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Sturge Town
Sturge may refer to: People Sturge is a medieval, Middle Ages surname of Norsemen, Norse-Vikings, Viking origins, meaning son of Turgis or Thurgis, Turgeus etc., which meant "Thor's follower". Surname *Alfred Sturge (1816–1901), British cleric who ministered in Devon, India and Kent *David Sturge (born 1948), British athlete in rowing *Diana Catherine Sturge, Viscountess Eccles DL (born 1933), British Conservative peer and businesswoman *Edmund Sturge (1808–1893), British Quaker businessman and campaigner for liberal causes *Eliza Sturge (1842–1905), British women rights activist based in Birmingham *Emily Sturge (1847–1892), British campaigner for women's education *Ernest Adolphus Sturge (1856–1934), American missionary, organiser of Japanese Presbyterian churches in California *Hannah Sturge, born Hannah Dickinson, (1816–1896), British Quaker philanthropist *Joseph Sturge (1793–1859), British founder of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society *Mary Sturge ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medieval
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the Post-classical, post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern history, modern period. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early Middle Ages, Early, High Middle Ages, High, and Late Middle Ages. Population decline, counterurbanisation, the collapse of centralized authority, invasions, and mass migrations of tribes, which had begun in late antiquity, continued into the Early Middle Ages. The large-scale movements of the Migration Period, including various Germanic peoples, formed new kingdoms in what remained of the Western Roman Empire. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Sturge
Michael Dudley Sturge (25 May 1931 – 13 July 2003) was an English experimental physicist best known for his contributions to solid-state spectroscopy. He was born in Bristol to a family with a Quaker tradition. While his most influential paper is about discovery of excitons in gallium arsenide, the scope of his research covered wide field of solid-state spectroscopy, and its impact is reflected by establishment of the Sturge Prize in condensed matter spectroscopy. After accepting the editorship of the ''Journal of Luminescence The ''Journal of Luminescence'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is Xueyuan Chen. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 4.171, ranking it 26th ...'' in 1985, Sturge drastically extended its scope by transforming it into a journal covering the extensive area of the contemporary condensed matter spectroscopy. He stepped down as chief editor in 1990. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Sturge
King Sturge was an international property consultancy with over 210 offices and 4,200 staff in 45 countries. They operated throughout the UK and Europe and had associations and partners in Asia Pacific and North, Central and South America. The firm covered all property sectors and related services such as logistics, plant and machinery. The firm was formed in 1992 from the merger of King and Co, founded in 1918, and JP Sturge, which can trace its corporate roots back to 1760. In May 2011, King Sturge was purchased by Jones Lang LaSalle for £197 million. History The Sturges In 1760, a farmer named John Player, of Stoke Gifford near Bristol began surveying for mapping. Although still relatively crude, surveying became increasingly important as the enclosure of common land progressed in the early nineteenth century. In 1772 Player was joined by his nephew Jacob Sturge forming the partnership, “Player and Sturge”, who ran their surveying business from Red House Farm in Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sturge Park
Sturge Park was a cricket ground located on five acres of land adjacent to Plymouth, Montserrat. The ground, used by the Montserrat cricket team and infrequently by the Leeward Islands cricket team, was destroyed in the Soufrière Hills volcanic eruption of 1997. History Cricket was first recorded as being played on what would become Sturge Park in October 1925, when St Kitts played Antigua in the 1925/26 Hesketh Bell Shield. Montserrat first played there in the same competition against Dominica, before the ground held the final of the tournament between Montserrat and Antigua, with Montserrat winning. The ground was not officially given for recreational use until 1936, when The Montserrat Company, owned by the Sturge family, donated the ground to the Government of Montserrat. The ground was named in honour of Joseph Sturge and his son. In keeping with his keeping Quaker values, alcohol was not permitted to be sold at the ground, though this rule was later relaxed. The next ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sturge Island
Sturge Island is one of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group located in the Southern Ocean. It lies southeast of Buckle Island and north-east of Belousov Point on the Antarctic mainland. The island, in Oates Land, also forms part of the Ross Dependency, claimed by New Zealand. Description The island is roughly a parallelogram in shape, with long east and west coasts and shorter coasts facing north-west and south-east. Of volcanic origin, it is about in width, with a maximum length of , between Cape Freeman in the north and Cape Smyth in the south. It is mostly covered by ice and snow throughout the year. The island's highest point reaches with the unclimbed stratovolcano Brown Peak, the highest point in the Balleny chain. Discovery and naming The Balleny Islands were discovered by British mariner John Balleny in 1839. Sturge Island was named after Thomas Sturge, one of the London merchants who had financed Balleny's expedition. Important Bird ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sturge Moore
William Sturge Moore (before 1785 – 1809 or later) was a political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Bedford in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1805 to 1809. He came to the seigneury of Foucault, also known as Caldwell's Manor, from Pennsylvania in November 1801. In 1805, he became a justice of the peace and, in 1807, was named a commissioner for the purpose of taking the oath from officers on half-pay, and also a judge for the district. Moore was elected to the assembly in an 1805 by-election; he did not run for reelection in 1809. He married Hetty Harper, probably his second wife, in New England New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces .... References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, William Sturge Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sturge Moore
Thomas Sturge Moore (4 March 1870 – 18 July 1944) was a British poet, author and artist. Biography Sturge Moore was born at 3 Wellington Square, Hastings, East Sussex, on 4 March 1870 and educated at Dulwich College, the Croydon School of Art and Lambeth School of Art. In Lambeth he studied under the wood-engraver Charles Roberts. He was a long-term friend and correspondent of W. B. Yeats, who was to describe him as "one of the most exquisite poets writing in England". He was also a playwright, writing a ''Medea'' influenced by Yeats' drama and the Japanese Noh style. As a wood-engraver and artist he designed the covers for poetry editions of Yeats and others, as well as illustrating books for the Vale Press of Charles Ricketts.Untermeyer, Louis, ''Modern British Poetry'', Doubleday and Page & Co, 1920 He was a prolific poet and his subjects included morality, art and the spirit writing in a 'severely classical tone', according to poet/critic Yvor Winters. His first pamp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Sturge Gretton
Mary Gertrude Sturge Gretton born May Gertrude Sturge later Mary Gertrude Henderson (1 May 1871 – 5 March 1970) was a British historian and magistrate. Life Gretton was born in Gloucester on 1 May 1871 when her first name was May. Her father, Joseph Marshall Sturge JP was a merchant, her mother was Anne (Annie) Burke, was a historian. Her father came from a leading abolitionist family and her mother's family had been slave owners. She and her younger sister Edna Annie Crichton attended Sidcot School. Edna would be Lord mayor of York. Mary went on to another Quaker school The Mount School in York, before going on to study at Mason College in Birmingham. In 1898 George Cockburn Henderson accepted a position at Sydney University as Acting Professor of History, while the usual professor was on holiday in England. On 5 January 1899, two days before leaving, he and May got married, at the Friends' Meeting Place, Leicester, England. They arrived in Sydney aboard the P & O steamer '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sturge Stephens
John Sturge Stephens (26 June 1891 – 12 July 1954) was born into a prominent family of Quakers (the Society of Friends) in Cornwall. During the First World War, he was a pacifist and conscientious objector and between the wars travelled extensively throughout Europe, on behalf of the Society of Friends, with a view to creating a peaceful future for the continent. In 1938 he helped numerous Austrian Jewish refugees to escape from Nazi persecution, and accommodated several of them at his homes in England. Life John Sturge Stephens was born on 26 June 1891 at Ashfield in Budock, just outside Falmouth, Cornwall. Ashfield was the Stephens’ family home. He was the son of John Gilbert Stephens and Isabel (née Sturge). His father was a rope manufacturer, as had been several generations of the Stephens family, all staunch Quakers. There is a large Stephens’ family archive at Cornwall Record Office, about half of which consists of the correspondence and papers of John Sturge Step ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Allen Sturge
William Allen Sturge (1850 – 27 March 1919) was an English physician and archaeologist born in Bristol. His first wife was Emily Bovell, one of the "Edinburgh Seven". He also worked as a personal physician for Queen Victoria, and was awarded with Royal Victorian Order. Career Sturge was born in Bristol into a Quaker family. His father, William was a land surveyor and his mother was Charlotte Allen. Five of his sisters campaigned for women's higher education including Elizabeth and Emily Sturge. Career in medicine After receiving his medical degree in 1873 from University College in London, Sturge became resident medical officer and later registrar at the National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy. In 1876 he went to Paris to study neurology with Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893), and pathology with Jean Alfred Fournier (1832–1915). He met his wife in Paris. She was the physician Emily Bovell., They returned to London together, marrying on 27 September at St Saviour's C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sturge The Elder
Thomas Sturge the Elder (1749 – 11 August 1825) was a London tallow chandler, oil merchant, spermaceti processor and philanthropist. He was a Quaker. Business career Sturge was born into a farming family at Olveston, Gloucestershire, in 1749. He was an apprentice at Poole, Dorset, by 1766, and afterwards began work as an oil-leather dresser. He seems to have been in London by 1782, where he worked as a tallow chandler and oil merchant. By 1785 he was at Walworth and then at Newington Butts, Elephant and Castle. He is also named as a spermaceti refiner there by 1791. Reformer and philanthropist Sturge was a devout Quaker and an elder of the society in London. Like many other Quakers, he took an interest in social reform and gave financial support to worthy causes. He took a particular interest in education and was an early supporter of Joseph Lancaster (1788–1838), a fellow Quaker, neighbour and friend at Newington Butts. Lancaster developed a system of cheap mass educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sturge
Thomas Sturge (1787–1866) was a British oil merchant, shipowner, cement manufacturer, railway company director, social reformer and philanthropist. Family background and early life Thomas Sturge was born in 1787, one of at least ten children of Thomas Sturge the elder (1749–1825), tallow chandler and oil merchant of Newington Butts, about a mile south of London Bridge. Thomas the younger joined his father's business early in the 19th century, as did at least three of his brothers, Nathan, George and Samuel. Thomas Sturge & Sons, oil merchants and spermaceti processors operated from premises near Elephant and Castle, Newington Butts, until 1840. He was a first cousin of social reformer and philanthropist Joseph Sturge. Oil merchant and shipowner Thomas Sturge junior had become the senior partner in the business by 1816, when he began to buy ships and send them to the Southern Whale Fishery to obtain whale oil, seal oil and spermaceti for processing and sale in London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
