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Manton (name)
Manton is both a surname and an uncommon given name of English and Irish origins. It is derived from various place names throughout England, while in Ireland it is the anglicized form of the Gaelic "Ó Manntáin", or "descendant of Manntán", a personal name derived from a diminutive of "manntach" ("toothless"). Notable persons with the name include: Surname *Rev. David Manton (born 1936), Australian Uniting Church minister *Irene Manton (1904-1988), British botanist *James Thomas Manton (1812–1899), surveyor in Australia's Northern Territory * Jonathan Manton, Australian engineer *Joseph Manton (1766-1835), English gun maker *Martin T. Manton (1880-1946), U.S. Circuit Court Judge *Nicholas Manton (born 1952), British mathematical physicist * Sidnie Milana Manton (1902-1979), British entomologist *Thomas J. Manton (1932-2006), American congressman (was of Irish ancestry) *Thomas Manton (1620-1677), English Puritan theologian Given name *Manton Eddy Lieutenant General Manton Spra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goidelic Languages
The Goidelic or Gaelic languages ( ga, teangacha Gaelacha; gd, cànanan Goidhealach; gv, çhengaghyn Gaelgagh) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages. Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from Ireland through the Isle of Man to Scotland. There are three modern Goidelic languages: Irish ('), Scottish Gaelic ('), and Manx ('). Manx died out as a first language in the 20th century but has since been revived to some degree. Nomenclature ''Gaelic'', by itself, is sometimes used to refer to Scottish Gaelic, especially in Scotland, and so it is ambiguous. Irish and Manx are sometimes referred to as Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic (as they are Goidelic or Gaelic languages), but the use of the word "Gaelic" is unnecessary because the terms Irish and Manx, when used to denote languages, always refer to those languages. This is in contrast to Scottish Gaelic, for which "Gaelic" distinguishes the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancestry
An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder or a forebear, is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). ''Ancestor'' is "any person from whom one is descended. In law, the person from whom an estate has been inherited." Two individuals have a genetic relationship if one is the ancestor of the other or if they share a common ancestor. In evolutionary theory, species which share an evolutionary ancestor are said to be of common descent. However, this concept of ancestry does not apply to some bacteria and other organisms capable of horizontal gene transfer. Some research suggests that the average person has twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors. This might have been due to the past prevalence of polygynous relations and female hypergamy. Assuming that all of an individual's ancestors are otherwise unrelated to each other, that individual has 2''n'' ancestors in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Manton
Edwin David Manton (born 5 July 1936) is a retired Australian minister and former Moderator of the New South Wales Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia. Early life Manton was born in Sydney, the third son of Edwin Spencer Manton (b. 1899 - d.1951) and his second wife, Eleanor Elizabeth (Nell) Hunt. He attended Newington College (1949-1953) the school founded by his great-grandfather Rev John Manton and attended by his father and maternal grandfather, Richard Hunt (b. 1852 - d.1929). Clerical life Manton was a minister in rural and city congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, and Uniting Church, and served on the Board of Missions as associate secretary for home and inland missions in NSW. Manton was awarded his doctorate in ministry from the San Francisco Theological Seminary. Appointments * Newington College Council (since 1984) Honours * Medal of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Manton
Irene Manton, FRS FLS (born Irène Manton; 17 April 1904, in Kensington – 13 May 1988) was a British botanist who was Professor of Botany at the University of Leeds. She was noted for study of ferns and algae. Biography Irene Manton was the daughter of dental surgeon, George Manton and embroideress and designer, and descendant of French aristocracy, Milana Manton (née D'Humy). Her first name was originally pronounced and spelled in the French manner; but at 18 she dropped this and opted for "Irene". Her sister was the entomologist Sidnie Manton FRS. She was educated at the Froebel Demonstration School and St. Paul's Girls' School, Hammersmith. While still in school she read Edmund Beecher Wilson’s (1902) The Cell in Development and Heredity prompting an early interest in chromosomes. Academic career In 1923 Manton attended Girton College, Cambridge. She found Cambridge unsatisfying, in part because the university as a whole was not yet welcoming of women, and later we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Thomas Manton
James Thomas Manton (c. 1812 – 6 June 1899) was a surveyor and engineer in the young colony of South Australia and a pioneer of the Northern Territory. He may have been the first to propose the site of present-day Darwin for the Territory's principal settlement, Palmerston. History Manton and his wife Caroline Manton, née Webb, (c. 1821 – 1 September 1915) arrived in South Australia from London in November 1849 aboard ''Bolton''. He had letters of introduction from Earl Grey, and was immediately put in charge of erection of the Cape Willoughby Lighthouse, South Australia's first, and which still stands. He was then employed as a surveyor by the Central Road Board, appointed Superintending Surveyor for the Southern region, and was responsible for Tapleys Hill Road and South Road. In 1864 he was selected by the government to be second-in-charge to B. T. Finniss, who led a party of 40 by the barque ''Henry Ellis'' to Adam Bay in the Northern Territory, where a settlement was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Manton
Jonathan Manton from the University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 ''for contributions to geometric methods in signal processing Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as audio signal processing, sound, image processing, images, and scientific measurements. Signal processing techniq ... and wireless communications''. References Fellows of the IEEE Living people Australian electrical engineers Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{australia-engineer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Manton
Joseph Manton (6 April 1766 – 29 June 1835) was a British gunsmith. He innovated sport shooting, improved weapon quality and paved the way for the modern artillery shell. Manton was a sport shooter and a friend of Colonel Peter Hawker. Gunsmith From 1780 to 1781, Manton was first apprenticed to a gunmaker in Grantham, Newton. He worked under his elder brother John from 1781 onward. He produced around 100 weapons annually, including both cased duelling pistols and shotguns. Tube lock In the early-19th century, Manton invented the tube (or pill) lock, an improvement over Alexander Forsyth's scent-bottle lock. It used single-use pellets or pills in place of storing a reserve of fulminate in a container. The hammer of the gun was sharpened; when it fell, it crushed the tube/pellet, causing the fulminates to detonate. Although more reliable than Forsyth's design and adopted by many sportsmen during the Regency period (and a variant for the Austrian army), it was quickly ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin T
__NOTOC__ The Martin T or TT was a training biplane produced in the United States in 1913 for military use.* It was a conventional, three-bay biplane with unstaggered wings of equal span. The pilot and instructor sat in tandem, open cockpits with dual controls. Fixed, taildragger undercarriage was fitted, which could be exchanged for a single pontoon under the fuselage and wingtip floats.''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft'', 2432 Early examples were delivered to the Army without engines, so the Army could power them with engines salvaged from other aircraft, but later TTs came equipped with Curtiss, Hall-Scott, or Sturtevant engines. In 1915, a Model TT was piloted by Oscar Brindley to win the Curtiss Marine Trophy for the longest flight within 10 consecutive hours in one day, covering 444 mi (710 km). The Model T was the basis for the Martin S Hydro seaplane, with a lengthened fuselage, a greater span, and upper wing ailerons. The first Martin T acquired, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Manton
Nicholas Stephen Manton (born 2 October 1952 in the City of Westminster) p.7 is a British . He is a Professor of Mathematical Physics at the of the and a fellow of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidnie Manton
Sidnie Milana Manton (4 May 1902 – 2 January 1979) was an influential British zoologist. She is known for making advances in the field of functional morphology. She is regarded as being one of the most outstanding zoologists of the twentieth century. Early life Sidnie Milana Manton was born in Kensington, London the daughter of a descendant of French aristocracy and a dentist. She was educated at the Froebel Demonstration School and at St. Paul's Girls' School before joining Girton College, Cambridge in 1921. While at Girton College she was awarded the Montifiore Prize in 1925. She came top of the class list, but was not awarded the prize that that position usually brings, because women were not at that time officially members of Cambridge University. Career Manton initially worked as an Alfred Yarrow Research Student at Girton College, Cambridge, and later was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Science (ScD) title from Cambridge University and the first woman to hold t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas J
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court and its longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. After his father abandoned the family, he was raised by his grandfather in a poor Gullah community near Savannah. Growing up as a devout Catholic, Thomas originally intended to be a priest in the Catholic Church but was frustrated over the church's insufficient attempts to combat racism. He abandoned his aspiration of becoming a clergyman to attend the College of the Holy Cross and, later, Yale Law School, where he was influenced by a number of conservative authors, notably Thomas Sowell, who dramatically shifted his worldview from progressive to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Manton
Thomas Manton (1620–1677) was an English Puritan clergyman. He was a clerk to the Westminster Assembly and a chaplain to Oliver Cromwell. Early life Thomas Manton was baptised 31 March 1620 at Lydeard St Lawrence, Somerset, a remote southwestern portion of England. His grammar school education was possibly at Blundell's School, in Tiverton, Devon. His formal education came at Wadham College, University of Oxford, and he eventually graduated BA in 1639 from Hart Hall. Joseph Hall, bishop of Norwich, ordained him deacon the following year: he never took priest's orders, holding that he was properly ordained to the ministerial office. Ministries at Sowton and Colyton (1640–1645) He was then appointed town lecturer of Sowton in Devon, where he served from 1640 to 1643, and at Colyton, Devon, from 1643 to 1645. Ministry at Stoke Newington (1645–1656) In July 1645 he moved from the rural western counties to the London area, as Colonel Alexander Popham, the patron of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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