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Hoylet Framingham commanded eight British ( RHA: Ross, Bull, Macdonald ; RA: Lawson, Gardiner, Greene, Douglas, May ) and one Portuguese ( Arriaga ) six-gun artillery batteries.
His daughter Elizabeth was married in August 1800 to Gardiner Greene of Boston, a wealthy gentleman whose descendants preserved much of the correspondence of the Copley family.
A memorandum prepared for him by Gardiner Greene stated that long after the land " had passed out of Copley's possession it, or a part of it, was offered at no higher price than was paid to his son.
How deep into debt Copley had fallen in his latest years was hinted at in Mrs. Copley's letter of February 1, 1816, to Gardiner Greene in which she gave details of his assets and borrowings and predicted: " When the whole property is disposed of and applied toward the discharge of the debts a large deficiency must, it is feared, remain.
* January 27-The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D. C. by Gardiner Greene Hubbard.
The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company was formed February 12, 1878, by investors in the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island at the behest of an agent of Gardiner Greene Hubbard, the father-in-law of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
In 1981 after the inaugural Space Shuttle flight, he received the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Award, the American Astronautical Society's Flight Achievement Award, the National Geographic Society's Gardiner Greene Hubbard Medal, and the American Legion's Distinguished Service Medal.
* Gardiner Greene Hubbard ( 1822 – 1897 ), first president of the National Geographic Society
* 9 July 1877: Bell Telephone Company, a common law joint stock company, organized by Alexander Graham Bell's future father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard.
* 1879: The International Bell Telephone Company ( IBTC ) of Brussels, Belgium was founded by Bell Telephone Company president Gardiner Greene Hubbard, initially to sell imported telephones and switchboards in Continental Europe.
ASCE was founded in New York City on November 5, 1852, when twelve engineers — Julius W. Adams, J. W. Ayres, Alfred W. Craven, Thomas A. Emmet, Edward Gardiner, Robert B. Gorsuch, G. S. Greene, James Laurie, W. H. Morell, S. S. Post, W. H. Talcott, and W. H. Sidell — met at the offices of the Croton Aqueduct and formed the American Society of Civil Engineers and Architects.
The mountain was named in 1890 by USGS geologist Israel Russell after Gardiner Greene Hubbard, first president of the National Geographic Society, which had co-sponsored Russell's expedition.
Gardiner Greene Hubbard, first president of the National Geographic Society, built the colonial Georgian revival Twin Oaks on 50 acres ( 200, 000 m² ) in 1888.
The first four judges elected at the special judicial state election in June 1847 were Freeborn G. Jewett ( to a term of two and a half years ), Greene C. Bronson ( to a term of four and a half years ), Charles H. Ruggles ( to a term of six and a half years ), and Addison Gardiner ( to a term of eight and a half years ).
Grace Hubbard Fortescue was the granddaughter of Gardiner Greene Hubbard, the first president of the National Geographic Society.
The medal is named for Gardiner Greene Hubbard, first National Geographic Society president.
Gardiner Greene Hubbard ( August 25, 1822 – December 11, 1897 ) was a U. S. lawyer, financier, and philanthropist.
Hubbard was also a grandson of Boston merchant Gardiner Greene.
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According to Sumner Tainter, it was through Gardiner Green Hubbard that Bell took up the phonograph challenge.
In 1903, Bell and his wife, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, traveled to Genoa to exhume the body.
The American Bell Telephone Co. had been organized by Gardiner G. Hubbard, father in law of Alexander Graham Bell.
Charles Sumner Tainter ( April 25, 1854 – April 20, 1940 ) was an American scientific instrument maker, engineer and inventor, best known for his collaborations with Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, Alexander's father-in-law Gardiner Hubbard, and for his significant improvements to Thomas Edison's phonograph, resulting in the Graphophone, one version of which was the first Dictaphone.
* Mabel Gardiner Hubbard ( 1857 – 1923 ), wife of Alexander Graham Bell
Her grandfather Gardiner Hubbard was the first president of Bell Telephone Company.
In 2010, the provincial government named the entire highway Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell Way in honour of Mabel Gardiner Hubbard and her husband Alexander Graham Bell, who resided and are buried at Beinn Bhreagh near Baddeck.
He practiced his profession in Boston until 1873, when he relocated to Washington, D. C. Gardiner Hubbard's father Samuel Hubbard was a Massachusetts Supreme Court justice.
Gardiner Hubbard helped establish a city water works in Cambridge, was a founder of the Cambridge Gas Co. and later organized a Cambridge to Boston trolley system.
Hubbard married and had six children: Robert Hubbard ( 1847-1849 ); Gertrude Hubbard ( 1849-1886 ); Mabel Gardiner Hubbard ( 1859 – 1923 ); Roberta Hubbard ( 1859-1885 ); Grace Hubbard ( 1865-1948 ); and Marian Hubbard ( 1867-1869 ).

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In 1975, filmmaker and clay animation experimenter, Will Vinton, joined with sculptor Bob Gardiner to create an experimental film called " Closed Mondays " which became the world's first stop motion film to win an Oscar.
Livingston became the original gateway to Yellowstone National Park, which the NPR began promoting heavily to visitors from the East, by way of a branch running some sixty miles south to first the Cinnabar station and later Gardiner.
Here he became friends with John Frith and William Tyndale, and became a member of the group of humanist theologians that met at the White Horse Tavern-a group that included the future Lutherans Edward Fox and Robert Barnes, and the arch-conservative Stephen Gardiner.
The QEW formerly continued beyond Highway 427 to the old Toronto city limits at the Humber River ; this section was downloaded from provincial to municipal ownership on April 1, 1997, and became part of the Gardiner Expressway.
Reed mentored and protected the careers of a number of young lawyers at RFC, many of whom became highly influential in the Roosevelt administration: Alger Hiss, Robert H. Jackson, Thomas Gardiner Corcoran, Charles Edward Wyzanski, Jr. ( later an important federal district court judge ), and David Cushman Coyle.
Among her students were those who became leading soloists, composers, and conductors, including Aaron Copland, John Eliot Gardiner, Dinu Lipatti, Igor Markevitch, Philip Glass, and Ástor Piazzolla.
The area known as Gardiner ( later Malvern ) was proclaimed a Roads Board District in 1856 and became a municipality in 1871, taking the name Malvern in 1878.
Henry Wise Wood retired as president of the UFA, more-reformist-minded UFA MP Robert Gardiner became president ; the UFA conventions passed increased calls for strong government measures to address the province's widespread poverty ; the UFA joined with the Labour Party and other political groups to help found the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, the first Canada-wide farmer / labour political party ( other than the revolutionary Communist Party of Canada ).
Gardiner defeated Anderson in the 1934 election, and became Premier a second time.
In 1639, on the basis of a grant by King Charles I, the island was settled by Lion Gardiner as a proprietary colony, the first English colonial settlement in what later became New York state.
Lion Gardiner in 1639 purchased land, what became known as Gardiner's Island, from the Montaukett people.
When John Frith first began his studies at Cambridge University ; he was tutored by Stephen Gardiner, who later became the Bishop of Winchester.
One new member was Gerald Gardiner, who subsequently became Lord Chancellor in Harold Wilson's Labour Party government of 1964 – 1970.
Thus the Falmouth Spur became I-95, and the Turnpike was unnumbered between the Spur and Gardiner.
The main Black Ark Upsetters became Boris Gardiner ( bass ), Mikey Richards, Sly Dunbar, Benbow Creary ( drums ), Earl " Chinna " Smith ( guitar ), Winston Wright ( keyboards ) and Keith Sterling ( keyboards ).
In 1911, Gardiner first became involved in politics.
Gardiner became indulgent, chartering aircraft for weekends of fishing.
After that, Gardiner became less involved in business and had no directorships by 1975.
Most of the Magdalen evangelicals became exiles under Mary I, and their influence was purged from the college by Stephen Gardiner in 1554.
Late in the 1932 – 33 season, he was hired as coach of the Chicago Black Hawks and became general manager as well the following season, building a defensive squad around Lionel Conacher and goalie Charlie Gardiner.
Six of their children survived infancy and early childhood: William Tudor ( 1779-1830 ); John Henry ( 1782 – 1802 ), who roomed with Washington Allston at Harvard ; Frederic ( September 4, 1783 – February 6, 1864 ); Emma Jane ( 1785 – 1865 ), who married Robert Hallowell Gardiner ; Delia ( 1787 – 1861 ), who became the wife of Charles Stewart, captain of the USS Constitution ; and Henry James ( 1791 – 1864 ).
Through strategic planning by MBC's second CEO Nap Gardiner, MBC became much more independent of federal funding.
He was also a descendant of Lion Gardiner, an early English settler and soldier in the New World who founded the first English settlement in what later became the State of New York.

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