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Thomas Bedford (American Revolutionary War Officer)
Thomas Bedford may refer to: * Thomas Bedford (theologian) ( 1650), English controversialist * Thomas Bedford (historian) (died 1773), nonjuror and church historian * Thomas Bedford (MP), MP for Bedford * Thomas Bedford, physicist and namesake of Bedford Island * Thomas Bedford, American Revolutionary War officer, namesake of Bedford County, Tennessee * Tommy Bedford Thomas Pleydell Bedford (born 8 February 1942 in Bloemfontein, South Africa) is a South African former rugby union player who represented the national team, the Springboks, 25 times, also captaining the Springboks on three occasions. He became ... (born 1942), South African rugby player See also * * Bedford (surname) {{hndis, Bedford, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bedford (theologian)
Thomas Bedford ('' fl''. 1650), theologian, was prominent in religious controversy between 1620 and 1650, but little is known of his personal history. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, took degrees in arts, and afterwards proceeded B.D. In a letter to Baxter (1650) he says that "he sat at the feet of Bishop Davenant", who was Margaret Professor of Divinity from 1609 to 1621, and Master of Queens from 1614 to 1621. Davenant's successor in the professorship was Dr. Samuel Ward, and from these two Bedford affirms that his own theology was mainly derived. A Latin letter from Davenant to Ward on baptismal regeneration was copied by Bedford, and afterwards published by him, at Ussher's suggestion, as a preface to his thesis for the degree of B.D. held before Dr. Ward. In the above-mentioned letter to Baxter, Bedford explains that he was convinced of "the efficacy of the sacrament to the elect" by reading a book of Dr. Burges. This letter was written because Baxter had ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bedford (historian)
Thomas Bedford (died 1773) was a nonjuror and church historian, the second son of Hilkiah Bedford (1663–1724), the nonjuring Bishop and his wife Alice Cooper. Life Bedford was educated at Westminster School, and proceeded to St. John's College, Cambridge, admitted as sizar (age 17) in May 1724. As a result of his nonjuring principles he did not take a degree as that required an oath of loyalty to George I. He was admitted into priests orders in the nonjuring Church of England by Bishop Henry Gandy on 27 December 1731, and became chaplain in the family of Sir John Cotton, with whom he afterwards lived at Angers. In 1736 he returned to England and his next home was in the county of Durham, where his sister was married to the nonjuring Bishop George Smith, son of Dr. John Smith, the learned editor of Bede. Here Bedford prepared an edition of Symeon of Durham's '' De Exordio atque Procursu Dunhelmensis Ecclesiæ libellus'', from what he supposed to be an original or contemporary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bedford (MP)
Thomas Bedford may refer to: * Thomas Bedford (theologian) ( 1650), English controversialist * Thomas Bedford (historian) (died 1773), nonjuror and church historian * Thomas Bedford (MP), MP for Bedford * Thomas Bedford, physicist and namesake of Bedford Island * Thomas Bedford, American Revolutionary War officer, namesake of Bedford County, Tennessee * Tommy Bedford Thomas Pleydell Bedford (born 8 February 1942 in Bloemfontein, South Africa) is a South African former rugby union player who represented the national team, the Springboks, 25 times, also captaining the Springboks on three occasions. He became ... (born 1942), South African rugby player See also * * Bedford (surname) {{hndis, Bedford, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedford (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bedford is a United Kingdom constituencies, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2017 United Kingdom general election, 2017 by Mohammad Yasin (politician), Mohammad Yasin of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. The seat dates to the earliest century of regular parliaments, in 1295; its double representation was halved in 1885, then being altered by the later-termed Representation of the People Act, Fourth Reform Act in 1918. Constituency profile ;Geographical and economic profile Bedford is a marginal seat between the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party and the Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives. The main settlement is Bedford, a well-developed town centre with a considerable amount of social housing relative to Bedfordshire and higher poverty index but on a fast railway link to London and other destinations, the town is at the north end of the Thameslink (route), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedford Island . It was mapped from air photos taken by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–57), and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Thomas Bedford (physicist), Thomas Bedford, an English physicist who specialized in the measurement of the physical environment of man.
Bedford Island () is an island about long, lying at the south end of the Barcroft Islands in the Biscoe Islands, 700 m south of Chakarov Island Chakarov Island ( bg, Чакъров остров, Chakarov ostrov, ) is the ice-covered island 2.18 km long in southwest–northeast direction and 600 m wide in the Barcroft group of Biscoe Islands. Its surface area is 92 ha. See also * List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islandsReferences Islands of the Biscoe Islands {{Biscoes-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedford County, Tennessee
Bedford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 50,237. Its county seat is Shelbyville. Bedford County comprises the Shelbyville, TN Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Nashville- Davidson- Murfreesboro, TN Combined Statistical Area. History The county was created in 1807 when the citizens of Rutherford County living south of the Duck River and the Stones River successfully petitioned the governor to split Rutherford County in two. The new county was named after American Revolutionary War officer and large landowner in the area, Thomas Bedford. Once the state's largest and most populous county, Bedford County's size (in terms of area) has been steadily reduced since 1809 to form Coffee County, Moore County, Lincoln County, and Marshall County. The county was pro-Confederate during the Civil War, but Shelbyville was mostly loyal to the Union. Confederate general Nathan Bedford For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Bedford
Thomas Pleydell Bedford (born 8 February 1942 in Bloemfontein, South Africa) is a South African former rugby union player who represented the national team, the Springboks, 25 times, also captaining the Springboks on three occasions. He became known for his opposition to South Africa's racial segregation policy of apartheid, especially as it affected sports. Career Tommy Bedford was educated in Kimberley, Northern Cape at Christian Brothers College and in Durban at the University of Natal, where he studied architecture in the early 1960s and was captain of the university rugby team. At the university he held the relatively conservative attitudes typical of most white South African students at the time. In 1965 Bedford won a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford, where his exposure to a more international environment made him a committed opponent of apartheid, especially as it affected South African rugby. Bedford played for and became captain of the Natal Province rugb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
