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Thomas Preston (of Holker, Younger)
Thomas Preston may refer to: Politicians * Thomas Preston (MP for Derby), see Derby * Thomas Preston (died 1604), MP for Knaresborough * Thomas Preston of Gretton, MP for Northampton * Thomas Preston (MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme), in 1437 MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme * Thomas Preston, in 1452 MP for Wallingford * Thomas Preston (of Holker, elder) (1600–1679), English MP for Lancashire * Thomas Preston (of Holker, younger) (1647–1697), English MP for Lancaster * Thomas Hiram Preston (1855–1925), Ontario journalist and political figure * Thomas Hildebrand Preston, 6th Baronet (1886–1976), British diplomat Religion * Thomas Preston (monk) (1563–1640), English Benedictine monk * Thomas Scott Preston (1824–1891), Roman Catholic Vicar General of New York Others * Thomas Preston (composer) (died c. 1563), English composer * Thomas Preston (footballer) (1893–1971), Scottish footballer (Airdrieonians) * Thomas Preston (writer) (1537–1598), master of Trinity Hall, Camb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Preston (MP For Derby)
Thomas Preston may refer to: Politicians * Thomas Preston (MP for Derby), see Derby * Thomas Preston (died 1604), MP for Knaresborough * Thomas Preston of Gretton, MP for Northampton * Thomas Preston (MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme), in 1437 MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme * Thomas Preston, in 1452 MP for Wallingford * Thomas Preston (of Holker, elder) (1600–1679), English MP for Lancashire * Thomas Preston (of Holker, younger) (1647–1697), English MP for Lancaster * Thomas Hiram Preston (1855–1925), Ontario journalist and political figure * Thomas Hildebrand Preston, 6th Baronet (1886–1976), British diplomat Religion * Thomas Preston (monk) (1563–1640), English Benedictine monk * Thomas Scott Preston (1824–1891), Roman Catholic Vicar General of New York Others * Thomas Preston (composer) (died c. 1563), English composer * Thomas Preston (footballer) (1893–1971), Scottish footballer (Airdrieonians) * Thomas Preston (writer) (1537–1598), master of Trinity Hall, Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hildebrand Preston, 6th Baronet
Sir Thomas Hildebrand Preston, 6th Baronet, OBE (2 June 1886 – 30 December 1976) was a British diplomat and 6th Baronet of Beeston St Lawrence, Norfolk. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1934. Life Thomas Hildebrand Preston was born in Epping, Essex, the son of William Thomas Preston and Alice Mary Stevens. He emigrated to New Zealand with his father who started farming at Timaru, and then was educated at Westminster School and undertook Russian studies at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He later studied at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques, Paris, and the University of Munich. Preston lost an eye due to a school cricket injury and wore a monocle over his good eye. Career Around 1910, he joined the British Diplomatic Service. On 23 May 1913, he was appointed British Vice-Consul in Ekaterinburg in Russia. On 29 July 1916, he was appointed his government's consul for Perm, the West Siberian government in Tobolsk and the Akmolinsk Territory – still with his offici ... [...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] |
Thomas Preston (scientist)
Thomas Preston (1860 in Kilmore, County Armagh – 1900)Thomas Preston Dictionary of Ulster Biography was an whose research was concerned with heat, , and . He established empirical rules for the analysis of |
Amarillo Slim
Thomas Austin Preston Jr. (December 31, 1928 – April 29, 2012), known as Amarillo Slim, was an American professional gambler known for his poker skills and proposition bets. Preston won the 1972 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1992. Poker career Before becoming a well-known tournament player, Preston was a rounder, touring the United States looking for gambling action along with Doyle Brunson and Sailor Roberts, effectively introducing Texas Hold’em, the most popular poker type today, to Las Vegas in the 1960s. Preston participated in the first World Series of Poker in 1970 along with Johnny Moss, Sailor Roberts, Doyle Brunson, Puggy Pearson, Crandell Addington, and Carl Cannon. Following his victory in the 1972 WSOP Main Event, he appeared on several talk shows, including ''The Tonight Show'', and had a small part in the 1974 Robert Altman movie ''California Split''. He appeared on ''I've Got a Secret'', where his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Preston (British Army Officer)
Thomas Preston (1722) was a British officer, a captain who served in Boston in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He commanded troops in the Boston Massacre in 1770 and was tried for murder, but he was acquitted. Historians have never settled whether he ordered his men to fire on the colonists. Preston was originally from Ireland; his people were among the Protestants settled there. Boston Massacre Preston was a captain of the 29th Regiment of Foot, part of the British garrison in Boston under the overall command of Thomas Gage. He was present at the Boston Massacre (known as the Incident on King Street by the British) on 5 March 1770, when British troops fired on colonists of the city, after an aggressive mob had confronted the troops and thrown snowballs, clubs, and rocks at them. Captain Thomas Preston showed up on the scene to help the other troops. Charges were brought against him and other soldiers, but he was acquitted in a trial held in Boston, Massachusetts. Future Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara
Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara (1585October, 1655) was an Irish soldier of the 17th century. After lengthy service as a mercenary in the Spanish Army, Preston returned to Ireland following the outbreak of the Rebellion of 1641. He was appointed to command the Leinster Army of the Irish Confederacy, enjoying some success as well as a number of heavy defeats such as the Battle of Dungans Hill in 1647 where his army was largely destroyed. Like other Confederate leaders, Preston was a Catholic Royalist. He remained in close contact with the Lord Lieutenant the Marquess of Ormonde, and was a strong supporter of an alliance between Confederates and Royalists against the English Republicans. Following the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, he left for France where he joined the Royalist Court-in-exile and was made Viscount Tara by Charles II. Lineage Preston was a descendant of Robert Preston, 1st Baron Gormanston, who in 1363 purchased the lands of Gormanston, County Meath, and who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Preston (writer)
Thomas Preston (1537–1598) was an English master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and possibly a dramatist. Life Preston was born at Simpson, Buckinghamshire, in 1537, and was educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge, where he was elected scholar, 16 August 1553, and fellow, 18 September 1556. He graduated B.A. in 1557 and M.A. in 1561. When Queen Elizabeth visited Cambridge in August 1564, he attracted the royal favour by his performance of a part in the tragedy of ''Dido'', and by disputing in philosophy with Thomas Cartwright in the royal presence. He also addressed the queen in a Latin oration on her departure, when she invited him to kiss her hand, and gave him a pension of 20''l.'' a year, with the title of "her scholar." He served as proctor in the university in 1565. In 1572 he was directed by the authorities of his college to study civil law, and four years later proceeded to the degree of LL.D. In 1581 he resigned his fellowship. He seems to have joined the Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Preston (footballer)
Thomas Preston (1893 – 1971) was a Scottish footballer who played as a right half for Airdrieonians, spending his entire career with the club. He was a member of the ''Diamonds'' team that won the Scottish Cup in 1924.The Cup Final Airdrieonians' First Success The Glasgow Herald, 21 April 1924 Preston was selected once for the in the same year as the cup win, and took part in a trial match for the full Scotland team in 1925. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Preston (composer)
Thomas Preston (died c. 1563) was an English organist and composer who held posts at Magdalen College, Oxford, Trinity College, Cambridge, and St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch) and the Chapel of the Order of the Gart .... The anonymous ground for keyboard ''Uppon la mi re'' (MB, LXVI, 1995) in the collection Add.29996 (London British Library) is often attributed to him. Further reading *Ian Payne, "Instrumental Music at Trinity College, Cambridge, c. 1594-c.1615: Archival and Biographical Evidence," ''Music and Letters'' 68 (1987), pp. 128–14* John Caldwell. "Preston, Thomas." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 12 Jan. 2013. External links Brief biographyat "Here of a Sunday Morning" IMSLPFree scores, Ground ''Upon la mi re''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Scott Preston
Thomas Scott Preston (23 July 1824 at Hartford, Connecticut – 4 November 1891 at New York City) was a Roman Catholic Vicar-General of New York, protonotary Apostolic, chancellor, author, preacher, and administrator Life Thomas Preston was born in Hartford, Connecticut on 23 July 1824. His family was Episcopalian. He was graduated in 1843 from Washington (later Trinity) College, Hartford. He studied at the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary, located at Ninth Avenue and Twentieth Street, New York, where he was recognized as the leader of the High Church party. Preston graduated in 1846 he was ordained deacon, and served in this capacity at Trinity Church, the Church of the Annunciation in West Fourteenth Street, and at Holy Innocents, West Point. In 1847 he was ordained presbyter by Bishop Delancey of Western New York, his own bishop having refused to advance him to this order on account of his ritualistic views. He now served for some time at St. Luke's, Hudson Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Preston (monk)
Thomas Preston (15633 April 1640?) was an English Benedictine monk serving as one of the leaders of the mission to re-establish the Benedictine Order in England after the closure of monasteries during the 16th century. He is also remembered for his writings upholding the cause of James I of England in the allegiance oath controversy. Life Born in Shropshire, Preston studied in the English College, Rome, where he was taught by Gabriel Vasquez. He joined the Benedictine Order at Monte Cassino in 1590. Following the decree granted by the Inquisition and confirmed by Clement VIII in 1602 for a mission to the Benedictines in England, Preston and Anselm Beech were sent to England in the spring of 1603. They landed at Great Yarmouth and made contact with Sigebert Buckley, last survivor of the monks of St. Peter, Westminster, who had recently been released from imprisonment in Framlingham. They lived with Buckley, who by letters of 1607 and 1609 granted and confirmed to them authority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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