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Fermor
Fermor is a surname, a variant of Farmer. Notable people with the surname include: * Henrietta Louisa Fermor (1698–1761), English letter writer * Lewis Leigh Fermor (1880–1954), British geologist, father of Patrick * Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011), British author, scholar and soldier * Richard Fermor (d. 1551), English wool merchant and landowner * Thomas Fermor (by 1523–1580), English politician * Thomas Fermor, 4th Earl of Pomfret (1770-1833), British army officer * William Fermor William Fermor (russian: Ви́л Ви́ллимович Фермор, translit=Víllim Víllimovich Fermor) was an Imperial Russian Army officer best known for leading his country’s army at the Battle of Zorndorf during the Seven Years’ War. ... (1702-1771), Russian army officer, commander at Zorndorf See also * Farmer (surname) * Fermor-Hesketh, surname {{surname Occupational surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as ''A Time of Gifts'' (1977).Smith, Helen"Literary legend learning to type at 92" ''The Guardian'' (2 March 2007). A BBC journalist once termed him "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene". Early life and education Leigh Fermor was born in London, the son of Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, a distinguished geologist, and Muriel Aeyleen (Eileen), daughter of Charles Taafe Ambler. Shortly after his birth, his mother and sister left to join his father in India, leaving the infant Patrick in England with a family in Northamptonshire: first in the village of Weedon, and later in nearby Dodford. He did not meet his parents or his sister again until he was four years old. As a chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Leigh Fermor
Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, OBE, FRS (18 September 1880 – 24 May 1954), was a British chemist and geologist and the first president of the Indian National Science Academy and a director of the Geological Survey of India (1930-1935). His son was the writer and traveller Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor. Early life Fermor was born in Peckham in south London, the eldest of six children born to Lewis Fermor and Maria (née James); his middle name was given in honour of his father's best friend. His father was a clerk at the London Joint Stock Bank (acquired by the Midland Bank in 1917); his early retirement through ill health put the family in financial difficulties, and a subsequent attempt at setting up a sign-writing business met with little success.Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, Artemis Cooper, John Murray, 2012 Lewis Leigh Fermor was educated at Wilson's Grammar School in Camberwell and studied metallurgy at the Royal School of Mines, with scholarships at each, and winning the Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Fermor, 4th Earl Of Pomfret
General Thomas William Fermor, 4th Earl of Pomfret FRS (12 October 1770 – 29 June 1833), styled The Honourable Thomas Fermor until 1830, was an officer in the British Army who fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Early life Fermor was the second son of George Fermor, 2nd Earl of Pomfret (1722–1785), by Miss Anna Maria Drayton of Sunbury, Middlesex. Military career Fermor was appointed to an ensigncy in the 3rd Foot Guards. He served in Flanders in 1793, and was present at the Battle of Famars, the sieges of Valenciennes and Dunkirk, and the battle of Lincelles. In 1794 he was promoted to a lieutenancy. He served in Ireland during the rebellion, and in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, where he took part in the several actions. On 16 March 1800 he was appointed to a company with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He served with the guards in the Peninsula War until his promotion to the rank of major-general on 4 June 1813. For the Battle of Salam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Fermor
Richard Fermor (1480x84–1551), was an English wool merchant. His father, Thomas Fermor, was also a wool merchant in Witney, Oxfordshire. By 1505 Richard was a merchant of the staple at Calais. In 1509, he was one of the jurors who convicted Richard Empson and he benefited financially from Empson's fall by buying the manor of Easton Neston. From 1520 to 1523, Fermor was the warden of the Grocers' Company. In 1540, Fermor was found guilty of misprision of treason and on 9 May 1540 he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Marshalsea Prison and attainted. In 1541, he was pardoned. An extensive inventory of Richard Fermor's household goods at Easton Neston survives in the Cotton manuscripts. He married Anne Browne, daughter of Sir William Browne, Lord Mayor of London. They had five sons, Sir John Fermor, Sir Thomas Fermor, Sir Jerome Fermor and two other sons whose names are not known, as well as five daughters, including Mary (1534-1573). Richard Fermor died in 1551 or 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fermor
William Fermor (russian: Ви́л Ви́ллимович Фермор, translit=Víllim Víllimovich Fermor) was an Imperial Russian Army officer best known for leading his country’s army at the Battle of Zorndorf during the Seven Years’ War. His name is sometimes styled Wilhelm Graf von Fermor. Early life Fermor was born in 1702 in Pskov (german: Pleskau), Russia, of Scottish and Lutheran Baltic German descent. He joined the Russian army in 1720 and distinguished himself at the Siege of Danzig during the War of the Polish Succession. He later saw action against the Ottoman Empire and the Finns. He preferred to associate mostly with other Germans in the service of Russia, something which caused resentment among Russian-speaking officers. He was a protégé of Burkhard Christoph von Münnich. Seven Years’ War In 1757 Fermor led a Russian force that captured Memel in East Prussia and was present at the Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf. In 1758 he was appointed to command the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Fermor
Thomas Fermor (by 1523–1580) was an English politician. He was born a younger son of merchant Richard Fermor and was the brother-in-law of John Mordaunt, 2nd Baron Mordaunt He became a merchant of the staple and a member of the Grocer's Company. From his wife he acquired an estate in Shropshire and on the death of his uncle William Fermor an estate in Oxfordshire. Fermor was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Brackley in October 1553 and for Shropshire in 1558. He was appointed High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1558–59 and made Recorder of Bridgnorth from 1561 to his death in 1580. He married twice; firstly Frances the daughter and heiress of Thomas Horde of Horde Park, Bridgnorth and the widow of Edward Raleigh of Farthinghoe, Northamptonshire and secondly Bridget, the daughter of Henry Bradshaw of Halton, Buckinghamshire and the widow of Henry White of South Warnborough, Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial and non-m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrietta Louisa Fermor
Henrietta Louisa Fermor, Countess of Pomfret (''née'' Jeffreys; 15 November 1698 – 15 December 1761), was an English letter writer. Life She was born in 1698 in Leicester Square, London, the only surviving child of John Jeffreys, 2nd Baron Jeffreys of Wem, Shropshire, by his wife, Lady Charlotte Herbert, daughter and heiress of Philip, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery (by his wife, Henriette de Kérouaille, sister of Charles II's mistress Louise, Duchess of Portsmouth). On 14 July 1720, Lady Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys married Thomas Fermor, 2nd Baron Leominster, who in the following year was created Earl of Pomfret, or Pontefract, Yorkshire. He was afterwards elected a K.B., and in September 1727 was appointed master of the horse to Queen Caroline, to whom also Lady Pomfret was one of the ladies of the bedchamber. In 1730, Jeffreys compiled a collection of prints into an album titled "Heads, English & foreign collected by Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, countess of Pomfret", now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fermor-Hesketh
Fermor-Hesketh is a surname, and may refer to: * Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh (born 1950), British Conservative politician * Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh (1881–1944), British soldier See also * Fermor Fermor is a surname, a variant of Farmer. Notable people with the surname include: * Henrietta Louisa Fermor (1698–1761), English letter writer * Lewis Leigh Fermor (1880–1954), British geologist, father of Patrick * Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915� ..., surname * Hesketh (other) {{surname Compound surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farmer (surname)
Farmer is an English surname. Although an occupationally derived surname, it was not given to tillers of the soil, but to collectors of taxes and tithes specializing in the collection of funds from agricultural leases."Surname: Farmer" (undated). Internet Surname Database Retrieved May 22, 2010). In 2000, there were 68,309 people with the last name Farmer in the United States, making it the 431st most common last name in the nation. (undated) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
