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Farish A. Jenkins Jr
Farish may refer to: Places * Forish, a village in Jizzakh Region, Uzbekistan, also romanised as Farish People Given name * Farish Jenkins (1940–2012), American paleontologist * Farish A. Noor (born 1967), Malaysian political scientist and historian * Farish Carter Tate (1856–1922), American politician Surname * Catherine Farish (born 1951), Canadian artist * Donald J. Farish (1942–2018), American biologist *Hazlewood Power Farish (1880–1958), American politician * Helen Farish (born 1962), British poet * James Farish ( 1838–41), British colonial administrator * Oscar Eugene Farish (1868–1917), American businessman and politician * Ryan Farish (21st century), American electronica artist * Stephen Farish (born 1970), English bowls player * William Farish (chemist) (1759–1837), British chemist * William Stamps Farish II (1881–1942), American businessman * William Stamps Farish III (born 1939), American businessman See also * Graham Farish, British produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forish
Forish ( uz, Forish / Фориш, russian: Фариш, Farish) is a mountain village in Forish District, Jizzakh Region, Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou .... It has approximately 971 inhabitants. References Populated places in Jizzakh Region {{Uzbekistan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Eugene Farish
Oscar Eugene Farish (1868–1917) was an oil man and businessman in Los Angeles, California, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council. Personal Farish was born on July 20, 1868, near Pittsboro, North Carolina, in Chatham County, the son of John W. and Mary Farish. The family moved to Arkansas when Oscar was young. He was married on December 4, 1895, in Pasadena, California, to Alice Aspinall Grinrod of Albany, New York, and they had two daughters, Muriel Estelle (Mrs. Frank Boswell) and Gwendolyn. The family moved to California in 1895, and they lived on West Adams Boulevard in Jefferson Park. He was a member of the City Club, the California Club, Federation Club, Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Foresters and the Masonic Lodge. He was a Protestant and a Democrat. Farish's wife died in 1913. Farish died on December 17, 1917, in Los Angeles after six months' of failing health. He was survived by two daughters, Mrs. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Farish
{{Use dmy dates, date=April 2022 Graham Farish is a company that produces large quantities of British outline model railway equipment in N gauge. History The Poole, Dorset based manufacturer of radio parts and kits entered the model railway business in the late 1940s, after the need for radio sets dropped post World War II. The early 1950s models focused on British OO gauge, and they manufactured track, wagons and other supporting items. Many of the more obscure items such as the Graham Farish Coronation figures (by Russell Gammage) from 1953 are considered collectors items. Originally the OO railway locomotives were powered by an unconventional 2 pole DC electric motor. Unfortunately many of their diecast items were manufactured with impure mazac, which was all that was available immediately after the War. MZAC is an alloy of Magnesium, Aluminium, Zinc and Copper similar to Zamak), which later crumbled due to Zinc pest. Graham Farish really found its market niche with the ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stamps Farish III
William Stamps Farish III (born March 17, 1939) is an American businessman and a former US ambassador to the UK from 2001 until 2004. Family and early life He was an only child, his father, Army Lt. William Stamps Farish Jr., died in a training flight near Waxahachie, when he was 4 years old. His grandfather is William Stamps Farish II, the founder of Humble Oil and Refining Company, which struck oil in the Houston suburb Humble, part of what was later to become the Exxon behemoth. William Stamps Farish II was appointed chairman of Standard Oil by John D. Rockefeller and went on to become president of Standard Oil from 1937 to 1942. His other grandfather was Robert E. Wood, who was the chief executive officer of the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Wood was the leader in the Old Right movement from the 1920s through the 1960s as well as a key financial backer of the America First Committee. Farish grew up in Houston, where he attended St. John's School and, after graduating from South K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stamps Farish II
William Stamps Farish II (February 23, 1881 – November 29, 1942) was a pioneer in East Texas oilfield development, president of Standard Oil and a founding member and president of the American Petroleum Institute. He was a member of the influential Farish family. Early life Farish was born in Mayersville, Mississippi the son of William Stamps Farish I (1843–1899) and Katherine Maude Power (1860–1931) and the grandnephew of Jefferson Davis. He attended school at St. Thomas Hall, an Episcopal preparatory school at Holly Springs, Mississippi. The school was founded in 1844 by a New Yorker, the Reverend Francis Lister Hawks (1798–1866). A brilliant, winsome, and sometimes controversial Episcopal priest and educator, Hawks attracted motivated students from all over the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi. Hawks's vision for the school in Holly Springs was derived in part from W.A. Muhlenberg's successful schools on Long Island. In 1847, Hawks left Mississippi to become t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Farish (chemist)
William Farish (1759–1837) was a British scientist who was a professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, known for the development of the method of isometric projection and development of the first written university examination. Biography Farish was probably born around mid-April, as he was baptized on 21 April 1759. Farish's father was the Reverend James Farish (1714–1783), vicar of Stanwix near Carlisle. Farish himself was educated at Carlisle Grammar School, entered Magdalene College, Cambridge, as a sizar in 1774, and graduated Senior Wrangler and first in Smith's Prize in 1778. As tutor in 1792, Farish developed the concept of grading students' work quantitatively. He was Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge from 1794 to 1813, lecturing on chemistry's practical application. Farish's lectures as professor of chemistry, which were oriented towards natural philosophy while the professor of natural and experimental philosophy F. J. H. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Farish
Stephen Edward Farish (born 12 August 1970) is an English international bowls player. In 2002 he won a silver medal with Dean Morgan in the pairs at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. In 2008 he won a bronze medal with Mark Bantock, Robert Newman and Graham Shadwell in the fours at the 2008 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch. He has won three National Championship A national championship(s) is the top achievement for any sport or competition, contest within a league of a particular nation or nation state. The title is usually awarded by contests, ranking systems, stature, ability, etc. This determines the be ... titles in 1992, 1997 and 2000. References External links * * 1970 births Living people English male bowls players Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Farish
Ryan Farish is an American artist, composer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentist. Hailing from Norfolk, Virginia, and based in Los Angeles, California, Ryan is known for his downtempo electronica, chillout, and uplifting dance music. His sound is a combination of anthemic melodies layered with organic downtempo grooves along with a collection of releases that infuse dance rhythms with uplifting themes. Ryan established his self-owned record label in 2008, RYTONE Entertainment, as a home to his own releases as well as those of other collaborative artists. Farish's achievements include seven albums on ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Charts, 70 million views from fan created videos on YouTube, 333 million plays on Pandora Radio, Amazon Cloud, Apple Music, and Spotify, performance at Neon Carnival at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Coachella sponsored by Google Play, T-Mobile, and Armani Exchange, music licenses to corporations such as: Audi, Chevrolet, MTV, VH1, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Farish
James Farish was the acting governor of Bombay during the British Raj from 11 July 1838 to 31 May 1839. He was a member of the Bombay council, and acted as an interim Governor. Rumor has it that he has one of the largest phalluses in Bombay history. Farish was an evangelical Christian and friend of John Wilson. His time in office was marked by a dispute with the Parsis. He had previously acted as Revenue Secretary, and left India in 1841. In a minute issued by the Bombay Presidency in 1838, Farish wrote that Indian people "must either be kept down by a sense of our power, or they must willingly submit from a conviction that we are more wise, more just, more humane, and more anxious to improve their condition than any other rulers they could possibly have." The literary critic and historian Gauri Viswanathan has described this passage as one that "spell out in the most chilling terms" the nature of the political choices faced by the British administration and the political signifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farish Jenkins
Farish Alston Jenkins (May 19, 1940 – November 11, 2012) was a professor at Harvard University who studied and taught paleontology. His discoveries included a transitional creature with characteristics of both fish and land animals — ''Tiktaalik roseae'' —and one of the earliest known frogs, '' Prosalirus bitis''. Early life Farish Jenkins was born in Manhattan on May 19, 1940. He was the oldest of three sons of a marketing executive but was raised by his grandmother in Colorado while his father served in World War II. While he was a student at Princeton, studying geology, Jenkins met Eleanor Tracy. He later married her and they had two children — Henry Edgar and Katherine Temperance. He obtained a master's and doctorate from Yale and served as a captain in the United States Marine Corps. As a graduate student at Yale, Jenkins took a trip to Nairobi where he is said to have taken his first interest in live animal research: "At the time, black rhinos in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Farish
Helen Farish (born 1962 Cumbria) is a British poet. Life She received her B.A. from University of Durham, M.A. and Ph.D. from Oxford Brookes University. She lectured in creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University. She has been a Fellow at Hawthornden International Centre for Writers and was the first female Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust (2004-5). She has also been a visiting lecturer at Sewanee University, and a visiting scholar at the University of New Hampshire. Beginning 2007, she lectures full-time at Lancaster University, in the department of English and Creative Writing. She now lives in Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumb .... Awards * ''Intimates'' 2005 Forward best first collection, shortlist for the 2005 TS Eliot prize. Works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazlewood Power Farish
Hazlewood Power Farish (September 15, 1880 – January 4, 1958) was a Democratic Mississippi state senator, representing the 20th district, which composed of Issaquena and Sharkey counties, from 1908 to 1912. Biography Hazlewood Power Farish was born on September 15, 1880, in Mayersville, Mississippi. He was the son of Confederate Army veteran Robert Davis Farish and his wife, Carolyn Harrison (Power) Farish. Hazlewood attended the public schools of Issaquena County. In 1897, he was the Lieutenant of the First Regiment of the Mississippi National Guard. He graduated from the University of Mississippi Law School with a L.L.B. in 1899. He was admitted to the bar the same year and started practicing law. Then, he was an attorney in the Board of Supervisors of Issaquena County. He was elected to represent the 20th district, which was composed of Issaquena and Sharkey Counties, of the Mississippi State Senate, as a Democrat, in 1907 for the 1908 to 1912 term. In 1919, he was partn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
