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Chauncy (name)
Chauncy is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Chauncy Harris (1914–2003), American geographer * Chauncy Maples (1852–95), British missionary and bishop of Nyasaland * Chauncy Master (born 1985), Malawian runner * Chauncy Batho Dashwood Strettell (1881–1958), English Indian Army officer *Chauncy Townsend (1708–1770), British politician and businessman *Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798–1868), English poet, clergyman, and collector *Chauncy Welliver (born 1983), American-New Zealand boxer Surname *Charles Chauncy (1592–1671), Anglo-American clergyman and educator *Charles Chauncy (1705–1787), American Congregational clergyman *Henry Chauncy (1632–1719), English lawyer, educator and antiquarian * Ichabod Chauncy (1635–1691), English physician and nonconformist divine * Isaac Chauncy (1632–1712), English dissenting minister * Maurice Chauncy (1509–1581), English Catholic priest and Carthusian monk * Nan Chauncy (1900–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chauncy Harris
Chauncy Dennison Harris (1914 - December 26, 2003) was a pioneer of modern geography. His seminal works in the field of American urban geography ("The Nature of Cities" and "A Functional Classification of Cities in the United States") along with his work on the Soviet Union during and after the Cold War era established him as one of the world's foremost urban geographers. He also made significant contributions to the geographical study of ethnicity, specifically with respect to non-Russian minorities living within the Soviet Union. Harris traveled regularly to the Soviet Union and played a key role in establishing a healthy dialog between Soviet and American scholars. Life and career Harris was born in 1914 in Logan, Utah. The son of Academian Franklin S. Harris, he showed an early interest in Geography, declaring to his family at the end of second grade that he was going to become a geographer. He graduated from Brigham Young High School in Provo in 1930. He received a B.A. fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ichabod Chauncy
Ichabod Chaunc(e)y, (1635–1691) was an English physician and nonconformist divine. He was an army chaplain at Dunkirk before 1660, beneficed in Bristol, ejected from his living for nonconformity in 1662, and practised medicine at Bristol from 1662 to 1684. He was banished from England for nonconformity and other offences in 1684, and returned to Bristol in 1686. Origins Ichabod Chauncey was born at the vicarage at Ware, Hertfordshire, the second son of Charles Chauncy (1592–1672), the Puritan minister of Ware, by his wife Catherine, (1604–). Charles was suspended for his opposition to Laudianism and in 1638 emigrated with his family to colonial New England, where he became a minister and president of Harvard College.Benedict 2008. Rise and fall Ichabod graduated B.A. from Harvard in 1651 and proceeded M.A. in 1654 before returning to England. He was chaplain to Sir Edward Harley's regiment at Dunkirk at the time the Uniformity Act was passed. Shortly afterwards he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chauncy (other)
Chauncy may refer to: * ''Chauncy'' (album), by Jason Scheff, 1996 * Chauncy (name), including lists of people with the given name and surname * Chauncy School, a secondary school in Ware, Hertfordshire, England * Nan Chauncy Award, an Australian children's literature award See also * Chauncey (other) * Chauncey (name) Chauncey is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name "Chauncey" include: Given name A * Chauncey Abbott (1815–1872), American lawyer and politician * Chauncey M. Abbott (1822–1863), American politician B * Chauncey Baile ... * ''Chauncy Jerome Jr'' Shipwreck Site, in Long Branch City, New Jersey, U.S. * MV ''Chauncy Maples'', motor ship and former steamship {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Snell Chauncy
William Snell Chauncy (11 August 1820 – 3 July 1878) was an English civil engineer responsible for a number of important engineering works including the first steam railway opened in Australia. Early life and work William Snell Chauncy was born in Addlestone, Chertsey, Surrey, England in 1820. He married Anna Cox at St Michael & All Angels church, in Sunninghill, Berkshire on 7 July 1840. Chauncy initially worked with architect and surveyor, William Mullinger Higgins, on the design of a new grandstand for Ascot Race Course. In 1840 Chauncy and Anna migrated to Australia on the ship the ''Appoline'' arriving on 22 November in Port Adelaide where they had family, including a half-brother Philip who as assistant surveyor of Western Australia, may have been in a position to recommend Chauncy for engineering work. The Australian venture was short lived and Chauncy set off back to England in 1844 via South Africa, but the birth of their second child Sophia Mary on board ship, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert De Chauncy
Robert de Chauncy (died 1278) was a medieval Bishop of Carlisle. Life Chauncy's family probably came from Chawreth in Essex, from which he took his name. Beyond the fact that he was illegitimate, nothing else is known of his background.Summerson "Chaury, Robert and Thomas Vipont" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' He was probably controller of the queen's wardrobe for Queen Eleanor by April 1243. He was named rector of Badsworth on 26 January 1255 and was named as Archdeacon of Bath between 26 January 1255 and 22 January 1257Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 7: Bath and Wells: Archdeacons: Bath' Following the death of Thomas Vipont, the cathedral chapter of Carlisle Cathedral first elected Robert of St Agatha, who refused the office. The chapter then elected Chauncy, who was a royal clerk as well as holding the above ecclesiastical offices. He was elected to the see of Carlisle about 12 February 1257, and consecrated on 14 April 1258.Fryde, et a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Chauncy
Philip Lamothe Snell Chauncy (1816–1880) was a colonial surveyor and amateur ethnographer. Born on 21 June 1816, at Datchet in Buckinghamshire, England, he travelled to the colonies in Australia, residing in Victoria after 1839 and at the Swan River Colony (Perth, WA) between 1841 and 1853. He was appointed to the position of assistant government surveyor at Swan River. Chauncy interviewed the Indigenous inhabitants on his journeys, recording the names of the places he was documenting and incidental remarks. His reports became a source of ethnographic material for contemporary works such as Robert Brough Smyth's ''The Aborigines of Victoria'' (Melbourne 1878), supplying an appendix, 'Notes and Anecdotes of the Aborigines of Australia', along with his other remarks, and later authors of texts regarding Indigenous Australians.Izett, EK 2014,Breaking new ground: early Australian ethnography in colonial women's writing, Doctor of Philosophy. The site of Chauncy Spring in the Shire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nan Chauncy
Nan Chauncy (28 May 1900 – 1 May 1970) was a British-born Australian children's writer. Early life Chauncy was born Nancen Beryl Masterman in Northwood, Middlesex (now in London), and emigrated to Tasmania, Australia, with her family in 1912, when her engineer father was offered a job with the Hobart City Council. She attended St Michael's Collegiate School in Hobart. In 1914, the family moved to the rural community of Bagdad, where they grew apple trees. The bush setting of Bagdad, including a bushranger's cave, would inspire some of her future writing, and also a lifelong involvement with the Australian Girl Guides movement. Initially organising Guide meetings and camps at her brother's Bagdad property, Chauncy started her own Guide troop in Claremont where she worked as a women's welfare officer at the Cadbury's Chocolate Factory from 1925.Berenice Eastman'Chauncy, Nancen Beryl (Nan) (1900–1970)' '' Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 13, Melbourne Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Chauncy
Dom Maurice Chauncy (c. 1509–1581) was an English Catholic priest and Carthusian monk. Life He was born at an uncertain date, the eldest son of John Chauncy, esq., of Ardeley, Hertfordshire, by his first wife, Elizabeth, widow of Richard Manfield, and daughter and heiress of John Proflit of Barcombe, Sussex. He may have studied at Oxford, and afterwards went to Gray's Inn for a course of law, but his meanderings led him to enter the London Charterhouse which years earlier had attracted another law student, Thomas More. In 1535, the majority of the Carthusians refused to take the Oath of Supremacy, but Chauncy, on his own confession, agreed to it. In consequence of their refusal, on 4 May 1535, along with the Bridgettine monk Richard Reynolds, the three Carthusian Priors of London, Beauvale and Axholme, John Houghton, Robert Lawrence and Augustine Webster went to their deaths, and during the next five years fifteen of the London Carthusians perished on the scaffold or w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Chauncy
Isaac Chauncy (1632–1712) was an English dissenting minister. Life Chauncy was the eldest son of Charles Chauncy, and was born on 23 August and baptised at Ware, Hertfordshire, on 30 August 1632. He went as a child to New England with his father, and was entered at Harvard University in 1651, where he studied both theology and medicine, but, coming to England, completed his education at Oxford University, where he proceeded M.A. Before 1660 he was given the rectory of Woodborough, Wiltshire, where he resided until ejected by the Act of Uniformity in 1662. Thereupon he removed to Andover, Hampshire, where he took charge of a congregational church. On 5 July 1669 he was admitted an extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians. 'Having,’ says Calamy, 'quitted Andover some time after the recalling of Charles's Indulgence, he came to London with a design to act chiefly as a physician'. On 30 September 1687 he was induced to accept the pastorate of an independent meeting-hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Chauncy
Sir Henry Chauncy (12 April 1632 – April 1719) was an English lawyer, topographer and antiquarian. He is best known for his county history of Hertfordshire, published in 1700. Life He was born in Ardeley (then known as Yardley), Hertfordshire, son of Henry Chauncy and Anne Parke, daughter of Peter Parke of Tottenham. The manor of Ardeley had belonged to St Paul's Cathedral since before the Norman Conquest. Chauncy stated that the manor house (Ardeley Bury) and demesne had been held for above 200 years by his ancestors, who had had several leases for lives from the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's.Chauncy, ''The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire''. Charles Chauncy (1592–1672), President of Harvard College, was his great-uncle. He attended Stevenage Grammar School, then spent a year at Bishop's Stortford Grammar School before going to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge followed by the Middle Temple. Although his main residence was at Ardeley Bury, which he inheri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chauncy Maples
Chauncy Maples (1852 – 2 September 1895) was a British clergyman and Anglican missionary who became Bishop of Likoma, with a diocese in East Africa. Early life Born at Bound's Green in 1852, he was the son of Frederick Maples, a solicitor, and his wife Charlotte Elizabeth Chauncy. He was educated at Eagle House School and Charterhouse School. Coached by James Bowling Mozley, he entered the University of Oxford at the second attempt. Maples matriculated in 1871 at University College, Oxford. In early 1874, suffering some poor health, he dropped out of his course for a time, and read with William Wolfe Capes at Liphook. In 1874 also, he encountered Edward Steere; he associated with Steere in late 1874 and early 1875, and became interested the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA). He graduated B.A. in 1875, and M.A. in 1879. After graduation he worked in Liverpool with John Eyre. He was ordained deacon, and had a curacy at St Mary Magdalen's Church, Oxford. Afric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Chauncy (1705–1787)
Charles Chauncy (1 January 1705 – 10 February 1787) was an American Congregational clergyman. He is known for his opposition to the First Great Awakening and his contributions to the development of Unitarianism and Liberal Protestantism, particularly his insistence on rational religion and defense of universal salvation. Life and career Chauncy was born into the elite Puritan merchant class that ruled Boston, Massachusetts. His great-grandfather, Charles Chauncy, after whom he was named, was the second president of Harvard College. His father was a successful Boston merchant. Chauncy was educated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard, where he received both his undergraduate degree and his master's in theology. In 1727, Chauncy was ordained as an assistant minister of Boston's First Church, the oldest Congregational church in the city and one of the most important in New England. In 1762, Chauncy became pastor of First Church. He served the congregation for 60 years until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
