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Robert Price (writer)
Robert Price or Bob Price may refer to: Politics * Robert Price (judge) (1653–1733), British judge and politician * Sir Robert Price, 2nd Baronet (1786–1857), Member of Parliament *Sir Robert Price (Liberal politician) (1854–1926), British Member of Parliament for East Norfolk, 1892–1918 * Bob Price (Nevada politician) (born 1936), Member of the Nevada General Assembly * Bob Price (Texas politician) (1927–2004), U.S. Representative from Texas * Robert T. Price (1903–1982), Associate Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court Religion *Robert Price (bishop) (died 1666), Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin *Robert Price (priest) (1905–1981), Anglican priest, Dean of Hereford Cathedral * Robert M. Price (born 1954), American theologian and writer Other *Robert Price (1717–1761), English gentleman artist and musician *Robert Price (engineer) (1929–2008), American electrical engineer *Robert I. Price (1921–2019), American Coast Guard admiral *Robert M. Price (business executive) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Price (judge)
200px, Robert Price. Robert Price (14 January 1653 – 2 February 1733) was a British judge and politician. Early life Robert Price, a Welshman, was born in early 1653 (1654 in the Gregorian calendar), the eldest son of Thomas Price of Giler in Cerrigydrudion, Denbighshire, by Margaret, only child of Thomas Wynn of Bwlch y Beudy in the same parish. He was educated at Ruthin Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge, after which he entered Lincoln's Inn before making the Grand Tour. Career On 23 September 1679 Price married Lucy, eldest daughter and coheiress of Robert Rodd of Foxley in Yazor, Herefordshire, by Ann Sophia, only child of Thomas Neale of Warneford, Hampshire. Robert Rodd died two years later and Price inherited the Foxley estate. With her he had two sons and a daughter but in 1690, after her adultery with a cousin of hers (whom she bore a child), the couple separated without divorce, Price providing for her and their children throughout his life and in h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Robert Price, 2nd Baronet
Sir Robert Price, 2nd Baronet (3 August 1786 – 6 November 1857) was a British baronet and Member of Parliament. Robert Price was the only son of Sir Uvedale Price, the writer on the Picturesque, by Lady Caroline Carpenter, fourth daughter of George Carpenter, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel. He was MP for Herefordshire from 1818 until 1841. On 8 July 1823 he married his first cousin Mary Anne Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Dr. Robert Price, Canon of Salisbury and Prebendary of Durham, by his second wife Mary Anne Sanderson. The marriage took place at the house of Barrington Price, then of Haslemere, the youngest of his six uncles on his father's side. Sir Uvedale Price died in 1829 and Robert succeeded as 2nd Baronet of Foxley. Sir Robert stood for election to the constituency of Hereford City in 1845; he was unopposed, and remained the city's MP until January 1857. He was "of Whig principles; in favour of an extension of the franchise and short parliaments". In 1820, he began buying up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Price (Liberal Politician)
Sir Robert John Price (26 April 1854 – 18 April 1926) was a British surgeon, barrister and Liberal Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1918, and was one of only a few British politicians to have also pursued careers in both medicine and the law. He was the son of Edward Price of Highgate, North London and his wife Elvina née Mountford. He was educated at Cholmeley School, better known as Highgate School, in Highgate and at University College Hospital, where he graduated M.R.C.S.E. in 1876. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1883. Price elected at the 1892 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Norfolk, and held the seat until he retired from Parliament at the 1918 general election. He was knighted in 1908. Price died on 18 April 1926, a week before his 72nd birthday, at Sussex Mansions in London. Personal life In 1881 he married Eva Montgomery, daughter of Jasper Wilson Johns Jasper Wilson Johns (1824 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Price (Nevada Politician)
Robert Earle Price, Jr. (May 23, 1936 – January 4, 2019), was an American politician who was a Democratic member of the Nevada General Assembly The Nevada Assembly is the lower house of the Nevada Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Nevada, the upper house being the Nevada Senate. The body consists of 42 members, elected to two-year terms from single-member district ... for 28 years from 1974 to 2002. He was an electrician. Price was known as a gregarious liberal with a colorful personality. During his time in the Assembly, he chaired a number of committes including the Committee on Taxation and a member of the Ways and Means Committee. He helped win passage of legislation to eliminate Nevada’s grocery tax and is also remembered for working to pass legislation to rename Nevada State Route 375 the "Extraterrestrial Highway." "It can truthfully be said that Bob Price’s legacy in the Nevada Assembly includes tax-cutting, extraterrestrials, brothels, a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Price (Texas Politician)
Robert Dale Price (September 7, 1927 – August 24, 2004) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1975, and in the Texas Senate from 1978 to 1981. Born in Reading, Lyon County, Kansas; educated in the Reading public schools; B.S., Oklahoma State University, 1951; United States Air Force, 1951–1955; flew twenty-seven combat missions during the Korean conflict; awarded Air Medal; returned to Texas after honorable discharge in 1955; owned and operated a ranch in Texas; delegate, Texas State Republican conventions, 1964, 1966, and 1968; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1968; elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1975). While in Congress, Price served on the House Agriculture Committee and on subcommittees on NASA oversight and spaceflight. In 1974, Price lost his re-election bid to Democrat Jack Hightower. After unsuc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert T
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 Price (bishop)
Robert Price (died 1666) was an Anglican bishop in Ireland. He was Dean of Connor from 1640 to 1660, and became Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in 1661. He was nominated Bishop of Bangor in 1665, but died before he was consecrated. Price studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and later received a Doctor of Laws A Doctor of Law is a degree in law. The application of the term varies from country to country and includes degrees such as the Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D. or S.J.D), Juris Doctor (J.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), and Legum Doctor (LL. ... from Trinity College Dublin. He served for a time as chaplain to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford.John Ryan, The History and Antiquities of the County of Carlow'. References 1666 deaths Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Deans of Connor Bishops of Ferns and Leighlin Bishops of Bangor 17th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Year of birth unknown {{Ireland-Anglican-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Price (priest)
Robert Peel Price (18 September 1905 – 26 December 1981) was an Anglican priest in the mid 20th century. He was educated at Dover College and Wadham College, Oxford and ordained in 1931 . He held curacies at St Mary, Wimbledon; St Martin's, Knowle; St Oswald, Cheam and St Peter, Bournemouth, and was then Vicar of Christchurch from 1945 until 1961. In that year he became Dean of Hereford The Dean of Hereford is the head (''primus inter pares'' – first among equals) and chair of the chapter of canons, the ruling body of Hereford Cathedral. The dean and chapter are based at the ''Cathedral Church of Blessed Virgin Mary and St Eth ..., a post he held until his retirement in 1968.”Hereford Cathedral: a history” Aylmer, G/Tiller,J: London, Hambledon, 2000 Notes 1905 births 1981 deaths People educated at Dover College Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford Church of England deans Deans of Hereford {{ChurchofEngland-dean-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert M
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 Price (1717–1761)
Robert Price (1717–1761) was an English gentleman, known as an artist for his drawings, and as a musical amateur. He contributed to the garden design at the family property of Foxley, Herefordshire, was an art patron, and was the father of Uvedale Price, theorist of the picturesque. Early life He was the son of Uvedale Tomkyns Price and his wife Anne Somerset, daughter of Lord Arthur Somerset who was the second son of Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort. He was educated at Winchester College. Grand Tour Price undertook an extended Grand Tour in Italy and Geneva, from 1738 to 1741. Much of it was in the company of William Windham and his tutor Benjamin Stillingfleet. They were joined also by Richard Pococke. In Rome they took art lessons from Giovanni Battista Busiri, and Price studied music under Andrea Basili. In Geneva, Price took part in the "Common Room" group of expatriate Britons running amateur dramatics in 1740–1, supplying incidental music and painting sce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Price (engineer)
Robert Price (7 July 1929 – 3 December 2008) was an American electrical engineer, known best for his research in spread spectrum and radar technology. Price was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He majored in physics at Princeton University (1950) and then received his Sc.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1953). While working in the MIT Lincoln Laboratories, he was the co-creator of the Rake receiver, together with Paul Green. The Rake receiver has been described as "historically the most important adaptive receiver for fading multipath channels." They also supervised its deployment in a first-ever spread-spectrum system, the Lincoln F9C (1950). Price and Green also attempted to bounce radar waves off the planet Venus (1958). With Gordon Pettengill, the two of them worked out a theory of range- Doppler mapping that was used on the Magellan probe mapping of Venus' surface 20 years later. In 1965 he left the Lincoln Laboratory to join the Sperry Research Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert I
Robert I may refer to: *Robert I, Duke of Neustria (697–748) *Robert I of France (866–923), King of France, 922–923, rebelled against Charles the Simple *Rollo, Duke of Normandy (c. 846 – c. 930; reigned 911–927) * Robert I Archbishop of Rouen (d. 1037), Archbishop of Rouen, 989–1037, son of Duke Richard I of Normandy * Robert the Magnificent (1000–1035), also named Robert I, Duke of Normandy, 1027–1035), father of William the Conqueror. Sometimes known as Robert II, with Rollo of Normandy, c. 860 – c. 932, as Robert I because Robert was his baptismal name when he became a Christian *Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011–1076), Duke of Burgundy, 1032–1076 * Robert I, Count of Flanders (1029–1093), also named Robert the Frisian, Count of Flanders, 1071–1093 * Robert I de Brus (ca. 1078 – 1141/1142) *Robert I of Dreux (c. 1123 – 1188), Count of Braine in France, son of King Louis VI *Robert I of Artois (1216–1250), son of King Louis VIII of France *Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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