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Thomas, Tom Stevens or Thomas, Tom Stephens may refer to: Military * Thomas Holdup Stevens (1795–1841), American naval commander in the War of 1812 * Thomas H. Stevens Jr. (1819–1896), admiral of the United States Navy who fought in the American Civil War Politicians *Thomas Stevens (MP for Gloucester), MP for Gloucester, 1420–1442 *Thomas G. Stephens (1818–?), Wisconsin legislator *Thomas Blacket Stephens (1819–1877), mayor of Brisbane * Thomas Jordan Stevens (1848–1900), member of the Utah State legislature *Thomas E. Stephens (politician) (1904–1988), American politician *Tom Stephens (born 1951), Australian politician, member of the Parliament of Western Australia 1982 to 2013 *Tom Stevens (Objectivist Party politician) (1956–2019), American politician, 2008 and 2012 presidential nominee of the Objectivist Party *Tom Stevens (Vermont politician), member of the Vermont House of Representatives Religion * Thomas Stevens (monk) (c. 1490–1550), abbot of Netley Ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Holdup Stevens
Captain Thomas Holdup Stevens, USN (February 22, 1795 – January 21, 1841) was an American naval commander in the War of 1812. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Thomas Holdup was orphaned at an early age and was adopted by General Daniel Stevens. On February 8, 1809, he was appointed midshipman on board ''Hornet''. From then until 1812, he served successively in ''Constitution'', ''President'', and ''John Adams''. Late in 1812, he was assigned to duty with Commodore Isaac Chauncey and distinguished himself in the attack on Black Rock on November 28. Commodore Chauncey appointed him acting lieutenant in January 1813 and his permanent commission in that rank, to date from July 24, was confirmed by the Senate on August 3. On September 10, he again distinguished himself as captain of the sloop, ''Trippe'', during the Battle of Lake Erie. In 1815, an Act of the Legislature of South Carolina enabled him to add General Stevens' surname to his own. Following the War of 1812, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Stephens (American Football)
Thomas Stephens (August 29, 1935 – July 12, 2018) was a professional American football player who played tight end for five seasons for the Boston Patriots of the American Football League The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL), and became the American Football Conference. ... (AFL). References 1935 births 2018 deaths American football tight ends Boston Patriots players Curry Colonels athletic directors Curry Colonels football coaches Harvard Crimson football coaches Syracuse Orange football players Sportspeople from Galveston, Texas Coaches of American football from Texas Players of American football from Texas {{tightend-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Stevens (actor)
Thomas James Stevens (born June 24, 1987) is a Canadian actor, producer, and musician. He is best known for his role as Jason Higgins on Fox TV's '' Wayward Pines''. Stevens regularly performs in theatre in Vancouver and received critical acclaim for his role as "Jerry" in '' The Zoo Story'' during Vancouver's 2014 Fringe Festival season. In 2016, he won a Leo Award for Best Actor in a Guest Starring Role for ''Wayward Pines''. Early life Stevens was born on June 24, 1987, in Vancouver, British Columbia. The child of a writer, Diane Stevens (née Ried) and a visual artist, David Stevens, Tom was always encouraged to nurture his creativity and began playing music and writing songs at a young age. He first began acting in high school plays and received positive responses, but succumbed to nerves before his audition to theatre school and gave up acting for several years. After a period of working jobs in the service sector, including as a janitor, Stevens felt unfulfilled and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Stevens (trumpeter)
Thomas Stevens (July 29, 1938 – July 14, 2018) was an American trumpeter, composer, and author. Thomas Stevens was appointed to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 1965 by then music director, Zubin Mehta, who named him principal trumpet in 1972, a position he held until 2000. He served in the same capacity with the "World Orchestra for Peace," Sir Georg Solti's hand-picked group assembled in Geneva for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations, and the Casals Festival Orchestra in Puerto Rico. The Los Angeles appointment was preceded by a stint in the U.S. Army as solo trumpeter with the West Point Band followed by a one year engagement with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his work as an orchestral musician, Mr.Stevens has performed and recorded as a soloist and chamber musician with major organizations worldwide, including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and during the early 1980s he was invited by Pierre Boulez to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry-Thomas
Terry-Thomas (born Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens; 10 July 19118 January 1990) was an English character actor and comedian who became internationally known through his films during the 1950s and 1960s. He often portrayed disreputable members of the upper classes, especially cads, toffs and bounders, using his distinctive voice; his costume and props tended to include a monocle, waistcoat and cigarette holder. His striking dress sense was set off by a gap between his two upper front teeth. Born in London, Terry-Thomas made his film debut, uncredited, in ''The Private Life of Henry VIII'' (1933). He spent several years appearing in smaller roles, before wartime service with Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) and Stars in Battledress. The experience helped sharpen his cabaret and revue act, increased his public profile and proved instrumental in the development of his successful comic stage routine. On his demobilisation, he starred in ''Piccadilly Hayride'' on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Stevens Stevens
Thomas Stevens Stevens FRS FRSE (1900 – 2000) was a 20th Scottish organic chemist. He was affectionately known as T.S.S. or Tommy Stevens. Life He was born in Renfrew on 8 October 1900, the only son of John Stevens and his wife, Jane Irving. His father was a design engineer and Production Director of William Simons & Co. shipbuilders in Renfrew. He was home educated by his mother (a former schoolteacher) until 1908 then educated at Paisley Grammar School. In 1915 he moved to Glasgow Academy and completed his education there in 1917. He studied Science at Glasgow University under a Taylor Open Bursary, graduating BSc in 1921. He continued at Glasgow as a researcher and as assistant to Horwood Tucker. In 1923 he went to Oxford University to study under Prof William Henry Perkin, gaining his first doctorate (PhD) in 1925. He returned to Glasgow University in 1925 as a university assistant. In 1928 he became a teaching assistant and in 1933 a Lecturer which he continued until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Stephens (educationist)
Thomas Stephens, , FGS, (4 October 1830 – 25 November 1913) was an Australian educationist. Stephens was second son of the Rev. William Stephens, B.A., vicar of Levens, Westmoreland, England. The family came originally from the South of England, but a branch of it was settled for many years in County Cavan, Ireland, where they held considerable landed property. Mr. Stephens' grandfather was vicar of Castletown, Delvin, co. Westmeath. His father migrated to England, after being ordained, and remained, until his death in 1864, in charge of the Westmoreland parish. Thomas Stephens was born at Levens, Westmorland in 1830, received his education at Marlborough College, proceeding thence to Oxford in 1850. Here he entered first at The Queen's College, Oxford, where his elder brother, Professor William Stephens, of the University of Sydney, was afterwards Fellow and Tutor; but subsequently obtained a scholarship at Magdalen Hall, now Hertford College. In 1854, he took his B.A. d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Stevens (weaver)
Thomas Stevens (1828–1888) was a 19th-century weaver from Coventry, famous for his invention of the stevengraph, a woven silk picture. Biography In the 19th century the town of Coventry, England, was the centre of a ribbon weaving industry. Thomas Stevens was born in Foleshill, just to the north of Coventry, in 1828 to a relatively poor family.Lynes, (n.d.). Stevens worked for Pears and Franklin, a local ribbon weavers in Coventry, and by 1854 had created his own ribbon firm. In 1860, however, the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty was signed; this free trade treaty introduced new competition into the industry, leading to a collapse in the local ribbon economy and a huge loss of employment in Coventry.Stevengraphs - What are they?', Stevengraph Collectors Association, accessed 4 October 2011. Stevens had considerable experience of experimenting with the Jacquard loom and responded to the local recession by trying to develop new products. He had invented a way of using the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Stephens (historian)
Thomas Stephens (Bardic names: Casnodyn, Gwrnerth, Caradawg) (21 April 1821 – 4 January 1875) was a Welsh historian, literary critic, and social reformer. His works include ''The Literature of the Kymry'' (1849,1876), ''Madoc: An Essay on the Discovery of America by Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd in the Twelfth Century'' (1858,1893), and ''Orgraff yr Iaith Gymraeg'' (1859) (an orthography of Welsh), as well as a number of prize-winning essays presented at eisteddfodau between 1840 and 1858. He was the first Welsh historian and literary critic to employ rigorous scientific methods, and is considered to have done more to raise the standards of the National Eisteddfod than any other Welshman of his time. Stephens also figured prominently in efforts to implement social, educational and sanitary reforms both locally in Merthyr Tydfil and more broadly throughout Wales. Life Thomas Stephens was born on 21 April 1821 at Pont Nedd Fechan, Glamorganshire, Wales, the son of a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradfield College
Bradfield College, formally St Andrew's College, Bradfield, is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) for pupils aged 11–18, located in the small village of Bradfield in the English county of Berkshire. It is noted for producing plays in Ancient Greek and its open-air amphitheatre. The school is a member of the Rugby Group, which also includes Rugby, Harrow, Shrewsbury, Wellington College and Charterhouse. The college was founded in 1850 by Thomas Stevens, Rector and Lord of the Manor of Bradfield. It has around 490 male and 320 female pupils. Overview According to the '' Good Schools Guide'', "Thoroughly unpretentious yet with lots to boast about, Bradfield is a heavenly place to learn and to grow. Very difficult to imagine who would not thrive here. There's something for everyone and lots for all." The school, which admits pupils between the ages of 13–18, has been fully co-educational since September 2005. All first year pupils (Fourth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Stephens Davies
Thomas Stephens Davies FRS FRSE (1795–1851) was a British mathematician. Life He was born on 1 January 1795. Davies made his earliest communications to the '' Leeds Correspondent'' in July 1817 and the ''Gentleman's Diary'' for 1819. He subsequently contributed largely to the ''Gentleman's and Lady's Diary'', Clay's ''Scientific Receptacle'', the ''Monthly Magazine'', the ''Philosophical Magazine'', the ''Bath and Bristol Magazine'', and the ''Mechanics' Magazine''. Davies was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 19 March 1840 Davies's early acquaintance with Dr. William Trail, the author of the ''Life of Dr. Robert Simson'', materially influenced his course of study and made him familiar with the old as well as with the modern professors of geometry. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1831, and he contributed several original and elaborate papers to its ''Transactions''. He also published ''Researches on Terrestrial Magnetism'' in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Stephens (boxer)
Thomas Stephens (born 18 November 1969) is a Liberian boxer. He competed in the men's bantamweight event at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October .... References 1969 births Living people Liberian male boxers Olympic boxers for Liberia Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Bantamweight boxers {{Liberia-boxing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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