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Telfair House
Telfair may refer to: People Given name *Telfair Hodgson (1840–1893), American academic administrator *Telfair Hodgson Jr. (1876–1952), American academic administrator, banker, developer Surname * Charles Telfair (1778–1833), Irish botanist * Edward Telfair (1735–1807), multi-term governor of Georgia, U.S. * Mary Telfair (1791–1875), benefactor of Savannah's Telfair Museums and Mary Telfair Women's Hospital * Richard Telfair, pen-name of American writer Richard Jessup (1925–1982) * Sebastian Telfair (born 1985), American basketball player * Thomas Telfair (1786–1818), United States Representative from Georgia Places * Charles Telfair Institute, a tertiary education institution in Mauritius * Telfair County, Georgia * Telfair Museums, the first art museum in the American South, in Savannah GA ** Telfair Academy, early 19th-century building housing historic art ** Telfair Arms Apartments, formerly Telfair Hospital * Telfair, Sugar Land, a community in Texas Ships * U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telfair Hodgson
Telfair Hodgson (March 14, 1840September 11, 1893) was an American Episcopal priest and academic administrator. He was the dean of the Theological Department at Sewanee: The University of the South from 1878 to 1893, and vice chancellor from 1879 to 1890. He was a co-founder and the managing editor of ''The Sewanee Review''. Early life Telfair Hodgson was born on March 14, 1840 in Columbia, Virginia. He attended Princeton University, where he joined the Kappa Alpha Society and graduated in 1859. He entered the General Theological Seminary in New York City. Career At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Hodgson left seminary and enlisted as a private in the 44th Virginia Infantry of the Confederate States Army. He transferred to serve in the 1st Regiment Alabama Infantry, which was led by his brother, Colonel Joseph Hodgson. He was eventually promoted to the staff of General Joseph Wheeler. In 1863 he was ordained as an Episcopal deacon and then as a priest in 1864 in Macon, Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telfair Hodgson Jr
Telfair may refer to: People Given name *Telfair Hodgson (1840–1893), American academic administrator * Telfair Hodgson Jr. (1876–1952), American academic administrator, banker, developer Surname * Charles Telfair (1778–1833), Irish botanist * Edward Telfair (1735–1807), multi-term governor of Georgia, U.S. * Mary Telfair (1791–1875), benefactor of Savannah's Telfair Museums and Mary Telfair Women's Hospital * Richard Telfair, pen-name of American writer Richard Jessup (1925–1982) * Sebastian Telfair (born 1985), American basketball player * Thomas Telfair (1786–1818), United States Representative from Georgia Places * Charles Telfair Institute, a tertiary education institution in Mauritius * Telfair County, Georgia * Telfair Museums, the first art museum in the American South, in Savannah GA ** Telfair Academy, early 19th-century building housing historic art ** Telfair Arms Apartments, formerly Telfair Hospital * Telfair, Sugar Land Telfair is a planned commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Telfair
Charles Edward Telfair (1778 in Belfast – 14 July 1833 in Port Louis) was an Irish botanist. Early life and career Telfair was the son of a Belfast schoolmaster. He studied chemistry under Joseph Black and later qualified as a medical doctor. In 1797 he joined the Royal Navy and was soon appointed as ship's surgeon, visiting Mauritius and Réunion with the Navy in 1810. He returned to Mauritius in 1816 and established botanical gardens in Mauritius and Réunion. Having worked in several Government offices in Réunion, he was appointed personal secretary of Mauritius Governor Robert Farquhar. Telfair improved the education and housing of estate slaves, and found less strenuous occupations for elderly slaves. He was honorary curator of the botanical garden at Pamplemousses from 1826 to 1829. His old colonial château has now been turned into a restaurant, with watercolours of local flora painted by Telfair’s wife Annabella Chamberlain adorning the walls. The Charles Telfai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Telfair
Edward Telfair (1735 – September 17, 1807) was a Scottish-born American Founding Father, politician and slave trader who served as the governor of Georgia from 1786 to 1787 and again from 1790 to 1793. He was a member of the Continental Congress and one of the signers of the Articles of Confederation. Early life Telfair was born in 1735 at Toron Head, his family's ancestral estate in western Scotland. He graduated from the Kirkcudbright Grammar School before acquiring commercial training. He immigrated to America in 1758 as an agent of a commission house, settling in Virginia. Telfair subsequently moved to Halifax, North Carolina, and finally to Savannah, Georgia, where he established his own commission house. He arrived in Georgia in 1766, joining his brother, William, who had emigrated earlier. Together with Basil Cowper, Telfair built the commission house, and it was an overnight success. Telfair married 16-year-old Sarah Gibbons in 1774 at her mother's Sharon Plantation j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Telfair
Mary Telfair (January 28, 1791 – June 2, 1875)Mary Telfair – was an art collector, philanthropist and prominent citizen of , , United States. She ed the foundation of the city's |
Richard Jessup
Richard Jessup (January 2, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia - October 22, 1982 in Nokomis, Florida) was an American author and screenwriter. He also wrote under the name of Richard Telfair. Biography Mr. Jessup spent his early years in and out of a local orphanage before running away to sea as a merchant seaman. In an interview in 1970, he said that he had read himself around the world, ferreting out English-language bookshops at each port of call and reading a book a day while at sea. During this time, he copied ''War and Peace'' on a typewriter while afloat, corrected all the errors, then threw the work over the side. In 1948, he left the sea behind and began a career as a full-time writer, averaging 10 hours a day at the typewriter. He designed and built a home in Connecticut, where he lived until moving to Florida a few years ago. Several of his novels drew upon his experiences at sea; one of them, ''Sailor,'' about a youth who signs on as a merchant seaman and sails around the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Telfair
Sebastian Telfair (born June 9, 1985) is an American former professional basketball player who played in the NBA and the Chinese Basketball Association. Telfair was picked thirteenth overall in the 2004 NBA draft by the Portland Trail Blazers on the heels of an eminent high school career playing for Abraham Lincoln in Brooklyn. He had committed to the University of Louisville during his senior year, but decided to turn professional instead. Telfair is the cousin of former NBA player Stephon Marbury. Early years Telfair was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Erica Telfair and Otis Telfair, a Vietnam War veteran who served as a Marine.Ian O'Connor, ''The Jump: Sebastian Telfair and the High Stakes Business of High School Ball.'' mmaus, Pa. Rodale, 2005. p. 7-16 Living in the Surfside Gardens projects in Brooklyn's Coney Island, he attended Abraham Lincoln High School, where he became one of the most highly lauded and coveted high school basketball prospects in the country.I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Telfair
Thomas Telfair (March 2, 1780 – February 18, 1818) was a United States representative from Georgia. Born in Savannah, the third of four sons of Governor Edward Telfair, he graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1805. He went on to study law in Connecticut, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Savannah. Telfair was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 13th and 14th United States Congresses, serving from March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1817. He died in February 1818 at the age of thirty-one.''Ibid''. August 30, 2015. Like his father's before him, Thomas Telfair's remains were likely interred at the family's plantation and moved, many years later, to Savannah's Evergreen Cemetery. The cemetery was established in 1846; in the 20th century its name was changed to Bonaventure, for the original plantation on the site. References External linksTelfair Familyin the ''New Georgia Encyclopedia The ''New Georgia Encyclopedia'' (NGE) is a web-based encyclopedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Telfair Institute
Curtin Mauritius is one of the international campuses of Curtin University (Perth, Western Australia) is a public research university known as Charles Telfair Campus in Mauritius. It is part of the tertiary education Commission and offers certificate, diploma, undergraduate, and postgraduate degree programmes. Curtin University Curtin University, formerly known as Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), is an Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. It is named after John Curtin, ... opened its fourth international campus in Mauritius on 3 May 2018. Curtin Mauritius Curtin Mauritius affords students with up-to-date facilities, alongside well-qualified staff. The university also helps students through its strong links with industry practitioners. An education from Curtin Mauritius is a globally recognised education. Charles Telfair Campus The Charles Telfair Campus has over 18 years of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telfair County, Georgia
Telfair County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 16,500. The largest city and county seat is McRae-Helena. In 2009, researchers from the Fernbank Museum of Natural History announced having found artifacts they associated with the 1541 Hernando de Soto Expedition at a private site near the Ocmulgee River, the first such find between Tallahassee, Florida and western North Carolina. De Soto's expedition was well recorded, but researchers have had difficulties finding artifacts from sites where he stopped. This site was an indigenous village occupied by the historic Creek people from the early 15th century into the 16th century. It was located further southeast than de Soto's expedition was thought to go in Georgia. History Archaeologists associated with Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have excavated a plot near McRae-Helena and approximately a mile from the Ocmulgee River, beginning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telfair Museums
Telfair Museums, in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia, was the first public art museum in the Southern United States. Founded through the bequest of Mary Telfair (1791–1875), a prominent local citizen, and operated by the Georgia Historical Society until 1920, the museum opened in 1886 in the Telfair family’s renovated Regency style mansion, known as the Telfair Academy. The museum currently contains a collection of over 4,500 American and European paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, housed in three buildings: the 1818 Telfair Academy (formerly the Telfair family home); the 1816 Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters, which are both National Historic Landmarks designed by British architect William Jay in the early nineteenth century; and the contemporary Jepson Center for the Arts, designed by Moshe Safdie and completed in 2006. Buildings Each of the museum’s three buildings houses a collection corresponding to the era in which it was built. Telfair Academ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telfair Academy
The Telfair Academy is a historic mansion at 121 Barnard Street in Savannah, Georgia. It was designed by William Jay and built in 1818, and is one of a small number of Jay's surviving works. It is one of three sites owned by Telfair Museums. Originally a family townhouse belonging to the Telfair family, it became a free art museum in 1886, and thus one of the first 10 art museums in America, and the oldest public art museum in the South. Its first director, elected in 1883, was artist Carl Ludwig Brandt, who spent winters in Savannah. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976. and Architecture and history Telfair Academy is located in historic central Savannah, on the west side of Telfair Square. It occupies an entire block, bounded by Barnard, West President, North Jefferson, and West State Streets. It is a two-story masonry structure, built out of brick finished in stucco. Its entrance is a form typical of architect William Jay, with a projecting four- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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