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Thomas Wells (typographer)
Thomas Wells may refer to: Politicians * Thomas Leonard Wells (1930–2000), Ontario political figure * Thomas Wells (MP), Member of Parliament (MP) for Downton * Tommy Wells (born 1957), Washington, D.C. politician Others * Thomas B. Wells (born 1945), U.S. Tax Court judge * Thomas Bucklin Wells, one-time actor and husband of Dorothy Dunbar * Thomas M. Wells (1841–1901), Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor recipient * Thomas Spencer Wells (1818–1897), surgeon to Queen Victoria * Thomas Wells (composer) (born 1945), American composer * Thomas Wells (died 1868), first person executed privately in Britain, hanged by William Calcraft * Thomas Wells (cricketer) (1927–2001), New Zealand-born cricketer * Tom Wells (cricketer) (born 1993), English cricketer * Tommy Wells (footballer) (1911–1993), Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy * Tom Wells (footballer) (1883–1959), Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy * Thomas Wells (judge) (c. 1888–1954) ...
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Thomas Leonard Wells
Thomas Leonard "Tom" Wells (May 2, 1930 – October 11, 2000) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party from 1963 to 1985 and was a cabinet minister in the governments of John Robarts and William Davis. There is also a school in Scarborough, Ontario named after him. Background Wells was born in Toronto and educated at Victoria College and the University of Toronto. Wells and William Davis played on the University of Toronto's football team at the same time and were both members of the campus Progressive Conservative association. Wells worked as advertising manager for the Canadian Medical Association from 1960 to 1967. He also served on the Scarborough Board of Education from 1957 to 1963, was its chair in 1961–62, and held a concurrent position on the Metropolitan Toronto School Board in 1962–63. Politics Wells was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1963 provincial e ...
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Thomas Wells (cricketer)
Thomas Umfrey Wells (6 February 1927 – 30 July 2001) was a New Zealand-born first-class cricketer and educator who played first-class cricket in England in the early 1950s. All but one of his appearances were for Cambridge University, but he also played one match for Worcestershire in 1950. Life and career Wells was educated at King's College, Auckland, and the University of Auckland where he was awarded blues for cricket in 1948 and 1949 and was captain in 1949. He then won an Orford Studentship for King's College, Cambridge.WELLS, Thomas Umfrey
''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
He made his first-class debut for Cambridge against the touring

Thomas Welles (other)
Thomas Welles was an American politician in 17th-century Connecticut. Thomas Welles may also refer to: * Thomas Welles (MP) for Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency) *Tom Welles, character in 8mm (film) ''8mm'' is a 1999 neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. A German–American production, the film stars Nicolas Cage as a private investigator who delves into the world of snuff films ... See also * Thomas Wells (other) {{hndis, Welles, Thomas ...
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Thomas Wells (Rhode Island Judge)
Thomas Wells (April 5, 1723 – c. 1795) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from August 1776 to May 1780.Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations' (1891), p. 208-13. Born in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, Wells also served at various times in the Rhode Island General Assembly and the Rhode Island Senate The Rhode Island Senate is the upper house of the Rhode Island General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, the lower house being the Rhode Island House of Representatives. It is composed of 38 Senators, each of w ..., and as a member of the Council of War and Justice.Daughters of the American Revolution, ''Lineage Book'', Volume 56 (1921), p. 211. Wells married Sarah Thompson, with whom he had nine children. He died in Hopkinton. References 1723 births 1795 deaths People from Hopkinton, Rhode Island Rhode Island state senators Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court {{RhodeIsland-state-judge-stub ...
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Thomas Wells (Royal Navy Officer)
Vice Admiral Thomas Wells (1759 – 31 October 1811) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore. Naval career Wells joined the Royal Navy in 1774. He became commanding officer of the frigate HMS ''Melampus'' in early 1794 during the French Revolutionary Wars. During this time ''Melampus'' participated in the action of 23 April 1794, during which the British took three vessels, , , and . ''Melampus'' had five men killed and five wounded. He went on to be commanding officer of the third-rate HMS ''Defence'' later in 1794 and commanding officer of the second-rate HMS ''Glory'' in 1799. He acted as a pallbearer at the funeral of Lord Nelson in October 1805. After that he became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore The Commander-in-Chief, The Nore, was an operational commander of the Royal Navy. His subordinate units, establishments, and staff were sometimes informally known as the Nore Station or Nore Command. The Nore is a sandbank at the mouth of the Th ... in 1 ...
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Thomas Wells (judge)
Thomas Alexander Wells (13 September 1954) was a judge of the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Darwin, Australia. He was known for having misdirected the jury in a high-profile case in 1934, which was later overturned in an appeal in the High Court of Australia known as ''Tuckiar v The King''. Career Wells was a court reporter for a Sydney newspaper. He served overseas in WWI and on returning to Australia studied law in Sydney, where he practised at the bar for nine years after graduating. In 1933 he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, following the retirement of Justice Mallam (1878–1954). He presided over some of the Territory's most high-profile trials, including the murder trial of Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda, a Yolngu man from Caledon Bay in Arnhem Land, who was convicted of murdering Constable Albert Stewart McColl at Woodah Island on 1 August 1933. This was part of a series of events known as the Caledon Bay crisis Dhakiyarr was convicte ...
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Tom Wells (footballer)
Thomas Albert Wells (27 December 1883 – 16 January 1959) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy 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). Notes External links * * 1883 births 1959 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Fitzroy Football Club players {{AFL-bio-1883-stub ...
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Tommy Wells (footballer)
Tommy Wells (13 May 1911 – 22 November 1993) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy 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). Notes External links * * 1911 births 1993 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Fitzroy Football Club players {{AFL-bio-1911-stub ...
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Tom Wells (cricketer)
Thomas Joshua Wells (born 15 March 1993) is an ex professional English cricketer active from 2013 who used to play for Leicestershire, now plying his trade for Cornwall Cricket League leaders, Penzance CC and Cornwall County Cricket Club. He is a righthanded batsman who bowls Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-gre ... right arm medium fast. References External links * 1993 births English cricketers Leicestershire cricketers Living people English cricketers of the 21st century People from Grantham {{england-cricket-bio-1990s-stub ...
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William Calcraft
William Calcraft (11 October 1800 – 13 December 1879) was a 19th-century English hangman, one of the most prolific of British executioners. It is estimated in his 45-year career he carried out 450 executions. A Shoemaking, cobbler by trade, Calcraft was initially recruited to flog juvenile offenders held in Newgate Prison. While selling meat pies on streets around the prison, Calcraft met the City of London's hangman, John Foxton. After Foxton's death in 1829 the government appointed Calcraft the official Executioner for the City of London and Middlesex. Following this, his executioner services were in great demand throughout England. Nevertheless, some considered Calcraft incompetent, in particular for his controversial use of the Hanging#Short drop, short-drop hanging method in which the condemned were slowly strangled to death, instead of having their necks broken. Because with Calcraft's methods the condemned took several minutes to die, to hasten death Calcraft ...
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Thomas Wells (MP)
Thomas Wells may refer to: Politicians * Thomas Leonard Wells (1930–2000), Ontario political figure * Thomas Wells (MP), Member of Parliament (MP) for Downton * Tommy Wells (born 1957), Washington, D.C. politician Others * Thomas B. Wells (born 1945), U.S. Tax Court judge * Thomas Bucklin Wells, one-time actor and husband of Dorothy Dunbar * Thomas M. Wells (1841–1901), Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor recipient * Thomas Spencer Wells (1818–1897), surgeon to Queen Victoria * Thomas Wells (composer) (born 1945), American composer * Thomas Wells (died 1868), first person executed privately in Britain, hanged by William Calcraft * Thomas Wells (cricketer) (1927–2001), New Zealand-born cricketer * Tom Wells (cricketer) (born 1993), English cricketer * Tommy Wells (footballer) (1911–1993), Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy * Tom Wells (footballer) (1883–1959), Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy * Thomas Wells (judge) (c. 1888–1954) ...
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Thomas Wells (composer)
Thomas H. Wells (born January 8, 1945 in Austin, Texas) is an American composer, pianist, organist, and arts-organization administrator. Biography Thomas Wells began his formal composition studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 1960 with Kent Kennan and Clifton Williams. He received his Bachelor of Music (1966) and D.M.A. (1969) degrees from that institution, studying with Hunter Johnson. Wells founded the University of Texas Electronic Music Studio in 1967 and served as its director until 1975. He was accepted in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Composition Studio in Darmstadt in 1968, and participated in the project '' Musik für ein Haus''. Wells joined the faculty of the Ohio State University School of Music in 1976, and continues to teach there as Professor of Composition and Director of the Sound Synthesis Studios."Thom ...
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