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Thomas McMahon (trade Unionist)
Thomas McMahon may refer to: * Thomas McMahon (Irish republican) (born 1948), IRA member * Thomas McMahon (bishop) (born 1936), Roman Catholic bishop of Brentwood * Thomas A. McMahon (1943–1999), novelist and professor of applied mechanics and biology at Harvard University *Thomas John McMahon (1864–1933), Australian photojournalist * Thomas J. McMahon (1948–1969), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient * Sir Thomas McMahon, 2nd Baronet (1779–1860), commander-in-chief of Bombay, 1840–1847 * Sir Thomas Westropp McMahon, 3rd Baronet (1813–1892), British Army officer * Tom McMahon (Democratic operative), executive director of the Democratic National Committee * Tom McMahon (mayor), American politician and former mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania * Tom McMahon (footballer, born 1907) (1907–1975), Australian footballer for South Melbourne and Melbourne * Tom McMahon (footballer, born 1918) Thomas Joseph McMahon (28 July 1918 – 24 September 2005) was an Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas McMahon (Irish Republican)
Thomas McMahon (born 1948) is a former volunteer in the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and was one of the IRA's most experienced bomb-makers. McMahon was convicted of the murder of Lord Louis Mountbatten and three others off the coast of Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the west of Ireland. IRA activity McMahon planted a bomb in ''Shadow V'', a fishing boat owned by Mountbatten at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, near Donegal Bay. Lord Mountbatten was killed on 27 August 1979 by the bomb blast along with three other people: Doreen Knatchbull (Mountbatten's elder daughter's mother-in-law); his grandson Nicholas Knatchbull; and a 15-year-old crewmember Paul Maxwell. McMahon was arrested by the Gardaí (the Republic of Ireland's police force) at a Garda checkpoint between Longford and Granard on suspicion of driving a stolen vehicle two hours before the bomb detonated. The IRA claimed responsibility for the bombing in a statement released immed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas McMahon (bishop)
Thomas McMahon (born 17 June 1936, in Dorking, Surrey) is an English Roman Catholic bishop. From 1980 to 2014, he was the Bishop of Brentwood; he is currently Bishop Emeritus. Life McMahon grew up in Harlow and attended St. Bede's Grammar School, Manchester, before training for the priesthood at St. Sulpice, Paris. He was ordained on 28 November 1959 at the seminary in Wonersh. He was appointed an assistant priest in Colchester, where he served for five years. From 1964 to 1969 he was appointed to Westcliff-on-Sea, and then became parish priest of Stock (where he continues to live as parish priest). From 1972 to 1980 he served as Chaplain to Essex University. He was a member of the National Ecumenical Commission. On 16 June 1980, Pope John Paul II appointed Fr McMahon as the Bishop of Brentwood. On 17 July 1980 Cardinal Basil Hume consecrated him as a bishop. He has been a member of I.C.E.L. (representing the Bishops of England and Wales on the Episcopal Board) since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) 1969 nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas John McMahon
Thomas John McMahon FRGS (1864 – 1933) was an Australian photojournalist and writer. From 1915 to 1922 he made several trips to Melanesia and Micronesia. His photographic reports depicting the Pacific Islanders gained a widespread audience. Thousands were published worldwide in newspapers, magazines, books, serial encyclopedias and postcards. McMahon contributed to create a popular and visual knowledge of the Pacific. His work answered a demand in Australia, and the Western World, for visual information on the life in the Pacific Islands, the local's physical appearance and customs and whether economic opportunities existed for settlers or investors. Biography Thomas McMahon, born in 1864, made a first trip to New Guinea in 1915, he then toured the Pacific till 1922 in order to advocate Australian colonialism, tourism and economic development in the area. He journeyed Nauru, Banaba, the Gilbert islands, the Marshall islands, the Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides, Fiji ... [...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] |
Sir Thomas McMahon, 2nd Baronet
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas McMahon, 2nd Baronet (1779–1860) was a British Army officer. Family He was the youngest son of John MacMahon, comptroller of the Port of Limerick, and his second wife Mary Stackpoole, daughter of James Stackpoole. He had a full brother, Sir William MacMahon, 1st Baronet, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, and an elder half-brother, Sir John McMahon, 1st Baronet, Private Secretary to the Prince Regent from 1811 to 1817. He had at least one sister, who married a Mr O'Halloran: her daughter, whose first name is uncertain, was the first wife of the writer and politician Richard Lalor Sheil. She died in childbirth in 1822. While Thomas and William were both gifted men, their early careers were hampered by their relatively humble social origins, and there is little doubt that their half-brother's political influence greatly assisted them in their rise to prominence. John was the first of the McMahon Baronets of Ashley Manor: on his death in 1817, the titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Westropp McMahon, 3rd Baronet
General Sir Thomas Westropp McMahon, 3rd Baronet, (14 February 1813 – 23 January 1892) was a senior British Army officer. He was born the eldest son of Sir Thomas McMahon, 2nd Baronet, an Army officer who was Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army, and Emily Anne, the daughter of Michael Roberts Westrop and Jane Godsell. The younger Sir Michael Roberts Westropp, Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay, was his cousin. He succeeded his father as 3rd baronet in 1860. He obtained a cornetcy in the 16th Lancers on 24 December 1829, and was transferred to the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons the following year. In the latter regiment, he was promoted lieutenant in 1831 and captain in 1838, transferring in 1842 as captain to the 9th Lancers. He went with the Lancers to India, under the command of Sir James Hope Grant, where he took part in the Sutlej campaign, seeing action at the Battle of Sobraon in 1846. He was promoted to a majority unattached on 13 July 1847. He then served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom McMahon (Democratic Operative)
Tom McMahon is an American political operative. McMahon served as Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 until 2009. During his tenure, McMahon was involved in several high-profile decisions and controversies including: conflicts over 2008 Democratic presidential primary debate scheduling and over prominent Democratic complaints about the content of ABC ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet. ABC or abc may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting * American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster ** Disney–ABC Television ...'s '' Path to 9/11'' television program. McMahon was a key player in, and defender of, the DNC's creation of its initially controversial " 50 state strategy". The plan was eventually credited with helping to secure Democratic elections victories in 2006 at both the state and local level. In 2016 he returned to working with the DNC as a consultant to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom McMahon (mayor)
Thomas M. McMahon was the Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania from January 5, 2004 to January 2, 2012. McMahon was re-elected mayor in November 2007 for a second four-year term, with 5,847 votes, or 66.5%.http://www.co.berks.pa.us/elections/lib/elections/election_results/2007/resultsbyoffice.pdf Berks County Election Results, November 2007 He served as mayor until January 2012. McMahon declined to run for a third term.http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=292989 Reading Eagle, March 2011 Biography McMahon was born in Rochester, New York. He graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in engineering. McMahon then obtained a master's degree in engineering with a minor in political science from Pennsylvania State University. He taught in Bangladesh with the Peace Corps. McMahon moved to Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1965 and was employed with Gilbert Associates until 1980. He then founded his own engineering firm, Entech Engineering.http://www.re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom McMahon (footballer, Born 1907)
Thomas Michael McMahon (29 December 1907 – 11 December 1975) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). He later served in the Australian Army in World War II. Notes External links * * 1907 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Players of Australian handball Sydney Swans players Melbourne Football Club players Australian military personnel of World War II 1975 deaths {{AFL-bio-1907-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom McMahon (footballer, Born 1918)
Thomas Joseph McMahon (28 July 1918 – 24 September 2005) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL). War service Thomas Joseph McMahon enlisted to serve in the Australian Army in World War II in January 1940. Football career McMahon played two senior VFL games for Footscray in 1943, against Essendon and St Kilda. After Footscray played Essendon, the local South Melbourne newspaper reported “Tom McMahon gave a sound display on the wing. Close on 6 ft., well-built and very fast (he appeared at Stawell), McMahon was born in Draper Street and served his apprenticeship in the printing department of 'The Record' Office.” In 1944 McMahon joined his local side, South Melbourne, but did not make a senior appearance, only making the supplementary list in 1945. He subsequently applied to join Prahran in the Victorian Football Association. Although not granted a clearance by South, by June 1945 McMahon was playing with P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
