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Jefferys (other)
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Jefferys may refer to: * Steve Jefferys, equestrian * Charles William Jefferys, historical illustrator * Thomas Jefferys (c. 1719 – 1771), cartographer * Charles Jefferys, music publisher and composer of songs * Margot Jefferys, medical sociologist * John Jefferys, game designer * John Jefferys, horologist See also * Jefferies Jefferies is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Jefferies (born 1957), Australian writer * Annalee Jefferies (born 1954), American actress * Chris Jefferies (born 1980), American basketball player * Cindy Jefferies, Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Jefferys
''yes'Steve is a masculine given name, usually a short form (hypocorism) of Steven or Stephen Notable people with the name include: steve jops * Steve Abbott (other), several people * Steve Adams (other), several people * Steve Alaimo (born 1939), American singer, record & TV producer, label owner * Steve Albini (born 1961), American musician, record producer, audio engineer, and music journalist * Steve Allen (1921–2000), American television personality, musician, composer, comedian and writer * Steve Armitage (born 1944), British-born Canadian sports reporter * Steve Armstrong (born 1965), American professional wrestler * Steve Antin (born 1958), American actor * Steve Augarde (born 1950),arab author, artist, and eater * Steve Augeri (born 1959), American singer * Steve August (born 1954), American football player * Stone Cold Steve Austin (born 1964), American professional wrestler * Steve Aylett (born 1967), English author of satirica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles William Jefferys
Charles William Jefferys (August 25, 1869 – October 8, 1951), also known as C. W. Jefferys, was a Canadian painter, illustrator, author, and teacher, best known as a historical illustrator. Biography Jefferys was born in Rochester, England. He moved with his family first to Philadelphia, then to Hamilton, Ontario, and finally to Toronto around 1880. There he attended school and was apprenticed with the York Lithography Company from 1885 to 1890. Career From 1889 to 1892 Jefferys worked for the ''Toronto Globe'' as an illustrator and artist. He produced artwork for several printing companies. From 1893 to 1901, he worked for the ''New York Herald''. Returning to Toronto, he became a newspaper, magazine and book illustrator, appearing in numerous publications, including ''Hardware Merchandising.'' Jefferys created a series of illustrations and essays for the ''Toronto Star Weekly'', which in 1920 were published as ''Dramatic Episodes in Canada's Story''. The following yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Jefferys
Thomas Jefferys (c. 1719 – 1771), "Geographer to King George III", was an English cartographer who was the leading map supplier of his day.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004. He engraved and printed maps for government and other official bodies and produced a wide range of commercial maps and atlases, especially of North America.''Buckinghamshire in the 1760s and 1820s: The County Maps of Jefferys and Bryant'', Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society, 2000, . Information for this article has been taken from the introduction by Paul Laxton. Early work As "Geographer to the Prince of Wales", he produced ''A Plan of all the Houses, destroyed & damaged by the Great Fire, which began in Exchange Alley Cornhill, on Friday March 25, 1748''. He produced ''The Small English Atlas'' with Thomas Kitchin, and he engraved plans of towns in the English Midlands. Maps of North America In 1754, Jefferys published a ''Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia'' which had been surve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Jefferys
Charles Jefferys (11 January 1807 – 9 June 1865, in London) was an English music publisher and composer of songs. Career Jefferys carried on a London music publishing business. In 1854 he won a legal action with Thomas Boosey, respecting copyright in Italian operas, after appeal to the House of Lords. He published ''A Book of Beauty for the Queen's Boudoir'', a ''Musical Annual'' (1853, 1854) and seven numbers of ''Jeffery's Musical Journal'' in 1864.F. Boase: ''Modern English Biography'', 6 vols. (1892–1921). He translated Victor Hugo's opera libretto ''La Esmeralda'' into English in 1856. He wrote the text for ''The Gipsy's Vengeance'', an English version of Verdi's ''Il trovatore'', performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1856, as well as an English version of ''Luisa Miller ''Luisa Miller'' is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play ''Kabale und Liebe'' (''Intrigue and Love'') by the German dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Jefferys
Margot Jefferys (Margaret) (1916–1999) was Professor of Medical Sociology at Bedford College, London file:Bedford College in York place - photographer is unknown but guess 1908.png, Bedford College was in York Place after 1874 Bedford College was founded in London in 1849 as the first higher education college for education of women, women in th ..., from 1968 to 1982. She went to Berkhamsted Girls School. References * 1916 births 1999 deaths British sociologists British women academics Academics of Bedford College, London British women sociologists Medical sociologists {{UK-sociologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jefferys
John Jefferys, is the first game designer to whom a game design can be definitively ascribed (in the Anglophone world). Life He is the designer of the 1759 game ''A Journey Through Europe'', which was based upon ''Game of the Goose''. The game is inscribed "Invented and sold by the Proprietor, John Jefferys, at his house in Chapel Street, near the Broad Way, Westmr. Writing Master, Accompt. Geographer, etc. Printed for Carrington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Price 8s. Published as the Act directs, September 14th, 1759." The game was among the oldest English cartographic board games. As with most 18th century British original board games, it is a track game, with the kind of game mechanics familiar in track games today (e.g., landing on certain spaces advances you or sends you back to other spaces). Rather than using dice, players used a teetotum A teetotum (or T-totum) is a form of spinning top most commonly used for gambling games. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jefferys (clockmaker)
John Jefferys (1701 – 1754) was an English clockmaker and watchmaker. His parents, John and Jane Jefferys lived in a house called ''Darbies'' in the village of Midgham in the parish of Thatcham in Berkshire. His father was a wool merchant. His maternal grandparents were William and Bridgett Yeats. He had at least five brothers and one sister. Although his father was a Quaker, he was christened on 18 March 1701. On 4 November 1717 he began an apprenticeship with watchmaker Edward Jagger at Well Close Square, Stepney, London. After nine years of teaching on 26 January 1726 he became a member of the Clockmakers Company of London. In 1735 Larcum Kendall was a new apprentice. Around 1753 he built a pocketwatch for watchmaker John Harrison. After he died Larcum Kendall took over his workshop. In popular media Actor Peter-Hugo Daly was cast as John Jefferys in the Channel 4 TV series, ''Longitude Longitude (, ) is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east–west positi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
