"Adelbert Anson The Right Reverend The Honourable Adelbert John Robert Anson DD (20 December 1840 – 27 May 1909), was a clergyman from the Anson family. He served as an Anglican Bishop in late 19th century western Canada. Anson was the fourth and youngest son of Thomas Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield, by Louisa Catherine Philips, daughter of Nathaniel Philips, of Slebech Hall, Pembrokeshire. Thomas Anson, 2nd Earl of Lichfield and the Honourable Augustus Anson were his elder brothers. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and was ordained in 1865. Anson's first posts were curacies at Wolverhampton"
"Anson County, North Carolina Anson County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 26,948. Its county seat is Wadesboro. The county was formed in 1750 from Bladen County. It was named for George Anson, Baron Anson, a British admiral, who circumnavigated the globe from 1740 to 1744, and later became First Lord of the Admiralty. Anson purchased land in the state. Like its parent county Bladen, Anson County was originally a vast territory with indefinite northern and western boundaries. Reductions in its extent began in 1753, when the"
"Thomas Anson (MP) Thomas Anson (c. 1695 – 30 March 1773), FRS was a British Member of Parliament, traveller and amateur architect from the Anson family. Anson was the son of William Anson (1656–1720) and Isabella Carrier, sister-in-law to Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield. The family estate was Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire. Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson was his younger brother and along with their cousin, George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, they were taught mathematics and navigation by Isaac Newton's friend, the mathematician William Jones, who was later to propose Anson's membership for the Royal Society in"
"Jack L. Anson Jack Lee Anson (August 3, 1924 – September 15, 1990) was an important leader in the American college interfraternity movement, and was known as ""Mr. Fraternity."" Under Anson's leadership as executive director of the North-American Interfraternity Conference, college fraternities and sororities gained an exemption from Title IX legislation to preserve the single-sex nature of the organizations. A native of Huntington, Indiana, Anson graduated from high school there and worked briefly as a sports reporter for the Huntington Herald-Press. He then served in the U.S. Army in the European Theater, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and"
"Thomas Anson (cricketer) Thomas Anchitel Anson (14 October 1818 – 3 October 1899) was an English clergyman and cricketer from the Anson family. He played first-class cricket for Cambridge University from 1839 to 1842 and for Marylebone Cricket Club from 1839 to 1845. Anson was the seventh son of General Sir George Anson and the younger brother of Talavera Vernon Anson. He was educated at Eton and Jesus College, Cambridge where he was a cricketer and rower. He was awarded his cricket 'blue', in 1839 and was described as one of the best amateur wicketkeepers of his day. He also"
"a novelist. His younger brother Thomas Anchitel Anson (1818–1899) became a clergyman of the Church of England and a first class cricketer. Anson joined the Royal Navy on 16 June 1824, when he went aboard HMS ""Britomart"", then under the command of his second cousin Captain Octavius Venables Vernon. He stayed with Vernon in ""Primrose"", and went on to serve as a junior officer in ""Rattlesnake"" and ""Belvidera"" on the West India and Mediterranean stations. In his book ""The Navy in Transition, 1814–1864"", Michael Lewis mentions Talavera Vernon Anson as ""a peculiarly well-placed young man"" and comments ""What a name"
"the Fields, 1922–28; and Vicar of Tandridge, 1928–35 (Rural Dean of Godstone, 1930–35). Harold Anson Harold Anson (1867 – 1954), was an English Anglican priest, most notably Master of the Temple from 1935 until his death. The son of Rev. Frederick Anson, Canon of Windsor, and Caroline, eldest daughter of George Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon, he was educated at Clifton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1890 and priest in 1891. After a curacy in St Pancras he held incumbencies at Whitton and Hawera. He was Warden of St John's College, Auckland from 1902 until 1905;"
"1850 and rector of Longford, Derbyshire from 1850 to 1899. He was rural dean from 1869 to 1899. Anson died at the Longford rectory aged 80. Anson married Ann Jane Packe, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Packe of Twyford Hall, Norfolk, on 5 August 1846. Thomas Anson (cricketer) Thomas Anchitel Anson (14 October 1818 – 3 October 1899) was an English clergyman and cricketer from the Anson family. He played first-class cricket for Cambridge University from 1839 to 1842 and for Marylebone Cricket Club from 1839 to 1845. Anson was the seventh son of General Sir George Anson and the"
"Harold Anson Harold Anson (1867 – 1954), was an English Anglican priest, most notably Master of the Temple from 1935 until his death. The son of Rev. Frederick Anson, Canon of Windsor, and Caroline, eldest daughter of George Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon, he was educated at Clifton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1890 and priest in 1891. After a curacy in St Pancras he held incumbencies at Whitton and Hawera. He was Warden of St John's College, Auckland from 1902 until 1905; Rector of Badsworth, 1906–10; of Birch-in-Rusholme; of Primrose Hill, 1919–22; St Martin in"
"College, Oxford, from 1886 to 1898. His volumes on ""The Principles of the English Law of Contract"" (1884, 11th ed. 1906), and on ""The Law and Custom of the Constitution"" in two parts, ""The Parliament"" and ""The Crown"" (1886–1892, 3rd ed. 1907, pt. 1 .vol. ii.), are standard works. He received the honorary degree Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from the Victoria University of Manchester in February 1902, in connection with the 50th jubilee celebrations of the establishment of the university. Anson died in June 1914, aged 70. He never married and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew, Denis."
"Watt"", a 91-gun ship of the line. Anson was promoted Rear-Admiral on the Reserved List (meaning half-pay) on 29 July 1861 and Vice-Admiral on the Reserved List on 6 April 1866. He retired on 20 October 1872 with the rank of admiral. When he died in 1895 Anson was living at 7, College Crescent, St John's Wood. He left an estate valued at £320. On 13 June 1843, Anson married Sarah Ann Potter (born 1822), a daughter of Richard Potter, a Manchester merchant who had died the year before. She died on 5 May 1846. They had two sons, George"
"west coast of America, using a different ship also called the """", of Australia and New Zealand. Both the city of Vancouver and Vancouver Island are named after him. He also negotiated agreements with the king of Hawaii but died at the age of 40. George Anson, 1st Baron Anson took a squadron of British ships around Cape Horn in 1740-4 to harass the Spanish. He captured several ships, raided the Philippines and visited Canton (now Guangzhou). He returned with much gold and silver to great acclaim. John Franklin was an officer in the Royal Navy and an Arctic explorer."
"Latin grammar by his father before he went to school. In 1834 he went to Reverend Dr. Pincknay's School and later in 1837 to Mr. Miller's school on Woolwich Common. Anson's military experience began from 1844 to 1847. He served in England, Ireland and Scotland from 1847–1855, Crimea 1855, Mauritius 1857–1862, and Madagascar 1862–1865. He returned to England and, after serving with the army in India, was appointed as the last Lieutenant Governor of Penang from 1867 to 1882. In his memoirs ""About Others and Myself"", he describes the feeling of depression upon his appointment as Penang's Resident Councillor. It"
"Mortimer Louis Anson Mortimer (Tim) Louis Anson (1901 – 16 October 1968) was an early protein scientist. He is famous for having proposed that protein folding was a reversible, two-state reaction, and for being the founding editor of the journal Advances in Protein Chemistry. Together with Alfred Mirsky, Anson was the first to propose that conformational protein folding was a reversible process. He later proposed that it was essentially a two-state process, i.e., that the folded and unfolded states were well-defined thermodynamic states separated by a large activation energy barrier. He also was the first to note that the energy"
"John A. Swanson John A. Swanson is an American engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Swanson is the founder of ANSYS, Inc., a John Fritz Medal winner, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is internationally regarded as an authority and pioneer in the application of finite-element methods to engineering. Swanson graduated with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in 1962 and 1963, respectively. He went on to earn a PhD in applied mechanics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1966. Swanson began his engineering career in 1963 at Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory"
"Anson. Local newspapers had started to call the team ""Anson's Colts"", or just ""Colts"", before the decade was out. With the advent of the Players' League in 1890, what little talent the club still had was drained away, and the team nickname ""Colts"", though never official, became standard usage in the local media along with variants such as (Anson's) White Colts and (Anson's) Broncos. He also mellowed enough that he became a fatherly figure and was often called ""Pop"". When he was fired as manager after the season, it also marked the end of his 27-year playing career. The following"
"1730. Anson went up to St John's College, Oxford, and later studied law at the Inner Temple. Upon his father's death, Anson abandoned law and began the first of many travels to the continent, as was then the fashion for young men of fortune and taste. In 1732 Anson and his friend the Earl of Sandwich formed a riotous dining-club called the Society of the Dilettanti, which also had the more serious purpose of encouraging study of Greek architecture. In 1740 Thomas briefly joined his brother George on ""The Centurion"", as he and his crew began their circumnavigation of the"
"in favour of Thomas Anson, 2nd Viscount Anson (1795–1854), a landowner and Whig politician from the Anson family who served as Master of the Buckhounds from 1830 to 1834 and as Postmaster General from 1835 to 1841. The 1st Earl was the eldest son of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson, who on 17 February 1806 had been created Baron Soberton, of Soberton in the County of Southampton, and Viscount Anson, of Shugborough and Orgreave in the County of Stafford, both in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Also in 1831, the 1st Earl's cousin William Anson was made a baronet"
"George Anson (1731–1789) George Anson (25 July 1731 – 27 October 1789), known as George Adams until 1773, was a Staffordshire landowner from the Anson family and a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1761 and 1769. Anson was the son of Sambrooke Adams and his wife Janette Anson, who was the daughter of William Anson and the sister of the naval commander Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, and the dilettante Thomas Anson. As George Adams, Anson was elected Member of Parliament for Saltash when his uncle died in 1761, a seat he held"
"Honorary Visiting Physician, Wellington Hospital, from 1893 to 1897, and Honorary Visiting Surgeon, Wellington Hospital, from 1898 to 1903. He was also the Chief Medical Officer for the AMP Society from 1891 to 1930. He was one of the founding directors of the Wellington daily newspaper ""The Dominion"" in 1907 and remained on the board, serving as chairman for some years until his health began to decline in 1931. He died at his residence, ""Sudbury"", Main Street, Lower Hutt, on 15 July 1934, aged 83. George Anson (doctor) George Edward Anson (27 September 1850 – 15 July 1934) was a"
"fought at the Battle of Waterloo. He later sat as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Yarmouth from 1818 to 1835, for Stoke-upon-Trent from 1836 to 1837, and for Staffordshire South from 1837 to 1853 and served as Storekeeper of the Ordnance under Lord Melbourne from 1835 to 1841 and as Clerk of the Ordnance under Melbourne in 1841 and under Lord John Russell from 1846 to 1852. In 1853 Anson was promoted to the rank of Major-General. The following year he was appointed to the command of the Madras Army in 1854, and early in 1856 became Commander-in-Chief"
"Horatio Saint George Anson Horatio Saint George Anson (1 August 1903 – 30 June 1925) was a British electrical engineer who in collaboration with Stephen Oswald Pearson discovered the Pearson–Anson effect, inventing the neon lamp relaxation oscillator. He was the son of Rear-Admiral Charles Eustace Anson, Superintendent of the Royal Navy’s Chatham Dockyard, and Maria Evelyn Ross. As a youth in the Royal Naval College, he developed an interest in research into radio. He subsequently joined Faraday House, the headquarters of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now the Institution of Engineering and Technology), in London. There he discovered that the"
"Peter Anson Peter Frederick (Charles) Anson (22 August 1889 – 10 July 1975) was an English non-fiction writer on religious matters and on architectural and maritime subjects. He spent a period as an Anglican Benedictine monk. Peter Anson was born Frederick Charles Anson in Southsea on 22 August 1889, the son of Charles Eustace Anson (1858–1940), later a rear-admiral, and his wife, (Maria) Evelyn, née Ross (1863–1904). He was educated at Wixenford School until the age of almost 15. His father's family had a history of prominence in the Anglican Church. Anson converted to Roman Catholicism on 5 March 1913."
"Anson was named captain-manager of the club in 1879. His new role led to the nickname ""Cap"", though newspapers typically called him by the more formal ""Captain Anson"" or ""Capt. Anson"". With Anson pacing the way, the White Stockings won five pennants between and . They were helped to the titles using new managerial tactics, including the use of a third-base coach, having one fielder back up another, signaling batters, and the rotation of two star pitchers. In the first half of the 1880s, aided by speedy players like Mike Kelly, Anson had his players aggressively run the bases, forcing"
"central part of the hall. William's elder son, Thomas Anson MP (1695-1773), would further extend the house in the 1740s, adding two pavilions flanking either side of the central block. It was Thomas's younger brother, however, who would fund these changes; Admiral George Anson, created Lord Anson in 1747 and First Lord of the Admiralty in 1751, amassed a great fortune during his naval career and when he died without issue he left the majority to his elder brother. Thomas also died childless and the estate passed to his sister's son, George Adams, who adopted the surname Anson by royal"
"opposed by Spalding. In , he helped to organize a new version of the defunct American Association, called the New American Base Ball Association, and was named its president. However, at the first sign of trouble he dissolved the league before a single game was played, drawing heated criticism from other backers. After a number of failed business attempts, including a handball arena and bottled ginger beer that exploded on store shelves, he was later elected city clerk of Chicago in 1905. After serving one term, he failed in the Democratic primary to become sheriff in 1907. In 1907, Anson"
"George Anson (British Army officer, born 1769) General Sir George Anson, GCB (1769 – 4 November 1849), was a British officer and politician from the Anson family. He commanded a British cavalry brigade under the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War and sat for many years as a Whig Member of Parliament. Anson was the second son of George Anson (previously Adams) and his wife The Hon. Mary Vernon, daughter of the first Lord Vernon. He had an elder brother, Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson, and a younger brother, Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet; another younger brother was Frederick"
"Ansonborough Ansonborough is a neighborhood in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1726, Captain George Anson acquired a 64-acre tract from Thomas Gadsden. Anson's lands were divided into smaller parcels for development, and several streets were named either for his ships or for himself: George and Anson (from his own name), Scarborough and Squirrel (named for the ships he came to America on), and Centurion (the ship he made his fortune with). Scarborough and Centurion Streets correspond to modern Anson and Society Street, while Squirrel is now a part of Meeting Street. On April 24, 1838, the area was devastated by a"
"Athanasius Allanson Athanasius Allanson (11 June 1804 – 13 January 1876) was an English Benedictine monk and historian, and Abbot of Glastonbury from 1874 to 1876. His secular forename was Peter. London-born, he attended Ampleforth College in 1813 and graduated. He worked extensively at the Abbey. He was sent to St Peter's, Liverpool in 1828 but later worked at the mission at Swinburne, Northumberland for the remaining 47 years of his life. In 1842, whilst working there, he was asked by the General Chapter of the English monks to prepare an historical account of monks since 1600. When he had"
"expeditions. The British also captured Martinique and Grenada in the French West Indies. Anson was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 30 July 1761. His last service was to convey Queen Charlotte to England. He died at Moor Park in Hertfordshire on 6 June 1762 and was buried at St Michael and All Angels Church in Colwich, Staffordshire. Places named after him include Anson County, North Carolina and Anson, Maine. Eight warships of the Royal Navy have also been named after him. In April 1748, Anson married Lady Elizabeth Yorke, daughter of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke; they"
"Anson, who became Dean of Chester. He was the uncle of Thomas's sons: Thomas Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield, and George Anson (who later became the Commander-in-Chief, India). He was also uncle of Frederick's son: George Edward Anson, Keeper of the Privy Purse, who died a few days before him in 1849. Also, Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, was his great-uncle. (See Earl of Lichfield for more information on the Anson family). He entered the British Army in 1786 and served under the Duke of York and Sir Ralph Abercromby in Holland. It was to be in the Peninsular"
"George Anson, 1st Baron Anson Admiral of the Fleet George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, (23 April 1697 – 6 June 1762) was a Royal Navy officer. Anson served as a junior officer during the War of the Spanish Succession and then saw active service against Spain at the Battle of Cape Passaro during the War of the Quadruple Alliance. He then undertook a circumnavigation of the globe during the War of Jenkins' Ear. Anson commanded the fleet that defeated the French Admiral de la Jonquière at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre during the War of the Austrian Succession. Anson"
"nickname, and began as a family joke for the unborn baby (or babies) of unknown sex. He studied at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was taught by F.R. Leavis and attained a First Class Honours degree in Moral Sciences. He was appointed to a three-year fellowship at Gonville and Caius College in 1956. In 1960, he married fellow scholar Susan Koechlin, with whom he had one son and three daughters. The couple settled at Barleybat Hall, Church Lawton, Cheshire, after Andor obtained a permanent position at Keele University in 1963; he had previously worked in the Extra-Mural Department at the"