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Thomas Gilbert (poet)
Thomas Gilbert may refer to: * Thomas Gilbert (architect) (1706–1776), British architect * Thomas Gilbert (military officer) (1715–1797), American Revolution figure * Thomas Gilbert (engineer) (1927–1995), American engineer * Thomas Gilbert (pioneer) (1786–1873), South Australian pioneer * Thomas Gilbert (politician) (1720–1798), British politician * Thomas Gilbert (sea captain), who spotted the islands of Gilbert and Ellice Islands, now in Kiribati, which are named after him * Thomas Gilbert (minister) (1613–1694), English ejected minister * Tom Gilbert (ice hockey) (born 1983), American ice hockey player * Tom Gilbert (politician) (1926–2016), Canadian politician * Tom Gilbert (rugby league) (born 2000), Australian rugby league player * Eddie Gilbert (wrestler) (Thomas Edward Gilbert, Jr., 1961–1995), American professional wrestler and booker * Marcus Thomas Pius Gilbert (born 1977), also known as Tom Gilbert, British evolutionary biologist *Thomas Gilbert (gang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gilbert (architect)
Thomas Gilbert was a British architect who lived from 1706 to 1776. He is best known for designing and building St. George's Church on the Isle of Portland. His architectural design, which he applied to the Church, came from Christopher Wren Sir Christopher Wren PRS FRS (; – ) was one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist. He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches .... When he died Thomas Gilbert was buried beneath St George's Church altar. References 1706 births 1776 deaths British ecclesiastical architects {{UK-architect-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gilbert (military Officer)
Thomas Gilbert (1714-1797) was a soldier in King George's War, the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. He was known as the "Leader of the New England Tories". He became a Loyalist, originally from Assonet in Freetown, Massachusetts, he settled a community that was eventually named after him, Gilberts Cove, Nova Scotia. During King George's War, he fought in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). During the French and Indian War, he also fought at the Battle of Lake George as Lieutenant-Colonel under Brigadier-General Timothy Ruggles afterward of Wilmot, Nova Scotia (Upper Granville, Nova Scotia), at Crown Point in 1755. Gilbert became commander of the forces under Colonel Ephraim Williams when the latter was killed in the same year at Lake George. During the American Revolution, Gilbert and his three sons fought for the British in Massachusetts. In May 1783 they were exiled to Nova Scotia along with their slaves. They settled in the community that became know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gilbert (engineer)
Thomas F. Gilbert (1927–1995) was a psychologist who is often known as the founder of the field of performance technology, also known as Human Performance Technology (HPT). Gilbert himself coined and used the term Performance Engineering. Gilbert applied his understanding of behavioral psychology to improve human performance at work and at school. He is best known for his book ''Human Competence: Engineering Worthy Performance.'' Gilbert devised HPT when he realized that formal learning programs often only brought about a change in knowledge, not a change in behavior. Other techniques were needed to bring about a lasting change in behavior.Many today call HPT "Organizational Behavior Management" (OBM)and it is reviewed a"What Is Human Performance Technology?", ETEC 512/712, Concordia University, 6 September 2007 Gilbert spent a year on a post-doctoral sabbatical working with the behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gilbert (pioneer)
Thomas Gilbert (1786–1873), a pioneer in South Australia, was its first Colonial Storekeeper (a government official responsible for all government stores) and its first Postmaster. He was also a fourth-generation mathematical instrument maker and optician in England, his family being highly regarded in this field at the time. Early life and instrument making Thomas Gilbert was born in 1786 in The Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, England. He was the son of William Gilbert (1755-1819) and Anna Couchman. The Gilbert family were highly regarded makers of mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments and were based in the Tower Hill area of London, England before becoming associated with Leadenhall Street in the City of London. Thomas' great grandfather, John Gilbert (1695-1749), was the first family member known to have worked in this field, and some of his work was presented to Isaac Newton and The Royal Society. Thomas was apprenticed to his father and worked as an instrument ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gilbert (politician)
Thomas Gilbert ( – 18 December 1798) was a British lawyer, soldier, land agent and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1773 to 1794. As one of the earliest advocates of poor relief, he played a major part in the Relief of the Poor Act of 1782. Early life Gilbert was the son of Thomas Gilbert of Cotton, Staffordshire. He entered Inner Temple in 1740 and was called to the bar in 1744. In 1745 he accepted a position in the regiment created by Lord Gower, the brother-in-law of the Duke of Bridgewater. His first wife was named Miss Phillips whom he married between December 1761 and January 1762. When he married her he bought her a lottery ticket, and she won one of the largest prizes in the country. She died on 22 April 1770 and he married secondly to Mary Crauford daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel George Crauford. Political career Gilbert was a Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1763 to 1768 and for Lichfield from 1768 to 1795. He held many tit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gilbert (sea Captain)
Thomas Gilbert was an 18th-century British mariner. Biography Thomas Gilbert and John Marshall were the captains of two East India Company vessels of the First Fleet, the ''Charlotte'' and the ''Scarborough'', returning from carrying convicts to Botany Bay in 1788, when they sailed through the Gilbert Islands and described Aranuka, Kuria, Abaiang and Tarawa. The vessels had been part of the First Fleet carrying convicts to Australia. They had sailed in a convoy under the command of post-captain Arthur Phillip, New South Wales' first Governor. The two vessels encountered their first island in the Gilberts on 17 June 1788. In a 1941 article in ''Life'' Samuel Eliot Morison wrote that this Island was told to be Abemama, but might have been Aranuka. Gilbert visited Tarawa on 20 June 1788. Sketches he made survive. Legacy The First, Second and Third Thomas Shoals in the Spratly Islands are named after Gilbert. They, along with the Scarborough shoal, were discovered dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gilbert (minister)
Thomas Gilbert (1613–1694) was an English ejected minister of the seventeenth century. Biography Thomas Gilbert, son of William Gilbert of Prees, Shropshire, was born in 1613. In 1629 he became a student in St Edmund Hall, Oxford, his tutor being Ralph Morhall. After graduating B.A. on 28 May 1633, he obtained some employment in Ireland, but returned to Oxford and graduated M.A. on 7 November 1638. Through the favour of Philip, fourth baron Wharton, he obtained the vicarage of Upper Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, and (about 1644) the vicarage of St Laurence's Church, Reading, Berkshire, when he took the covenant. He sided with the Independents, according to Tanner (a statement which seems questionable, according to the Dictionary of National Biography), and was created B.D. on 19 May 1648 at the parliamentary visitation of Oxford. About the same time he exchanged his cure at Reading for the rectory of Edgmond, Shropshire. Tanner says he was appointed in the room of an ejected roy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Gilbert (ice Hockey)
Thomas Kelly Gilbert (born January 10, 1983) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman. He is currently an unrestricted free agent who most recently played under contract with the Nürnberg Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Gilbert played 655 regular season games in the National Hockey League (NHL). He has played in the NHL for five teams over parts of 12 seasons for the Edmonton Oilers, Minnesota Wild, Florida Panthers, Montreal Canadiens and Los Angeles Kings. Playing career Amateur Gilbert played his high school hockey for Minnesota powerhouse Bloomington Jefferson High School and was the captain his senior year, 2001. That same year, he switched to forward from defense, which he played as a sophomore and junior. Professional Known by most scouts for his two-way ability in both ends of the ice, Gilbert was drafted in the fifth round, 129th overall, at the 2002 NHL Entry Draft by the Colorado Avalanche. He was later traded to the Edmonton Oilers on M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Gilbert (politician)
Thomas William Gilbert (June 15, 1926 – December 22, 2016) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick A legislature is an deliberative assembly, assembly with the authority to make laws for a Polity, political entity such as a Sovereign state, country or city. They are often contrasted with the Executive (government), executive and Judiciary, ... from 1987 to 1991, as a Liberal member for the constituency of Oromocto. References New Brunswick Liberal Association MLAs 1926 births 2016 deaths {{NewBrunswick-MLA-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Gilbert (rugby League)
Tom Gilbert (born 5 August 2000) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a er, or for the Dolphins in the National Rugby League. He has played at representative level for Queensland in the State of Origin series. Background Born and raised in Brisbane, Gilbert played his junior rugby league for the Norths Devils. He attended Wavell State High School and St Patrick's College, Shorncliffe, before finishing his schooling at Brisbane Grammar School, where he was the vice-captain of their first XV rugby union team. In 2015, he joined the North Queensland Cowboys academy. Playing career Early career In 2016, Gilbert played for the Norths Devils Cyril Connell Cup team and was later selected for the Queensland under-16 team. In 2017, he moved up to the Devils' Mal Meninga Cup team and represented the Queensland under-18 team. In 2018, Gilbert moved to Townsville and joined the Townsville Blackhawks. After two games for the club's Mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Gilbert (wrestler)
Thomas Edward Gilbert Jr. (August 14, 1961 – February 18, 1995) better known by his ring name "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, was an American professional wrestler and booker. Gilbert started his wrestling career for the Continental Wrestling Association in 1977, using the ring name Tommy Gilbert Jr. and winning the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship with his father in 1980. He later moved to the World Wrestling Federation in 1982, working a storyline as the protégé of Bob Backlund until leaving the company in 1984. He found his greatest success in Memphis, teaming with Tommy Rich to form “Fargo’s Fabulous Ones” and winning the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship. Gilbert eventually turned heel and feuded with Rich as well as Jerry Lawler. He moved to the Universal Wrestling Federation in 1985, where he wrestled and worked as a manager, forming the villainous stable “Hot Stuff International, Inc.” In addition, Gilbert also worked as a booker in promotions like th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Thomas Pius Gilbert
Marcus Thomas Pius Gilbert (also known as Tom Gilbert, and publishing as M Thomas P Gilbert) is an evolutionary biologist. His work is very highly cited, and influential in the fields of palaeogenomics, evolutionary genomics and evolutionary hologenomics. He is currently the Director of the University of Copenhagen'Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics He received a BA in Biological Sciences at Oriel College, Oxford University in 2000, and a D.Phil. (Doctor of Philosophy) from the Zoology Dept and at New College, Oxford University in 2004 under Alan Cooper. Subsequently, he was a post-doctoral fellow with Michael Worobey at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, at the University of Arizona, where he undertook genetic analyses on samples containing some of the earliest recorded HIV-1 infected tissues. In 2005, he became an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, where he has been Professor of Palaeogenomics since 2011, initially at the Natural History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
