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Pilcher Monument
Pilcher is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Thomas Pilcher (1557–1587), English Roman Catholic priest and martyr *George Pilcher (1801–1855), English aural surgeon and medical reformer * Jane Pilcher (PhD 1992), British sociologist * John Pilcher (1766–1838), English cricketer *Sir John Arthur Pilcher (1912–1990), British diplomat * J. L. Pilcher (1898–1981), American politician *Joshua Pilcher (1790–1843), American fur trader and Indian agent *Lewis Pilcher (1871–1941), American academic and architect *Norman Pilcher (born 1935), British former police officer *Percy Pilcher (1866–1899), British inventor and aviator *Robin Pilcher (born 1950), British author, son of Rosamunde *Rosamunde Pilcher (1924-2019), British author, mother of Robin *Thomas Pilcher (1858-1928), British army officer * Venn Pilcher (1879–1961), British Anglican bishop and author * William S. Pilcher (1803–1858), Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, from 1857 to 1858 See also *19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Pilchard
Thomas Pilchard (Pilcher) (born at Battle, Sussex, 1557; executed at Dorchester, 21 March 1587) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987 as one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales, with whom he is commemorated on 4 May. Life Born into a family of five, as the son of David Pylcher of Battle, and Joane Haye of Robertsbridge, he was educated at Battle Abbey , where Battle was still a hotbed of Catholic recusancy. He became a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, in 1576, and took the degree of M.A., in 1579, resigning his fellowship the following year. He arrived at Reims 20 November 1581, and was ordained priest at Laon, March 1583.Whitfield, Joseph L., "Venerable Thomas Pilchard", ''Lives of the English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Pilcher
Robin Pilcher (born 10 August 1950) is a British author, the eldest son of author Rosamunde Pilcher Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (''née'' Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) was a British writer of romance novels, mainstream fiction, and short stories, from 1949 until her retirement in 2000. Her novels sold over 60 million copies world .... His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Bibliography * ''An Ocean Apart'', 1999, * ''Starting Over'', 2002, * ''A Risk Worth Taking'', 2004, * ''Starburst'', 2007, * ''The Long Way Home'', 2010, Television adaptations * ''An Ocean Apart'' (2006) * '' Starting Over'' (2007) * ''A Risk Worth Taking'' (2008) References External links * 1950 births Living people People educated at Clifton College 20th-century British novelists Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century British novelists {{UK-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilcher Monument
Pilcher is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Thomas Pilcher (1557–1587), English Roman Catholic priest and martyr *George Pilcher (1801–1855), English aural surgeon and medical reformer * Jane Pilcher (PhD 1992), British sociologist * John Pilcher (1766–1838), English cricketer *Sir John Arthur Pilcher (1912–1990), British diplomat * J. L. Pilcher (1898–1981), American politician *Joshua Pilcher (1790–1843), American fur trader and Indian agent *Lewis Pilcher (1871–1941), American academic and architect *Norman Pilcher (born 1935), British former police officer *Percy Pilcher (1866–1899), British inventor and aviator *Robin Pilcher (born 1950), British author, son of Rosamunde *Rosamunde Pilcher (1924-2019), British author, mother of Robin *Thomas Pilcher (1858-1928), British army officer * Venn Pilcher (1879–1961), British Anglican bishop and author * William S. Pilcher (1803–1858), Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, from 1857 to 1858 See also *19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 Pilcher
1990 Pilcher, provisional designation , is a stony background asteroid from the Florian region of the inner asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 9 March 1956, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in Heidelberg, Germany. In 1982, it was named by the MPC for American physicist and photometrist Frederick Pilcher. The S-type asteroid has a short rotation period of 2.8 hours. Orbit and classification ''Pilcher'' is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method (HCM) to its proper orbital elements (Nesvorný, Milani and Knežević). In a previous HCM-analysis (Zappalà) and based on osculating Keplerian orbital elements, the asteroid has also been classified as a member of the Flora family (), a giant asteroid family and the largest family of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun in the Florian region of the inner asteroid bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William S
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venn Pilcher
Charles Venn Pilcher (known as Venn; 4 June 1879 – 4 July 1961) was an Anglican bishop, theologian and writer and translator of hymns. He was a member and the Secretary of the Australian Hymn Supplement Committee, and author of the Preface to the Australian Hymn Supplement to the ''Book of Common Praise''. He wrote hymns and composed tunes for both the original hymn book (produced in Canada) and for the Australian supplement. He was also a keen supporter of the Zionist cause. Pilcher was born in Oxford and educated at Charterhouse School and Hertford College, Oxford. and ordained in 1903. He was curate of St Thomas' Church, Birmingham and then domestic chaplain to Handley Moule, the Bishop of Durham. He was a professor of the New Testament at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto and later of the Old Testament. He was canon precentor at the Cathedral Church of St James, Toronto from 1931 to 1936 when he became a lecturer in church history at Moore Theological College, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Pilcher
Major-General Thomas David Pilcher, CB (8 July 1858 – 14 December 1928) was a British Army officer, who commanded a mounted infantry unit in the Second Boer War and the 17th (Northern) Division during the First World War, before being removed from command in disgrace during the Battle of the Somme. Pilcher spent his early career as an infantry officer, first seeing active service on colonial campaigns in Nigeria in the late 1890s followed by field command in the Second Boer War (1899–1902), on which he published a book of lessons learned in 1903. Following the war, he held a number of senior commands in India. However, further promotion was checked by his having come into conflict with his commander-in-chief, who regarded him as unsuited for senior command in part because of his writings; Pilcher was a keen student of the German army and its operational methods, and an active theorist who published a number of controversial books advocating the adoption of new milita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (''née'' Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) was a British writer of romance novels, mainstream fiction, and short stories, from 1949 until her retirement in 2000. Her novels sold over 60 million copies worldwide. Early in her career she was also published under the pen name Jane Fraser. In 2001, she received the Corine Literature Prize's Weltbild Readers' Prize for ''Winter Solstice''. Personal life She was born Rosamunde Scott on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall. Her parents were Helen (''née'' Harvey) and Charles Scott, a British civil servant. Just before her birth her father was posted in Burma, while her mother remained in England. She attended the School of St. Clare in Penzance and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College. She began writing when she was seven, and published her first short story when she was 15. From 1943 until 1946, Pilcher served with the Women's Royal Naval Service. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Pilcher
Percy Sinclair Pilcher (16 January 1867 – 2 October 1899) was a British inventor and pioneer aviator who was his country's foremost experimenter in unpowered flight near the end of the nineteenth century. After corresponding with Otto Lilienthal, Pilcher had considerable success with developing hang gliders. In 1895, he made repeated flights in the ''Bat'', and in 1896–1897 many flights in the ''Hawk'' culminated in a world distance record. By 1899, Pilcher had produced a motor-driven triplane, which he planned to test at Stanford Hall in Leicestershire on September 30, 1899; however, the attempt was delayed by mechanical problems. When he substituted a flight of ''Hawk'', it suffered structural failure in mid-air and he was fatally injured in the resulting crash, with his powered aircraft never having been tested. Research carried out by Cranfield University in the early 2000s concluded that Pilcher's triplane was more or less workable, and would have been capable of fli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pilcher
George Pilcher (1801–1855) was an English aural surgeon and medical reformer. Life Son of Jeremiah Pilcher of Winkfield, Berkshire, George Pilcher was born on 30 April 1801. George was brother to William Humphrey Pilcher and John Giles Pilcher.The Law Reports f the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting Equity Cases, Including Bankruptcy Cases, Before the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-chancellors, and the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy, Volume 11, 1870-71, 34 Vic, p.52 Pilcher was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 2 April 1824. Immediately afterwards he began to practise as a surgeon in Dean Street, Soho, London, and was soon appointed lecturer on anatomy, physiology, and surgery at the Webb Street school of medicine, Snow's Fields, then belonging to his brother-in-law, Richard Dugard Grainger. His lectures on comparative anatomy drew on Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville. Desmond associates Pilcher at Webb Street with Benthamite views, shared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Pilcher
Norman Clement Pilcher (01 June 193514 March 2021) was a British police officer. After a transfer from the Flying Squad to the Drug Squad in 1967, Norman ("Nobby") Pilcher became notorious for the vigour with which he pinned possession of drugs charges on pop stars and hippies, and for the dubious methods employed in his undercover operations, which included paying off informers with drugs. He became infamous for arresting a number of celebrities during the 1960s on drug charges, including Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones in January 1967; Brian Jones, also from the Stones; Donovan; and two members of the Beatles, George Harrison and John Lennon. Eric Clapton was nearly arrested at The Pheasantry on drugs charges, but escaped from the rear of the building when Pilcher rang the doorbell to announce "postman, special delivery". Several celebrities complained that Detective Sergeant Pilcher had framed them, or was only carrying out raids and arrests to satisfy th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Pilcher
Lewis F. Pilcher, AIA (1871–1941), was an American academic and architect active in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century New York City. With William G. Tachau, he was a partner of Pilcher and Tachau, the predecessor firm of Tachau and Vought.Nancy L. Tod''New York's Historic Armories: An Illustrated History'' (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2006), p.268 He was a professor of art at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He subsequently was a state architect of New York.Karen Van Lengen and Lisa Reilly.''Vassar College: An Architectural Tour.'' The Campus Guide Series. (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004), p.80 Biography Pilcher attended Wesleyan University from 1889-1890, and graduated from the Columbia School of Architecture in 1895. He began his career working for Brooklyn architect Mercein Thomas, then started his own practice with former classmate W.G. Tachau. In 1901 Pilcher won a competition to design the Troop C Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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