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Edward Pierce (other)
Edward Pierce may refer to: * Edward Pierce (priest) (1630/31–1694), Welsh Anglican priest and writer * Edward Pierce (sculptor) (1630-1695) English sculptor who created the interior for many of Christopher Wren's churches * Edward A. Pierce (1874–1974), American businessman and founder of E.A. Pierce & Co. (predecessor of Merrill Lynch) * Edward C. Pierce (1930–2002), American politician * Edward L. Pierce (1829–1897), American author * Edward Pierce (Massachusetts judge) * Ed Pierce (baseball) (born 1968), former Major League Baseball pitcher * Ted Pierce (Edward John Pierce, born 1933), Australian triple Olympic water polo player * Tedd Pierce (Edward Stacey Pierce III), screenwriter of American animated cartoons In fiction * Edward Pierce, the protagonist of the novel The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton See also *Edward Pearce (other) Eddie or Edward Pearce may refer to: * Eddie Pearce (born 1952), American golfer * Edward Charles Pearce (1862– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Pierce (priest)
Edward Pierce (or Edward Pearse) (1630 or 1631–1694) was a Welsh Anglican priest and writer. Life Pierce was born in Wales in 1630 or 1631 (the location and date is uncertain) and was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1650 to 1657 before his ordination in 1659. He ministered in various parishes in Northamptonshire (at St Sepulchre's, Northampton, 1660 to 1663; Duston, 1662 to 1663; All Saints, Aldwincle and Cottesbrooke, 1663 to 1694) under the patronage of a Northamptonshire landowner, Sir John Langham, who was from Cottesbrooke. Pierce died in the rectory of Cottesbrooke on 2 September 1694 and was buried in the chancel of the church. His eldest son, John, succeeded him as rector of Cottesbrooke. Writings In 1675, Pierce described the Great Fire of Northampton and continued to write thereafter, with anonymous works in the 1680s criticising persecution of dissenters such as ''The Conformists Plea for the Nonconformists'' (1681), which went through three editions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Pierce (sculptor)
Edward Pierce or Pearce (1630–1695) was a 17th century English sculptor and architectural sculptor. He was also an avid collector of books, drawings and plaster figures. Life He was the son of Edward Pearce (d. 1658), a painter and stainer, noted for his decorative paintings in Old Somerset House.''Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851'', p. 296 by Rupert Gunnis He is thought to have trained under Edward Bird working under Christopher Wren on London church interiors. In 1656 he was made a Freeman of The Painters and Stainers Company. In the 1650s he lived at the lower end of Surrey Street in the parish of St Botolph's, Aldgate. His first wood carvings were for Sir Charles Wolseley, 2nd Baronet at Wolseley Hall, where he was responsible for the dining-room. The Great Fire of London in 1666 proved a major boost to his career and he went into a long-term working relationship with Christopher Wren - executing the interiors for many of Wren's churches (built to replace th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Wren
Sir Christopher Wren PRS FRS (; – ) was one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist. He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including what is regarded as his masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710. The principal creative responsibility for a number of the churches is now more commonly attributed to others in his office, especially Nicholas Hawksmoor. Other notable buildings by Wren include the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and the south front of Hampton Court Palace. Educated in Latin and Aristotelian physics at the University of Oxford, Wren was a founder of the Royal Society and served as its president from 1680 to 1682. His scientific work was highly regarded by Isaac Newton and Blaise Pascal. Life and works Wren was born in East Knoyl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward A
Edward is an English language, English given name. It is derived from the Old English, Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements ''wikt:ead#Old English, ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and ''wikt:weard#Old English, weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the House of Normandy, Norman and House of Plantagenet, Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III of England, Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I of England, 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#Modern Iberia, 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 (name), Duarte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward C
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. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward L
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 The House of Plantagenet () was a royal house which originated from the lands of Anjou in France. The family held the English throne from 1154 (with the accession of Henry II at the end of the Anarchy) to 1485, when Richard III died in ... dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III of England, Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I of England, 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#Modern Iberia, Iberian peninsula since the 15th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Pierce (Massachusetts Judge)
Edward Peter Pierce (December 28, 1852 – June 22, 1938) was a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1914 to 1937. He was appointed by Governor David I. Walsh. Born in Templeton, Massachusetts, Pierce attended the public schools of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where he lived with his uncle. He studied at Harvard College for two years before transferring to Harvard Law School, from which he graduated with an LL.B. in 1877. He served as Fitchburg city solicitor, and was a member and secretary of the Board of Bar Examiners from 1897 to 1900, when Governor Winthrop M. Crane appointed Pierce to a seat on the Massachusetts Superior Court. In 1914, Governor David I. Walsh elevated Pierce to the state supreme court, where Pierce remained for over twenty years."Pierce, Retired Judge, Is Dead", ''The Boston Globe'' (June 23, 1938), p. 2. Pierce died in Brookline, Massachusetts Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Pierce (baseball)
Edward John Pierce (born October 6, 1968) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for one season. He pitched in two games for the Kansas City Royals during the 1992 Kansas City Royals season The 1992 Kansas City Royals season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Royals finishing 5th in the American League West with a record of 72 wins and 90 losses. Offseason * December 9, 1991: Wally Joyner signed as a free agent wit .... External links 1968 births Living people Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Arcadia, California Kansas City Royals players California Golden Bears baseball players Orange Coast Pirates baseball players UC Santa Barbara Gauchos baseball players Baseball City Royals players Bowie Baysox players Eugene Emeralds players Memphis Chicks players Omaha Royals players {{US-baseball-pitcher-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Pierce
Edward John "Ted" Pierce (born 3 July 1933) is an Australian water polo player who competed at three Olympic Games. He competed at the 1956 Melbourne, 1960 Rome and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this hon .... References External links Profileat Australian Olympic Committee 1933 births Living people Australian male water polo players Olympic water polo players for Australia Water polo players at the 1956 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 1960 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 1964 Summer Olympics 20th-century Australian people Water polo players from Sydney Sportsmen from New South Wales {{Australia-waterpolo-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tedd Pierce
Edward Stacey "Tedd" Pierce III (August 12, 1906 – February 19, 1972) was an American screenwriter and voice actor of animated cartoons, principally from the mid-1930s to the late 1950s. Biography Pierce was the son of a stockbroker, Samuel Cuppels Pierce, who in turn was the son of Edward S. Pierce, a long-serving treasurer of the St. Louis-based Samuel Cuppels Woodenware Company. Pierce completed his education through the fourth year of high school, according to the 1940 census records. Pierce spent the majority of his career as a writer for the Warner Bros. "Termite Terrace" animation studio, whose other notable alumni include Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese. Pierce also worked as a writer at Fleischer Studios from 1939 to 1941. Jones credited Pierce in his autobiography ''Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist'' (1989) as being the inspiration for the character Pepé Le Pew, the haplessly romantic French skunk due to Pierce's self-proclamation that h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Train Robbery (novel)
''The Great Train Robbery'' is a bestselling 1975 historical novel written by Michael Crichton, his third novel under his own name and his thirteenth novel overall. Originally published in the US by Alfred A. Knopf (then a division of Random House), it is currently published by Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The novel tells the story of the Great Gold Robbery of 1855, a massive gold heist that takes place on a train travelling through Victorian-era England on 22 May 1855. Most of the book takes place in London. A 1978 film adaptation was written for the screen and directed by Crichton. Plot In 1854, master thief Edward Pierce plans to steal a shipment of gold worth more than £12,000 being transported monthly from London to the Crimean War front. The bank has locked the gold in two custom-built safes, each with two locks, thus requiring a total of four keys to open. He recruits Robert Agar, a specialist in copying keys, as an accomplice. Pierce's first target is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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