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Thomas Walker (pirate)
Thomas or Tom Walker may refer to: Entertainment * Thomas Walker (actor) (1698–1744), English actor and dramatist * Thomas Walker (author) (1784–1836), English barrister, police magistrate and writer of a one-man periodical, ''The Original'' * Thomas Bond Walker (1861–1933), Irish painter * Tom Walker (singer) (born 1991), Scottish singer-songwriter * Tom Walker (Homeland), a character in the TV series ''Homeland'' * Tom Walker, British actor and comedian known for his character Jonathan Pie, a fictional British news reporter * Tom Walker (comedian), Australian comedian, mime and Twitch streamer Law * Thomas Joseph Walker (1877–1945), Judge for the United States Customs Court * Thomas Glynn Walker (1899–1993), United States federal judge * Thomas Walker (attorney) (born 1964), U.S. attorney Politics * Thomas Walker (died 1748) (1660s–1748), Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle, 1735–1741 * Thomas Walker (merchant) (1749–1817), English political radical in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Walker (actor)
Thomas Walker (1698–1744) was an English actor and dramatist. Early life He was the son of Francis Walker of Soho, London. At around the year 1714, he joined the Shepherd's company (perhaps the Shepherd who was at William Pinkethman's theatre in Greenwich in 1710). Barton Booth saw Walker in a droll, ''The Siege of Troy'', and recommended him to the management of the Drury Lane Theatre. Actor In November 1715 Walker seems to have played Tyrrel in Colley Cibber's ''Richard III''; on 12 December 1715 he was Young Fashion in a revival of ''The Relapse'' (John Vanburgh). On 23 September 1721 he appeared at Lincoln's Inn Fields as Edmund in ''King Lear'', and he remained there until 1733. On 29 January 1728 Walker took on his major original part, Captain Macheath in the ''Beggar's Opera'', and his reputation was established. On 10 February 1733, at the new Covent Garden Theatre, Walker was the first Periphas in John Gay's ''Achilles''.At this house he played Lothario, Banquo, Hec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Walker (American Politician)
Thomas Walker (December 15, 1850 - May 28, 1935) was enslaved before becoming a state legislator, county clerk, and deputy sheriff. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives The Alabama State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Alabama Legislature, the state legislature of state of Alabama. The House is composed of 105 members representing an equal number of districts, with each constituency contai .... Samuel M. Hill was his father. His mother was enslaved. He gave sworn testimony in Bromberg v. Haralson. References 1850 births 1935 deaths American freedmen Alabama sheriffs African-American state legislators in Alabama Members of the Alabama House of Representatives {{Alabama-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Walker (journalist)
Thomas Walker (1822–1898) was an English journalist, known as the editor of '' The Daily News''. Life Walker was born on 5 February 1822 in Marefair, Northampton Northampton () is a market town and civil parish in the East Midlands of England, on the River Nene, north-west of London and south-east of Birmingham. The county town of Northamptonshire, Northampton is one of the largest towns in England; ..., and his parents sent him to an academy in the Horse Market at the age of six, where he remained till 10: the headmaster was James Harris. His father died when he was young, and his mother accepted the offer of relatives at Oxford to take charge of him. He was taught carpentering there in the workshop of a Mr. Smith. At the close of his apprenticeship he began business with a Mr. Lee; but he had decided to become a journalist. Having learned shorthand, in September 1846 Walker advertised in ''The Times'' for a job. T. P. Healey, proprietor of the ''Medical Times'', took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Larkins Walker
Thomas Larkins Walker (c.1811–1860) was a Scottish architect. Life Baptised on 20 May 1811 in Dysart, Fifeshire, the son of Adam Walker, he was a pupil of Augustus Charles Pugin, and an executor of his will. In practice initially with Benjamin Ferrey 1833–8, he resided at Nuneaton, and then at Leicester was in practice with Robert Johnson Goodacure to 1856. Emigrating to China, he died in Hong Kong on 10 October 1860. Works Designs Walker's designs included: *1838–9, All Saints' Church, Spicer Street, Mile End; *1839, Camphill House, Warwickshire, for J. Craddock; *1839–40, church at Attleborough, Nuneaton, for Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby; *1840–2, St. Philip's Church, Mount Street, Bethnal Green; *1841, hospital (almshouses) at Bedworth, Warwickshire; *1842, Hartshill church, Warwickshire. He also restored St Mary's Church, Ilkeston in Derbyshire. Writings Walker published illustrated architectural works in the style of Augustus Pugin: * ''Vicar's Clo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Walker (philanthropist)
Thomas Walker (3 May 1804 – 2 September 1886) was a New South Wales colonial politician, merchant banker and philanthropist. At the time of his death, he was one of the wealthiest and most influential colonialists in New South Wales. He was the father of Dame Eadith Walker and founder of Yaralla Estate. The Thomas Walker Hospital was named in his honor. Life and career Thomas Walker was born at Leith, Scotland, in 1804, and came to Sydney as a young man. About the year 1822 he joined the firm of ''Riley and Walker'', general merchants, the senior partner of which was his uncle. Some years later he acquired this business in partnership with a cousin, and carried it on successfully. He was made a magistrate in 1835. In 1837, he visited Port Phillip district. In 1838, he published, anonymously, an account of his experiences under the title, ''A Month in the Bush of Australia''. In 1843 he was elected one of the representatives of the Electoral district of Port Phillip in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walker's Hibernian Magazine
Walker's ''Hibernian Magazine'', or ''Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge'' was a general-interest magazine published monthly in Dublin, Ireland, from February 1771 to July 1812.Clyde 2003 pp.67–68 Until 1785 it was called ''The Hibernian Magazine or Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge (Containing, the greatest variety of the most curious and useful subjects in every branch of polite literature)''. Tom Clyde called it "the pinnacle of eighteenth-century Irish literary magazines".Clyde 2003 p.10 Publishers The founding publisher was James Potts of Dame Street, who had published the ''Dublin Courier'' from 1766. From October 1772 until at least July 1773 Peter Seguin of St Stephen's Green published a rival version with differing format.Gargett and Sheridan 1999 p.237 Potts ceded in March 1774 to Thomas Walker, also of Dame Street, who added his surname to the magazine's title in May 1785. There was some production overlap at this time with ''Exshaw's Magazine'', since John Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Walker (slave Trader)
Thomas Walker (1758–1797) (a.k.a. Beau Walker) was a British slave trader. Early life Thomas Walker was born 1758 in Henbury, now a suburb of Bristol, England.Baptismal record Career Walker worked as a slave trader, when Bristol was one of the three major slave trading ports in Britain. He served as a slave ship Captain and was resident slave trader who operated in the Sierra Leone region of West Africa. He did much of his slave trading at Bunce Island, a British slave castle in the Sierra Leone River, owned at that time by the Company of John & Alexander Anderson, based in London. He was involved in at least eleven slave trading voyages between 1784 and 1792, taking African captives from Sierra Leone to the British West Indies and the United States. Personal life On 22 February 1785, Walker married Catherine McLelland (1770–1806) at St. Andrew's Church in Clifton. She died on 18 October 1806, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a decade after her husband, leaving their olde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Walker (explorer)
Thomas Walker (January 25, 1715 – November 9, 1794) was a physician, planter and explorer in colonial Virginia who served multiple terms in the Virginia General Assembly, and whose descendants also had political careers. Walker explored Western Colony of Virginia (present day Kentucky) in 1750, 19 years before the arrival of Daniel Boone. Early and family life and education Thomas Walker was born at "Rye Field", Walkerton, King and Queen County, Virginia. He was raised as an Englishman in the Tidewater region of Virginia. Walker's first profession was that of a physician; he had attended the College of William and Mary and studied under his brother-in-law Dr. George Gilmer. Walker married Mildred Thornton (widow of Nicholas Meriwether) in 1741, and acquired land and enslaved people in the soon-to be formed Albemarle County from her late husband's estate. The new couple built a home known as Castle Hill and had 12 children. They in turn would later become prominent Albemar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Walker (academic)
Thomas Walker (died 5 December 1665) was an Oxford academic and administrator. He was twice Master of University College, Oxford. Walker was a Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. On 31 August 1632, he was elected as the Master of University College, with the support of the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Work on the dining hall on the south side of the main quad at University College started in 1640, but this was disrupted by the English Civil War that commenced in 1642. On 8 July 1648, Obadiah Walker, Henry Watkins, and Thomas Silvester were expelled from Oxford University for their Royalist sympathies. On 10 July, the Master, Thomas Walker, was removed as well. Joshua Hoyle was installed in his place during the Commonwealth. However, with the Restoration, he returned as Master in 1660 until his death in 1665. He noted in the College Register, ''Mense Julii die x, 1648, amotus est Dorctor Walker hujus Collegii magister legitimus per visitatores illegitimos.'' Walker wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Walker (footballer)
Thomas James Walker (born 12 December 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for AFC Fylde. Walker started his career at Bolton Wanderers, and made his first team debut in January 2015. He joined Bury on loan in August 2016, and was released from Bolton at the end of the 2016–17 season. He has since played for Stockport County and F.C. United of Manchester. Career Walker joined the academy at Bolton Wanderers at the age of nine, and made his Football League debut ten years later when manager Neil Lennon sent him on as a late substitute for Eiður Guðjohnsen in a 1–1 draw with Leeds United at the Macron Stadium on 10 January 2015. He scored his first senior goal for the "Trotters" in a 1–1 draw with local rivals Wigan Athletic on 21 March. He ended the 2014–15 season with one goal in 11 Championship matches, and signed his first professional contract in May 2015. He featured a further eight times across the 2015–16 relegation campaign. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Walker (footballer, Born 1915)
Thomas Walker OBE (26 May 1915 – 11 January 1993) was a Scottish footballer, who played for Heart of Midlothian, Chelsea and the Scotland national team. He later managed Hearts and Raith Rovers before becoming a director of Hearts in his later years. Lauded for his Corinthian spirit and gentlemanly conduct, he is remembered as one of Hearts all-time greats.Cairney, P128 Walker has been described as the most influential man ever to be associated with Heart of Midlothian. Player Heart of Midlothian Born in Livingston, West Lothian, Walker had originally harboured an ambition to become a Church of Scotland minister, however his early footballing skills, which saw him recognised by Scotland at schoolboy level, ensured he was destined for a career on the pitch rather than in the pulpit. He played with local sides Berryburn Rangers, Livingston Violet and Broxburn Rangers before joining the Hearts ground staff aged 16 in February 1932. As Scottish clubs could not then officially s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Walker (1970s Pitcher)
Robert Thomas Walker (born November 7, 1948) is a former American professional baseball pitcher. Walker pitched all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1972 until 1977, for the Montreal Expos, Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Cardinals and California Angels. Career After graduating from Chamberlain High School in Tampa, Florida in 1966, Walker was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 1968 January amateur draft. On August 4, 1971, while playing for the Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs in the Double-A Dixie Association, Walker threw a 15-inning no-hitter to beat the Albuquerque Dodgers 1–0. He threw 193 pitches to win the game. In 1972, Walker was selected by the Montreal Expos in the Rule 5 draft and made his major league debut that season. He was traded along with Terry Humphrey from the Expos to the Tigers for Woodie Fryman on December 4, . The last batter he faced in the majors, Lyman Bostock, lined into a triple play. Walker posted an 18–23 record in 191 major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
