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George Bridges (Nundah Pioneer)
George Bridges may refer to: * George Bridges (politician) (c. 1762–1840), Lord Mayor of London and MP for London * Tom Bridges (1871–1939, actual first name was George), British military officer and Governor of South Australia *George Rodney Bridges (died 1714), MP for Haslemere and Winchester *George William Bridges (1678–1751), MP for Whitchurch and Winchester *George Washington Bridges (1825–1873), American politician *George Wilson Bridges (1788–1863), writer, photographer and Anglican cleric *Sir George Talbot Bridges, 8th Baronet (1818–1899) of the Bridges baronets *George Bridges, Baron Bridges of Headley (born 1970), British politician * George Sumner Bridges (born 1950), American sociologist and president of Evergreen State College See also * * George Bridge (other) * George Brydges (other) *Bridges (other) Bridges are structures built to provide a transportation route to cross above an obstacle. Bridges may also refer to: Places ;I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bridges (politician)
George Bridges (c. 1762 – 13 March 1840) was Lord Mayor of London and a Member of Parliament. He was the son of George Bridges of Gloucester and set up as a wine merchant in London, becoming a member of a London livery company in 1791. He was a Director of the Grand Junction Waterworks Company from 1814 to his death. As a member of the Wheelwrights' Company he was elected an Alderman for the City of London in 1811. After two failed attempts he was appointed a Sheriff of London for 1816–17 and then served as Lord Mayor of London for 1819–20. In 1820 he was elected to serve as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of London The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London fr ..., sitting until the following general election in 1826. He died in London in 1840. He had married Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Bridges
Lieutenant General Sir George Tom Molesworth Bridges (20 August 1871 – 26 November 1939) known as Sir Tom Bridges, was a British Army officer and the 19th Governor of South Australia. Bridges had a distinguished military career, seeing service in Africa, India, South Africa, and most notably Europe during the First World War, where he was involved in the first British battle of the war at Mons, and later commanded the 19th (Western) Division during the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and then in the Battle of Passchendaele the following year. After the war, he served in Greece, Russia, the Balkans, and Asia Minor before becoming Governor of South Australia from 1922–27. Early life Bridges was born at Park Farm, Eltham, Kent, England, to Major Thomas Walker Bridges and Mary Ann Philippi. He was educated at Newton Abbot College and later at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was married in London on 14 November 1907, to a widow, Janet Florence Marshall; they had one daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Rodney Bridges
George Rodney Brydges or Bridges (after 1649 – 1714), of Avington, Hampshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1690 and 1714. Brydges was the second surviving son of Sir Thomas Bridges of Keynsham, Somerset and his wife Anne Rodney, the daughter and coheiress of Sir Edward Rodney of Stoke Rodney, Somerset. He was a captain in the Duke of York's independent company from 1673 until after 1675 serving in the Portsmouth garrison. He got into debt and in 1677 he recovered his fortune by marrying Anna Maria Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury. She was born Lady Anna Maria Brudenell, daughter of Robert, 2nd Earl of Cardigan, was widow of Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury and notorious as mistress of the 2nd Duke of Buckingham. In doing so, he brought an action for jactitation of marriage against Ann Smith, a shopkeeper with whom he had been living for some years. Brydges' wife bought him a post as Groom of the Bedchamber in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George William Bridges
George Brydges or Bridges (1678–1751), of Avington, Hampshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons for 39 years between 1708 and 1751. Brydges was born in July 1678, the only son of George Rodney Brydges and his wife Anna Maria Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury. He was probably educated at Winchester College from 1686 to 1691 and travelled abroad in Holland in 1696. He succeeded his father to Avington House in 1714 and uncle Harry Brydges at Keynsham, Somerset in 1728. Brydges stood for parliament at Whitchurch (UK Parliament constituency), Whitchurch at the 1708 British general election, 1708 general election, and though defeated in the poll, was returned on petition on 21 December 1708 as a Whig Member of Parliament. He did not stand in 1710 British general election, 1710. He married by licence dated 2 December 1712, Anne Woolfe, daughter of Sir Joseph Woolfe, mercer, of Hackney. His father died in 1714 and he was returned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Washington Bridges
George Washington Bridges (October 9, 1825 – March 16, 1873) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 3rd congressional district of Tennessee from 1861 to 1863. A Southern Unionist, he was arrested and jailed by Confederate authorities during the first few months of the Civil War in 1861. Though he eventually escaped, he did not take his seat in Congress until February 25, 1863, a few days before his term expired. Following his congressional term, Bridges joined the Union Army with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and commanded the 10th Tennessee Cavalry from August 1863 to November 1864. After the war, Bridges served as a state circuit court judge. Early life Most contemporary biographies state that Bridges was born in Charleston, Tennessee, though in a letter to congressional biographer Charles Lanman, he stated he was born in McMinn County, Tennessee, and raised in McMinn's county seat, Athens, where he would live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wilson Bridges
Reverend George Wilson Bridges (1788–1863) was a writer, photographer and Anglican cleric. After eloping with his wife, he was Rector for the Jamaican parish of St Dorothy until late 1817, and then Manchester from 1817 to 1823. He moved to become rector at the neighbouring parish of St Ann from 1823 to 1837.Joseph John Williams ''Voodoos and obeahs: phases of West India witchcraft'' New York : L. MacVeagh, Dial Press, 1932, accessed September 2009. He published works against William Wilberforce and another book resulted in his London publisher being found guilty of libel against Louis Celeste Lecesne and John Escoffery. After his wife left him, he lost four of their daughters in a boating accident. Bridges went to Canada and returned to England to meet William Fox Talbot and take up photography. He toured around the Mediterranean taking 1,700 early pictures including Egypt, Greece, the Holy Land and Mount Etna erupting. His last parish was in Gloucestershire. Life Bridges w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridges Baronets
The Bridges Baronetcy, of Goodnestone in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 19 April 1718 for Brook Bridges. His son the second Baronet, died in 1733 whilst in office as High Sheriff of Kent. His grandson, the third Baronet, represented Kent in the House of Commons. In 1842, the fifth Baronet (the grandson of the third Baronet), unsuccessfully claimed the ancient barony of FitzWalter (which had been in abeyance since 1756) as a descendant of Mary, sister of the seventeenth Baron FitzWalter. He later sat as a Member of Parliament for Kent East. In 1868 he was created Baron FitzWalter, of Woodham Walter in the County of Essex, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. However, the peerage became extinct on his death, while he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother, the sixth Baronet. On his death the title passed to his first cousin, the seventh Baronet. He was the son of Reverend Brook Henry Bridges, third son of the third Baronet. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bridges, Baron Bridges Of Headley
James George Robert Bridges, Baron Bridges of Headley, (born 15 July 1970) is a British politician. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union. Education Bridges was educated at Rokeby Preparatory School, then attended Eton College followed by Exeter College, Oxford, where he received a BA degree (later promoted to an MA by seniority). Life and career Bridges was Assistant Political Secretary to the Prime Minister John Major from 1994 to 1997. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1997. In the 2000s he served as Chairman of the Research Department and Campaign Director of the Conservative Party. He was created a life peer as Baron Bridges of Headley, of Headley Heath in the County of Surrey, on 28 May 2015. Bridges served as a parliamentary secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union in 2016 and 2017. Bridges serves as Chair of the Economic Affairs Committee. Family c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sumner Bridges
George Sumner Bridges (born 26 September 1950) is an American sociologist and academic administrator who served as the president of The Evergreen State College from October 2015 through Spring 2021. Early life and education A native of Seattle, Washington, Bridges earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington, followed by a Master of Arts in criminology and PhD in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Career Government service While completing his doctoral work, he served for five years as a social scientist in the United States Department of Justice in the staff office of the United States Attorney General. One of his roles was as assistant administrator of the Federal Justice Research Program, conducting, designing, and funding research on federal legal policy. Academic career In 1981, Bridges accepted his first academic appointment in sociology at Case Western Reserve University. In 1982, he moved to his alma mater, the University of W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bridge (other)
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George Bridge may refer to: People * G.W. Bridge (George Washington Bridge) comics books character * George Bridge (born 1995) New Zealand rugby union player Facilities and Structures * George Washington Bridge, bridge in New York City ** George Washington Bridge Bus Station * George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; an elevated street * George V Bridge (other) or King George V Bridge * King George VI Bridge, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; a bridge over the river Dee See also * * George Bridges (other) * George Brydges (other) * George Street Bridge (other) * George Street (other) * George (other) * Bridge (other) A bridge is a structure built so that a transportation route can cross above an obstacle. Bridge can also refer to: Places * Bridge (ward), a ward in London * Bridge, Kent, in Kent, England * Bridge, Oregon, in Oregon, US * Bridge Ward, Ip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Brydges (other)
George Brydges may refer to: *George Rodney Brydges (died 1714), MP for Winchester and Haslemere * George William Brydges (1678–1751), MP for Winchester and Whitchurch *George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos (1620–1655), supporter of Charles I of England See also * *George Bridges (other) *George Bridge (other) George Bridge may refer to: People * G.W. Bridge (George Washington Bridge) comics books character * George Bridge (born 1995) New Zealand rugby union player Facilities and Structures * George Washington Bridge, bridge in New York City ** George ... * Brydges {{hndis, Brydges, George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
