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Burges (other)
Burges is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alan Burges (1911–2002), Australian botanist *Anthony Burges (or Burgess; d. 1664), English Nonconformist clergyman *Cornelius Burges (1589?–1665), English minister *Daniel Burges (1873–1946), British soldier *Dempsey Burges (1751–1800), US Representative from North Carolina *George Burges (1786–1864), British classical scholar *James Burges a.k.a. Sir James Lamb, 1st Baronet (1752–1824), British author, lawyer, and politician *John Burges (or Burgess; 1563–1635), English clergyman and physician * John Smith-Burges, 1st Baronet Smith-Burges (c. 1734–1803), an official of the British East India Company *Judy Burges (b. 1943), member of the Arizona State Senate *Lockier Burges (Australian politician) (1814–1886), Australian politician * Lockier Burges (1841-1929), Australian explorer, entrepreneur, and author *Mary Anne Burges (1763–1813), British writer * Richard Fenner Burges (1873–1945), Texan atto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Burges
Norman Alan Burges CBE (5 August 1911 – 4 October 2002), was an Australian botanist who became the first Vice-Chancellor of the New University of Ulster in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. Life He was born 5 August 1911, in East Maitland, New South Wales, and took his first degree and MSc at the University of Sydney, then studied for his PhD in mycology at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. After a short period as a Research Fellow at Emmanuel, at the outbreak of war in 1939 he joined the Royal Air Force serving in Bomber Command.obituary at Google Groups After the war he returned to Australia and in 1947 became Professor of Botany at the , and la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lockier Burges (Australian Politician)
:''Two people named Lockier Clere Burges have been prominent in Western Australia. For the Lockier Clere Burges born in 1841, see Lockier Burges (1841-1929)'' Lockier Clere Burges (c. 1814–31 July 1886) was an early settler in colonial Western Australia who became a leading pastoralist in the colony, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council. Lockier Burges was born at Fethard in Tipperary, Ireland around 1814. In 1829, he emigrated to Western Australia with his two brothers William Burges and Samuel Evans Burges. The three brothers sailed for the Swan River Colony on board the ''Warrior'', arriving in March 1830. The brothers settled on of virgin land at the junction of Ellen Brook and the Swan River at Upper Swan until 1837, before taking up of land at York. They named their new selection Tipperary in honour of their birthplace. In 1849, Lockier and William Burges moved to the Champion Bay area, leaving Samuel at Tipperary. Initially Lockier was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Burges (politician)
William Burges (1806 or 1808 – 16 October 1876) was an early settler in Western Australia who became a pastoralist and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council. Born in Fethard, Tipperary, Ireland in 1806 or 1808, William Burges was a brother of John Major Burges (c. 1805–?), Samuel Burges (1810–1885) and Lockier Clere Burges (senior) (1814–1886). William was also an uncle of Thomas Burges, Richard Goldsmith Burges and Lockier Clere Burges (junior) (1841–1929). In 1830, William Burges and his brothers Samuel and Lockier emigrated to Western Australia on board the ''Warrior''. Until 1837 they farmed together in the Upper Swan district. In 1837 the brothers obtained land at York. They named their homestead ''Tipperary''. Burges travelled to Ireland in 1841, and returned to York in 1844. In 1846 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace. Appointed secretary of the York Agricultural Society in 1847, he was closely involved in that body' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Burges
William Burges (; 2 December 1827 – 20 April 1881) was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century industrialisation and the Neoclassical architectural style and re-establish the architectural and social values of a utopian medieval England. Burges stands within the tradition of the Gothic Revival, his works echoing those of the Pre-Raphaelites and heralding those of the Arts and Crafts movement. Burges's career was short but illustrious; he won his first major commission for Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork in 1863 when he was 35. He died in 1881 at his Kensington home, The Tower House aged only 53. His architectural output was small but varied. Working with a long-standing team of craftsmen, he built churches, a cathedral, a warehouse, a university, a school, houses and castles. Burges's most notable works are Cardiff Castle, constructed between 1866 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tristam Burges
Tristam Burges (February 26, 1770October 13, 1853) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Rhode Island, and great-great-uncle of Theodore Francis Green. Early life and law career Burges was born in Rochester, Massachusetts, Rochester in the Province of Massachusetts Bay on February 26, 1770, to John and Abigail Burges. Burges' father was a cooper and farmer, and a American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War veteran. Burges attended the common schools. He studied medicine at a school in Wrentham. Upon the death of his father he abandoned the study of medicine. He was graduated from Rhode Island College (now Brown University), Providence, Rhode Island, valedictorian of the class of 1796. He studied law, and was Admission to the bar in the United States, admitted to the bar in 1799 and commenced practice in Providence, Rhode Island. He married in 1801 to a daughter of Hon. Welcome Arnold, and had several children. Political career He served as me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Fenner Burges
Richard Fenner Burges (January 7, 1873 – January 13, 1945) was an American attorney, legislator and conservationist. Biography Burges was born on January 7, 1873, in Seguin, Texas, the son of William H. Burges Sr., an attorney, and Bettie Rust. His mother died six days after he was born, and he was raised by his father, his grandmother and his aunt, Nannie. He was privately tutored until the eighth grade, when he began studies with a German professor. He attended Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas for a year, "where he excelled in rhetoric and oration." In 1898 he was married to Ethel Petrie Shelton, and they had a daughter, Jane (later Perrenot). He died in El Paso on January 13, 1945. His home at 603 West Yandell, was donated by his daughter to the El Paso County Historical Society in 1986. His vast collection of "books, correspondence, photographs, scrapbook, articles, historical paper and other documents" can be examined there. A branch of the city's public li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Anne Burges
Mary Anne Burges (6 December 1763 – 10 August 1813) was a Scottish writer who wrote a successful sequel to ''The Pilgrim's Progress''. Life Burges was born in Edinburgh in 1763 to George and Anne Burges. Her father had distinguished himself at the Battle of Culloden by capturing the standard of Charles Edward Stewart and was later deputy paymaster in Gibraltar; he was in charge of the customs when she was born. Burges was a gifted linguist familiar with five to seven European languages. Her particular interests were geology and botany. Her group of friends included Anne Elliot, Jean-André Deluc and the diarist Elizabeth Simcoe. She is said to have been a major contributor to Deluc's last book and she sketched her friend Elizabeth Simcoe, as well as illustrating her own botanical descriptions. Sequel She is known for anonymously publishing a sequel to John Bunyan's renowned allegorical work ''The Pilgrim's Progress''. Her book, ''The Progress of the Pilgrim Good-Intent, in Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lockier Burges (1841-1929)
:''Two people named Lockier Clere Burges have been prominent in Western Australia. For the Lockier Clere Burges born in 1841, see Lockier Burges (1841-1929)'' Lockier Clere Burges (c. 1814–31 July 1886) was an early settler in colonial Western Australia who became a leading pastoralist in the colony, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council. Lockier Burges was born at Fethard in Tipperary, Ireland around 1814. In 1829, he emigrated to Western Australia with his two brothers William Burges and Samuel Evans Burges. The three brothers sailed for the Swan River Colony on board the ''Warrior'', arriving in March 1830. The brothers settled on of virgin land at the junction of Ellen Brook and the Swan River at Upper Swan until 1837, before taking up of land at York. They named their new selection Tipperary in honour of their birthplace. In 1849, Lockier and William Burges moved to the Champion Bay area, leaving Samuel at Tipperary. Initially Lockier was S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Burges
Judy M. Burges (born July 21, 1943) is a Arizona Republican Party, Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives, representing District 1, and a former member of the Arizona Senate, Arizona State Senate representing District 22. She was first appointed to the State Senate by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors on January 23, 2012. Burges previously served in the Arizona House of Representatives, representing District 4, from 2005 until her appointment to the State Senate. Senator Burges chaired the Government, Joint Legislative Audit, and Appropriations Committees while serving in the House and served as vice chair for numerous other committees. Education Senator Burges graduated from Yavapai College with an AA in General Studies (1984); the for-profit, open enrollment, University of Phoenix with a BA in Management (1993) and an MBA in Business Administration (1996). Work Burges' professional experience includes working as an Account Clerk with the Yavapai Count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Burges
Anthony Burges or Burgess (died 1664) was a Nonconformist English clergyman, a prolific preacher and writer. Life He was a son of a schoolmaster at Watford, and not related to Cornelius Burgess, nor to John Burges, his predecessor at Sutton Coldfield. He studied at St. John's College, Cambridge from 1623. He became a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. At Emmanuel he was tutor to John Wallis, :s:Burgess, Anthony (DNB00) who said of Burgess that he was "a pious, learned and able scholar, a good disputant, a good tutor, an eminent preacher, nda sound and orthodox divine." From 1635 to 1662 he was Rector at Sutton Coldfield, but his lectures upon Justification were preached in London, at St Lawrence Jewry. He was a member of the Westminster Assembly. In 1645 he was one of five signatories to the Introduction to John Ball's ''Treatise of the Covenant of Grace''. During the First English Civil War he took refuge in Coventry, and lectured to the parliamentary garrison. He was de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smith-Burges
Lt. Col. Sir John Smith-Burges, 1st Baronet (c. 173424 April 1803) was Chairman of the East India Company in 1791. Life Smith-Burges was a director of the East India Company. He was Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the 3rd Regiment, East India Volunteers. He was the son of John Smith and Mary Ransom. Sir John married Margaret Burges, daughter of Ynyr Burges and Margaret Brown, on 14 May 1771. He was born John Smith and changed his name by Royal Licence on 10 June 1790 to John Smith-Burges. He was created 1st Baronet Smith-Burges, of Eastham, (in the county of Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...) on 4 May 1793. Sir John had no male heir and so the title became extinct on his death. References British East India Company Directors of the British East In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Burges
John Burges (Burgess) (1563–1635) was an English clergyman and physician. He held nuanced reformist views on the vexed questions of the time, on clerical dress and church ceremonies. His preaching offended James I of England, early in his reign, and Burges went abroad for medical training. He spent many years building up a practice, and only resumed a relationship of conformity within the Church of England in the 1620s. Life Early years Burges was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and graduated at that university as B.A. in 1586. He was rector of the small living of St. Peter Hungate in Norwich as early as 1590; it has been conjectured that he was a Norfolk man. :s:Burgess, John (1563-1635) (DNB00) Norfolk years When proceedings were taken against Thomas Cartwright and his supporters, Burges identified with the Puritan party of Cartwright. He accepted their position on the surplice and the cross in baptism: they were not unlawful, but they were inexpedient. He left him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
