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Edward Davis
Edward, Ed, Eddie or Teddy Davis may refer to: In sports * Edward Davis or Mickey Davis (born 1950), American basketball player * Eddie Davis (boxer) (born 1951), light heavyweight boxer * Eddie Davis (Canadian football) (born 1973), football player * Ed Davis (basketball) (born 1989), American player * Eddie Davis (cricketer) (1922–2011), English cricketer * Peanuts Davis (Edward A. Davis, 1917–1974), American baseball player * Teddy Davis (1923–1966), boxer * T. Edward Davis (1898–1970), American football, basketball, and baseball coach In politics and government * Edward S. Davis (1808–1887), Massachusetts politician * Edward M. Davis (1916–2006), California State Senator and LAPD police chief * Edward B. Davis (1933–2010), American judge * Ed Davis (police commissioner) (born 1956), Commissioner of the Boston Police Department * Ed Davis (politician) (1890–1956), Washington politician * Edward Davis (car dealer) (1911–1999), American car dealer * Admir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Davis
Edward J. "Mickey" Davis (born June 16, 1950) is an American former basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball at Duquesne University, where he led his team in rebounds per game and points per game. He left after his junior season to start his professional career with the Pittsburgh Condors of the American Basketball Association. He was later drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks in the seventh round of the 1972 NBA draft and played with the team until 1976. Davis' professional career was mostly unheralded, but he did garner some national attention during the 1974 NBA Finals with the Bucks. With starting guard Lucius Allen hurt and the rest of the Bucks' guards unable to handle the defensive pressure of the Boston Celtics, Davis, an adept ballhandler, was called upon to play point guard (unusual at the time at 6'7") alongside Oscar Robertson for much of the series and helped the Bucks extend the Celtics to seven games. On January 6 of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Davis (director)
Eddie Davis (born January, 1903 in New York, NY, date of death unknown) was an American film director who worked extensively in television. In the late 1960s he made three films in Australia for Goldsworthy Productions, whose head of production, Warwick Freeman, described Davis as a "nice guy and he taught us all a lot about the rudiments of production."Warwick Freeman, 'Demonstrator - Filmmakers Notes', ''ACMI'', 8 May 2008 accessed 22 Sept 2012 Select credits *'' Panic in the City'' (1968) *'' It Takes All Kinds'' (1969) *'' |
Edwards Davis
Cader Edwards Davis (June 17, 1873 – May 16, 1936) was an American actor, producer, and playwright of vaudeville and the silent film era, known as a character actor. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he was an ordained Christian minister and first achieved prominence as a sensational orator and lecturer, becoming known as the "poet-preacher" and the " Talmage of the West", before leaving the pulpit for an acting career. He wrote and starred in several original plays and vaudeville sketches, and appeared in over 50 films. In New York he was a president of the National Vaudeville Artists Association and the Green Room Club. In Hollywood he was a founder and president of the Masonic 233 Club. He was married to several actresses, including Adele Blood, who also appeared in some of his productions. Early years and ministry Cader Edwards Davis was born June 17, 1873, in Santa Clara, California, and raised in nearby Oakland. His father, William Wallace Davis, was a noted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Davis (Royal Marines Officer)
Lieutenant General Edward Grant Martin Davis, (born 13 February 1963) is a former senior Royal Marines officer. He was Commandant General Royal Marines from December 2011 to June 2014, and the Deputy Commander of NATO's Allied Land Command in Izmir, Turkey, from 2014 to 2015. He was Governor of Gibraltar from 2016 to 2020. Early life Davis was born in Hereford, Herefordshire. He was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland and King's College London (MA Defence Studies, 1998). Military career Davis was commissioned into the Royal Marines in 1981 and joined 40 Commando with whom he undertook a six-month tour in the Falkland Islands and then a six-month tour in Cyprus. In 1996, he attended the Army Command and Staff Course at Staff College, Camberley. In the same year, he became Chief of Staff at the Headquarters of the Combat Service Support Group (UK) in which role he took part in the Bosnian War. He was appointed Chief of Staff to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Davis (criminal)
Ed Davis (July 30, 1900 – December 16, 1938) was an American burglar, bank robber and Depression-era outlaw. He was particularly active in Oklahoma, referred to by authorities as "The Fox", and frequently teamed with Jim Clark and Frank Sawyer during the early 1930s. Eventually captured in 1934, he was involved in a failed escape attempt from Folsom State Prison, resulting in the deaths of one guard and two inmates, and was executed at San Quentin.Newton, Michael. ''The Encyclopedia of Robberies, Heists, and Capers''. New York: Facts On File Inc., 2002. (pg. 76-77) Biography Early life and criminal career Ed Davis was born in Waurika, Oklahoma on July 30, 1900. He enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of 17 but was prematurely discharged for undisclosed reasons on January 2, 1918. He spent the next year drifting then returned to his hometown where he started committing minor robberies with Oscar Steelman and Earl Berry. He was eventually arrested for one of these robberie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward F
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy and Ned. Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Wilson Davis
Edward Wilson Davis (May 8, 1888 – December 3, 1973) was an American engineer and inventor famous for pioneering early research into taconite. As a researcher at the University of Minnesota, Davis developed an engineering process to economically extract iron ore from hard taconite rocks, making taconite valuable as iron ore for the iron and steel industries. He worked closely with industrial firms such as the Mesabi Iron Company and the Reserve Mining Company to transform his research into a working industry on northeast Minnesota's Iron Range. Davis was known as "Mr. Taconite" for his efforts. History Davis was born on May 8, 1888, in Cambridge City, Indiana. He pursued courses in science and engineering and received a degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1911. In 1912, Davis began working as a mathematics instructor at the University of Minnesota. In 1913, Davis began working on taconite. Over the next four decades, Davis devised a process to crush the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Davis (bushranger)
Edward Davis (1816–1841) was an Australia convict turned bushranger. His real name is not certain, but in April 1832 he was convicted under the name George Wilkinson for attempting to steal a wooden till and copper coins to the total value of 7 shillings. Sentenced to seven years transportation, he arrived in Sydney on the Camden in 1833 and was placed in the Hyde Park Barracks. Over the next few years he escaped four times: on 23 December 1833 from the Barracks, on 1 December 1835 from Penrith, on 10 January 1837 from the farmer he had been assigned to, and for a final time on 21 July 1838. In the summer of 1839 he formed a bushranger gang of escaped convicts which roamed in New South Wales, from Maitland to the New England Highway, in the Hunter Region, and down to Brisbane Water near Gosford. They had a main hideout at Pilcher's Mountain, near Dungog. The gang members gained a Robin Hood like reputation, for supposedly giving some of the plunder of the wealthy to their ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Davis (sculptor)
Edward Davis MIBS (1813 – 14 August 1878) was a 19th century British sculptor. Life He was born in London but his parents were from Carmarthen in south Wales. He attended the Royal Academy Schools in London and trained in the studio of Edward Hodges Baily, and was possibly in the studio while he worked on the statue of Nelson for Nelson's Column. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1834 until 1877. He lived and worked in the Fitzroy Square area of London. He died on 14 August 1878.''Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851'' by Rupert Gunnis, p. 122 Works *Bust of Charles Kemble (1836) exhibited at RA *Bust of William Tooke (1837) exhibited at Liverpool Academy of Arts *Bust of David Salomons (1838) exhibited at RA *Bust of F Raincock (1838) exhibited at Liverpool Academy of Arts *Bust of Benjamin Aislabie (1838) at Marylebone Cricket Club *Carvings on the front of the Old Adelphi Theatre, London (1840) *Bust of the Duchess of Kent (1843) in the Royal Collection *Statua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Davis (buccaneer)
Edward Davis or Davies (fl. c. 1680–1688) was an English buccaneer active in the Caribbean during the 1680s and would lead successful raids against Leon and Panama in 1685, the latter considered one of the last major buccaneer raids against a Spanish stronghold. Much of his career was later recorded by writer William Dampier in ''A New Voyage Round the World'' (1697). Early career Possibly of Flemish ancestry, he is first recorded as one of the members of the ''Pacific Adventure'' led by Bartholomew Sharp and John Coxon in 1680. But first and foremost he emerges in the Caribbean on a French privateer commanded by Captain Yanky. He was transferred to Captain Tristian's ship, the crew mutinied at Petit-Goâve, southwest of Port-au-Prince in Saint-Domingue (Haiti). Davis then sailed under Capt John Cook arriving in April 1683 at Chesapeake Bay, where he met William Dampier. Briefly serving as a navigator, he and several others including James Kelly left the expedition wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Le Davis
Edward Le Davis ( fl. 1671–1691) was a Welsh engraver and art dealer. Born Edward Davis, he spent some time working in France, and later prefixed "Le" to his surname. Life Davis was apprenticed to David Loggan, but got on badly with Loggan's wife. He broke his articles of apprenticeship and went to Paris. There he worked as an engraver and was given business by François Chauveau. In the early 1670s Davis returned to London, where he engaged in picture-dealing, and painted portraits. He is known to have held an auction in 1691, with paintings collected by Antonio Barberini and Sir James Palmer. As an London engraver of the time he has been considered outranked by Loggan, Peter Vanderbank and Robert White. His work was featured, however, in a 2001 exhibition on the female courtiers of Charles II, at the National Portrait Gallery, London Works From his Paris period, Davis's prints put out by Chaveau included ''St. Cecilia'' after Van Dyck, ''Ecce Homo'' after Annibale Carracci, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Thomson Davis
Edward Thomson Davis (1833 – 12 June 1867) was a British genre painter, active in Worcester, England. Biography Davis was born at Northwick, near Worcester, and studied at Birmingham School of Design and then at Worcester School of Design, and worked collaboratively with his fellow student at the latter, Benjamin Williams Leader, on at least one painting, ''A View of Frog Lane'' (1854). He exhibited twenty works at the Royal Academy, starting in 1854. His drawing, ''Studies of a Child and Two Women'', is in the collection of The Tate Gallery. Other works are in Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Shipley Art Gallery, Worcester City Museum and the Ashmolean Museum. In 1951 an album of his drawings was sold by Christie's. In 1854, his address was 22 Foregate Street, Worcester; during a "short stay" in London in 1856 he gave his address as 16 Russell Place, Fitzroy Square. In or after 1859, he was again living in Northwick. Davis visited the Netherlands, and travelled to Rome in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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