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Jim Hawkins (sportswriter)
James Hawkins may refer to: * James Hawkins (bishop) (died 1807), Irish Anglican bishop * James Hawkins (organist) (1662–1729), English organist and composer * James Hawkins (United States Army officer), second lieutenant and field operations leader during the Vietnam War * Jimmy Hawkins (born 1941), American actor and film producer * Jim Hawkins (radio presenter) (born 1962), BBC radio presenter * Jim Hawkins (character), a fictional character in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel ''Treasure Island'' * Jim Hawkins (politician) (born 1949), American politician * James Hawkins (artist) (born 1954), English painter and filmmaker * James Boyd Hawkins (1813–1896), American planter and rancher See also * James Hawkins-Whitshed (1762–1849), Royal Navy officer *Jim Hawking * Marshall Hawkins James Marshall Hawkins (August 3, 1924 – October 28, 2010) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hawkins (bishop)
James Hawkins was an Irish Anglican bishop in the 18th and 19th centuries. A former Dean of Emly (1766–1775), Hawkins was the Bishop of Dromore from 1775 to 1780 and Bishop of Raphoe from then until his death on 23 June 1807. Family He married Catherine, the daughter of Gilbert Keene and niece of William Whitshed; they had four sons and three daughters. His son James adopted the additional surname of Whitshed and was created first Baronet Whitshed-Hawkins. His son Thomas became Dean of Clonfert The Dean of Killaloe is based at the Cathedral Church of St Flannan in Killaloe in the united diocese of Limerick, Killaloe and Ardfert within the Church of Ireland. The Dean of Killaloe is also Dean of St Brendans, Clonfert, Dean of Kilfenora, ... in 1812. References Anglican bishops of Dromore Anglican bishops of Raphoe 18th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland 19th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland 1807 deaths Deans of Emly Year of birth unknown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hawkins (organist)
James Hawkins (1662 – 18 October 1729) was an English organist and composer of church music. He was for many years organist of Ely Cathedral. Life Hawkins was a chorister of St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated Mus. Bac. in 1719. In the same year he dedicated his anthem "Behold, O God, our Defender" (a manuscript in the library of the Royal College of Music), "to the Very Rev. Mr. Tomkinson, and the rest of the great, good, and just nonjurors of St. John's." Hawkins succeeded John Ferrabosco as organist of Ely Cathedral in 1682. He remained at Ely for forty-six years. During that period he carefully arranged in volumes what fragments remained of the old manuscript choir books of the cathedral, many of which had been destroyed and many damaged in the civil war. With these he bound up in manuscript seventeen services and seventy-five anthems of his own composition. Some doggerel lines by Hawkins in praise of Handel, inscribed on one of two copies of Handel's "Jubilate", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hawkins (United States Army Officer)
Tiger Force was the name of a long-range reconnaissance patrol unit of the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 327th Infantry, 1st Brigade (Separate), 101st Airborne Division, which fought in the Vietnam War from November 1965 to November 1967. The unit gained notoriety after investigations during the course of the war and decades afterwards revealed extensive war crimes against civilians, which numbered into the hundreds. Composition The platoon-sized unit, approximately 45 paratroopers, was organized by Major David Hackworth in November 1965 to "outguerrilla the guerrillas". Tiger Force (Recon) 1-327th was a highly decorated small unit in Vietnam, and paid for its reputation with heavy casualties. In October 1968, Tiger Force's parent battalion was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation by President Lyndon B. Johnson, which included a mention of Tiger Force's service at Đắk Tô in June 1966. Investigations of war crimes On October 19, 2003, Michael D. Sallah, a reporter at '' Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Hawkins
James F. Hawkins is an American former actor, producer and writer. He is best-known for his TV roles in shows like ''Annie Oakley'', ''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet'', '' Leave It to Beaver'', ''Petticoat Junction'', and ''The Donna Reed Show''; and as Tommy Bailey, son of George Bailey in the 1946 film ''It's a Wonderful Life''. Personal life Hawkins is the author of five books about the film ''It's A Wonderful Life'', served on The Jimmy Stewart Museum Advisory Board, and for 20 years served on the board of directors of the Donna Reed Foundation for the Performing Arts. In celebration of the Frank Capra film, Hawkins and other cast members appear annually at the "It's A Wonderful Life Festival" in Seneca Falls, New York, the town thought to be the inspiration for the movie's setting of Bedford Falls. Filmography (selection) * ''It's a Wonderful Life'' (1946) as Tommy Bailey * ''The Ruggles'' (TV series, 1949-1952, 137 episodes) as Donald Ruggles * ''Annie Oakley'' (T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hawkins (radio Presenter)
Jim Hawkins (born 1962) is a BBC radio presenter. Biography Personal life Hawkins was born in Essex and brought up there and in Warwickshire, England. He now lives in Shropshire. Career Hawkins' broadcasting career began on a student radio station at Warwick University. He worked for independent local radio station Mercia Sound from 1981 to 1983. He joined BBC Radio 4 in 1984, writing and presenting the ''News Stand'' programme. Hawkins has worked for several commercial and BBC local radio stations across the United Kingdom in various roles on both sides of the microphone, including spells as a producer and manager. Hawkins has also worked for a disability-rights group and as a newspaper journalist, hotel restaurant pianist, and stagehand; at one point he ran the coconut shy on Brighton Pier. During his career he has interviewed notable figures including Gordon Brown, Gene Simmons and Steve Cropper. Hawkins hosts a programme every weekday from 9 am to 12 noon on BBC Radio Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hawkins (character)
Jim Hawkins is a fictional character and the protagonist in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel ''Treasure Island''. He is both the protagonist and main narrator of the story. Appearances At the start of the novel, Jim works at his family's inn. A patron of the inn, former swashbuckler Billy Bones, receives the Black Spot, a pirates' summons, with the warning that he has until ten o'clock, and he drops dead of apoplexy on the spot. In the dead man's sea chest, Jim and his mother find an oilskin packet, which contains a logbook detailing the treasure looted during Captain Flint's career, and a detailed map of an island, with the location of Flint's treasure caches marked on it. Squire Trelawney immediately plans to outfit a sailing vessel to hunt the treasure down, with the help of Dr. Livesey and Jim. When Jim goes to Bristol and visits Long John Silver at the Spy Glass tavern, his suspicions are immediately aroused: Silver is missing a leg, like the man Bones warned him abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hawkins (politician)
James K. Hawkins is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, Hawkins serves in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, representing the 2nd Bristol District since 2018, which includes all but one precinct of Attleboro. Early life Hawkins was born and raised in Walpole, Massachusetts. He moved to Attleboro and has lived there for over 35 years. He graduated from Colby College and then went on to earn an MBA from Providence College School of Business. Hawkins sold auto parts before getting his master's degree and working as a math teacher at Attleboro High School. Political career Hawkins won a special election on April 3, 2018, to succeed Paul Heroux in the Massachusetts House. Hawkins bested Republican Julie Hall in the special election. Hawkins took 3,927 votes to Hall's 3,633. On Hawkins' first day in office, he filed an amendment to fund the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment (MCIEA), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hawkins (artist)
James Allan Hawkins (born April 1954) is an English painter and film maker associated with Scottish Highland landscape. He lives, works and exhibits at his open studio RhueArt in Rhue, three miles North of Ullapool. Early life Hawkins was educated at Monkton Combe School, Bath. He went on to study at Wimbledon School of Art, London and Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford University. After graduating he moved to the Highlands of Scotland in 1978 with his wife Flick. Career His early work was figurative and mostly painted outside, on-location on the West coast of Scotland. After a commission in 1986 to produce stage sets for a production of The Brahan Seer at Eden Court Theatre, Inverness his work became larger and semi abstract. He exhibited at the 369 Gallery, Edinburgh during the 1980s and in 1989 he won Warwick Arts Trust prize. In 1996 his paintings were part of Heartlands an overview of Scottish landscape painting at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh. Commissioned to paint l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Boyd Hawkins
Colonel James Boyd Hawkins (1813–1896) was an American planter and rancher. He moved from North Carolina to Texas in the 1840s, and he established the Hawkins Ranch, a working sugarcane plantation, operated by 101 enslaved African Americans by 1860. After the American Civil War, he replaced the slaves with paid laborers and convicts, and gradually turned his landholdings into a cattle ranch. Early life James Boyd Hawkins was born on December 27, 1813, in Franklin County, North Carolina. His father, John Davis Hawkins, was "land owner in Franklin and Warren counties" who "served in the state senate, 1834, 1836, 1838, and 1840." His mother was Jane A. Boyd. Hawkins attended schools in Raleigh, North Carolina, followed by the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York for two years. Career Hawkins sailed from North Carolina to Galveston, Texas in 1846. He settled near the Caney Creek, a Southern plantation in Matagorda County. He established in the Hawkins Ranch in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hawkins-Whitshed
Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy), Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Hawkins-Whitshed, 1st Baronet, (1762 – 28 October 1849), was a Royal Navy officer. He saw action in command of a sloop-of-war, sloop at the Battle of Martinique (1780), Battle of Martinique during the American Revolutionary War. He went on to serve under John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, Sir John Jervis in the Mediterranean and took part in the Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797), battle of Cape St. Vincent during the French Revolutionary Wars. After promotion to flag-officer rank Hawkins-Whitshed became Commander-in-Chief of the Sea Fencibles in Ireland and then Commander-in-Chief of the Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Ireland, Cork Station during the Napoleonic Wars. After the War with France was won he served as Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. Early life Hawkins was born simply James Hawkins in Raphoe, County Donegal, in Ulster, the third son of The Right Reverend, The Rt Rev. Doctor (title), Dr James Hawkins (bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Hawking
The following is a list of characters from the Japanese manga and anime '' Outlaw Star''. Protagonists Gene, Jim and Melfina are the regular crew of the ''Outlaw Star''. Suzuka and Aisha are more independent and are part-time crew-members. Gene Starwind : is a 20-year-old man and the main protagonist of the series who developed a fear of space flight and a hatred of pirates during an attack when he was 15. This attack resulted in his father's death at the hands of a band of mercenaries led by Ron MacDougall. Gene was thrown into an escape pod moments before their ship exploded, and landed on Sentinel III where he would remain until the beginning of the series. Gene is scared of space, until Hilda questions him, "Are you going to keep running away?" and Gene responds, "''Keep running away?''" Hilda's questioning of his courage is the turning point where Gene's fear of space gradually begins to fade. While on Sentinel III, Gene met the much younger Jim Hawking and the two w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
