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Thomas Young (American Revolutionary), Thomas Young
Thomas Young may refer to: Military * Thomas Young (American revolutionary) (1731–1777), member of the Sons of Liberty * Thomas James Young (1827–1869), recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Indian mutiny * Thomas Young (VC) (1895–1966), recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War I * Tomas Young (1979–2014), Iraq War veteran, subject of the documentary ''Body of War'' Politics * Thomas Young (MP for Shropshire), MP for Shropshire four times between 1380 and 1399 * Thomas Young (MP for Winchelsea), 1413–1425, MP for Winchelsea * Thomas Young (died 1427), MP for Bristol 1414 * Thomas Yonge or Young, MP for Bristol (1435–1453, 1455) and Gloustershire, justice of the Common Pleas and the King's Bench * Thomas Ainslie Young (1797–1860), official and political figure in Lower Canada * Thomas Young (Australian politician) (1813–1904), South Australian MHA * Thomas L. Young (1832–1888), governor of Ohio * Thomas Ganley Young (born 1947), mayor of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Young (theologian)
Thomas Young (c. 1587–1655) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian, resident in England and a member of the Westminster Assembly. He was the major author of the Smectymnuus group of leading Puritan churchmen. He was also Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, and is known as the tutor to John Milton from the age of about ten. Life He was born in Perthshire, his father William Young being a vicar. He studied at St Andrews University, graduating M.A. in 1606. He then moved south to England. In London, from before 1612, he worked as a teaching assistant to Thomas Gataker. He tutored Milton, possibly from 1618 to 1620 or 1622, and continued to correspond with him. He then took a position in Hamburg, as minister to English merchants there, returning to England in 1628. Between 1628 and 1655 Young was vicar at the church of St Peter and St Mary in Stowmarket and his portrait hangs on the south wall of the church nave. He was the primary author of the pamphlet ''An Answer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Crane Young
Thomas Crane Young (February 28, 1858 - March 2, 1934) was an American architect.''New York Times'' (March 3, 1934), p. 13. He was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. His father was an officer in the Civil War in the 14th Wisconsin regiment. The family moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan before Young left school. He worked for the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad and then obtained a scholarship to Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. After two years he went to Europe to study at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris and at Heidelberg University, after which he took a job in Boston for the architectural firms of Van Brunt & Howe and E. M. Wheelwright. He joined in business with William S. Eames in St. Louis, forming the form Eames and Young. The firm gained many important commissions, including federal prisons in Atlanta, Georgia, and Leavenworth, Kansas. Young was opposed to some of the practices of Washington University architectural school, including the requirement for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Young (scientist)
Thomas Young Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (13 June 177310 May 1829) was a British polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of Visual perception, vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, harmony, musical harmony, and Egyptology. He was instrumental in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, specifically the Rosetta Stone. Young has been described as "The Last Man Who Knew Everything". His work influenced that of William Herschel, Hermann von Helmholtz, James Clerk Maxwell, and Albert Einstein. Young is credited with establishing Christiaan Huygens' wave theory of light, in contrast to the corpuscular theory of Isaac Newton. Young's work was subsequently supported by the work of Augustin-Jean Fresnel. Personal life Young belonged to a Quaker family of Milverton, Somerset, where he was born in 1773, the eldest of ten children. By the age of fourteen, Young had learned Greek language, Greek, Latin, French language, French, Italian language, It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Young (developer)
Thomas Young (c. 1650 – ?) was an English woodcarver and property developer, best known for Kensington Square. It is thought that he was born in Devon. Young was apprenticed to a joiner and woodcarver, and was admitted to the Joiners' Company as a freeman in 1670, at the age of about 20. In 1685, he acquired 14 acres of land in Kensington which he sought to develop, and as he later described it in 1701, "did sett out and appoint a considerable part thereof to be built into a large Square of large and substantial Houses fit for ye Habitacion of persons of good Worth and Quality, with Courts and Yards before and Gardens lying backwards". This was Kensington Square. From 1692 onwards, the central garden was laid out. Young attempted to develop Kensington Square alone, but had financial problems, which led him to sell plots to other developers, and to borrow more money. He was eventually jailed in the King's Bench Prison for debt. He was backed by Thomas Sutton, who persuaded hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Young (architect)
Thomas Young (1805-October 3, 1860) was an English born Canadian architect who practiced in Canada and built public buildings in early 19th-Century Toronto. Life Born in 1805, Young began training in London under Charles Heathcote Tatham and under Joseph Bramah and Sons. He moved to Toronto where he would be commissioned to build in Toronto and around Southern Ontario. Buildings involving Young * Wellington County Jail - Guelph 1839–1840; designer but built by William Day and partially demolished in 1911 for new jailhouse. * Huron Historic Gaol - Goderich, Ontario 1839–1842, closed 1972 and now a museum. * Guelph Gaol - Guelph, Ontario c 1840; closed 1980. * Simcoe District Jail - Barrie, Ontario 1841; closed 2001 but facility is part of Superior Court of Justice of Ontario courthouse complex * Trinity Church - Streetsville, Ontario 1842 * St. Andrew's Market and Playground - Toronto 1849; destroyed by fire in 1860 * King's College Building 1842-1845 - became an Asylu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Young (sprinter)
Thomas Robert Young (born 27 July 2000) is a British Paralympic athlete who competes in sprinting events at international events, he is a Paralympic Games gold medallist, three-time European champion and a two-time World silver medalist. Career At the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships, he won silver in the T38 100 metres. He won the gold medal in the men's 100 metres T38 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan. He also won the 100 metres mixed class event at the 2021 British Athletics Championships. Young was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to athletics. At the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships, he came 7th in the 100 metres. The following year at the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships, he won silver in the 100 metres. At the 2024 Summer Paralympics The 2024 Summer Paralympics (), also known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games (), and branded as Paris 2024, were the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Young (footballer)
Thomas McIlwain Young (born 24 December 1947) is a Scottish former footballer, who played as midfielder for Falkirk, Tranmere Rovers, Rotherham United and Runcorn Runcorn is an industrial town and Runcorn Docks, cargo port in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England. Runcorn is on the south bank of the River Mersey, where the estuary narrows to form the Runcorn Gap. It is upstream from the port of Live .... References 1947 births Living people Footballers from Glasgow Men's association football midfielders Scottish men's footballers Falkirk F.C. players Tranmere Rovers F.C. players Rotherham United F.C. players Runcorn F.C. Halton players Scottish Football League players English Football League players {{Scotland-footy-midfielder-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Young
Thomas M. Machlay (born July 9, 1947), better known by the ring name Tommy Young, is an American retired professional wrestling referee and professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with Jim Crockett Promotions. Career Tommy Young started out as a wrestler in 1971 for Ed Farhat in Michigan and later as a referee in Pedro Martínez's National Wrestling Federation. In 1975, he worked for the National Wrestling Alliance and Jim Crockett Promotions as a referee. By the 1980s, Young was the Senior Referee for Jim Crockett Promotions and refereed most of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship matches. In this role, Young officiated many famous matches throughout professional wrestling history, including several classic bouts between Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat. He had a unique style of urgently sliding to the mat to officiate the pinfall. He often employed strong facial expressions and creative body language to sell wrestler's moves, express pain if he was attac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Young (footballer)
Thomas Young was a Scottish amateur football outside left who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park and Queen of the South. He was capped by Scotland at amateur An amateur () is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income. Amateurs and their pursuits are also described as popular, informal, autodidacticism, self-taught, user-generated, do it yourself, DI ... level. References Scottish men's footballers Queen's Park F.C. players Scottish Football League players Scotland men's amateur international footballers Men's association football fullbacks Year of birth missing Place of birth missing Year of death missing Queen of the South F.C. players {{Scotland-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Young (swimmer)
Thomas Young (born 3 May 1991) is a British Paralympic swimmer. He represented Britain at the 2012 London Paralympics and has won medals at both the long course and short course World Championships. Personal history Young was born in Lancaster, England in 1991. He was born without a right hand and forearm and two club feet. Swimming career Young was introduced to swimming at the age of five by his mother, who wanted him to be able to swim as he became older. He began competing at the age of 12 and was subsequently classified as a S8 disability swimmer. In 2008 Young attempted to qualify for the British team for the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, but missed out on a place in the 400m freestyle event by 0.3 seconds. In 2009 he first represented Great Britain at a major international tournament, the IPC Swimming European Championships in Reykjavik. Young reached the finals of six events in Iceland. On the first day of the Championships he finished in second place behind Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Young (rugby Union)
Thomas Young (born 18 May 1992) is a Welsh rugby union player. A flanker, who plays rugby for Cardiff Rugby. Whilst under contract with the Cardiff Blues, he also played for Cardiff RFC and Pontypridd RFC. He is the son of former Wales international and former Wasps director of rugby Dai Young. On 24 January 2014, Thomas Young was released early by Cardiff Blues as he signed a short-term deal to join Gloucester Rugby until the end of the 2013/14 season. On 13 May 2014, Thomas was signed to Wasps from the 2014–15 season, reuniting with his father, who was the Director of Rugby. On 16 January 2017 Young was called up to the Wales Squad for the 2017 Six Nations Championship The 2017 Six Nations Championship was the 18th series of the Six Nations Championship, the annual northern hemisphere rugby union championship. The tournament was also known as the RBS 6 Nations because of the tournament's sponsorship by NatWest .... In May 2017 he was named in the Wales senior squad for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
