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Charles Bentley (politician)
Charles Bentley may refer to: *Charles R. Bentley (1929–2017), Arctic geographer * Charles Eugene Bentley (1841–1905), American politician *Charles Edwin Bentley (1859–1929), American dentist *Charles Bentley (painter) (1806–1854), English painter *Dick Bentley Charles Walter "Dick" Bentley (14 May 1907 – 27 August 1995) was an Australian-born comedian and actor of radio, stage and screen. He starred with Jimmy Edwards in ''Take It From Here'' for BBC Radio. He was a staple of and pioneer of radio, ... (Charles Walter Bentley, 1907–1995), Australian comedian and actor * Chuck Bentley (born 1957), American chief executive officer for Crown Financial Ministries See also * Bentley (other) {{hndis, Bentley, Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles R
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Eugene Bentley
Charles Eugene Bentley (April 30, 1841 – February 6, 1905) was an American politician who served as the presidential nominee of the National Party, an offshoot party created by the broad gaugers faction of the Prohibition Party, during the 1896 presidential election. Life Charles Eugene Bentley was born on April 30, 1841, in Warners, New York Warners is a hamlet in Onondaga County, New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States Ne .... On October 7, 1863, he married Persis Orilla Freeman and moved to Clinton, Iowa in 1866. Bentley served as city clerk, treasurer, and secretary of the board of education. In 1878, he moved to Surprise, Nebraska and later to Lincoln, Nebraska in 1890. Politics During the 1884 presidential election he left the Republican Party to join the Prohibition Party and supported former Kansas Gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Edwin Bentley
Charles Edwin Bentley (1859–1929) was an American dentist. In Chicago, he was the founder of what grew to be the largest local dental society in the world in the early 20th century. As an African American civil rights activist, he was a founder of the Niagara Movement and leader in the Chicago branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Biography Bentley was born and educated in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1887 he earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. In his office was organized, in 1888, the Odontographic Society, and he was its first president. This dental organization grew to be the largest local dental society in the world. In February 1903 the Odontographic Society gave its famous clinic with three thousand members of the profession and nearly one thousand dental students in attendance. The Odontographical Society was merged into the Chicago Dental Society in 1911, and Bentley was a part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Bentley (painter)
Charles Bentley (1805/6–4 September 1854), was an English watercolour painter of coastal and river scenery. Life Bentley was born in 1805 or 1806, the son of a master-carpenter and builder living in Tottenham Court Road, London. He was sent to work colouring prints for Theodore Fielding to whom he was eventually apprenticed in order to learn aquatinting. Bentley became a lifelong friend of another, rather younger, pupil of Fielding, William Callow. During his apprenticeship he was sent to Paris, probably to assist work on the plates for ''Excursion sur les Cotes et dans les Ports de Normandie (Paris, 1823-5), most of which were after watercolours by Richard Bonington. After the end of his apprenticeship, though earning some money from engraving or designing plates for periodicals, Bentley turned increasingly to painting watercolours. He exhibited four works at the first Exhibition of the New Society of Painters in Water-Colours, (later the Royal Institute of Painters in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Bentley
Charles Walter "Dick" Bentley (14 May 1907 – 27 August 1995) was an Australian-born comedian and actor of radio, stage and screen. He starred with Jimmy Edwards in ''Take It From Here'' for BBC Radio. He was a staple of and pioneer of radio, having started his career in the medium in the early 1930s. He appeared on screen from the late 1940s until retiring in 1978. Biography Early life and radio Bentley was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. As a child, Bentley learned several musical instruments, and while still in his teens was a staple on the Melbourne cabaret circuit as a comedian and singer, his act consisting of playing a few bars of music deliberately badly, interspersed with jokes and legitimate musical numbers. He made his first appearance on ABC Radio in the early 1930s and by 1938 had become a fairly prominent personality, notably on Wilfrid Thomas's show ''Out of the Bag''. In that year he moved to London, and worked for the BBC. Newly married to Petronella ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Bentley
Chuck Bentley is the current chief executive officer for Crown Financial Ministries. He has previously served Crown Financial Ministries as senior vice president of Global Impact Group, vice president of the US Field, state director of Texas, and area director in Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas. Bentley has traveled throughout the world teaching biblical financial principles to the affluent, middle class, poor and "ultra poor". Bentley is the co-creator of the Crown Money Map, a contributor to Saddleback Church Saddleback Church is a Baptist Evangelical multi-site megachurch, affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, located in Lake Forest, California. It is the largest church in California, and one of the largest in the United States of America. ...'s small group series, Managing Our Finances God's Way, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
