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Hopwood (surname) , American reformed bank robber and self-taught attorney
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Hopwood is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur Tindell Hopwood (1897-1969), British palaeontologist * Avery Hopwood, American playwright * David Hopwood, British geneticist * John Hopwood, colonial-era settler of Western Pennsylvania * John Hopwood, English cricketer * Len Hopwood, English cricketer * Mererid Hopwood, Welsh poet * Ronald Arthur Hopwood (1868–1949), rear admiral, Royal Navy * Shon Hopwood Shon Robert Hopwood (born June 11, 1975) is an American appellate lawyer and professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Hopwood became well-known as a jailhouse lawyer who served time in prison for bank robbery. While in prison, he st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avery Hopwood
James Avery Hopwood (May 28, 1882 – July 1, 1928) was an American playwright of the Jazz Age. He had four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920. Early life Hopwood was born to James and Jule Pendergast Hopwood on May 28, 1882, in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Cleveland's West High School in 1900. In 1901, he began attending the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. However, his family experienced financial difficulties, so for his second year he transferred to Adelbert College. He returned to the University of Michigan in the fall of 1903, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1905. Career Hopwood started out as a journalist for the ''Cleveland Leader'' as its New York correspondent, but within a year had his first play, ''Clothes'' (1906), produced on Broadway, with the aid of playwright Channing Pollock. Hopwood eventually became known as "The Playboy Playwright"Jim BeaveBiography for Avery Hopwoodat Internet Movie Database and specialized in comedies and far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hopwood
Sir David Alan Hopwood (born 19 August 1933) is a British microbiologist and geneticist. Education Educated at Purbrook Park County High School and Lymm Grammar School, Hopwood gained his Bachelor of Arts degree from St John's College, Cambridge and his PhD from the University of Glasgow in 1973. Career Hopwood served as an assistant lecturer in genetics at Cambridge until he became a Lecturer in Genetics at the University of Glasgow in 1961. He later became John Innes Professor of Genetics at the University of East Anglia. He is now an Emeritus Fellow in the Department of Molecular Microbiology at the John Innes Centre. Awards and honours Hopwood was awarded the Gabor Medal in 1995 "in recognition of his pioneering and leading the growing field of the genetics of ''Streptomyces coelicolor'' A3(2), and for developing the programming of the pervasive process of polyketide synthesis". In 2002, he co-authored the sequencing of the ''S. coelicolor'' A3(2) genome. During more t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hopwood
John Hopwood (1745 – June 2, 1802) was an American civil servant during the American Revolutionary War and founded the town of Hopwood, Pennsylvania (originally named "Woodstock") in western Pennsylvania. John Hopwood was born in Virginia and married Hannah Bearcroft/Barecroft Humphreys, the young widow of Joseph Humphries, in 1770. According to local and family lore, he was a neighbor and trusted friend of George Washington, who in recognition of his merit, selected him as an aide-de-camp and assigned him the responsibility of selecting winter quarters for the French Army. However, there is no supporting evidence of this beyond local histories compiled in the late 19th century; per the Daughters of the American Revolution, Hopwood was only recorded as having "furnished supplies" and having served as a juror. Purported military service According to a roll of Captain Alex Smith, Company of Colonel Rawlings’ Regiment commanded by Colonel J. Hall, a John Hopwood served under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hopwood (cricketer)
John Anthony Hopwood (23 October 1926 – May 2002) was an English cricketer. Hopwood was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Herne Bay, Kent, and was educated at Dulwich College. Hopwood made a single first-class appearance for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University at Fenner's in 1951. In a match which ended as a draw, Hopwood opened the batting in the Free Foresters first-innings, scoring 8 runs before he was dismissed by Owen Wait, while in their second-innings he again opened the batting and was dismissed by the same bowler for a single run. This was his only first-class appearance. He died at Fleetwood, Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ... in May 2002. References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Hopwood, John 1926 births 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Hopwood
John Leonard Hopwood (30 October 1903 – 15 June 1985) was a Lancashire cricketer who was the focal point of the county's Championship win in 1934. During this period he was an effective if unattractive all-rounder and played twice for England, though he failed to make any impact in either game with bat or ball. Biography Born 30 October 1903, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire, Hopwood began playing for Lancashire in the 1920s as a solid right-hand batsman, but after playing fairly often for the first team in 1924 and 1925 he dropped out until 1928. In that year, however, he helped the team to their finest record ever in the County Championship with a number of surprising performances as an accurate left arm spinner, the best of which was nine for 74 against Middlesex, five for 71 against Derbyshire and six for 20 against Wales. He also hit a century against Worcestershire. 1929 saw Hopwood establish a regular place he held until the war and with Hallows declining and rule change ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mererid Hopwood
Mererid Hopwood (born February 1964) is a Welsh poet. She became in 2001 the first woman to win the bardic chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. Teaching Originally from Cardiff, Hopwood graduated with first-class honours in Spanish and German from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She was a lecturer in German at the University of Wales, Swansea, and since 2001 has also been a Creative Writing tutor in the Welsh Department. She was a Spanish teacher in Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Myrddin Carmarthen until January 2010, and is currently a lecturer at the Trinity University of Carmarthen. Hopwood was appointed in October 2020 as Professor of Welsh and Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth University. Eisteddfodau In 2003 she won the Crown at the National Eisteddfod in Meifod, and in 2008 the Eisteddfod's Prose Medal for her book ''O Ran''. She is also an S4C presenter. In 2012 she was awarded the Glyndwr Award by MOMA, Machynlleth. She now lives in Carmarthen with her husband and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Arthur Hopwood
Rear Admiral Ronald Arthur Hopwood (7 December 1868 – 28 December 1949) was a British naval officer and poet. He began his career in 1882 with the Royal Navy as a gunnery officer, completed it in 1919 as a rear admiral, and was acclaimed in 1941 as poet laureate of the Royal Navy by ''Time''. As an author, Admiral Hopwood's first work was his poem ''The Laws of the Navy'', published in 1896US Naval History & Heritage Command (2005). when he was a lieutenant. With its good-natured military advice making it popular within both the Royal and U.S. navies,''Times'' (London, 1950). ''Time'' gives it "precedence among Navy men even over Kipling's '' If'' and goes on to quote Hopwood's new poem ''Secret Orders'' in its entirety. The last lines of ''Secret Orders'', written in appreciation of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement (a predecessor to Lend Lease), harken to the Second World War bond between the two navies. Early life Hopwood was born on 7 December 1868 as the third son of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
