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Robert Jones (Jesuit)
Rob(ert), Bob, or Bobby Jones may refer to: Academics * Bob Jones Sr. (1883–1968), Christian evangelist who founded Bob Jones University * Bob Jones Jr. (1911–1997), Bob Jones, Sr.'s son, and second president of the university * Bob Jones III (born 1939), Bob Jones, Sr.'s grandson, and third president of the university * Bobby Jones (academic) (1932–2001), American academic * Bobi Jones (Robert Maynard Jones, 1929–2017), Welsh Christian academic * Robert B. Jones (linguist) (1920–2007), professor at Cornell University * Robert J. Jones (born 1950/1951), crop physiology scientist Entertainment Music * Robert Jones (composer) (died 1617), English lutenist and composer * Robert Hope-Jones (1859–1914), English inventor of the theater organ * Bobby Jones (saxophonist) (1928–1980), American jazz saxophonist * Robert W. Jones (1932–1997), American classical composer * Bobby Jones (singer) (born 1939), gospel singer * Robert Jones (Welsh composer) (born 1945), Welsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Jones Sr
Robert Reynolds Jones Sr. (October 30, 1883 – January 16, 1968) was an American evangelist, pioneer religious broadcaster, and the founder and first president of Bob Jones University. Early years Bob Jones was the eleventh of twelve children born to William Alexander and Georgia Creel Jones. In 1883, when Bob was born, Alex Jones, a Confederate veteran, was working a small farm in Dale County, Alabama, but within months the family moved to Brannon Stand west of Dothan. All the unmarried Jones children helped work the farm there, and Bob Jones often sold the family vegetables door-to-door in Dothan. Jones later recalled, "We may have been a little undernourished, but we built some character." Jones's elementary schooling was limited by modern standards, but the boy early exhibited a quick mind and oratorical ability. Alex Jones had Bob memorize passages from the Bible and from literature, and Bob, who was "timid and self-conscious," was regularly called on to perform for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert C
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 Jones (Conservative Politician)
Robert Brannock Jones (26 September 1950 – 16 April 2007) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for West Hertfordshire for its 14-year existence, from its creation in 1983 until it was abolished in 1997. He served as Minister of State for Construction, Planning and Energy Efficiency in the Department of the Environment from 1994 to 1997. Early life Jones was born in Bedford. His father was a civil engineer. He was educated at St Martin's School in Northwood and the Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood. He read Modern History at St Andrews University, where he was a student politician. He organised the student union to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students. While still a student, he was elected as a member of St Andrews Burgh Council from 1972 to 1975, and of Fife County Council from 1973 to 1975. He was also elected vice-chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students in 1973. Aged only 24, he stood as C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Jones (Labour Politician)
Robert Thomas (R. T.) Jones (14 October 1874 – 15 December 1940) was a Welsh quarryman, trade unionist and Labour Party politician. Born in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Jones started work in the slate quarries when was 13. His first language was Welsh. As a young man he was influenced by R. Silyn Roberts (1871–1930), the Welsh poet, social reformer and early ILP supporter, who was Minister of the Calvinistic Methodist chapel at Tanygrisiau in Blaenau Ffestiniog from 1905 to 1912. He was elected at the 1922 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Caernarvonshire, having unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1918. He was defeated at the 1923 general election by the Liberal Party candidate Goronwy Owen, and although he stood again for Caernarvonshire in 1924 and 1929 he was never returned to the House of Commons. Jones served on the TUC General Council from 1921 to 1932. From 1908 to 1933, he was General Secretary of the North Wales Quarrymen's Union The North Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Jones (died 1774)
Robert Jones (1704 – 17 February 1774) was a Welsh-born politician. He was born in Wales and in 1743 had gone into partnership with a merchant in Gibraltar. He was appointed an Elder Brother of Trinity House for life in 1753 and elected a director of the East India Company in 1754 and 1765, serving in both cases for the conventional 3 years. He was a Member of Parliament for Huntingdon from 15 April 1754 to 1768. At that time he was described as a wine merchant. In July 1770 Jones bought Babraham Babraham is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England, about south-east of Cambridge on the A1307 road. Babraham is home to the Babraham Institute which undertakes research into cell and molecula ... in Cambridgeshire and demolished the Elizabethan manor house which had been built in the Italian style by Sir Horatio Pallavicini alavicino He died in 1774. He had married and had a daughter, but as his daughter had married J. W. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Jones (died 1715)
Robert Jones (c. 1682 – 19 December 1715) of Fonmon, Glamorgan, Wales was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1712 to 1715. Jones was a younger son of Oliver Jones (died 1685) of Fonmon Castle, and his wife Mary Button. His grandfather, Col. Philip Jones, had sat in Cromwell's Upper House. Robert was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating at 15 in 1698. He succeeded his elder brother Philip to Fonmon in 1686. In 1703, he married Mary Edwin, the daughter of Sir Humphrey Edwin, Mercer, alderman and Lord Mayor of London. Jones replaced his father-in-law Sir Humphrey Edwin as High Sheriff of Glamorgan for the year 1703 to 1704. When Sir Thomas Mansel vacated his parliamentary seat at Glamorganshire on being ennobled as Baron Mansel, Jones was returned at a by-election on 13 January as Member of Parliament for Glamorganshire in the Mansel interest. He was a High Tory, while Mansel was a more moderate Court Tory, but Mansel may have felt obliged to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Jones (of Castell-March)
Robert Jones (born c.1596-died c.1653 History of Parliament Online article.) was a Welsh landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons between 1625 and 1629. Jones was the son of and his wife Margaret Griffith, daughter of Griffith ap John Griffith of Kevenamulch, Caernarvonshire. His fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Jones (Canada East Politician)
Robert Jones ( – January 21, 1874) was a political figure in Canada East, in the Province of Canada. He represented Missiskoui in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1844. He also served as a member of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada from 1832 to 1838 and the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada from 1849 to 1850. Little is known about his life. He was born in William-Henry, Lower Canada (now Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, probably the son of John Jones and Marie-Magdelaine Heney. It is not known if he was married. At various times, Jones lived in the towns of Saint-Jean and Christieville, in Stanbridge Township. In the general election of 1830, Jones was a candidate for the seat of Missiskoui in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, but was defeated. Two years later, the Governor of Lower Canada appointed him to the Legislative Council of Lower Canada. He held the position until the British government suspended the const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Jones (Lower Canada Politician)
Robert Jones (c. 1770 – September 24, 1844) was a political figure in Lower Canada. He represented William Henry in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1814 to 1824. He was probably born in New York state, the son of John Jones, a quartermaster of Welsh origin in the British army. In 1793, he replaced his father as guardian of the barracks at William Henry. Jones was administrator for the seignuery of Sorel from 1798 to 1806. He served as an officer in the militia, later becoming battalion commander, and also served as a justice of the peace A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa .... Jones was defeated when he ran for reelection to the assembly in 1824 and again in 1830. He died in William Henry, later known as Sorel. His brother John Jones also served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Jones (Australian Politician)
Robert Jones (1845 – 7 January 1927) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born in Longford to farmer William Jones and Anne Percival. He arrived in Sydney in the early 1860s and worked as a shearer, drover and stationhand at Coonabarabran from 1862 to 1866. From 1872 to 1887 he was the butcher and hotelier at the goldmining town of Hargraves, moving to Mudgee in 1888. In 1891 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade member for Mudgee. He was defeated in 1898, but returned in 1907 to serve a single term as a Liberal Liberal or liberalism may refer to: Politics * a supporter of liberalism ** Liberalism by country * an adherent of a Liberal Party * Liberalism (international relations) * Sexually liberal feminism * Social liberalism Arts, entertainment and m ... before being defeated again in 1910. Jones died in Mudgee in 1927. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Robert 1845 births 1927 deaths Free Trade Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Jones (illustrator)
Robert Goodhue Jones (October 27, 1926 – October 2, 2018) was an American artist and illustrator. Jones is best known for creating illustrations for the American gasoline company Exxon's "Put a tiger in your tank" campaign. He has also had works published in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' and '' MAD''. Biography Robert Goodhue Jones was born October 27, 1926 in Beverly Hills, California. While still in high school, Jones got his first professional cartooning work at Warner Bros. Cartoons, where he did inbetweening as a summer job. He then served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946, when he was honorably discharged. Using benefits from the G. I. Bill, Jones studied at University of Southern California and then ArtCenter College of Design, from which he graduated ''cum laude'' with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1949. After moving to Hastings-on-Hudson, New York in the early 1950s, Jones began working as an illustrator primarily for the Charles Cooper Studios. His works appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goren Bridge
Charles Henry Goren (March 4, 1901 – April 3, 1991) was an American bridge player and writer who significantly developed and popularized the game. He was the leading American bridge personality in the 1950s and 1960s – or 1940s and 1950s, as "Mr. Bridge" – as Ely Culbertson had been in the 1930s. Culbertson, Goren, and Harold Vanderbilt were the three people named when ''The Bridge World'' inaugurated a bridge "hall of fame" in 1964 and they were made founding members of the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1995. According to ''New York Times'' bridge columnist Alan Truscott, more than 10 million copies of Goren's books were sold. Among them, ''Point-Count Bidding'' (1949) "pushed the great mass of bridge players into abandoning Ely Culbertson's clumsy and inaccurate honor-trick method of valuation." Goren's widely syndicated newspaper column "Goren on Bridge" first appeared in the Chicago Tribune August 30 1944, p.15. Early years Goren was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Russ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
