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Aspinwall (surname)
Aspinwall, including the reduced form Aspinall, is a toponymic surname originating from a place called Aspinwall (also Asmall) in the southern part of Scarisbrick in Lancashire, England, near to Ormskirk and Aughton. The name comes from the Old English ''æspen'' ("growing with aspen trees") + ''wæll(a)'' ("stream"). In America, the Norwegian surname Asbjørnsen has been assimilated into Aspinwall. People named Aspinwall * Claud Aspinwall (1873–1944), American politician * Edward Aspinwall (died 1732), English priest * Homer F. Aspinwall (1846–1919), American politician * Jack Aspinwall (1933–2015), British politician * Lisa Aspinwall, American psychologist * Lloyd Aspinwall (1834–1886), American New York National Guard general * Martin Aspinwall (born 1981), English rugby league player * Nan Aspinwall (1880–1964), American equestrian * Paul S. Aspinwall (born 1964), British theoretical physicist and mathematician * Reginald Aspinwall (1855–1921), English land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toponymic Surname
A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name."Toponymic Surnames as Evidence of the Origin: Some Medieval Views" , by Benjamin Z. Kedar. This can include specific locations, such as the individual's place of origin, residence, or of lands that they held, or can be more generic, derived from topographic features.Iris Shagir, "The Medieval Evolution of By-naming: Notions from the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem", ''In Laudem Hierosolymitani'' (Shagir, Ellenblum & Riley-Smith, eds.), Ashgate Publishing, 2007, pp. 49-59. Toponymic surnames originated as non-hereditary personal s, and only subsequently came to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul S
Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Christian missionary and writer *Pope Paul (other), multiple Popes of the Roman Catholic Church *Saint Paul (other), multiple other people and locations named "Saint Paul" Roman and Byzantine empire *Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (c. 229 BC – 160 BC), Roman general *Julius Paulus Prudentissimus (), Roman jurist *Paulus Catena (died 362), Roman notary *Paulus Alexandrinus (4th century), Hellenistic astrologer *Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (625–690), Greek surgeon Royals * Paul I of Russia (1754–1801), Tsar of Russia *Paul of Greece (1901–1964), King of Greece Other people * Paul the Deacon or Paulus Diaconus (c. 720 – c. 799), Italian Benedictine monk *Paul (father of Maurice), the father of Maurice, By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Aspinall
Dennis Aspinall (born 25 July 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). A Reservoir Colt, Aspinall played Under-19s football for Fitzroy. He spent two seasons with the seniors, playing three games in 1966 and six games in 1967. Aspinall played for Eltham Football Club, Eltham in 1968 and won the Diamond Valley Football League's best and fairest award that year. He was also a professional runner and competed in Stawell Gifts.''Maroondah Leader'"Master all-rounder excels", 15 November 2009, Shaun Campbell References {{DEFAULTSORT:Aspinall, Dennis 1947 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Fitzroy Football Club players Eltham Football Clu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damian Aspinall
John Damian Androcles Aspinall (born 24 May 1960) is an English businessman and conservationist. He has raised and released a number of zoo-bred lowland gorillas in Gabon. Early life Aspinall is the son of Jane Gordon Hastings and John Victor Aspinall who was a casino and zoo owner, founder of Aspinall's, conservationist, and the stepson of Sir George Osborne, 16th Baronet. Aspinall's step-mother is Lady Sarah Aspinall. In 1972, his father married Lady Sarah "Sally" Courage, widow of the racing driver Piers Courage and daughter of Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe. From the age of six, Aspinall was educated as a boarder at Millfield in Somerset. Career Aspinall's wealth is estimated to be around £200m. After his father's death in 2000, Damian bought back the family casino interests with the help of Australian associate James Packer, son of Kerry Packer. He runs the John Aspinall Foundation founded by his father, and his stated goal is to breed gorillas and return them to the wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butler Cole Aspinall
Butler Cole Aspinall (11 November 1830 – 4 April 1875) was a British-born journalist, barrister who migrated with his young wife to Melbourne, Australia, at first as an editor and writer for '' The Argus''. He soon took up his lucrative legal practice as a defence advocate and later as a politician in the state of Victoria. Aspinall was one of the chief counsel for the leaders of the Ballarat Riots, also known as Eureka Stockade, and later defended Henry James O'Farrell for the attempted assassination of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. He was briefly appointed as Attorney-General in 1861 and Solicitor-General in 1870. Aspinall died in April 1875 in Liverpool, England. Biography and career The son of the Reverend James Aspinall, Butler Cole Aspinall was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, in 1830, educated for the law, and was called to the Bar in 1853. He engaged in newspaper work, contributing to the ''Morning Chronicle'' and other London papers. In 1854, he ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Aspinall
The Reverend Arthur "Ashworth" Aspinall (23 June 1846 – 9 June 1929) was a co-founder and the first Principal of The Scots College, Bellevue Hill, Sydney, Australia. He was a Congregational and Presbyterian Minister, and a joint founder of the Historical Society of New South Wales. A portrait of Arthur Aspinall is found in Cameron's ''Centenary History'', p320, Plate 99. Educational qualifications Arthur's initial occupation is unknown. He was trained by private tutors, particularly Primitive Methodist minister Miles Moss, and Barzillai Quaife who, like Arthur and his family, was a close friend of the Reverend John Dunmore Lang. It is also known that serious illness (possibly typhoid (or scarlet fever: ADB)) interrupted his studies. Camden College rejected Arthur's initial application to train as a minister because he was softly-spoken, a difficulty he overcame with training. Eventually Arthur trained at the University of Sydney and at Camden Theological College (1868–1871), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Aspinall
Albert Wood Aspinall (27 December 1839 – 15 December 1903) was an Australian stonemason and builder. He was an expert in constructing round towers and buildings. Early life Aspinall was born in Exley Bank Bottom, Southowram, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He came to Australia in 1857 with his parents, John Aspinall and Sarah (née Ingham), and siblings, aboard the ''Mary Ann''. He was their third, but second surviving son. In 1864, Albert married Mary Jane Bennett with whom he had thirteen children, seven of whom lived into adulthood. Early constructions Aspinall moved frequently to wherever his building contracts took him. Much of his early work was done in the Sydney area. For about one year in 1865 he was building in the Maitland district. It is unknown whether any of the stone buildings still standing in the area were built by him. Penrith Aspinall moved his family to Liverpool for about five years from 1876 while he constructed stone buildings in the vicinity. Dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aspinall (1840s Cricketer)
This is a complete list in alphabetical order of cricketers who played first-class cricket matches for Manchester Cricket Club. Manchester played a total of 13 matches between 1844 and 1858 which have been retrospectively classified as first-class. The club is first recorded in matches from 1822. The club is a fore-runner of Lancashire County Cricket Club which was formed in 1865. A team with the Lancashire name played four first-class matches, all against Yorkshire sides, between 1849 and 1851. Players who played in these matches only are not included in the list below. Many players represented other teams besides Manchester. CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-05. A B C D E G ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Aspinwall
William Henry Aspinwall (December 16, 1807 – January 18, 1875) was a prominent American businessman who was a partner in the merchant firm of Howland & Aspinwall and was a co-founder of both the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and Panama Canal Railway companies which revolutionized the migration of goods and people to the Western coast of the United States. Aspinwall was descended from, and related to, many prominent American families including the Roosevelts, Howlands, and Aspinwalls, that were heavily involved in the merchant trade business and politics, wielding vast power and ensuring wealth for generations. Early life William Henry Aspinwall was born on December 16, 1807 in Manhattan, New York. He was the third of seven children born to John Aspinwall (1774–1847) and Susan Howland (1779–1852). His father, who traveled extensively, was associated with the dry goods merchant firm of Gilbert & Aspinwall. His younger sister, Mary Rebecca Aspinwall (1809–1886) was ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Aspinwall (minister)
William Aspinwall (fl. 1648–1662), was a nonconformist English minister. Biography Aspinwall was one of the nonconforming ministers ejected in 1662, was of the Lancashire Aspinwalls, and so has a gleam on his name in relation to Edmund Spenser's ''Rosalind''. He was the son of Matthew Aspinwall, of Trumflet, Kirk Sandall, Yorkshire. He matriculated at Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1654, and had for tutor Joseph Hill. He proceeded B.A. in 1657, but having obtained orders, went no further. His first living was Maghull, in Lancashire. In the Lancashire 'Harmonious Consent' of 1648, which denounces 'endeavours used for the establishing a universal toleration,' his name appears ('William Aspinwal, preacher of God's word at Mayhall') in a long list of signatories, headed by 'Richard Heyricke, warden of Christ Colledg in Manchester,' and including Hollingworth, Alexander Horrocks, John Angier, and indeed the foremost ministers of the county and time. These men had come to persu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Aspinwall
William Aspinwall (1605 – c. 1662) was an Englishman who emigrated to Boston with the ''Winthrop Fleet'' in 1630. He played an integral part in the early religious controversies of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Life Aspinwall as most of the Aspinwalls probably came from the County of Lancaster, England. Aspinwall arrived to Massachusetts Bay on board of Arabella with the ''Winthrop Fleet'' on 17 June 1630. Along with him was his wife, Elizabeth, who was sixteen at that time. Among with other settlers he came ashore at Charlestown on 1 July and was appointed a deacon. On 3 April 1632 Aspinwall took the oath of a freeman. In 1633 he moved to Boston, where he was one of the leading figures of the new settlement and in 1637 replaced Sir Henry Vane as a Deputy to the General Court. At the time of Aspinwall was involved in the Antinomian Controversy which severely divided the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. He joined himself with the adherents of Anne Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Aspinwall (trade Unionist)
Thomas Aspinwall (29 May 1846 – 21 March 1901) was a British trade unionist. Born in Bickerstaffe in Lancashire, Aspinwall moved with his family to Skelmersdale in 1860, and he began working at a local coal mine. He was elected as the checkweighman in 1873, and alongside this also began working as a shopkeeper.Robin Page Arnott, ''The Miners: A History of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain'' In 1879, Aspinwall was elected as the General Secretary of the Ashton-under-Lyne Miners' Association, and he immediately convened a meeting of all the miners' unions in the county. This led to a series of conferences which ultimately founded the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation, Aspinwall being elected as its first President. This was somewhat controversial, with a minority of members arguing that only full-time working miners should hold union posts. A major strike in 1880 led to Aspinwall losing his job as checkweighman; although it was an elected post, it could only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
