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Thornberry (other)
Thornberry may refer to: ;People * Robert Desmond Thornberry (1907–1969), Canadian politician * Homer Thornberry (1909–1995), Texas politician (10th congressional district) and judge * David Thornberry (1911–1995), bishop of Wyoming, United States * Cedric Thornberry (1936–2014), Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations * Mac Thornberry (born 1958), Texas politician (13th congressional district) * Emily Thornberry (born 1960), British politician * Michael Thornberry (born 1972), American handball player * Nancy Thornberry, American chemist * Jason Thornberry, American musician * Terence Thornberry, American criminologist ;Other * Thornberry, Texas, an unincorporated community * Thornberry Animal Sanctuary Thornberry Animal Sanctuary is a medium-sized animal rescue and welfare charity, located in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It is an animal sanctuary and shelter, providing temporary shelter and permanent care for pets and farm animals, adher ..., Yorkshir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Desmond Thornberry
Robert Desmond Thornberry (November 8, 1907 – 1969) was a businessperson and politician in Ontario, Canada. He represented Hamilton Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1945 and from 1948 to 1951 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member. The son of William Thornberry and Lydia Hall, both natives of Ireland, he came to Canada in 1921. Thornberry attended technical school in Hamilton. In 1931, he married Violet Con. He was employed as the vice-president of a dairy company. Thornberry served on Hamilton city council from 1940 to 1942, prior to being elected to the provincial legislature. In 1951, Thornberry introduced a private member's bill A private member's bill is a bill (proposed law) introduced into a legislature by a legislator who is not acting on behalf of the executive branch. The designation "private member's bill" is used in most Westminster system jurisdictions, in whi ... to reduce the maximum work week from 48 hours to 40 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homer Thornberry
William Homer Thornberry (January 9, 1909 – December 12, 1995) was an American politician and judge. He served as the United States representative from the 10th congressional district of Texas from 1949 to 1963. From 1963 to 1965 he was a judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, and he was a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1965 to 1978. Early life Thornberry was born in Austin, Texas. His parents were teachers in the State School for the Deaf and were themselves deaf. He attended public schools in Austin and graduated from Austin High School in 1927. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1932 from the University of Texas at Austin and his Bachelor of Laws in 1936, from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was a member of the Acacia fraternity. He was in private practice of law in Austin from 1936 to 1941. He was a Member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1937 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Thornberry
David Ritchie Thornberry (June 11, 1911 – June 27, 1995) was the sixth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming from 1969 to 1977. Early life and education Thornberry was born in Rawlins, Wyoming on June 11, 1911, to the Reverend David Wilson Thornberry and Ann Frances Odin Hulbert. He was educated at the public schools of Laramie, Wyoming, where the family had moved in 1913 after his father became Dean of St Matthew's Cathedral. He studied at the University of Wyoming, and then at Kenyon College from where he graduated in 1933 with a Bachelor of Arts. Later, he enrolled at Bexley Hall, where he trained for the priesthood. He transferred to the Episcopal Theological Seminary, graduating in 1936 with a Bachelor of Divinity. Thornberry was awarded a Doctor of Divinity from Kenyon in 1957. Ordained ministry Thornberry was ordained deacon on June 14, 1936, and priest on April 24, 1937, by Bishop Henry Hobson of Southern Ohio. Between 1936 and 1940, he served as curate at Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedric Thornberry
Cedric Henry Reid Thornberry (22 June 1936 – 6 May 2014) was a Northern Irish international lawyer and Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations, for which he worked for 17 years. He spent most of his United Nations service in international peace keeping in Cyprus, the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia and Somalia. Background Thornberry was born in Belfast, where he attended Finaghy Primary School and Methodist College. He studied law at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and graduated first with a BA and then with an LLB (now the LLM) and became a barrister in 1959. Thornberry taught at Cambridge University from 1958, and at the London School of Economics from 1960. He was a foreign correspondent for ''The Guardian'' in Greece and was a practising human rights lawyer. He was one of the founders of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association in 1968. In the 1970s, he represented many applicants at the European Court of Human Rights. He was the father of Shadow I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mac Thornberry
William McClellan "Mac" Thornberry (born July 15, 1958) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 13th congressional district from 1995 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Thornberry represented the most Republican district in the United States by partisan voting index. The district covers the Texas Panhandle and stretched between the Oklahoma and New Mexico borders. In September 2019, Thornberry announced that he would not run for reelection in 2020, and former Physician to the President Ronny Jackson was elected to succeed him. Early life, education, and career In the 1880s, Thornberry's great-great-grandfather Amos Thornberry, a Union Army veteran, moved to Clay County, just east of Wichita Falls. Thornberry is a lifelong resident of Clarendon, 60 miles (97 km) east of Amarillo in the heart of the 13th. His family has operated a ranch in the area since 1881. He received his Bachelor of Arts in history from Texas Tech Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Thornberry
Emily Anne Thornberry (born 27 July 1960) is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington South and Finsbury since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales since 2021, and previously from 2011 to 2014. She has also served as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2016 to 2020, Shadow First Secretary of State from 2017 to 2020 and Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade from 2020 to 2021. The daughter of a teacher and a diplomat, Thornberry was born in Guildford, Surrey, and attended a local secondary modern school. After graduating from the University of Kent in Canterbury, she worked as a human rights lawyer from 1985 to 2005 and joined the Transport and General Workers' Union. Thornberry was first elected to Parliament in 2005 and served as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales in Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet from 2011 until she resigned in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Thornberry
Michael Thornberry (born August 16, 1972) was a United States Army officer who competed in the 1996 Olympic Games in Team Handball, where the team finished in 9th place. He was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Thornberry was a 1994 graduate of West Point The United States Military Academy (USMA), also known Metonymy, metonymically as West Point or simply as Army, is a United States service academies, United States service academy in West Point, New York. It was originally established as a f .... He was a member of the US national team until 2005, appearing in the Pan American Games and Pan American Championships.https://olympics.com/en/athletes/michael-thornberry References DoD News 1972 births Living people American male handball players Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for the United States United States Military Academy alumni Sportspeople from Virginia Beach, Virginia Handball players at the 2003 Pan American Games Meda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Thornberry
Nancy A. Thornberry is the founding CEO and current Chair, R&D at Kallyope Inc. in New York City. She previously worked with Merck Research Laboratories (MRL), joining the company in 1979 as a biochemist and retiring from the position of Senior Vice President and Franchise Head, Diabetes and Endocrinology in 2013. In 1992, Thornberry identified the first caspase, Caspase-1/Interleukin-1 converting enzyme (ICE). In 1999, Thornberry initiated Merck's research into dipeptidyl peptidase-4, leading to the development of FDA-approved treatments for Type 2 diabetes. She has received a number of awards, including the 2011 PhRMA Discoverer’s Award. Education Thornberry grew up in South Bend, Indiana. As of 1979, she earned a B.Sc. in Natural Science from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Career Thornberry joined Merck Research Laboratories (MRL) in Rahway, New Jersey as a biochemist in 1979. In 1999 she was appointed the Director of Enzymology, and in 2001 the Direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Thornberry
Jason Thornberry (born 1971) is an American writer and musician. His tenure with the Southern California alternative-punk group Mulch saw them perform 200 times in two years as an unsigned band. Mulch performed with No Doubt and NOFX in the early 1990s. Thornberry founded The Pressure, who went from complete obscurity to the cover of ''OC Weekly'' less than a year after their first concert. In 1999, The Pressure was readying the release of their debut album ''Things Move Fast'', when Thornberry was discovered in a coma after being beaten nearly to death. Four months later, he was released in a wheelchair. Within a year he was walking again, and Thornberry had begun to document the experience. He continued to see therapists, having also temporarily lost the ability to speak, or to use the left side of his body, as a result of the assault. He returned to school and edited his college newspaper, ''The Coast Report'', along with contributions to The ''OC Weekly'', '' URB'', ''Mean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Thornberry
Terence Patrick Thornberry is an American criminologist who has been a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland since 2012. Before he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland in 2009, he was a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado and the director of their Problem Behavior Program from 2004 to 2009. Before that, he was a professor at the University at Albany, SUNY from 1984 to 2001, and a Distinguished Professor there from 2001 to 2004. He served as the dean of the University at Albany, SUNY School of Criminal Justice from 1984 to 1988 and as director of the Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center there from 1997 to 2003. He is known for his research on delinquency, including the "interactional theory" he proposed in 1987 to explain its origins. This theory is based on Travis Hirschi's work on social bonding and Ronald Akers' work on social learning theory Social learning is a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thornberry, Texas
Thornberry is an unincorporated community at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 2393 and Farm to Market Road 171 in northwestern Clay County, Texas, United States, just south of the Oklahoma border. The population is approximately 60. History Thornberry was established in 1890 by settlers from Illinois with the name Illinois Colony. It was renamed Thornberry soon afterwards and a post office was opened in 1891. It was named after Amos Thornberry, a local settler and orchardist who introduced large-scale orchard-based agriculture into the county. The post office closed in 1908. A proposed rail line linking Thornberry to Wichita Falls in Wichita County was never completed and the small town continued to suffer from its remote location. The population was reported as 20 until the 1960s. Today, Thornberry has a population of 60 with two businesses: The Clothesline (a ladies' wear shop) and Mr. Sweeney's Country Quilt Shop (a full-service quilt shop). There is a Protestant c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thornberry Animal Sanctuary
Thornberry Animal Sanctuary is a medium-sized animal rescue and welfare charity, located in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It is an animal sanctuary and shelter, providing temporary shelter and permanent care for pets and farm animals, adhering to a non-destruction policy. Information Thornberry was founded in 1988 by Steve Bamford, who sold his home to buy the land on which the sanctuary stands; turning his childhood hobby of rescuing and caring for animals into his life's work. Bamford lived in a small caravan for 5 years, without electricity, heating, running water or sanitation whilst the sanctuary was established. The main sanctuary site in North Anston initially took up {{convert, 2, acre, m2, containing kennels, cattery, stables, and barn. The stables later moved to Birks Farm in Worksop, but that facility was sold again, and the stables are now at Silverthorpe Farm in Ravenfield. Bamford won the 2004 IFAW/''The People'' Animal Action Award for Commitment. But he i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
