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Horsley (surname)
Horsley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alec Horsley of Hull, founder of Northern Foods * Beresford Horsley (1880-1923), English cricketer and businessman * Charles Edward Horsley (1822–1876), English composer *Cuthbert Horsley, English MP in the sixteenth century *David Horsley (1873–1933), Anglo-American pioneer of the motion picture industry * George Horsley (1836-1895), English ship owner, alderman and mayor of Hartlepool *Jean Horsley (1913–1997), New Zealand artist * John Horsley (other), multiple people *Lee Horsley, (born 1955), American actor *Matt Horsley (born 1972), Australian footballer * Matthew Henry Horsley (1867-1925), English timber merchant, ship owner, mayor of Hartlepool and philatelist *Neal Horsley (1944–2015), American political figure of the far right * Sir Peter Horsley (1921–2001), Air Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Equerry to the Duke of Edinburgh and Ufologist * Richard A. Horsley (born 1939), American theolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Horsley
Alec Stewart Horsley (1 September 1902 – 11 June 1993) was a British businessman, Quaker, and supporter of the peace movement. He was also the founder of Northern Foods. Personal life and family Born in Ripley, Derbyshire and educated at Worcester College, Oxford, where he read PPE, Alec Horsley entered and later abandoned the Colonial Service. In 1932 he married Susan Howitt. They had two daughters and three sons, one of whom was Nicholas Horsley; grandfather to Sebastian Horsley, author Jason Horsley and Ashley Horsley. At the time of his death he had 15 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren. He was keen on sport and when he was in Nigeria he played tennis for the country, and when he ceased to play tennis he took up golf. He was a great friend of the biologist, John Boyd Orr.Obituary: Alec Horsley [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neal Horsley
Otis O'Neal Horsley, Jr. (April 15, 1944 – April 13, 2015) was a militant anti-abortion activist and Christian Reconstructionist who produced a website called the Nuremberg Files, which provided the home addresses of abortion providers in the United States. The "Nuremberg Files" The Nuremberg Files is a website that displays the names and locations of various doctors who perform abortions throughout the United States. They came under fire as controversial because they provided photos, addresses, and other personal data of abortion providers. They also updated the listings of those doctors who had been killed or injured by anti-abortion activists, suggesting approval for such anti-abortion violence. The name is a reference to the Nuremberg Trials, where Nazi German leadership were sentenced to death for their involvement in the Holocaust and other Nazi war crimes. While the original site was shut down in 2002, it has reappeared more than once on other ISPs. Horsley was forced to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Horsley
Valerie Horsley is an American cell and developmental biologist. She currently works as an associate professor at Yale University, where she has extensively researched the growth, restoration, and maintenance of skin cells. She is a currently a member of the Yale Cancer Center and Yale Stem Cell Center. She received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2012 and in 2013 she was the recipient of the Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award. Early life and education Valerie Horsley was raised by a single mother, who was working toward her doctorate in industrial engineering throughout her early childhood. Horsley was often placed in the care of graduate students, who served as her babysitters. She initially considered a career in medicine working as a physician, but opted to pursue a career in research instead. In 1998, Horsley achieved a Bachelor of Science in biology at Furman University, and later her doctorate from Emory University in 2003. Caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Horsley
Sebastian Horsley (born Marcus A. Horsley; 8 August 1962 – 17 June 2010) was an English artist and writer. Horsley's writing often revolved around his dysfunctional family, his flamboyant and eccentric behavior, his drug addictions, sex, and his reliance on prostitutes. Background Horsley was born in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He was the eldest son of Nicholas Horsley, with a younger brother of his, Jason Horsley, attending Pocklington School as a day-boy in the early 1980s. Their grandfather, Alec Horsley, was the founder of Northern Foods, and their father replaced him as chairman of the company from 1970 until the role was assumed by Christopher Haskins. According to Horsley's autobiography, ''Dandy in the Underworld'', his birth name was Marcus, but his mother had decided to change it to Sebastian by the time she had returned from the hospital. His name was officially changed by deed poll in 1967. Horsley had an older sister, a psychotherapist named Ashle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Horsley
Samuel Horsley (15 September 1733 – 4 October 1806) was a British churchman, bishop of Rochester from 1793. He was also well versed in physics and mathematics, on which he wrote a number of papers and thus was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767; and secretary in 1773, but, in consequence of a difference with the president (Sir Joseph Banks) he withdrew in 1784. Life He was the son of Rev John Horsley of Newington Butts and his first wife Anne Hamilton, daughter of Rev Prof William Hamilton of Edinburgh and Mary Robertson. Entering Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1751, he became LL.B. in 1758 without graduating in arts. In the following year he succeeded his father in the living of Newington Butts in Surrey. In 1768 he attended the son and heir of the 3rd Earl of Aylesford to Oxford as private tutor; and, after receiving through the earl and Bishop of London various minor preferments, which by dispensations he combined with his first living, he was installed in 1781 as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Horsley
Rupert Harry Horsley (17 December 1905 – 5 March 1988) was a teacher, an English first-class cricketer, an amateur painter of some skill, and a keen and knowledgeable gardener. The son of Albert Beresford Horsley, and older brother of Sir Peter Horsley, he was born in December 1905 at West Hartlepool. He was educated at the Dragon School and Winchester College; from there he won an Exhibition to study History at Brasenose College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he made three appearances as a wicket-keeper in first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1927, against Lancashire, Harlequins and the Free Foresters. In his three matches, he scored 78 runs with a high score of 25, and behind the stumps he took nine catches and made a single stumping. During his time at Oxford, he was always second choice wicket-keeper to the exceptional George Abell. Subsequently he played three matches for Berkshire, and others for Lord Dunglass' XI, Wellington College Masters, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Horsley
Ron Horsley (born March 4, 1977) is an author and artist responsible for numerous short stories, essays, reviews, and book cover designs. Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, his first published work was as editor of and contributor to ''The Midnighters Club: Tales from the Harker House Collection'', 2001. The collection included authors such as Paul Tremblay and Lucy Snyder, and several stories received recognition in the 2001 Bram Stoker Awards for Best Short Fiction. His short stories have appeared in magazines such as ''On Spec'' and his story "In the Empty Country" appears in the ''Masques V'' anthology, edited and published by Barry Hoffman and Gary A. Braunbeck (originally edited by Jerry Wiliamson). He is an alumnus of the 2002 Clarion East Workshop for Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing and a recipient of the Douglas L. Ruble scholarship fund for science fiction writing and development. His book cover designs have appeared on Gary A. Braunbeck's non-fiction collection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard A
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Horsley
Air Marshal Sir Beresford Peter Torrington Horsley, (25 March 1921 – 20 December 2001) was a senior Royal Air Force commander. Early life Horsley was the youngest of seven children of a West Hartlepool merchant who committed suicide in 1923 as a result of business worries. He was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, and Wellington College. Military career In 1939, he became a deck boy on the TSS ''Cyclops'', a Blue Funnel Line steamer sailing to Malaya. He transferred to the homeward-bound TSS ''Menelaus'' when the Second World War was declared, but then deserted ship. As a member of the Merchant Navy Horsley would not have been able to join the RAF, which was his ambition. Horsley served briefly in the Home Guard before joining the RAF, initially as an air gunner, as this was the only vacancy then available. However, he managed to get a transfer to pilot training, and was soon himself an instructor at RAF Cranwell. He was transferred to the Flying Training School at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Horsley
Matt Horsley (born 9 June 1972 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian retired footballer. Club career He last played as a right full back for the Australian A-League club Perth Glory in 2005, which he joined in 2001. Horsley had previously captained the Wollongong Wolves, with whom he played from 1990 to 2001. Horsley led the Wolves to victory over Perth in the 2000 NSL Grand Final via a penalty shoot-out, despite missing his penalty shot. In Wollongong's 2001 Grand Final victory over South Melbourne he was awarded the Joe Marston Medal for best onfield. After winning a league titled with Perth Glory in 2003 (their first), he was injured in the final NSL season and missed the 2004 NSL title victory. After leaving Perth Glory in 2005 he has focused on his career as a police officer and playing in the amateur league in Perth for Beechboro Cracovia. Matt Horsley left Cracovia in 2010 and has taken the role of club captain with a developing club Caversham Athl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beresford Horsley
Albert Beresford Horsley Order of the British Empire, CBE, Queen's Counsel, JP (2 January 1880 – 19 November 1923) was an English cricketer. Horsley's Batsman (cricket), batting and bowling (cricket), bowling styles are unknown. He was born in Hartlepool, County Durham, to George Horsley, George and Alethea Horsley, and educated at the The Leys School, Leys School, where he obtained his colours in 1896. At the Leys he held the school record for a long jump of 20 ft 10". When he was five, one of his father's ships - the Beresford - was named after him on the 28 July 1885. He married Ethel Rose Cox, daughter of Eliza Julia Cox, in 1903; the 1911 Census shows the family staying in Weston, and he described himself as a Shipowner and Timber Merchant. They had seven children including the author, glider pilot and journalist Terence Horsley, who worked for Allied Newspapers (which became Kemsley Newspapers); cricketer, schoolmaster and water colourist Rupert Horsley; a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Horsley
Lee Arthur Horsley (born May 15, 1955) is an American film, television, and theater actor known for starring roles in the television series ''Nero Wolfe'' (1981), '' Matt Houston'' (1982–1985), and ''Paradise'' (1988–1991). He starred in the 1982 film ''The Sword and the Sorcerer'' and recorded the audiobook edition of ''Lonesome Dove''. Career Horsley began his acting career touring in stage productions of ''West Side Story'', ''Damn Yankees'', and ''Oklahoma!''. In 1981, he portrayed TV detective Archie Goodwin in the short-lived NBC drama series ''Nero Wolfe''. He played the title character in the 1982–1985 ABC detective series '' Matt Houston'', and starred as Ethan Allen Cord in the 1988–1991 Western Heritage Award-winning series ''Paradise''. This was followed by a lead role on the CBS police drama '' Bodies of Evidence'' (1992–1993). He appeared in the feature-length cult film ''The Sword and the Sorcerer'' in 1982, and appeared in its sequel ''Tales of an An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
