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George Richards (radio)
George Richards may refer to: Sportspeople *George Richards (English footballer) (1880–1959), English international footballer who played for Derby County *George Richards (Southern League footballer) (active 1911–1913), English footballer for Bristol Rovers * George Richards (Welsh footballer) (1874–1944), Shrewsbury Town F.C. and Wales international footballer *George E. Richards (1921–1992), American tennis player *George Richards (cricketer) (born 1807), English cricketer *George Richards (Australian footballer) (1888–1928), Australian rules footballer Other *George Richards (Attorney General), Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago, 1962–1967 *George Richards (Australian politician) (1865–1915), Australian politician *George Richards (priest) (1767–1837), English Anglican priest and poet *George Richards (Marine Corps) (1872–1948), American military *George Richards (Warren County, NY) (active 1847–1855), American politician from New York * George Richards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Richards (English Footballer)
George Richards may refer to: Sportspeople *George Richards (footballer, born 1880) (1880–1959), English international footballer who played for Derby County *George Richards (Southern League footballer) (active 1911–1913), English footballer for Bristol Rovers *George Richards (Welsh footballer) (1874–1944), Shrewsbury Town F.C. and Wales international footballer *George E. Richards (1921–1992), American tennis player *George Richards (cricketer) (born 1807), English cricketer *George Richards (Australian footballer) (1888–1928), Australian rules footballer Politics * George Richards (Attorney General), Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago, 1962–1967 *George Richards (Australian politician) (1865–1915), Australian politician * George Richards (English politician) (died 1746), English MP * George Maxwell Richards (1931–2017), president of Trinidad and Tobago * George Richards (Warren County, NY) (active 1847–1855), American politician from New York Other *Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Richards (Warren County, NY)
George Richards was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Biography He lived in Warrensburgh, New York. He was District Attorney of Warren County from 1847 to 1850. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Warren Co.) in 1852. He was a member of the New York State Senate (14th D.) in 1854 and 1855 Events January–March * January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city. * January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru. * January 23 ** The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens .... Sources''The New York Civil List''compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 137, 144, 244, 299 and 384; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) Year of birth missing Year of death missing Members of the New York State Assembly New York (state) state senators People from Warrensburg, New York New York (state) Whigs 19th-century American legislators County district attorneys in New York (state) 19th-century Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mather Richards
George Mather Richards (1880-1958) was an illustrator and painter in the 1900s. Throughout his career, he illustrated many textbooks and children's books. Richards is the illustrator of the widely produced 1918 World War I poster titled, "Oh, Boy! That's the Girl!" Early life and education Richards was born on September 3, 1880, in Darien, Connecticut, the son of Zalmon Richards and Mary Mather Richards. He came from a line of scholars and educators. His art education began at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. In 1904, Richards graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with honors from Williams College, where he was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity, following in the footsteps of his father, who was one of the members who founded the organization at Williams in 1834. He then studied at The Chase School in New York City. Richards studied under Robert Henri, Edward Penfield, and D.J. Connah. He also met his future wife, Gertrude Lundborg of Kansas, at the art school. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Maxwell Richards
George Maxwell Richards (1 December 1931 – 8 January 2018) was a Trinidadian politician who served as the fourth President of Trinidad and Tobago, in office from 2003 to 2013. He was the first President of Trinidad and Tobago and head of state in the Anglophone Caribbean to have Amerindian ancestry. A chemical engineer by training, Richards was Principal of the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad from 1984 to 1996. He previously worked for Shell Trinidad Ltd before joining the University of the West Indies in 1965. He was sworn into office as president on 17 March 2003 for a five-year term. Early life and education Richards was born at his family's home in San Fernando in South Trinidad in 1931 as one of five children in the family. He was of Amerindian and Chinese descent. His father, George Richards, was a barrister while his mother, Henrietta Martin was a housewife and teacher. He received his primary education there before winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Jacob Richards
Major General George Jacob Richards (April 12, 1891 – October 1, 1984) was a United States Army officer who was a recipient of the Army Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit during World War II. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Commissioned into the United States Army Corps of Engineers in June 1915, he served in the United States during World War I and, during the interwar period In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days), the end of the World War I, First World War to the beginning of the World War II, Second World War. The in ..., he attended the Naval War College from July 1937 to March 1938. References External links *Generals of World War II 1891 births 1984 deaths United States Army Corps of Engineers personnel United States Army generals United States Army personnel of World War I Recipients of the Legion of Merit Recipients ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Henry Richards
Sir George Henry Richards (13 January 1820 –14 November 1896) was Hydrographer of the Royal Navy from 1863 to 1874. Biography Richards was born in Antony, Cornwall, the son of Captain G. S. Richards, and joined the Royal Navy in 1832. His eldest son, George Edward Richards also became a Royal Navy officer and hydrographic surveyor. Naval career He served in South America, the Falkland Islands, New Zealand, Australia and in the First Opium War in China. Promoted to captain in 1854, from 1857 to 1864 he was in command of the two survey ships: and . Survey work in Canada He was the second British commissioner to the San Juan Islands Boundary Commission and a hydrographer on the coast of British Columbia in 1857–1862. He is responsible for the selection and designation of dozens of placenames along the British Columbia coast. In the Vancouver area, for example, he named False Creek. In 1859, after his engineer Francis Brockton found a vein of coal, he named Brock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George F
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 Richards (British Army Officer)
Major-General George Warren Richards (1898–1978) was a British Army officer. Military career After graduating from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Richards was commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers on 16 August 1916. Attached tp the Machine Gun Corps, he saw action at the Battle of Aleppo in October 1918 in the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War. In 1918 he was awarded the Military Cross. Remaining in the army during the interwar period, he transferred to the Royal Tank Corps (later the Royal Tank Regiment) in 1920 and was adjutant of the 4th Battalion, RTC in 1928. He married two years later. He attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1934 to 1935 and was then a senior instructor at the Tank School, Bovington, from 1939 to 1940. He became commanding officer of the 49th Royal Tank Regiment at Catterick Garrison in Yorkshire in August 1940. In early 1941 he was sent to North Africa where he served as a staff officer with the 7th Armoured Divis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Richards (Marine Corps)
George Richards (February 6, 1872 – January 9, 1948) was an American officer born at Ironton, Ohio, and serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Boxer Rebellion. He was one of 23 Marine Corps officers approved to receive the Marine Corps Brevet Medal for bravery. Biography He was born on February 6, 1872. In 1891 Richards graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He retired March 1, 1936, as a Major General after over 40 years of service and died January 9, 1948. Awards *Brevet Medal *Distinguished Service Medal *Sampson Medal * Spanish Campaign Medal *China Relief Expedition Medal * Philippine Campaign Medal *Cuban Pacification Medal * World War I Victory Medal *Officer, Legion of Honor The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Richards (Southern League Footballer)
George Richards was a professional association footballer who played in the Southern League for Bristol Rovers prior to the First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin .... Richards was originally from Pill, Somerset, Pill, near Bristol, and joined Bristol Rovers in 1911. He scored ten times in 28 league games, playing in both the centre forward and inside left positions during a spell that ended in 1913, and was the club's joint top goalscorer with Billy Peplow in the 1911–12 Southern Football League, 1911–12 season. References Year of birth missing Year of death missing Sportspeople from Somerset English men's footballers Men's association football forwards Bristol Rovers F.C. players Southern Football League players {{England-footy-forward-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Richards (priest)
George Richards (1767 – 30 March 1837) was an English Anglican priest and poet. Life The son of James Richards, later vicar of Rainham, Kent, George Richards was baptised on 15 September 1767. He was admitted at Christ's Hospital, London, in June 1776, and was then described as from Hadleigh in Suffolk. Charles Lamb knew him at school, and calls him ‘a pale, studious Grecian.’ On 10 March 1775 he matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, becoming a scholar of his college in 1786. He gained two chancellor's prizes: in 1787 for Latin verse, and in 1789 for an English essay ‘On the characteristic Differences between Ancient and Modern Poetry’. In 1791 George Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt gave anonymously a prize for an English poem on the ‘Aboriginal Britons.’ This Richards won, and the donor of the prize became his lifelong friend. The poem was printed separately and in sets of ‘Oxford Prize Poems.’ It was praised by Lord Byron (''English Bards and Scotch Review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Richards (Australian Politician)
George Richards (25 February 1865 – 4 December 1915) was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on a platform promising trams down Lyons road in Drummoyne. Elected as a Liberal candidate, he served as the member representing Drummoyne Drummoyne is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Drummoyne is six kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative center for the local government area of the City of ... in 1913–1915. George Richards lived with his family in "East Lynne", a house in the electorate, and died of a heart attack on the bowling green leaving a widow, 3 sons and 5 daughters.Obituary, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 December 1915, page 5 One of his grandsons (named after him) became the editor of Column 8. Notes Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 1865 births 1915 deaths {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
