Fair Islands. The dome-shaped islands are separated by a narrow channel called the Fair Island Tickle. Fair Islands was once a popular settlement because its harbours were excellent for schooners, it was near the seal migration routes, and it was a good fishing base because of its offshore location and ample fresh water. However, Fair Island was vacated by the 1960s.''Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador'' History Fair Islands, originally called Vere Island, was one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vere (river)
The Vere ( ka, ვერე) is a river in eastern Georgia, originating in the eastern slopes of the Trialeti Range, near Mount Didgori, and flowing into the Mtkvari (Kura) as its right tributary in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. The Vere river valley from Tbilisi to the townlet of Manglisi is populated by a continuous chain of settlements such as Bagebi, Akhaldaba, Tskneti, Betania and Tsveri. A portion of the Vere river in Tbilisi flows in a set of corrugated steel tunnels under the Varaziskhevi–Tamarashvili Street motorway constructed from 2009 to 2010. The long Vera has a basin area of . The river is fed by snow melt, rain, and underground springs. It is characterized by periodic flash floods such as one in June 2015 which inflicted severe damage on the city's infrastructure, including its zoo, and resulted in at least 20 fatalities. The Vere, as explained by the early 18th-century Georgian scholar Prince Vakhushti, was formerly known as the Skvireti or Skoreti ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vere (footballer)
Alejandro Asensio Crespillo (born 14 September 2000), commonly known as Vere, is a Spanish footballer who plays as a left winger for Rayo Vallecano B. Club career An AD Torrejón CF youth graduate, Vere made his senior debut with the reserve team during the 2019–20 season, in the Preferente de Madrid. He started to feature with the first team in Tercera División in November 2020, being mainly used as a substitute. Vere moved to Rayo Vallecano on 24 July 2021, being initially assigned to the B-side in Tercera División RFEF. He impressed with the B-team during the first months of 2022, and made his first team – and La Liga – debut on 12 May 2022, replacing Álvaro García late into a 1–5 home loss against Villarreal CF Villarreal Club de Fútbol, Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, S.A.D., usually abbreviated to Villarreal CF, is a Spanish professional association football, football club based in Villarreal, in the Province of Castellón, Castellón province of easte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Vere Reeve King-Fane
Colonel William Vere Reeve King-Fane (born Fane; 29 October 1868 – 5 November 1943) was an English local politician, magistrate and landowner, who served as vice-chairman of Kesteven County Council and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire. Family A member of the Fane family, William Vere Reeve Fane was born on 29 October 1868 at 7 Norfolk Crescent, London, the eldest son of William Dashwood Fane, JP (1816–1902), of Fulbeck Hall in Lincolnshire, and his wife Sarah Millicent (1823–1877), elder daughter of General John Reeve, of Leadenham House, Lincolnshire.Mosley, Charles (2003). ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage'', 107th ed., volume 2 (Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage & Gentry), p. 4138Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1914), Visitation of England and Wales', vol. 18, p. 9 Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, William Dashwood Fane was a barrister, and served as Secretary to the Mercantile Law Commission (1853–56), and Legal Assistant (1856–67) and Assistant S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Vere Huntley
Sir Henry Vere Huntley (1795 – 7 May 1864) was an English naval officer and colonial administrator. He was the eleventh Governor of Prince Edward Island. From 1840 to 1841, he was the Lieutenant Governor of The Gambia. From 1841 to 1847, he was governor of Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island is an island Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. While it is the smallest province by land area and population, it is the most densely populated. The island has several nicknames: "Garden of the Gulf", .... See also * References 1795 births 1864 deaths Royal Navy officers Governors of the Gambia Lieutenant governors of the Colony of Prince Edward Island {{Canada-viceroy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Vere Harvey, Baron Harvey Of Prestbury
Arthur Vere Harvey, Baron Harvey of Prestbury, (31 January 1906 – 5 April 1994) was a senior Royal Air Force officer and a British Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 26 years. Early life and Second World War Harvey was educated at Framlingham College, Suffolk and served with the Royal Air Force 1925–30 and during the Second World War. He was an advisor to the Southern Chinese Air Forces 1932–35 and a squadron leader in the Auxiliary Air Force in 1937. He founded the No. 615 (County of Surrey) Squadron and commanded it through the Battle of France. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1942. He later became a company chairman and director of several firms. Member of Parliament Harvey was selected as the Conservative candidate for Macclesfield after the previous candidate Guy Gibson was killed in action. Harvey was elected as Member of Parliament for Macclesfield in 1945, and held the seat in seven further ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Vere Cruess
William Vere Cruess (August 9, 1886 – March 13, 1968) was an American food scientist who pioneered the use of fruits to produce fruit-juice beverages, fruit-based concentrates and syrups. He was one of the first investigators in the United States to use freezing storage for preservation of fruits and fruit products. Cruess's research also proved beneficial in the rebirth of the wine industry in California after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Early years A native of San Miguel, California, who grew up impoverished, he earned his B.S. degree in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1911, then taught there from 1911 to 1954, even being chair of the Division of Fruit Products from 1938 to 1948. While at Berkeley, Cruess earned his PhD at Stanford University in 1931. Research information During his years at UC Berkeley, Cruess co-founded the field of food science, established the technology of fruit dehydration, and came up with the mix that brought the “fru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
