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Hedley (surname)
Hedley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charles Hedley (1862–1926), malacologist from England and then Australia, winner of the Clarke Award * Charles Hedley (rugby league) (1881–1942), Australian rugby footballer * Jack Hedley (1929–2021), British actor * John Cuthbert Hedley (1837–1915), British writer and bishop * John Prescott Hedley (1876-1957), British physician * Joseph Hedley (1749/50-1826), English quilter and murder victim * Lieut. Robert Hedley (1857–1884), English captain of the Royal Engineers in the 1878 FA Cup Final * Thomas Hedley (born 1942/43), publisher * Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley (1865–1937), English army officer and amateur cricketer * William Hedley (1779–1843), British industrial engineer Fictional characters * Roland Hedley, reporter in the comic strip ''Doonesbury'' See also *Headlee *Headley (surname) Headley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Chase Headley (born 1984), American professi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hedley
Charles Hedley (27 February 1862 – 14 September 1926) was a naturalist, specifically a malacologist. Born in Britain, he spent most of his life in Australia. He was the winner of the 1925 Clarke Medal. Early life Hedley was born in the vicarage at Masham, Yorkshire, England, the son of the Rev. Canon Thomas Hedley and his wife Mary, ''née'' Bush. On account of delicate health Hedley had only two years at Eastbourne College, but his education was continued by his father, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was mainly educated in the south of France; from boyhood he collected mollusc shells, and was greatly influenced by a French work on molluscan anatomy. In France he met George French Angas who gave him a letter of introduction to Dr. George Bennett of Sydney. Exploring in Oceania In 1881 Hedley went to New Zealand and in September 1882 to Sydney. He was suffering from asthma and after trying the dry interior found he was in better health when near the sea. He took u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hedley (rugby League)
Charlie Hedley (1881–1942) was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer. He was one of his country's first national representative players appearing in the inaugural professional series against New Zealand in 1907 and making the 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain. Playing career Hedley had been a Glebe rugby union player before he joined the Glebe rugby league club in its inaugural 1908 season. He had been one of the pioneers who was barred from the amateur code when selected in the inaugural New South Wales professional rugby side who met Albert Baskiville's rebel All Golds when the arrived in Sydney in 1907 for a series played in rugby union rules. He was selected to play at in the first ever trans-Tasman test, which was debut match of the Australia national rugby league team. Following his first season with Glebe in 1908 – the inaugural season for rugby league in Australia, he was selected as part of the Australia national rugby league team to go on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Hedley
Jack Snowdon Hawkins (28 October 1929 – 11 December 2021), better known as Jack Hedley, was an English film, voice, radio, stage, character, theater, screen and television actor best known for his performances on television. His birth name necessitated a change to avoid confusion with his namesake who was already registered with the British actors' trade union Equity. Personal life Hedley was born in London in 1929. His mother, Dorothy Withill, was 19 when she gave birth to him, and later married Albert Hawkins in 1936, although this man was not his father. He never knew the identity of his biological father. He came from humble beginnings, and used to earn money by collecting sacks of horse manure from the streets and selling them as fertiliser. However, he won a Beaverbrook scholarship to Downleas prep school, then won another scholarship to Bryanston, and then another to Dartmouth. He took a degree in history in 18 months. On leaving school, he became a cadet at the Roya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cuthbert Hedley
John Cuthbert Hedley (15 April 1837 – 11 November 1915) was a British Benedictine and writer who held high offices in the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Morpeth, Northumberland, he was the son of Dr. Edward Astley Hedley and Mary Ann ( Davison) Hedley. He was educated at Mr Gibson's Grammar School and then at Ampleforth College. He was professed a member of the Order of Saint Benedict in 1855 and ordained a priest of the order on 9 October 1862. He was appointed an auxiliary bishop of Newport and Menevia and Titular Bishop of '' Caesaropolis'' on 22 July 1873. His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 29 September 1873, the principal consecrator was Archbishop (later Cardinal) Henry Edward Manning of Westminster, with bishops Brown and Chadwick as co-consecrators. Hedley acted as editor of the '' Dublin Review'' in the late 1870s. Prior to assuming the editorship, he had taught philosophy and theology for eleven years at Belmont Abbey, Herefordshire. As editor sought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Prescott Hedley
John Prescott Hedley (1876–1957) FRCS, FRCP, FRCOG was a British surgeon and foundation fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) is a professional association based in London, United Kingdom. Its members, including people with and without medical degrees, work in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology, that is ....Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG). (2014RCOG Roll of Active Service, 1914-1918.London: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. p. 8Archived here./ref> References 1876 births 1957 deaths Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 20th-century British medical doctors British obstetricians British gynaecologists Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians {{UK-med-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Hedley
Joseph Hedley (also known as Joe the Quilter, – 3 January 1826) was a Quilter from Northumberland. During his life he was renowned for his quality of craftsmanship with his work being exported as far as America. He lived his later years on parish relief. His life was widely recorded in newspapers across the country and most remembered due to his brutal murder, which occurred on 3 January 1826. His murderers were not found despite a large reward being offered, and the culprits remains unknown. Life Joseph Hedley, born at some point in in Northumberland. Little is known about his early life except what scant information is given in his obituaries, which are more interested in contrasting the peacefulness of his late life with his grisly murder. It is known that he trained as a tailor, probably taking an apprenticeship in the craft. However, for an unknown reason he gave up the craft for that of Quilt making. While much of the nation's quilting industry was in decline durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hedley
Lieut. Robert Shafto Hedley (17 January 1857 – 29 January 1884) was an English soldier and footballer. He was the captain of the Royal Engineers team that reached the final of the FA Cup in 1878, where they were defeated 3–1 by the Wanderers. Early life and education Hedley was born in Taunton, Somerset and educated at Reading School. At Reading, he played for the school football XI from 1871 to 1873, including in a match against Reading F.C. in its inaugural season. According to the 1871 census, he lived with his mother, Catherine, at Easby Hall, Easby, Richmond in Yorkshire. On leaving school, he joined the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. On 2 August 1876, he was appointed as lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. Football career Hedley played football for the Royal Military Academy and for the Royal Engineers. A centre-forward, he was described as "a useful centre, combining considerable speed and weight with no small amount of energy", although early reports suggested th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hedley
Thomas Hedley Jr., (born 1942/43) is a British magazine editor and screenwriter. The former publisher of Duckworth in London is President and Publisher of Hedley Media Group in New York City. As a young editor of ''Esquire (magazine), Esquire'', he edited and published essays by Federico Fellini, François Truffaut, Michelangelo Antonioni and Andy Warhol, among others. A fascination with film led to a number of written and produced screenplays including: ''Circle of Two'', directed by Jules Dassin, ''Mr. Patman'', ''Deadly Companion, Double Negative'', ''Fighting Back (1982 American film), Fighting Back'' and most notably, ''Flashdance''. He has written screenplays for Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Jean-Paul Goude and Sean Penn, among others. Early life Hedley was born in England, the son of a Canadian military father and his English wife, and was educated at the University of Winnipeg. Career *As editor-in-chief of ''Toronto Life'', Hedley turned it into the “magazine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coote Hedley
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley (12 December 1865 – 27 December 1937) was a British Army officer who began his career in the Royal Engineers and later moved into military intelligence. He was also a gifted amateur sportsman who played first-class cricket for several County Championship sides and competed to a high level in rackets and golf. Hedley was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1884. He became a surveyor in the 1890s and was attached to the Ordnance Survey. This work was interrupted by service in South Africa throughout the Second Boer War, and from 1906 to 1908 by his appointment as an advisor to the Survey of India. In 1911 he was appointed to command MO4, also known as the Geographical Section of the General Staff. During the First World War this organisation was responsible for producing all the maps required by British Empire forces around the world, and in particular mapping the ever-changing trench system on the Western Front. Following the end of the war, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hedley
William Hedley (13 July 1779 – 9 January 1843) was born in Newburn, near Newcastle upon Tyne. He was one of the leading industrial engineers of the early 19th century, and was instrumental in several major innovations in early rail transport, railway development. While working as a 'colliery viewer, viewer' or manager at Wylam Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne, he built the first practical steam locomotive which relied simply on the Rail adhesion, adhesion of iron wheels on iron rails. Early locomotives Before Hedley's time, such locomotives were far too heavy for the track that was then available. While most lines used cable haulage with stationary engines, various other schemes had been tried. William Chapman at the Butterley Company in 1812, attempted to use a steam engine which hauled itself along a cable, while, at the same company, Brunton had produced the even less successful "mechanical traveller", or Steam Horse locomotive, ''Steam Horse''. However, in 1812, Matthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Hedley
Roland Burton Hedley, III is a fictional character in the comic strip ''Doonesbury'' by Garry Trudeau, inspired by the on-air style of the veteran US reporter Sam Donaldson. Hedley is a journalist who covers sports at the Saigon bureau for ''Time'' and, once called back, is commissioned to write an article about Walden Commune, where most of the strip's characters live during the 1970s. They fill his head with a lot of nonsense, convincing him that the hippie movement is coming back and that they represent a national trend. He is even convinced that Zonker's lilacs are marijuana plants. Later he resurfaces in the strip as a television reporter for ABC News. By this point he has developed an extraordinarily large ego, which remains his defining trait to this day. He is a sensationalist, willing to stretch the truth and say anything that would further his career. Often he is sent on dangerous assignments, and it is implied that his superiors send him on these intentionally, hoping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Headlee
Headlee is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Celeste Headlee (born 1969), journalist *Richard Headlee (1930–2004) *Russell Headlee (1908–1987), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1951–1968) See also *Headlee, Indiana *Hedley (surname) *Headley (surname) Headley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Chase Headley (born 1984), American professional baseball player *David Headley (born 1960), Pakistani-American terrorist *Dean Headley (born 1970), cricketer *Frederick Webb Headley ( ... {{surname, Headlee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
