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Chaloner
Chaloner or Challoner is an English surname which may refer to: * David Chaloner (1944–2010), English poet * Frank Challoner (1853–1899), American businessman and politician *Gary Chaloner (born 1963), Australian comic book artist and writer *James Chaloner or Challoner (1602–1660), English politician *John Challoner (c.1520–1581), British politician and administrator *John Armstrong Chaloner (1862–1935), American writer and activist * John Seymour Chaloner (1924–2007), British journalist * Kathryn Chaloner (1954–2014), British-American statistician *Luke Challoner (1550–1613), Irish academic *Mark Chaloner (born 1972), English professional squash player *Paul Chaloner (born 1971), British video game presenter and commentator *Richard Challoner (1691–1781), English Roman Catholic bishop *Richard Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough (1856–1938), British soldier and politician *Richard Chaloner, 3rd Baron Gisborough (born 1927), British nobleman * Robert Chaloner (priest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Chaloner
William Chaloner (1650 – 22 March 1699) was a serial counterfeit coiner and confidence trickster, who was imprisoned in Newgate Prison several times and eventually proven guilty of high treason by Sir Isaac Newton, Master of the Royal Mint. He was hanged on the gallows at Tyburn on 22 March 1699. Chaloner grew up in a poor family in Warwickshire, but through a career in counterfeiting and con artistry attained great wealth, including a house in Knightsbridge. He started by forging " Birmingham Groats", then moved on to Guineas, French Pistoles, crowns and half-crowns, Banknotes and lottery tickets. At various times he also made and sold dildos and worked as a quack doctor, soothsayer, and sham anti-Jacobite "agent provocateur" to collect government rewards. In ''Guzman Redivivus'', a posthumous biography published anonymously in 1699, it was stated that "scorning the 'petty Rogueries of Tricking single Men', he aimed rather at 'imposing upon a whole Kingdom'. Early life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Armstrong Chaloner
John "Archie" Armstrong Chaloner (né Chanler; October 10, 1862 – June 1, 1935) was an American writer and activist, known for his catch phrase "Who's looney now?". Early life Chaloner was born John Armstrong Chanler on October 10, 1862 to Margaret Astor Ward Chanler and John Winthrop Chanler. Chaloner was related to the elite Astor, Livingston, and Stuyvesant families. He and his siblings became orphans after the death of their mother in December 1875 and their father in October 1877, both to pneumonia. The children were raised at their parents' estate in Rokeby, New York. John Winthrop Chanler's will provided $20,000 a year for each child for life (equivalent to $470,563 in 2018 dollars), enough to live comfortably by the standards of the time.Thomas, Lately. ''The Astor Orphans: A Pride of Lions'', W. Morrow, 1971. Chaloner had ten brothers and sisters, of whom he was the oldest, including the politician Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler and the artist Robert Winthrop Chanler. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough
Richard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner, 1st Baron Gisborough (né Long; 12 October 1856 – 23 January 1938) was a British soldier and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1895 to 1900 and 1910 to 1917, and a member of the House of Lords from 1917 until his death in 1938. Career Chaloner was the son of Richard Penruddocke Long, an MP from 1859 to 1868, and younger brother of The 1st Viscount Long. His family owned Rood Ashton House in Wiltshire and had lived in the county since the end of the 14th century. Chaloner's maternal grandfather was William Dick, a member for Wicklow from 1852 to 1880. In 1888, he assumed the surname of Chaloner by Royal licence, this was in accordance with the will of his maternal great-uncle Admiral Thomas Chaloner, who had inherited the Gisborough estate and Gisborough Hall through his mother, a descendant of Robert de Brus. Chaloner was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, after which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Chaloner
James Chaloner (1602–1660) was an English politician on the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War, and commissioner at the trial of King Charles I. Biography Chaloner was born in the parish of St Olave Silver Street, London, the fourth son of the courtier Sir Thomas Chaloner of Guisborough, Yorkshire, and Elizabeth Fleetwood of London, and grandson of Sir Thomas Chaloner, poet and ambassador of Queen Elizabeth. On 10 April 1648 he became one of the Members of Parliament for Aldborough, Yorkshire. He was not excluded from Parliament during Pride's Purge on 20 December 1648 and declared his opposition to the earlier Commons vote accepting Charles I's answers in the Treaty of Newport as grounds for continuing negotiations. In January 1649 he was appointed to sit as a commissioner at the trial of Charles I and sat for a total of six sessions. Unlike his elder brother Thomas Chaloner, he did not sign the royal death warrant. During the Interregnum he was active in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gilbert Chaloner
William Gilbert Chaloner FRS (22 November 1928 – 13 October 2016) was a British palaeobotanist. He was Professor of Botany in the Earth Sciences Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Visiting Professor in Earth Sciences at University College, London. Education and early life Chaloner was born in Chelsea, the son of Ernest J and Lenore (née Maude) Chaloner and was educated at Kingston Grammar School. He attended evening classes in Geology at Chelsea Polytechnic. In 1947 he went to study Botany, Geology and Chemistry at the University of Reading and was awarded a first class Bachelor of Science degree in 1950 followed by a Ph.D. in 1953. Career After a postdoctoral year at the University of Michigan, he returned home to serve two years National Service in the army before joining the Department of Botany at University College, University of London in 1956. In 1972 he became Professor of Botany at Birkbeck College, University of London. In 1979 he was appoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Chaloner
Paul "Redeye" Chaloner (born 1971) is a British former esports broadcaster. He has broadcast in dozens of countries including China, United States, Singapore, Australia, Denmark and others on media forms including TV channels, live internet videos, and TV series in the UK. He has also commentated on tournaments on live video streams and internet radio starting in 2002. Redeye has commentated on games including ''Starcraft 2'', ''Quake 3'', ''Quake 4'', ''Quake Champions'', ''Unreal Tournament'', ''Unreal Tournament 2004'', '' Counter-Strike: Source'', ''Call of Duty 2'', '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', '' Hearthstone'', ''World of Warcraft'', ''Smite'', '' Dota 2'', '' FIFA'', ''Team Fortress 2'' and ''Project Gotham Racing''. Career Chaloner's career in esports started when he provided commentary for an online ''Quake'' game in 2002. After a brief spell at ClanBase Radio, mainly commentating on ClanBase EuroCup and ClanBase OpenCups, he began commentating on other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Seymour Chaloner
John Seymour Chaloner (5 November 1924 – 9 February 2007) was a British-born journalist who founded the German newsweekly Der Spiegel. Chaloner has been called the "father of the freedom of press." He died in his sleep on 9 February 2007, aged 82. Biography Chaloner came from a family of journalists. His father was editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper; his mother published the magazines ''Parents'', ''Ideal Home'', and ''Woman's Magazine''. As early as 1939, Chaloner himself began working for the magazine '' Boy's Own Paper ''. During the Second World War, he volunteered for the army and in 1945 became a member of the 'Westminster Dragoons' tank unit, a recent major of the British Army. At the end of the war, Chaloner was assigned to the Public Relations and Information Services Control (PRISC), a unit that was to rebuild press, theatre, radio and cinema in Germany on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, While supervising the press in Hanover, he joined forces w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Chaloner (other)
Thomas Chaloner is the name of: * Sir Thomas Chaloner (statesman) (1521–1565), English statesman and poet * Thomas Chaloner (naturalist) (fl. 1584), English naturalist * Sir Thomas Chaloner (courtier) (1559–1615), English governor of the 'Courtly College', who introduced alum manufacturing to England * Thomas Chaloner (regicide) (1595–1661), English politician, commissioner at the trial of Charles I and signatory to his death warrant * Thomas Chaloner, 2nd Baron Gisborough (1889–1951), British peer * Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner (1788–1872), aka Colonel Challoner, British militia colonel and agriculturalist * Tom Chaloner (1839–1886), English jockey * Thomas Chaloner, central character and narrator in a series of historical mystery crime novels by Susanna Gregory Susanna Gregory is the pseudonym of Elizabeth Cruwys, a Cambridge academic who was previously a coroner's officer. She writes detective fiction, and is noted for her series of mediaeval mysteries featuring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Chaloner
Gary Chaloner (born 30 March 1963, in Sydney) is an Australian comic book artist, writer and publisher. He is known for his creations ''The Jackaroo'', ''Flash Damingo'', ''Red Kelso'' and ''The Undertaker Morton Stone'', as well as his work on '' Will Eisner's John Law''. Chaloner began self publishing in 1985 with David de Vries, Glenn Lumsden and Tad Pietrzykowski under the Cyclone Comics imprint. In 1989 he illustrated an issue of Mike Baron's ''Badger'' (issue #58 published by First Comics in January 1990). Chaloner undertook the artwork on Eternity Comics' ''Ninja High School'' (issue 17 published February 1990). He was the writer/artist of '' Planet of the Apes: Urchak's Folly'' (with Dillon Naylor and Greg Gates) by Adventure Comics in October 1990. Together with Stephen Jewell, Chaloner wrote and illustrated Epic Comics’ ''The Olympians'' published in 1991–1992. In 1994 Chaloner was the Australian editor for Dark Horse Comics' limited three issue ''Dark Horse Dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Chaloner, 3rd Baron Gisborough
(Thomas) Richard John Long Chaloner, 3rd Baron Gisborough (born 1 July 1927), is a British peer. Chaloner was born at Hurworth Old Hall, Darlington, the son of Thomas Chaloner, 2nd Baron Gisborough, and Esther Hall. He succeeded his father as Baron Gisborough in 1951. In 1967 he was appointed to the Board of Universal Television Yorkshire. In 1973, he was appointed deputy lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire and in 1981 he became Lord Lieutenant of Cleveland. Lord Gisborough was the only member of the House of Lords to be in place for both the accession of Queen Elizabeth II and her successor King Charles III. Further reading Inheriting the Earth: The Long Family's 500 Year Reign in Wiltshire; Cheryl Nicol References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gisborough, Richard Chaloner, 3rd Baron 1927 births Living people Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Richard Chaloner, 3rd Baron Gisborough (Thomas) Richard John Long Chaloner, 3rd Baron Gisborough (born 1 Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaloner Baronets
The Baronetcy of Chaloner of Guisborough was created in the Baronetage of England on 20 June 1620 for William Chaloner and was extinct on his death in Turkey in 1641. The Chaloners acquired their estate at Guisborough in 1558 following the dissolution of Gisborough Priory. Their seat was at Gisborough Hall. Chaloner of Guisborough (1620) * Sir William Chaloner, 1st Baronet (1587–1641) See also *Baron Gisborough *Thomas Chaloner (statesman) *Thomas Chaloner (courtier) Sir Thomas Chaloner (1559 – 17 November 1615) was an English courtier and Governor of the ''Courtly College'' for the household of Prince Henry, son of James I. He was also responsible for introducing alum manufacturing to England. He was Me ... References {{Reflist Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England 1620 establishments in England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Chaloner (MP)
Robert Chaloner, FRS (23 September 1776 – 7 October 1842) was an English Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of York. Born the son of William Chaloner of Guisborough, Yorkshire he was educated at Harrow School. He succeeded his elder brother Thomas in 1796 to Guisborough Hall. He joined the North West Riding yeomanry as a Cornet, becoming a captain in 1798. He was a major in the Cleveland Volunteers in 1803 and in the North Riding militia in 1808. He was elected MP for Richmond in 1810, sitting until 1818 and then elected again in 1820 for York, sitting until 1826. He served as Lord Mayor of York for 1817–18 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ... in 1811. He was bankrupted in the financial crisis of 1825–6, and his Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
