Beale
Beale is an English surname. At the time of the British Census of 1881, its relative frequency was highest in Dorset (6.3 times the British average), followed by Huntingdonshire, Hampshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Kent and Surrey. The name Beale may refer to: People *Anthony Beale (born 1967), American politician, alderman in Chicago * Bernard Charles Beale (1830–1910), New Zealand doctor and politician *Charles Lewis Beale (1824–1900), member of U.S. House of Representatives from New York *Daniel Beale (1759–1842), Scottish merchant, brother of Thomas Beale *Dorothea Beale (1831–1906), English teacher, founder of St. Hilda's College, Oxford *Edith Bouvier Beale (1917–2002), American socialite, first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill *Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822–1893), American frontiersman and diplomat * Fleur Beale (born 1945), New Zealand teenage fiction writer best known for her novel ''I am not Esther'' *Gerard ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Edward Fitzgerald Beale
Edward Fitzgerald "Ned" Beale (February 4, 1822 – April 22, 1893) was a national figure in the 19th-century United States. He was a naval officer, military general, explorer, frontiersman, Indian affairs superintendent, California rancher, diplomat, and friend of Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill Cody and Ulysses S. Grant. He fought in the United States-Mexican War, emerging as a hero of the Battle of San Pasqual in 1846. He achieved national fame in 1848 in carrying to the east the first gold samples from California, contributing to the gold rush. In the late 1850s, Beale surveyed and built Beale's Wagon Road, which many settlers used to move to the West, and which became part of Route 66 and the route for the Transcontinental railroad. As California's first Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Beale helped charter a humanitarian policy towards Native Americans in the 1850s. He also founded the Tejon Ranch, the largest private landholding in California, and became a millionaire severa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gerard Beale
Gerard Beale (born 18 July 1990) is a New Zealand international rugby league professional footballer who last played for the St. George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL. Beale previously played for the Brisbane Broncos, St. George Illawarra and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League, winning the 2016 NRL Grand Final with the Sharks. He has played for the World All Stars and New Zealand Māori. Background Beale was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia to parents Mick, from Christchurch, and Laurise, from the Chatham Islands. He is of Māori descent, specifically the Te Āti Awa Iwi (tribe). He played his junior rugby league for Logan Brothers before signed to play professionally for the Brisbane Broncos. Beale is a distant cousin of All Black great Zinzan Brooke. Beale played for the Brisbane Broncos NYC team in 2009-2010. Playing career 2009 In Round 9 of the 2009 NRL season, Beale made his NRL debut for the Brisbane Broncos against the Manly-Warringa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Edith Bouvier Beale
Edith Bouvier Beale (November 7, 1917 – January 14, 2002), nicknamed Little Edie, was an American socialite, fashion model, and cabaret performer. She was a first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jacqueline Onassis and Lee Radziwill, Lee Bouvier Radziwill. She is best known for her participation (along with Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, her mother, with whom she lived) in the 1975 documentary film ''Grey Gardens'' by Albert and David Maysles. Early life Beale was born in New York City, the only daughter of Phelan Beale, a lawyer, and Edith Ewing Bouvier (known as "Big Edie"), the daughter of Phelan’s law partner, John Vernou Bouvier Jr. She was born at 1917 Madison Avenue (now the site of the Carlyle Hotel). She had two brothers, Phelan Beale Jr. and Bouvier Beale, and had a lavish upbringing as part of America's "Catholic aristocracy". Beale attended The Spence School and graduated from Miss Porter's School in 1935. Known as "Little Edie," Beale was a member of the Maids ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anthony Beale
Anthony A. Beale (born October 22, 1967) is an American politician and the alderman of the 9th ward of the City of Chicago, Illinois United States. Beale is noted as having been one of the youngest members to serve as elected official on the City of Chicago's City Council. Beale was elected in 1999, and is currently serving his sixth term. In 2013, Beale was an unsuccessful candidate in the Democratic primary for the special election to replace Jesse Jackson, Jr. as U.S. Congressman from Illinois' 2nd congressional district. Education Beale attended Corliss High School, graduating in 1985. Beale later attended Blackburn College. Beale worked as a computer data analyst. He was also a community activist under Jesse Jackson Jr. and James Meeks. Beale supported an effort in 1999 to adopt dry laws in some precincts of the 9th Ward. Aldermanic career Beale was elected alderman for the 9th ward in 1999. He has been reelected in 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, and 2019. In his 1999 vict ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dorothea Beale
Dorothea Beale LL.D. (21 March 1831 – 9 November 1906) was a suffragist, educational reformer and author. As Principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College, she became the founder of St Hilda's College, Oxford. Early and family life Dorothea Beale was born on 21 March 1831 at 41 Bishopsgate Street, London, the fourth child and third daughter of Miles Beale, a surgeon, of a Gloucestershire family and who took an active interest in educational and social issues. Her mother, Dorothea Margaret Complin, of Huguenot extraction, would have eleven children. She was first cousin to Caroline Frances Cornwallis, a relationship that influenced the young Dorothea. Educated till the age of 13 partly at home and partly at a school at Stratford, Essex, Dorothea then attended lectures at Gresham College and at the Crosby Hall Literary Institution, and developed an aptitude for mathematics. In 1847, she and two older sisters began attending Mrs Bray's fashionable school for English girls in Paris, w ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gregory Beale
Gregory K. Beale (born 1949 in Dallas, Texas; also known as G. K. Beale) is a biblical scholar, currently a Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas. He is an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He has made a number of contributions to conservative biblical hermeneutics, particularly in the area of the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament and is one of the most influential and prolific active New Testament scholars in the world. He served as the president of the Evangelical Theological Society in 2004. In 2013, he was elected by Westminster Theological Seminary to be the first occupant of the J. Gresham Machen Chair of New Testament. At his inauguration he delivered an address titled ''The Cognitive Peripheral Vision of Biblical Writers''. Education * Ph.D, University of Cambridge, 1981 * Th.M, Dallas Theological Seminary, 1976 * MA, Southern Methodist University, 1976 * BA, Southern Methodi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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James Thomas Beale
James Thomas (J. Thomas "Tom") Beale (born 1947) is an American mathematician, specializing in fluid dynamics, partial differential equations, and numerical analysis. J. Thomas Beale grew up in Savannah, Georgia. In 1967 he graduated from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) with a B.S. in mathematics. In 1973 he received his PhD in mathematics from Stanford University. His PhD thesis ''Purely imaginary scattering frequencies for exterior domains''. was written under the supervision of Ralph S. Phillips. Soon after receiving his PhD Beale became a faculty member at Tulane University. In 1983 he resigned from Tulane University and became a professor at Duke University, where he retired as professor emeritus in 2016. In 1994 Beale was an invited speaker with talk ''Analytical and numerical aspects of fluid interfaces'' at the International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jack Beale
Jack Gordon Beale AO (17 July 1917 – 7 June 2006) was an Australian politician who championed the need for Australia to conserve and develop its water resources. He was also Australia's first environment minister. In his obituary in The Sydney Morning Herald, he was described as "a visionary, one of the first to realize what would become vital issues in Australia: the potential of water resources and the limited capacity of the environment to sustain abuse."Malcolm Brown, ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 16 June 2006 Known as the 'Water Man,' he was quoted as saying: "Australia is the lowest, flattest, hottest and driest continent on the earth and we have to manage it accordingly." Most of Australia's rivers flow relatively short distances to the sea. As early as 1963, Jack Beale called for water from Australia's rivers to be diverted to the arid inland. Early life and education Jack Beale was born in Manly, a suburb of Sydney, on 17 July 1917, the second child of Rupert No ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Helen Purdy Beale
Helen Alice Purdy Beale, (September 19, 1893 – November 5, 1976) was an American Virology, virologist who made significant contributions to the fields of plant virology and immunology.Scholthof, K.-B. G., & Peterson, P.D. (2005). Helen Purdy Beale: The mother of plant virology (and serology). https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/9720/bot_Littler2005i.pdf During her work on ''Tobacco mosaic virus'', Beale invented standard serology tools that are used today in research practices and medical diagnosis. She has been revered as the "mother of plant virology and serology". Early life and education Beale was born in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, Croton-on-Hudson, New York (state), New York. She attended Ossining School and continued on in 1914 to Barnard College, where she earned her A.B. in botany in 1918. She then attended Cornell University to pursue a Ph.D. in plant pathology at the newly created department of plant pathology. From 1918 to 1919, Beale worked with Herbe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bernard Charles Beale
Bernard Charles Beale (10 September 1830 – 16 January 1910) was a New Zealand doctor and local body politician. Born in England, he was a licensed surgeon assistant and also worked as a ship's surgeon before emigrating with his wife to New Zealand in 1861. He set up practice in Nelson before moving to Auckland and being commissioned in the Waikato Militia. He was given a land grant in Hamilton at the end of his military service and settled there with his wife. He practiced medicine, acted as a coroner, and became involved in local body politics. He served a brief but tempestuous term from March to December 1880 as the 4th mayor of Hamilton. He later moved back to Auckland, where he died in 1910 at the age of 79. Early life Born in London, England on 10 September 1830, Bernard Charles Beale was the son of Thomas and Sophia Beale. His father was a surgeon and Bernard likewise entered the medical profession and began work at City of London Union's workhouse as a dispenser of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Daniel Beale
Daniel Beale (1759–1842) was a Scottish merchant and fur trader active in the Far East mercantile centres of Bombay, Canton and Macau as well as at one time the Prussian consul in China. Biography Daniel Beale was the purser of, successively, the East India Company ships ''Walpole'' and ''General Coote'' on voyages between London and Canton in 1783-1786: in 1783 he joined the Macao partnership of John Henry Cox and John Reid in their mercantile ventures. Giving evidence before the British parliament's commons committee of ''Enquiry on the East India Company’s Affairs'' on 11 May 1815, Beale testified that he had been resident in Canton "from the latter end of 1787 to the middle of 1797" On 15 February 1786, a Prussian ship arrived at Whampoa whereupon the East India Company's agent at Canton informed the Committee of Supercargoes that Beale had shown him a letter signed by "Count Lusi, Envoy Extraordinaire to his Majesty the King of Prussia with the King of Gre ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Inga Beale
Dame Inga Kristine Beale, DBE (born 15 May 1963) is a British businesswoman and the former CEO of Lloyd's of London. In June 2018, it was announced that she would be stepping down as CEO of Lloyd's after leading the global insurance and reinsurance market for five years, embedding modernisation and cultural change during her tenure. Early life and education Beale is the second child of an English father and a Norwegian mother. She studied economics and accounting at Newbury College, Berkshire. Career Beale started her career in 1982 at Prudential Assurance Company in London. She trained as an underwriter, specialising in international treaty reinsurance. The industry was composed predominantly of men at the time; she once took issue with posters in the office depicting half-naked women, only to have her colleagues plaster them across her computer and chair. She took a year off in 1989, cycling in Australia and backpacking in Asia. She left Prudential in 1992 to work as an underw ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |