Mathew Evans is one of two Canadians who developed and patented an incandescent light bulb, on July 24, 1874, five years before Thomas Alva Edison's U. S. patent on the device.

Thomas R. Evans / Hon.

Local mill owners Jedediah Strutt and Thomas Evans opposed the proposed canal, fearing it would interfere with the water supply for their own mills, but in 1789 Parliament granted permission to construct the canal.

Entrepreneurs such as Peter Nightingale, Jedediah Strutt and Thomas Evans founded the settlements of Belper, Milford, and Darley Abbey within the Derwent Valley for their employees.

The university's professorship of Celtic is attached to the college, a post held by scholars such as Sir John Rhys, Ellis Evans and Thomas Charles-Edwards.

* Francis Thomas Evans, Sr., pioneer aviator

The names of many of the streets in Springfield are named after former prominent citizens, including Powell, Kennerly, Lownes, Thomas, Levis, Foulke, Evans, Pancoast, Worrell, and Edge.

Biblical scholar Craig A. Evans also ascribes to this view and notes that " Over half of the New Testament writings are quoted, paralleled, or alluded to in Thomas ...

Craig A. Evans states that saying 54 in Thomas, which speaks of the poor and the kingdom of heaven, is more similar to the Syriac version of Matthew 5: 3 than the Greek version of that passage or the parallel in Luke 6: 20.

The beginnings of an Anglo-Welsh tradition are found by some in the novels of Allen Raine ( Anne Adalisa ( Evans ) Puddicombe ) ( 1836 – 1908 ), from Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, whose work, Stephen Thomas Knight proposes, " realised a real, if partial, separate identity and value for a Welsh social culture ".

Known authors are Anne Waldman, Antler ( poet ), Andy Clausen, David Cope, Eileen Myles, Eliot Katz, Paul Beatty, Sapphire ( author ), Lesléa Newman, Jim Cohn, Thomas R. Peters, Jr .( poet and owner of beat book shop ), Sharon Mesmer, Randy Roark, Josh Smith, David Evans.

* Evans, Philip B. and Thomas S. Wurster.

*** Faith Evans & Carl Thomas for " Can't Believe "

Williams was born near Prestatyn, in North Wales, a son of Albert Thomas Williams and his wife Selina, née Evans.

Thomas Evans ( F )

Thomas Evans ( F )

On 12 October, Major Thomas Evans ( the Brigade Major at Fort George ) crossed the Niagara River under a flag of truce to request an immediate exchange of prisoners taken in Elliot's raid on the British brigs three days before.

Thomas was the oldest of six children, born November 20, 1884 in Marion, Ohio to Emma Williams Mattoon and Weddington Evans Thomas, a Presbyterian minister.

Some of them were Vince Evans, Tim Spencer, Trumaine Johnson, Greg Landry, Jeff Gossett, Vagas Ferguson, Richard Holland, Joe Ehrmann, Tim Wrightman, Larry Canada, Tom Thayer, Frank Minniefield, Jim Fahrnhorst, Marc May, Brian Glasgow, Walter Easley, Luther Bradley, Troy Thomas, Robert Cobb, Ed Smith, Stan White, Eddie Brown, Kevin Long, and Mark Keel.

Donald Thomas " Don " Evans ( April 27, 1938 – October 16, 2003 ) was a noted African-American playwright, theatre director, actor and educator.

Other actors who were considered for the film include: Maurice Evans, Joseph Cotten, Alan Marshal, James Mason for " Anthony Keane "; Hedy Lamarr for Mrs. Paradine ; Claude Rains for " Lord Thomas Horfield "; and Robert Newton for Mrs. Paradine's lover.

* Sir Samuel Thomas Evans ( 1859 – 1918, b. Skewen ), politician and judge ;

* Evans, H. M. and Thomas, W. O.

He recalled that in Rhode Island a party opposed to the state's condemnation of a man ( Thomas W. Dorr ) proclaimed the state's action as a violation of the law of the land and the principles of human liberty.

However, in 1816, Thomas lost all of his land in court cases because of faulty property titles.

Examples of journeys to the realm include " Thomas the Rhymer " and the fairy tale " Childe Rowland ", the latter being a particularly negative view of the land.

In February 1809 one Thomas Windeatt, from Bridgetown, Totnes, took over the lease of a plot of land ( a " newtake ") of about 582 acres in the valley of the River Swincombe.

Early purchases of the company included about of land from Edward Burling and his partners ; land was sold at a profit to Thomas Chittenden among others, and the settlements on the company's land have grown to become the city of Burlington.

The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas is on record as saying " The land of my fathers.

The property used to be owned by Thomas C. MacCready in the late 19th century, and after three generations of family, Douglas, Lynn, and Willis MacCready donated the land to Michigan State University in 2001.

By 1858 attention had swung back to local issues with a land dispute in New Plymouth prompting Governor Thomas Gore Brown to call out its Militia under Captain Charles Brown.

In 1578, to further the plans of exiled English and Irish Catholics such as Nicholas Sanders, William Allen, and James Fitzmaurice FitzGerald, Gregory outfitted adventurer Thomas Stukeley with a ship and an army of 800 men to land in Ireland to aid in the hope for overthrow of Elizabeth's rule through the Catholic leader and former leader of the first Desmond rebellion, Fitzmaurice.

The ranking of established professions in the United States based on the above milestones shows surveying first ( George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln were all land surveyors before entering politics ), followed by medicine, actuarial science, law, dentistry, civil engineering, logistics, architecture and accounting.

It therefore seems unlikely that when Thomas Cavendish arrived in 1588 during his first attempt to circumnavigate the world, he was the first Englishman to land at the island.

In other respects, Bachiler's reputation was such that in 1642, he was asked by Thomas Gorges, deputy governor of the Province of Maine, to act as arbitration " umpire " ( deciding judge ) in a Saco Court land dispute between George Cleeve and John Winter.

Thomas inherited approximately of land, including Monticello and between 20 and 40 slaves.

In 1803 in the midst of the Napoleonic wars between France and Britain, Thomas Jefferson authorized the Louisiana Purchase, a major land acquisition from France that doubled the size of the United States.

Thomas Lovejoy developed the debt-for-nature swaps, in which environmental groups purchase shaky foreign debt on the secondary market at the market rate, which is considerably discounted, and then convert this debt at its face value into the local currency to purchase biologically sensitive tracts of land in the debtor nation for purposes of environmental protection.

Water Island, a small island to the south of Saint Thomas, was initially administered by the U. S. federal government and did not become a part of the U. S. Virgin Islands territory until 1996, when of land was transferred to the territorial government.

Most of the islands, including Saint Thomas and Saint John, are volcanic in origin and are mostly hilly to rugged and mountainous with little level land.

Thomas C. Durant who was building the cross-Iowa railroad ( the M & M ) was literally banking that the Omaha route would be chosen and began buying up land in Nebraska.

** While Richard II is away on a military campaign in Ireland, Henry Bolingbroke, with exiled former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel as an advisor, returns to England and begins a military campaign to reclaim his confiscated land.

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson obtained from France the Louisiana Purchase for fifteen million dollars ( equivalent to about $ 230 million today ) which included all the land drained by the Missouri River and roughly doubled the size of U. S. territory.

“ Frederick Town ” was laid out by Daniel Dulany — a land speculator — in 1745 ; it was settled by a German immigrant party led by a young German Reformed schoolmaster from the Rhineland Palatinate named Johann Thomas Schley ( d. 1790 ), who came to the Maryland colony with his wife, Maria Winz.

French land forces went on to make several attacks on the British settlement at Cuddalore, but the eventual replacement of the negligent Peyton by Thomas Griffin resulted in a return to British naval supremacy which put the French on the defensive.

Australian geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor proposed a classification of towns based on their age and pattern of land use.