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Pell (other)
Pell is a surname shared by several notable people, listed below * Albert Pell * Axel Rudi Pell (born 1960), German heavy metal guitar player and member of Steeler and founder of his own eponymous band * Barney Pell * Benjamin Pell * Charles Pell (1874–1936), American college football coach * Charley Pell (1941–2001), American college football player and coach * Claiborne Pell (1918–2009), U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, serving six terms from 1961 to 1997, and sponsor of the Pell Grant, which provides financial aid funding to American college students * Clay Pell * Dave Pell (1925–2017), American jazz saxophonist and bandleader * Ella Ferris Pell (1846–1922), American painter, sculptor, and illustrator * Eva J. Pell (born 1948), American biologist, plant pathologist, and science administrator * George Pell (1941–2023), Australian cardinal of the Catholic Church * Harry Pell (born 1991), English professional footballer * Herbert Pell (1884–1961), American Repre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Pell
Albert Pell (12 March 1820 – 7 April 1907) was an English solicitor and Conservative Party politician. Early life Pell was born in 1820, the eldest son of Sir Albert Pell, a judge of the Bankruptcy Courts and Margaret Letitia Matilda St John, daughter of John St John, 12th Baron St John of Bletso. Pell was educated at Rugby School before matriculating to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1839. While at Cambridge, Pell is credited with introducing the game of rugby union, then simply called football, to the University, and describes in his autobiography the difficulties of setting up a team.* Pell gained his MA in 1842, and in the same year was admitted to the Inner Temple on 1 June. On 8 September 1846, Pell married Elizabeth Barbara Halford, his cousin, and daughter of Sir Henry Halford. Sir Henry was the 2nd Baronet of Wistow and had been the Member of Parliament for the Southern Division of Leicestershire from 1832 to 1857. Political career and later life Pell was elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pell (mathematician)
John Pell (1 March 1611 – 12 December 1685) was an English mathematician and political agent abroad. Early life He was born at Southwick in Sussex. His father, also named John Pell, was from Southwick, and his mother was Mary Holland, from Halden in Kent. The second of two sons, Pell's older brother was Thomas Pell. By the time he was six, they were orphans, their father dying in 1616 and their mother the following year. John Pell the elder had a fine library, which proved valuable to the young Pell as he grew up. He was educated at Steyning Grammar School and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, at the age of 13. During his university career he became an accomplished linguist; even before taking a B.A. degree in 1629, he corresponded with Henry Briggs and other mathematicians. He was promoted by seniority to M.A. in 1630 and taught in the short-lived Chichester Academy set up by Samuel Hartlib. On 3 July 1632 he married Ithamaria Reginald (also rendered as Ithamara or Ithuma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelle (surname)
Pelle or Pellè is the surname of the following people *Anikó Pelle (born 1978), Hungarian water polo player * Anthony Pelle (born 1972), American basketball player *Antonio Pelle (1932–2009), Italian mafiosi *Giuseppe Pelle (born 1960), Italian mafiosi, son of Antonio * Graziano Pellè (born 1985), Italian football player *István Pelle (1907–1986), Hungarian gymnast *Jon Pelle (born 1986), American ice hockey player *Maurice Pellé (1863–1924), French general *Nathan Pelle, American film and television actor *Salvatore Pelle (born 1957), Italian mafiosi, son of Antonio *Sebastiano Pelle (born 1954), Italian mafiosi, nephew of Antonio See also *Pele (name) Pele is a masculine given name, surname and nickname. Variant forms include Pelé and Pellè. People with this nickname or professional name ;Male * Pelé (1940–2022), Brazilian footballer * Pelé (footballer, born 1973), Macanese football midf ..., given name and surname * Pell, surname {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Pell (minister)
William Pell (1634–1698) was an English nonconformist minister, ejected in 1662, a tutor of Durham College subsequently imprisoned for illegal preaching. Life The son of William Pell, he was born at Sheffield in 1634. After passing through the grammar school at Rotherham, Yorkshire, he was admitted as sizar at the age of seventeen on 29 March 1651 to Magdalene College, Cambridge. There his tutor was Joseph Hill. He graduated M.A., was elected scholar 2 June 1654 and fellow 3 November 1656. He received orders from Ralph Brownrig, bishop of Exeter, probably at Sunning, Berkshire. He held the sequestered rectory of Easington, County Durham, and a tutorship in the college at Durham recently founded by Oliver Cromwell. At the Restoration Durham College collapsed, and Clark, the sequestered rector of Easington, was restored. Pell was appointed to the rectory of Great Stainton, Durham, which he held until ejected in 1662. After ejection he preached in conventicles, and was imprisone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Pell (footballer)
William Henry Pell (1883 – 9 May 1915) was an English professional footballer who played as a right half in the Football League for Glossop. Personal life Pell served as a private in the Northamptonshire Regiment during the First World War and was killed on the Western Front on 9 May 1915. He is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial The Le Touret Memorial is a World War I memorial, located near the former commune of Richebourg-l'Avoué, in the Pas-de-Calais region of France. The memorial lists 13,389 names of British and Commonwealth soldiers with no known grave who were kill .... References English Football League players British Army personnel of World War I 1915 deaths Sportspeople from Northamptonshire Kettering Town F.C. players Northampton Town F.C. players Glossop North End A.F.C. players British military personnel killed in World War I Northamptonshire Regiment soldiers Men's association football wing halves English men's footballers Military perso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Pell (tenor)
William R. Pell (August 16, 1947 – July 26, 2003) was an American opera singer who had a major international career during the 1980s and 1990s. He began his career as a baritone in the early 1970s before transitioning into the dramatic tenor repertoire in 1975. He was particularly admired for his interpretations of the works of Richard Wagner. Early years Born in Denver, Colorado, Pell attended high school in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the youth played basketball while taking voice lessons at the urging of his mother, Helen Pell. He then studied at the Peabody Conservatory (1965–1967) and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington (1967–1970). While at IU he performed in student productions of ''Andrea Chénier'' (Roucher), '' Deidamia'' (Fenice), ''L'italiana in Algeri'' (Haly), and ''Love on Trial'' (Count Asdrubale). After graduation, Pell was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he sang with an Army ensemble and band. Pell then moved to New York City, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Pell
Thomas Pell, 1st Lord of Pelham Manor (1608 – September 21, 1669) was an English-born physician who bought the area known as Pelham, New York, as well as land that now includes the eastern Bronx and southern Westchester County, New York, and founded the town of Westchester at the head of navigation on Westchester Creek in 1654. Early life Pell was born in Sussex, England in 1608. He was the eldest of two sons born to the former Mary Holland, from Halden in Kent, and the Rev. John Pell, who was from Southwick, Sussex. His younger brother was the mathematician and political agent John Pell. His father died in 1616 and his mother died the following year. He studied at Cambridge, but did not finish his course. Career In the 1630s he emigrated to New England; he lived in Fairfield, Connecticut as of 1654. In 1654, Pell signed a treaty with Chief Wampage and other Siwanoy Indian tribal members that granted him of tribal land, including all or part of what is now the Bronx, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Pell
Philip Pell (July 7, 1753 – May 1, 1811) was an American politician and lawyer from Pelham Manor, New York. He served in the New York State Assembly and as a delegate for New York to the Confederation Congress. Philip was born to the aristocratic Pell family, at the manor house in what is now Pelham. The family had established itself in the area in 1654 when Thomas Pell bought nearly 10,000 acres (40 km²) from the Indians. Thomas' nephew John, named the entire tract ''Pelham Manor'', and was viewed as the second lord of the manor. Philip was the third to have that name, and is sometimes known as Philip Pell Jr. or Philip Pell, III. Pell graduated from King's College (now Columbia University) in New York City in 1770. He read law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Westchester County and New York City. As the Revolutionary War began, he was a Lieutenant in the Westchester militia. His unit became part of the Continental Army in 1776. He served through 1779, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Pell
Paula Pell (born April 15, 1963) is an American comedy writer, producer, and actress, best known for her work writing for the sketch series ''Saturday Night Live,'' being recognized with a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program and seven Writers Guild of America Awards. In 2019 Pell was honored with the Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence. Pell has produced, written, and performed in numerous TV series, including ''30 Rock, A.P. Bio, ''Love'', and Mapleworth Murders,'' and has worked as a writer for awards ceremonies like the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes and the MTV Video Music Awards. As a voiceover artist, she has voiced characters in ''Inside Out'', ''Big Mouth'', and ''Bless the Harts.'' Pell has also appeared in several films and TV series, including ''Sisters'', ''Other People'', and ''Wine Country''. Since 2021, Pell has been a main cast member on the Peacock original series ''Girls5eva''. Biography Born in Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olive Pell
Olive Alicia Ades Pell (29 October 1903 – 23 January 2002) was an Australian librarian and poet. Life and career Olive Pell was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia on 29 October 1903. She was educated at St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls in Perth from 1916 to 1918. She joined the University of Western Australia as a librarian in 1942 and remained in the role for 27 years. She joined the Western Australian branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers in 1940 and served as president in 1969–1970. Her contribution to that organisation was recognised by the award of honorary life membership in 1979. Pell's poetry was published in the ''Jindyworobak Anthology'' for 1944, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952 and 1953. "Monte Bello" was her first poem to be published in '' The Bulletin.'' It was subsequently selected from 1,000 contributions for inclusion in ''Australia Writes: An Anthology'' (1953) and later appeared in ''The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris Birkbeck Pell
Morris Birkbeck Pell (31 March 1827 – 7 May 1879) was an American-Australian mathematician, professor, lawyer and actuary. He became the inaugural Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the University of Sydney in 1852, and continued in the role until ill health enforced his retirement in 1877. He was for many years a member of the University Senate, and councillor and secretary of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Early life Pell's mother Eliza Birkbeck (1797-1880) was a daughter of Morris Birkbeck (1764-1825), the English agricultural innovator, social reformer and antislavery campaigner. In 1817-18 Birkbeck, with George Flower, had founded a utopian colony, the English Settlement, in the Illinois Territory of the United States, and Birkbeck laid out the new town there of Albion, Illinois. A widower since 1804, Birkbeck had brought his seven children with him to America, and it was there that his daughter Eliza met and married Gilbert Titus Pell (1796-18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John H
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |