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Horrocks Observing The 1639 Transit Of Venus By Eyre Crowe
Horrocks or Horrox may refer to People * Amy Elsie Horrocks (1867–ca. 1920), English music educator, pianist and composer * Brian Horrocks (1895–1985), British Army lieutenant-general in the Second World War * Chris Horrocks (soccer) (born 1954), Canadian former international and North American Soccer League player * Chris Horrocks (writer), associate professor of art history and author * Dylan Horrocks (born 1966), New Zealand cartoonist *Geoffrey Horrocks (mathematician) (1932/33 – 2012), British mathematician *Geoffrey Horrocks (philologist) (born 1951), British philologist * Ian Horrocks (born 1958), British professor of computer science at the University of Oxford * Ian Horrocks (RAF officer) (died 2014), British Royal Air Force pilot and air commodore * James Horrocks (died 1772), American Anglican clergyman and sixth president of the College of William and Mary * Jane Horrocks (born 1964), British comedian and actress * Jeremiah Horrocks (1618–1641), English astrono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Elsie Horrocks
Amy Elise Horrocks (23 February 1867 – 4 December 1919), a life-long pacifist, was an England, English music educator, composer (particularly of songs) and pianist, born to English parents (Francis James Horrocks 8 July 1829 – 27 April 1913) and Hannah Horrocks (née Allen 1833 – 22 April 1913) in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where it is suggested that Francis Horrocks was constructing tramways. Amy had an elder sister, Marian, also born in Brazil, but who died there in 1862 aged 1 year. Contrary to one report, she did not have a brother. She had a close association with the Royal Academy of Music as both a student, teacher and Fellow and enjoyed a degree of professional success, including several performances of her work at the Proms. Early life The family (Francis, Hannah, Amy [aged 4] and their servant Mary Thompson) are recorded in the Scottish census of 1871, as lodgers in Edinburgh, so presumably they left Brazil between 1867 and 1871 and are possibly taking a holiday. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Horrocks
Nancy Horrocks née Kitchin (1900–1989) was a British artist, notable for the abstract paintings she created in the 1960s. Biography Horrocks was born at Compton in Hampshire and attended Winchester High School. She went on to study at the Chelsea School of Art and then the Slade School of Fine Art from 1918 to 1920. Horrocks frequently exhibited her abstract paintings with the Women's International Art Club between 1958 and 1965. She took part in exhibitions at both the New Vision Centre Gallery and the Knott Gallery in Dallas during 1961 and at the Grabowski Gallery the following year. Horrocks also exhibited with the Artists' International Association and at Heal's Mansard Gallery during the mid-1960s, when she also had a solo exhibition at the New Gallery in Belfast. She also showed works at the Grosvenor Galleries and at the Bradford and Northampton City Art Galleries. Horrocks was married to Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks and, at different periods, lived at St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horrocks (crater)
Horrocks is a lunar impact crater located entirely within the eroded northeast rim of the much larger walled plain Hipparchus. Its diameter is 30 km. It was named after the 17th-century English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks. To the south of Horrocks are the craters Halley and Hind, Rhaeticus is to the north, and Pickering to the northeast. Gyldén and Saunder lie to the west and east, respectively. The rim of Horrocks is somewhat irregular and polygonal, particularly with an outward protrusion on the eastern rim. It has a small outer rampart. The inner wall is slumped, particularly along the northwest where it forms a heap of talus. The interior floor is uneven, and it has a central mountain and hills. The crater is approximately 30 kilometers in diameter and 3 kilometers deep. It is from the Eratosthenian The Eratosthenian period in the lunar geologic timescale runs from 3,200 million years ago to 1,100 million years ago. It is named after the crater Eratosthenes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horrocks Block
Horrocks Block () is a large rectangular outcrop that is composed mainly of sandstone, lying on the north side of Venus Glacier, southwest of the Keystone Cliffs, on the east side of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was mapped by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys from satellite imagery supplied by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee from association with Venus Glacier after Jeremiah Horrocks, the British astronomer who predicted and first observed a transit of Venus frameless, upright=0.5 A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and a superior planet, becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. During a trans ..., in 1639. Horrocks Block seems to have some relation with nearby Bandstone Block, they appear to be both large rectangular outcrops of sandsto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flinders Ranges
The Flinders Ranges are the largest mountain range in South Australia, which starts about north of Adelaide. The ranges stretch for over from Port Pirie to Lake Callabonna. The Adnyamathanha people are the Aboriginal group who have inhabited the range for tens of thousands of years. Its most well-known landmark is Wilpena Pound / Ikara, a formation that creates a natural amphitheatre covering and containing the range's highest peak, St Mary Peak (). The ranges include several national parks, the largest being the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park, as well as other protected areas. It is an area of great geological and palaeontological significance, and includes the oldest fossil evidence of animal life was discovered. The Ediacaran Period and Ediacaran biota take their name from the Ediacara Hills within the ranges. In August 2022, a nomination for the Flinders Ranges to be named a World Heritage Site was lodged. History The first humans to inhabit the Flinders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horrocks Pass
Horrocks Pass is a geographical location in the Australian state of South Australia in the localities of Nectar Brook, South Australia, Nectar Brook and Woolundunga, South Australia, Woolundunga in the southern Flinders Ranges, about west of the town of Wilmington, South Australia, Wilmington. Horrocks Highway, Horrocks Pass Road travels through the pass from Wilmington to the Augusta Highway in the west. It was discovered by and named after John Ainsworth Horrocks, John Horrocks who travelled through the area with his party in August 1846 during his ill-fated exploration of land north of Spencer Gulf. At the top of the pass is a lookout and monument to Horrocks and his party which was erected by the District Councils of District Council of Wilmington, Wilmington and District Council of Port Germein, Port Germein and dedicated on 21 September 1946. References {{reflist External linksCentenary of John Horrock`s Exploration Memorial Landforms of South Australia Flinders Rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horrocks, Western Australia
Horrocks also known as Horrocks Beach is a coastal town in the Mid West region of Western Australia. It is located north of the state capital, Perth and west of Northampton, the closest major town. In the Horrocks had a population of 138 people in 184 dwellings (63 occupied). Most of the dwellings are holiday houses. The population of Horrocks fluctuates depending on tourism, with the town at full capacity during school holidays and throughout the summer. During the census (Tuesday 9 August) 62% of dwellings were unoccupied (national average 11%). The town was named after Joseph Lucas Horrocks, a convict who was transported to Western Australia in 1851 for forging and uttering Uttering is a crime involving a person with the intent to defraud that knowingly sells, publishes or passes a forged or counterfeited document. More specifically, forgery creates a falsified document and uttering is the act of knowingly passing o .... Horrocks received a conditional pardoned in 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Horrocks (cricketer)
William John Horrocks (18 June 1905 – 15 November 1985) was an English-born cricketer who played 29 matches of first-class cricket for Western Australia and Lancashire between 1927 and 1936. Life and career Bill Horrocks' family moved from England to Perth in 1913. A right-handed batsman with a range of strokes all around the field, and an excellent fieldsman, he played first-grade cricket in Perth at 17, and made his first-class debut for Western Australia in the 1926–27 season.''The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket'', Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 253. He impressed the English team in 1928–29 with his batting in Perth for Western Australia and an Australian XI, and one of the team, George Duckworth, a relative of his from Lancashire, suggested he return to Lancashire to play county cricket. Horrocks played for Lancashire for three seasons, 1931 to 1933, and scored a century against Nottinghamshire in 1931, but was not generally successful, and returned to Perth. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Horrocks
Brigadier General Sir William Heaton Horrocks (25 August 1859 – 26 January 1941) was an officer of the British Army remembered chiefly for confirming Sir David Bruce's theory that Malta fever was spread through goat's milk. He also contributed to the making safe of water, developing a simple method of testing and purifying water in the field. Because of his work, he became the first Director of Hygiene at the War Office in 1919. Early life and career William Heaton Horrocks was the son of William Holden Horrocks of Bolton. Horrocks studied for his M.B. at Owen's College and passed his first M.B. examination in 1881. He received a Third Class Honours pass in Anatomy, and a Second Class in Physiology and Histology. Previously a Surgeon on probation, Horrocks was promoted to Surgeon (the equivalent of Captain) on 5 February 1887. While serving in India, Horrocks married Minna Moore (died 1921), the daughter of the Reverend J.C. Moore of Connor, County Antrim on 27 Septe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Horrocks
Victor Horrocks (1884 – 7 January 1922) was an English footballer who played football in Staffordshire, most notable with Stoke and Port Vale. Career Horrocks played for local sides Goldenhill Wanderers, Stoke (without playing a first-team game), Talke United, Sandyford and Goldenhill United, before signing with Burslem Port Vale in April 1905. He scored on his debut at outside-left in a 3–1 defeat by Bolton Wanderers at Burnden Park on 15 April. Six days later he scored in a 3–2 win over Gainsborough Trinity at the Athletic Ground, and ended the 1904–05 season with two goals in four Second Division games. He played 19 league and two FA Cup games in the 1905–06 campaign, and featured just ten times in the 1906–07 season as he was affected by injury. The club suffered a financial crisis and went into liquidation in summer 1907, and was forced to release all its players, including Horrocks. He returned to Goldenhill United, before re-joining Stoke. He opened his acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Horrox
Rosemary Elizabeth Horrox,Horrox, R.E., ''The Extent and Use of Crown Patronage under Richard III'' (unpublished PhD, Cambridge University, 1977), ii (born 21 May 1951) is an English historian, specialising in the political culture of late medieval England, patronage and society. She is a Fellow and retired Director of Studies in History at Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge. She is an affiliated lecturer in history at Cambridge's Institute of Continuing Education. She studied at South Park High School, Lincoln and received her Bachelor of Arts (BA), Master of Arts (MA) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Cambridge, the latter being a study of royal patronage under King Richard III of England. She studied for this at Newnham College under the supervision of G.L. Harriss, whose suggestion it had been, and it was awarded in March 1977. More recently, her interests have expanded into the relationship between local- and central government, the Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Horrocks
Richard Horrocks (29 August 1857 – 19 June 1926) was an English cricketer active from 1880 to 1882 who played for Lancashire. He was born and died in Church, Lancashire. He appeared in seven first-class matches as a righthanded batsman In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter (historically, the ..., scoring 121 runs with a highest score of 61 and held one catch. Notes 1857 births 1926 deaths English cricketers Lancashire cricketers Players of the North cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1850s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
