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William Sykes (missionary)
William or Bill Sykes may refer to: * Bill Sykes (born 1948), Member for Benalla in the Victorian Parliament * Bill Sykes (priest) (1939–2015), English chaplain and author * William Sykes (convict) (1827–1891), convict transported to Western Australia * William Sykes (priest) (1861–1930), Anglican clergyman * William Sykes (businessman) (1852–1910), English manufacturer of sporting goods * William Henry Sykes (1790–1872), Indian Army officer * William Sykes (cricketer) (1823–1915), English clergyman and cricketer * William Robert Sykes (1840–1917), British engineer from London * William Stanley Sykes (1894–1961), British anaesthetist and crime writer * Charles Henry Sykes (1882–1942), known as Bill, American cartoonist See also * Bill Sikes William "Bill" Sikes is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1838 novel '' Oliver Twist'' by Charles Dickens. Sikes is a malicious criminal in Fagin's gang, and a vicious robber and murderer. Throughout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Sykes
William Everett Sykes (born 3 October 1948) is an Australian politician. He was the Nationals member of the Victorian parliament, representing Benalla, from 2002 to 2014, after a career as a veterinarian and businessman. Sykes was also a Victorian Football League (VFL) footballer, playing 48 games of football for Fitzroy, and later coaching Shepparton, Benalla and Benalla & District junior football teams. As well as being a member of parliament, Sykes and his wife Sally also run a beef cattle and sheep property just out of Benalla. Together, the Sykes have been involved in a wide range of community activities including school councils, youth groups, sporting clubs, Landcare, fire brigade and the Victorian Farmers Federation. Sykes was also instrumental in the establishment of the Benalla Trust Foundation, a trust to assist local people in times of crisis, and the Benalla Young Sportspersons Trust, a trust that assists promising young athletes to compete in interstate and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Sykes (priest)
William George David Sykes (1939 – 17 January 2015) was an English college fellow, Anglican priest, and book author. Biography Bill Sykes was born in Yorkshire, England. He attended school at Worksop College in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Sykes then undertook National Service, joining the Gurkhas. He then studied for a PPE degree at Balliol College, Oxford. Upon finishing his degree and following on from his experience with the Gurkhas, Sykes joined an expedition to Nepal organized by Oxford University, acting as an interpreter. After returning from the expedition, Sykes trained for ordination at Wycliffe Hall in North Oxford. In 1965, Sykes was appointed as a canon at Bradford Cathedral in Yorkshire. In 1969, he became the chaplain at University College London. In 1978, he moved to University College, Oxford as fellow and chaplain, remaining there until his retirement in 2005. Subsequently, he was elected as an Emeritus Fellow of the college. Sykes wrote books and reflective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sykes (convict)
William Sykes ( – 4 January 1891) was an English convict, transported to Western Australia for manslaughter. Early life Sykes was born in Wentworth, near Rotherham, Yorkshire, England . As a member of a poor family, he received no formal education, and took on paid work from an early age. In 1851 he was recorded as unmarried and working as a coal-pit trammer. In 1853 Sykes married Myra Wilcock, and over the next ten years they had four children. He was later employed as a puddler. On 10 October 1865, Sykes went poaching with a group of six other men. Evidence suggests that Sykes had often poached in the past, but he had never been caught before. On this night the men were challenged by a group of gamekeepers, and in making their escape Sykes and a number of other men assaulted one of the gamekeepers. The gamekeeper died from his injuries, and a reward was offered for information about the attack. Eventually, the government offered a free pardon to anyone willing to gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sykes (priest)
William Sykes (24 July 1861 – 24 August 1930), born in Barrow-in-Furness, was first Curate of St John's Church, Tunbridge Wells; Vicar of Hillsborough and Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield, 1895–1919; Vicar of Audley, Staffordshire, 1919–1928; first President of the Sovereign Grace Union 1913–1930. According to the "Short Sketch of the Life of the Author" in the 1932 edition of "The Salt of the Covenant" (a volume of his sermons), he was a prominent Orangeman and towards the end of his life "was made a Freemason of the Motherland Lodge in London." He married Anne Jane Dodgson, 1885, who died in 1916; they had five sons and three daughters, their second son being William Dodgson-Sykes, rector of St Mary le Port Church, Bristol, editor of The Gospel Magazine The ''Gospel Magazine'' is a Calvinist, evangelical Christian magazine from the United Kingdom, and is one of the longest running of such periodicals, having been founded in 1766. Most of the editors have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sykes (businessman)
William Sykes (1852–1910) was an English businessman. Sykes was just 23 when, against the advice of his father he married and then with his own and his new wife's savings purchased a saddler business in Horbury, England, in about 1874. He married Louisa Abstemia Crabtree (1850-1928) in 1874. The business prospered and a few years later added footballs to the other leather goods it was making. The Sykes Zig-zag branded football was used in many leading events including the FA Cup finals of 1936, 1937, 1939 and 1946. Sykes subsequently expanded his business by dealing in cricket bats, before moving into their manufacture. Donald Bradman, widely acknowledged as the greatest Test batsman of all time, used bats produced by Sykes throughout his career. in 1929, shortly after Bradman scored the then highest First-Class innings of 340 while playing for New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is a sports stadium in Sydney, Australia. It is used f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Sykes
Colonel William Henry Sykes, FRS (25 January 1790 – 16 June 1872) was an English naturalist who served with the British military in India and was specifically known for his work with the Indian Army as a politician, Indologist and ornithologist. One of the pioneers of the Victorian statistical movement, a founder of the Royal Statistical Society, he conducted surveys and examined the efficiency of army operation. Returning from service in India, he became a director of the East India Company and a member of parliament representing Aberdeen. Life and career Sykes was born near Bradford in Yorkshire. His father was Samuel Sykes of Friezing Hall, and they belonged to the family of Sykeses of Yorkshire. He joined military service as a cadet in 1803 and obtained a commission on 1 May 1804 with the Honourable East India Company. Joining the Bombay Army, he was to lieutenancy on 12 October 1805. He saw action at the siege of Bhurtpur under Lord Lake in 1805. He commanded a regiment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sykes (cricketer)
William Sykes (21 November 1823 – 13 February 1915) was an English clergyman and a cricketer who played in five first-class cricket matches between 1844 and 1849. He was born at Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire and died at Vauxhall, London. Sykes was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. As a cricketer, he was a lower-order batsman and apparently a bowler, though only limited statistics are available for the matches he played in, and his bowling and batting styles are unknown. He is credited with taking three wickets in the first of his two first-class matches for Cambridge University, which was the 1844 University Match against Oxford University; he also bowled nine wides, though other details of his bowling are missing. He then played single first-class games in each of the four seasons from 1846 to 1849 for four different sides, though all of the matches were held in Cambridge. Sykes graduated from Cambridge University in 1847 with a Bachelor of Arts degree; this was auto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Robert Sykes
William Robert Sykes (1840–1917) was a British engineer from London, known for his work in railway signalling and other safety devices. He is noted for the invention of the Sykes ‘Lock and block’ interlocking system of points and signals. Career Born in London in April 1840, Sykes obtained a job with the Electric and International Telegraph Company in the Strand, at the age of 14. He was interested in clocks, and his knowledge of clockmaking became blended with his knowledge of the electrical telegraph. In 1861 he moved to Shepherds, an electric clock & chronograph maker and in 1863 he joined the London Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) under the telegraph superintendent, Mr Ruddall. He became interested in railway safety and by 1865 he had introduced three significant advances in this field. These were: an electrical repeater, showing the position of signals out of sight of the signalman; an automatic recording device showing what block signals had been sent and receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stanley Sykes
William Stanley Sykes (1894–1961), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., M.B., B.Chir., M.B.E., was a British anaesthetist and crime writer. Life Sykes was born in Morley, West Yorkshire, on 5 August 1894. He was educated at Rossall School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, served in the RNVR for part of the First World War, and continued his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.Obituary in '''', 29 April 1961, pp. 1258-1259. There he was house surgeon, extern midwifery assistant, and house anaesthetist.O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Henry Sykes
Charles Henry "Bill" Sykes (November 12, 1882 – December 19, 1942) was an American cartoonist associated with the Public Ledger (Philadelphia), Philadelphia ''Public Ledger'' and ''Evening Ledger'' from 1911 until its closing in 1942. Born in Athens, Alabama, to William Henry and Jane Palmyra Sykes (''nee'' Hayes), Sykes attended the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, graduating in 1904. He did freelance work for two years before entering newspaper work in 1906, with the Philadelphia ''The North American, North American'' and ''Williamsport News''. He then worked for the ''Nashville Banner'' in Tennessee until 1911 before joining the ''Public Ledger'' later that same year. When the ''Public Ledger'' was reorganized into the ''Evening Ledger'' in 1914, he became that paper's first editorial cartoonist, and remained its only cartoonist until its dissolution in early 1942. He married Charlotte Kennedy Hannum on September 11, 1907. He was an editorial cartoonist for Life (magazine), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
