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Robert Thorpe (judge), Robert Thorpe
Robert, Robbie, or Bob Thorpe may refer to: * Sir Robert Thorpe, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Pembroke Hall, 1347–1362 * Robert Thorpe (Lord Chancellor) (died 1372), British judge * Robert Thorpe (priest) (died 1591), English Roman Catholic priest and martyr * Robert Thorpe (judge) (c. 1764–1836), Canadian judge and political figure * Robert Thorpe (Kashmir), (1838–1868), soldier and chronicler on Kashmir * Bob Thorpe (outfielder) (1926–1996), Major League Baseball right fielder * Bob Thorpe (pitcher) (1935–1960), American professional baseball pitcher *Robert (Robbie) Thorpe (fl. 1970s–), Aboriginal Australian activist and radio presenter See also * Robert Thorp (other) * Bob Thorpe (other) {{hndis, Thorpe, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Pembroke College (officially "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College or Hall of Valence-Mary") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 students and fellows. It is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from almost every century since its founding, as well as extensive gardens. Its members are termed "Valencians". The college's current master is Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury. Pembroke has a level of academic performance among the highest of all the Cambridge colleges; in 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2018 Pembroke was placed second in the Tompkins Table. Pembroke contains the first chapel designed by Sir Christopher Wren and is one of only six Cambridge colleges to have educated a British prime minister, in Pembroke's case William Pitt the Younger. The college library, with a Victorian neo-gothic clock tower, has an original copy of the first encyclopaedia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Thorpe (Lord Chancellor)
Sir Robert Thorpe KS JP (died 29 June 1372) was a British justice. He was the son of another Sir Robert Thorpe, and is occasionally confused with another Robert Thorpe who was second master of Pembroke College, Cambridge at around the same time. The Thorpe family produced many prominent lawyers, including William de Thorpe, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, who may have been influential in guiding Robert towards a judicial career. In 1339 he was made a Serjeant-at-law, and between 1345 and 1356 served as a King's Serjeant. He served as a Justice of the Peace in Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, and was also involved in Assize, Gaol delivery and Oyer and terminer. On 27 June 1356 he was appointed as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and knighted, and on 1 October he was awarded a grant of £40 to support his new position (£33,784 in 2023). He was a member of the councils of both the Black Prince and John of Gaunt, and was appoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Thorpe (priest)
Robert Thorpe (died 15 May 1591) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Life Thorpe was born in Yorkshire. He reached the English College at Reims 1 March 1584, was ordained deacon in December following, and priest by Cardinal Louis de Guise in April 1585. He was sent on the English mission, 9 May 1585. He was active in Yorkshire. He was arrested in bed very early on Palm Sunday, 1595, at the house of Thomas Watkinson, at Menthorpe in East Yorkshire. Someone had seen palms being gathered the night before, and informed John Gates of Howden, the nearest justice of the peace. Watkinson, an old Catholic yeoman who lived a solitary life, is described by John Cecil (priest), John Cecil as a clerk, so it is possible he was in minor orders. Thorpe was condemned as a traitor for being a Catholic priest, and was hanged, drawn, and quartered at York. Watkinson, condemned as a felony, felon for harbouring priests, was hanged, despite having been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Thorpe (judge)
Robert Thorpe (1773 – May 11, 1836) was a judge and political figure in Upper Canada and was later chief justice of Sierra Leone. Early life Thorpe was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1773. He was the second son of Robert T. Thorpe and Bonna Debrisay. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1788 and a degree in law in 1789 from Trinity College Dublin. He was admitted to the bar in 1790. At some point before 1815 he was given a Legum Doctor. In Canada In 1801, he was appointed as Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island, arriving in the colony in November 1802. He encouraged the attorney general Peter Magowan to prosecute minor crimes that were annoying to the population. Since he was not paid on time, he sailed to England in 1804 with a plan to unite Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton and Newfoundland. He was captured by a French privateer and taken to Spain. Thorpe later escaped and was appointed a puisne judge of the Court of King's Bench in Upper Canada on 5 July 1805. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Thorpe (Kashmir)
Lieutenant Robert Thorpe (1838–1868) was an officer of the British Indian Army. He visited Kashmir during the reign of Maharaja Ranbir Singh (Maharaja), Ranbir Singh and wrote about the sufferings of the Kashmiris, Kashmiri people. His writings were compiled into a book titled ''Cashmere Misgovernment'' which was later published posthumously in London in 1870. He also appealed to the British soldiers, who raised funds for Church Mission Society, Christian Missionary Society to send medical help to the Kashmir Valley. This eventually led to the founding of the Kashmir Mission Hospital, British Mission Hospital in Srinagar. Historians state that Thorpe's life is shrouded in "myth, memory and history". He is regarded in Kashmir as a martyr who died for the cause of Kashmiris. Family According to Jane Strand, a surviving relative of Robert Thorpe, Robert Thorpe was born in 1838 to parents Thomas Thorp (died 1854), a solicitor in Alnwick in Northumberland, and Elizabeth Jane Tudor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Thorpe (outfielder)
Benjamin Robert Thorpe (November 19, 1926 – October 30, 1996) was an American professional baseball baseball player, player who appeared in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily as a right fielder, for the Atlanta Braves, Boston / Milwaukee Braves (–). Born in Caryville, Florida, he threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . Thorpe's 16-year professional career began in 1946. After five seasons in minor league baseball, he had a two-game trial with the Braves early in 1951, then spent all of on the club's 1952 Boston Braves season, big-league roster during its last season in Boston. Appearing in 81 games played, games, with 67 starts in right fielder, right field, Thorpe collected 76 hit (baseball), hits, including his only three MLB home runs, with 26 runs batted in, batting average (baseball), batting .260. Moving with the Braves to Milwaukee for 1953, he got into only 27 games and his average plummeted 98 points to .162. It was his last major-league opportun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Thorpe (pitcher)
Robert Joseph Thorpe (June 12, 1935 – March 17, 1960) was an American professional baseball player, a right-handed pitcher who experienced instant success at the minor league level, had a brief and promising trial with the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball, then was driven from the game by a sore arm and elbow surgery by the end of 1959. Less than a year after his retirement from baseball, Thorpe was working as an apprentice electrician on power lines in his native city of San Diego, California, when he was accidentally electrocuted at the age of 24. Thorpe stood tall and weighed . He signed with the Cubs in 1953 and his first two seasons in baseball, with the Stockton Ports of the Class C California League, saw him win 44 of 56 decisions.Minor league statistics from |
Robert (Robbie) Thorpe
Robert "Robbie" Thorpe is an Aboriginal Australian activist and presenter of ''Fire First'', a program on community radio station 3CR in Melbourne. Early life and family Thorpe is from the Krautungalung people of the Gunnai Nation and is uncle of Senator Lidia Thorpe. Activism Thorpe has campaigned for Indigenous solutions in Australia since the 1970s. He is an advocate for Pay The Rent, an Indigenous initiative set up to provide an independent economic resource for Aboriginal peoples, and the Aboriginal Passport initiative. Inspired by Bruce McGuinness' newspaper ''The Koorier'' (1968–1971), Thorpe founded and ran the publication ''The Koorier 2'' during the 1970s and 1980s, and later ''The Koorier 3'', published by the Koori Information Centre. In 1982, Thorpe challenged the Commonwealth of Australia in a case entitled ''Thorpe V Commonwealth'' for not protecting people from crimes connected to genocide. Since 2020, Robbie has been working on a court case to charge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Thorp (other)
Robert Thorp may refer to: * Robert Thorp (MP) (1900–1966), Conservative party MP in England * Robert Taylor Thorp (1850–1938), US Congressman * Robert Thorp (priest) Robert Thorp (1736 – 20 April 1812) was a British clergyman. He attended Durham School and Peterhouse, Cambridge University, obtaining a B.A. in 1758 as senior wrangler and an M.A. in 1761. In 1768 he succeeded his father Thomas Thorp (16 ... (1736–1812), Archdeacon of Northumberland * Robert Thorp (judge) (died 1291), Justice of the Common Pleas * Robert Thorp (Indian Army officer) (1838–1868), author of ''Kashmir Misgovernment'' See also * Robert Thorpe (other) {{hndis, Thorp, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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