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Pery may refer to: People Associated with the Earldom of Limerick * William Pery, 1st Baron Glentworth (1721–1794), Anglican Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe * Edmund Pery, 1st Earl of Limerick, politician, fervent unionist * William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick (1840–1896), Irish peer * William Pery, 4th Earl of Limerick (1863–1929), Irish peer, British army soldier * Edmond Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick (1888–1967), British peer and soldier * Patrick Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick (1930–2003), Irish peer and public servant * Edmund Pery, 7th Earl of Limerick (born 1963) Other people * Nicole Péry (born 1943), French socialist politician * Pery Burge (1955–2013), English artist * Pery Igel (1921–1998), Brazilian businessman * Pery Ribeiro (1937-2012), Brazilian singer, songwriter Other * Péry, a former municipality in the Bernese Jura of Switzerland * An abbreviation or reporting mark for Pacific Electric railway. See also * Pari (other) * Peary (disambi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Pery, 1st Baron Glentworth
William Cecil Pery, 1st Baron Glentworth (26 July 1721 – 4 July 1794) was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland. He was born on 26 July 1721, the son of Reverend Stackpole Pery and Jane Twigg, daughter of William Twigg, Archdeacon of Limerick, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. His elder brother was Edmund Pery, 1st Viscount Pery and younger sister was Lucy Hartstonge the founder of what is now St John's Hospital. He was Dean of Killaloe (1772-1780) and then Derry. Pery was nominated Bishop of Killala and Achonry on 7 January 1781 and consecrated on 18 February that year. He was translated to Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe on 13 May 1784. He was created Baron Glentworth, of Mallow in the Peerage of Ireland, in 1790 and died on 4 July 1794. William Street in Limerick is named after him, as were Cecil Street, Glentworth Street and Mallow Street. Pery firstly married Jane Walcott, daughter of John Minchin Walcott, and following her death, married secondly Dorothea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pery Igel
Pery Igel (November 27, 1921 – September 24, 1998) was a Brazilian businessman. Igel was Ultra's second president, succeeding his father and company's founder, Ernesto Igel. Biography Igel was the administrator and second president of Ultra. He took over the company created by his father, Ernesto Igel, in 1959. After two years as president, Igel moved the headquarters from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo, Brazil. Under Pery's administration, Oxiteno and Ultracargo were founded, two of the five divisions of Ultra, along with Ultragaz (first division of Ultra), as well as Ipiranga and Extrafarma, which were incorporated to the group respectively in 2007 and 2014. Under his administration, the company created and also dissociated a number of other activities that have stopped being related to Ultra's long-term strategy, such as a domestic appliances retailer (Ultralar), an engineering company (Ultratec), a frozen food organization (Supergel,) and the fertilizer industry (Ultrafértil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Perie
John Perie VC (1831 – 17 September 1874) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Details Perie was born in Gartly, north-west of Aberdeen on 7 April 1821. Perie was approximately 25 years old, and a sapper in the Royal Sappers and Miners, British Army during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 18 June 1855 during the Siege of Sevastopol, Sapper Perie showed conspicuous gallantry, with a lieutenant (Gerald Graham) in leading a ladder party at the assault on the Redan. He also volunteered to go with the lieutenant to help bring in a wounded sailor lying in the open, even though he was himself suffering from a musket wound in the side. He died at 69 East North Street in Aberdeen on 17 September 1874 and was buried in the "Strangers Land" (communal paupers grave) of St Peter's Cemeter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peary (other)
Peary may refer to: People Last name * Danny Peary (born 1949), American film critic and sports writer * Gerald Peary (born 1944), American film critic * Harold Peary (1908–1985), American actor, comedian and singer * Josephine Diebitsch Peary (1863–1955), American author and arctic explorer, wife of Robert Peary * Robert Peary (1856–1920), American explorer First name * Peary Chand Mitra (1814–1883), Indian author and journalist * Peary Rader (1909–1991), American early bodybuilder, Olympic lifter, writer, and magazine publisher * Peary Charan Sarkar (1823–1875), pioneer in women's education in Bengal Middle name * Benjamin Peary Pal (1906–1989), Indian plant breeder and agronomist Locations Canada * Peary Bay, in Nunavut * Peary Channel, a waterway in Nunavut Greenland * Cape Peary, a headland in northwestern Greenland * Mary Peary Peaks, a mountain in northern Greenland * Peary Channel (Greenland), a hypothetical sound in Northern Greenland * Peary Glacier, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pari (other)
Pari or PARI may refer to: Places * Pari, Estonia, a village in Vastseliina Parish, Võru County, Estonia * Pari, Hamadan or Piruz, a village in Hamadan Province, Iran * Pari, Iran, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran * Pari, Civitella Paganico, a village in Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy * Pari, Gilgit Baltistan, a village in Skardu district, Pakistan * Pari, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India * Piruz, Iran, also known as Pari Film * ''Pari'' (1995 film), an Iranian production * ''Pari'' (2018 Pakistani film) * ''Pari'' (2018 Indian film), a Hindi film People * Akilan Pari (born 1989), Indian basketball player * Claudio Pari (1574-1619), Italian composer * Pari Saberi (born 1932), Iranian drama and theatre director * Vēl Pāri, an ancient Tamil king * Pari people, an ethnic group in Sudan Acronym * People's Archive of Rural India, a digital journalism platform in India * Philippine Association of the Record Industry * Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute, an astro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Electric
The Pacific Electric Railway Company, nicknamed the Red Cars, was a privately owned mass transit system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars, interurban cars, and buses and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s. Organized around the city centers of Los Angeles and San Bernardino, it connected cities in Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County and Riverside County. The system shared dual gauge track with the narrow gauge Los Angeles Railway, "Yellow Car," or "LARy" system on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles (directly in front of the 6th and Main terminal), on 4th Street, and along Hawthorne Boulevard south of downtown Los Angeles toward the cities of Hawthorne, Gardena, and Torrance. Districts The system had four districts: * Northern District: San Gabriel Valley, including Pasadena, Mount Lowe, South Pasadena, Alhambra, El Monte, Covina, Duarte, Glendora, Azusa, Sierra Madre, and Monrovia. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Péry
Péry is part of the municipality of Péry-La Heutte in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura (''Jura Bernois''). History The first mention of Péry is in 884 where it is called ''villam Bedericam''. In 1148 it was known as ''Peril'', though that name comes from a 12th-century forgery. The municipality was formerly known by its German name ''Büderich'', however, that name is no longer used. In 884, Charles the Fat granted Péry to Moutier-Grandval Abbey. The Abbey owned the village and surrounding lands until 999 when the Prince-Bishop of Basel acquired the village. He incorporated it into the seigniory of Erguel and gave the village to the Lords of Péry who ruled from Châtillon Castle, now a ruin, on a nearby hill. Beginning in the 14th century the feudal levies from Péry were part of the Erguel army under the command of Biel. In 1530, Biel encouraged the village to accept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pery Ribeiro
Pery Ribeiro (27 October 1937 – 24 February 2012) was a Brazilian singer of bossa nova, MPB and jazz, active as a singer from 1959 until shortly before his death. Biography Pery Ribeiro was born Peri Oliveira Martins on 27 October 1937, son of the singer Dalva de Oliveira (1917–1972) and singer-songwriter Herivelto Martins (1912–1992). Ribeiro began his performing career as a child, dubbing the title character in the Walt Disney movie Bambi. In addition, he participated in the incomplete Orson Welles film '' It's All True''. In 1944, Ribeiro appeared as an actor in the musical comedy film "Berlim na batucada", by Luís de Barros. This film was a satire of Orson Welles' passage through Brazil while filming "It's All True" (the same film in which Ribeiro appeared) and the United States' "good neighbor" policy. Ribeiro's career as a singer did not begin until 1959. Ribeiro was working as a camera operator for TV Tupi, when he was invited to appear on the program of Paulo G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pery Burge
Pery Burge (1955 – 10 February 2013) was an English artist who, during the 2000s, worked with abstract images using ink in water or ink on paper, invoking natural processes such as surface tension driven flow, gravity, turbulence, rotation and erosion. Biography Born Peronel Burge, she grew up in Launceston, Cornwall. Pery's first main interest was music, she played the piano and violin. During this time period she was also involved with scientific experiments with direction from her father. Burge developed an interest in art during her early teenage years, and was inspired by a book her mother had given her called ''You Are An Artist'' by Fred Gettings (1965). In 1972 she attended various schools before she obtained a music and art teaching certificate from Gipsy Hill College, Kingston. She continued her education at the Gipsy Hill College, Kingston to complete a Bachelor of Arts degree. Gipsy Hill College merged with Kingston University in 1992. In 1992, she had developed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Pery, 1st Earl Of Limerick
Edmund Henry Pery, 1st Earl of Limerick PC (8 January 1758 – 7 December 1844), styled Lord Glentworth between 1794 and 1800, and Viscount Limerick until 1803, was an Irish peer and politician. Pery was the son of William Cecil Pery, 1st Baron Glentworth and his first wife, Jane Walcott, daughter of John Minchin Walcott, and educated at Trinity College Dublin. He married Mary Alice, the daughter of Henry Ormsby of County Mayo, by his wife Mary Hartstonge, in 1783, and they had at least eight children. Mary Alice was the heiress of her uncle, Sir Henry Hartstonge, 3rd Baronet, who left her substantial property in the south of Ireland. She died in 1850. Pery was elected to the Irish Parliament as the Member of Parliament for Limerick in 1786 and held the seat until 1794, when he inherited his father's barony and took his seat in the Irish House of Lords. As a politician, he was a vocal Unionist. He held the office of Keeper of the Signet and Privy Seal of Ireland between 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Péry
Nicole Péry (born 15 May 1943) is a French politician who served as Secretary of State for Women's Rights and Professional Training from 1998 to 2002 under Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. A member of the Socialist Party (PS), she is a professor of literature by occupation. Péry served as Deputy Mayor of Ciboure from 1977 to 1983, when she became leader of the municipal opposition in Bayonne. She entered the European Parliament in 1981 and the National Assembly in 1997, after she stood as a candidate in the 5th constituency of Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Péry was named special assistant to the Prime Minister for regional languages and cultures in October 1997 before her appointment as a Secretary of State to the Minister of Employment and Solidarity. Appointments *1973, 1978, 1981, 1988: parliamentary candidate *1977–1983: Deputy Mayor of Ciboure *1981–1997: Member of European Parliament *1984–1997: Vice-President of the European Parliament *1986–1994: regional councill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Pery, 7th Earl Of Limerick
Edmund Christopher Pery, 7th Earl of Limerick (born 10 February 1963), is an Anglo-Irish peer and son of Patrick Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick. He was educated at Eton College, the Pushkin Institute and New College, Oxford. He then continued his studies at City University London, graduating with a diploma of law. He was known by his father's subsidiary title, Viscount Glentworth, until he inherited the earldom upon the death of his father on 8 January 2003. Career In 1987, Limerick was admitted to Middle Temple. He then pursued a career in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office between 1987 and 1992, before becoming a solicitor with various firms until 1996. Limerick was formerly a director of Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (), sometimes referred to simply as Deutsche, is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Sto .... Titles * ''The Honourable'' E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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