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Thomas Chambers (artist)
Tom or Thomas Chambers may refer to: Government and politics * Sir Thomas Chambers (colonial administrator) (died 1692), British administrator and factor of the British East India Company in Madras * Sir Thomas Chambers (British politician) (1814–1891), English politician * Thomas Jefferson Chambers (1840–1929), member of the Texas House of Representatives * Tom Chambers (politician) (1928–2018), member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta * Tom Chambers (judge) (1943–2013), Associate Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court Sports * Thomas Chambers (fl. 1731), English cricketer, see List of English cricket people to 1787 * Thomas Chambers (footballer) (fl. 1892–1897), Scottish international footballer * Tom Chambers (bowls) (fl. 1930), Canadian lawn bowls player * Thomas Chambers (cricketer) (1931–2015), South African cricketer * Tom Chambers (basketball) (born 1959), American basketball player Others * Thomas Chambers (painter) (1808–1869), English-born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Chambers (colonial Administrator)
Sir Thomas Chambers or Chamber (died 1692) was an English administrator and factor of the Honourable East India Company who served as the Agent of Madras from 1658 to 1661 or 1662. His family background is reported as Wolsty in Cumberland. Tenure as Agent of Madras As soon as Thomas Chambers became Agent, he was instructed by the authorities in England to make decisions based on a majority vote and not on his private discretion. In the case of a stalemate, the Agent was allowed to cast the deciding vote. Later life and family In 1670 Chambers bought the park and manor of Hanworth, Middlesex, from the heir of Francis Cottington, 1st Baron Cottington. His son Thomas (1677–1750) married Mary Berkeley, daughter of Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley. In the next generation Mary Chambers, heiress to Sir Thomas, married Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere Admiral Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere (14 July 1699 – 21 October 1781), known as Lord Vere Beauclerk until 1750, was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Chambers (British Politician)
Sir Thomas Chambers (17 December 1814 – 24 December 1891) was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1852 and 1885. Life Chambers was the son of Thomas Chambers of Hertford and his wife Sarah. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge and called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1840. In 1852 Chambers was elected Member of Parliament for Hertford but lost the seat in 1857. He was a Common Serjeant of London, from 1857 to 1878 and was a Lieutenant for the City of London. In 1861 he became a Q.C. QC may refer to: * Queen's Counsel, the title of a King's Counsel, a type of lawyer in Commonwealth countries, during the reign of a queen * Quality control, the process of meeting products and services to consumer expectations Places * Quebec, ... and a Bencher of his Inn. In 1865 Chambers was elected MP for Marylebone. He was knighted on 14 March 1872, and in 1872 became Treasurer of Middle Temple. He was President of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Jefferson Chambers
Thomas Jefferson Chambers (March 22, 1840 – May 24, 1929) was a newspaper editor and Texan politician who served in the Texas House from 1870 to 1873. Early life Chambers was born on March 22, 1840. In 1858, Chambers married Mittie Smith. They had five children. Thomas Jefferson Chambers was a nephew of Chambers County, Texas, namesake Gen. Thomas Jefferson Chambers of the Texas Army during its war for independence. Jeff Chambers was a newspaper editor, who served twice as mayor of Liberty, Texas, first in 1873–1875 and again in 1904–1906, and was elected to the Texas House of Representatives. He began his career in newspapers as a teenager working at a paper in his native Virginia before moving to Liberty with his family and working at the original Liberty Gazette, founded by Henry Shea in 1855. Jeff Chambers bought the Gazette from Shea in 1857 or 1858 and operated it himself while still in his teens. He published the Gazette until 1869, but for the period of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Chambers (politician)
Thomas William Chambers (July 7, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1986. During his time in office he served as a member of the Executive Council of Alberta serving various portfolios from 1978 to 1986. Political career Chambers ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature for the first time in the 1971 Alberta general election. He won the new electoral district of Edmonton-Calder defeating incumbent Social Credit MLA Edgar Gerhart to pick up the electoral district for the Progressive Conservative party. The win would help the Progressive Conservatives form government in that election. Chambers ran for a second term in office in the 1975 Alberta general election. Despite Chambers losing a small portion of his popular vote, the opposition candidates running against him would see a significant vote drop, he was returned to office easily. Premier Peter Lougheed wou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Chambers (judge)
Tom Chambers (October 11, 1943 – December 11, 2013) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Washington State Supreme Court from 2000 to 2012. Early life and education Chambers grew up in Yakima, where he worked at his father's automobile repair garage. He graduated from Wapato High School in 1962, and then attended Yakima Valley Community College. In 1966, he graduated with a B.A. degree from Washington State University, and in 1969 received a J.D. degree from the University of Washington School of Law. Legal and judicial career While in private practice, Chambers practiced personal injury law. On the bench, he continued his commitment to individual rights. Two of his notable Supreme Court cases were ''Braam v. State of Washington'' (2003), concerning foster children's constitutional rights, and ''State v. A.N.J.'' (2010), setting standards for public defender case loads. Chambers served as president of both the Washington State Bar Association Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of English Cricket People To 1787
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Chambers (footballer)
Thomas Chambers was a Scottish international association footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby .... He was awarded one cap for the Scotland national football team in 1894, but he was never selected again despite scoring on his début. International goals External links *London Hearts profile* Year of birth missing Year of death missing Place of birth missing Place of death missing Scottish men's footballers Scotland men's international footballers Men's association football inside forwards Burnley F.C. players Heart of Midlothian F.C. players English Football League players Scottish Football League players St Bernard's F.C. players {{Scotland-footy-forward-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Chambers (bowls)
Thomas M Chambers was a Canadian international lawn bowls player who competed in the 1930 British Empire Games for Scotland. Bowls career At the 1930 British Empire Games he won the bronze medal A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receive ... in the rinks (fours) event with David Fraser, John Orr and William Campbell. Bizarrely, he won the medal for Scotland despite being Canadian because John Kennedy, a member of the Scottish rinks team, had died in the United States en route to Canada. The other teams agreed that Chambers could be a substitute even though he was not Scottish. References Canadian male bowls players Scottish male bowls players Bowls players at the 1930 British Empire Games Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Scotland Commonwealth Games medalli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Chambers (cricketer)
Thomas Chambers (20 November 1931 – 8 June 2015) was a South African cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...er. He played one first-class match for Eastern Province in 1956/57. References External links * 1931 births 2015 deaths South African cricketers Eastern Province cricketers Cricketers from Cape Town {{SouthAfrica-cricket-bio-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Chambers (basketball)
Thomas Doane Chambers (born June 21, 1959) is an American former professional National Basketball Association (NBA) player. Chambers played basketball professionally from 1981 to 1997. Playing power forward in the NBA, Chambers was selected to four All-Star Games and he was also a two-time All-NBA Second Team member during his career. In December 2021, Chambers was nominated to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame but did not advance to the list of finalists. High school Chambers starred at Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado. Hailing from an athletic family, Chambers was a promising 6-2 guard at the end of his sophomore year. Suddenly, he grew six inches during the next six months. As a junior, teammates marveled that he had not lost any coordination with that growth. A broken wrist as a senior forced him to use his left hand more, improving his game. An all-Colorado high school player, he was hotly recruited and enrolled at Utah. College At Utah, Chambers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Chambers (painter)
Thomas Chambers (1808, Whitby, Yorkshire - 1869, Whitby) was an English-born painter who spent most of his life in the United States. He is generally classified as a Primitivist, but has also been called the "First American Modern". Most of his paintings were unsigned, which delayed his recognition. Life and career His father was a merchant sailor, and his mother a laundress. His artistic education, if any, is not a matter of record, although he almost certainly worked with his brother, George, who was self-taught but became a prominent marine artist. It is possible that he was apprenticed to an engraver. He emigrated to the United States in 1832, shortly after George was granted the patronage of King William IV. First, he went to New Orleans and filed a declaration of intent to become a naturalized citizen. From 1834 to 1843, he was in the New York City Directory as a painter and restorer. This was followed by a period (1843-1851) in Boston, then he spent some time in Albany b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Chambers (trade Unionist)
John Thomas G. Chambers (July 1867 – 3 January 1926) was a British trade unionist. Born in St Neots, Chambers left school at the age of twelve and began working in a grocery shop. He later completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason and developed an interest in socialism, being an early member of the Independent Labour Party. He moved to London in 1893. In 1896, Chambers was elected as the Secretary of the International Transport Workers Federation,"Mr. Thomas Chambers", ''Manchester Guardian'', 5 January 1926 serving until 1904. He was active in the Independent Labour Party and was elected as the first General Secretary of the Workers' Union in 1898.Richard Hyman, ''The Workers' Union'', p. 8 In 1909, he toured the ports of the United States with Havelock Wilson in order to increase trade union membership. He was then centrally involved in the seamen's strike of 1911. Chambers also served as Treasurer of the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union The National Union o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
