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Robert Bower (other)
Robert Bower may refer to: *Robert Bower (died 1606), MP for Salisbury *Sir Robert Lister Bower (1860–1929), British Army, colonial and police officer *Robert W. Bower Robert W. Bower (June 12, 1936) is an American applied physicist. Immediately after receiving his Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D. from The California Institute of Technology in 1973, he worked for over 25 years in many different professions: Engineer ... (1936–2024), American applied physicist * Robert Bower (Conservative politician) (1894–1975), British Conservative politician, MP for Cleveland, 1931–1945 See also * Bower (other) * Robert (other) * Robert Bowers (other) {{hndis, Bower, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bower (died 1606)
Robert Bower (died 1606), was an English politician. A younger son of Thomas Bower of West Lavington, Wiltshire, he was elected Mayor of Salisbury for 1584–85. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Salisbury Salisbury ( ) is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. The city is approximately from Southampton and from Bath. Salisbury is in the southeast of Wil ... in 1593. He married twice and had 8 daughters. References 16th-century births 1606 deaths English MPs 1593 Mayors of Salisbury {{16thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lister Bower
Major Sir Robert Lister Bower (12 August 1860 – 13 June 1929) was a British British Army, Army, colonial and police officer who served as Chief Constable of the North Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary from 1898 until his death in 1929. Bower came from an old Yorkshire family; his father was Robert Hartley Bower of Welham Hall, Malton, North Yorkshire, Malton and his mother was a daughter of Sir John Lister-Kaye, 2nd Baronet of Denby Grange. Bower went to Harrow School in 1874 and was later commissioned into the Kerry Militia, from where he transferred to the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1881. He served in the Anglo-Egyptian War and fought at Tel-el-Mahuta, Kassassin and Tel-el-Kebir. He also served in the 1884 Mahdist War, fighting at Battles of El Teb, El Teb and Tamai, where he was mentioned in dispatches, and in the Nile Expedition of 1884–1885, being mentioned in dispatches twice more. In 1892 he served with the Jebu expedition in West Africa and from 1892 to 1893 he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert W
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bower (Conservative Politician)
Commander Robert Tatton Bower (9 June 1894 – 5 July 1975) was a Royal Navy officer and a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Early life Bower was the only son- with two sisters- of Major Sir Robert Lister Bower, KBE, CMG, of The West House, Thirsk, Yorkshire, Chief Constable of the North Riding of Yorkshire, late of the 60th Rifles, and sometime of the 7th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, and Annette Norah, daughter of Henry Haswell Head, MD, of Thornhill, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland. The Bower family were minor landed gentry, of Welham Hall, Malton, North Yorkshire. Political career At the 1931 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cleveland. He was re-elected in 1935, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1945 general election by the Labour Party candidate George Willey. On 4 April 1938, Bower was involved in a House of Commons incident when he interrupted Jewish Labour MP Emanuel Shinwell, telling him to " g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bower (other)
Bower may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Catherine, or The Bower'', an unfinished Jane Austen novel * A high-ranking card (usually a Jack) in certain card games: ** The Right and Left Bower (or Bauer), the two highest-ranking cards in the game of Euchre ** The Best and Under Bower in the game of Bester Bauer ** The Right and Left Bower in the game of Réunion *Bower Studios, a design studio based in NYC. Places * Bower, South Australia, a town * Bower, Highland, Scotland, a village and civil parish * Bower, Nebraska, a ghost town in the United States * Bower, West Virginia, a ghost town in the United States * Havering-atte-Bower, a village within the London Borough of Havering * Mount Bower, Victoria Land, Antarctica People * Bower (surname) * Bower Featherstone, Canadian civil servant convicted of espionage in 1966 * E. Bower Carty (1916–2001), Canadian public servant and Chairman of the World Scout Committee * Roger Squires (born 1932), British retired crossword ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert (other)
Robert is a given name (the article includes a list of people and fictional characters with the name). Robert may also refer to: People * Robert (surname) Religious figures * Saint Robert of Molesme (1028–1111) * Saint Robert of Newminster (c. 1100 – 1159) * Brother Robert, 13th century translator of French works into Old Norse Nobility and royalty * Robert I (other) * Robert II (other) * Robert III (other) * Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (c. 1090 – 1147), or Robert Rufus, Robert de Caen, Robert Consul * Robert of Melun (1100–1167) * Robert the Strong (c. 830 – 866) ** The Robertians * Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres (1840–1910) Other people * Robert (singer) (Myriam Roulet, born 1964), French singer * Robert Ghanem (1942–2019), Lebanese lawyer and politician * Robert Grierson (missionary), Canadian Presbyterian missionary *Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), American lawyer and politician *Robert De Niro (born 1943), American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
