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Richard Holt (businessman)
Richard Holt may refer to: * Richard Holt (MP for Langbaurgh) (1931–1991), British Conservative Member of Parliament *Richard Holt (cricketer) (1920–2001), English cricketer *Sir Richard Durning Holt (1868–1941), British Liberal Party politician, MP for Hexham *Richard Holt (died 1710) Richard Holt (1639–1710) was an English M.P. during the second half of the 17th century. Holt was born in Portsmouth, the son of John Holt and Catherine née Bricket. He was educated at St John's College, Oxford. In 1667 he married Margaret Whit ..., MP for Lymington, and for Petersfield * Ric Holt, computer science professor * Ashton Dearholt (1894–1942), American silent film actor See also * Holt (surname) {{hndis, Holt, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Holt (MP For Langbaurgh)
James Richard Holt (2 August 1931 – 20 September 1991) was a British politician and Conservative Member of Parliament. Political career Holt first stood for Parliament, unsuccessfully, at Brent South in the February 1974 General Election. He was elected for Langbaurgh at the 1983 election and was re-elected in 1987. In 1989 he was one of the Tory members who stated doubts about the proposed Community Charge . He died suddenly in his sleep, aged 60, in 1991. His successor in the resulting by-election was Labour's Ashok Kumar. However, at the 1992 general election the seat was regained by the Conservative Michael Bates. References *''The Times Guide to the House of Commons'', Times Newspapers Ltd News Corp UK & Ireland Limited (trading as News UK, formerly News International and NI Group) is a British newspaper publisher, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the American mass media conglomerate News Corp. It is the current publisher of ..., 1987 & 1992 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Holt (cricketer)
Richard Anthony Appleby Holt (11 March 1920 – 18 May 2001) was an English cricketer active from 1938 to 1947 who played for Sussex. He was born and died in Kensington Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West End of London, West of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b .... He appeared in six first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who scored 60 runs with a highest score of 30. Notes 1920 births 2001 deaths English cricketers Sussex cricketers Free Foresters cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Durning Holt
Sir Richard Durning Holt, Baronet, JP (13 November 1868 – 22 March 1941) was a British Liberal Party politician and businessman with interests in shipping. Background and education Holt was born on 13 November 1868 at Edge Lane, in West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire. He was one of five sons of Robert Durning Holt, a cotton broker and later Lord Mayor of Liverpool, by his wife Lawrencina Potter, daughter of Richard Potter and sister of Beatrice Webb. He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Political career After some persuasion from Herbert Gladstone, Holt stood as Liberal candidate at Liverpool West Derby in 1903, when he lost to William Rutherford. He stood and lost again there in 1906. He was elected at a by-election in 1907 as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Hexham but his classical liberal ideas were increasingly out of fashion in the Liberal Party; he opposed David Lloyd George's social welfare legislation as government interference. Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Holt (died 1710)
Richard Holt (1639–1710) was an English M.P. during the second half of the 17th century. Holt was born in Portsmouth, the son of John Holt and Catherine née Bricket. He was educated at St John's College, Oxford. In 1667 he married Margaret Whithed of West Tytherley: they had two daughters.'One hundred years of a pocket borough: Petersfield and Parliament, 1685–1783' Surry, N. p8: Petersfield; Petersfield Area Historical Society (Paper No. 7); 1983 He was appointed a Freeman of Portsmouth in 1658; of Lymington in 1677; and of Winchester Winchester is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs Nation ... in 1695. He was Commissioner of Wastes and Spoils for the New Forest from 1692. References Alumni of St John's College, Oxford Politicians from Portsmouth English MPs 1685–16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ric Holt
Richard Craig Holt (February 13, 1941 – April 12, 2019) was an American-Canadians, Canadian computer scientists, computer scientist. Early life Holt was born on in 1941 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, to Vashti Young and C.P. Holt, but later moved to Toronto, Canada. As a teenager, he competed in track and field. He graduated from Cornell University in 1964 in engineering physics. He spent a year in the Peace Corps in Nigeria, and then worked for IBM. He went back to Cornell and obtained a PhD in computer science in 1970 under Alan Shaw. Career Holt joined the faculty at the University of Toronto in 1970. In 1997, he joined the faculty of the University of Waterloo, where he remained until his retirement in 2014. Holt's main research areas were operating systems, programming languages and software engineering, contributing many seminal results to each. His work includes foundational work on deadlock, development of several compilers and compilation techniques. His Turing (pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashton Dearholt
Ashton Dearholt (April 4, 1894 – April 27, 1942) was an American actor of the silent film era. He appeared in 75 films between 1915 and 1938. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and died in Los Angeles, California. He was sometimes billed as Richard Holt. Biography Dearholt worked with Universal Studios on a number of melodramas during the 1910s but usually worked outside the studio system, producing and starring in a series of "Pinto Pete" Western during the 1920s. He occasionally acted under the name Richard Holt. He founded Ashton Dearholt Productions in 1924. Ten years later, Dearholt and Edgar Rice Burroughs founded the film production company Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises when he was filming ''The New Adventures of Tarzan''. His character in that serial was a mercenary antagonistic explorer sent to steal the valuable Green Goddess. During its production in Guatemala, Dearholt married the leading actress, Ula Holt, and Burroughs broke up with his first wife to marry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |