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Thomas Holt (burgess)
Thomas Holt may refer to: *Thomas Holt (architect) (1578?–1624), English architect * Thomas Holt (MP for Canterbury) , England, in 1386 * Thomas Holt (Serjeant-at-Law) (1616–1686), English lawyer and politician; Member of Parliament for Abingdon *Thomas Holt (Australian politician) (1811–1888), wool merchant, financier and politician * Thomas Michael Holt (1831–1896), Governor of North Carolina, 1891–1893 *Thomas Holt (American architect) (1835–1889) * Tom Holt (swimmer) (1923–2004), British swimmer *Thomas C. Holt (born 1942), American writer and historian *Tom Holt (born 1961), author of humorous fantasies and historical fiction See also * Thomas Holte (1571–1654), English landowner * Thomas Holte (MP) (died 1546), Member of the Parliament of England for Warwick in 1529 *Tom Holte, a fictional character from ''Sandino'' (film) *Holte (surname) Holte or Holthe is the surname of: * Holte baronets ** Sir Thomas Holte, 1st Baronet (1571–1654), English owner of As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Holt (architect)
Thomas Holt (c. 1578 – 1624), was a 17th-century English architect who designed a number of buildings at the University of Oxford. Holt, a master carpenterTyack, 1998, page 88 and architect from either Halifax or York, is notable for designing important works in Renaissance architecture built at Oxford. He designed the whole structure of Wadham College, which was built between 1610 and 1613. As a master carpenter he was responsible for the hammerbeam roof of the Hall. From 1613 onwards he designed the great quadrangle of the examination schools there, now part of the Bodleian Library, introducing some new architectural features. Holt completed the schools quadrangle in 1624,Tyack, 1998, page 93 the year of his death. Other buildings at Oxford are ascribed to him with less certainty, though he probably prepared designs for many of them. Holt is registered as a privileged person in the university, aged 40, on 30 October 1618; he is described as ''"Faberlignarius Coll. Novi"' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Holt (MP For Canterbury)
Thomas Holt (died between 1408 and 1417) was an English politician and lawyer. Family Holt married, before January 1408, a woman named Joan. Holt was from Canterbury, Kent. Career Holt was a Member of Parliament for Canterbury constituency, in 1386. He was a landowner in the Westgate area of Canterbury, on the Isle of Thanet and in the area between Canterbury and Sandwich. References Year of birth missing Year of death missing 14th-century births 15th-century deaths English MPs 1386 Politicians from Canterbury {{14thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Holt (Serjeant-at-Law)
Sir Thomas Holt (1616 – 28 July 1686) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654 and 1656. Holt was the son of Rowland Holt, merchant of London, and his wife Mary Bucknor, daughter of Thomas Bucknor of London. He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford on 23 November 1632, aged 16. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1648. He became recorder of Abingdon.'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714: Hieron-Horridge', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 706–747. Date accessed: 7 August 2011 Note: Alumni Oxonienses gives his father's name as Ralph. In 1654, Holt was elected |
Thomas Holt (Australian Politician)
Thomas Holt (14 November 1811 – 5 September 1888) was an English-born Australian pastoralist, company director and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1868 and 1883. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for two periods between 1856 and 1857 and again between 1861 and 1864. Holt was the first Colonial Treasurer in New South Wales. Early life Holt, born in Horbury, Yorkshire, England in November 1811, was the son of Thomas Holt Snr. a Yorkshire wool merchant and Elizabeth Ellis and was educated in Wakefield. He initially worked in his father's firm in Leeds but after 3 years became a wool buyer in London. Subsequently, Holt emigrated to Sydney in 1842 and made a fortune as a wool merchant. He was also a director of numerous colonial companies including the Sydney Railway Company. Holt invested extensively in pastoral land and by 1860 had acquired more than in New South Wales and Queensland. As a result, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Michael Holt
Thomas Michael Holt (July 15, 1831 – April 11, 1896) was an American industrialist who served as the 47th governor of North Carolina from 1891 to 1893. Formerly a North Carolina State Senator and Speaker of the House of the North Carolina General Assembly, Holt was instrumental in the founding of North Carolina State University, as well as in establishing several railroads within the state and the state's department of agriculture. Holt was also responsible for the technology behind the family's Holt Mills "Alamance Plaids", the first colored cotton goods produced in the South – a development that revolutionized the Southern textile industry. Thomas M. Holt AF & AM Masonic Lodge, located in Graham, NC, is named in honor of the former governor. Life and career Holt was born in Alamance County, North Carolina, on July 15, 1831, the son of Emily Virginia (Farish) and Edwin Michael Holt. Holt was a descendant of Michael Holt or Holdt, one of the earliest settlers of the Germann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Holt (American Architect)
Thomas Holt (1835–1889) was an American architect active in the second half of the 19th century. Life and career Holt was born in Bethel, Maine, in 1835, to carpenter Jacob D. Holt (1807–1865) and Hannah White (1794–1892).''Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts'', Volume 3, William Frederick Adams (1910), p. 1760 He graduated from Gould Academy in Bethel. It is believed that Holt established a firm with contractors Moses C. Foster and Cyrus Buck, but had started out on his own by 1857, for he was advertising his services in the ''Bethel Courier''. Buck died in the Civil War in 1865, aged 24 or 25, while fighting for the Union Army. In 1860, Holt designed the Central Parish Church in Yarmouth, Maine, which still stands on the town's Main Street, at the head of Portland Street, and is now on the National Register of Historic Places. It is one of only four surviving examples of his work on churches in Maine. Between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Holt (swimmer)
Thomas Patrick Holt (21 October 1923 – 17 August 2004) was a British swimmer. He competed in the men's 400 metre freestyle at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca .... His elder brother John was also part of the British swimming team at the same Games. References 1923 births 2004 deaths Olympic swimmers for Great Britain Swimmers at the 1948 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing British male freestyle swimmers People from Jinja District Royal Air Force personnel of World War II Ugandan emigrants to the United Kingdom Sportspeople from Weston-super-Mare Military personnel from Somerset British emigrants to Australia Royal Australian Air Force officers {{UK-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas C
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 novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Holt
Thomas Charles Louis Holt (born 13 September 1961) is a British novelist. In addition to fiction published under his own name, he writes fantasy under the pseudonym K. J. Parker. Biography Holt was born in London, the son of novelist Hazel Holt, and was educated at Westminster School, Wadham College, Oxford, and The College of Law, London. His works include mythopoeic novels which parody or take as their theme various aspects of mythology, history or literature and develop them in new and often humorous ways. He has also written a number of historical novels writing as Thomas Holt. Steve Nallon collaborated with Holt to write ''I, Margaret'', a satirical autobiography of Margaret Thatcher published in 1989. K. J. Parker K. J. Parker is the pseudonym under which Holt has published fantasy fiction. Holt's assumed identity as K. J. Parker was kept secret for 17 years, until April 2015. While Parker's stories take place in secondary worlds with fictional geographies an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Holte
Sir Thomas Holte, 1st Baronet (c. 1571 – 14 December 1654) was an English landowner, responsible for building Aston Hall, in the parish of Aston in Warwickshire. The "Holte End" stand of Villa Park, the stadium of Aston Villa Football Club, sits on land originally part of the Aston Hall gardens and is named after Thomas Holte. The area also has a Holte School and Holte Road. Biography He was born the son of Edward Holte of the Manor House, Duddeston, Warwickshire by his wife Dorothy Ferrars. The Holtes were a wealthy, land-owning family of some importance in Warwickshire. Their ancestors had owned land in the area for several hundred years and it had been considerably added to with the acquisition of monastic land during the English Reformation, Reformation. The Holtes served as High Sheriff of Warwickshire, Justices of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenants for the county. They had influential friends and relatives both locally and in London. His father died when Thomas was only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Holte (MP)
Thomas Holte (by 1500 – 23 March 1546) was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Warwick in 1529. References 1546 deaths English MPs 1529–1536 Year of birth uncertain {{1529-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandino (film)
''Sandino'' is a 1990 Spanish-Nicaraguan biographical film about Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto César Sandino, directed by Chilean filmmaker Miguel Littín and produced by Spanish Televisión Española and Nicaraguan state producer Umamzor. It was released in cinemas as a two hours long film first and it was broadcast in television as a three 55-minutes episodes miniseries later. Plot The film depicts the life of Augusto César Sandino (1895-1934), the leader of the Nicaraguan resistance against the US occupation army between 1927 and 1933, as well as the National Guard that was organized against him after the Marines' defeat. The movie features several real-life characters, including Calvin Coolidge (President of the United States), Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, the country's President Juan Bautista Sacasa, Colonel Logan Feland and Captain Gilbert D. Hatfield of the Navy, as well as Blanca Aráuz Pineda, Sandino's wife and a telegraph operator from the town of Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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