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Charles Leigh (other)
Charles Leigh may refer to: * Charles Leigh (American football) (1945–2006), National Football League running back * Charles Leigh (physician) (1662–1701), English physician and naturalist * Charles Leigh (British Army officer) (1748–1815), British general * Charles Leigh (librarian) (1871–?), English academic librarian * Charles Leigh (merchant) (died 1605), English merchant and voyager * Charles Leigh (1686–1749), British Member of the UK Parliament for Bedfordshire (UK Parliament constituency), Bedfordshire, Warwick, and Higham Ferrers * Charles Leigh (died 1836), British Member of the UK Parliament for New Ross (UK Parliament constituency), New Ross See also * Charles Lee (other) {{hndis, Leigh, Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Leigh (American Football)
Charles Irving "Charlie" Leigh Sr. (October 29, 1945 – October 26, 2006) was a National Football League (NFL) running back. He was the first and only NFL player to be signed out of high school. He is best known for backing up Larry Csonka and returning kicks for the Miami Dolphins' back to back Super Bowl champions in the 1972 and 1973 seasons. He also played for the Cleveland Browns and Green Bay Packers. He played a total of six seasons in the NFL. Early years Leigh attended Albany High School (Albany, New York), Albany High School in Albany, New York, Albany, where he was a standout athlete in football and basketball. As a senior, he led his football team to an undefeated season. Professional career In 1965, the Pittsburgh Steelers signed Leigh as an undrafted free agent, after then commissioner Pete Rozelle made a special ruling, allowing him to become the first and only NFL player to be signed directly out of high school. Charlie was only 19 years old when he signed with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Leigh (physician)
Charles Leigh (1662–1701?) was an English physician and naturalist. Life The son of William Leigh of Singleton-in-the-Fylde, Lancashire, and great-grandson of William Leigh, was born at Singleton Grange in 1662. On 7 July 1679 he became a commoner of Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. on 24 May 1683. Anthony Wood recorded that he left Oxford in debt; he went to Jesus College, Cambridge, and graduated M.A. and M.D. (1689) there. Leigh was on 13 May 1685 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. When Wood wrote his ''Athenæ Oxonienses'', Leigh was practising in London; but he lived at Manchester at a later date, and had an extensive practice in Lancashire. He is said to have died in 1701, but there is some doubt on this point. Works Some of Leigh's papers read before the Royal Society are printed in the ''Philosophical Transactions'', and he published the following separate works: * ''Phthisologia Lancastriensis, cui accessit Tentamen Philosophicum de Mineralib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Leigh (British Army Officer)
General Charles Leigh (1748 – 7 August 1815) was a British Army officer. Military career Educated at Eton College, Leigh was commissioned into the 3rd Regiment of Guards on 12 March 1764. He took part in the Battle of Long Island in August 1776, the Battle of White Plains in October 1776 and the Battle of Fort Washington in November 1776 during the American Revolutionary War. He went on to command the flank battalion of guards at the Siege of Valenciennes in June 1793 and the Siege of Dunkirk in August 1793 during the Flanders Campaign. Leigh raised the 82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) in September 1793. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief of Saint Kitts in 1795 and, having been promoted to full general on 25 September 1803,Haydn's ''Book of Dignities'' (1851p. 320 he became Commander-in-Chief of Martinique in September 1805. He also served as Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Wight from 1812 to 1815. Leigh served as colonel of the 82nd (The Prince o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Leigh (librarian)
Charles William Edward Leigh (13 April 1871 – 9 December 1940)''London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1917''''1939 England and Wales Register''''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995'' was an English academic librarian. Leigh was born in Chelsea, London, the son of Story Leigh and Adeline Dobson. His father was a footman in the household of Col. Francis Burton (son of Admiral Ryder Burton) and later worked as an attendant at the British Museum and later the Natural History Museum.''1861 England Census''''1881 England Census'' From 1895 to 1903, Leigh was successively on the staff of the Natural History Museum and librarian of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. In 1903 he was appointed librarian of the Library of Manchester University and held the post until his retirement in 1935. He edited two important catalogues of collections in the Library and established new administrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Leigh (merchant)
Charles Leigh (died 1605) was an English merchant and voyager. Life He was younger son of John Leigh (died 31 March 1576) and of Joan, daughter and heir of Sir John Oliph of Foxgrave, Kent, an alderman of London. His eldest brother was Sir Oliph Leigh (1560-1612). Canada voyage Charles Leigh fitted out, in partnership with Abraham van Harwick, two ships, the ''Hopewell'' of 120 and the ''Chancewell'' of 70 tons burden, for a voyage to St. Lawrence River; and sailed from Gravesend on 8 April 1597. Leigh and Stephen van Harwick, brother of Abraham, went as chief commanders. The purpose of the voyage was partly fishing and trade, but partly also to plunder Spanish ships. They left Falmouth on 28 April, and after touching at Cape Race, and sighting Cape Breton Island, on 11 June the ''Hopewell'' anchored off the island of Menego–apparently St. Paul's–to the north of Cape Breton. They had lost sight of the Chancewell off the bay of Placentia. On the 14th they came to the Bird ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Leigh (1686–1749)
Charles Leigh (1686–1749) of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1710 and 1734. Leigh was baptized on 28 March 1686, the third, but second surviving son of Thomas Leigh, 2nd Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire and his second wife Eleanor Watson, daughter of Edward Watson, 2nd Baron Rockingham. He was admitted at Inner Temple in 1701 and matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 18 May 1702, aged 16. In 1704, he succeeded his uncle Hon. Charles Leigh and inherited the Leighton Buzzard estates in Bedfordshire. He married. Lady Barbara Lumley daughter of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough in 1716. Leigh's father died in November 1710, and he stood at a by-election at Warwick on 13 December 1710 against the Greville interest. He was elected Member of Parliament in a contest and was classed as a Tory and named as a ‘worthy patriot’ who helped expose the mismanagements of the previous Whig government. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedfordshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bedfordshire was a United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency, which elected two Members of Parliament from 1295 until 1885, when it was divided into two constituencies under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. History The constituency consisted of the historic county of Bedfordshire. (Although Bedfordshire contained the borough of Bedford, which elected two MPs in its own right, this was not excluded from the county constituency, and owning property within the borough could confer a vote at the county election.) As in other county constituencies the franchise between 1430 and 1832 was defined by the Forty Shilling Freeholder Act, which gave the right to vote to every man who possessed freehold property within the county valued at £2 or more per year for the purposes of land tax; it was not necessary for the freeholder to occupy his land, nor even in later years to be resident in the county at all. At the time of the Great Reform Act in 1832, Bedfordshire had a population o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Ross (UK Parliament Constituency)
New Ross was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament (MP). It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union Union commonly refers to: * Trade union, an organization of workers * Union (set theory), in mathematics, a fundamental operation on sets Union may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * Union (band), an American rock group ** ''Un ... of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801. Boundaries This constituency was the parliamentary borough of New Ross in County Wexford. Members of Parliament ''The use of Roman numerals, in brackets, is to distinguish between two MPs with the same name. It is not suggested that they were known in that way, during their lifetimes.'' Elections Elections in the 1830s Tottenham resigned, causing a by-election. Elections in the 1840s Elections in the 1850s Duffy resigned by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
