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Samuel Walker (athlete)
Samuel Walker may refer to: Entertainers and sports figures *Samuel Walker (gymnast) (1883–1960), British gymnast and Olympic medalist * Samuel Walker (volleyball) (born 1995), Australian volleyball player Politicians and military figures *Samuel Walker (Massachusetts politician) (1793–1860), mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1851–1853 *Samuel Walker (1779–1851), English ironmaster, MP for Aldeburgh 1818–20 *Samuel Hamilton Walker (1817–1847), US Army major in the Mexican–American War and a Texas Rangers captain * Samuel Walker (soldier) (1822–1893), American politician, and soldier *Samuel Walker (Florida politician) (1825–1881), member of the Florida Legislature and mayor of Tallahassee *Sir Samuel Walker, 1st Baronet (1832–1911), Irish politician and lawyer * Samuel S. Walker (1841–1909), American businessman and politician in Michigan Others * Samuel Walker of Truro (1714–1761), English evangelical clergyman *J. Samuel Walker J. Samuel Walker is an Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Walker (gymnast)
Samuel John Walker (5 October 1883 – 29 February 1960) was a British gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be .... He was born in Birmingham, West Midlands. He was part of the British team, which won the bronze medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1912. References External linksSamuel Walker's profile at databaseOlympics 1883 births 1960 deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Walker (volleyball)
Samuel Walker (born ) is an Australian male volleyball player. He is part of the Australia men's national volleyball team. On club level he plays for Corigliano Volley SSD ARL. References National Team * 2019 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship The Asian Men's Volleyball Championship is an international volleyball competition in Asia and Oceania contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC), the sport's continent governing body. The i ... – Best outside spikers External links profileat ''FIVB.org'' 1995 births Living people Australian men's volleyball players Place of birth missing (living people) Outside hitters {{Australia-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Walker (Massachusetts Politician)
Samuel Walker (October 9, 1793 – December 11, 1860) was an American politician, who served as the third Mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts from 1851 to 1853. Walker was also the fifth President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society The Massachusetts Horticultural Society, sometimes abbreviated to MassHort, is an American horticultural society based in Massachusetts. It describes itself as the oldest formally organized horticultural institution in the United States. In its m .... References * Forbes, Abner: The rich men of Massachusetts'' p. 180. Edition: 2 - (1851). Notes * ''The Memorial History of Boston: Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts. 1630-1880.'' Justin Winsor (1881). External links 1793 births 1860 deaths Mayors of Roxbury, Massachusetts 19th-century American politicians {{Massachusetts-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Walker (1779–1851)
Samuel Walker (4 September 1779 – 30 January 1851) was an English ironmaster from Yorkshire. He was the oldest son of Samuel Walker, an ironmaster in Masbrough. He was MP for Aldeburgh Aldeburgh ( ) is a coastal town in the English county, county of Suffolk, England. Located to the north of the River Alde. Its estimated population was 2,276 in 2019. It was home to the composer Benjamin Britten and remains the centre of the int ... from 1818 to 1820. References External links * 1779 births 1851 deaths People from the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham English businesspeople Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1818–1820 {{England-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Hamilton Walker
Samuel Hamilton Walker (February 24, 1817 – October 9, 1847) was an American army officer. He served as a Texas Ranger captain and officer of the Republic of Texas and the United States armies. Walker served in several armed conflicts, including the American Indian Wars and the Mexican–American War. Biography Samuel Hamilton Walker was born on February 24, 1817, at Toaping Castle, Maryland, to Nathan and Elizabeth (Thomas) Walker, and was the fifth of seven children. Military career Walker enlisted in the Washington City Volunteers for the Creek Indian Campaign in Alabama in 1836. The following year he mustered out and worked as a scout in Florida until 1841. He arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1842 and served under Captain Jesse Billingsley against a Mexican invasion led by General Adrian Woll. Walker was captured on December 26, 1842, and marched to Mexico City as a prisoner of war. He survived what became known as the Black Bean Episode and was held prisoner for two ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Walker (soldier)
Samuel Walker (October 19, 1822 – February 6, 1893) was an American soldier, lawman and politician who settled in Lawrence, Kansas and served as an officer during Bleeding Kansas and the American Civil War. Early life Samuel Walker was born on October 19, 1822 in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. After marrying Marian E. Lowe in 1842, Walker moved to Ohio in 1848, and worked there as a cabinet maker. In 1855 he settled permanently in Lawrence, Kansas. There Walker became a founding member of the Bloomington Guards, a local militia company, in late 1855, and he was quickly elected first sergeant. In the following year Walker was elected colonel of the 4th Kansas Cavalry, which participated in all the campaigns of the free-state men during Bleeding Kansas. In that capacity Walker was present at the sieges of Lawrence and Fort Saunders, and commanded free-state forces on August 16, 1856 at the Battle of Fort Titus, which was a free-state victory. In 1856 Walker served as a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Walker (Florida Politician)
Samuel Walker (June 25, 1825 – June 9, 1881) was an American politician from Pennsylvania. He served as mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, in Florida's state legislature, as a Leon County, Florida, Leon County Court judge, and as a U.S. Senator. Formative years Born in Londonderry township, Chester County, Pennsylvania on June 25, 1825, Walker was a son of John and Ann (McNeal) Walker. His family subsequently relocated to Downingtown, Pennsylvania in 1836. In 1850, he entered Yale College in 1850, having previously received apprentice training as a wheelwright. After his graduation from Yale in 1854, he entered the service of the United States Coast Survey, and from 1859 to 1866 had charge of the Magnetic Observatory at Key West, Florida, Key West, Florida. Upon completion of his series of magnetic observations, he resigned on May 15, 1866, receiving high praise for his work from his superiors. Public service career Walker then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1864, and open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Samuel Walker, 1st Baronet
Sir Samuel Walker, 1st Baronet, PC (Ire), KC (19 June 1832 – 13 August 1911) was an Irish Liberal politician, lawyer and judge. He was the first of the Walker baronets of Pembroke House. Career He was born at Gore Port, Finea, County Westmeath, a younger son of Captain Alexander Walker and his wife Elizabeth Elliott. He was educated at Portarlington School and Trinity College Dublin. He entered Gray's Inn before being called to the bar in 1855. He quickly became one of the leaders of the Irish Chancery bar: in 1872 he was made a Queen's Counsel, and eleven years later he became Ireland's Solicitor General. The following year, he was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Londonderry, a seat he held for little more than a year before the constituency was divided, and in 1885 he was also for a period the island's Attorney-General. His celebrated remark that on entering the House of Commons "he was amazed to hear Members making factual statements without sworn affidavit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel S
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition to his role in the Hebrew scriptures, Samuel is mentioned in Jewish rabbinical literature, in the Christian New Testament, and in the second chapter of the Quran (although Islamic texts do not mention him by name). He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of '' Antiquities of the Jews'', written by the Jewish scholar Josephus in the first century. He is first called "the Seer" in 1 Samuel 9:9. Biblical account Family Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah lived at Ramathaim in the district of Zuph. His geneal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Walker Of Truro
Samuel Walker (1714–1761), called Samuel Walker of Truro, was an English evangelical clergyman of the Church of England. Life Born at Exeter on 16 December 1714, he was the fourth son of Robert Walker of Withycombe Raleigh near Exmouth, Devon, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Richard Hall, rector of St. Edmund and All Hallows, Exeter; Robert Walker (1699–1789), his elder brother, made manuscript collections for the history of Cornwall and Devon, which went to Sir Thomas Phillipps. He was educated at Exeter Grammar School from 1722 to 1731, and matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, on 4 November 1732, graduating B.A. on 25 June 1736. In 1737 Walker was appointed curate of Doddiscombe Leigh, near Exeter, but resigned his position in August 1738 to accompany Lord Rolle's youngest brother to France as tutor. Returning early in 1740, he became curate of Lanlivery in Cornwall. On the death of the vicar, Nicholas Kendall, a few weeks later, he succeeded him on 3 March 1740. In 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Dutton Walker
Samuel Dutton Walker (1833 – 15 June 1885) F.S.A. was an architect based in Nottingham. History He was born in 1833, the son of George Frederick Walker. His brother Herbert Walker also became an architect in Nottingham. On 23 January 1862 he married Elizabeth Rebekah Oldershaw at St James' Church, Standard Hill. Two of his pupils, Arthur Brewill and Arthur George Marshall went on to have successful careers as architects in the Nottingham area. His younger brother Herbert Walker studied with him from 1860 to 1866. In 1879 he went into partnership with John Howitt, as Walker and Howitt, and this partnership lasted until Walker's death in 1885. They established themselves in a practice in Severn Chambers, 10 Middle Pavement, Nottingham. He was involved with the Nottingham School of Art and two scholarships were founded through his connection with it, one which enabled the holder to study church architecture abroad. He died on 15 June 1885 and left an estate valued at £13,9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Walker (police Accountability Expert)
Samuel Emlen Walker (born December 19, 1942) is an American civil liberties, policing, and criminal justice expert. He specializes in police accountability. Early life and education Walker was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, but grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. His father was an executive who worked for the railroad. In December 1964, Walker received a B.A. in American Culture from the University of Michigan, where he wrote film reviews for '' The Michigan Daily'' student newspaper for a semester. In 1970, Walker received an M.A. in American history from University of Nebraska Omaha. In 1973, he earned a PhD in American history from Ohio State University. His thesis was on Terence V. Powderly, and was called "Terence V. Powderly, "Labour Mayor": Workingmen's Politics in Scranton, Pennsylvania 1870-1884". His thesis advisor was K. Austin Kerr. Career Mississippi Freedom Summer In the spring of 1964, civil rights activist Robert "Bob" Moses visited the University of Michigan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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