The Reverend Robert Eugene Richards, known as Bob Richards ( born February 20, 1926, in Champaign, Illinois ), known as the " Vaulting Vicar " or the " Pole Vaulting Parson " in his competitive days, was a versatile athlete who made three Olympic teams in two events.

The Right Reverend Denis Eugene Hurley ( 9 November 1915 – 13 February 2004 ) was born in Cape Town to Irish parents, spending his early years on Robben Island, where his father was the lighthouse keeper.

Reverend Thomas Smith and Humfrey Wanley undertook the task of cataloguing the Cotton library, in which the Nowell Codex was held.

At age 16, he returned to Montpelier, where he began a two-year course of study under the Reverend Thomas Martin in preparation for college.

On 17 November 1834, the British amateur astronomer the Reverend Thomas John Hussey reported a conversation he had had with French astronomer Alexis Bouvard to George Biddell Airy, the British Astronomer Royal.

Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woolen goods, and the sister of the Reverend Humphry Burroughs.

The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS ( 13 or 14 February 1766 – 23 or 29 December 1834 ) was an English scholar, influential in political economy and demography.

Soon thereafter, a group of ten Congregationalist ministers: Samuel Andrew, Thomas Buckingham, Israel Chauncy, Samuel Mather, James Noyes, James Pierpont, Abraham Pierson, Noadiah Russell, Joseph Webb and Timothy Woodbridge, all of whom were alumni of Harvard, met in the study of Reverend Samuel Russell in Branford, Connecticut, to pool their books to form the school's first library.

Overpopulation has been a fascination of many, including economic theorist Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus whose " An Essay on the Principal of Population " was first published in 1798.

* July – The Reverend Thomas Baker, a Wesleyan Methodist missionary ( born in Playden, East Sussex, England ) is cooked and eaten by Navatusila tribespeople at Nabutautau on Fiji, together with eight of his local followers, the last missionary in that country to suffer cannibalism.

The Reverend Thomas Helmore, the choirmaster, encouraged Sullivan and arranged for the publication and performance of his early compositions.

Sullivan flourished under the training of the Reverend Thomas Helmore, master of the choristers, and began to compose anthems and songs.

Among Dewey's neighbors on Quaker Hill were the famous reporter and radio broadcaster Lowell Thomas, the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale, and the legendary CBS News journalist Edward R. Murrow.

Bayes ' theorem was named after the Reverend Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 61 ), who studied how to compute a distribution for the probability parameter of a binomial distribution ( in modern terminology ).

Thomas Wright Waller was the youngest of four children born to Adaline Locket Waller and the Reverend Edward Martin Waller.

The Reverend Mr. Thomas Dilworth ( died 1780 ) was an English cleric and author of a widely-used schoolbook, both in Great Britain and America, A New Guide to the English Tongue.

A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637 / Written by Major John Mason, a principal actor therein, as then chief captain and commander of Connecticut forces ; With an introduction and some explanatory notes by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Prince ( Boston: Printed & sold by.

A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637 / Written by Major John Mason, a principal actor therein, as then chief captain and commander of Connecticut forces ; With an introduction and some explanatory notes by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Prince ( Boston: Printed & sold by.

In Australia, the Reverend Childe worked as the minister for St. Thomas ' Parish, but proved unpopular, getting into many arguments with other members of the community and often taking unscheduled holidays into the countryside when he was supposed to be overseeing religious services.

It was named after the first minister of the parish's Congregational church, Reverend Thomas Brooks.

The Reverend Thomas Brooks was ordained as the first settled minister.

It is averred the surviving Jesuit priests at Stonyhurst instantly recognized the physical description of Moriarty as that of the Reverend Thomas Kay, S. J., Prefect of Discipline, under whose aegis Doyle came as a wayward pupil.

Famous New Londoners during the American Revolution include Nathan Hale, William Coit, Richard Douglass, Thomas & Nathaniel Shaw, Gen. Samuel Parsons, Printer Timothy Green, Reverend Seabury.

Other families granted land at their arrival were Reverend Robert Blinman, the Beebe brothers, Thomas Parke and Connecticut Governor John Hayne.

Early inhabitants included Robert Morris, Sr., agent for a Liverpool shipping firm who greatly influenced the town's growth ; his son, Robert Morris, Jr., known as " the financier of the Revolution ;" Jeremiah Banning, sea captain, war hero, and statesman ; The Reverend Thomas Bacon, Anglican clergyman who wrote the first compilation of the laws of Maryland ; Matthew Tilghman, known as the " patriarch of Maryland " and " father of statehood "; and Colonel Tench Tilghman, aide-de-camp to George Washington and the man who carried the message of General Cornwallis's surrender to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

The Reverend Thomas DeWitt Talmadge was a member and preached at the church.

This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.

Again Reverend Corder saved the bridge when Union soldiers planned to destroy it, after filling its two lanes with hay and straw -- but for what reason is not recorded nor remembered, certainly not because of pressure from an opposing Confederate force.

Reverend James Freeman Clarke was one of Alcott's few supporters and defended him against the harsh response from Boston periodicals.

* Reverend Norman McLeod, Presbyterian minister, St Ann's, who migrated in the 1850s with 800 settlers from surrounding communities to Waipu, New Zealand.

Occom, accompanied by Reverend Nathaniel Whitaker, traveled to England in 1766 to raise money from churches.

Notable rockabilly revivalists and psychobilly performers from the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century include Scott Owen ( from the Australian band The Living End ), Jimbo Wallace ( from the US band Reverend Horton Heat ), Kim Nekroman ( Nekromantix ), Patricia Day ( HorrorPops ), Geoff Kresge ( Tiger Army, ex-AFI ).

For many years, a staple of New Year's Eve television programming in Scotland was the comedy sketch show Scotch and Wry featuring the comedian Rikki Fulton, which invariably included a hilarious monologue from him as the preternaturally-gloomy Reverend I. M.

In it, he plays the Reverend Charles Fortescue, who is recalled from Africa to aid prostitutes.

Later, in Chapterhouse Dune, the Duncan ghola speaks to the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother Bellonda and recalls his past incarnation from the time of Leto II:

It was realised as early as 1767 that the stars in a clusters were physically related, when the English naturalist Reverend John Michell calculated that the probability of even just one group of stars like the Pleiades being the result of a chance alignment as seen from Earth was just 1 in 496, 000.

* Nimrod ( later Bastion )-a prototype Super Sentinel that arrived from the " Days of Future Past " timeline and was later reactivated by Reverend William Stryker.

He studied under the Reverend James Maury from 1758 to 1760 near Gordonsville, Virginia.

The Reverend Ezra Stiles, president of the College from 1778 to 1795, brought with him his interest in the Hebrew language as a vehicle for studying ancient Biblical texts in their original language ( as was common in other schools ), requiring all freshmen to study Hebrew ( in contrast to Harvard, where only upperclassmen were required to study the language ) and is responsible for the Hebrew phrase אורים ותמים ( Urim and Thummim ) on the Yale seal.

* January 3 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan meets with Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman and the Reverend Jesse Jackson at the White House, following Lieutenant Goodman's release from Syrian captivity.

** The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is released from prison in Seoul, South Korea.

The first " compleationist " was to be the Reverend A. E. Robertson, in 1901, later minister at Braes of Rannoch from 1907.

A more common argument is represented by Reverend John F. MacArthur, who claims that the genetic mutations necessary to produce a tapeworm from an amoeba are as unlikely as a monkey typing Hamlet's soliloquy, and hence the odds against the evolution of all life are impossible to overcome.

A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith by his daughter, Lady Holland, with a Selection from his Letters edited by Mrs Sarah Austin.

: They approach in full aquatic costume, with round blue jackets, striped shirts, and caps of all sizes and patterns, from the velvet skull-cap of French manufacture, to the easy head-dress familiar to the students of the old spelling-books, as having, on the authority of the portrait, formed part of the costume of the Reverend Mr. Dilworth.

Following the restoration of the monarchy, in 1663 the non-conformist Reverend John Norman, vicar from 1647 to 1660, was one of several ' religious fanatics ' confined to their homes by Lord Stawell's militia.

Reverend Joseph Docker settled in 1838 creating a pastoral run called Benalta Run, from the Aboriginal word for Musk Duck.

In " Brother from Another Series ," Reverend Lovejoy declares him a changed man and recommends him for a work release opportunity.