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Thomas Morton (MP For Gloucestershire)
Thomas Morton may refer to: * Thomas Morton (bishop) (1564–1659), Bishop of Durham and Chester in the 17th century * Thomas Morton (playwright) (1764–1838), British playwright * Thomas Morton (colonist) (c. 1579–1647), British lawyer & early colonist of Massachusetts * Thomas Morton (journalist) (active 2014), American journalist * Thomas Morton (shipwright) (1781–1832), inventor of the Patent slip * Thomas Morton (surgeon) (1813–1849), English surgeon * Thomas Corsan Morton (1859–1928), Scottish artist of the Glasgow School * Thomas Lewis Morton (1846–1914), English-born farmer and politician in Manitoba, Canada * Thomas Morton (priest) (1894-1968), catholic priest and writer * Thomas Morton (MP for Gloucestershire), English Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire * Thomas Morton (MP for Bishop's Lynn), 14th-century English Member of Parliament * Tom Morton Thomas Morton (born 1955) is a Scottish broadcaster, journalist, and author. He lives and works mainly in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morton (bishop)
Thomas Morton (20 March 156420 September 1659) was an English churchman, bishop of several dioceses. Well-connected and in favour with James I, he was also a significant polemical writer against Roman Catholic views. He rose to become Bishop of Durham, but despite a record of sympathetic treatment of Puritans as a diocesan, and underlying Calvinist beliefs shown in the Gagg controversy, his royalism saw him descend into poverty under the Commonwealth. Life Morton was born in York on 20 March 1564, the sixth of the nineteen children of Richard Morton, mercer, of York, and alderman of the city, by his wife Elizabeth All Saints' Church, Pavement, York. He was brought up and grammar school educated in the city and nearby Halifax. In 1582, he became a pensioner at St John's College, Cambridge from which he graduated with a BA in 1584 and an MA in 1590. William Whitaker picked him out for a Fellow of the college, and he proceeded to the degree of BD in 1598, and that of DD 'with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morton (playwright)
Thomas Morton (1764 – 28 March 1838) was an English playwright. Life Morton was born in the city of Durham. He was the youngest son of John and Grace Morton of Whickham, County Durham. 26 January 1935, p. 69. After the death of his father he was educated at Soho Square school at the charge of his uncle Maddison, a stockbroker. Here amateur acting was in vogue, and Morton, who played with , acquired a taste for the theatre. He entered at , 2 July 1784, but was not called to the bar. His first drama, ''Colu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morton (colonist)
Thomas Morton (c. 1579–1647) was an early colonist in North America from Devon, England. He was a lawyer, writer, and social reformer known for studying American Indian culture, and he founded the colony of Merrymount, located in Quincy, Massachusetts. Biography Early years Thomas Morton was born in Devon in 1579, into a conservative Anglican family belonging to the landed gentry. Devon at that time was seen as the "dark corner of the land" by Protestant reformers, for its traditionalist intransigence, which included not only a High Church Anglicanism that shared many traits with Catholicism, but a paternalistic populism combined with rural folk tradition that to the Puritans seemed close to paganism. To locals, however, it was merely "Old England"a culture firmly ingrained in them. In the late 1590s Morton studied law at London's Clifford's Inn, where he made influential contacts and lasting friendships. He was also exposed to a popular Renaissance Classicism and to the " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morton (journalist)
Thomas Morton is a writer and television host. He was a contributing editor for ''Vice'' magazine who began working at Vice following a summer internship in 2004. After several years helping edit the print edition of the magazine, he became Vice.com's online editor. During his tenure at the magazine, Morton wrote first-hand accounts of infiltrating religious cults, competitive binge-eating and living with a Dominican family for a week. He was also the first non-Juggalo to attend and report on the Gathering of the Juggalos. When Vice launched its online video channel VBS.tv in 2007, Morton began appearing as an on-air correspondent in numerous documentaries and video series, covering environmental catastrophes in the Pacific Ocean, the Louisiana Gulf coast, and the Brazilian Amazon. He also interviewed rapper and fellow Georgian Young Jeezy. Morton has been a producer and correspondent for HBO's news magazine series ''Vice'' since 2013. According to his bio on HBO's website, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morton (shipwright)
Thomas Morton (8 October 1781 – 24 December 1832) was a Scottish shipwright and inventor. His most widely known invention is the patent slip. Biography Morton was born in Leith in October 1781 and grew up to become a shipwright like his father, Hugh. After spending some time working for his father, Morton went on to form his own shipbuilding company in the borough which later became S. & H. Morton & Co. Unable to afford the installation of a dry dock in his Leith shipyards, Morton "resorted to the process of hauling up hipson greased ways". As this method was both dangerous and time-consuming, in 1818 he invented and installed the first patent slip; a slipway with cradle to haul ships out of the water. This was installed on the Water of Leith in front of his premises on Cooper Street in Leith. He was granted a patent for the invention the following year. In 1824 Morton sued John Barclay in Edinburgh for patent infringement after he had installed a similar design in the yar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morton (surgeon)
Thomas Morton (1813–1849) was an English surgeon. Life Born 20 March 1813 in the parish of St. Andrew, Newcastle upon Tyne, he was the youngest son of Joseph Morton, a master mariner, and brother of Andrew Morton the portrait painter. He was apprenticed to James Church, house-surgeon to the Newcastle Infirmary, and then in 1832 became a medical student at University College, London. Admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 24 July 1835, Morton was appointed house-surgeon at the North London Hospital under Samuel Cooper, unusually being reappointed when after one year of office. In 1836 he was made demonstrator of anatomy jointly with Mr. Ellis, a post he held for nine years. In 1842 he became assistant surgeon to the hospital, the first student of the college to join the staff. In 1848 Morton was appointed full surgeon to the hospital on the resignation of James Syme. He was also surgeon to the Queen's Bench prison in succession to Cooper, his fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Corsan Morton
Thomas Corsan Morton (1859–1928) was a Scottish artist, known as one of the Glasgow School, Glasgow Boys. Life Born in Glasgow, Morton worked briefly in a lawyer's office, and went to the city's Glasgow School of Art, School of Art. After a period at the Slade School in London, he studied in Paris under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. He exhibited widely in the UK and beyond, often in exhibitions with work by other members of the Glasgow School, including Munich Secession, Secessionist exhibitions in Munich in the 1890s. Morton was primarily a landscape artist. Some of his work came from summer painting trips with others of the "Boys". These included stays in Kirkcudbright and in Cockburnspath, James Guthrie (artist), James Guthrie's home, in the 1880s. He taught landscape painting at the Glasgow School of Art, and assisted Francis Henry Newbery, Francis Newbery with the life drawing classes. His first one-man-show was organised in November 1894 at the gallery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lewis Morton
Thomas Lewis Morton (June 10, 1846 – February 24, 1914) was an English-born farmer and political figure in Manitoba. He represented Westbourne from 1888 to 1903 in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal. He was born in Hull, Yorkshire, of Scottish descent, and was educated in Gloucester. After completing his education, Morton was employed at a bank in Plymouth. In 1871, he came to Canada and settled on a farm in Gladstone, Manitoba. Morton married Mary Honora Cory in 1876. He served as secretary-treasurer for the Rural Municipality of Westbourne. Morton was defeated when he ran for reelection to the Manitoba assembly in 1903. He was also involved in the grain trade and later moved to Winnipeg. Morton died at home in Winnipeg at the age of 67.His daughter Margaret married Robert Jacob, who also sat as a Liberal in the Manitoba assembly. His son William William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of Fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morton (priest)
Thomas Morton may refer to: * Thomas Morton (bishop) (1564–1659), Bishop of Durham and Chester in the 17th century * Thomas Morton (playwright) (1764–1838), British playwright * Thomas Morton (colonist) (c. 1579–1647), British lawyer & early colonist of Massachusetts * Thomas Morton (journalist) (active 2014), American journalist * Thomas Morton (shipwright) (1781–1832), inventor of the Patent slip * Thomas Morton (surgeon) (1813–1849), English surgeon * Thomas Corsan Morton (1859–1928), Scottish artist of the Glasgow School * Thomas Lewis Morton (1846–1914), English-born farmer and politician in Manitoba, Canada * Thomas Morton (priest) (1894-1968), catholic priest and writer * Thomas Morton (MP for Gloucestershire), English Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire (UK Parliament constituency)#1422-1508, Gloucestershire * Thomas Morton (MP for Bishop's Lynn), 14th-century English Member of Parliament * Tom Morton (born 1955), Scottish journalist, author and BBC Radio Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morton (MP For Gloucestershire)
Thomas Morton may refer to: * Thomas Morton (bishop) (1564–1659), Bishop of Durham and Chester in the 17th century * Thomas Morton (playwright) (1764–1838), British playwright * Thomas Morton (colonist) (c. 1579–1647), British lawyer & early colonist of Massachusetts * Thomas Morton (journalist) (active 2014), American journalist * Thomas Morton (shipwright) (1781–1832), inventor of the Patent slip * Thomas Morton (surgeon) (1813–1849), English surgeon * Thomas Corsan Morton (1859–1928), Scottish artist of the Glasgow School * Thomas Lewis Morton (1846–1914), English-born farmer and politician in Manitoba, Canada * Thomas Morton (priest) (1894-1968), catholic priest and writer * Thomas Morton (MP for Gloucestershire), English Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire * Thomas Morton (MP for Bishop's Lynn), 14th-century English Member of Parliament * Tom Morton Thomas Morton (born 1955) is a Scottish broadcaster, journalist, and author. He lives and works mainly in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloucestershire (UK Parliament Constituency)
The constituency of Gloucestershire was a UK Parliamentary constituency. After it was abolished under the 1832 Electoral Reform Act, two new constituencies, West Gloucestershire and East Gloucestershire, were created. Gloucestershire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire. Boundaries The constituency consisted of the historic county of Gloucestershire, excluding the part of the city of Bristol in the geographical county. Bristol had the status of a county of itself after 1373. Although Gloucestershire contained a number of other parliamentary boroughs, each of which elected two MPs in its own right for part of the period when Gloucestershire was a constituency, these were not excluded from the county constituency. Owning property within such boroughs could confer a vote at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morton (MP For Bishop's Lynn)
Thomas Morton (c.1336-1394 or after), of Bishop's Lynn, Norfolk, was an English Member of Parliament (MP). He was a Member of the Parliament of England for King's Lynn King's Lynn, known until 1537 as Bishop's Lynn and colloquially as Lynn, is a port and market town in the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk in the county of Norfolk, England. It is located north of London, north-east of Peterborough, no ... in January 1377, October 1377, 1378, January 1380, October 1382, November 1384, 1385, 1386, February 1388, 1393 and 1394.http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/morton-thomas-1336 References 1330s births Year of birth uncertain Year of death uncertain 14th-century English people People from King's Lynn Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) {{England-pre1707-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
