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* Jemmy Wood, owner of the Gloucester Old Bank and possibly Britain ’ s first millionaire, was nationally renowned for his stinginess, and may have been another.
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Jemmy and Old
Subdivision part of Throsby Park for the town of Moss Vale, named after Jemmy Moss, a herdsman at Throsby Park, commenced in 1864, in anticipation of the opening of Sutton Forest railway station in 1867 at the intersection with Old Argyle Road.
Jemmy and Britain
His brother Jemmy proposed getting him an Ulster seat, and thought that the prospect of Wilson as an MP would annoy Robertson ( who told Wilson that there was no army job for him in Britain ), but the Irish Unionist leader Carson thought an English seat more sensible.
Jemmy and ’
By 1921 he and his brothers had all had to leave, unable to access papers and valuables, his brother Jemmy living in impecunious circumstances at Rye in Sussex ( Wilson had to pay for the schooling of Jemmy ’ s daughter ), and it was unsafe for Wilson even to book a ferry crossing to Dublin under his own name.
In June 1921 Wilson was petitioned for clemency by MacEoin ’ s mother ( who referred to her son as " John " in her letter ), by his own brother Jemmy, and by the local Church of Ireland vicar, and passed on the appeals out of respect for the latter two individuals.
* Jemmy stops lang at the fair – appears on page 12 of J. W. Swanston ’ s Tyneside Songster
Jemmy and first
Four native Fuegians, including " Jemmy Button " ( Orundellico ), were brought from Tierra del Fuego by Robert FitzRoy on his first voyage with the HMS Beagle in 1830.
Four native Fuegians, including " Jemmy Button " ( Orundellico ), were brought from Tierra del Fuego by Robert Fitzroy on his first voyage with the HMS Beagle in 1830.
" In contrast, he said of Jemmy Button that " It seems yet wonderful to me, when I think over all his many good qualities, that he should have been of the same race, and doubtless partaken of the same character, with the miserable, degraded savages whom we first met here.
Jemmy and was
From ages 11 to 16, the young " Jemmy " Madison was sent to study under Donald Robertson, an instructor at the Innes plantation in King and Queen County, Virginia in the Tidewater region.
John Gay's The Beggar's Opera was played in Covent Garden shortly thereafter, and the similarity of Sandwich's conduct to that of Jemmy Twitcher, betrayer of Macheath in that play, permanently attached to him that appellation.
They were given names: the girl he called Fuegia Basket ( so named because the replacement for the stolen boat was an improvised coracle that resembled a basket ), the boy Jemmy Button ( he was purchased by FitzRoy with buttons ) and the one man who did not escape he named York Minster ( named after the large rock near which he was captured ).
Their leader, Jemmy ( referred to in some reports as " Cato ", and probably a slave belonging to the Cato, or Cater, family who lived just off the Ashley River and north of the Stono River ) was a literate slave who led 20 other enslaved Kongolese, who may have been former soldiers, in an armed march south from the Stono River ( for which the rebellion is named ).
Jemmy, the leader of the revolt, was a literate slave described in an eyewitness account as " Angolan "; because of patterns of trade, he was more likely from the Kingdom of Kongo in west Central Africa, which had long had relations with Portuguese traders.
One of the more famous visitors to Cranmer Station ( in 1860 ) was Jemmy Button who had learnt English, and visited England aboard the Beagle in 1830-31.
Jemmy Hirst ( 1738 – 1829 ) was an English eccentric.
James " Jemmy " Hirst was born to a farmer family of Rawcliffe, Yorkshire.
Jemmy proceeded to throw a goblet of water in his face because he was clearly " having hysterics ".
On August 27, 1754, a deposition was filed by a Captain John B. W. Shaw that stated the Native Americans, including Queen Alquippa, loyal to the British were going to " Jemmy Arther " for protection.
" Jemmy Arther " was Aughwick or George Croghan's settlement.
Orundellico, known as " Jeremy Button " or " Jemmy Button ", ( c. 1815 – 1864 ) was a native Fuegian of the Yaghan ( or Yamana ) people from islands around Tierra del Fuego, in modern Chile and Argentina.
Jemmy Button was paid for with a mother of pearl button, hence his name.
After initial difficulty recalling his language and customs, Jemmy was soon out of his European clothes and habits.
Some time later in 1859, another group of missionaries was killed at Wulaia Bay by the Yaghan, supposedly led by Jemmy and his family.
According to Julia Voss, the German children's book, Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer by Michael Ende, translated into English as Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver, was based on Jemmy Button.
* The novel Jemmy Button by the Chilean writer Benjamin Subercaseaux was published in the 1950s and translated from Spanish by Mary and Fred del Villar ( New York: The Macmilllan Company, 1954 ).
Jemmy and for
In his anger, Tim throws an ice-cream at the leader of the angelic forces ... only for her to merge with the leader of the demonic forces and reveal herself as Shivering Jemmy of the Shallow Brigade.
The South American Missionary Society had converted and clothed the natives of Tierra del Fuego that Darwin thought were untameable, and after Bartholomew Sulivan sent a photograph of Jemmy Button's son as evidence, Darwin made donations for several years.
He also responded to an appeal asking the HMS Beagle's officers for help in supporting an orphan – the grandson of Jemmy Button.
" The mission was set up for the three Fuegians, but when the Beagle returned a year later only Jemmy was found, and he had returned to his tribal ways, speaking English as well as ever and assuring them that he " had not the least wish to return to England " and was " happy and contented " to live in what they thought a shockingly primitive manner with his wife.
Jemmy and another
Later that same year, he joined forces with another two felons but his second gang disbanded soon after one of them, Jemmy the Whisperer, shot a policeman.
Jemmy and .
Jemmy Dean and John Wisden formed a rival team, the United All-England Eleven, in 1852.
Jemmy Dean and John Wisden are the main organisers.
* Most runs – Jemmy Dean 516 @ 16. 12 ( HS 99 )
They returned to the mission post but found only Jemmy Button who had returned to native ways and refused the offer to go with them back to England.
* Most wickets – Jemmy Dean 98 @ 11. 47 ( BB 8 – 38 )
It is likely that Jemmy and his rebel cohort were such military men, as they fought hard against the militia when they were caught, and were able to kill 20 of them.
On Sunday, 9 September 1739, Jemmy gathered 20 enslaved Africans near the Stono River, southwest of Charleston.
Rallying a militia of planters and slaveholders, the colonists traveled to confront Jemmy and his followers.
* Most runs – Jemmy Dean 372 @ 12. 82 ( HS 62 )
Jemmy Hirst died 1829.
Wood and owner
Munroe's method of making pencils was painstakingly slow, and in the neighbouring town of Acton, a pencil mill owner named Ebenezer Wood set out to automate the process at his own pencil mill located at Nashoba Brook along the old Davis Road.
Woodson and its accompanying Woodson Lake and Wood Hollow are the namesake for Ed Wood Sr., a prominent plantation owner, trader, and businessman at the turn of the 20th century.
Its first elected official was N. H. Wood, the owner of a large portion of the land within the town's borders.
In 1885, they decided to use this power, as Edward Press, the owner of Bacton Wood mill, and a trader with a fleet of wherries, wished to purchase it.
On November 24, Dan Wood, Karelia owner and Watson lead developer, made the last version of Watson available free of charge by posting a registration code on his weblog.
It was at this time that he also befriended three prominent Black business owners: Ed Wood Sr., owner of the largest Black-owned plantation in the state ; John Bush, a powerful Black merchant ; and Chester Keatts.
The last known stocking-frame in Earl Shilton disappeared when its owner, a man named Mr. Pratt, who lived in Wood Street, died.
* John Tronolone, local restaurateur, part owner of Oliver ’ s, Siena, 800 Maple, and Rocco ’ s Wood Fired Pizza.
William Madison Wood — the owner of the American Woolen Company, who had made a large payment to the defendant under unexplained circumstances shortly before the dynamite was found — was not charged.
Wood — the owner of the American Woolen Company — was formally exonerated.
Notable buildings include Knabbe's Hall which was built in late 17th century for William and Elizabeth Wood of Wortley Forge, and the Old Station House, a building located directly beside the railway line which once housed the railway owner but now functions as a residential building.
The rights were purchased from Baird's estate in 1986 by Denny Meadows of Chesapeake, West Virginia, who sold them to the current owner, Bill Wood of Toccoa, Georgia in 1998.
Abourezk was born in Wood, South Dakota, the son of Lena ( née Mickel ), a homemaker, and Charles Abourezk, an owner of two general stores.
* Robert Wood Johnson IV ( born 1947 ), the current owner of the New York Jets
He is a great-grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I ( co-founder of Johnson & Johnson ), and the owner of the New York Jets of the National Football League.
Buck O ' Brien started this game over Red Sox ace Wood at the insistence of Red Sox owner Jimmy McAleer, over the protests of Boston manager Stahl.
* Robert Wood Johnson IV 1965-Chairman and CEO of The Johnson Company and owner of the New York Jets
Commissioned by Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax, a former owner of Hickleton Hall, it was designed by Alfred Young Nutt, in 1914 who had been recently forceably retired as Surveyor to the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor.
His search leads him to Nat Cooper ( Elijah Wood ), one of the two boys who opened the chamber, and owner of the aforementioned jacket.
Wood was also the owner of Llanthony Priory.
* A history of the Forestry Commission, owner of Bourne Wood but not of those nearby ( except Fox Wood ).
* Glen Wood, owner, founder of legendary Wood Brothers Racing team, 98 career wins ;
7.118 seconds.