|
Thomas Freeman (whaler)
Thomas Freeman may refer to: * Thomas Freeman (Australian cricketer) (1894–1965), Australian cricketer *Thomas Freeman (New Zealand cricketer) (1923–2003), New Zealand cricketer *Thomas Freeman (poet) (c. 1590–1630), English poet and epigrammatist * Thomas Freeman (pirate) (fl. 1655–1680), English buccaneer and privateer *Thomas Birch Freeman (1809–1890), missionary and colonial official *Tommy Freeman (boxer) (1904–1986), World Welterweight boxing champion * Thomas Freeman (debate coach) (1919-2020), lecturer and debate coach * Thomas J. Freeman (1827–1891), Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court *Thomas Oscar Freeman, American murderer and murder victim *Thomas W. Freeman (1824–1865), American politician * Thomas Freeman (MP), in 1411, MP for Huntingdon *Tomás Freeman (fl. 2000s–2010s), Gaelic footballer *Jake Freeman Thomas Jacob Freeman (born November 5, 1980) is an American hammer thrower. He competed at the 2009 World Outdoor championships. A native of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Freeman (Australian Cricketer)
Thomas Freeman (13 June 1894 – 19 June 1965) was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class match for Tasmania in 1913/14. See also * List of Tasmanian representative cricketers This is a list of cricket players who have played representative cricket for Tasmania in Australia. It includes players that have played at least one match, in senior first-class, List A cricket, or Twenty20 matches. Practice matches are not i ... References External links * 1894 births 1965 deaths Australian cricketers Tasmania cricketers Cricketers from Hobart {{Australia-cricket-bio-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Freeman (New Zealand Cricketer)
Thomas Alfred Freeman (16 April 1923 – 20 June 2003) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played seventeen first-class matches for Otago between the 1943–44 and 1949–50 seasons. Freeman was born at Balclutha in Otago in 1923 and educated at Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin. He worked as a teacher. Following his death in 2003 an obituary was published in the 2004 ''New Zealand Cricket Almanack''. Freeman's son, Barry Freeman, also played for Otago.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 53. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) was founded in England in 1973 for the purpose of researching and collating information about the history and statistics of cricket. Originally called the Association of Cricket Statis .... References External links * 1923 births 2003 deaths New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers Sportspeople from Balclutha, New Zealan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Freeman (poet)
Thomas Freeman, (ca. 1590–1630), was a minor English Jacobean poet and epigramist who is mostly remembered for writing an early poem addressed to Shakespeare. Freeman was born near Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, and entered Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1607 at the age of 16 and matriculated with a Bachelor of Arts 22 June 1611. After graduation he moved to London, and in 1614 published two collections of epigrams in one volume, ''Rvbbe, and A great Caste'', and ''Rvnne And a great Cast: the second bowle'', dedicated to Thomas, Lord Windsor. They were addressed to many of the contemporary poets as well as the poets of history, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Daniel, Donne, Spenser, Heywood, and Chapman. His last poem was written in 1630 to commemorate the birth of Charles, Prince of Wales Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. He was the longest-serving heir apparent a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Freeman (pirate)
Thomas Freeman (fl. 1655–1680) was an English buccaneer and pirate active in the Caribbean. He is best known for attacking the Spanish alongside Henry Morgan, David Marteen, and John Morris. History Freeman arrived on Jamaica in 1655 as part of Oliver Cromwell's invasion force, remaining there for the next several years. Freeman obtained a privateering commission against the Spanish from Lord Windsor, the Governor of Jamaica, and may have used it to join Christopher Myngs’ sack of Santiago de Cuba and Campeche in 1662-1663. In 1664 he joined with John Morris, Henry Morgan, David Marteen, and Jacob Fackman to raid the Mexican outposts of Tabasco and Villahermosa. Their ships were seized by the Spanish while the buccaneers were ashore. After they captured a few Spanish ships they looted their way through Honduras and Nicaragua, where they captured Granada with the help of native tribes. The buccaneers returned to Port Royal (in their own ships, which they had recaptured) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Birch Freeman
Thomas Birch Freeman (6 December 1809 in Twyford, Hampshire – 12 August 1890 in Accra) was an Anglo-African Wesleyan minister, missionary, botanist and colonial official in West Africa. He is widely regarded as a pioneer of the Methodist Church in colonial West Africa, where he also established multiple schools. Some scholars view him as the ''“Founder of Ghana Methodism”''. Freeman's missionary activities took him to Dahomey, now Benin as well as to Western Nigeria. Biographical synopsis Born in Twyford, Hampshire,"Freeman, Thomas Birch", in David Dabydeen, John Gilmore, Cecily Jones (eds), ''The Oxford Companion to Black British History'', Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 178. Thomas Birch Freeman was the son of an African father, Thomas Freeman, and an English mother, Amy Birch. He worked as a gardener and botanist for Sir Robert Harland (1765–1848) at Orwell Park near Ipswich until dismissed for abandoning Anglicanism for Wesleyan Methodism. Under Freeman, nine sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Freeman (boxer)
Tommy Freeman (January 22, 1904 – February 20, 1986) was an American professional boxer who became a World Welterweight Boxing Champion on September 5, 1930, when he defeated reigning champion Young Jack Thompson. He lost the title to Thompson the following year, on April 14, 1931. Remarkably, the majority of his recorded wins were by knockout, and his losses were few, at under ten percent of his total fights. He was rated by ''The Ring'' magazine as a Top Ten Welterweight contender from 1926 to 1931. His impressive win and extraordinary knockout record might be explained by the limited quality of competition he faced in Hot Springs where he fought many of his fights. Boxing career highlights Freeman's amateur boxing career began around the age of sixteen in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Between 1920 and 1922, he lost only two of twenty of his better publicized local bouts and won six by knockout. He fought most of these bouts in the lightweight to super-lightweight division. Aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Freeman (debate Coach)
Thomas Freeman (1919 – June 6, 2020) was an American lecturer in religion, a preacher, and a debate coach. His students included Martin Luther King Jr., U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, and Denzel Washington. According to his ''New York Times'' obituary on June 17, 2020, Freeman was associated with the Texas Southern University debate team that "rose to national prominence". It was founded by Freeman in 1949. Freeman led the team for more than 60 years and he also served as a visiting professor at Morehouse College. References External links Thomas F. Freeman Collection of home moviesat the Texas Archive of the Moving Image The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) is an independent 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2002 by film archivist and University of Texas at Austin professor Caroline Frick, PhD. TAMI's mission is to preserve, study, and exhibit Texas film h ... Texas Southern University faculty African-American educators African-American centenarians Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas J
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court and its longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. After his father abandoned the family, he was raised by his grandfather in a poor Gullah community near Savannah. Growing up as a devout Catholic, Thomas originally intended to be a priest in the Catholic Church but was frustrated over the church's insufficient attempts to combat racism. He abandoned his aspiration of becoming a clergyman to attend the College of the Holy Cross and, later, Yale Law School, where he was influenced by a number of conservative authors, notably Thomas Sowell, who dramatically shifted his worldview from progressive to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Oscar Freeman
On June 25, 1982, Lee Gunsalus Rotatori, a 32-year old American woman, was sexually assaulted and murdered in her hotel room by Thomas Oscar Freeman in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The murder went unsolved for nearly 40 years, until it was announced by authorities in 2022 that the perpetrator had been identified as Freeman using investigative genetic genealogy. Around July 1982, Freeman himself was murdered by an unidentified perpetrator in Cobden, Illinois. His decomposing body was found in a shallow grave around three months after his murder. As of 2022, the murder remains unsolved and the case remains open, and investigators believe the two murders were connected. Murder of Lee Rotatori Lee Rotatori was a 32-year-old American woman from Nunica, Michigan who had recently relocated to Council Bluffs to work at the nearby Jennie Edmundson Hospital in June 1982. She was new to the area and did not have permanent housing, so she stayed at the Best Western Frontier Motor Lodge hotel for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas W
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) 1969 nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Freeman (MP)
Thomas Freeman may refer to: *Thomas Freeman (Australian cricketer) (1894–1965), Australian cricketer *Thomas Freeman (New Zealand cricketer) (1923–2003), New Zealand cricketer *Thomas Freeman (poet) (c. 1590–1630), English poet and epigrammatist *Thomas Freeman (pirate) (fl. 1655–1680), English buccaneer and privateer *Thomas Birch Freeman (1809–1890), missionary and colonial official *Tommy Freeman (boxer) (1904–1986), World Welterweight boxing champion *Thomas Freeman (debate coach) (1919-2020), lecturer and debate coach * Thomas J. Freeman (1827–1891), Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court *Thomas Oscar Freeman, American murderer and murder victim *Thomas W. Freeman (1824–1865), American politician * Thomas Freeman (MP), in 1411, MP for Huntingdon *Tomás Freeman (fl. 2000s–2010s), Gaelic footballer *Jake Freeman Thomas Jacob Freeman (born November 5, 1980) is an American hammer thrower. He competed at the 2009 World Outdoor championships. A native of East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huntingdon (UK Parliament Constituency)
Huntingdon is a constituency west of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire and including its namesake town of Huntingdon. It has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2001 by Jonathan Djanogly of the Conservative Party. Huntingdon is a safe Conservative seat and was the seat of former Conservative Prime Minister, John Major. First established around the time of the Model Parliament in 1295, Huntingdon was the seat of Oliver Cromwell in 1628–29 and 1640–1642. History The constituency of Huntingdon has existed in three separate forms: as a parliamentary borough from 1295 to 1885; as a division of a parliamentary county from 1885 to 1918; and as a county constituency from 1983 until the present day. Representatives for the seat, the standard two burgesses per parliamentary borough, were summoned to form the first fully assembled parliament, the Model Parliament in 1295 and at all parliaments assembled from then until 1868, in which year the constituen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
