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George Mortimer (officer)
George Mortimer may refer to: * George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer (1805–1871), English schoolmaster and divine * George Frederick Baskerville Mortimer (1816–1854), English cricketer * George Mortimer (officer), Marine officer who wrote an account of a voyage of John Henry Cox in 1791 See also * George Mortimer Bibb (1776–1859), American politician * George Mortimer Morris (1871–1954), British Indian Army officer * George Mortimer Pullman George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman Company, Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town, Pullman, Chicago, Pullman, for the worke ... (1831–1897), American engineer and industrialist * Mortimer George Thoyts (1804–1875), English High Sheriff of Berkshire {{hndis, Mortimer, George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer
George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer (22 July 1805 – 7 September 1871) was an English schoolmaster and divine. Biography Mortimer was born on 22 July 1805 at Bishopsteignton in Devonshire, was the eldest son of William Mortimer, a country gentleman of that place. His family was connected to other Mortimers in the Teign valley. He was educated at the Exeter grammar school and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he matriculated 18 March 1823, and obtained an exhibition. Thence he migrated to Queen's, where he secured a Michel exhibition, and was placed in the first class of the final classical school at Michaelmas 1826 with the future archdeacon of Taunton, George Anthony Denison, and another. After graduating B.A. in 1826 he engaged actively in tuition. He proceeded M.A. in 1829, and D.D. in 1841, having been ordained on 24 February 1829. He was, successively, head-master of the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle (from 1828) and of the Western proprietary school at Brompton, London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Frederick Baskerville Mortimer
George Frederick Baskerville Mortimer (18 July 1816 – 1854) was an English first-class cricketer. Mortimer was born at Trowbridge, Wiltshire in July 1816, one of twenty children of Edward Horlock Mortimer and his wife, Frances Lardner. He made one appearance in first-class cricket for the Surrey Club against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and ... in 1852. He was not called upon to bat or bowl during the match. He died at some point in 1854. References External links * 1816 births 1854 deaths Sportspeople from Trowbridge English cricketers of 1826 to 1863 Surrey Club cricketers Cricketers from Wiltshire {{England-cricket-bio-1810s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mortimer (officer)
George Mortimer may refer to: * George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer (1805–1871), English schoolmaster and divine * George Frederick Baskerville Mortimer (1816–1854), English cricketer * George Mortimer (officer), Marine officer who wrote an account of a voyage of John Henry Cox in 1791 See also * George Mortimer Bibb (1776–1859), American politician * George Mortimer Morris (1871–1954), British Indian Army officer * George Mortimer Pullman George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman Company, Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town, Pullman, Chicago, Pullman, for the worke ... (1831–1897), American engineer and industrialist * Mortimer George Thoyts (1804–1875), English High Sheriff of Berkshire {{hndis, Mortimer, George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry Cox
John Henry Cox (c. 17505 October 1791) was an English explorer who charted Great Oyster Bay, Maria Island, and Marion Bay on the east coast of Tasmania in 1789, aboard his armed brig HMS ''Mercury''. Early years John Henry Cox was born c. 1750, the son of a rich jewellery merchant in London. His father James had a factory in Shoe Lane, which specialised in the manufacture of clocks and automatons (known as "sing-songs" in pidgin English), designed as bribes for Chinese mandarins who were in control of the native merchants with whom Europeans were obliged to deal in trade negotiations in Canton. He even published a work on his activity. When his father died towards the end of the 1770s, Cox turned to the East India Company for permission to stay in China for three years to sell the residue of his father's stock of clocks, and ostensibly "for his health's sake". In May 1780 he was given permission to stay for two years and February 1781 saw him installed at Canton as a mercha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mortimer Bibb
George Mortimer Bibb (October 30, 1776 – April 14, 1859) was an American lawyer and politician and the seventeenth United States Secretary of the Treasury. He was chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals and twice represented Kentucky as a senator in Congress, serving from 1811 to 1814 and from 1829 to 1835. Biography Bibb was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, graduated from Hampden–Sydney College in 1791, and later graduated from the College of William & Mary, then studied law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Virginia and Lexington, Kentucky. After making a permanent move to Kentucky, Bibb was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1806, 1810, and again in 1817. He was appointed a judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1808 and then chief justice through 1810. While a wealthy man, he claimed to have faced significant financial difficulties from losses in the Panic of 1837. Following the death of his father, the Reverend Richard B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mortimer Morris
Brigadier General George Mortimer Morris CB DSO (1871–1954) was a senior British Indian Army officer during the First World War. Biography Born on 22 August 1871, George Mortimer Morris was educated at Bedford School. He received his first commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment in 1890, and was promoted to the rank of Captain in the British Indian Army in 1901. He served in Mesopotamia during the First World War, between 1914 and 1918, where he was Commander of the 55th Indian Brigade. Brigadier General George Mortimer Morris was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in 1917, and as a Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1919. He died in Litton Cheney, Dorset, on 24 April 1954, aged 86.Obituary, ''The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mortimer Pullman
George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town, Pullman, for the workers who manufactured it. This ultimately led to the Pullman Strike due to the high rent prices charged for company housing and low wages paid by the Pullman Company. His Pullman Company also hired African-American men to staff the Pullman cars, known as Pullman porters, who provided elite service and were compensated only in tips. Struggling to maintain profitability during an 1894 downturn in manufacturing demand, he halved wages and required workers to spend long hours at the plant, but did not lower prices of rents and goods in his company town. He gained presidential support by Grover Cleveland for the use of federal military troops which left 30 strikers dead in the violent suppression of workers there to end the Pullman Strike of 1894. A national commission was appoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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