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Richard Peters (runner)
Richard Peters may refer to: *Richard Peters (priest) (1704–1776), Pennsylvania colonial minister, *Richard Peters (Continental Congress) (1744–1828), also known as Richard Peters, Jr., Pennsylvania jurist, Continental Congressman, Continental Army official *Richard Peters (reporter) (1780–1848), also known as Richard Peters, Jr., Reporter of Decisions to the U.S. Supreme Court *Richard Peters (Atlanta) (1810–1889), founder of Atlanta, Georgia * Richard Peters (clubman) (1848–1921), American railroad engineer * Richard Peters (American football) (1920–1973), American football coach at Ottawa University *Richard Stanley Peters (1919–2011), British philosopher * Richard Peters (cricketer) (1911–1989), English cricketer *Rick Peters (born 1966), American actor *Ricky Peters (born 1955), baseball center fielder See also *Richard Peter (1895–1977), German press photographer and photojournalist *Richard Peter (Paralympian) Richard "Bear" Peter (born Sept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Peters (priest)
Richard Peters (1704 – July 10, 1776), born in Liverpool, became an attorney, Anglican minister, and civil servant. In 1735 he emigrated to Pennsylvania, where he served in numerous posts for the Penn family, including on the Governor's Council from 1749 to 1775, and eventually became rector of Christ Church in Philadelphia. Early life and education Richard Peters was born in Liverpool, England, where his father, Ralph Peters, was an attorney and the Town Clerk. He was educated at Westminster School and continued at the Dutch University of Leyden for additional studies. He read law at the Middle Temple and became ordained in the Church of England.Penn Biographies: "Rev. Richard Peters" (1704-1776) University of Pennsylvania, Archives and Records Center, 1995-2012, accessed 8 November 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Peters (Continental Congress)
Richard Peters (June 22, 1744 – August 22, 1828) was a Pennsylvania lawyer, Continental Army soldier, Federalist politician, author and United States District Judge. Before his federal judicial service in the United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania, Peters served as secretary of the Continental Board of War, delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and as member and speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and later the Pennsylvania State Senate. His son of the same name, Richard Peters became reporter of the decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Early life and education Born on June 22, 1744, at Belmont Mansion (then in the outskirts but now in Philadelphia, Province of Pennsylvania, British America). His father William Peters, had emigrated from Liverpool, England with his brother Rev. Richard Peters. His uncle had become involved in a family scandal, which caused their emigration. Both brothers had been trained as attorneys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Peters (reporter)
Richard Peters, Jr. (August 17, 1780 – May 2, 1848) was an American attorney and the fourth reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1828 to 1843. Early life Richard Peters, Jr. was born in Belmont, Pennsylvania, the son of Richard Peters, an attorney later elected as Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania. Peters, Jr. studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1800. Career In 1816, Peters was among a group of men led by Condy Raguet who founded the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society. In the early 20th century, it was the largest savings bank in the United States. Peters served as the editor of: ''Chitty on Bills'', '' Joseph Chitty on Criminal Law'' (1819), Bushrod Washington's ''Circuit Court Reports, Third Circuit'' (four volumes, 1803–27), and ''United States Statutes at Large''."Richard Peters, Jr. (1780-1848), ''New International Encyclopedia'' He was appointed as the solicitor of Philadelphia County, serving from 1822 to 1825 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Peters (Atlanta)
Richard Peters (November 10, 1810 – February 6, 1889) was an American railroad man and a founder of Atlanta, Georgia, in the 1840s. Early life Peters was born on November 10, 1810, near Philadelphia at Germantown, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Ralph Peters (1777–1842) and Catherine (Conyngham) Peters (1786–1839). His paternal grandfather was Judge Richard Peters Jr. (an associate of George Washington). Career The young Peters was educated in Philadelphia. He worked with the architect William Strickland and as a rodman (surveyor) with John Edgar Thomson for $1.50 a day. Thomson liked the 26-year-old's work and in late 1834 offered him a job as chief engineer for $1,000 a year to help with construction of the new Georgia Railroad. Peters paid $100 for a rough paddlewheeler trip into camp near Charleston, South Carolina, in the brutally cold February 1835. He worked on the state railroad for the eight years it took to complete it from Augusta, to the new town of Mart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Peters (clubman)
Richard Peters (November 2, 1848 – May 24, 1921) was an American civil engineer, railroad executive, soldier, and clubman who was prominent in society during the Gilded Age. Early life Peters was born on November 2, 1848, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the oldest of nine children born to Mary Jane (née Thompson) Peters (1830–1911) and Richard Peters (1810–1889), a railroad executive who was one of the founders of Atlanta. Among his siblings was Edward, Ralph, president of the Long Island Rail Road, and Nellie, who also became prominent. His paternal grandfather was Richard Peters, a reporter of Decisions to the U.S. Supreme Court, and his great-grandfather was Continental Congressman Richard Peters, a Pennsylvania jurist. His maternal grandfather was Dr. Joseph Thompson, an early settler and doctor. During the U.S. Civil War, his parents sent him abroad where he was educated at private schools in England. Career After returning to America, he became a civil engineer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Peters (American Football)
Richard Peters (April 7, 1920 – May 26, 1973) was an American football player and coach He was the 16th head football coach Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas, serving for two stints, from 1949 to 1952 and from 1957 to 1971, compiling a record 129–42–3 (.741). His teams with eight Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) titles. Between his two tenures at Ottawa, Peters was an assistant coach at Southern Methodist University (SMU) under Woody Woodard, who had coached against Peters at McPherson College. After his second stint at Ottawa, Peters went to Kansas State University and served as an assistant coach under Vince Gibson until his death, in 1973, of an apparent heart attack. Peters served as President of the NAIA Football Coaches Association from 1964 until 1966 and was inducted into the NAIA Football Hall of Fame in 1973. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Stanley Peters
Richard Stanley Peters (31 October 1919 – 30 December 2011) was an English philosopher. His work belongs mainly to the areas of political theory, philosophical psychology, and philosophy of education. Earlier life Peters was born in 1919 in Mussoorie, India. He spent his childhood with his grandmother in England. He was a pupil at Sidcot School, Winscombe, Somerset, 1933–1938. As a young man, his private tutor was Eric Blair (the writer George Orwell). As a conscientious objector in the Second World War, he served in the Friends Ambulance Unit and with the Friends Relief Service in 1940–1944. From his marriage in 1942 to Margaret Lee Duncan (1917–1998), elementary school teacher and daughter of Alfred Duncan, engineer, came one son and two daughters. Academic career Peters studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, and received the Bachelor of Arts in 1942. In 1944 he began teaching at Sidcot Grammar School. He became a part-time lecturer at Birkbeck College, University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Peters (cricketer)
Richard Charles Peters (12 September 1911 – 26 October 1989) played first-class cricket for Somerset in one match in 1946. He was born at Chew Magna, Somerset and died at Weston-super-Mare, also in Somerset. Peters was a tail-end right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. He was in his mid-30s when he played his single first-class match, against Leicestershire at Melton Mowbray Melton Mowbray () is a town in Leicestershire, England, north-east of Leicester, and south-east of Nottingham. It lies on the River Eye, known below Melton as the Wreake. The town had a population 27,670 in 2019. The town is sometimes promo ..., and on a wicket suiting spin bowling rather than pace he bowled only six overs in the match, failing to take a wicket, and not being used at all in the second innings. He was not selected again. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Peters, Richard 1911 births 1989 deaths English cricketers Somerset cricketers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Peters
Rick Peters (born June 1, 1967 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actor. He has appeared in several films and numerous television shows, and is perhaps best known for his role as Australian Bobby Manning in '' Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye''. He also plays the role of Elliot in the 4th season of '' Dexter''. Personal life He resides in Southern California Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and Cultural area, cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. It includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the second most po ... with his wife and two children. Selected filmography Film Television External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Peters, Rick 1966 births American male film actors American male television actors Living people Male actors from Detroit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky Peters
Richard Devin Peters (born November 21, 1955) is a former professional baseball player. He played professional baseball, principally as an outfielder, including five seasons in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers (1979–1981) and Oakland Athletics (1983, 1986). In five major league seasons, he compiled a .277 batting average (baseball), batting average and .356 on-base percentage. Peters was also a member of the 1977 Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team that won the 1977 College World Series and the 1979 Evansville Triplets team that won the American Association (20th century), American Association championship. Early years Peters was born in 1955 in Lynwood, California. He attended Manuel Dominguez High School, Dominguez High School in Compton, California, and Arizona State University. At Arizona State, he played at the designated hitter position in 1975, as a second baseman in 1976, and the center fielder in 1977. As a senior co-captain, he led the 1977 Arizona State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Peter
Richard Peter (10 May 1895 – 3 October 1977) was a German press photographer and photojournalist. He is best known for his photographs of Dresden just after the end of the Second World War. Life Richard Peter was born and raised in Klein Jenkwitz, Silesia, where as a teenager he worked as a smith and a miner while dabbling in photography. He was drafted into the German army in 1914 to serve in the First World War. After the war he settled in Halle and later in Dresden. He joined the labor movement and the Communist Party of Germany, and during the 1920s and early 1930s his photographs were published in various left-wing publications. Because of this, he was promptly barred from working as a press photographer when the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933. During the Third Reich, he worked in advertising, before being drafted again to serve in the Second World War. Peter returned to Dresden in September 1945 to find the city destroyed after the bombing of Dresden of Februa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Peter (Paralympian)
Richard "Bear" Peter (born September 10, 1972) is a Canadian First Nations wheelchair basketball player. Peter was born in Duncan, British Columbia, and currently resides in Vancouver. When Richard was four years old, he was injured in a bus accident, leaving him in a wheelchair ever since. He began playing wheelchair basketball at the age of 15 when he was inspired by a team that came to his school and introduced him to wheelchair sports. Since then, Peter has competed in the 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Paralympic Games, winning the gold metal for wheelchair basketball for three of those years. Personal life Richard Peter grew up in British Columbia's largest First Nations community, the Cowichan Tribes reserve and he became a paraplegic when he was run over by a bus at the age of four. His parents are Leonard and Gloria Peter. Both his parents and his tribe encouraged him to play sports, and the tribe contributed when financial aid was needed. He began playing wheelchair bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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