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Edgar Smith (other)
Edgar Smith may refer to: *Edgar Smith Wigg (1818–1899), Australian bookseller *Edgar Albert Smith (1847–1916), British zoologist *Edgar Fahs Smith (1854–1928), American scientist *Edgar Smith (librettist), Edgar McPhail Smith (1857–1938), American writer and lyricist *Edgar Smith (outfielder), Albert Edgar Smith (1860–unknown), baseball player * Edgar Smith (pitcher/outfielder), Edgar Eugene Smith 1862–1892), baseball player * Edgar Lawrence Smith (1882–1971), economist, investment manager and author *Edgar Charles Bate-Smith (1900–1989), English chemist *Eddie Smith (pitcher), Edgar Smith (1913–1994), baseball player * Heber Smith, Heber Edgar Smith (1915–1990), Canadian politician * Edgar Smith (murderer), Edgar Herbert Smith (1934–2017), American convicted murderer *Edgar Smith (rower), Canadian Olympic rower * Edgar Smith (poet), Dominican poet See also *Ed Smith (other) Ed, Eddie, Edgar, Edward, Edwin, and similar, surnamed Smith, may refer to: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Smith Wigg
Edgar Smith Wigg (7 June 1818 – 14 September 1899) was an South Australian bookseller and stationer, founder of the Adelaide firm E. S. Wigg & Son, which still operates under that name , with branches across Australia. Early life A son of Richard Wigg (c. 1790–1856), of Tunstall, Suffolk, Edgard Smith Wigg commenced work as a bank clerk, at which time he developed a book club for the benefit of his fellow workers. Sensing an opportunity, he opened a bookshop in Warwickshire. He married Fanny Neale Morewood of Atherstone, Warwickshire in September 1846. Their first child, Edward Neale Wigg, was born in 1847 and the family emigrated to the colony of South Australia shortly afterwards leaving on the "William Hyde" on 29 January 1849 and arriving in Port Adelaide, South Australia, Port Adelaide in May 1849. E. S. Wigg & Son Wigg rented a shop at 4 Rundle Street on 22 June 1849, where he started a business selling books and homeopathic medicine. Over time, he started manufactu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Albert Smith
Edgar Albert Smith (29 November 1847 – 22 July 1916) was a British zoologist, a malacologist. His father was Frederick Smith, a well-known entomologist, and assistant keeper of zoology in the British Museum, Bloomsbury. Edgar Albert Smith was educated both at the North London Collegiate School and privately, being well grounded in Latin amongst other subjects, as his excellent diagnoses bear witness. Smith married in July 1876. Subsequently, his wife and he had four sons and two daughters. He gave more prominent attention to the fauna of the African Great Lakes and the marine molluscs of South Africa, and also the nonmarine mollusk fauna of Borneo and New Guinea. In the British Museum Smith was employed at the British Museum (now Natural History Museum) as an assistant keeper of the zoological department for more than 40 years, from 1867 to 1913. Edgar Smith's first work was in connection with the celebrated collection of shells made by Hugh Cuming and acquired by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Fahs Smith
Edgar Fahs Smith (May 23, 1854 – May 3, 1928) was an American scientist who is best known today for his interests in the history of chemistry. He served as provost of the University of Pennsylvania from 1911 to 1920, was deeply involved in the American Chemical Society and other organizations, and was awarded the Priestley Medal in 1926. He accumulated a large collection of pictures, books, and papers related to the history of chemistry, which today forms the nucleus of the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection at the University of Pennsylvania. The collection was designated as a National Historic Chemical Landmarks, National Historic Chemical Landmark on March 16, 2000. Life and work Edgar Fahs Smith was born in York, Pennsylvania on May 23, 1854, to Gibson Smith and Elizabeth Fahs (Smith). He was raised in the Moravian Church, Moravian faith. His younger brother Allen John Smith was born in 1863. He attended York County Academy, a college preparatory school, from 1867 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Smith (librettist)
Edgar McPhail Smith (December 9, 1857 – March 8, 1938) was an American writer and lyricist for musicals in the early decades of the 20th century. He contributed to some 150 Broadway musicals. Weber and Fields starred in many of his works."Edgar Smith, 80, Librettist, Dead" '''', March 9, 1938, accessed August 23, 2021 Early life and career Smith was born in , New York. After attending |
Edgar Smith (outfielder)
Albert Edgar Smith (October 15, 1860 – ''unknown''), was a Major League Baseball player who played outfielder in . He played 30 games for the Boston Beaneaters Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most po .... External links Major League Baseball outfielders Boston Beaneaters players Baseball players from Connecticut 19th-century baseball players Brooklyn Grays (Interstate Association) players 1860 births Year of death missing People from North Haven, Connecticut Sportspeople from New Haven County, Connecticut {{US-baseball-outfielder-1860s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Smith (pitcher/outfielder)
Edgar Eugene Smith (June 12, 1862 – November 3, 1892) was an American professional baseball outfielder and pitcher in Major League Baseball from to and then again in . He stood tall and weighed . Smith batted and threw right-handed. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Smith became a well-known amateur baseball player in New England. He made his major league debut in 1883 with his hometown Providence Grays, playing two games at first base for them. He also pitched one game for the Philadelphia Quakers that year, allowing 17 runs and taking the loss. In 1884, he played in 14 games for the Washington Statesmen, serving as both a pitcher and an outfielder. While he returned to playing amateur baseball in Providence in 1885, the Grays had him pitch for them on August 5 when their other starting pitchers were unavailable; Smith allowed just one earned run in the start as he defeated the St. Louis Maroons. He would not play again in the major leagues until 1890, when he fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Lawrence Smith
Edgar Lawrence Smith (May 6, 1882 – June 19, 1971) was an economist, investment manager and author of the influential 1924 book ''Common Stocks as Long Term Investments'', which promoted the then-surprising idea that stocks excel bonds in long-term yield. Smith was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduated from Cambridge Latin School (now Cambridge Rindge and Latin School) and received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1905. He worked in banking and other financial endeavors in the years after college, then signed on in 1922 as an adviser to the brokerage firm Low, Dixon & Company. While there, he later recounted in his Harvard class's 50th reunion yearbook, "I tried to write a pamphlet on why bonds were the best form of long term investment. But supporting evidence for this thesis could not be found." This discovery led to the 1924 publication of "Common Stocks as Long Term Investments." The book was widely reviewed and praised, and became a key intellectual s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Charles Bate-Smith
Edgar Charles Bate-Smith (1900-1989Practical Polyphenolics, Edwin Haslam, 1998, ) was an English chemist and phytochemist specialising in food chemistry. He worked in the Low Temperature Research Station in Cambridge where his main fields of research were meat and polyphenols. The discovery in 1943 by Martin and Synge of paper chromatography provided for the first time the means of surveying the phenolic constituents of plants and for their separation and identification. There was an explosion of activity in this field after 1945, none more so than that of Bate-Smith and Tony Swain (chemist), Tony Swain. In 1951, Bate-Smith developed and first described a coloration method to detect the presence of condensed tannins (also called proanthocyanidins) in plant materials. This reaction is based on heating in acidic conditions and gives rise to anthocyanidin pigments. Bate-smith recommended the use of the Forestal solvent for the isolation of leuco-anthocyanins in 1954. In 1973, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Smith (pitcher)
Edgar Smith (December 14, 1913 – January 2, 1994) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics (1936–1939), Chicago White Sox (1939–1943, 1946–1947) and Boston Red Sox (1947). Smith was a switch-hitter and threw left-handed. He was born in Mansfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. In a 10-season career, Smith posted a 73–113 record with 694 strikeouts and a 3.82 ERA in 1,595 innings pitched. Joe DiMaggio started his 56-game hitting streak on May 15, 1941 by getting one hit in four at bats against Smith. Later that year, Smith was selected to represent the White Sox on the American League's All-Star team. He entered 1941 Major League Baseball All-Star Game on July 8 at Briggs Stadium as a relief pitcher in the eighth inning and allowed a two-run home run to left-handed-hitting shortstop Arky Vaughan, putting the AL at a 5–3 disadvantage. But he set down the National League squad in order in the ninth, and came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heber Smith
Heber Edgar Smith (8 August 1915 – 25 October 1990) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Tiny, Ontario and became a barrister and lawyer by career. He was first elected at the Simcoe North riding in the 1957 general election, then re-elected there in 1958, 1962, 1963 and 1965. After completing his final term, the 27th Canadian Parliament The 27th Canadian Parliament was in session from December 9, 1965 until April 23, 1968. The membership was set by the 1965 federal election on November 8, 1965, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was disso ..., Smith did not seek re-election and left federal politics in 1968. External links * 1915 births 1990 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs Lawyers in Ontario 20th-century Canadian lawyers {{ProgressiveConservative-Ontario-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Smith (murderer)
Edgar Herbert Smith Jr. (1934 – 2017) was an American convicted murderer sentenced to death for his 1957 killing of 15-year-old Victoria Ann Zielinski in Ramsey, New Jersey. On death row, Smith began corresponding with conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr., and gradually persuaded Buckley that he was innocent. With the help of an elite legal team retained by Buckley, Smith litigated his conviction through multiple court hearings and wrote a book proclaiming his innocence. In 1971, a federal judge vacated Smith's conviction and ordered a retrial. Smith then took a plea deal to time-served, resulting in his 1971 release. Five years later, Smith abducted and tried to kill Lefteriya "Lisa" Ozbun, in San Diego, California. Ozbun survived and testified against him in court. During that proceeding Smith admitted killing Zielinski in 1957. He was sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 2017 at age 83. Murder of Vicky Zielinski Shortly after 8:30 pm on the evening of Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Smith (rower)
Edgar Smith (born 12 January 1950) is a Canadian rower. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phi .... References External links * 1950 births Living people Canadian male rowers Olympic rowers for Canada Rowers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Rowers from British Columbia Pan American Games medalists in rowing Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada Rowers at the 1971 Pan American Games People from Comox, British Columbia {{Canada-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
