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George Gordon (physiologist)
George Gordon may refer to: By career Military * George Henry Gordon (1823–1886), U.S. Army general * George Gordon (Civil War general) (1836–1911), Civil War General, Ku Klux Klan leader and U.S. Representative from Tennessee * George Grant Gordon (1836–1912), British Army officer and courtier Political figures * George Gordon of Tulloch, commissioner for Aberdeen (Parliament of Scotland constituency) *Sir George Gordon (died 1690), commissioner for Banffshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency) *George Gordon (died 1691), burgh commissioner for Dornoch (Parliament of Scotland constituency) * Lord George Gordon (1751–1793), British politician *George Newcombe Gordon (1879–1949), Canadian Member of Parliament and cabinet minister * George Gordon (Ontario politician) (1888–1971), Member of Provincial Parliament *George Gordon (Canadian politician) (1865–1942), senator from Ontario * George William Gordon (1820–1865), Jamaican politician *George A. Gordon (1885â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Henry Gordon
George Henry Gordon (July 19, 1823 – August 30, 1886) was an American lawyer and a Union general in the American Civil War. Early life Gordon was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He moved to Framingham, Massachusetts, at the age of five with his widowed mother. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1846, 43rd in a class of 59 cadets. He served under Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott in the Mexican–American War, earning the brevet of first lieutenant for gallantry at Cerro Gordo. He resigned from the army in 1854. After taking a course in the Harvard Law School, he practiced law in Boston. Civil War When the Civil War erupted in 1861, Gordon organized and became colonel of the 2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. The regiment served guarding the upper Potomac River and Frederick, Maryland, and in the spring of 1862, Gordon served under Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, unsuccessfully opposing Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George N
George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States * George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States * George V, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1910-1936 * George VI, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1936-1952 * Prince George of Wales * George Papagheorghe also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George Harrison, an English musician and singer-songwriter Places South Africa * George, Western Cape ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa * George, Missouri * George, Washington * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Characters * George (Peppa Pig), a 2-year-old pig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Stuart Gordon
George Stuart Gordon (1881–12 March 1942) was a British literary scholar. Gordon was educated at the University of Glasgow and Oriel College, Oxford, where he received a First Class in Classical Moderations in 1904, '' Literae Humaniores'' in 1906, and the Stanhope Prize in 1905. He was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1907 to 1915. Gordon was Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds from 1913 to 1922. Later, he was Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford, from 1922 to 1928; President of Magdalen College, Oxford, Professor of Poetry there, and Vice-Chancellor (1938–1941). He was one of the ''KolbÃtar'', J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, ; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlins ...'s group of readers of Icelandic sagas. His students at Oxford included ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Byron Gordon
George Byron Gordon (1870–1927) was a Canadian-American archaeologist, who graduated from Harvard University in 1894. While studying at Harvard, he participated in excavations at Copan in Honduras under the direction of John G. Owens in 1891. Following Owens’ death in the field, Gordon took command of the Copan expeditions from 1894 to 1895 and in 1900–1901. After his time in Honduras, George Byron Gordon was hired by the University of Pennsylvania where he led two expeditions to Alaska in 1905 and 1907. He spent the remainder of his twenty-four year employment at the University of Pennsylvania collecting antiquities for the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s North American collections, and he remains one of the museum's largest contributors of North American artifacts. Background George Byron Gordon was born on August 4, 1870 in New Perth, Prince Edward Island, Canada to James Gordon and Jane MacLaren Gordon. In 1888, George B. Gor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gordon (Victoria Cricketer)
George B Gordon (12 August 1860 – 5 March 1946) was an Australian cricketer. He played five first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1881 and 1889. See also * List of Victoria first-class cricketers This is a list of Victoria first-class cricketers. The Victoria cricket team have played first-class cricket since 1851, when they played the Tasmania cricket team at Launceston. Below is a chronological list of cricketers to have represented Vi ... References External links * 1860 births 1946 deaths Australian cricketers Victoria cricketers Cricketers from Melbourne People from the Colony of Victoria 19th-century Australian sportspeople {{Australia-cricket-bio-1860s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gordon (New South Wales Cricketer)
George Gordon (20 September 1846 – 18 May 1923) was an Australian cricketer. He played two first-class matches for New South Wales between 1866/67 and 1867/68. See also * List of New South Wales representative cricketers This is a list of male cricketers who have played for New South Wales in first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket. It is complete to the end of the 2017–18 season. The list refers to the sides named as "New South Wales" and does not include pl ... References External links * 1846 births 1923 deaths Australian cricketers New South Wales cricketers People from New England (New South Wales) Cricketers from New South Wales {{Australia-cricket-bio-1840s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gordon (Australian Footballer)
George Stuart Gordon (14 June 1902 – 4 October 1990) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). Notes External links * * 1902 births 1990 deaths Australian rules footballers from Melbourne Fitzroy Football Club players People from Brighton, Victoria {{AFL-bio-1902-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Croughly Gordon
George Croughly Gordon (21 June 1850 – 20 August 1899) was a Scottish amateur footballer who played for the Scottish XI against England in the first representative match played in March 1870. He was a member of the British civil service before settling in Australia where he worked as a telegraph construction contractor. Family Gordon was born in Kensington, London to Cosmo Gordon and Helen Hensley. His paternal grandfather was born near Tomintoul, Banffshire. He was married to Mary Agnes Wallace and they had two sons: *Roy Stuart Croughly Gordon (c.1893–1960) *John Glenny Croughly Gordon (b. 1899) Football career Gordon was a member of the N.N. Club. On 5 March 1870, he was selected as a late replacement for Lord Kilmarnock who had been originally named in the side to face England in the first "international" football match between representatives of the two countries. The match had been postponed by two weeks because the Oval pitch was frozen; by the time of the reschedul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gordon (1801-1893)
George Gordon may refer to: By career Military *George Henry Gordon (1823–1886), U.S. Army general * George Gordon (Civil War general) (1836–1911), Civil War General, Ku Klux Klan leader and U.S. Representative from Tennessee *George Grant Gordon (1836–1912), British Army officer and courtier Political figures * George Gordon of Tulloch, commissioner for Aberdeen (Parliament of Scotland constituency) *Sir George Gordon (died 1690), commissioner for Banffshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency) *George Gordon (died 1691), burgh commissioner for Dornoch (Parliament of Scotland constituency) *Lord George Gordon (1751–1793), British politician * George Newcombe Gordon (1879–1949), Canadian Member of Parliament and cabinet minister *George Gordon (Ontario politician) (1888–1971), Member of Provincial Parliament * George Gordon (Canadian politician) (1865–1942), senator from Ontario *George William Gordon (1820–1865), Jamaican politician * George A. Gordon (1885–195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Phineas Gordon
George Phineas Gordon (April 21, 1810 – January 27, 1878) was an American inventor, printer and businessman who developed the basic design of the most common printing press ever, the Gordon Letterpress. Biography Born in Salem, New Hampshire, where his family had lived for more than one hundred years, he was educated there and at Boston before deciding to become an actor. Failing to achieve a livelihood at this, he moved to New York where he became an apprentice printer. Upon learning the trade, he opened a job printing shop of his own. Around 1835 he began to experiment in press design. His first patent for a job-press was granted in 1851. While this press had many flaws, he began to manufacture it as the "Yankee" job press. Subsequently he introduced the "Turnover" and the "Firefly," which could produce 10,000 printed cards an hour. About 1858 he produced the "Franklin" press, which has ever since been known as the Gordon Jobber. (Gordon claimed that Benjamin Franklin had r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gordon (engineer)
George Gordon (1829–1907) was a Scottish born engineer who was prominent in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century.S. Garden, 'Gordon, George (1829–1907)' ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 28 March 2013 Early life and training Gordon was the son of Robert Gordon and Margaret Auton. He was born in 1829 at Arbroath, Forfarshire, Scotland, while the family home was Cargield House near the market town of . Gordon was educated at the local Academy, and later studied at Bonn and Wiesbaden in Germany, before attending engineering lectures at University College, London, and ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Medal Of Honour
The Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH) is awarded to British horticulturists resident in the United Kingdom whom the Royal Horticultural Society Council considers deserving of special honour by the Society. The award was established in 1897 "in perpetual remembrance of Her Majesty's glorious reign, and to enable the Council to confer honour on British horticulturists." The Society's rules state that only sixty-three horticulturists can hold the VMH at any given time, in commemoration of the sixty-three years of Queen Victoria's reign. Therefore, the honour is not awarded every year, but may be made to multiple recipients in other years. Awards 1897 – The first 60 medallists The first 60 medals were awarded on 26 October 1897: *John Gilbert Baker (1834–1920) *Isaac Bayley Balfour (1853–1922) * Peter Barr (1826–1909) *Archibald F Barron (1835–1903) * Edward John Beale (1835–1902) *William Boxall (1844–1910) * William Bull (1828–1902) * George Bunyard (1841–1919) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
