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Yeomans (other)
Yeomans is an English surname meaning son of Yeoman. Guppy reported it from Derbyshire and Herefordshire.Cottle, Basil (1967) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames''. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books; p. 330 Notable people with the surname include: * Amelia Yeomans (1842-1913), Canadian physician and suffragist * Bill Yeomans (20th century), Australian rugby league player * Frank Yeomans, object-relations author and training supervisor for transference focused psychotherapy * Gael Yeomans (born 1988), Chilean politician and lawyer * Harry Yeomans (1901–1965), English football goalkeeper * Hec Yeomans (1895–1968), Australian rules footballer * John William Yeomans (1800–1863), Presbyterian pastor, and the second president of Lafayette College * John Yeomans (writer) (1916–1995), Australian journalist and writer * Julia Yeomans, British theoretical physicist * Kelly Yeomans (1984-1997), English school girl who committed suicide * Lee Columbus Yeomans (1892–1951), American poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeoman (surname)
Yeoman is an English surname derived from "yeoman". Guppy reported it from Yorkshire and Somerset.Cottle, Basil (1967) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames''. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books; p. 330 It may refer to: *Bill Yeoman (1927–2020), American college football player and coach *David Yeoman (born 1944), Welsh Anglican bishop *Henry Yeoman (1916–1897), English archdeacon * Louise Yeoman (born 1968), Scottish historian and broadcaster *Martin Yeoman (born 1953), English painter and draughtsman, known for drawings of the British Royal Family * Owain Yeoman (born 1978), Welsh actor * Ray Yeoman (1934–2004), Scottish football player and manager *Richard S. Yeoman (1904–1988), American commercial artist and numismatist *Richard Yeoman-Clark (1944–2019), British composer and sound engineer * Robert Yeoman (born 1951), American cinematographer * Thomas Yeoman (1709 or 1710–1782) English millwright, surveyor and civil engineer See also *Yeoman Yeoman is a noun orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Yeomans
Julia Mary Yeomans (born 15 October 1954) is a British theoretical physicist active in the fields of soft condensed matter and biological physics. She has served as Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford since 2002. Early life and education Yeomans was born on 15 October 1954 in Derby, Derbyshire, England. She was educated at the University of Oxford where she was an undergraduate student of Somerville College, Oxford, for her BA and a postgraduate student at Wolfson College, Oxford. She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in theoretical physics in 1979. where her doctoral research on critical phenomena in spin models was supervised by Robin Stinchcombe. Research and career After two years of working as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University with Michael E. Fisher, she was appointed a lecturer at the Department of Physics at the University of Southampton in 1981. In 1983, she moved to the University of Oxford where she became a professor in 2002. Yeom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeoman (other)
A yeoman was a member of an English social class, generally a freeman who owned his, or her, own farm. The term was also used in North America. Yeoman or yeomen may also refer to: Military * Yeoman (United States Navy), a rating in the United States Navy dealing with administrative and clerical work **Yeoman (F), a World War I-era United States Naval rating for women *A rating in the United States Coast Guard dealing with administrative and clerical work *, the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy *A member of the Yeomanry, the volunteer cavalry regiments of the British Army * Yeoman of signals, a signals petty officer in the Royal Navy or a senior communications specialist in the British Army Places * Yeoman, Indiana, a town in the United States *Yeoman Island, Canada Sports teams * Yeoman Football Club, an Australian rules football club based in Burnie, Tasmania, Australia *Yeoman Cricket Club, merged in 1989 to form Burnie/Yeoman Cricket Club, representing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Prentice Yeomans
Stephen Prentice Yeomans (January 23, 1822 – September 8, 1903) was an American physician and politician. He moved from New York to Iowa as a teenager, received his medical education in Illinois, and served in the Iowa House of Representatives and the American Indian Wars. Early life Yeomans was born on January 23, 1822, in German Flatts, New York, raised on the family farm, and educated in public schools. In 1837, when Yeomans was fifteen, he and his family moved to Henry County in the Iowa District of Wisconsin Territory, which became Iowa Territory the following year. For the first three years of his life in Mount Pleasant, Yeomans taught school during the winter months, and did farm work in the summer. Aged 20, he began studying medicine and graduated from Rush Medical College in 1854. Yeomans immediately returned to Henry County to practice medicine, then moved to Lucas County, and served as physician of Agency City and Sheridan. Public service career Yeomans serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Yeomans Chesley
Solomon Yeomans Chesley (April 29, 1796 – November 5, 1880) was a public servant and political figure in Canada West. He was born in Shodack in Rensselaer County, New York in 1796 and came to Cornwall with his parents in 1800. In 1806, he settled on Mohawk land at St. Regis; he became fluent in the language and became an interpreter in the Indian Department. He served during the War of 1812, becoming lieutenant of the St Regis Company of Indian Warriors in 1814. In 1832, he became superintendent at St Regis. Chesley created some controversy in 1835 when he arranged for a schoolmaster to teach there without consulting the Roman Catholic Church. He first sought elected office in 1836, when he stood for election to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada as a Tory, but was defeated. In 1841, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the new Province of Canada, serving one term as member for Cornwall. He was one of the Family Compact Tories in the Assembly who sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Yeomans
Lucy Yeomans is creator and founder oDREST previously editor-in-chief of fashion website Net-a-Porter and editor of the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar in the UK. Career Yeomans graduated from the University of St Andrews in 1992 and began her writing career a year later in Paris, where she was arts editor and then editor of the English-language lifestyle monthly ''Boulevard''. While in Paris she freelanced for publications including ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Times''. On her return to the UK in 1996 she was appointed features editor of '' The European'' newspaper, reporting on news, culture and fashion from across Europe. She moved to ''Tatler'' in 1997 as features editor, becoming senior features editor less than a year later and deputy editor just a few months after that. Yeomans was appointed deputy editor of '' Vogue'' in 2000 but was offered, and accepted, the position as editor-in-chief of '' Harpers & Queen'' at lunchtime on her first day. She took up the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Columbus Yeomans
Lee Columbus Yeomans (November 26, 1892 – September 9, 1951) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives. Life and career Yeomans was born in Glennville, Georgia. Yeomans served in the Florida House of Representatives The Florida House of Representatives is the lower house of the Florida Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Florida, the Florida Senate being the upper house. Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of Florida, adopted ... from 1945 to 1949. Yeomans died on September 9, 1951, at the age of 58. References 1892 births 1951 deaths People from Glennville, Georgia Democratic Party members of the Florida House of Representatives 20th-century American legislators 20th-century Florida politicians {{Florida-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Yeomans
The suicide of Kelly Yeomans (22 May 1984 – 28 September 1997), a 13-year-old English schoolgirl from Allenton, a suburb of Derby, became widespread news when the cause was blamed on bullying, to which she had been subjected by other local children. Incident In evidence to the court, Yeomans was described as a pleasant and friendly girl. However, she was reported to be the victim of repeated harassment and taunting, particularly about her weight. Her parents said that the incessant bullying had left Yeomans feeling miserable. Her mother asserted that she had gone to her daughter's school, Merrill Academy, thirty times to complain about the issue, but received no assistance. School officials, however, claimed they had received only one complaint. Matters came to a head in September 1997, when a group of delinquent youths reportedly gathered at Yeomans's home on several consecutive nights, on each occasion throwing eggs, margarine, butter, cakes, and mud at the house and sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Yeomans (writer)
John Storie Yeomans (15 May 1916 – 9 June 1995) was an Australian journalist and writer. Career During the 1960s and later, he wrote a range of books about Australia, Sydney and Sydney Opera House The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour, it is widely regarded as one of the world's most famous and distinctive buildings and a masterpiece of 20th-century architec .... His most well-known book was written about his trip around Australia, ''The Scarce Australians'', published by Penguin in 1969. The book was based on a journey undertaken between May and September 1965. The dust-jacket of the Penguin edition of ''The Scarce Australians'' summarizes the authors life and journalistic career thus: Born and educated in Sydney...AIF field artillery subaltern in WWII... sub-editor in Fleet Street ...copy-editor in Canada ...staff correspondent for Australian papers in New York and London... sometime res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Yeomans
Amelia Yeomans (''née'' Le Sueur; March 29, 1842 – April 22, 1913) was a Canadian physician and suffragist. She and her adult daughter Lilian B. Yeomans, M.D., were the first female physicians in Manitoba. Early life and education Yeomans was born on March 29, 1842, in Quebec City, Canada East, to Peter Le Sueur and Barbara Dawson. Her father was a civil servant. She was privately educated. Le Sueur married Augustus A. Yeomans, a medical doctor, on October 16, 1860, in Quebec City. They had two daughters.Vera K. Fast,LE SUEUR, AMELIA" in ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography'', vol. 14, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed April 11, 2019. After Augustus's death in 1878, Amelia Yeomans, along with her daughter Lilian, decided to enter the medical profession. Since Canadian medical schools did not accept women students, Yeomans and her daughter enrolled in the Ann Arbor Medical School at the University of Michigan. Yeomans received her degree in 1883. She t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Yeomans
John William Yeomans (January 7, 1800 – June 22, 1863) was a Presbyterian pastor, the second president of Lafayette College, and the moderator of the 72nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 1860. He has been regarded as one of the leading theologians in the Presbyterian Church of the 1800s, and an important metaphysician. Early life Yeomans was born January 7, 1800, in Hinsdale, Massachusetts. His first vocation was as a blacksmith's apprentice, though he bought out his apprenticeship so that he may begin to study theology. Yeomans' initial education began under Reverend Cummings of Albany, New York, and he supported himself by teaching classes during the day and night. Around 1820 he moved to Williamstown, Massachusetts where he attended Williams College, graduating in 1824 as second in his class. He stayed with the college until 1827 as a tutor before attending Andover Theological Seminary to complete his studies in theology. Career Yeomans was ordained in Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hec Yeomans
Hector Richard "Hec" Yeomans, MM (17 February 1895 – 11 September 1968) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda and Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Early life Yeomans was born in Albert Park, Melbourne, in 1895, the only child of Richard Eli Yeomans and Norah Teresa Cameron. War service Yeomans enlisted to fight in World War I in January 1916 and fought in France, receiving the Military Medal for his actions in the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin in September 1918. Football Yeomans played two senior games for St Kilda in the 1920 VFL season before leaving to join Hawthorn, then in the Victorian Football Association. He was an immediate success at Hawthorn, establishing himself as one of the leading rovers in the Victorian Football Association at that time. He continued to play for Hawthorn when they joined the VFL in 1925 and was their second highest goal-kicker for the year. After two years as captain coach of the Tooronga junior s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
