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Rob Butler
Robert Butler may refer to: Politicians * Robert Butler (U.S. commander) (1786–1860), U.S. commander receiving the former East Florida for the United States in 1821, from Spain *Cuthbert Butler (politician) (Robert John Cuthbert Butler, 1889–1950), member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, Australia *Robert Butler (diplomat) (1897–1955), U.S. ambassador to Australia (1946–48) and Cuba (1948–1951) * Robert Butler (MP), 16th-century Member of Parliament for Bristol *Robert Butler (Virginia politician) (1784–1853), American, treasurer of the state of Virginia, U.S. * Robert L. Butler (born 1927), American politician, twelve-term mayor of Marion, Illinois, U.S. * Robert R. Butler (1881–1933), American politician, judge, and Representative from Oregon, U.S. *Rob Butler (politician) (born 1967), Conservative British MP for Aylesbury since 2019 Sports * Robert Butler (cricketer) (1852–1916), English cricketer *Bob Butler (1891–1959), American football player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Butler (politician)
Robert Butler (born 19 June 1967) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Aylesbury since the 2019 general election. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prisons and Probations between September and October 2022. Early life Butler was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. His earliest years were spent in Bedgrove, until his family moved to Bicester. He attended the University of Sheffield, where he studied French and Economics. Early career Butler's professional life began as a TV presenter at the BBC and later Channel 5, where he presented that channel's lunchtime news from its launch in 1997 until the end of 2004. In 2005, he founded a communication and lobbying consultancy, which worked with large and small companies around the world, such as the private healthcare company Bupa. In 2010, he joined the lobbying firm Pagefield at its launch, as an associate partner and he was still listed as a specialis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Butler (U
Robert Butler may refer to: Politicians * Robert Butler (U.S. commander) (1786–1860), U.S. commander receiving the former East Florida for the United States in 1821, from Spain * Cuthbert Butler (politician) (Robert John Cuthbert Butler, 1889–1950), member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, Australia * Robert Butler (diplomat) (1897–1955), U.S. ambassador to Australia (1946–48) and Cuba (1948–1951) * Robert Butler (MP), 16th-century Member of Parliament for Bristol * Robert Butler (Virginia politician) (1784–1853), American, treasurer of the state of Virginia, U.S. * Robert L. Butler (born 1927), American politician, twelve-term mayor of Marion, Illinois, U.S. * Robert R. Butler (1881–1933), American politician, judge, and Representative from Oregon, U.S. *Rob Butler (politician) (born 1967), Conservative British MP for Aylesbury since 2019 Sports * Robert Butler (cricketer) (1852–1916), English cricketer * Bob Butler (1891–1959), American football pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Butler (baseball)
Robert Frank John Butler (born April 10, 1970) is a Canadian former professional baseball outfielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays and the Philadelphia Phillies. He is also a former player with the Toronto Maple Leafs of the Intercounty Baseball League. Major League career Butler first signed with the Blue Jays as an amateur free agent on September 24, 1990, and made his major league debut with them . on June 12, 1993. He played in 17 regular season games and was sidelined by a hand injury he suffered when attempting to steal a base. In his 17-game stint in 1993, he had a .271 batting average with four doubles, two RBIs and 12 strikeouts. He also drew seven walks and went 2-for-4 stealing bases. In the 1993 World Series, won by Toronto, Butler went 1-for-2 with a pinch hit single off Curt Schilling of the Philadelphia Phillies, and became the only Canadian player to have won a World Series with the Blue Jays. In 1994, Butler played in 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Butler (obesity)
This is a list of the heaviest people who have been weighed and verified, living and dead. The list is organised by the peak weight reached by an individual and is limited to those who are over . Heaviest people ever recorded See also *Big Pun (1971–2000), American rapper whose weight at death was . * Edward Bright (1721–1750) and Daniel Lambert (1770–1809), men from England who were famous in their time for their obesity. * Happy Humphrey, the heaviest professional wrestler, weighing in at at his peak. *Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (1959–1997), Hawaiian singer whose weight peaked at . * Paul Kimelman (born 1947), holder of Guinness World Record for the greatest weight-loss in the shortest amount of time, 1982 * Billy and Benny McCrary, holders of Guinness World Records's ''World's Heaviest Twins''. * Alayna Morgan (1948–2009), heavy woman from Santa Rosa, California. * Ricky Naputi (1973–2012), heaviest man from Guam. * Carl Thompson (1982–2015), heaviest man i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Reginald Butler, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert Reginald Frederick Butler, 1st Baronet (19 June 1866 – 19 November 1933) was an English businessman. Butler was born in Edford, Somerset, and educated at Bedford School. He was director of a number of catering and confectionery companies, notably chairman of United Dairies. He was created a Baronet in the 1922 New Year Honours for his wartime services. Footnotes References *Obituary, ''The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (f ...'', 20 November 1933 *Sir Reginald Butler, Notes of the Day, Western Daily Press, 23 November 1933 1866 births 1933 deaths People educated at Bedford School English businesspeople Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom {{UK-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler (born January 20, 1945) is an American fiction writer. His short-story collection '' A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain'' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993. Early life Butler was born in Granite City, Illinois, to Robert Olen Butler Sr., an actor and theater professor who became the chairman of the theater department of Saint Louis University, and his wife, the former Lucille Frances Hall, an executive secretary. Butler attended Northwestern University as a theater major ( BS, 1967) and switched to playwriting at the University of Iowa ( MA, 1969). Butler served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1971, first as a counter-intelligence special agent for the Army and later as a translator. He rose to the rank of sergeant in the Army Military Intelligence Corps. His experiences during that period have informed his writings, and as a result, in 1987 Butler received the Tu Do Chinh Kien Award from the Vietnam Veterans of America for outstanding contributio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Neil Butler
Robert Neil Butler (January 21, 1927 – July 4, 2010) was an American physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, and author, who was the first director of the National Institute on Aging. Butler is known for his work on the social needs and the rights of the elderly and for his research on healthy aging and the dementias. Background Having grown up with his grandparents in Vineland, New Jersey, Butler was shocked by the dismissive and contemptuous attitude toward the elderly and their diseases by many of his teachers at medical school, an attitude he later characterized as "ageism". He graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University, where he was editor of the ''Columbia Daily Spectator'' and a member of the Philolexian Society. Career Butler was a principal investigator of one of the first interdisciplinary, comprehensive, longitudinal studies of healthy community-residing older persons, conducted at the National Institute of Mental Health (1955–1966), which resulted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Butler (director)
Robert Butler (born November 16, 1927) is an American film and Emmy Award-winning television director. He is best known for his work in television, where he directed the pilots for a number of series including ''Star Trek'', ''Hogan's Heroes, '' ''Batman'' and ''Hill Street Blues''. Career Butler graduated from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he majored in English. He was first in an army band, before his career as a stage manager and an assistant before launching his directing career with an episode of ''Hennesey'' (starring Jackie Cooper and including a young Ron Howard)Susan King"Director Robert Butler put stamp on 'Batman,' other landmark series" ''Los Angeles Times'', February 15, 2014. and then went on to direct such shows as ''The Untouchables'', '' Dr. Kildare'', ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', ''Batman'', '' The Fugitive'' and ''The Twilight Zone''. Butler shot pilots for many TV series including the original ''Star Trek'', ''Shane'', ''Hogan's Heroes' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Butler (criminal)
Robert Butler ( – 17 July 1905) was a New Zealand-Australian career criminal and murderer. He was born in either Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland or Bury, Lancashire, England on . See also *List of serial killers by country This is a list of notable serial killers, by the country where most of the killings occurred. Convicted serial killers by country Afghanistan *Abdullah Shah: killed at least 20 travelers on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad while serving under ... References 1850s births 1905 deaths Australian murderers Date of birth unknown Executed Australian people People executed by Australia by hanging Suspected serial killers Year of birth uncertain {{AUS-crime-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Butler (artist)
Robert Butler (September 25, 1943 – March 19, 2014) was a Postwar & Contemporary Artist best known for his portrayals of the woods and backwaters around Florida's Everglades. He was a member of the well-known African-American artist's group, The Highwaymen. Early life Butler was born in the small timber and farming community of Baxley, Georgia, on September 25, 1943. Raised by his mother, Annie Talifer Butler, who always took time to instill the principles of faith and compassion in her family, Butler considers his upbringing as "classically American." In 1947, Butler moved to Okeechobee, Florida, where he later became intimately familiar with the woods and waters of the Florida Everglades, and especially Lake Okeechobee, that feature prominently in his paintings. Robert Butler's goal in his paintings was to preserve the nature around him which was easily accessible due to his location. The inspiration for the content of his paintings was drawn from those various landscapes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Butler (ice Hockey)
Robert "Bobby" Butler (born April 26, 1987) is an American professional ice hockey forward. He is currently playing with the Worcester Railers in the ECHL. He formerly played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Ottawa Senators, New Jersey Devils, Nashville Predators and Florida Panthers and won the 2011 Calder Cup championship while with the Binghamton Senators. Playing career Amateur As a youth, Butler played in the 2000 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Minuteman Flames minor ice hockey team, and then in the 2001 tournament with the Middlesex Islanders. Prior to enrolling at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), Butler played three seasons with the Boston Jr. Bruins of the Eastern Junior Hockey League from 2003–2006 and five seasons with Marlborough High School from 2000–2005, making the varsity team as an eighth-grader. During the 2004–05 season, he helped both his high school team and junior team to championship titles. At Marlboro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Butler (American Football)
Robert Calvin Butler (born May 28, 1959 in Delray Beach, Florida), is a former professional American football player. Butler played for Florida State University at the college level and was drafted in the first round of the NFL draft in 1981 by the Atlanta Falcons. He played for 12 years for the Atlanta Falcons, his entire NFL career, retiring after the 1992 season. Personal life He has a wife named Cyrillyn and four sons; Brenton, Brice, Brelan and Brandel. Brenton played basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ... at Fordham University and now plays professional basketball in Berlin, Germany for RSV Eintracht Stahnsdorf where he will be the team’s starting point guard, while Brice is a wide receiver in the NFL. His son Brelan is an accomplished video e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
