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Tom Barton (high Jumper)
Tom or Thomas Barton may refer to: * Thomas Barton (Bordeaux merchant) (1695-1780), wine merchant in Bordeaux * Thomas Barton (divine) (1730–1780), Irish divine * Thomas Barton (Medal of Honor) (c. 1831–?), American Medal of Honor recipient * Thomas Barton (Royalist) (died 1681/2), Royalist divine * Thomas Barton (Irish MP) (1757–1820), Irish landowner and politician * Thomas J. Barton (born 1940), American chemist * Thomas Pennant Barton (1803–1869), American diplomat and bibliophile * Tom Barton (politician) (1949–2023), Australian politician * Tom Barton (rugby league) Thomas Barton ( – ) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s. He played at representative level for England, and at club level for St. Helens (captain), as a , i.e. number 1, 2 or 5, 3 or 4, or, forward (p ... (1883–1958), English professional rugby league footballer * Tom Barton (high jumper), winner of the 1991 high jump at the NCAA Division I Indoor Trac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Barton (Bordeaux Merchant)
Thomas Barton (1695-1780) was an Irish-born merchant who established himself in the wine trade at Bordeaux and became a spokesman for the “British factory”, as the city’s anglophone ''négociants'' were known. He amassed a considerable fortune, much of which he invested in landed estate in Ireland, and founded the family that for several generations controlled the Barton & Guestier wine brand and continues to own two of the grand cru vineyards of the Médoc. Birth and marriage Born on 21 December 1695, he was a son of William and Elizabeth (née Dickson) Barton of Curraghmore in County Fermanagh, and a male line descendant of Protestants from Norwich who had settled in Ulster early in the same century. He was, by his own account, “bred up a merchant” by his mother’s brothers at Ballyshannon, County Donegal, and in 1722 he reinforced his relationship with another mercantile family of that port by marrying his mother’s cousin Margaret Delap who, aged forty-one, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Barton (divine)
Thomas Barton (1730?–1780) was an American Anglicanism#Anglican divines, divine. Life Barton was a native of Ireland, but descended from an English family that settled there in the reign of Charles I of England, Charles I. After graduating from Trinity College Dublin he emigrated to America, and in 1751 opened a school at Norristown, Pennsylvania, around the age of 21. He was for some time tutor at the academy (now university) at Philadelphia. In 1753, Barton married Esther Rittenhouse, the daughter of a neighbouring farmer, and sister of David Rittenhouse, the distinguished mathematician and astronomer, whose close friendship he enjoyed until his death. In 1754, Barton went to England, where he received episcopal orders. He returned to America as a missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, with which he remained connected until 1759. He accompanied, as chaplain, the expedition to Fort du Quesne (now Pittsburgh), which ended in the defeat and death of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Barton (Medal Of Honor)
Thomas C. Barton (born c. 1831 in Cleveland, Ohio) was an American seaman who served in the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Barton enlisted in the Navy in June 1861, and resigned in April 1864. While serving aboard the during the Joint Expedition Against Franklin, Barton extinguished an ignited howitzer shell which had fallen onto the deck. For this action, Barton was promoted to acting master's mate and awarded the Medal of Honor on 3 April 1863; the citation for the latter read:On board the U.S.S. Hunchback in the attack on Franklin, Va., 3 October 1862. When an ignited shell, with cartridge attached, fell out of the howitzer upon the deck, S/man Barton promptly seized a pail of water and threw it upon the missile, thereby preventing it from exploding. See also *List of Medal of Honor recipients The Medal of Honor was created during the American Civil War and is the highest military decoration presented by the United States government to a member of its ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Barton (Royalist)
Thomas Barton, D.D. (died 1681–2), was a royalist divine. Life Barton received his education at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and took both degrees in arts in that university before 20 November 1629, when he was presented by Charles I to the rectory of Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire, then void by simony.Bruce, Cat. of Domestic State Papers of Charles I, iv. 101; Rymer, Fœdera, xix. 139; but cf. Notes and Queries, 4th ser. i. 66 He subsequently, and apparently in 1631, became rector of Westmeston, Sussex, of which benefice he was, for his loyalty to the King, deprived in 1642 by the Parliamentarians. During the civil war he was chaplain to Prince Rupert Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, (17 December 1619 (O.S.) / 27 December (N.S.) – 29 November 1682 (O.S.)) was an English army officer, admiral, scientist and colonial governor. He first came to prominence as a Royalist cavalr ..., and on 25 August 1660 he was restored to his rectory of Westmeston. On 21 March 1663 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Barton (Irish MP)
Thomas Barton (26 January 1757 – 1820) of Grove House and Clonmel, County Tipperary, and St Stephen's Green, Dublin, was an Irish landowner and politician. Biography He was born in 1757, the eldest son of William Barton of Fethard, County Tipperary, and his wife, Grace, daughter of Charles Massy, Dean of Limerick, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and THe Middle Temple. His younger brothers included two Generals, Charles Barton and Sir Robert Barton. The Bartons were proprietors of the town of Fethard, and Thomas was elected a Freeman and Burgess of Fethard in 1780 and served as Sovereign (i.e. mayor) from 1787 to 1788, 1791 to 1792, 1801 to 1802 and 1811 to 1814. He also served as Recorder from 1801 to 1809, and represented the borough in the Irish House of Commons from 1783 to 1797. In 1785, he was sheriff of the county. When Fethard was disenfranchised at the Act of Union 1800, the compensation for loss of a pocket borough was divided between Barton and the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas J
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court and its longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. After his father abandoned the family, he was raised by his grandfather in a poor Gullah community near Savannah. Growing up as a devout Catholic, Thomas originally intended to be a priest in the Catholic Church but was frustrated over the church's insufficient attempts to combat racism. He abandoned his aspiration of becoming a clergyman to attend the College of the Holy Cross and, later, Yale Law School, where he was influenced by a number of conservative authors, notably Thomas Sowell, who dramatically shifted his worldview from progressive to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Pennant Barton
Thomas Pennant Barton (1803 – April 5, 1869) was an American diplomat and bibliophile who is primarily remembered for the collection of books by and relating to William Shakespeare and English drama that he amassed between 1834 and 1869. Four years after his death, Barton's collection was acquired by the Boston Public Library, where it has remained ever since. Throughout much of the nineteenth century, Barton was considered by many to be the preeminent collector of the works of William Shakespeare in the United States. Because of both the breadth of his library and the profusion of rare and early editions counted among its numbers, Barton's is generally considered to be the first major collection of rare, early editions of Shakespeare and Shakespeareana assembled in America. Early life Barton was born in Philadelphia. His father named him after the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant, who was a close friend. He was a son of noted physician Benjamin Smith Barton and his wife, Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Barton (politician)
Thomas Alfred Barton (born 11 August 1949) is an Australian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1992 to 2006 as the member for Waterford. Barton was Minister for Environment & Heritage under the Goss government from 1995 to 1996. In the first Beattie government (1998–2001) he was Minister for Police & Corrective Services; under the second Beattie government (2001–2004), Minister for State Development; and Minister for Employment, Training & Industrial Relations in the third Beattie government (2004–2006). He was also a member of the ACTU Wages Committee from 1984 to 1992 and was a founding director of sunsuper, the largest superannuation fund in Queensland. Barton was born in Ayr, Queensland. He is a qualified tradesman and he enjoys motor racing and rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Barton (rugby League)
Thomas Barton ( – ) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s. He played at representative level for England, and at club level for St. Helens (captain), as a , i.e. number 1, 2 or 5, 3 or 4, or, forward (prior to the specialist positions of; ), during the era of contested scrums. Playing career International honours Tom Barton won a cap for England while at St. Helens in 1906 against Other Nationalities. Challenge Cup Final appearances Tom Barton played , i.e. number 2, in St. Helens' 3–37 defeat by Huddersfield in the 1915 Challenge Cup Final during the 1914–15 season at Watersheddings, Oldham on Saturday 1 May 1915, in front of a crowd of 8,000. Club career Tom Barton was considered a "Probable" for the 1910 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand, but ultimately he was not selected for the tour. Genealogical information Tom Barton was the younger brother of the rugby league who played in the 1890s for St. Helens, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Barton (high Jumper)
Tom or Thomas Barton may refer to: * Thomas Barton (Bordeaux merchant) (1695-1780), wine merchant in Bordeaux * Thomas Barton (divine) (1730–1780), Irish divine * Thomas Barton (Medal of Honor) (c. 1831–?), American Medal of Honor recipient * Thomas Barton (Royalist) (died 1681/2), Royalist divine * Thomas Barton (Irish MP) (1757–1820), Irish landowner and politician * Thomas J. Barton (born 1940), American chemist * Thomas Pennant Barton (1803–1869), American diplomat and bibliophile * Tom Barton (politician) (1949–2023), Australian politician * Tom Barton (rugby league) Thomas Barton ( – ) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s. He played at representative level for England, and at club level for St. Helens (captain), as a , i.e. number 1, 2 or 5, 3 or 4, or, forward (p ... (1883–1958), English professional rugby league footballer * Tom Barton (high jumper), winner of the 1991 high jump at the NCAA Division I Indoor Trac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
