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Henry Carr (other)
Henry Carr (1941–2015) was an American track and field athlete. Henry Carr may also refer to: * Henry Carr (artist) (1894–1970), British landscape painter and war artist * Henry Rawlingson Carr (1863–1945), Nigerian educator and administrator * Henry Lascelles Carr (1844–1902), British newspaper proprietor and businessman * Henry James Carr (1849–1929), American librarian * Henry P. Carr (1904–1993), lawyer and politician from Philadelphia * Sir Henry William Carr (1777–1821), British Army soldier * Henry Wilfrid Carr (1894–1962), British consular official in Zurich, basis for the central character in Tom Stoppard's play ''Travesties,'' also caricatured in James Joyce's novel ''Ulysses.'' * Sir Henry Carr (judge) (1958–2019), British barrister and High Court judge * Henry Carr (priest) (1880–1963), Canadian priest See also * Harry Carr (other) * Henry Carr Crusaders The Caledon Admirals are a Junior 'A' ice hockey team based in Caledon, Ontario, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Carr
Henry Carr (November 27, 1941 – May 29, 2015) was an American track and field athlete who won two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.Henry Carr . Sports Reference Early life Born in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1941, Carr moved with his family to , Michigan when he was young. Prior to bringing his athletic talents to (ASU), Carr was a state champion sprinter for[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Carr (artist)
Henry Marvell Carr, , (16 August 1894 – 16 March 1970) was a successful British landscape and portrait painter who served as a war artist during World War II. Early life Carr was born in Leeds and trained at Leeds College of Art and the Royal College of Art, under William Rothenstein. During World War I he served in France with the Royal Field Artillery. After the war his work was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1921, in other British galleries and in Paris. He painted portraits of, among others, Aldous Huxley and Olivia Davis and landscapes of the English south coast. World War II At the outbreak of World War II, Carr was offered commissions by the War Artists' Advisory Committee to paint scenes of bomb damage in London, both to landmarks such as St Pancras railway station and St Clement Danes Church and to housing in the suburbs. An exhibition of his war paintings was held at the National Gallery in July 1940. Carr's own home and studio were destroyed in the Blitz. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Rawlingson Carr
Henry Carr (15 August 1863 – 1945) was a Nigerian educator and administrator. He was one of the most prominent West Africans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and was a member of the legislative council in Lagos from 1918–1924. Background and education Henry Carr was born in Lagos, British Nigeria on 15 August 1863 to Amuwo Carr and Rebecca Carr, liberated Saro emigrants of Yoruba extraction. Amuwo Carr died in Abeokuta when Henry was seven years old, leaving Rebecca Carr in charge of young Henry's education. Henry attended Wesleyan School, Olowogbowo for his elementary education. He was sponsored by Reverend T.B. Thomas, a close friend of his mother, to attend Wesleyan High School in Freetown, British Sierra Leone for his secondary education. In Sierra Leone, he attended Fourah Bay College where he received an honours degree in 1880. He was the first graduate of the school to achieve the feat. He then went to England and signed up for courses at Lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Lascelles Carr
Henry Lascelles Carr (1841 – 5 October 1902), known as Lascelles Carr, was a Great Britain, British newspaper proprietor and businessman. Born in Yorkshire, Carr relocated to South Wales where he became a journalist. Carr became editor of the ''Western Mail (Wales), Western Mail'' and later its owner, before buying the London-based ''News of the World''. Carr was also the Chairman of the Cardiff-based Royal Hotel, Cardiff, Royal Hotel Company and was a city councillor. Career Carr was born in the town of Knottingley, Yorkshire in 1841 a son of Reverend James B. Carr, a Wesleyan minister. He was educated at Kingswood School in Bath, and as an adult trained firstly as an accountant before spending a single year at Richmond Theological College, Richmond College where he served as the editor of the college magazine. From Richmond he entered St Aidan's Anglican training College, but upon graduating Carr decided to follow a path as a journalist rather than entering the priesthood. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry James Carr
Henry James Carr (August 16, 1849 – May 21, 1929) was an American librarian. Carr was raised in New Hampshire and Grand Rapids, Michigan. He worked as an accountant and cashier in railway offices from 1867 to 1886. During that time, he studied law at the University of Michigan, gaining admission to the bar in 1879, but he never practiced law. In 1886, Carr was named librarian for the Grand Rapids Public Library, where he worked until 1890 when he was recruited to create a new public library for the residents of Saint Joseph, Missouri. In 1891 he moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania, to assist them in establishing their public library. Carr served as the president of the American Library Association The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with 49,727 members a ... from 1900 to 1901. He also served a ... [...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 William Carr
Sir Henry William Carr (6 October 1777 – 10 August 1821) was a professional soldier in the British Army who, when peace came in 1814, married the widow of the assassinated prime minister Spencer Perceval. Early life Born in Twickenham, where at the time his father ran a private school, he was the second son of the Reverend Colston Carr (1740–1822) and his wife Elizabeth Bullock (1747–1826). His elder brother was Robert James Carr, bishop of Chichester and of Worcester, while his eldest sister Elizabeth Anne Carr married Sir James Martin Lloyd . Though his father intended him to join Coutts Bank, he chose the Army. Army career Joining the newly raised 83rd Foot, Carr was posted to the West Indies where he saw action in the Second Maroon War in Jamaica and in Santo Domingo and was wounded, requiring long convalescence. In 1802 the regiment was recalled to the United Kingdom and the 2nd Battalion was not thrown into action again until 1809, when it was sent to Lisbon to co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Wilfrid Carr
Henry Wilfrid Carr (22 February 1894 – 3 April 1962) was a British consular official in Zurich where, in 1918, he encountered James Joyce. They quarrelled, and Joyce caricatured Carr in ''Ulysses (novel), Ulysses''. The relationship between Carr and Joyce was portrayed in almost entirely fictional terms by Tom Stoppard in his 1974 comedy ''Travesties'', in which Carr is the central character. The real Henry Carr Henry Wilfrid Carr was born in Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland, Co Durham, on 22 February 1894, one of the four children, all sons, of Thomas Carr, a draper, and his wife, Mary Ann. At the age of 17 Henry moved to Canada, where he worked for a bank. He volunteered for military service in the First World War and served in France with the The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, Canadian Black Watch. He was badly wounded and taken prisoner. The gravity of his wounds caused the Germans to send him for treatment at a monastery where the monks nursed him to a partial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Carr (judge)
Sir Henry James Carr (31 March 1958 – 18 July 2019) was a British barrister and High Court judge from 2015 until his death in service four years later. Biography Carr, whose father was a solicitor, was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. When he visited Hertford for an open day, the undergraduate guide was Lord David Pannick, who would later become a leading barrister in his own right and a life peer. Carr graduated with a first-class BA in law. He later completed an LLM at the University of British Columbia. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1982 and practised intellectual property and patents law from 11 South Square chambers. Following successful action against McDonald's, in which Sir David Neuberger ruled the company did not have a monopoly on the prefix ''Mc'', Carr was called "McJustice" by the press. He took silk in 1998, was deputy chair of the Copyright Tribunal from 2007 to 2015 and was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2007. 1 October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Carr (priest)
Henry Carr (8 January 1880 – 28 November 1963) was a Canadian Basilian priest also known as Father "Hank" Carr. He enhanced Catholic education in Canada by broadening the curriculum at University of Toronto's University of St. Michael's College. He also arranged for St. Michael's to be a federated arts college. He was the co-founder of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, and an advocate for the inclusion of religious education in curricular studies. Carr was born and raised in Oshawa, Ontario in 1880, one of nine children. He was ordained as a priest on 3 September 1905. He taught at St. Michael's College and acted as a president of the Institute of Mediaeval Studies until 1936 and served as the principal at St. Thomas More College in Saskatchewan. He died of pneumonia on 28 November 1963 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Carr was recognized as a Canadian Person of National Historic Significance in 2012. Father Henry Carr Catholic Secondary School Father H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Carr (other)
Harry Carr was a writer. Harry Carr may also refer to: *Harry Carr (cricketer) (1907–1943), English cricketer and journalist * Harry Carr (footballer) (1882–1942), English footballer for Sunderland * Harry Carr (jockey) (1916–1985), English Derby-winning jockey * Harry Carr (sprinter), considered by ''Track and Field News'' to be the winner of the 1963 NCAA 100 metres championship See also *Henry Carr (other) Henry Carr (1941–2015) was an American track and field athlete. Henry Carr may also refer to: * Henry Carr (artist) (1894–1970), British landscape painter and war artist * Henry Rawlingson Carr (1863–1945), Nigerian educator and administrato ... * Harold Carr (other) {{hndis, Carr, Harry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Carr Crusaders
The Caledon Admirals are a Junior 'A' ice hockey team based in Caledon, Ontario, Canada. They are a part of the Ontario Junior Hockey League. History Henry Carr The Admirals lineage traces back to the Henry Carr Crusaders. Like the Toronto St. Michael's Majors and St. Michael's Buzzers, the Crusaders were a secondary school based junior hockey team. The team's affiliation was with the Father Henry Carr Secondary School of the Toronto Catholic District School Board. In 1980, they took their high school team and joined the Metro Junior "B" Hockey League, where they played until 1991, even after the league left the Ontario Hockey Association in 1989. The team was famous for its first undefeated Metro season in 1983 (34–0–2), when they won the All-Ontario Jr. B Championship, the Sutherland Cup. After five rounds of playoffs competing for the Sutherland Cup, the Crusaders accumulated 54 wins, 2 losses, 2 ties, and 2 losses in overtime in 60 regulation games. In 1991, when t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
