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George Elliot (businessman)
George Elliot may refer to: * George Elliot (Royal Navy officer, born 1784) (1784–1863), British naval officer and Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire 1832–1835 * George Elliot (Royal Navy officer, born 1813) (1813–1901), British naval officer and Member of Parliament for Chatham 1874–1875 * Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet (1814–1893), British businessman and Conservative Member of Parliament 1868–1880, 1886–1892 * Sir George Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1844–1895), British businessman and Member of Parliament 1874–1885, 1886–1895 *George Elliot, Australian actor who wrote, produced and starred in 2004's '' The Crop'' * George Elliot (rugby league) (born 1991), English centre and wing See also * George Francis Scott Elliot, botanist and academic author * George Eliot (other) *George Elliott (other) George Elliott may refer to: Politicians *George Elliott (Canadian politician) (before 1800–1844), Irish-born member of Legislative Asse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Elliot (Royal Navy Officer, Born 1784)
Admiral Sir George Elliot (1 August 1784 – 24 June 1863) was a Royal Navy officer who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the First Opium War. Elliot was born to influential and distinguished family that included several powerful politicians and diplomats. After entering the navy at an early age he served through several of the decisive battles of the French Revolutionary Wars, seeing action at Genoa, Hyères, and Cape St Vincent and under Nelson at the Nile and Copenhagen. He had graduated to his own commands by the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars, being described by Nelson as one of the best officers in the navy, and served with distinction in the Mediterranean and in the East Indies, where he took part in the Invasion of Java. Left without significant employment after the end of the wars with France, Elliot took up politics, with the support of the Duke of Clarence and his relatives already in government office. Elliot briefly represented Roxbur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Elliot (Royal Navy Officer, Born 1813)
Admiral Sir George Augustus Elliot (25 September 1813 – 13 December 1901) was a British Royal Navy flag officer and politician. Naval career He was born in Calcutta, the son of Admiral Sir George Elliot. He entered the navy in November 1827, and was made lieutenant on 12 November 1834. Until 1837 he served aboard HMS ''Astraea'' along with Lord Edward Russell, also later to become a Member of Parliament. On 15 January 1838 he was made captain of the brig ''Columbine'' at the Cape and South Africa stations, under the direct command of his father, capturing six slavers in the two years he served in this position. In February 1840 he went to China with his father, and on 3 June was given command of HMS ''Volage'' after the death of its previous captain, returning to England in 1841 with his invalided father on board as a passenger. From 1843 to 1846 Elliot commanded the frigate HMS ''Eurydice'', designed by his father, on the North American station, and in December 1849 he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet
Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet, JP (18 March 1814 – 23 December 1893) was a mining engineer and self-made businessman from Gateshead in the North-East of England. A colliery labourer who went on to own several coal mines, he later bought a wire rope manufacturing company which manufactured the first Transatlantic telegraph cable. He was also a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP). Early life George Elliot - often known in the Durham coalfield as Bonnie Geordie - was born in Gateshead, County Durham, on 18 March 1814, the eldest son of Ralph Elliot, a coal miner and Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Braithwaite, of Newcastle upon Tyne. Mining career At the age of 9, living in Shiney Row, he was a trapper boy at Whitefield Pit at Penshaw where underground he would open the doors when the miners came along with the tubs. He used a quarter of his wages here to fund evening classes. In 1831 he was a union leader in a strike over the length of the working day. and in about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Elliot, 2nd Baronet
Sir George William Elliot, 2nd Baronet (13 May 1844 – 15 November 1895) was an English colliery owner and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1874 and 1895. Elliot was born at Houghton-le-Spring, the son of Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet and his wife Margaret Green, daughter of George Green. His father had been MP for North Durham. Elliot was educated at Edinburgh and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was an athletics blue in 1865 and 1866. He was the owner of a colliery. At the 1874 general election Elliot was elected Member of Parliament for Northallerton. He held the seat until 1885. In 1886, he was elected MP for Richmond and held the seat until 1895. He succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father in 1893. Elliot was master of the Bedale Hunt from 1884 to 1888, a Deputy Lieutenant for Monmouth and a J.P. He died at Folkestone at the age of 51 . Elliot married Sarah Taylor, daughter of Charles Taylor a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crop
''The Crop'' is a 2004 Australian comedy film set during the 1980s. Plot ''The Crop'', is set in the early 1980s in Australia, and is about larrikin nightclub owner, Ronnie 'Blade' Gillette (George Elliot), and his barmaid girlfriend Geraldine ( Holly Brisley). Two months after random breath testing has been introduced, Blade realises he's going broke. Afraid of driving under the influence Driving under the influence (DUI)—also called driving while impaired, impaired driving, driving while intoxicated (DWI), drunk driving, operating while intoxicated (OWI), operating under the influence (OUI), operating vehicle under the infl ..., his customers are not buying his grog, they're going out to the carpark to smoke dope. Like any good businessman, Blade decides he needs a strategy. He decides to grow some dope as a way out of his financial hole. Blade and his best mate, Wack (Rhys Muldoon), set about growing their crop of weed on a property owned by the father of his g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Elliot (rugby League)
George Elliott (born 1991) is an English rugby league footballer currently playing for the York City Knights in the Co-operative Championship. He previously played in the Super League The Super League (officially known as the Betfred Super League due to sponsorship from Betfred and legally known as Super League Europe), is the top-level of the British rugby league system. At present the league consists of twelve teams, of wh ... for Leeds Rhinos and is, by preference, a but can also play on the . Elliott originally played Rugby union for Leeds Carnegie and played for England U16s and U18s, as well as playing for England U16 and U18 at rugby league. Elliott signed a dual code contract where he played for both Leeds Carnegie and Leeds Rhinos academies. He made his début for the Leeds Rhinos in 2011 with a win over Crusaders RL. References External linksStatistics at rugbyleagueproject.org 1991 births Living people English rugby league players English rugby unio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Francis Scott Elliot
George Francis Scott-Elliot FRGS FLS FRSE (1862–1934) was a botanist and academic author of Franco-Scots descent. He was a personal friend of Patrick Geddes. Biography Scott-Elliot was born in Calcutta in India of Franco-Scots parentage. His father, James Scott Elliot (d.1880) was a merchant in Calcutta, coming from the Scottish Borders. He went to Cambridge University in 1879 and graduated BA (Maths tripos). He then attended Edinburgh University gaining a BSc in Botany. He had a natural love of travel. His first major trip was 1888-89 when he explored South Africa Mauritius and Madagascar. In June 1890 he gave a lecture to the Linnean Society on the flora of Madagascar. He then did further studies in Libya and Egypt before being commissioned by the Franco-Britiah Delineation Committee to define the boundaries of Sierra Leonne. From 1896 to 1903, he lectured in Botany at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College. In 1903, he undertook a tour of South America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Eliot (other)
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George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880) George Eliot may also refer to: * George Eliot (spy) (before 1555—after 1581), English confidence man, also known as George Elliott, who arrested Edmund Campion *George Augustus Eliot (1784–1835), English and Canadian Army officer, son of Francis Perceval Eliot *George Fielding Eliot (1894–1971), Australian military analyst and author See also *George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, English institution in Nuneaton, Warwickshire * George Eliot Hospital, English medical building in Nuneaton, Warwickshire *George Eliot Academy, English secondary school in Nuneaton, Warwickshire * George Elliot (other) *George Elliott (other) George Elliott may refer to: Politicians *George Elliott (Canadian politician) (before 1800–1844), Irish-born member of Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada *George Elliott (British politician) (1847–1925), MP for Islington West, 1918–1922 *G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |