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Tyrwhitt (surname)
Tyrwhitt is an English language surname. It may refer to: *Charles Tyrwhitt (1846–1874), English explorer *Elizabeth Tyrwhitt (1519–1578), English writer and courtier * Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson (1883–1950), British composer *Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (1905–1983), British architect *Mary Tyrwhitt (1903–1997), British soldier *Montague Tyrwhitt-Drake (1830–1908), Canadian politician * Nicholas Charles Tyrwhitt Wheeler (born 1965), English businessman and founder of Charles Tyrwhitt *Reginald Tyrwhitt (1870–1951), British admiral *Richard Tyrwhitt (1844–1900), Canadian politician *Robert Tyrwhitt (by 1504–1572), British politician *Robert Tyrwhitt (c. 1510–1581), British politician *Robert Tyrwhitt (1735–1817), British scholar *St John Tyrwhitt (1905–1961), British admiral *Thomas Tyrwhitt (1730–1786), British scholar *Thomas Tyrwhitt (1762–1833), British politician *Ursula Tyrwhitt (1872–1966), English artist *William Tyrwhitt (MP died 1522), English courtier and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Tyrwhitt (MP Died 1581)
Sir Robert Tyrwhitt (died 1581), of Kettleby in Lincolnshire, was an English landowner, politician and administrator whose adherence to Roman Catholicism later led to imprisonment. Origins Born about 1510, he was the eldest son of Sir William Tyrwhitt (died 1541), of Scotter, MP and Sheriff of Lincolnshire, and his wife Isabel (died 1559), widow of Christopher Kelke and daughter of William Girlington, of Normanby. Among his brothers were two who also became MPs: Marmaduke Tyrwhitt and Tristram Tyrwhitt. He is often confused with Sir Robert Tyrwhitt, his uncle, who not only had the same name and was also an MP but married a woman of the same name (his wife was the other Elizabeth's niece). Life Apart from an initial career at the court of King Henry VIII under the tutelage of his uncle and three spells as an MP at Westminster, he spent his life managing his lands and taking part in the affairs of his county. His marriage to an heiress before 1531 brought him valuable estate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Tyrwhitt
Mount Tyrwhitt is a mountain in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada located between Highway 40 and Elk Pass in the Elk Range of the Canadian Rockies, west of the Highwood Pass parking lot in Kananaskis Country and south east of Upper Kananaskis Lake. Located on the Continental Divide, it is also therefore on the border between British Columbia and Alberta which follows the Divide in this area. The mountain was named in 1918 after First Admiral Reginald Tyrwhitt, a senior officer in the Royal Navy during the First World War. __NOTOC__ Gallery File:Mount Tyrwhitt from Kananaskis Trail.jpeg, Mount Tyrwhitt from Kananaskis Trail See also * List of peaks on the Alberta–British Columbia border This is a list of peaks on the Alberta–British Columbia border, being the spine of the Continental Divide from the Canada–United States border to the 120th meridian, which is where the boundary departs the Continental Divide and goes due nort ... References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tyrwhitt
William Tyrwhitt (died 1591) was an English landowner and politician who sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon in March 1553 but took no further part in public life under Queen Elizabeth I because of his Roman Catholicism, for which he underwent spells of imprisonment. Origins Born by 1531, he was the eldest son of the MP Sir Robert Tyrwhitt, of Kettleby in Lincolnshire, and his wife Elizabeth (died 1590), daughter of Sir Thomas Oxenbridge, of Etchingham in Sussex. With centuries of service in local and national government, his family was long established in Lincolnshire and well connected, his sister Ursula having married Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave. Life Reaching majority by 1552, he was party to a legal dispute over lands he bought in Lincolnshire, being described as “William Tyrwhitt esquire, a young gentleman, son and heir apparent of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt of Lincolnshire, a man of great power in those parts”. In 1553 he was selected as MP for the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tyrwhitt (MP Died 1522)
Sir William Tyrwhitt (by 1458 – 10 April 1522), of Kettleby, Lincolnshire was an English courtier and Member of Parliament. He was born the eldest son of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt of Kettleby and succeeded his father in 1457/58. He was appointed an Esquire of the body by 1482 and knighted in 1487 for his bravery at the Battle of Stoke Field and elevated to knight banneret after the Battle of Blackheath. He was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1481-82, 1494–95, 1500–01 and 1517–18 and knight of the shire in the English House of Commons for Lincolnshire in 1491. He was probably the Member of Parliament for Grimsby in 1510. In 1512 he served as a captain under Sir William Sandys in the French campaign and in 1520 accompanied Henry VIII and his entourage of peers and knights to the meeting with Francis I of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. He died in 1522 and was buried in Lincoln Cathedral. He had married by 1476, Anne, the daughter of Sir Robert Constable of Somerby, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Tyrwhitt
Ursula Tyrwhitt (1872–1966) was an English painter and draughtsman. Biography Ursula Tyrwhitt was born in Nazeing, Essex and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1893 to 1894 and also in 1911 and 1912. She also studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and in Rome at the British Academy. Tyrwhitt was a close friend of Gwen John and her brother Augustus Edwin John and is the subject of a 1903 etching by him held by the National Portrait Gallery, London. John also made a chalk drawing of her with Gwen John and Ida Nettleship (his first wife) which is held by the Yale Center for British Art in the Paul Mellon Collection. Tyrwhitt exhibited with the New English Art Club and became a member in 1913. Examples of her work are displayed in The National Library of Wales, the Tate Gallery and in the British Council collection. The Ashmolean Museum held a retrospective exhibition in 1973 entitled ''Ursula Tyrwhitt, Oxford painter and collector 1872–1966''. Tyrwhitt marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Tyrwhitt (MP)
Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt (1762 – 24 February 1833) was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1796 to 1812. Career Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, after serving as private secretary to the Prince of Wales, Tyrwhitt was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Okehampton in 1796. Tyrwhitt was responsible for the construction of several roads across Dartmoor, a hamlet called Princetown named in honour of the Prince of Wales, a prison for prisoners of war captured during the Napoleonic Wars now known as HM Prison Dartmoor, as well as the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway. He became Auditor of the Duchy of Cornwall in 1796 and Lord Warden of the Stannaries in 1803. He was elected Member of Parliament for Portarlington in 1802 and Plymouth in 1806. In retirement he became Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod Black Rod (officially known as the Lady Usher of the Black Rod or, if male, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod) is an official in the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Tyrwhitt
Thomas Tyrwhitt (; 27 March 173015 August 1786) was an English classical scholar and critic. Life He was born in London, where he also died. He was educated at Eton College and Queen's College, Oxford. He was elected a fellow of Merton College, Oxford in 1755. In 1756 he was appointed under-secretary at war, in 1762 clerk of the House of Commons. In 1768 he resigned his post, and spent the remainder of his life in learned retirement. In February 1771 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1784 he was elected a trustee of the British Museum, to which he bequeathed a portion of his valuable library. Works His principal classical works are: *''Fragmenta Plutarchi II. inedita'' (1773), from a Harleian manuscript *''Dissertatio de Babrio'' (1776), containing some fables of Aesop, hitherto unedited, from a Bodleian manuscript *the pseudo-Orphic ''De lapidibus'' (1781), which he assigned to the age of Constantius *''Conjecturae in Strabonem'' (1783) *''Isaeus De Meneclis he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John Tyrwhitt
Admiral Sir St. John Reginald Joseph Tyrwhitt, 2nd Baronet, (18 April 1905 – 10 October 1961) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel from 1959 to 1961. Naval career Born the son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt and Angela Mary Corbally,Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Tyrwhitt joined the Royal Navy in 1919. He served in the Second World War as Commanding Officer of the destroyer from 1939 and then as Commander of the destroyer from 1940 until it was sunk by Italian bombers 30 nautical miles off Crete in 1941. He was given command of the destroyer from 1942. After inheriting his father's baronetcy in 1951, Tyrwhitt assumed command of the cruiser during the Korean War then became Flag Officer (Flotillas) to the Indian Navy in 1956, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Tyrwhitt
Robert Tyrwhitt (1735–1817) was an English academic, known as a Unitarian. Life Born in London, he was younger son of Robert Tyrwhitt (1698–1742), residentiary canon of St Paul's Cathedral, by his wife Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Edmund Gibson, bishop of London. Thomas Tyrwhitt was his eldest brother. He entered as a pensioner at Jesus College, Cambridge on 9 March 1753, and graduated B.A. in 1757, M.A. in 1760. On 3 November 1759 he was admitted Fellow of his college. He was early influenced by the theological writings of Samuel Clarke, but he went much further, renounced the doctrine of the 39 Articles, and took part with John Jebb in the movement (1771–72) for abolishing subscription to the articles at graduation. In 1777 he resigned his fellowship, and ceased to attend the college chapel, though still residing in college. On 5 January 1784, he became a member of the largely Unitarian Society for Promoting the Knowledge of the Scriptures, and contributed papers to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Tyrwhitt (courtier)
Sir Robert Tyrwhitt (by 1504 – 10 May 1572), was an English courtier and politician. He was the second son of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt and Maud Tailboys, and was brought up at court, becoming an Esquire of the Body. He acquired substantial landholdings and was knighted in 1543. In 1544, when Master of the Horse for Queen Catherine, he served on a military campaign in France, responsible for the transport of ordnance. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Lincolnshire in 1545 and for Huntingdonshire in April 1554 and 1559. He was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1540–41 and High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1557–58. In 1548 he bought the manor of Leighton Bromswold, Huntingdonshire, which he made his home. He was also given custody of a house at Mortlake, Surrey, where he and his wife, a courtier herself, later took up residence. He died at Leighton Bromswold on 10 May 1572. He had married twice: firstly Bridget, the daughter and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Francis Tyrwhitt-Drake
Charles Frederick Tyrwhitt-Drake (2 January 1846 – 23 June 1874) was an explorer, naturalist, archaeologist, and linguist. He died during the PEF Survey of Palestine. He was the youngest son of Colonel W. Tyrwhitt Drake. He worked with the Palestine Exploration Fund in the East in the winter of 1870, in order to investigate the Hama inscriptions. In May 7 1873 he participated in the consecration of the first known masonic lodge in Palestine “Royal Solomon Mother Lodge N° 293” in Zedekiah cave Jerusalem as acting secretary. He died of fever on 23 June 1874 at Jerusalem, aged only 28. Richard Francis Burton wrote after his death that: "He was my inseparable companion during the rest of our stay in Palestine, and never did I travel with any man whose disposition was so well adapted to make a first-rate explorer". Publications *'Notes on the Birds of Tangier and Eastern Morocco’ (‘Ibis,’ 1867, p. 421); ‘Further Notes’ on the same (‘Ibis,’ 1869, p. 147); * Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
