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Hobbs (surname)
{{Wictionary, Hobbs Hobbs is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: *Albert Hobbs (1822–1897), New York politician * Anne Hobbs, English tennis player * Alfred Charles Hobbs, a famous lockpicker *Angie Hobbs, British philosopher *Becky Hobbs *Bill Hobbs (American football) (1946–2004), American football linebacker * Bill Hobbs (baseball) (1893–1945), American baseball shortstop *Bill Hobbs (rower) (1949–2020), American Olympic rower, brother of rower Franklin Hobbs * Braydon Hobbs, American basketball player * Brian Kenneth Hobbs, medical doctor in South Australia *Bruce Hobbs * Cathy Hobbs *Carleton Hobbs *Chelsea Hobbs *Dara Hobbs, American operatic soprano *David Hobbs (racing driver), British former racing driver *David Hobbs (basketball), American basketball coach *David Hobbs (rugby league), rugby league player *Eddie Hobbs, Irish celebrity accountant *Ellis Hobbs * Franklin Hobbs (born 1947), American Olympic rower, brother of rower Bill Hobbs * Frederic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Hobbs
Albert Hobbs (August 1822 in Ogdensburg, New York, Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, New York – April 11, 1897 in Malone (village), New York, Malone, Franklin County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York (state), New York. Life He practiced law in Malone. He married Caroline Virginia Magee (c.1829–1891). He was a Know Nothing member of the New York State Assembly (Franklin Co.) in 79th New York State Legislature, 1856. He was a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the New York State Senate (17th D.) in 87th New York State Legislature, 1864 and 88th New York State Legislature, 1865. He was Judge of the Franklin County Court from 1867 to 1878. In 1884 United States presidential election, 1884, he ran for presidential elector on the Republican ticket (pledged to James G. Blaine), but New York was carried by Democrat Grover Cleveland. He was buried at the Morningside Cemetery (Malone, New York), Morningside Cemetery in Malone. Source ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hobbs (rugby League)
David Hobbs (born 13 September 1958) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and coached in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. He played at representative level for Great Britain and England, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers ( Heritage № 549), Oldham, Bradford Northern and Wakefield Trinity ( Heritage № 1055) ( captain), as a or , and coached at club level for Bradford Northern, Wakefield Trinity and Featherstone Rovers. Background David Hobbs was born in Hemsworth, Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Playing career Hobbs made his début for Featherstone Rovers on Monday 27 March 1978, he later played left- and was man of the match winning the Lance Todd trophy in Featherstone Rovers' 14–12 victory over Hull F.C. in the 1983 Challenge Cup Final during the 1982–83 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 7 May 1983, in front of a crowd of 84,969, in one of the biggest upsets in Wembley histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Raymond Hobbs
John Raymond Hobbs MRCS, FRCP, FRCPath, FRCPaed (17 April 1929 – 13 July 2008) was a professor who was at the forefront of the techniques of clinical immunology, protein biochemistry and bone marrow transplantation, specifically in child health. Early life John Hobbs was born in Aldershot. He was the third son of four male children of a soldier's family. His family moved around considerably due to his father's career in the British Army. The family eventually settled in his father's home town of Plymouth in the county of Devon. During the Second World War, John, along with his three brothers Frederick, William and Dennis, were evacuated from blitz-torn Plymouth to Penzance. He left school at 16 and worked as a pathology laboratory assistant and did his National Service in Egypt with the British Army Medical Corps. After National Service, John used the money he had saved from his army sergeant's pay to put himself into Plymouth and Devonport Technical College where he achie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Nelson Hobbs
John Nelson Hobbs (1923 – October 31, 1990) was a British-Australian career police officer and amateur ornithologist, best known for his involvement with the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union. Early life Hobbs was born in London, England in 1923. During World War II, he served as a gunner on tankers in the Atlantic Ocean. After the war, he joined the Metropolitan Police Force in London. In 1952, Hobbs emigrated to Australia and joined the NSW Police Force. Career Hobbs served as a New South Wales police officer until 1980, based in a succession of country towns, including Dareton, Finley, Buronga, Katoomba, Kyogle, Nowra, and Narrandera. During this period, he developed an amateur interest in ornithology and made detailed studies of local birdlife, including the article "The birds of south-west New South Wales." Hobbs' interest in ornithology also extended into his law enforcement career; he diligently prosecuted illegal bird trappers and shooters in the districts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jock Hobbs
Michael James Bowie Hobbs (15 February 1960 – 13 March 2012), generally known as Jock Hobbs, was a New Zealand rugby union player and administrator. A Flanker (rugby union), flanker, he played for Canterbury Rugby Football Union, Canterbury and won 21 caps for the New Zealand national rugby union team, New Zealand national team, the All Blacks, between 1983 and 1986, with four tests as captain. In later years he was prominent in rugby administration. Between 2002 and 2010 he was chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union before standing down due to illness. Youth and playing career Hobbs was born in Christchurch. He played in the first XV at Christ's College, Christchurch, Christ's College in Christchurch, and was a regular first choice for Canterbury Rugby Football Union, Canterbury from the 1981 season onwards, playing in the failed Ranfurly Shield challenge against Waikato Rugby Union, Waikato. His test debut came in 1983 against the British and Irish Lions, where he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Hobbs
Jerry R. Hobbs (born January 25, 1942) is an American researcher in the fields of computational linguistics, discourse analysis, and artificial intelligence. Education Hobbs earned his doctor's degree from New York University in 1974 in computer science and has taught at Yale University and the City University of New York. Career From 1977 to 2002 he was with the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International, Menlo Park, California, Menlo Park, California, where he was a principal scientist and program director of the Natural Language Program. He has written numerous papers in the areas of parsing, syntax, semantic interpretation, information extraction, knowledge representation, encoding commonsense knowledge, discourse analysis, the structure of conversation, and the Semantic Web. He is the author of the book ''Literature and Cognition'', and was also editor of the book ''Formal Theories of the Commonsense World''. He led SRI's text-understanding research, and directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Hobbs (footballer)
Jack Hobbs (born 18 August 1988) is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He has played in the English Football League and Premier League for Lincoln City, Liverpool, Scunthorpe United, Leicester City, Hull City, Nottingham Forest and Bolton Wanderers. A graduate of Lincoln City academy, Hobbs made one appearance for the League Two club in 2005 before signing for Liverpool of the Premier League. His playing time there was limited, so to gain first-team experience Liverpool loaned him out to Scunthorpe United and Leicester City. He signed permanently with the latter in 2009 and went on to make more than 100 appearances in three seasons with the club. Hobbs joined Hull City two years later and was club captain for the 2011–12 season. He joined Nottingham Forest in 2013, initially on loan, before signing permanently the following year. He was released in 2018, with opportunities in the team limited by persistent injuries. He then joined Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Hobbs
Sir John Berry Hobbs (16 December 1882– 21 December 1963), always known as Jack Hobbs, was an English professional cricketer who played for Surrey from 1905 to 1934 and for England in 61 Test matches between 1908 and 1930. Known as "The Master", he is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century-maker in first-class cricket, with 61,237 runs and 197 centuries. A right-handed batsman and an occasional right-arm medium pace bowler, Hobbs also excelled as a fielder, particularly in the position of cover point. Hobbs was named as one of the five ''Wisden'' Cricketers of the Century alongside Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Garfield Sobers, Shane Warne, and Sir Viv Richards. Born into poverty in 1882, Hobbs wished from an early age to pursue a career in cricket. His early batting was undistinguished, but a sudden improvement in 1901 brought him to the attention of local teams. In 1903, he successfully applied to jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Hobbs
Howard William Thomas Hobbs (born 22 January 1950) is an Australian politician who represented the seat of Warrego in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1 November 1986 until his retirement at the 31 January 2015 state election. He was a member of the National Party of Australia until the Queensland division merged with the Liberal party to form the Liberal National Party of Queensland. In February 1996, Hobbs was appointed as the Minister for Natural Resources in the Borbidge government. He resigned two years later, after his wife alleged that her husband was travelling with a young female staff member with whom he was having "an intimate and unprofessional relationship". It was later revealed that the staff member was Ann Leahy, who succeeded Hobbs as the member for Warrego in 2015. Hobbs was Shadow Minister for Local Government and Planning and for Communities from 28 September 2005 until the LNP entered government following the 2012 election. As the longest-serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horton H
Horton may refer to: Places Antarctica * Horton Glacier, Adelaide Island, Antarctica * Horton Ledge, Queen Elizabeth Land, Antarctica Australia * Horton, Queensland, a town and locality in the Bundaberg Region * Horton River (Australia), in northern New South Wales Canada * Horton, Ontario, a township * Horton River (Canada), a tributary of the Beaufort Sea * Horton Township, Nova Scotia, an 18th-century township; see Wolfville United Kingdom * Horton Beach, Port Eynon Bay, Wales * Horton, Berkshire, a village and civil parish * Horton, Buckinghamshire, a hamlet of Ivinghoe * Horton or Horton by Malpas, Cheshire, a village and former civil parish * Horton, Dorset, a village and civil parish ** Horton Priory, its ruined religious house upon which the parish church was built * Horton, Gloucestershire, a village * Horton, Lancashire, a village and civil parish * Horton, Northamptonshire, a village * Horton, Blyth, Northumberland, a village * Horton, Chatton, a pair o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredric Hobbs
Fredric Hobbs (December 30, 1931 - April 25, 2018) was an American artist and filmmaker. He is known for pioneering an artistic style he termed ART ECO. His work has been showcased at museums and galleries internationally, and his works are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. Biography Fredric Hobbs (full name Charles Fredric Hobbs) was born in Philadelphia on December 30, 1931. He attended the Menlo School in Menlo Park, California and in 1953 earned B.A. in History from Cornell University. After service as a US Air Force Officer in Korea, Hobbs maintained a studio in Madrid where he attended the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Later in life, his studios were located in San Francisco and Carmel, California. Since the 1950s, the artist's work has concerned spiritual and environmental consciousness. In 1963, Hobbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Hobbs (other)
Frederick Hobbs may refer to: *Fred Hobbs Frederick (Fred) Hobbs (17 December 1841 – 13 May 1920) was Mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand 1874–1877 for two terms; he was the first mayor who served more than one term. He is credited with having made significant improvements to the dr ... (1841–1920), mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand * Fred R. Hobbs (1947–2919), American businessman politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives * Frederick Hobbs (Pennsylvania politician) (1934–2005), American politician, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate * Frederick Hobbs (singer) (1874–1942), New Zealand-born singer, actor and theatre manager {{human name disambiguation, Hobbs, Frederick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
