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Samuel Lee (other)
Samuel Lee may refer to: * Samuel Lee (English minister) (1625–1691), English Puritan * Samuel Lee (linguist) (1783–1852), English Orientalist and linguist * Samuel Lee (judge) (1756–1805), businessman, judge and politician in New Brunswick * Samuel Lee (American minister) (1803–1881), American minister, author, and legislator * Samuel Phillips Lee (1812–1897), Civil War rear admiral * Samuel Jones Lee (1844–1895), politician and lawyer from South Carolina * Samuel Tak Lee (born 1939), Hong Kong property billionaire * Sammy Lee (diver) (Samuel Lee, 1920–2016), American diver and physician See also *Sam Lee (other) *Sammy Lee (other) Sammy Lee may refer to: *Sammy Tak Lee (born 1939), Hong Kong billionaire property developer *Sammy Lee (scientist) (1958–2012), expert in ''in vitro'' fertilisation *Sammy Lee (diver) (1920–2016), Korean-American diver, physician, and two-time ... * Samuel Leigh (other) {{hndis, name=Lee, Samuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Lee (English Minister)
Samuel Lee (1625–1691) was an English Puritan academic and minister, late in life in New England. Early life He was the only son of Samuel Lee, haberdasher of small wares in Fish Street Hill, London. He was educated at St. Paul's School, London under Alexander Gill. Academic and minister Lee entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1647, and was created M.A. by the parliamentary visitors on 14 April 1648. He was elected fellow of Wadham College on 3 October 1648, was recommended for a fellowship at Merton in 1649, and was appointed to one at All Souls in 1650, but nevertheless remained at Wadham. He was elected proctor for 1651, objection on the ground of insufficient standing being overruled by the parliamentary visitors, and he was admitted 9 April 1651. He was bursar of his college in 1648, 1650, and 1664, sub-warden in 1652, and dean in 1653. From about 1650 he was a preacher in and near Oxford, although he had not received orders from a bishop. After preaching in London he was, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Lee (linguist)
Samuel Lee (14 May 1783 – 16 December 1852) was an English Orientalist, born in Shropshire; professor at Cambridge, first of Arabic and then of Hebrew language; was the author of a Hebrew grammar and lexicon, and a translation of the '' Book of Job''. Biography Born of poor parents at Longnor, a Shropshire village 8 miles from Shrewsbury, Samuel Lee received a charity school education and at age twelve became a carpenter's apprentice in Shrewsbury. He was fond of reading and acquired knowledge of a number of languages. An early marriage caused him to reduce the time devoted to his studies, but the accidental loss of his tools caused him to become a school teacher, giving private lessons in Persian and Hindustani. His remarkable linguistic abilities eventually brought him to the notice of the Church Missionary Society, which paid for his education at Cambridge University. He entered Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1813. He graduated B.A. in 1818, and proceeded M.A. in 1819, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Lee (judge)
Samuel Lee (March 28, 1756 – March 3, 1805) was a businessman, judge and politician in New Brunswick. He represented Northumberland County in the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly from 1795 to 1802. He was born in Concord, Massachusetts, the son of Doctor Joseph Lee. Lee was educated at Harvard College and became a merchant in Penobscot (later Castine, Maine). As a loyalist, he settled in Restigouche, New Brunswick in 1784 and acquired land along the Restigouche River. Lee became involved in the trade in fish and timber. In 1787, he was named a justice of the peace and, two years later, a judge for the Inferior Court of Common Pleas. Lee was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1802. He died at Shediac Shediac (official in both languages; ''Shédiac'' is colloquial French) is a heavily Acadian town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick. The town is home to the famous Parlee Beach and is known as the "Lobster Capital of the World". It hosts ... at the age of 48 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Lee (American Minister)
Samuel Lee (March 18, 1803 – August 27, 1881) was an American minister, author, and state legislator. Lee, only son of Samuel and Sarah (Burnett) Lee, of Kensington parish, in the town of Berlin, Connecticut, was bom March 18, 1803. His father died a fortnight later, and in June, 1810, his mother married and removed to Westfield, in Middletown, Connecticut, from which place he entered Yale College, where he graduated in 1827. For three years after graduation he studied in the Yale Divinity School. On November 4, 1830, he was ordained pastor of the Evangelical Church in Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. This charge he resigned, April 27, 1836, to accept a call to the Congregational Church in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, where he was installed on the 5th of the following month. He was dismissed, December 4, 1860, worn out with hard work. After some years of relaxation, he so far regained his health as to be able to use his pen in the preparation of a volume, entitled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee (February 13, 1812 – June 5, 1897) was an officer of the United States Navy. In the American Civil War, he took part in the New Orleans campaign, before commanding the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, covering the coastlines and inland waters of Virginia and North Carolina, and finally the Mississippi River Squadron. As a cousin of Robert E. Lee, his refusal to join the Confederates' side by remaining loyal to the U.S. demonstrated the extent to which the war had divided families. Lee married the daughter of Francis P. Blair, Sr., and their house in Washington is now the president's official guest house. Early life and education Lee was born at " Sully" in Fairfax County, Virginia, to Francis Lightfoot Lee II and Jane Fitzgerald. He was the grandson of Richard Henry Lee, great-nephew of Francis Lightfoot Lee I, brother-in-law of Francis Preston Blair, Jr., and of Montgomery Blair, and was third cousin of Robert E. Lee. He was appointed a midshipman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Jones Lee
Samuel Jones Lee (November 27, 1844 – April 1, 1895) was an American Civil War veteran of the Confederacy, politician and lawyer from South Carolina. He served as the first African-American Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives and was a committed member of the Republican Party. Early life Lee was born in Abbeville District, South Carolina, on the plantation belonging to Samuel J. McGowan. His mother was a free black woman and Lee asserted that his father was Samuel J. Lee of Charleston, although no documentation has been found to prove this - some historians have argued that McGowan was his father. Civil War When he was sixteen Lee followed McGowan and served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War, although there is no official record of his service; however, he was photographed armed and in the uniform of McGowan's regiment, the 14th South Carolina Infantry. Lee claimed that he was wounded twice during the course of the war: once at Second Mana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Tak Lee
Samuel Tak Lee or Lee Tak-Yee (; born April 1939) is a Hong Kong property billionaire. Early life Lee was born in April 1939. He was educated at Diocesan Boys' School in Mong Kok, before earning bachelor's and master's degrees in civil and environmental engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964. Lee then earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. Career After finishing his studies, Lee returned to Hong Kong to join Prudential Enterprise, the real estate company founded by his father and uncle in 1958. He took control of the entire business from his brother Lee Tak-Yan in 1985. Prudential Enterprises owns the Prudential Hotel in Hong Kong and has significant holdings in Hong Kong, Japan, Switzerland and Singapore. In the UK, he purchased the 14 acre Langham Estate in London's Fitzrovia district in 1994. A real estate portfolio Lee indirectly established in Tokyo in 1999 was eventually sold in 2017 for approximately $1.2 billion. By 2019 Lee had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sammy Lee (diver)
Samuel Lee (August 1, 1920 – December 2, 2016) was an American physician and diver. He was the first Asian American man to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States (the second Asian American to win a gold medal overall) and the first man to win back-to-back gold medals in Olympic platform diving. Early life and education Lee was born in Fresno, California to parents of Korean descent who owned what he described as "a little chop suey restaurant". His father was fluent in English and Korean, tutored in French, graduated with a degree in civil engineering from Occidental College, and opened a chop suey restaurant and market. As a twelve-year-old living near Los Angeles in 1932, Lee saw and was motivated by the many Olympics banners and souvenirs on display for the Summer Olympics being held in Los Angeles that year. Later that summer, he found that he could do somersaults much better than all of his friends, which led to his goal of becoming an Olympic champion in diving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Lee (other)
Sam Lee may refer to: *Sam Lee (actor) (born 1975), Hong Kong actor * Sam Lee (tennis) (born 1914 or 1915), American tennis player *Sam Lee (singer) (born 1973), Taiwanese singer and songwriter *Sam Lee (folk musician) (born 1980), British folk musician * Sam Lee, independent candidate in the 2021 Hartlepool by-election A by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Hartlepool in the former county of Cleveland, England, was held on 6 May 2021. The by-election was triggered following the resignation of Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Mike Hill, who re ... for the UK parliament See also * Sammy Lee (other) * Samuel Lee (other) {{hndis, Lee, Sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sammy Lee (other)
Sammy Lee may refer to: *Sammy Tak Lee (born 1939), Hong Kong billionaire property developer *Sammy Lee (scientist) (1958–2012), expert in ''in vitro'' fertilisation *Sammy Lee (diver) (1920–2016), Korean-American diver, physician, and two-time Olympic Games champion *Sammy Lee (footballer) (born 1959), former Liverpool footballer and former Bolton Wanderers manager *Sammy Lee (boxer) (born 1999), Welsh boxer *Satoru Sayama (born 1957), Japanese wrestler advertised as "Sammy Lee" in the United Kingdom *Sammy Lee (choreographer) (1890–1968), American dance director *Sammy Lee (producer), see ''The Upside of Anger'' *Sammy Lee, fictional character, protagonist of 1963 film ''The Small World of Sammy Lee'' See also *Sam Lee (other) Sam Lee may refer to: *Sam Lee (actor) (born 1975), Hong Kong actor * Sam Lee (tennis) (born 1914 or 1915), American tennis player *Sam Lee (singer) (born 1973), Taiwanese singer and songwriter *Sam Lee (folk musician) (born 1980), British fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
