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Charles Read (snooker Player)
Charles Read may refer to: * Charles Read (Australian politician) (1814–1910), politician in Geelong, Victoria, Australia * Charles A. Read (1837–1865), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient * Charles Read (Medal of Honor) (1840–?), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient * Charles Read (naval officer) (1840–1890), American, lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy * Charles Anderson Read (1841–1878), Irish writer * Sir Charles Hercules Read (1857–1929), British archaeologist and curator * Charles C. Reid (1868–1922), Arkansas lawyer and politician * Charles Read (squash player) (1889–?), British professional squash player * Charles Read (RAAF officer) (1918–2014), commander in the Royal Australian Air Force * Charles Read (mathematician) (1958–2015), British mathematician * Sir Charles D. Read (1902–1957), New Zealand surgeon * Charles Read (Philadelphia) (died 1736), merchant and mayor of Philadelphia See also * Charl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Read (Australian Politician)
Charles Read (c.1825 – 3 March 1910) was a tailor and politician in colonial Australia, a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Read was born in Southampton, England, the son of James Read and Ann, ''nee'' Lye. Read arrived in Geelong in October 1849 aboard the ''Tasman'' and started business as a tailor. He was involved in the Temperance Society, "''with a striking personality, a vigorous platform speaker, he soon began to render splendid service to the organisation''". Read was elected as one of the three representatives for Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, ... in the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1856. Read finished third in the field of seven. He was deputy registrar of births etc. at Geelong from 1870 to 1884. References { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles A
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] |
Charles Read (Medal Of Honor)
Charles Read (born 1840, date of death unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Natural Bridge. Born in 1840 in Cambridge, New York, Read joined the Navy from that state. By March 5, 1865, he was serving as an ordinary seaman on the . On that day and the next, he accompanied a Union Army force during the Battle of Natural Bridge near St. Marks, Florida. He helped transport and fire a naval howitzer throughout the engagement despite heavy Confederate fire. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor three months later, on June 22, 1865. He was one of six sailors to receive the medal for manning artillery pieces during the battle, the others being Landsman John S. Lann, Seaman John Mack, Seaman George Pyne, Coxswain George Schutt George Schutt (1833 – unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Read (naval Officer)
Charles William Read (May 12, 1840 – January 25, 1890), known commonly as "Savez", was an officer in the antebellum United States Navy and then in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He was nicknamed the "Seawolf of the Confederacy" for his exploits and daring. Early life and career Charles William Read was born in Satartia, Mississippi in 1840. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1856 and graduated in 1860. He served briefly aboard USS ''Powhatan'' after graduation. American Civil War At the outbreak of the American Civil War Read resigned his commission with the United States Navy and accepted a position with the Confederate States Navy. Read was initially assigned to the at New Orleans, Louisiana as a midshipman and participated in the battle between batteries on Ship Island and the on July 9, 1861. On October 12, 1861, he participated in the attack on the Union blockading squadron at Head of the Passes on the Mississippi River. When t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Anderson Read
Charles Anderson Read (born 1841, Sligo, Ireland; d.1878, Surrey, England) was an Irish journalist, novelist and anthologist. Life He was born to a landowning family near Sligo. He had a business in Rathfriland, County Down, but when it failed he moved to London, becoming a journalist. He produced numerous sketches, poems, short tales, and nine novels. Stephen Brown: A Reader’s Guide to Irish Fiction (1910) Two much-acclaimed novels were ''Savourneen Dheelish'' (1869) and ''Aileen Aroon'' (1870). The former dealt with the same episode as William Carleton's short story ''Wildgoose Lodge'', i.e. the Wildgoose Lodge Murders of 1816. Before his death, in Surrey in 1878, he had completed three of four projected volumes of ''The Cabinet of Irish Literature''. The final volume was edited by T. P. O'Connor Thomas Power O'Connor (5 October 1848 – 18 November 1929), known as T. P. O'Connor and occasionally as Tay Pay (mimicking his own pronunciation of the initials ''T. P.''), w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hercules Read
Sir Charles Hercules Read (6 July 1857 – 11 February 1929) was a British archaeologist and curator who became Keeper of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography at the British Museum, and President of the Society of Antiquaries of London, following his mentor Augustus Wollaston Franks in the first position in 1896, and in the second from 1908 to 1914 and again from 1919 to 1924, after being Secretary since 1892. He began periods as President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in 1899 and 1917. He was knighted in 1912 and retired from the British Museum in 1921. He usually dropped the "Charles" in his name, especially after he was knighted, though not consistently. "A man of handsome and even striking appearance", he was a major figure in British museum curation in his day, though he published relatively little. Career Read was privately educated, with no university degree before he received an honorary doctorate from the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles C
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was ''Churl, 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 Latinisation of names, Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as ''Carolus (other), Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch language, Dutch and German language, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Read (squash Player)
Charles Richard Read (1 March 1889 – date of death unknown) was a professional squash player from England, where professional squash began in 1907. Read was based at the Queen's Club in London, and beat C. Bannister of the Bath Club 15–5, 15–13 at the Bath Club to win the first English professional championship title. Read then defended his title as English champion three more times until 1928. Read was born in Kensington, London to Alfred, a whitesmith, and Clara Read.''1891 England Census'' When the British Open men's championship was instituted in 1930, Read was officially designated the first title holder, and thus played in the first final as the 'defending champion'. The 41-year-old Read, however, lost the inaugural final series, played in home and away legs, 6–9, 5–9, 5–9 and 3–9, 5–9, 3–9 in December 1930 to the 25-year-old challenger Don Butcher, a professional player from the Conservative Club in London. Read was a versatile sportsman, having also been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Read (RAAF Officer)
Air Marshal Sir Charles Frederick Read, KBE, CB, DFC, AFC (9 October 1918 – 17 September 2014) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He served as Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) from 1972 to 1975. Born in Sydney, Read joined the RAAF in 1937, and began his career flying biplane fighters. As a Beaufighter pilot, he led No. 31 Squadron and No. 77 Wing in the South West Pacific during World War II. His achievements earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross and a mention in despatches, and he finished the war an acting group captain. Read's post-war commands included the Australian First Tactical Air Force, No. 24 (Commonwealth) Squadron RAF, Central Flying School and No. 82 (Bomber) Wing. He was awarded the Air Force Cross in 1960. Following staff roles, Read took charge of RAAF Base Point Cook and the RAAF Academy in the mid-1960s, and later RAAF Base Richmond. In 1970 he was promoted to air vice marshal and became Deputy Chief of the Ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Read (mathematician)
Charles John Read (16 February 1958 – 14 August 2015) was a British mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. In operator theory, he is best known for his work in the 1980s on the invariant subspace problem, where he constructed operators with only trivial invariant subspaces on particular Banach spaces, especially on \ell_1. He won the 1985 Junior Berwick Prize for his work on the invariant subspace problem. Read has also published on Banach algebras and hypercyclicity; in particular, he constructed the first example of an amenable, commutative, radical Banach algebra. Education and career Read won a scholarship to study mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1975, and was awarded a first-class degree in Mathematics in 1978. He completed his PhD thesis entitled ''Some Problems in the Geometry of Banach Spaces'' at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Béla Bollobás. He spent the year 1981–82 at Louisiana State University.At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles D
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 de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Read (Philadelphia)
Charles Read (b. circa 1686 - January 20, 1736) was a merchant and the 20th mayor of Philadelphia, serving from October 4, 1726 to October 3, 1727. He also owned the house that became the London Coffee House, which he bought for £150. Life Born circa 1686, Charles Read was related to Deborah Read, who married Benjamin Franklin. In 1717 he qualified as a Common Councilman, and a year later was commissioned Justice of the Peace for Philadelphia county. He was promoted to Alderman on October 22, 1722. In 1723, he was charged with leading the Free Society of Traders. He was also sheriff, excise collector and judge of admiralty, before finally becoming mayor in 1726. The third Charles Read, his son, was born in the London Coffee House (finished in 1702) in 1715.Arthur Dudley Pierce, 1957. Iron in the Pines: The Story of New Jersey's Ghost Towns and Bog Iron. Rutgers University Press. .Thompson Westcott, 1877. The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia: With Some Notice of Their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
