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Charles Fox (British Officer)
Charles Fox may refer to: Politicians *Charles James Fox (1749–1806), British politician *Charles Fox (1660–1713), British politician, Paymaster of the Forces *Charles N. Fox (1829–1903), California Supreme Court Justice *Charles Fox (socialist activist) (1861–1939), British socialist activist and dentist *Charles L. Fox (1854–1927), American artist, philanthropist and socialist from Maine Engineers *Charles Douglas Fox (1840–1921), British civil engineer *Charles Fox (civil and railway engineer) (1810–1874), British civil and railway engineer, built the Crystal Palace Sports *Charlie Fox (Charles Francis Fox, 1921–2004), American baseball manager, scout, coach, and athlete *Chas Fox (born 1963), American football player *Charles Fox (cricketer) (1858–1901), English cricketer *Charlie Fox (footballer) (born 1998), English footballer *Charlie Fox (rugby union) (1898–1984), Australian rugby union player *Charles Fox (swimmer) (born 1948), Zambian Olympic swimmer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles James Fox
Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled ''The Honourable'' from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the arch-rival of the Tory politician William Pitt the Younger; his father Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, a leading Whig of his day, had similarly been the great rival of Pitt's famous father, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ("Pitt the Elder"). Fox rose to prominence in the House of Commons as a forceful and eloquent speaker with a notorious and colourful private life, though at that time with rather conservative and conventional opinions. However, with the coming of the American War of Independence and the influence of the Whig Edmund Burke, Fox's opinions evolved into some of the most radical to be aired in the British Parliament of his era. Fox became a prominent and staunch opponent of King George III, whom he regarded as an aspiring tyrant. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Fox (composer)
Charles Ira Fox (born October 30, 1940) is an American composer for film and television. His compositions include the sunshine pop musical backgrounds which accompanied every episode of the 1970s ABC-TV show ''Love, American Style''; the theme song for the late 1970s ABC series ''The Love Boat''; and the dramatic theme music to ABC's '' Wide World of Sports'' and the original ''Monday Night Football''; as well as the Grammy-winning hit song " Killing Me Softly with His Song", written in collaboration with Lori Lieberman and Fox's longtime writing partner, Norman Gimbel. Early life Fox was born in New York City, the son of Mollie and Walter Fox. Walter was a Jewish immigrant from Szydlowiec, Poland. While still a student at the High School of Music & Art, Fox studied jazz piano with Lennie Tristano. He then continued his musical education with Nadia Boulanger, first at Fontainebleau and then privately in Paris. Following his return to the United States, he studied electronic mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles R
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chappie Fox
Charles Philip "Chappie" Fox (May 27, 1913 – September 12, 2003) was a circus historian and philanthropist born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who greatly expanded the Circus World Museum and helped found the Great Circus Parade in Milwaukee. Fox took over the tiny museum, in Baraboo, Wisconsin, in 1960, and began to collect and restore antique circus wagons. These wooden wagons had been built in the late 19th and early 20th century, and lay in disrepair across the United States and Europe. Today, the museum owns over 200 of these wagons. In 1963, Fox and Ben Barkin, under the sponsorship of the Schlitz Brewing Company The Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company was an American brewery based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and once the largest producer of beer in the United States. Its namesake beer, Schlitz (), was known as "The beer that made Milwaukee famous" and was adve ..., began the Great Circus Parade. A self-trained circus historian, Fox wrote and edited many books about circus ani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving Resnikoff
Irving Resnikoff, alias Charles J. Fox (1897–1988) was a Russian-born painter who emigrated to the United States. He is known for the many portraits of prominent politicians and business people that he painted under commission to the art dealer Leo Fox. Life Irving Resnikoff was born in Russia in 1897, and studied art at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. He trained as a Cubist painter. During the Russian Revolution of 1917 he fled from Russia. In 1923 he arrived in New York City. He was not able to make a living by selling his abstract paintings, and instead made portraits in the conventional style expected at that time. Leo Fox was the son of an artist who died in 1944. He became a well-connected art dealer in Miami and Long Island. In 1943 Fox proposed that Congress set up a government portrait commission. Starting in the 1950s Leo Fox began to commission Resnikoff to paint portraits of prominent Americans under the pseudonym "Charles J. Fox". "Charles J. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Fox (mathematician)
Charles Fox (17 March 1897, in London – 30 April 1977, in Montreal) was the English mathematician who introduced the Fox–Wright function and the Fox H-function. In 1976, he received an honorary doctorate from Concordia University. References * * External links *http://www.materialtexts.bbk.ac.uk/?p=343Charles Foxat the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive is a website maintained by John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson and hosted by the University of St Andrews in Scotland. It contains detailed biographies on many historical and contemporary mathemati ... Canadian mathematicians 1977 deaths 1897 births {{Canada-academic-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marshall And Fox
Marshall and Fox was a United States architectural firm based in Chicago from 1905 to 1926. The principals, Benjamin H. Marshall and Charles E. Fox, designed a number of significant buildings of many types in Chicago and other cities, but they were best known for luxury hotels and apartment buildings. Partners Benjamin Henry Marshall Benjamin Marshall (May 5, 1874 – June 19, 1944) was a native of Chicago. His formal education did not extend beyond his years at a private preparatory academy, the Harvard School, in then-suburban Kenwood. Impressed by the buildings being erected for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 near his south side home, the young Marshall decided on a career in architecture. He became an apprentice of the firm of Marble and Wilson from 1893 to 1895. At Marble's death he became a partner in the firm, and then in 1902 established his own practice. One of his earliest commissions was destroyed a month after its completion in an event remembered as one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Fox (missionary)
Charles Elliot Fox (26 September 1878 – 28 October 1977) was an Anglican missionary and teacher in Melanesia. Career Fox was born in Stalbridge, Dorset, England, and educated in New Zealand, graduating Master of Arts from Auckland University College in 1901. He received a degree in theology from St John's College, Auckland in 1902, joined the Anglican Melanesian Mission in 1903 and was ordained the same year. Fox co-authored " Beliefs and Tales of San Cristobal" in 1915, which was later printed in the ''J Royal Anthropological Inst.'' Starting around 1924, Fox worked on a dictionary the Lau language of Malaita and one of the Arosi language of Makira in the Solomon Islands,. In 1932, Fox declined the post of Bishop of the Melanesian Mission. In the same year he was admitted to the Melanesian Brotherhood. In the 1974 New Year Honours, Fox was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for humanitarian services, particularly in the Solomon Islands. He died in N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Vincent Fox
Charles Vincent Fox, DSO (1877 – 8 November 1928) was a British Army officer and rower who won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1901 and the Wingfield Sculls in 1900. Fox was born in Dublin in 1877, the son of Henry and Mary Fox. His father was an agent for Dundalls Whisky and by 1881 had moved to Swanscombe, Kent. Fox was educated at Prior Park College, Bath and Pembroke College, Oxford. He then joined the Scots Guards and rowed for the Guards Brigade Rowing Club. In 1899 he entered the Wingfield Sculls but lost to B H Howell. He won the event in 1900. Fox went to the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris but withdrew before the regatta started. In 1901 he won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley, beating St G Ashe. Fox was promoted to lieutenant on 23 April 1902, and served with the Southern Nigeria Regiment of the West African Frontier Force. On the outbreak of World War I he was with the British Expeditionary Force and took part in the First Battle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Masson Fox
Charles Masson Fox (9 November 1866 – 11 October 1935) was a Cornish businessman who achieved international prominence in the world of chess problems and a place in the homosexual history of Edwardian England. Masson Fox was born into a Quaker family (although he was not related to the Quakers' founder George Fox) and was second cousin once removed of the fraudulent sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet. Living throughout his life in the Cornish seaside town of Falmouth, Fox in the early decades of his life was a senior partner of his family's timber firm, Fox Stanton & Company, and was also on the Board of Messrs G C Fox & Company, a long-established firm of shipping agents. Fox is described by chess historian Thomas Rayner Dawson (1889–1951) as "a friendly man, kind, mellow, lovable, bringing peace and comfort and serene joy with him". He was also a discreet but active homosexual. In 1909 he visited Venice with his friend James Cockerton, meeting the writer Fred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles James Fox (editor)
Charles James Fox BA (c. 1827 – 14 March 1903) was a newspaper editor and owner in Australia. History Little is known of his earlier life, but he was brought up as a Roman Catholic and graduated BA from St John's College, Oxford. He emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia, and married Mary Ann Toole on 31 October 1866. He was Latin master at John Lorenzo Young's Adelaide Educational Institution from 1868 to 1871 or later. Fox was involved in various Catholic lay organizations: he was hon. sec. of the committee to erect a memorial to Fr. J. N. Hinterocker SJ (c. 1820–1872) He succeeded Benjamin Hoare as editor of ''The Irish Harp and Farmers' Herald'' in January 1870. in which paper he notably criticised Bishop Sheil's excommunication of Mary MacKillop. and was ousted from the South Australian Catholic Association, of which he was president. and founding member. He retired as editor around August 1875. to concentrate on an agency he was running at 71 King William Street, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Fox (scientist)
Charles Fox (22 December 1797 – 18 April 1878) was a Quaker scientist known for his contributions to Cornish mining. He also developed Trebah Garden, near Mawnan Smith in Cornwall. He was a member of the influential Fox family of Falmouth. Fox was a partner in the family shipping brokerage, at Falmouth and General Manager of the Perran Iron Foundry at Perranarworthal from 1825, handing over the post to his nephew Barclay Fox around 1842 He was also active in various other family business enterprises, including copper mining and smelting in Cornwall and South Wales. The Fox family played a large part in the establishment of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society at Falmouth. Charles Fox was its President in 1871–72. In 1841, in connection with the society, he founded the Lander prizes for maps and essays on geographical districts. With Robert Hunt, Charles Fox helped to found in 1859 the Miners' Association of Cornwall and Devon. He was president of the Royal Geological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
