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Thomas Hunt (died 1789)
Thomas or Tom Hunt may refer to: Politicians * Thomas Hunt (MP for Bishop's Lynn), (died 1433) MP for Bishop's Lynn * Thomas Hunt (MP for Bedford fl.1420), (fl.1420) MP for Bedford * Thomas Hunt (MP for Great Yarmouth), (died 1560) MP for Great Yarmouth * Thomas Hunt (MP for Shrewsbury), in 1645 and 1648, MP for Shrewsbury * Thomas Hunt (Australian politician) (1841–1934) *Tom Hunt (politician), MP for Ipswich elected 2019 Others * Thomas Hunt (madrigalist) (c. 1580–1658), English composer and madrigalist who contributed to ''The Triumphs of Oriana'', 1601 * Thomas Hunt (footballer) (1908–1975), formerly with Norwich City F.C. * Thomas Hunt (martyr) (died 1600), Englishman martyred with Thomas Sprott in 1600 * Thomas Hunt (Arabic scholar) (1696–1774), professor of Arabic and of Hebrew at the University of Oxford * Thomas Hunt (slaver) (17th century), John Smith's lieutenant; took Squanto to Europe from modern-day Massachusetts * Thomas Hunt (soldier) (1754–1808 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hunt (MP For Bishop's Lynn)
Thomas or Tom Hunt may refer to: Politicians * Thomas Hunt (MP for Bishop's Lynn), (died 1433) MP for Bishop's Lynn * Thomas Hunt (MP for Bedford fl.1420), (fl.1420) MP for Bedford * Thomas Hunt (MP for Great Yarmouth), (died 1560) MP for Great Yarmouth * Thomas Hunt (MP for Shrewsbury), in 1645 and 1648, MP for Shrewsbury * Thomas Hunt (Australian politician) (1841–1934) *Tom Hunt (politician), MP for Ipswich elected 2019 Others * Thomas Hunt (madrigalist) (c. 1580–1658), English composer and madrigalist who contributed to ''The Triumphs of Oriana'', 1601 * Thomas Hunt (footballer) (1908–1975), formerly with Norwich City F.C. * Thomas Hunt (martyr) (died 1600), Englishman martyred with Thomas Sprott in 1600 * Thomas Hunt (Arabic scholar) (1696–1774), professor of Arabic and of Hebrew at the University of Oxford * Thomas Hunt (slaver) (17th century), John Smith's lieutenant; took Squanto to Europe from modern-day Massachusetts * Thomas Hunt (soldier) (1754–1808 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hunt (martyr)
Thomas or Tom Hunt may refer to: Politicians * Thomas Hunt (MP for Bishop's Lynn), (died 1433) MP for Bishop's Lynn * Thomas Hunt (MP for Bedford fl.1420), (fl.1420) MP for Bedford * Thomas Hunt (MP for Great Yarmouth), (died 1560) MP for Great Yarmouth * Thomas Hunt (MP for Shrewsbury), in 1645 and 1648, MP for Shrewsbury * Thomas Hunt (Australian politician) (1841–1934) *Tom Hunt (politician), MP for Ipswich elected 2019 Others * Thomas Hunt (madrigalist) (c. 1580–1658), English composer and madrigalist who contributed to ''The Triumphs of Oriana'', 1601 * Thomas Hunt (footballer) (1908–1975), formerly with Norwich City F.C. * Thomas Hunt (martyr) (died 1600), Englishman martyred with Thomas Sprott in 1600 * Thomas Hunt (Arabic scholar) (1696–1774), professor of Arabic and of Hebrew at the University of Oxford * Thomas Hunt (slaver) (17th century), John Smith's lieutenant; took Squanto to Europe from modern-day Massachusetts * Thomas Hunt (soldier) (1754–1808) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Hunt
Tommy Hunt (born Charles James Hunt; June 18, 1933) is an American soul/ northern soul singer, and a 2001 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee as a member of famed R&B group The Flamingos. Early life Born to Georgianna Derico, Hunt started his life in Pittsburgh, where his school friends nicknamed him Tommy, and it has stayed with him throughout his entire life. Music dominated his life and he was sent to reform school after spending his learning hours practicing for and entering talent shows. He was released from reform school when he was 10, and he and his mother moved to Chicago. The Flamingos After a stint in the United States Air Force, Hunt went AWOL in order to be with his mother, who was dying. He served time in prison for deserting and, after his release, returned to Chicago where he formed a group called The Five Echoes. While performing in a club, he was approached by Zeke Carey of The Flamingos, and asked to take Carey's place, as he had recently been drafted. Hunt was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Hunt (executive)
Thomas Myers Hunt (May 27, 1923 – November 11, 2008) was an American petroleum industry executive who was chairman of Hunt Petroleum and an advisor to his uncle H. L. Hunt, the founder of the family dynasty. Biography Hunt was born in Pana, Illinois. He served during World War II in the Pacific with the 380th Bomb Group of the United States Army Air Corps in the Pacific Theater. Hunt flew on the first bomber from the 380th to land in Japan, and flew on a B-24 Liberator representing the 380th during a flyover of Tokyo Bay to mark the Japanese surrender on the USS ''Missouri''. Hunt attended the University of Arkansas, where he studied chemical engineering, but at his uncle Herbert's suggestion, he worked for the family oil interests in Wyoming, North Dakota, and in Montana's Williston Basin. He was ultimately assigned to manage the Hunt family operations in Louisiana.Krauss, Clifford"Tom Hunt, Executive in His Family’s Oil Business, Dies at 85" ''The New York Times'', Nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lorraine Hunt
Thomas Lorraine Hunt (11 February 1882 – 17 April 1938) was a Canadian-American landscape painter of the 1920s and 30s, known especially for his dramatic use of color. His paintings are considered a transition from impressionism to modernism. His primary subjects were boats and harbors in which the colors and shapes on the canvas took precedence over the exactness of the objects. Hunt was active among the Southern California group of Impressionist plein air painters and a founding member of the Laguna Art Museum. Early life Thomas Lorraine Hunt was born 11 February 1882 in London, Ontario, Canada, the son of the landscape artist William Powell Hunt. He was mentored in painting technique by his father who encouraged Hunt to pursue a career as an artist. Beginning at age 19, Hunt worked as a traveling salesman, then began taking landscape art seriously in 1908 at the age of 26. After marrying Blanche Levine in 1910, he and his wife immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, USA. In Clevel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cecil Hunt
Brigadier Thomas Cecil Hunt (5 June 1901 – 22 December 1980) was a British physician and gastroenterologist. After education at St Paul's School, London, Thomas Cecil Hunt matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he received a First Class Honours degree in Physiology in 1922. He then studied medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, where he graduated BM BCh in 1926. In his first year of medical school, he made a roundtrip from London to Oxford each week as an assistant to Charles Sherrington in physiology tutoring and demonstrating. In 1927 Oxford University awarded Hunt a Radcliffe travelling fellowship, enabling him to go to Berlin and Vienna and study endocrine diseases and metabolism. At the University of Vienna he studied endocrinology under Richard Bauer (1879–1959), professor extraordinarius. In 1938 when Bauer, as a Jew, was forced to flee from Vienna, Hunt helped him relocate. In 1928 Hunt qualified MRCP. At St Mary's Hospital he was from 1928 to 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sterry Hunt
Thomas Sterry Hunt (September 5, 1826February 12, 1892) was an American geologist and chemist. Biography Hunt was born at Norwich, Connecticut. He lost his father when twelve years old, and had to earn his own livelihood. In the course of two years he found employment in a printing office, in an apothecary shop, in a book store and as a clerk. He became interested in natural science, and especially in chemical and medical studies, and in 1845 he was elected a member of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists at Yale—a body which four years later became the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1848 he read a paper in Philadelphia ''On Acid Springs and Gypsum Deposits of the Onondaga Salt Group''. At Yale he became assistant to Benjamin Silliman Jr., and in 1846 was appointed chemist to the Geological Survey of Vermont. In 1847 he was appointed to similar duties on the Canadian Geological Survey at Montreal under Sir William Logan, and this post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hunt (speech Therapist)
Thomas Perkins Lowman Hunt (1802 in Whitchurch, Dorset – 18 August 1851 in Godlingstone near Swanage) was an English speech therapist, inventor of a method claiming to cure stammering. Life Hunt was born in Dorset in 1802, and is stated to have been educated at Winchester, Hampshire. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1822, with the intention of becoming a minister of the church of England, but the experience of a fellow-collegian who stammered is said to have arrested his attention, and he left Cambridge without taking a degree in order to devote himself to the study and cure of what he called 'defective utterance'. He found that the lips, the tongue, the jaws, and the breath were in different cases the offending members. Thinking that he was able to cure stammering, he sought wider experience in a provincial tour, and finally in 1827 settled in Regent Street, London. He relied on simple common-sense directions. Each case was studied separately. Sometimes slow and sometimes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hunt (soldier)
Thomas Hunt (17541808) was an American military officer who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and later served in the United States Army where he rose to the rank of colonel and served until his death. Biography Hunt was born in Watertown, Massachusetts in September 1754 to John Hunt and Ruth Fessenden Hunt. He was a sergeant in Captain Craft's company of Minute Men when it was activated on April 20, 1775 in the alarm which led to the Battle of Lexington and the Battle of Concord. In May he was commissioned an ensign in Bond's Regiment and served in the Siege of Boston and fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. In January 1776 he was commissioned ensign and adjutant of the 25th Continental Regiment. He was promoted to brigade major on October 20, 1776.Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, 1789 to 1903. Francis B. Heitman. Volume 1. pg. 557. On February 1, 1777 he was commissioned as a captain-lieutenant in Jackson's A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hunt (slaver)
Tisquantum (; 1585 (±10 years?) – late November 1622 O.S.), more commonly known as Squanto Sam (), was a member of the Patuxet tribe best known for being an early liaison between the Native American population in Southern New England and the ''Mayflower'' Pilgrims who made their settlement at the site of Tisquantum's former summer village. The Patuxet tribe had lived on the western coast of Cape Cod Bay, but they were wiped out by an epidemic infection, likely brought by previous European explorers. Tisquantum was kidnapped by English explorer Thomas Hunt who trafficked him to Spain, where he sold him in the city of Málaga. He was among a number of captives ransomed by local monks who focused on their education and evangelization. Tisquantum eventually traveled to England, where he may have met Pocahontas, a Native American from Virginia, in 1616–1617. He then returned to America in 1619 to his native village, only to find that his tribe had been wiped out by an epid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hunt (Arabic Scholar)
Thomas Hunt FRS (18 September 1696 – 31 October 1774) was an English academic, who was Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1738 until his death. Life Hunt was born in Horsington, Somerset and, after being educated locally, studied at the University of Oxford as a member of Christ Church, Oxford (matriculating in 1715 and obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1718). He was a tutor at Hart Hall, Oxford from 1718, and was ordained deacon in 1720 and priest in 1721. Ecclesiastical appointments that he held were rector of Chelwood, Somerset (1721); prebend of Whitelackington, Somerset (1726); chaplain to Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield and tutor to his grandsons (1728); rector of Bix, Oxfordshire (1729); and rector of Shirburn, Oxfordshire (1731). He became Laudian Professor of Arabic in 1738, additionally becoming Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in 1740 (the year in which he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society) and Regius Profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hunt (footballer)
Thomas Hunt was a footballer, born in West Bromwich in 1908 and died in West Bromwich in 1975.Canary Citizens, p.180 Hunt played as a centre-forward for Norwich City F.C. and scored in nine of his first ten starts. Hunt played in Norwich's club-record victory, 10–2 over Coventry City,Canary Citizens, p.265. on 15 March 1930, scoring five goals. The half-time score was 4–0, meaning the 8,230 supporters saw eight second half goals Hunt was the subject of a contractual wrangle between Norwich and Wolverhampton Wanderers Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (), commonly known as Wolves, is a professional football club based in Wolverhampton, England, which compete in the . The club has played at Molineux Stadium since moving from Dudley Road in 1889. The club's ..., with the latter claiming he was "their" player, on loan at Norwich. "The City Directors and Supporters got together to buy him back but he did not reproduce his early brilliance". When his playing career ended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
