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Pearsall (surname)
Pearsall is a surname. Notable people with that name include: *Alan Pearsall (1915–1944), Australian sportsman * Aleck Pearsall, 19th-century American baseball player *A. W. H. Pearsall (1925–2006), English historian *Benjamin Pearsall (1878– 1951), Australian politician *Deborah M. Pearsall (born 1950), American archaeologist * Derek Pearsall, medievalist and Chaucer scholar * Duane D. Pearsall (1922–2010), American entrepreneur * Geoff Pearsall (born 1946), Australian politician *Jack Pearsall (1915–1982), Canadian politician *Kenneth H. Pearsall (1918–1999), American clergyman, president of Northwest Nazarene College *Phyllis Pearsall (1906–1996), British painter and writer *Richard Pearsall (1698–1762), English Congregationalist minister *Ricky Pearsall (born 2000), American football player *Robert Pearsall (architect) (1852–1929), English architect * Robert Lucas de Pearsall (1795–1856), English composer * Ronald Pearsall (1927–2005), English author *Stac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Pearsall
Alan Louden Pearsall (21 May 1915 – 8 March 1944) was an Australian sportsman who played first-class cricket for Tasmania and Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League (VFL) with South Melbourne. Family The son of Benjamin James Pearsall (1880-1951), and Olive Mabel Pearsall, née Marsden, Alan Louden Pearsall was born at the Edinburgh Hospital, MacQuarie Street, Hobart, Tasmania on 21 May 1915. He married Dorothy Eva Bumford on 15 March 1941. Education He was educated at the Hobart High School. Cricket Pearsall made seven first-class appearances for Tasmania during the 1930s, scoring a total of 300 runs at 23.07 and taking 6 wickets. He made his debut in a match against an Australian XI team and dismissed Bill Brown for 96. Ian Johnson and Keith Miller are other Test players whose wicket he took in his career. He opened the batting against Victoria at Launceston in 1935/36 and made the only half century of his career, an innings of 56. Football Pearsa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lucas De Pearsall
Robert Lucas Pearsall (14 March 1795 – 5 August 1856) was an English composer mainly of vocal music, including an elaborate setting of "In dulci jubilo" and the richly harmonic part song ''Lay a garland'' of 1840, both still often performed today. He spent the last 31 years of his life abroad, at first in Germany, then at a castle he bought in Switzerland. Biography Pearsall was born at Clifton in Bristol on 14 March 1795 into a wealthy, originally Quaker family. His father, Richard Pearsall (died 1813), was an army officer and an amateur musician. Pearsall was privately educated. In 1816 Pearsall's mother, Elizabeth (née Lucas), bought the Pearsall family's home at Willsbridge, Gloucestershire (now part of Bristol), from her brother-in-law, Thomas Pearsall. Thomas had been ruined by the failure of the iron mill that had been the family's business since 1712. After the death of his mother in 1837, Pearsall sold Willsbridge House again, but although he would never live there ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logan Pearsall Smith
Logan Pearsall Smith (18 October 1865 – 2 March 1946) was an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th Century divines. His ''Words and Idioms'' made him an authority on correct English language usage. He wrote his autobiography, ''Unforgotten Years'', in 1938. Early life Smith was born in Millville, New Jersey. He was the son of the prominent Quakers Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith, and a descendant of James Logan, who was William Penn's secretary and the Chief Justice of Pennsylvania in the 18th century.Logan Pearsall Smith. ''Unforgotten years''. Little, Brown and Company; 1939.Robert Allerton Parker. A Family of Friends: The Story of the Transatlantic Smiths'. Museum Press; 1960. His mother's family had become wealthy from its glass factories.Barbara Strachey. ''Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women''. Universe Books; 1980. . He lived f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alys Pearsall Smith
Alyssa Whitall "Alys" Pearsall Smith (21 July 1867 – 22 January 1951) was an American-born British Quaker relief organiser and the first wife of Bertrand Russell. She chaired the society that created an innovative school for mothers in 1907. Early life Pearsall Smith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith, prominent figures in the Holiness movement in America and the Higher Life movement in Great Britain. She was the sister of essayist and critic Logan Pearsall Smith and the cousin of Martha Carey Thomas. Pearsall Smith graduated from Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia. Pearsall Smith's family lived in England from 1873 to 1875 and then again from 1888 onward. In England, the family came into contact with George Bernard Shaw, Henry James, and Bernard Berenson, who married her sister, Mary. Personal life On 13 December 1894, Smith married Bertrand Russell, son of the Viscount and Viscountess Amberle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wally Fawkes
Walter Ernest Fawkes (born 21 June 1924) is a British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and satirical cartoonist. As a cartoonist, he usually worked under the name "Trog" until failing eyesight forced him to retire in 2005 at the age of 81. Early history Fawkes was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and emigrated with his family to Britain in 1931. Enthused by comic books from a young age, Fawkes left school at fourteen to take up a scholarship to study at Sidcup Art School. After 18 months he left art school due to financial restraints. On the outbreak of the Second World War, Fawkes was first employed painting camouflage on factory roofs to hide them from enemy bombing. A bout of pleurisy made Fawkes unfit for service and he was instead employed by the Coal Commission to work on maps of coal seams. In 1942, he entered an art competition that was judged by the ''Daily Mail's'' chief cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, who found him work with the Clement Davies adverti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Harold Pearsall
William Harold Pearsall (23 July 1891 – 14 October 1964) was a British botanist, Quain Professor of Botany at University College London 1944–1957.‘PEARSALL, William Harold’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200accessed 8 July 2013/ref> Awards and honours Pearsall was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ... in 1940. His nomination reads: References 1891 births 1964 deaths British botanists Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Academics of University College London New Naturalist writers {{UK-botanist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Pearsall
Will Pearsall (born 12 March 1995) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. He played for the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League as a and . Background Born in Young, New South Wales, Pearsall played his junior rugby league for The Entrance Tigers, before being signed by the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles. Playing career Early career From 2012 to 2015, Pearsall played for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles' NYC team. In 2015, he captained the side. In October 2015, he signed a two-year contract with the Newcastle Knights starting in 2016. 2016 In round 6 of the 2016 NRL season, Pearsall made his NRL debut for Newcastle against the Wests Tigers The Wests Tigers are an Australian professional Rugby league, rugby league football team, based in the Inner West and South West Sydney. They have competed in the National Rugby League since being formed at the end of the 1999 NRL season as a j .... 2017 After failing to play another NRL game for Newcastle ... [...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 Pearsall (cricketer)
Thomas A Pearsall (born 18 May 1943) is a former English cricketer. Pearsall was a left-handed batsman who was a right-arm bowler, but his bowling style is unknown. He was born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire. Pearsall made his debut for Staffordshire in the 1974 Minor Counties Championship against Shropshire. Pearsall played Minor counties cricket for Staffordshire from 1974 to 1981, which included 29 Minor Counties Championship matches. In 1975, he made his List A debut for Staffordshire against Leicestershire in the Gillette Cup. He made 2 further appearances in List A cricket for the county, against Devon in the 1st round of the 1978 Gillette Cup and Sussex in the 2nd round of the same competition. In his 3 List A matches for the county, he scored 49 runs at an average of 16.33, with a high score of 34. He later made 2 List A appearances for the Minor Counties North in the 1979 Benson & Hedges Cup The 1979 Benson & Hedges Cup was the eighth comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Pearsall (Australian Politician)
Thomas Gordon Pearsall (11 April 1920 – 28 December 2003) was an Australian politician. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, he was educated at multiple state schools before becoming a dairy farmer at Kingston. He served in the military from 1940 to 1945 (TX6060 Lt 2/29 Infantry Battalion. POW Malaya and Thai-Burma Railway and served on Kingsborough Council. In 1950, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Liberal member for Franklin. In 1966, he transferred to national politics, winning the federal House of Representatives seat of Franklin after the retirement of Bill Falkinder. He was defeated in 1969 by Labor Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ... candidate Ray Sherry, and returned to farming. Pearsall died in 2003. References Liberal Party o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacy Pearsall
Stacy L. Pearsall is an American photographer. Pearsall served as a military photographer in the United States Air Force until her wounds lead to her medical retirement. Since leaving the Air Force, Pearsall has worked as a professional photographer. Biography Pearsall enlisted in the U.S. Air Force at age 17 as a Basic Still Photographer. Upon graduating from the Defense Information School in 1998, she was assign to U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base, NE, followed by the European Command, Joint Analysis Center at RAF Molesworth in the United Kingdom, where she served as a U-2 High Altitude Reconnaissance Aircraft long-roll processor. In 2001, she applied and was accepted to the 1st Combat Camera Squadron (COMCAM) in Charleston, SC. During her two consecutive tours, she certified as aircrew and traveled to more than 41 countries and completed the Military Photojournalism program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University but never e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Pearsall
Ronald Joseph Pearsall (20 October 1927 – 27 September 2005) was an English writer whose scope included children's stories, pornography and fishing. His most famous book ''The Worm in the Bud'' (1969) was about Victorian sexuality, including orgies, prostitution and fetishism. A prolific writer, his other books included three on popular music between 1837 and 1929, several on the history of sexuality and many on antiques. He held other jobs as a shoe shop assistant, cinema manager and store detective. His book ''The Table Rappers'' (1972) was an exposure of fraud mediums, tricksters and charlatans in Spiritualism.The Telegraph. (2005)Ronald Pearsall Obituary. Bibliography *1966: ''Is That My Hook in Your Ear? a light-hearted look at angling''. London: Stanley Paul *1969: ''The Worm in the Bud: the world of Victorian sexuality''. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson *1972: ''The Exorcism''. London: Sphere Books (a novel) *1972: ''The Possessed''. London: Sphere Books (a novel) *19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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