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Haswell (surname)
Haswell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anthony Haswell (passenger rail advocate), b. 1931, American lawyer *Anthony Haswell (printer) (1756–1816), British-American newspaper publisher and postmaster of the Vermont Republic *Archibald Eliot Haswell Miller (1887—1979), Scottish artist, appears simply with surname Miller or with dual surname Haswell Miller *Carole Ann Haswell, astrophysicist *Charles Haynes Haswell (1809–1907), American nautical engineer, politician and author *Elizabeth Haswell, American biologist *Jock Haswell, pseudonym of Chetwynd John Drake Haswell (1919-2018), English military and intelligence author *John Haswell (1812–1897), Scottish-Austrian locomotive design engineer *Josephine Haswell Miller (1890-1975), born Elizabeth Josephine Cameron, Scottish artist, wife of Archibald E. Haswell Miller *Keeley Halswelle (1831-1891), born John Keeley Haswell, British artist *Percy Haswell (1871–1945), American actress *Robert Haswell ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Haswell (passenger Rail Advocate)
Anthony Haswell is an attorney and noted advocate of passenger rail. Haswell was born 1931 in Dayton, Ohio, son of Anthony and Virginia (Rike) Haswell. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Wisconsin in 1953, and an L.L.B. from the University of Michigan in 1958, and worked in both private practice and as an assistant public defender in Chicago. In 1967 he founded the National Association of Railroad Passengers, serving as its chairman and executive director through 1974. During that time he was deeply involved in the development, refinement and enactment of the legislation which created Amtrak, testifying before numerous Congressional committees and working closely with committee staff. From 1975 to 1977, he was managing director of Passenger Services of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, where he assisted with the transfer of the company's Chicago, Illinois, Chicago commuter trains to Metra. In October, 1977, President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Haswell (printer)
Anthony Haswell (6 April 1756 – 26 May 1816) was an English immigrant to New England, where he became a newspaper, almanac, and book publisher, the Postmaster General of Vermont and one of the Jeffersonian printers imprisoned under the Sedition Act of 1798. Immigration and revolution Anthony Haswell was born in or near Portsmouth, England, on 6 April 1756, the second son of shipwright William Haswell and his first wife Elizabeth Dawes.Farmerie (2001) The father had been employed at the royal dockyard, but in 1769 resigned his position with the intention of emigrating.Farmerie (2015) He took Anthony and his brother William with him to Boston and likely immediately apprenticed Anthony with a potter while young William trained as a shipwright under his father. Within a year, the father decided to return to England, apprenticing William to a Boston shipwright. Anthony's brother would return to England for a visit on the eve of the Revolutionary War, the outbreak of which pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Eliot Haswell Miller
The painter, illustrator and curator Archibald Eliot Haswell Miller was born in Glasgow (1887–1979). After teaching at Glasgow School of Art, between 1910 and 1930, he went on to be keeper and then Deputy Director of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh (1930 to 1952). His artwork is owned by The Imperial War Museum, London; Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries and Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, both Glasgow. Education Miller studied at The Glasgow School of Art under Maurice Greiffenhagen and Jean Delville (1906 -1909) and also travelled to study in Paris, Vienna, Munich and Berlin. He is commemorated in The Glasgow School of Art's World War One Roll of Honour, where he is listed as a Captain in the Highland Light Infantry. He was decorated with a Military Cross. Professional life Haswell Miller taught at Glasgow School of Art 1910 and 1930. Between 1930 and 1952 he was keeper and then Deputy Director of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh. His work wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Ann Haswell
Carole Ann Haswell is a British astrophysicist and current Professor of Astrophysics and Head of Astronomy at the Open University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. She has been involved in the detection of several exoplanets, including Barnard's Star b. Early life and education Haswell was born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, and grew up in Dormanstown. Her father worked on an ammonia recovery plant at Imperial Chemical Industries. She became interested in space as a child, when her father told her about the Apollo astronauts as they gazed at the Moon while on Redcar beach. Although she originally wanted to be an astronaut, she realised at the age of ten that this was impractical. She attended Huntcliff School where she worked towards her GCE Ordinary Levels. Whilst a student at Prior Pursglove and Stockton Sixth Form College, Haswell was interested in art, mathematics and physics, and was a fan of the television show '' Star Trek''. One of her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Haynes Haswell
Charles Haynes Haswell (May 22, 1809 – May 12, 1907) was a naval engineer, New York City politician and historian. A native resident of New York City, Haswell was author of one of the most broadly circulated engineering manuals of the 19th century, and also published a collection of remembrances of the city drawn from his private journals. He was the first Engineer-in-Chief of the United States Navy. Early life Charles Haynes Haswell was born May 22, 1809, on North Moore Street, New York City, the son of a Dublin-born member of the British foreign service, Charles Haswell, and his wife Dorothea Haynes of a Barbados planter family, her brother Gen. Robert Haynes having been Speaker of the House of Assembly there for over three decades.''The National Cyclopædia of American Biography'', New York: James T. White & Company, 1899, vol. 9, p. 486. He attended school at Jamaica Academy on Long Island and received tutelage in the classics in New York City. At the age of 19, he entered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Haswell
Elizabeth Haswell is an American biologist who is a professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Simons Faculty Scholar at the Washington University in St. Louis. She was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2021. Early life and education Haswell was an undergraduate student at the University of Washington, where she studied biochemistry. She was a doctoral researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, where she researched the ''Saccharomyces cerevisiae'' PHO5 promoter. Research and career Haswell works in mechanobiology, and is interested in the structure-function properties of molecular and cellular structures in plants. She has studied the minuscule mechanosensitive tunnels ("piezochannels") within cell membranes. These tunnels help cells to understand and respond to mechanical forces. Haswell was particularly interested the fundamental mechanisms that underpin the role of these channels within the pollen tubes of flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jock Haswell
Major Chetwynd John Drake "Jock" Haswell (18 July 1919 – 21 January 2018), who also wrote as George Foster, was a British military and intelligence author and former British intelligence officer. He was "Author for Service Intelligence" 1966–1984. Early life Haswell was born in Penn, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Little Appley Preparatory School and Winchester College. Career Haswell was trained at Sandhurst c. 1938/9 - 1941. He joined the Queen's Royal Regiment on 3 April 1941. Later in 1941 he was stationed in India, and saw local action. He was promoted Major on 3 July 1952, and retired from the army on 29 April 1960. Haswell's later work was mostly writing, continuing a thread from his military and intelligence work. He self-deprecatingly described his books as "holes held together with string". Nonetheless, his ''James II'', for example, was reviewed in the Times of 29 July 1972 by Geoffrey Homes. He died on 21 January 2018 at the age of 98. Bibliogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Haswell
John Haswell (20 March 1812 – 8 June 1897) was a Scottish engineer and locomotive designer. He was born on 20 March 1812 in Lancefield, Glasgow, Scotland, studied at ''Anderson's University'' in Glasgow and worked for 22 years in the shipbuilding office of ''William Fairbairn & Co''. In 1837 at the prompting of Matthias Schönerer, who was also heavily involved in the Budweis–Linz– Gmunden wagonway, he drew up plans for the repair shop of the Wien-Raaber railway (later Lokomotivfabrik der StEG), and in 1839 became entrusted with carrying them out, along with the mechanical engineer ''Kraft''. When the workshop had been built, the first of its kind in Austria, he took over its management and oversaw, not just repair work, but also the construction of new rolling stock for the railway. ''Inter alia'' he was responsible for: * the first six-coupled steam locomotive in Austria ''FAHRAFELD'' (1846) * participating in the Semmering competition in 1851 with the locomotive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josephine Haswell Miller
Josephine Haswell Miller (1 October 1890-1975) was a Scottish artist, who studied and later taught at the Glasgow School of Art, and exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA). Life Born Elizabeth Josephine Cameron in 1890 in Glasgow to Alan and Helen Cameron. Miller attended Woodside School and then the Glasgow School of Art from 1905 to 1914, where she studied painting and design under Maurice Greiffenhagen and Robert Anning Bell, two of the great first generation teachers. As a student, Miller painted the mural ''Science'' for Possilpark Library. In her final year at the Glasgow School of Art, Miller won the Haldane travelling scholarship which enabled her to study in Paris and later in London with Walter Sickert. Miller exhibited with the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists from 1914, was awarded the society's Lauder Prize in 1922 and was later made an honorary member. Miller married Archibald Eliot Haswell Miller, a military artist and teacher at Glasgow School of Art, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keeley Halswelle
Keeley Halswelle (1831–1891), born John Keeley Haswell, was an English artist. Life Keeley Halswelle was born John Keeley Haswell, son of David and Elizabeth Haswell, at Richmond, Surrey on 23 April 1831 and baptized 6 July 1831 at St. Dionis Blackchurch, London. At an early age he contributed drawings to the ''Illustrated London News'', and took up book illustration. Work for the ''Illustrated Shakespeare'' of Robert Chambers took him to Edinburgh, where he found a good friend in William Nelson, the publisher. In 1863 he is listed as living at Bellfield House in Duddingston Village on the southern outskirts of Edinburgh. In 1869 Halswelle left Britain for Italy, and during the next few years concentrated on subjects found there. He was elected a member of the Institute of Painters in Oil Colours in 1882. Halswelle lived his later years at Stoner House, Steep, near Petersfield in Hampshire, where he was a ruling councillor of the Primrose League. He died of pneumonia in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Haswell
Percy Haswell (April 30, 1871 – June 24, 1945), frequently billed as Miss Percy Haswell or Mrs. George Fawcett to clarify her gender, was an American stage and film actress. Percy Haswell was born in Austin, Texas, the daughter of George Tyler Haswell, a politician and businessman, and Caroline Dalton.John Parker, ed., ''Who's Who in the Theatre'', 3rd Ed., London: Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1916, vol. 3, p. 293 She was educated in Washington, D.C., and while still a child she first appeared on the stage in March 1885. She appeared with the Lafayette Square Theatre in Washington and acted in New York City at Augustin Daly's Theatre. Her stage career also included appearances in Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Toronto and other locales, as well as New York, where she first appeared on Broadway in 1898, returning periodically through 1932. On June 2, 1895, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, she married fellow actor George Fawcett. In 1901 at Baltimore she formed the Percy Haswell Stock Compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Haswell
Robert Haswell (November 24, 1768 – 1801?) was an early American maritime fur trader to the Pacific Northwest of North America. His journals of these voyages are the main records of Captain Robert Gray's circumnavigation of the globe. Later during the Quasi-War he served as an officer in the United States Navy. Early life Robert Haswell was born November 24, 1768, probably at Hull, Massachusetts, eldest son of Lieutenant William Haswell, a Royal Navy Customs officer, and his second wife, Rachel Woodward. This family had a naval history, Robert's grandfather having been Master Attendant of the royal docks at Gibraltar, and uncle Robert Haswell served as a Royal Navy Post Captain in the early 1780s, while his first cousin was military engineer John Montresor. During the American Revolution, his father was placed under house arrest, at Hull, then detained at Hingham and Abington, and in 1778, the family was sent via Halifax, Nova Scotia back to England, where they took up reside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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