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Thomas Bernard (minister)
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Thomas Bernard may refer to: * Sir Thomas Bernard, 3rd Baronet (1750–1818), English social helper * Thomas Bernard (Irish politician) (c. 1769–1834), Member of Parliament for King's County, 1802–1832 * Sir Thomas Bernard, 6th Baronet (1791–1883), Member of Parliament for Aylesbury, 1857–1865 * Thomas Dehany Bernard (1815–1904), English Anglican cleric * Thomas Bernard (1816–1882), Anglo-Irish British Army officer * Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989), Austrian novelist, playwright and poet See also * *Bernard (surname) Bernard (''Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Bernard, 3rd Baronet
Sir Thomas Bernard, 3rd Baronet (27 April 17501 July 1818) was an English social reformer whose father, as governor of the Province of New Jersey (1758-1760) and Province of Massachusetts Bay (1760–1770), played a responsible part in directing the British policy which led to the revolt of the American colonies. Life He was born at Lincoln, the younger son of Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet. Rather late in his life, on the death of his elder brother in 1810, Bernard succeeded to the baronetcy conferred on his father in 1768. His early education was obtained at Harvard College, in which his father took a great interest. He then acted as confidential secretary to his father during the troubles which led (1769) to the governor's recall, and accompanied Sir Francis to England, where he was called to the bar, and practised as a conveyancer. He married a rich wife, and acquired a considerable fortune, and then devoted most of his time to social work for the benefit of the poor. Fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bernard (Irish Politician)
Thomas Bernard (c. 1769 – 18 May 1834) was an Irish politician. He was the son of Thomas Bernard of Castle Bernard, Birr, King's County (now County Offaly), and his first wife, Mary, daughter of Jonathan Willington, of Castle Willington. He commissioned the building of a new gothic mansion on the family estate named Kinnitty Castle. He was appointed High Sheriff of King's County for 1798–1799. He was then elected at the 1802 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for King's County (now County Offaly), holding the seat until 1833. He died intestate in Dublin in 1834. He had married twice: firstly the Hon. Elizabeth Prittie, daughter of Henry Prittie, 1st Baron Dunalley, and secondly Catherine Henrietta, the daughter of Francis Hely-Hutchinson, MP, with whom he had four sons and two daughters. His estate passed to his eldest son Thomas Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Bernard, 6th Baronet
Sir Thomas Tyringham Bernard, 6th Baronet (15 September 1791 – 8 May 1883) was a British Liberal Party politician and baronet. Bernard was the son of Sir Scrope Bernard-Morland, 4th Baronet and Hannah Morland and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1816 he served as High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. He was elected at 1857 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aylesbury. He was re-elected in 1859, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1865 general election. He succeeded to the Baronet A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th ...cy in 1876 on the death of his elder brother Francis. He died in 1883 at age 91 in Chelsea, London. He had married three times, firstly, Sophia Charlotte Williams, daughter of David Williams in 1819; secondly, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dehany Bernard
Thomas Dehany Bernard (1815–1904) was an English Anglican cleric, Bampton Lecturer in 1864. He was an evangelical interested in mission work. Life The second son of Charles Bernard of Eden Estate, Jamaica, and his wife Margaret, daughter of John Baker of Waresley House, Worcestershire, he was born at Clifton, Bristol on 11 November 1815; Mountague Bernard was his brother. After private education he matriculated in December 1833 at Exeter College, Oxford, He graduated B.A. in 1838, when he won the Ellerton theological prize with an essay ''On the Conduct and Character of St. Peter''. In 1839 he was awarded the chancellor's prize for an English essay on ''The Classical Taste and Character compared with the Romantic''. In 1840 Bernard was ordained deacon and licensed to the curacy of Great Baddow, Essex. Ordained priest in 1841, he succeeded to the vicarage of Great Baddow, where he remained until 1846. After working for a short time as curate of Harrow-on-the-Hill, he became in 184 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bernard (1816–1882)
Colonel Thomas Bernard (September 1816 – 13 December 1882) was an Anglo-Irish British Army officer and official. Bernard was the son of Thomas Bernard and Lady Catherine Henrietta Hely-Hutchinson. He was a commissioned officer in the 12th Royal Lancers, attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He served as High Sheriff of King's County The High Sheriff of King's County was the British Crown's judicial representative in King's County (now County Offaly), Ireland, from 1556, when King's County was created, until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replac ... in 1837. Bernard was appointed Lord Lieutenant of King's County on 17 December 1867, serving in the role until his death. He was Colonel of the King's County Militia. Bernard was the owner of Castle Bernard, County Offaly. He had an illegitimate daughter with actress Sarah Fairbrother. The daughter, Louisa Catherine, was born on 22 March 1839, and baptised as if she were legitimate, with the su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bernhard
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilization in general and Austrian culture in particular. Bernhard's body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War II." He is widely considered to be one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. Life Thomas Bernhard was born in 1931 in Heerlen in the Netherlands, where his unmarried mother Herta Bernhard worked as a maid. From the autumn of 1931 he lived with his grandparents in Vienna until 1937 when his mother, who had married in the meantime, moved him to Traunstein, Bavaria, in Nazi Germany. There he was required to join the ''Deutsches Jungvolk'', a branch of the Hitler Youth, which he hated. Bernhard's natural father Alois Zuckerstätter was a carpenter and petty criminal w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |