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Henry Hughes (historian)
Henry Hughes may refer to: * Henry Hughes, 19th century British locomotive builder, see Brush Traction * Henry Hughes (1850s), stained-glass window designer and partner in the firm Ward and Hughes * Henry Hughes (cricketer) (born 1992), English cricketer * Henry Hughes (director), American film director * Henry Hughes (New South Wales politician) (fl. 1850s), Australian politician * Henry Hughes (sociologist) (1829–1862), American lawyer, sociologist, state senator and Confederate officer from Mississippi * Henry Hughes (Vicar Apostolic of Gibraltar) (1788–1860), Irish-born Roman Catholic bishop and Franciscan friar * Henry George Hughes (1810–1872), Irish judge and politician * Henry Kent Hughes (1814–1880), pastoralist and politician in the South Australian House of Assembly * Henry P. Hughes (1904–1968), American jurist from Wisconsin * H. Stuart Hughes (1916–1999), American historian, professor, and activist * Henry Castree Hughes Henry Castree Hughes (29 May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brush Traction
Brush Traction is a manufacturer and maintainer of railway locomotives in Loughborough, England. It is a subsidiary of Wabtec. History Hughes's Locomotive & Tramway Engine Works Henry Hughes had been operating at the Falcon Works since the 1850s, producing items such as brass and iron cast parts for portable engines and thrashing machines. In 1860 Henry Hughes announced he had entered into a partnership with William March who had extensive experience in the timber trade, and this would be added to the existing business of "engineers and manufacturers of railway plant", with the business to be called Hughes and March. In March 1863, Hughes announced it was making a steam locomotive designed for contractors and mineral railways. This was an 0-4-0 saddle tank with a 200 psi boiler pressure and cylinders of 10 inch bore and 15 inch stroke. In 1866, Hughes announced a sale of timber and associated equipment from the "Falcon Railway Plant Works" as he had decided to close down ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ward And Hughes
Ward and Hughes (formerly Ward and Nixon) was the name of an English company producing stained-glass windows. History Ward and Hughes was proceeded by the company Ward and Nixon, whose studio was at 67 Frith Street, Soho. They created large window for St Stephen Coleman Street, London. James Henry Nixon worked on the restoration of the famous medieval stained glass at St. Neots in Cornwall as early as 1829. The firm became a favourite of Charles Winston, which helped them gain prestigious commissions like the east window of Lincoln Cathedral. In 1857 Nixon died and his pupil, Henry Hughes, became the partner of Thomas Ward, and the business was renamed Ward and Hughes. Henry Hughes died on the 17th February 1883 and was buried in a family vault (no.14843) on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. T. F. Curtis took over the firm and continued production as T. F. Curtis, Ward and Hughes until the late 1920s. Works by Ward and Hughes * St. Michael's Church, Sowton, Devon * Church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hughes (cricketer)
Henry Christopher David Hughes (born 11 September 1992) is an English former first-class cricketer. Dating Katie Joyce who he met at Uppingham. Hughes was born at Manchester and was educated at Uppingham School, where he captained the school cricket team, before going up to Oxford Brookes University. While studying at Oxford Brookes, he made two appearances in first-class cricket for Oxford MCCU Oxford University Cricket Club (OUCC), which represents the University of Oxford, has always held first-class status since 1827 when it made its debut in the inaugural University Match between OUCC and Cambridge University Cricket Club (CUCC). ... in 2015, playing at Oxford against Worcestershire and Middlesex. Hughes struggled at first-class level, scoring 7 runs in the four innings' in which he batted, with a top score of 4. Henry now works for his family company Behrens with this Father and Brother Notes and references External links 1992 births Living people C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hughes (director)
1st Lieutenant Henry "Hank" Hughes IV is an American film director and former Paratrooper for 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team. He is best known for directing and co-writing the short-film ''Day One'' as a part of his graduate project at American Film Institute The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States. AFI is supported by private funding and public membership fees. Leade .... ''Day one'' received critical appraisal and earned him a Best Narrative (short) Gold Medal at 42nd Annual Student Film Awards, BAFTA US Student Award at 2016 BAFTA/LA Student Film Awards, and Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film nomination at 88th Academy Awards. He is a graduate of Boston University. Filmography Awards * Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film - nominated * Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Award for Best Directing - Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hughes (New South Wales Politician)
Henry Hughes was an Australian pastoralist and politician. He was an appointed member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1851 to 1853. Hughes was a squatter and large landowner and stockholder at Gowrie Station on the Darling Downs, in what is now Queensland. He was reported to have been one of the first white colonists in the area. He was appointed a magistrate there in 1846. In 1848, along with a colleague, Isaac, he purchased " Westbrook" in addition to his existing landholding; it was transferred to him alone in 1850. In 1851, prior to his appointment, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the elected Brisbane-based Stanley Boroughs seat in the Legislative Council, in which he had variously been referred as the "pro-transportation" or "squatting" candidate. He had strongly advocated the importation of convicts into Moreton Bay, having gone so far as to travel to England to wait upon the Secretary of State for the Colonies. He was an "unflinching advocate" of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hughes (sociologist)
Henry Hughes (1829–1862) was an American lawyer, sociologist, state senator, and Confederate Colonel from Mississippi. He developed the economic notion of warrantism and supported the re-establishment of the African slave trade. Life and career Early life Hughes was born on April 17, 1829, in Port Gibson, Mississippi.James Oscar Farmer, ''Metaphysical Confederacy'', Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1999, pp. 103-10/ref>Luther Lee Bernard, 'Henry Hughes, First American Sociologist', ''Social Forces'', Vol. 15, No. 2 (December, 1936), pp. 154-174Drew Gilpin Faust, ''The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830—1860'', Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 198/ref>James B. Lloyd, ''Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967'', Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, p. 24/ref>John R. Shook, ''Dictionary of Early American Philosophers'', Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2012, p. 56/ref> His father was Captain Benjam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hughes (Vicar Apostolic Of Gibraltar)
Henry Hughes, O.F.M. (1788–1860) was an Irish-born Roman Catholic bishop and Franciscan friar who served as the Vicar Apostolic of Gibraltar from 1839 to 1856. Born in Wexford, Ireland on 26 June 1788, he was appointed the Vicar Apostolic of Gibraltar and Titular Bishop of ''Heliopolis in Augustamnica'' by Pope Gregory XVI on 15 March 1839. His consecration Consecration is the solemn dedication to a special purpose or service. The word ''consecration'' literally means "association with the sacred". Persons, places, or things can be consecrated, and the term is used in various ways by different grou ... to the Episcopate took place on 21 March 1841; the principal consecrator was Giacomo Filippo Fransoni, Cardinal-Priest of '' Santa Maria in Ara Coeli'', with Ignazio Giovanni Cadolini, Titular Archbishop of ''Edessa in Osrhoëne'', serving as co-consecrator. Bishop Hughes resigned in 1856 and died on 12 October 1860, aged 72. References 1788 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry George Hughes
Henry George Hughes (10 August 1810 – 22 July 1872) was an Irish judge, politician, and third Exchequer of Ireland, Baron of the Court of Exchequer. In 1850 he was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland. He was elected Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Longford (UK Parliament constituency), Longford in 1856. Background and early career He was born in Dublin, eldest son of James Hughes, solicitor, and Margaret Morton, daughter of Trevor Stannus Morton, also a solicitor. They lived on Capel Street.Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' John Murray London 1926 Vol.2 p.302 He went to a private school at Jervis Street, Dublin and matriculated at Trinity College Dublin in 1825, but did not proceed to a degree. He entered the King's Inns in 1830, and Gray's Inn in 1832. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1834, Queen's Counsel in 1844. He practised at the Chancery Bar and rapidly built up a very large practice; he became renowne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Kent Hughes
Henry Kent Hughes (c. 1814 – 30 August 1880), usually referred to as H. Kent Hughes, was a pastoralist and politician who sat in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1868 to 1875 representing the seats of Victoria and later, Port Adelaide. Early life Hughes was born in England, possibly the son of Thomas Hughes, dyer, of Bunhill Row. He married Jane Hilditch (died 4 June 1890). They travelled to South Australia on the barque ''Raleigh'', arriving at Port Adelaide on 15 January 1851. Hughes was, for a considerable period (at least 1838 – 1844) in the colony of Victoria; he was one of a party, with Peter Snodgrass MLC, a Mr. Murdoch, a Dr. Dixon and one James Murdoch, who pioneered settlement in the Goulburn Valley in Victoria. With two brothers he founded the property, later the town, of Avenel, often cited as named for a Gloucestershire village with which had a connection (though information on its whereabouts is lacking), his previous property in England, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry P
Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal (father of Portugal's first king) ** Prince Henry the Navigator, Infante of Portugal ** Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra (born 1949), the sixth in line to Portuguese throne * King of Germany **Henry the Fowler (876–936), first king of Germany * King of Scots (in name, at least) ** Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545/6–1567), consort of Mary, queen of Scots ** Henry Benedict Stuart, the 'Cardinal Duke of York', brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was hailed by Jacobites as Henry IX * Four kings of Castile: **Henry I of Castile **Henry II of Castile **Henry III of Castile **Henry IV of Castile * Five kings of France, spelt ''Henri'' in Modern French since the Renaissance to italianize the name and to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Castree Hughes
Henry Castree Hughes (29 May 1893 – 1 January 1976), known as H. C. Hughes or Hugh Hughes, was a British architect and conservationist. He spent his entire career in Cambridge, where he practised architecture from 1923, latterly as Hughes and Bicknell with Peter Bicknell, and lectured in design at the School of Architecture of the University of Cambridge (1919–32). As an architect, he is best known for his Modernist buildings of the 1930s, particularly the Mond Building (1931–32) and Fen Court, Peterhouse (1939–40), although much of his output was traditional in style. He also carried out restoration work on cottages, Cambridge college buildings, and churches, including the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral. He was an elected fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He lobbied on issues relating to the conservation of the countryside surrounding Cambridge, and was instrumental in the foundation of the Cambridge Preservation Society in 1928. Early life and educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Hughes (other) (1922–1996), Governor of Iowa
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Harry Hughes (1926–2019) was an American politician. Harry Hughes may also refer to: * Harry Hughes (Australian footballer) (1876–1929), Australian footballer * Harry Hughes (director), British film director and screenwriter * Harry Hughes (footballer, born 1929) (1929–2013), English former footballer * Harry W. Hughes (1887–1953), American football player, coach and college athletics administrator * Harry Hughes (javelin thrower) (born 1997), British javelin thrower See also * Henry Hughes (other) * Harold Hughes Harold Everett Hughes (February 10, 1922 – October 23, 1996) was the 36th Governor of Iowa from 1963 until 1969, and a United States senator from Iowa from 1969 until 1975. He began his political career as a Republican but changed his affil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
