Holwell (surname)
Holwell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * John Holwell (1649–1686?) English astrologer and mathematician *John Zephaniah Holwell (1711–1798), employee of the English East India Company and writer on the East Indies * Norman Holwell (1928–2020), British speed skater * Richard J. Holwell (born 1946), District Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York *William Holwell William Holwell (1726 – 13 February 1798) was an English cleric and writer. Life The eldest son of William Holwell, esq., of Exeter, and Ann Blackall, daughter of Ofspring Blackall, he was born in 1726. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, ...

John Holwell
John Holwell (24 November 1649 – 1686?) was an English astrologer and mathematician. Biography He was probably the John Holwell, son of Thomas and Catherine Holwell, who was baptised at St. James's, Clerkenwell, on 28 Nov, 1649. According to a biography, he was descended from the Holwells of Holwell House, near Tavistock, Devon, and his father and grandfather were engaged in Penruddock's plot in 1655, fell in the royalist cause, and as a consequence forfeited the family estates. It is known that a John Holwell of Sampford was actually sequestered in 1655, but in 1652 a Captain John Holwell, probably the same person, appears as giving information against the papists to the officers of the Commonwealth, and there is no proof of his connection with Penruddock's plot. The same account states that after the Restoration, Holwell was made royal astronomer and surveyor of the crown lands, while his wife obtained a place at court, which is possible, and that he was preceptor ...
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John Zephaniah Holwell
John Zephaniah Holwell (17 September 1711 – 5 November 1798) was a surgeon, an employee of the British East India Company, and a temporary Governor of Bengal (1760). He was also one of the first Europeans to study Indian antiquities and was an early advocate of animal rights and vegetarianism. Biography Holwell was a survivor of the Black Hole of Calcutta, June 1756, the incident in which British subjects and others were crammed into a small poorly ventilated chamber overnight, with many deaths. Howell's account of this incident (1757) obtained wide circulation in England and some claim this gained support for the East India Company's conquest of India. His account of the incident was not publicly questioned during his lifetime nor for more than a century after his death. However, in recent years, his version of the event has been called into question by many historians. Holwell has also become an important source for modern historians of medicine, as a result of his descr ...
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Norman Holwell
Norman Holwell (6 September 1928 – 7 April 2020) was a British speed skater. He competed in four events at the 1952 Winter Olympics The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 6. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 6. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Oslo 1952, was a winter multi-sport event held from 14 to 25 February 195 .... References External links * 1928 births 2020 deaths British male speed skaters Olympic speed skaters for Great Britain Speed skaters at the 1952 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Birmingham, West Midlands {{UK-speed-skating-bio-stub ...
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Richard J
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ...
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