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Thomas Bridges (other)
Thomas Bridges may refer to: * Thomas Bridges (dramatist and parodist) (c. 1710–c. 1775), English writer of parodies * Thomas Bridges (botanist) (1807–1865), English botanist and traveling specimen collector * Thomas Bridges (Anglican missionary) (1842–1898), Anglican missionary and linguist * Thomas Bridges (Australian politician) (1853–1939), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly * Thomas Bridges, 2nd Baron Bridges (1927–2017), British diplomat * Thomas Edward Bridges (1783–1843), Oxford college head * Tom Bridges (1871–1939), British military officer and Governor of South Australia * Tommy Bridges (1906–1968), American baseball player *Sir Thomas Pym Bridges, 7th Baronet (1805–1895), of the Bridges baronets See also * Bridges (other) Bridges are structures built to provide a transportation route to cross above an obstacle. Bridges may also refer to: Places ;In the United Kingdom * Bridges Community Centre, housed in Drybridge House, Monmou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bridges (dramatist And Parodist)
Thomas Bridges (c. 1710 – 1775 or later) was an English writer of parodies, drama and one novel. He was born in Hull, the son of a physician. He became a wine merchant and a partner in a banking firm. In 1762 he published, under the pseudonym Caustic Barebones, ''A Travestie of Homer'', a parody or burlesque translation of Homer's Iliad. The work achieved some popularity, and was reprinted several times, the last in 1797. In 1765 he wrote ''The Battle of the Genii'', a burlesque of John Milton's ''Paradise Lost'', which was once attributed to Francis Grose. Bridges' only novel was ''The Adventures of a Bank-Note'', published in 1770. He wrote two plays: ''Dido'', a comic opera produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1771, with music by James Hook James Hook may refer to: * Captain Hook, the villain of J. M. Barrie's play and novel ''Peter Pan'' * James Hook (composer) (1746–1827), English composer and organist * James Hook (priest) (1771–1828), English priest, Dean of W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bridges (botanist)
Thomas Bridges (22 May 1807 – 9 November 1865) was an English Victorian era botanist and traveling specimen collector. He is most notable for his discovery of new plant and animal species from South America in the Andes of Chile, Peru, and Bolivia, as well as in California. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1844. He collected at various times (after 1856) in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The specimens he collected were sent back to Europe for identification. Bridges emigrated to California in 1856, the specimens collected during this period up to his 1865 death were presented to the National Herbarium at Washington by his widow. His wife's uncle was Hugh Cuming. Bridges is reported to have been very excited about the prospect of discovering new species, writing in a letter dated 1858 from California to William Jackson Hooker at Kew Gardens: ::"I can scarcely describe to you how pleasing and gratifying it has been to me to learn that in my collections you have found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bridges (Anglican Missionary)
Thomas Bridges ( – 1898) was an Anglican missionary and linguist, the first to set up a successful mission to the indigenous peoples in Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago shared by Argentina and Chile. Adopted and raised in England by George Pakenham Despard, he accompanied his father to Chile with the Patagonian Missionary Society. After an attack by indigenous people, in 1869 Bridges' father, Despard, left the mission at Keppel Island of the Falkland Islands, to return with his family to England. At the age of 17, Bridges stayed with the mission as its new superintendent. In the late 1860s, he worked to set up a mission at what is now the town of Ushuaia along the southern shore of Tierra del Fuego Island. Ordained and married during a trip to Great Britain in 1868–1869, Bridges returned to the Falkland Islands with his wife. They settled at the mission at Ushuaia, where four of their six children were born. He continued to work with the Selk'nam (Ona) and Yaghan peoples for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bridges (Australian Politician)
Thomas Bridges (12 November 1853 – 4 June 1939) was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in the seat of Nundah (21 March 1896 – 18 May 1907) as a member of the Ministerial Party and subsequently as a member of the Liberal Party (2 October 1909 – 16 March 1918). Early life Thomas Bridges was born on 12 November 1853 at Nundah, then known as German Station, to a local farmer, George Bridges and his wife, Mary Brightman, both immigrants from England. Thomas was the first of their Australian-born children, having already three born in England. His father built the Kedron Brook Hotel, a popular "watering hole" halfway between Brisbane and Sandgate, and constructed a bypass in Sandgate Road around Donkin's Hill, which led to the development of the village at German Station. Bridges and a number of his siblings were amongst the first students enrolled at the new German Station National School, when it opened in 1865. Initially Bridges followed in his father's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bridges, 2nd Baron Bridges
Thomas Edward Bridges, 2nd Baron Bridges, (27 November 1927 – 27 May 2017) was a British hereditary peer and diplomat. Early life Bridges was born on 27 November 1927 to Edward Bridges, later Cabinet Secretary. His grandfather was Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate. He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford. Career He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1951. Following postings to, amongst other places, West Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, Moscow and Washington, D.C., he was HM Ambassador to Italy from 1983 to 1987. He sat as a crossbench member of the House of Lords from 1975, and was one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain under the House of Lords Act 1999 He was on leave of absence from March 2011 to May 2015. Having failed to attend during the whole of the 2015–16 session without being on leave of absence, he ceased to be a member on 18 May 2016 pursuant to section 2 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014. He died a year later on 27 May 2017 at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Edward Bridges
Thomas Edward Bridges, D.D. (c.1783–1843) was an Oxford college head in the 19th century. Bridges matriculated at University College, Oxford University College (in full The College of the Great Hall of the University of Oxford, colloquially referred to as "Univ") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It has a claim to being the oldest college of the univer ... in 1798, at age 15, graduating at Corpus Christi College B.A. in 1802, M.A. in 1806, B.D. in 1815, and D.D. in 1823. He was President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 1823 to 1843. He died 3 September 1843. References 1783 births 1843 deaths Alumni of University College, Oxford Presidents of Corpus Christi College, Oxford {{UOxford-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Bridges
Lieutenant General Sir George Tom Molesworth Bridges (20 August 1871 – 26 November 1939) known as Sir Tom Bridges, was a British Army officer and the 19th Governor of South Australia. Bridges had a distinguished military career, seeing service in Africa, India, South Africa, and most notably Europe during the First World War, where he was involved in the first British battle of the war at Mons, and later commanded the 19th (Western) Division during the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and then in the Battle of Passchendaele the following year. After the war, he served in Greece, Russia, the Balkans, and Asia Minor before becoming Governor of South Australia from 1922–27. Early life Bridges was born at Park Farm, Eltham, Kent, England, to Major Thomas Walker Bridges and Mary Ann Philippi. He was educated at Newton Abbot College and later at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was married in London on 14 November 1907, to a widow, Janet Florence Marshall; they had one daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Bridges
Thomas Jefferson Davis Bridges (December 28, 1906 – April 19, 1968) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career with the Detroit Tigers from 1930 to 1946. During the 1930s, he used an outstanding curveball to become one of the mainstays of the team's pitching staff, winning 20 games in three consecutive seasons and helping the team to its first World Series championship with two victories in the 1935 Series. He retired with 1,674 career strikeouts, then the eighth highest total in American League history, and held the Tigers franchise record for career strikeouts from 1941 to 1951. Early years Born in Gordonsville, Tennessee, Bridges attended the University of Tennessee, and after having a 20-strikeout game for the minor league Wheeling Stogies in 1929, he joined the Tigers in 1930. Major league career In his first major league game, he got Babe Ruth to pop out on his first major league pitch. On August 5, 1932, he came within one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridges Baronets
The Bridges Baronetcy, of Goodnestone in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 19 April 1718 for Brook Bridges. His son the second Baronet, died in 1733 whilst in office as High Sheriff of Kent. His grandson, the third Baronet, represented Kent in the House of Commons. In 1842, the fifth Baronet (the grandson of the third Baronet), unsuccessfully claimed the ancient barony of FitzWalter (which had been in abeyance since 1756) as a descendant of Mary, sister of the seventeenth Baron FitzWalter. He later sat as a Member of Parliament for Kent East. In 1868 he was created Baron FitzWalter, of Woodham Walter in the County of Essex, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. However, the peerage became extinct on his death, while he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother, the sixth Baronet. On his death the title passed to his first cousin, the seventh Baronet. He was the son of Reverend Brook Henry Bridges, third son of the third Baronet. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
