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George Gittoes
George Noel Gittoes (born 7 December 1949) is an Australian artist, film producer, director and writer. In 1970, he was a founder of the Yellow House Artist Collective in Sydney. After the Yellow House finished, he established himself in Bundeena and since then has produced a large and varied output of drawings, paintings, films, and writings. Gittoes’ work has consistently expressed his social, political and humanitarian concern at the effects of injustice and conflict. Until the mid-1980s, this work was chiefly done in Australia. But in 1986 he travelled to Nicaragua, and since then the focus of Gittoes’ work has been largely international. He has travelled to and worked in many regions of conflict, including the Philippines, Somalia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Bougainville, and South Africa. In recent years his work has especially centred on the Middle East, with repeated visits to Israel and Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In 2011, he established a new Yellow House, a multidisciplinary arts centre in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Among many prizes, Gittoes has twice been awarded the Blake Prize for Religious Art.
George Washington Thomas
George Washington Thomas Jr. (March 9, 1883 – March 6, 1937) was an American blues and jazz pianist and songwriter. He wrote several influential early boogie-woogie piano pieces including "The New Orleans Hop Scop Blues", "The Fives", and "The Rocks", which some believe he may have recorded himself under the name Clay Custer.
J.O.E.
Alty George Nunes III (14 July 1986 – 7 February 2011), better known by his stage name J.O.E., and previously as Lil Joe, was a Jamaican reggae singer.
George, Count Joannes
George Jones (born probably London, England, May 10, 1810; died New York City, New York, December 30, 1879), known later in life as George, Count Joannes, was an English-American actor, author, journalist, and litigator best known for his eccentric behavior later in life.
George Gittoes
Gittoes' service to Australia has been recognised by the award of Member of the Order of Australia (1997) "for service to art and international relations as an artist and photographer portraying the effects on the environment of war, international disasters and heavy industry".
George Nares
Vice-Admiral Sir George Strong Nares (24 April 1831 – 15 January 1915) was a Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. He commanded the first ship to pass through the Suez Canal, the "Challenger" Expedition, and the British Arctic Expedition. He was highly thought of as a leader and scientific explorer. In later life he worked for the Board of Trade and as Acting Conservator of the River Mersey.
George Knockout Brown
Georgios "George" A. Contas (August 25, 1890 - ?) also known as George Knockout Brown was a Greek American middleweight boxing champion from Chicago, Illinois.
George M. Rhodes
George Milton Rhodes (February 24, 1898 – October 23, 1978) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1949 to 1969.
George Nelson Kidd
George Nelson Kidd (October 1, 1864 – February 9, 1907) was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Carleton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1894 to 1907 as a Conservative-Patrons of Industry, then Independent Conservative and finally as a Conservative member.
George Mills (cricketer, born 1867)
George Mills (23 March 1867 – 13 March 1942) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Auckland, Hawke's Bay and Otago between 1886 and 1903.
George Nurse
George Edward Nurse VC (14 April 1873 – 25 November 1945) was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland. He was educated in Guernsey in the Channel Islands where both his parents had been born. He was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
George Gittoes
Returning to Australia in late 1969, a meeting with Martin Sharp led to the establishment of the Yellow House Artist Collective near Kings Cross, New South Wales. Gittoes worked with another friend, Bruce Goold, to transform a two-storey building in Macleay Street, Potts Point, into a space in which artists, film-makers and performers could both live and exhibit their work. In an Australia whose culture had been seen by many as stifled and colonial, the Yellow House was a revelation. Gittoes’ own particular contribution was a psychedelic Puppet Theatre, in which he and assistants performed to enthusiastic audiences, using glove puppets Gittoes himself made. In 1971 Gittoes, who regarded his work as fine art and was not completely in sympathy with the counter-cultural communalism of others in the Yellow House, broke away from the group. He had also been very deeply affected by the suicide of his girlfriend, Marie Briebauer. He had met Briebauer in San Francisco, and eventually she followed him to Sydney. But she was facing up to difficult issues with her family, and was not completely accepted by the Yellow House community. Her death was the first great crisis in Gittoes’ life.
George Gittoes
From 1993, Gittoes’ career took a distinct new direction. Building on his work in Nicaragua and the Philippines, he made a long series of visits to war zones, initially those in which Australian military personnel were serving in multinational peacekeeping operations. Although since World War I Australia had a long tradition of employing official war artists, Gittoes was never a designated Official Artist. Rather, he travelled under the auspices of and generally with the assistance of the Australian army, but remained free to express himself as he wished. On these trips he produced a large body of photographs, drawings and paintings. True to the Externalist tradition, many of the drawings incorporate written texts describing the situations which had inspired them. Many of these works are held by the Australian War Memorial, which had helped facilitate the initial contact with the army. One aspect of Gittoes’ work in this period which differentiates him from most Australian official artists is an enduring interest in and concern for the ways in which the conflict which led to the arrival of the peacekeepers had affected the local people. Gittoes did document the activities of the military personnel he was accompanying, but his vision was also consistently much broader.
Giles Newton
Giles Fendall Newton was born on 27 May 1891, the only son of William Latham Newton (1862–1948), of Holtby House, York, and Goldington, Bedford, and his wife, Violet, sixth daughter of Richard Harrison, of Eltofts. In 1921, he married Mary Cicely (died 1972), elder daughter of Brigadier Sir Frederick Meyrick, 2nd Baronet; they had one son, Michael Anthony Fendall Newton, and one daughter, Gillian Prunella Newton. The son, Michael, was a director of the Cape Asbestos Company Ltd. and Managing Director of Cape Building Products, and settled at Broadhurst Wood, Balcombe, Sussex.
George Frederic Cannons
George Cannons was born July 8, 1896 and went to Hollywood after the Great War. His reputation as a stills photographer was first established during the silent film period working for Mack Sennett and specialised in portraits of Sennett's bathing beauties. In the early 1930s he continued working in Hollywood with portraits of leading stars including Dolores del Río and Jean Harlow. After returning to England in 1934 he set up his own studio in Dover Street in central London known as Cannons of Hollywood and exploited his Hollywood credentials and specialised in glamour portraits. Cannons found work hard to come by due to the number of established photographers in London's West End. This led Cannons to seek work as a stills photographer for J. Arthur Rank who was based at Pinewood Studios and he was assigned to work with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger on two of their finest films. In 1946 he created the colour portraits of Jean Simmons during the filming of Black Narcissus. These images were featured in film annuals like Film Review by F. Maurice Speed.
George R. Noyes
George Rapall Noyes (March 6, 1798 in Newburyport – June 3, 1868 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a Unitarian minister and scholar at Harvard.
George Waites
Waites was born in 1938 in Stepney, London, and died in 2000 in Watford, Hertfordshire, at the age of 62.
George Nicholls Jr.
George Nicholls Jr. (May 5, 1897 – November 13, 1939), also known as George Nichols Jr., was an American director and editor during the 1930s. Born to show business parents, and son of prolific actor and director George Nichols, he entered the film industry at the tail end of the silent film era, working as an editor for the Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation. After moving to RKO Pictures in 1933, Nicholls shortly began directing films by the end of the year. His career was cut short when he died in a car accident while driving to the location of his final film.
Georges Eo
Georges Eo (born 7 November 1948 in Lorient) is a French football manager and former midfielder. He was assistant manager of Nantes from 1987 to 2005, during which time the club won two Ligue 1 titles. He became the club's full manager in 2006, but was replaced during the middle of the 2006–07 season by his assistant Michel Der Zakarian; they were relegated to the Ligue 2 at the end of the season.
Geoffrey Cates
The Very Reverend Geoffrey Charles Cates, born on June 13, 1918, was the Dean of St George's Cathedral, Georgetown, Guyana from 1961 to 1971. Born in Surrey and educated at the University of Leeds, he was ordained in 1944 and began his career with curacies at Spennymoor and Ushaw Moor. In 1949 he was appointed Chaplain of the Butlin's Holiday Camp in Clacton-on-Sea, a post he held until his appointment as Vicar of Kumasi in Ghana. In 1961 he entered the Deanery of the Anglican Diocese of Guyana, where he remained for a decade. Returning to England he was Rector of "Sacred Trinity, Salford " and Rural Dean of The area. His final post until his retirement in 1988 was in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and he remained in Ipswich until his death in 2003. He was an honorary Canon of his final diocese, having previously held a similar post in Manchester.
George Gittoes
In 1986, the success of the Northern Territory films led Gittoes overseas, to make "Bullets of the poets" (1987), a film about a group of Sandinista women poets who had fought in the Nicaraguan revolution. This was a turning point for Gittoes. He was influenced by Nicaraguan poet and priest Ernesto Cardinale, whose philosophy of Externalism he later described as follows: “The Externalist poets believed in using real life events and physical experiences in their poetry, instead of the imagery of the imagination. For them reality was more incredible than fantasy.” Gittoes’ key work from this period was the drawing, “The captured gun”, of a half-crippled Sandinista fighter who carried a captured American rifle adapted to use Russian ammunition, which he felt “symbolised that particular phase in the conflict ... and became a major breakthrough in my artistic career.”
George Ducas (singer)
George Evnochides (born August 1, 1966) is an American country music artist, known professionally as George Ducas. He has released three studio albums: 1994's "George Ducas", 1997's "Where I Stand", and 2013's "4340" and has charted six singles on "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs), the highest being the No. 9 "Lipstick Promises", which was also a #1 CMT video in 1995. In addition, he has written songs and hit singles for Garth Brooks, Gary Allan, the Randy Rogers Band, George Jones, Eli Young Band, Josh Thompson, and Sara Evans.
George Nicholls (rugby league)
George Nicholls (born 14 May 1944) is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 1980s. A Great Britain and England international representative forward, he played his club rugby for English sides Widnes and St. Helens. Eventually becoming a St Helens R.F.C. Hall of Fame inductee, he also became the first player to win the Man of Steel Award, Harry Sunderland Trophy and Lance Todd Trophy with the club. With Great Britain, Nicholls also won the 1972 Rugby League World Cup.
George Gibbons
George Albert Reginald Gibbons (1887 – 11 August 1954) was an Australian politician. Born in Tichborne, just south of Parkes, New South Wales. He received a primary education before becoming a farm labourer and then a farmer. He was secretary of the Rural Workers Union, and later an organiser of the Australian Workers' Union.
George Noble Plunkett
Count George Noble Plunkett (; 3 December 1851 – 12 March 1948) was a biographer, politician and Irish nationalist who served as Minister for Fine Arts from 1921 to 1922, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1919 to 1921 and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann in January 1919. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1918 to 1927. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Roscommon North from 1917 to 1922.
George Tibbits
George Tibbits (January 14, 1763 – July 19, 1849) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. He was born in Warwick, Rhode Island on January 14, 1763. He pursued classical studies and engaged in business in Lansingburgh, New York in 1784. He moved to Troy, New York in 1797 and became engaged in extensive mercantile pursuits. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1800.
Gerard Thomas Noel
Born on 2 December 1782, he was second son of Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baronet, and Diana Noel, a baroness in her own right as the only child of Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham; one of a family of 18, he was elder brother of Baptist Wriothesley Noel. The eldest son Charles was created an Earl in 1841, and the brothers were given the courtesy prefix The Honourable. His mother was a noted patron of evangelical ministers and abolitionist.
George Noakes
George Noakes (13 September 1924 – 14 July 2008) was the Bishop of St Davids and (briefly) the Archbishop of Wales.
George Gittoes
In this period, Gittoes was deeply affected by the death of his friend Ronaldo Cameron, a dancer who had been part of the TREE productions. Gittoes had painted Cameron in the advanced stages of motor neurone disease, and after his death expressed his grief with the painting, "Ancient Prayer", which in 1992 won the prestigious Blake Prize for Religious Art. In 1993 he won the Wynne Prize for landscape, for "Open Cut", from the "Heavy Industry" series.
George Gittoes
Gittoes was keen to bring art and performance to a wide audience. In 1979 he formed the environmental theatre group, Theatre Reaching Environments Everywhere (TREE), with Gabrielle Dalton (whom he married in 1980), Ronaldo Cameron, and Martin Wesley-Smith. Between 1979 and 1984 TREE presented a number of huge theatrical events, mostly on beaches around Sydney, involving hundreds of local people. Gavin Fry has described these as “some of the most complete and spectacular art performances Australia has seen”.
George Gittoes
Gittoes has received numerous awards, including the Bassel Shehade Award for Social Justice (awarded at Syracuse University, New York, in October 2013) and, most recently the prestigious Sydney Peace Prize (November 2015).
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, (; 13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) was an Anglo-Irish physicist and mathematician. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at the University of Cambridge, where he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903. As a physicist, Stokes made seminal contributions to fluid dynamics, including the Navier-Stokes equation, and to physical optics, with notable works on polarization and fluorescence. As a mathematician, he formulated "Stokes' theorem" in vector calculus and contributed to the theory of asymptotic expansions.
George Rogers Taylor
George Rogers Taylor (1895 – April 11, 1983) was an American economic historian, best known for his 1951 work "The Transportation Revolution, 1815–1860".
Marianne Gittos
Marianne Gittos (31 July 1830–24 January 1908) was a New Zealand Wesleyan mission worker, teacher and homemaker. She was born in Mangungu, Northland, New Zealand on 31 July 1830.
George Gittoes
Also in 1994, Gittoes travelled privately to South Africa, to witness the transition to black majority rule and the election on April 27 of Nelson Mandela as president. Mainly working in black townships, his sympathy for black South Africans led to run ins with members of the white supremacist Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging; on one occasion he was severely beaten up.
George William Nicol
George William Nicol (1810-1884) was the first African Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone and was one of few African senior level colonial officials in Freetown during the 19th century. Nicol belonged to the mulatto Settler class that exerted great influence in Freetown during the 19th century.
George Matthews (musician)
George Matthews (sometimes listed as Georges) (September 23, 1912 in Dominica, British West Indies – June 28, 1982 in New York City) was a jazz trombonist.
George Whitton Johnstone
He was born in Glamis in May 1849.
George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist who rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham! and later embarked on a solo career. He was widely known for his work in the 1980s and 1990s, including hit Wham! singles such as "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Last Christmas" and solo albums such as "Faith" (1987) and "Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1" (1990).
George O. Lohnes
Born in 1898 at Upper Northfield, Nova Scotia, Lohnes was a farmer by career. He married Evelyn Minetta Mossman (nee Crouse) in 1938. Lohnes entered provincial politics in the 1956 election, winning the Lunenburg Centre riding by 152 votes. He was re-elected in the 1960, 1963, and 1967 elections. In the 1970 election, Lohnes was defeated by Liberal Walton Cook. Lohnes died at Bridgewater, Nova Scotia on September 6, 1982.
George Gittoes
A keen surfer, Gittoes travelled for a while in a caravan up and down the south coast of NSW. Eventually he settled in Bundeena, a village between sea and bush south of Sydney. For a time abandoning the politically driven art inspired by Joe Delaney, Gittoes produced a large series of photographs, drawings and paintings, eventually leading to a film, The Rainbow Way.. These images were abstract, using ideas drawn from both Islamic and Aboriginal art (in the latter case, especially the myth of the Rainbow Serpent), but also created out of direct observation of the effects of light underwater. He also experimented for a time with holograms and with computer-generated images. His interest in Aboriginal art and performance, which began with meeting dancers from Mornington Island in 1972, led in 1977 to a trip to the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
George P. Doles
George Pierce Doles (May 14, 1830 – June 2, 1864) was a Georgia businessman and Confederate general during the American Civil War. His men played a key role on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg in driving back the Union XI Corps.
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Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough
George Frederick Nott
George matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 30 October 1784, aged seventeen. Graduating B.A. in 1788, he was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, took holy orders, and proceeded M.A. in 1792 (B.D. in 1802, and D.D. in 1807). In 1801 he was proctor in the university, and in 1802 he preached the Bampton lectures, his subject being ‘Religious Enthusiasm.’ The success of these sermons, published in 1803, brought him to the notice of the king, who appointed him sub-preceptor to Princess Charlotte of Wales.
George Sartorius
Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Rose Sartorius (9 August 1790 – 13 April 1885) was an officer of the British Royal Navy. After serving as a junior officer during the Napoleonic Wars, he was present, as a post-captain, at the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte to Captain Frederick Maitland of at Rochefort. He later commanded the navy of Dom Pedro in the Portuguese Civil Wars. Dom Pedro was attempting to defeat his brother Dom Miguel, who had usurped the throne of Portugal, and to install Pedro's daughter as the rightful queen, Dona Maria II.
Murray Gittos
Murray Benjamin Gittos (4 January 1920 – 20 November 2014) was a New Zealand fencer, who won a silver medal at the 1950 British Empire Games.
George Scholes
George Francis Scholes (November 24, 1928 – November 18, 2004) was a Canadian ice hockey player who competed in the 1956 Winter Olympics. He played as a left winger.
George Szirtes
George Szirtes (; born 29 November 1948) is a British poet and translator from the Hungarian language into English. Originally from Hungary, he has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life after coming to the country as a refugee at the age of eight. Szirtes was a judge for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize.
George Raines
George Raines (November 10, 1846 in Pultneyville, Wayne County, New York – November 27, 1908 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
George Oakes (Australian politician)
George Oakes (1813 – 10 August 1881) was an Australian pastoralist and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council for two periods between 1848 and 1856 and again between 1879 and 1881. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for two periods between 1856 and 1860 and again between 1872 and 1874.
George Gittoes
In 1989 Gittoes travelled to the Philippines, intending to make a film about women political prisoners. Funding problems prevented the film’s being made, but again he was brought face to face with victims of conflict, especially between government forces and the dissident New People’s Army. The resulting works included the Salvage series, documenting the discovery of the body of a torture victim. He also began a long friendship and collaboration with Filipino artist Nune Alvarado. As much as Nicaragua, the Philippines helped shape Gittoes’ future work: “Through my art I can be an advocate for so many people silenced by poverty and the conflicts around them.”
George Francis (cricketer)
George Nathaniel Francis (11 December 1897 – 12 January 1942) was a West Indian cricketer who played in West Indies' first Test in their inaugural Test tour of England. He was a fast bowler of renowned pace and was notably successful on West Indies' non-Test playing tour of England in 1923, but he was probably past his peak by the time the West Indies were elevated to Test status. He was born in Trents, St. James, Barbados and died at Black Rock, Saint Michael, also in Barbados.
George Lyons (baseball)
George Tony "Smooth" Lyons (January 25, 1891 – August 12, 1981) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in 7 games for the 1920 St. Louis Cardinals and 26 additional games for the 1924 St. Louis Browns.
George Newnes
Sir George Newnes, 1st Baronet (13 March 1851 – 9 June 1910) was an English publisher and editor and a founding father of popular journalism. His company, George Newnes Ltd, continued publishing ground-breaking consumer magazines such as "Nova" long after his death.
George Edwin Taylor
George Edwin Taylor was born the free Black son of Amanda Hines, a free Black, and Nathan Taylor, a slave, in Little Rock, Arkansas on August 4, 1857. The precise statuses of Hines and Taylor are unknown. In 1859, Arkansas enacted a Free Negro Expulsion Bill which required all free Blacks to leave the state or be seized, and, if they refused to leave after one year, be sold as slaves. Amanda Hines took infant George to Alton, Illinois, which was an antebellum center of the Underground Railroad on the Mississippi River and a major river port for the Union military once the Civil War began in 1861. Hines died from Tuberculosis in 1861 or 1862. George later claimed that he, an orphan, lived in storehouse boxes in Alton during the war years. 
A month after the war ended in 1865, at age 8, George landed at the docks of La Crosse, Wisconsin on board the "Hawkeye State", a steam side-paddle wheeler that operated between St. Paul, Minnesota and St. Louis, Missouri. Taylor remained in La Crosse for two or three years. During those years he was known as George Southall and likely lived with the family of Henry Southall, a Black cook who worked on paddle wheelers. In 1867 or 1868, the Southalls moved from La Crosse, and George, at age 10 or 11, remained in La Crosse. A La Crosse County court judge intervened and fostered him to a Black family, Nathan Smith and his wife Sarah, who provided care for some of the county's orphaned or abandoned children and who lived near West Salem, Wisconsin, twelve kilometers east of La Crosse. Taylor remained fostered to Smith until he reached the age of 20. During this period, George took the name of George Edward Taylor. He attended a country school near his home.
George Saitoti
George Saitoti was born on 3 August 1945 and brought up in Maasailand, where he spent his childhood herding cattle in line with the Masai culture, and attending school. He attended Ololua Primary School, Kajiado where he acquired his basic education in the 1950s. Between 1960 and 1963, he secured a place at Mang'u High School in Thika where he attained his high school education. He joined the ranks of Mang'u High School's highly decorated alumni including Kenya's third President, Mwai Kibaki, former Vice-President Moody Awori, Catholic Archbishop Ndingi Mwana-a-Nzeki, the late Environment Minister John Michuki, the late Trade Unionist and former Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Tom Mboya, and late Cardinal Maurice Michael Otunga.
Saitoti spent a brief while in the United States of America, where he received his undergraduate education at Brandeis University between 1963 and 1967. During his time there, he was on the prestigious Wien Scholarship, specialising in Mathematics and Economics. His colleagues at the time remember that he enjoyed spending time in Cholmondeleys (the coffeehouse in the Castle) and excelled at high jump, ranking as one of the best in New England. In 1988, Saitoti received the first Brandeis Alumni Achievement Award, the highest honour the University bestows upon its graduates.
George Nelson, 1st Baron Nelson of Stafford
George Horatio Nelson, 1st Baron Nelson of Stafford (26 October 1887 – 16 July 1962), known as Sir George Nelson, 1st Baronet, from 1955 to 1960, was a British engineer who was chairman of English Electric from 1933 to 1962. Over nearly thirty years as its chairman George Nelson built up the number of English Electric's employees from 4,000 to 80,000.
George Phillpotts
George Phillpotts (1814 – 1 July 1845) was a New Zealand naval officer. He was born in Durham, England in about 1814.
George Gittoes
Gittoes continued to travel to scenes of conflict, but no longer usually with the army. In 1996 he went to Bosnia, where a NATO-led force was gradually restoring order and peace after the devastating Bosnian War which followed the collapse of Yugoslavia. His work, no longer particularly concerned with the peacekeepers, now focused on the plight of refugees and ordinary people living in the midst of devastation. The following year, 1997, he travelled to Northern Ireland at a time when the Northern Ireland peace process was just getting underway, meeting members of both the Irish Republican Army and the Protestant paramilitaries, but again focusing particularly on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. In 1998 he went to China, working with artists at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, but also travelling to areas of the Yangtze River affected by construction of the Three Gorges Dam, and to Tibet. In the same year he once again worked with the Australian military, visiting members of the Australian-led Peace Monitoring Group, which was helping establish trust among Bougainvilleans in the peace process which was bringing an end to the civil war between secessionist Bougainvilleans and the Papua New Guinea government.
George Nicholls (commissioner)
Sir George Nicholls (31 December 1781 - 24 March 1865) was a British Poor Law Commissioner after the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act. He had been an Overseer of the Poor under the old system of poor relief.
He was born on 31 December 1781, at St. Kevern in Cornwall, the eldest child of Solomon Nicholls of St. Kevern, by his second cousin Jane, daughter of George Millett of Helston. He was educated, first at the parish school of St. Kevern Churchtown, under his uncle, William Nicholls; later, at Helston grammar school, under William Otter; and then, for less than a year, at Newton Abbot, Devon, under Mr. Weatherdon.
George Giles (baseball)
George Franklin Giles (May 2, 1909 – March 3, 1992) was a Negro Leagues First baseman in the latter part of the first Negro National League. He started with Gilkerson's Union Giants at the age of 17, and signed with the Kansas City Monarchs at the age of 18. The last known team he played for was the Satchel Paige All Stars of 1939.
George N. Leighton
George Neves Leighton (born George Neves Leitão; October 22, 1912 – June 6, 2018) was an American jurist who served as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
George W. Norris
George William Norris (July 11, 1861September 2, 1944) was a politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican, from 1903 until 1913, and five terms in the United States Senate, from 1913 until 1943, four terms as a Republican and the final term as an independent. Norris was defeated for reelection in 1942.
Norris was a leader of progressive and liberal causes in Congress. He is best known for his intense crusades against what he characterized as "wrong and evil", his liberalism, his insurgency against party leaders, his isolationist foreign policy, his support for labor unions, and especially for creating the Tennessee Valley Authority. President Franklin Roosevelt called him "the very perfect, gentle knight of American progressive ideals," and this has been the theme of all of his biographers. A 1957 advisory panel of 160 scholars recommended that Norris was the top choice for the five best Senators in U.S. history.
George Elliot (Royal Navy officer, born 1784)
Admiral Sir George Elliot (1 August 1784 – 24 June 1863) was a Royal Navy officer who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the First Opium War.
George Simms
George Otto Simms was born on the 4 July 1910 in North Dublin in Ireland to parents John Francis A Simms & Ottilie Sophie Stange both from Lifford Co, Donegal as per his birth Certificate. He also attended the Prior School in Lifford for a time. He went on to study at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar, having previously attended Cheltenham College, a public school in the United Kingdom.
George Gaines (set decorator)
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George Georges
George Georges (born George Georgouras; 15 April 1920 – 23 September 2002) was a Labor senator for Queensland from 1968 to 1986. From 15 December 1986 he served as a senate independent after quitting the ALP. He was defeated at the 1987 election.
George Douglas Brown
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George Wright (bishop)
George William Wright was an Anglican Bishop in Africa in the mid-20th century.He was born in born on 17 December 1873, educated at Barnsley Grammar School and ordained in 1906 following a 15-year career as a civil servant. After a curacy at Christ Church, Derby he went as a CMS missionary to Mombasa where he remained in various capacities until 1921 when he returned to England as Vicar of Boulton. In 1923 he was consecrated Bishop of Sierra Leone and in 1936 of North Africa. He was Vicar of Templecombe from 1942 to 1951 and an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Bath and Wells. He died on 11 August 1956
George Knox
The Honourable George Knox PC, FRS (14 January 1765 – 13 June 1827), was an Irish Tory politician.
George Knowles
Sir George Shaw Knowles (14 March 188222 November 1947) was an Australian public servant and diplomat. He served as departmental secretary of the Attorney-General's Department from 1932 to 1946, and was then the inaugural Australian High Commissioner to South Africa from 1946 until his death the following year.
George Newton, 1st Baron Eltisley
George Douglas Cochrane Newton, 1st Baron Eltisley (14 July 1879 – 2 September 1942) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
George Mehrtens
George Martin Mehrtens (5 February 1907 – 30 August 1954) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A fullback, Mehrtens represented Canterbury at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in 1928. He played three matches for the All Blacks but did not play any full internationals.
Noel Collins
Noel Michael Collins (11 December 1936 – 15 August 2011) was a British actor. He is best remembered for the role of Police Sergeant George Parrish in the television series "Juliet Bravo".
George Counts
George Sylvester Counts (December 9, 1889 – November 10, 1974) was an American educator and influential education theorist.
George Leo Watson
George Leo Watson (13 December 1909, Whitby – 9 January 1988, London) was a British mathematician, who specialized in number theory.
George R. Nelson
George R. Nelson (May 22, 1927 – August 25, 1992) was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more in the category Best Art Direction.
George Chapple Norton
George Chapple Norton (31 August 1800 - 24 February 1875) was a Tory Member of Parliament for Guildford from 1826 to 1830.
George Adams (magistrate)
George Adams (6 June 1804 – 29 October 1873) was the only son of the "Bounty" Mutineer John Adams. He was born to his wife Teio, who had once been the wife of William McCoy and was the mother-in-law of Charles Christian, on Pitcairn Island. Adams was born at a time when all the original mutineers apart from his own father had been killed, or in the case of Ned Young died of natural causes. In 1808 the Pitcairn colony was discovered and the elder Adams was granted amnesty for his part in the mutiny. Both of Adams' parents died in March 1829, when George was 24 years old. Adams served as Chief Magistrate on Pitcairn in 1848. Adams was an opponent of Joshua Hill in the 1830s. Adams opposed the decision to move to Norfolk Island in the 1850s, due to his granddaughter being ill. Adams did eventually move, and died on Norfolk Island in 1873.
George Nelson, 8th Earl Nelson
George Nelson was educated at Ampleforth College in England and was registered as a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (A.C.A.). In 1973 he was a pub landlord when he was invited by the Royal Navy to visit his ancestor's flagship HMS "Victory" at Portsmouth Harbour. On hearing he had never been aboard a battleship the Navy took him down the Solent on one. He married Winifred Mary Bevan, Countess Nelson, in 1945. Their daughter Lady Sarah Mary Josephine Nelson was born in 1947. She could not succeed to the title on the death of her father in 1981 aged 76, so it passed to her cousin, Peter Nelson.
Georges Poitou
Georges Poitou (11 February 1926 – 14 December 1989) was a French mathematician.
George Wolfe (cartoonist)
George W. Wolfe (January 19, 1911 – July 20, 1993) was an American cartoonist. His comic strips "Pops" (1962–1978) and "Citizen George" (early 1970s) were syndicated by the Al Smith Feature Service. Wolfe received the National Cartoonist Society Gag Cartoon Award for 1969, 1973, 1975, and 1976 for his work. He spent most of his life in Glen Rock, New Jersey.
George Solomos
George Paul Solomos (September 16, 1925 – November 8, 2010), also known as Themistocles Hoetis from 1948 to 1958, was an American publisher, poet, filmmaker and novelist.
George Howitt
George Howitt (14 March 1843 – 19 December 1881) was an English first-class cricketer active 1865–76 who played for Middlesex and Nottinghamshire. He was born in Dunkirk, Nottingham and died in Nottingham. He played in 79 first-class matches as a lefthanded batsman, scoring 483 runs with a highest score of 49; and as a leftarm roundarm fast bowler, taking 348 wickets with a best performance of seven for 19. He was a cousin of England Test batsman William Scotton.
George Foster Pierce
He was born on 3 February 1811 in Greene County, Georgia. George Foster was the son of the Rev. Lovick Pierce, a Pastor and a Chaplain in the War of 1812. Rev. Pierce was the brother of Rev. Reddick Pierce. Both brothers were well known within the southern Methodist circuit; though, Lovick and his son George were perhaps the more famous. The elder brother Reddick had a daughter, Sarah, who in turn (after marrying an Alexander McKinnon) had a son, which she name Robert George Pierce McKinnon. Robert George Pierce McKinnon, named after his mother's cousin, in turn was a Methodist minister (and subsequently, baptist, as employment demands dictated); though, his fame was localized within the area of Eastman, Georgia.
George Simon (artist)
George Simon (born 23 April 1947) is a Lokono Arawak artist and archaeologist from Guyana. He is the founder and mentor of the Lokono Artists Group, a group of Lokono artists from Guyana, based primarily in Simon's hometown of St. Cuthbert's Mission. Simon is widely regarded as one of the leading Guyanese artists of his generation, and his paintings (acrylic on canvas, paper or twill fabric) are notable for their explorations of Amerindian culture and the Guyanese environment. He has also been recognized for his achievements as an educator, his efforts to develop opportunities for Amerindian artists in Guyana, and for his work as an archaeologist.
George Nicol (athlete)
George Nicol (28 December 1886 – 28 January 1967) was a British athlete. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was born in Battersea.
Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baronet
Gerard Noel was born Gerard Edwardes on 17 July 1759. He was the son of Gerard Edwardes of Welham Grove and Lady Jane Noel, daughter of Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough. His father was the illegitimate son of Lord Anne Hamilton, younger son of James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton. He was educated at Eton and St John's College, Cambridge.
Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough
Charles George Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough (5 September 1818 – 13 August 1881), styled Viscount Campden between 1841 and 1866, was a British peer and Whig politician.
George Gittoes
The first stop, in March 1993, was Somalia, where Australia had provided a battalion to the American-led Unified Task Force (UNITAF), which was trying on behalf of the United Nations (UN) to restore order to a country devastated by civil war, collapse of government, drought, and famine. Gittoes worked in Mogadishu and in and around Baidoa, the town in south-central Somalia which was the main base of operations for the Australians. Rather than remaining on base, he often accompanied the troops on patrol and when protecting the delivery of humanitarian aid.
George Gittoes
Gittoes was born 1949 in Brighton-le-Sands, New South Wales and grew up in nearby Rockdale, New South Wales, both southern suburbs of Sydney, Australia. His family, though not rich, was comfortably middle class. Gittoes’ maternal grandfather, who lived in the area, was a semi-professional racehorse trainer, and was a significant influence in Gittoes’ childhood. Gittoes' father, Claude, was a public servant, who rose to be Secretary of the Department of Main Roads. His mother, Joyce, was an artist and potter. Both parents encouraged George and his sister, Pamela, 7 years his elder, as artists.
Gittoes completed his schooling at Kingsgrove North High School, and began an Arts degree at Sydney University. However, an encounter with the visiting American art critic Clement Greenberg led to Gittoes' abandoning his studies in order to spend time in America. In New York Gittoes came under the influence of the social realist artist, Joe Delaney, whose work was influenced by his involvement in the civil rights movement. Gittoes’ art similarly veered towards the political, and in the US he began the "Hotel Kennedy Suite", inspired by opposition to the Vietnam War.
George Nelson (trade unionist)
George Nelson (6 December 1868 – 1928) was a British trade unionist and politician, based in Liverpool.
George N. H. Peters
George Nathaniel Henry Peters was born on November 30, 1825 in New Berlin, Pennsylvania to Isaac Cyrus Peters and Magdalene Miller. He moved with his family to Springfield, Ohio at the age of ten. He enrolled in Wittenberg College in 1846. Difficulty with his eyes from a gunpowder burn required him to take a break from school during his junior year, but he returned and graduated in 1850.
George Ellis (poet)
George Ellis FSA (19 December 1753 – 10 April 1815) was a Jamaican-born English antiquary, satirical poet and Member of Parliament. He is best known for his "Specimens of the Early English Poets" and "Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances", which played an influential part in acquainting the general reading public with Middle English poetry.
Charles Gittens
Charles LeRoy Gittens (August 31, 1928 – July 27, 2011) was an American United States Secret Service agent. Gittens joined the Secret Service in 1956, becoming the agency's first African American agent.
George Rhodes (musician)
George Arthur Rhodes was born in Indiana on October 10, 1918 to Margaret and James Rhodes. However, he moved to Chicago, Illinois and it is often named as his hometown.
George Szirtes
Born in Budapest on 29 November 1948, Szirtes came to England as a refugee in 1956 aged 8. After a few days in an army camp followed by three months in an off-season boarding house on the Kent coast, along with other Hungarian refugees, his family moved to London, where he was brought up and went to school, then studied fine art in London and Leeds. Among his teachers at Leeds was the poet Martin Bell.
George Nichols (Australian politician)
George Robert Nichols (27 September 1809 – 12 September 1857), also known as Bob Nichols, was an Australian politician, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1848 and 1856. He was also a member of the inaugural New South Wales Legislative Assembly for one term from 1856 until his death.
George Gittoes
Gittoes has travelled to many places for his art, including: Nicaragua, the Philippines, Somalia, Sinai, Southern Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, Western Sahara, Cambodia, Laos, Mozambique, South Africa, Congo, Rwanda, Yemen, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Russia, Europe, UK, Bougainville, Philippines, China, Taiwan, Tibet, Timor, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He often travels to countries experiencing conflict and social upheaval, and uses these experiences extensively in his art. He has highlighted important issues, such as that of landmines. His travels have taken him to many dangerous places; he has been in serious danger on numerous occasions. He has faced traumatic events, such as Kibeho, a subject with which he is still working two decades later. He has explained the choice to work like this:
George Nicol (footballer)
George Nicol (14 December 1903 – 18 December 1968), also known as Geordie Nicol, was a Scottish professional footballer who scored 63 goals from 103 appearances in the Football League playing for Manchester United, Brighton & Hove Albion and Gillingham. He played as a centre forward.
George Lyttleton-Rogers
George Lyttleton-Rogers was born on 10 July 1906 in Athy, Ireland to Frank Lyttleton-Rogers. His grandparents Daniel Upton and Marie Lloyd Upton were land-owners in Dublin. In the Irish War of Independence the family home, "Holyrood Castle" in Sandymount, was requisitioned as a machine gun nest by the British Army. His aunt Alice Upton Harvey was a famous Irish music composer. His cousin was George U. Harvey, borough president of Queens between 1929–1941. Rogers studied in the Imperial Service College in Windsor.