Burroughes
Burroughes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Henry Negus Burroughes (1791–1872), British politician * Jeremy Burroughes (born 1960), British physicist and engineer * Dorothy Burroughes (1883–1963), British artist See also * Burroughs (surname) Burroughs is a surname of French origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881, Retrieved 25 January 2014 its relative frequency was highest in Suffolk (8.9 times the British average), followed by Norfolk, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Huntingdo ...

Dorothy Burroughes
Dorothy Mary L. Burroughes (1883 – 18 July 1963) was a British artist known as a painter, illustrator and linocut artist. She designed posters and wrote and illustrated a series of children's books. Biography Burroughes was born and lived most of her life in London, although in her later years she lived near Henley-on-Thames. She studied at the Slade School of Art and at Heatherley's in London before furthering her studies in Germany. Burroughes produced illustrations for a number of magazines including ''Bystander'', ''Sketch'' and the ''Illustrated London News''. She produced posters for the London Underground, including the poster ''For the Zoo'' in the style of a Japanese colour woodcut. Throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s she wrote and illustrated a series of children's books, often on animal themes. Animals were also a recurring theme in the prints she produced as were cloud formations. Her prints often featured towering banks of cumulus clouds above an English land ...
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Henry Negus Burroughes
Henry Negus Burroughes (8 February 1791 – 22 March 1872) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the eldest child of James Burkin Burroughes (1760-1803) and Christabel Burroughes (1764-1843), the daughter of Henry Negus of Hoveton Hall. He was a Member of Parliament for East Norfolk from 1837 to 1857. Over his 20 years of being MP he made a total of 6 contributions during debates. Burroughes was married to Jane Sarah Hoste; the couple had five children. One of their sons, Henry Negus Burroughes Jr. (born 1821), was described in ''A Naval Biographical Dictionary'' by William Richard O'Byrne William Richard O'Byrne (1823 – 7 July 1896) was an Irish biographer and politician, author of the ''A Naval Biographical Dictionary'' (1849). Life He was elder son of Robert O'Byrne and his wife Martha Trougher, daughter of Joseph Clark. He w .... Jane died on 5 October 1851 and Henry married Augusta Susanna in November 1854. References External links * ...
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Jeremy Burroughes
Jeremy Henley Burroughes (born August 1960) is a British physicist and engineer, known for his contributions to the development of organic electronics through his work on the science of semiconducting polymers and molecules and their application. He is the Chief Technology Officer of Cambridge Display Technology, a company specialising in the development of technologies based on polymer light-emitting diodes. Education Burroughes earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1989. His thesis was entitled ''The physical processes in organic semiconducting polymer devices.''British Library EthOS
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Work

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