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c03256b5a9cc54ce79b78c957fc00e7d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Makridi-Bey | Theodore Makridi Bey | Theodore Makridi Bey
…cooperation with the Turkish archaeologist Theodore Makridi Bey until 1912, revealing the remains of a city whose temples, palaces, fortifications, and gateways left little doubt that this was the site of a mighty capital. From his findings, Winckler was able to draw a preliminary outline of the h... |
173c09e8d47ddd0bc5410868de565458 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Newton-Vail | Theodore Newton Vail | Theodore Newton Vail
Theodore Newton Vail, (born July 16, 1845, Minerva, Ohio, U.S.—died April 16, 1920, Baltimore, Maryland), American executive who twice headed the Bell Telephone Company at critical times and played a major role in establishing telephone services in the United States.
After a highly successful care... |
83dd71a6238e75e5e7db719e5139cc18 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Parker | Theodore Parker | Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker, (born August 24, 1810, Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S.—died May 10, 1860, Florence, Italy), American Unitarian theologian, pastor, scholar, and social reformer who was active in the antislavery movement. Theologically, he repudiated much traditional Christian dogma, putting in its plac... |
0207dee4f1a6c4daebabff6a02ea1d0a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Thomas | Theodore Thomas | Theodore Thomas
Theodore Thomas, in full Theodore Christian Friedrich Thomas, (born October 11, 1835, Esens, East Friesland, Prussia [Germany]—died January 4, 1905, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), German-born American conductor who was largely responsible for the role of symphony orchestras in many American cities.
A violi... |
8c64f45a5ab2362f6ac995304d7a3c0f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-William-Richards | Theodore William Richards | Theodore William Richards
Theodore William Richards, (born Jan. 31, 1868, Germantown, Pa., U.S.—died April 2, 1928, Cambridge, Mass.), American chemist whose accurate determination of the atomic weights of approximately 25 elements indicated the existence of isotopes and earned him the 1914 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.... |
efd547251d4a9ebc56bb11f50ca862ab | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodoret-of-Cyrrhus | Theodoret Of Cyrrhus | Theodoret Of Cyrrhus
Theodoret Of Cyrrhus, (born c. 393, Antioch, Syria—died c. 458, /466), Syrian theologian-bishop, representative of Antioch’s historico-critical school of biblical-theological interpretation, whose writings were a moderating influence on the 5th-century Christological disputes and contributed to th... |
12fb64009208d6d7184c44dcf8d3a644 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodoric-I-king-of-Reims | Theodoric I | Theodoric I
Theodoric I, (born before 484—died late 533), Merovingian king of Reims from 511. Theodoric was the eldest son of Clovis I, but born of an unknown woman, unlike the other sons, whose mother was Clotilda. An able soldier, he played an important part in his father’s campaigns against the Visigoths. On Clovis... |
f2f02841dbc618e1d65c78cb99b05613 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodoric-IV | Theodoric IV | Theodoric IV
Theodoric IV, (born after 711—died 737), penultimate ruler of the Merovingian dynasty, the son of Dagobert III; he was king of the Franks from 721. A puppet who was controlled by Charles Martel, the grandfather of Charlemagne, Theodoric was totally ignored by chroniclers of the day.
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79ecb90bc542d27439161aa1cdaaf382 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodoros-Pangalos | Theodoros Pangalos | Theodoros Pangalos
Theodoros Pangalos, (born Jan. 11, 1878, Salamís, Greece—died Feb. 26, 1952, Athens), soldier and statesman who for eight months in 1926 was dictator of Greece.
After service in World War I and the unsuccessful Greek campaign in western Turkey (1921–22), Pangalos was appointed minister of war short... |
813c3056eb6ad901bfc4801165192cdd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodosius-I | Theodosius I | Theodosius I
Theodosius I, byname Theodosius the Great, in full Flavius Theodosius, (born January 11, 347 ce, Cauca, Gallaecia [now Coca, Spain]—died January 17, 395, Mediolanum [now Milan, Italy]), Roman emperor of the East (379–392) and then sole emperor of both East and West (392–395), who, in vigorous suppression ... |
4626937169e97742e5f37f853285e84b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodosius-II | Theodosius II | Theodosius II
Theodosius II, (born April 10, 401, Constantinople [now Istanbul, Tur.]—died July 28, 450), Eastern Roman emperor from 408 to 450. He was a gentle, scholarly, easily dominated man who allowed his government to be run by a succession of relatives and ministers.
The son of the Eastern emperor Arcadius (re... |
c760ab1f83860990fad267f54d736bfb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodule-Armand-Ribot | Théodule-Armand Ribot | Théodule-Armand Ribot
Théodule-Armand Ribot, (born Dec. 18, 1839, Guingamp, Fr.—died Dec. 9, 1916, Paris), French psychologist whose endeavour to account for memory loss as a symptom of progressive brain disease, iterated in his Les Maladies de la mémoire (1881; Diseases of Memory), constitutes the most influential e... |
9fe681076019a406789f7ffec477ed20 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theognis | Theognis | Theognis
Theognis, (flourished 6th century bc, Megara [Greece]), ancient Greek elegiac poet whose work preserved a glimpse into Greek society in a time of turmoil. More than half of all surviving elegiac poetry in ancient Greek was transmitted under his name, preserved in a collection of elegiac couplets in two books... |
1a45f88dbb415ccca199f9fdf9172599 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theophile-de-Viau | Théophile de Viau | Théophile de Viau
Théophile de Viau, Viau also spelled Viaud, (born 1590, Clairac, near Agen, France—died Sept. 25, 1626, Paris), French poet and dramatist of the pre-Neoclassical period.
Born into a Huguenot family of the minor nobility, Viau went to Paris, where he soon won a reputation as the leader of the freeth... |
8d2a1c2fc9bda887872bfed673922230 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theophilus-Shepstone | Sir Theophilus Shepstone | Sir Theophilus Shepstone
Sir Theophilus Shepstone, (born Jan. 8, 1817, Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died June 23, 1893, Pietermaritzburg, Natal [now in South Africa]), British official in Southern Africa who devised a system of administering Africans on which all later European field administrations in Af... |
79894a57285cb4e4c2ac5713a3fd0732 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theophraste-Renaudot | Théophraste Renaudot | Théophraste Renaudot
Théophraste Renaudot, (born 1586?, Loudun, France—died Oct. 25, 1653, Paris), physician and social-service administrator who, as the founder of France’s first newspaper, is considered the father of French journalism.
In 1612 Renaudot traveled to Paris, where he became a protégé of Armand (later ... |
bc37457abbf9135080a8c3ec6e6bb434 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theudis | Theudis | Theudis
Theudis, (died June 548), the first Visigothic king of Spain (531–548), in the sense that he was the first to reside there permanently. An Ostrogoth, he had been sent to Spain with an army by Theodoric the Great. There he acquired great possessions in the valley of the Ebro by marriage with a Roman lady. Theod... |
1fc7aa9b7d3e0cdd6d1e1679f065a47b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thibaut-I | Thibaut I | Thibaut I
…of count was assumed by Thibaut I the Old, or the Cheat (d. c. 977), who founded the hereditary house of Blois. He enlarged his domain until it extended from the Indre River to the Eure.
…hands until about 940, when Theobald I (the Old) seized control of it and founded a line of counts of Blois. His successo... |
8d6bab68ceeb4954c872b96dff696156 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thibaut-III | Thibaut III | Thibaut III
At a tournament held by Thibaut III of Champagne, several prominent French nobles took the cross. Among them was Geoffrey of Villehardouin, author of one of the principal accounts of the Crusade; other important nobles joined later, and contact was made with Venice to provide transport.
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265a2105d1cc3ff99b1fb85780e2a0e0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Ades | Thomas Adès | Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès, in full Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès, (born March 1, 1971, London, England), British composer, pianist, and conductor whose diverse compositional oeuvre, ranging from solo pieces to operas, established him as one of the most-skilled classical music artists of his generation.
Trained as a pianist ... |
f79de6ebc23d49ef4a8a542241505b90 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Andrew-Dorsey | Thomas Andrew Dorsey | Thomas Andrew Dorsey
Thomas Andrew Dorsey, (born July 1, 1899, Villa Rica, Ga., U.S.—died Jan. 23, 1993, Chicago, Ill.), American songwriter, singer, and pianist whose many up-tempo blues arrangements of gospel music hymns earned him the title of “Father of Gospel Music.”
Dorsey was the son of a revivalist preacher. ... |
7a706e6b929df375892a590a4e83e778 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Anthony-Dooley | Thomas Anthony Dooley | Thomas Anthony Dooley
Thomas Anthony Dooley, (born Jan. 17, 1927, St. Louis, Mo.—died Jan. 18, 1961, New York City), “jungle doctor” whose lectures and books recounted his efforts to supply medical aid to peoples of less developed countries, mainly in Southeast Asia.
A graduate of St. Louis University medical school ... |
fa26dc4018831cdb5101c788b817b2fc | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Arne | Thomas Arne | Thomas Arne
Thomas Arne, in full Thomas Augustine Arne, (born March 12, 1710, London, Eng.—died March 5, 1778, London), English composer, chiefly of dramatic music and song.
According to tradition, Arne was the son of an upholsterer in King Street, Covent Garden. Educated at Eton, he was intended for the law, but by ... |
d61c6779454df7aa54b72e9107c434af | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Attwood | Thomas Attwood | Thomas Attwood
Thomas Attwood, (born Oct. 6, 1783, Halesowen, Worcestershire, Eng.—died March 6, 1856, Great Malvern, Worcestershire), English economist and leader in the electoral reform movement.
Attwood entered his father’s banking firm in Birmingham, Eng., in 1800. After his election, in 1811, as high bailiff of... |
7a4db7870dbd82693b3bbaecb536fbf1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Augustus-Watson | Thomas Augustus Watson | Thomas Augustus Watson
Thomas Augustus Watson, (born January 18, 1854, Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.—died December 13, 1934, Passagrille Key, Florida), American telephone pioneer and shipbuilder, one of the original organizers of the Bell Telephone Company, who later turned to shipbuilding and constructed a number of ves... |
37fb4e582cfb01beeaefc3cfa1385dc1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Bangalter | Thomas Bangalter | Thomas Bangalter
The two members were Thomas Bangalter (b. January 3, 1975, Suresnes, France) and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (b. February 8, 1974, Neuilly-sur-Seine).
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9675f1fae6ac5640a047065d6fd9d664 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Berger | Thomas Berger | Thomas Berger
Thomas Berger, in full Thomas Louis Berger, (born July 20, 1924, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died July 13, 2014, Nyack, New York), American novelist whose darkly comic fiction probes and satirizes the American experience.
Berger graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1948. His first novel, Crazy in B... |
ee3d751b6282b8254af87f04908f367b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Blackburn | Thomas Blackburn | Thomas Blackburn
Thomas Blackburn, (born Feb. 10, 1916, Hensingham, Cumberland, Eng.—died Aug. 13, 1977, Wales), English poet, novelist, and critic whose verse is notable for haunted self-examination and spiritual imagery.
The son of a clergyman, Blackburn was educated at the University of Durham. In his autobiograph... |
ff366d78946f17089d003905129d5c7e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Brassey | Thomas Brassey | Thomas Brassey
Thomas Brassey, (born Nov. 7, 1805, Buerton, near Chester, Cheshire, Eng.—died Dec. 8, 1870, Hastings, Sussex), early British railway contractor who built railway lines all over the world.
Brassey began his career as a surveyor, afterward becoming a partner and finally sole manager of the business. In 1... |
052413f6c58fc493eaa50f61ae76ac8d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Bruce-7th-earl-of-Elgin | Thomas Bruce, 7th earl of Elgin | Thomas Bruce, 7th earl of Elgin
Thomas Bruce, 7th earl of Elgin, (born July 20, 1766—died Nov. 14, 1841, Paris), British diplomatist and art collector, famous for his acquisition of the Greek sculptures now known as the “Elgin Marbles” (q.v.).
Third son of Charles Bruce, the 5th earl (1732–71), he succeeded his broth... |
4e926e8622114faa5b5833fba53181a3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Cartwright | Thomas Cartwright | Thomas Cartwright
…the leader of the Presbyterians, Thomas Cartwright, was forced to flee England after publishing “A Second Admonition to Parliament” in support of the first. The clergy who refused to conform to the compulsory form of worship that had been promulgated by Elizabeth in 1559 (as the Act of Uniformity) lo... |
ee814f1aa7a58a200080d278071af2eb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Cranmer-archbishop-of-Canterbury | Thomas Cranmer | Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer, (born July 2, 1489, Aslacton, Nottinghamshire, England—died March 21, 1556, Oxford), the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury (1533–56), adviser to the English kings Henry VIII and Edward VI. As archbishop, he put the English Bible in parish churches, drew up the Book of Common Pray... |
dda7e3084f525fd8f432f299fe1d7573 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Crawford | Thomas Crawford | Thomas Crawford
Thomas Crawford, (born March 22, 1814, New York, New York, U.S.—died October 10, 1857, London, England), Neoclassical sculptor best known for his colossal Statue of Freedom, which was posthumously cast and hoisted atop the dome of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., amid great festivities in 1863.
Crawfor... |
2ab7b3bc1e40b9558ae3c183814421d9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Dale | Sir Thomas Dale | Sir Thomas Dale
…settler; both the Virginia governor, Sir Thomas Dale, and Chief Powhatan agreed to the marriage, which took place in April 1614. Following the marriage, peace prevailed between the English and the Native Americans as long as Chief Powhatan lived. According to Powhatan tradition and the account of one c... |
9b39f6536b8159e559ed66511338b1b4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Dangerfield | Thomas Dangerfield | Thomas Dangerfield
Thomas Dangerfield, (born 1650, Waltham, Essex, Eng.—died 1685, London), British informer who falsely accused British Roman Catholics of conspiracy during the panic created by the fictitious Popish Plot of 1678, based on Titus Oates’s allegations that Catholics were plotting to murder King Charles... |
adbf9d8ab2cb7dab0b1cd2786bab833d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-DArcy-McGee | Thomas D'Arcy McGee | Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Thomas D’Arcy McGee, (born April 13, 1825, Carlingford, County Louth, Ire.—died April 7, 1868, Ottawa, Ont., Can.), Irish-Canadian writer and chief political orator of the Canadian confederation movement.
An Irish patriot, McGee was associated with The Nation (1846–48), the literary organ of the Y... |
d049f79c512f55e4ba038583c99339d1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Dartmouth-Rice | Thomas Dartmouth Rice | Thomas Dartmouth Rice
Thomas Dartmouth Rice, bynames Jim Crow Rice and Daddy Rice, (born May 20, 1808, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 19, 1860, New York City), American actor regarded as the father of the minstrel show.
Rice was an itinerant actor until his song and dance Jump Jim Crow, first presented in Louisville ... |
72339d67881f5b8450b81f37af125600 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Davis | Sir Thomas Davis | Sir Thomas Davis
…Oceania was Makutu (1960) by Thomas Davis, a Cook Islander, and Lydia Henderson, his New Zealand-born wife. Like their earlier autobiography, Doctor to the Islands (1954), it was written in English. The novel, which deals with the cultural conflict between Pacific and Western values in an imaginary la... |
3c73cb16cbeb077bfd0cde519a4181b5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Day | Thomas Day | Thomas Day
Some writers, such as Thomas Day, with his long-lived Sandford and Merton, were avowedly Rousseauist. Others took from him what appealed to them. Sarah Kirby Trimmer, whose Fabulous Histories specialized in piety, opposed the presumably free-thinking Rousseau on religious grounds but was in other respects st... |
68e11dfdb2377b7633af6ebbb1613537 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Doane | Thomas Doane | Thomas Doane
…along with electric firing, by Thomas Doane, the resident engineer. Even more important, the development of compressed-air drilling machinery on the Hoosac helped launch the American pneumatic-tool industry, which assumed immense significance in mining and construction. These innovations greatly accelerat... |
af1210b8d11ccfb1339ae7b26276ce40 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Doggett | Thomas Doggett | Thomas Doggett
Thomas Doggett, (born c. 1670, Dublin, Ire.—died September/October 1721, London, Eng.), English actor who excelled in low-comedy parts and is best remembered as a member of a famous actor-manager triumvirate of Cibber, Doggett, and Wilks at the Drury Lane Theatre, London.
Doggett is said to have begun h... |
c77b31c93c1e1c0d61444e1ba1065a00 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-DUrfey | Thomas D'Urfey | Thomas D'Urfey
Thomas D’Urfey, (born 1653, Exeter?, Devon, Eng.—died February 1723, London), English dramatist, satirist, and songwriter with a light satirical touch whose plays were very popular in their time; his comedies, with complicated plots carried forward by lively dialogue, to some extent pointed the way to ... |
32409645bea2ba960f41aac70cc521ff | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-East | Thomas East | Thomas East
Thomas East, East also spelled Easte, Est, or Este, (born c. 1540, London, Eng.—died January 1609, London), prominent English music publisher whose collection of psalms (1592) was among the first part-music printed in score rather than as individual parts in separate books.
East was licensed as a printer... |
ed7356e1e149ebca613ad17b98ea814b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Edison/Menlo-Park | Menlo Park | Menlo Park
Although Edison was a sharp bargainer, he was a poor financial manager, often spending and giving away money more rapidly than he earned it. In 1871 he married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell, who was as improvident in household matters as he was in business, and before the end of 1875 they were in financial diffi... |
848e4be35325ed793930e32ad521d858 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Edison/The-Edison-laboratory | The Edison laboratory | The Edison laboratory
A widower with three young children, Edison, on February 24, 1886, married 20-year-old Mina Miller, the daughter of a prosperous Ohio manufacturer. He purchased a hilltop estate in West Orange, New Jersey, for his new bride and constructed nearby a grand, new laboratory, which he intended to be th... |
4b89da48bfa4d1cf359fcb61567459c3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Edward-Thorpe | Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe | Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe
Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe, (born Dec. 8, 1845, Manchester—died Feb. 23, 1925, Salcombe, South Devon, Eng.), chemist and director of British government laboratories (1894–1909) who, with a number of specialists, published A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry (1890–93). After obtaining his doctorate... |
4423de0bc143b91189f723f9bc35dc35 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Emlyn | Thomas Emlyn | Thomas Emlyn
Thomas Emlyn, (born May 27, 1663, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Eng.—died July 30, 1741, London), English Presbyterian minister and writer who first publicly adopted the name Unitarian to designate a liberal, rational approach to God as a single person (as opposed to Christian belief in the Trinity).
Emlyn beg... |
151d3ec6ce4f9237443752e6ae73028d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Frye | Thomas Frye | Thomas Frye
…this was an invention of Thomas Frye, a gifted Irish engraver who, with his partner, Edward Heylyn, had founded the factory.
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9ade40ed9cd164281158a821660fb899 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-H-Ince | Thomas H. Ince | Thomas H. Ince
Thomas H. Ince, in full Thomas Harper Ince, (born November 16, 1882, Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.—died November 19, 1924, Hollywood, California), pioneer American motion-picture director who was the first to organize production methods into a disciplined system of filmmaking.
The son of a comedian, Ince ... |
8f8b1be0a5ccd6f4fcf149977397a889 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Henderson | Thomas Henderson | Thomas Henderson
Thomas Henderson, (born Dec. 28, 1798, Dundee, Angus, Scot.—died Nov. 23, 1844, Edinburgh), Scottish astronomer who, as royal astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope (1831–33), made measurements that later allowed him to determine the parallax of a star (Alpha Centauri). He announced his findings in 1839... |
dd1af7143b95a698b49410d6ee61135a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Henry-Huxley | Thomas Henry Huxley | Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley, (born May 4, 1825, Ealing, Middlesex, England—died June 29, 1895, Eastbourne, Sussex), English biologist, educator, and advocate of agnosticism (he coined the word). Huxley’s vigorous public support of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary naturalism earned him the nickname “Darwin’s b... |
eb4510b0607fd16400ecdf913176b617 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Hiram-Holding | Thomas Hiram Holding | Thomas Hiram Holding
…of modern recreational camping was Thomas Hiram Holding, who wrote the first edition of The Camper’s Handbook in 1908. His urge to camp derived from his experiences as a boy: in 1853 he crossed the prairies of the United States in a wagon train, covering some 1,200 miles (1,900 km)…
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d3753b0b1ab9db00acfe958f71e3e595 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Hitchcock-Jr | Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. | Thomas Hitchcock, Jr.
Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., byname Tommy Hitchcock, (born February 11, 1900, Aiken, South Carolina, U.S.—died April 19, 1944, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England), American polo player, generally considered the greatest in the history of the sport.
The son of an outstanding player, Hitchcock achieved a 10-g... |
6b5cce6f92801aaf66eb4829e53fa50a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Hobbes/Political-philosophy | Political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes | Political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes presented his political philosophy in different forms for different audiences. De Cive states his theory in what he regarded as its most scientific form. Unlike The Elements of Law, which was composed in English for English parliamentarians—and which was written with local p... |
a4ba02e84759402844d68df5493b0b45 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Hobbes/Return-to-England | Return to England | Return to England
There are signs that Hobbes intended Leviathan to be read by a monarch, who would be able to take the rules of statecraft from it. A specially bound copy was given to Prince Charles while he was in exile in Paris. Unfortunately, Hobbes’s suggestion in Leviathan that a subject had the right to abandon ... |
ddd79e28f841cfc159f1c2bcc26397de | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Holland-duke-of-Surrey-3rd-earl-of-Kent | Thomas Holland, duke of Surrey | Thomas Holland, duke of Surrey
Thomas Holland, duke of Surrey, also called Thomas De Holand, (born 1374—died Jan. 7/8, 1400, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Eng.), prominent English noble in the reign of Richard II.
Son of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (1350–97), he aided in the arrest and destruction of Richard II’... |
74af0e604db33bacae12f6037042ea82 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Howard-1st-earl-of-Suffolk | Thomas Howard, 1st earl of Suffolk | Thomas Howard, 1st earl of Suffolk
Thomas Howard, 1st earl of Suffolk, (born Aug. 24, 1561—died May 28, 1626, London, Eng.), an English commander during the attack of the Spanish Armada and in other forays against the Spanish during the reign of Elizabeth I. He was also a councillor in the reign of James I.
Howard wa... |
30c35a7968fa3ba021680f93e611e8ec | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-J-Watson-Jr | Thomas J. Watson, Jr. | Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., in full Thomas John Watson, Jr., (born January 8, 1914, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.—died December 31, 1993, Greenwich, Connecticut), American business executive who inherited the leadership of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from his father, Thomas J. Watson, Sr., ... |
6874e6dc385f496fe66b34f67c0c163f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-James-Cobden-Sanderson | Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson | Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson
Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, (born Dec. 2, 1840, Alnwick, Northumberland, Eng.—died Sept. 7, 1922, London), English book designer and binder who contributed much to the success of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Though initially a barrister, he turned in 1883 to bookbinding, a field in w... |
aeb1376291c3386a9f06d6a9b7f673e8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Kinkade | Thomas Kinkade | Thomas Kinkade
Thomas Kinkade, (born January 19, 1958, Sacramento, California, U.S.—died April 6, 2012, Monte Sereno, California), American artist who built a successful industry on his light-infused paintings of tranquil idyllic scenes.
Kinkade studied art history and took studio classes for two years at the Universi... |
1724202b5caf8772db0f7d607723fa3b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Komnenus-Palaeologus | Thomas Komnenus Palaeologus | Thomas Komnenus Palaeologus
…Komnenos Palaeologus, also known as Preljubovič, the son of the caesar Gregory Preljub, who had been the Serbian governor of Thessaly under Stefan Uroš IV Dušan. He was able to assert Serbian control over northern Epirus and fought with the Albanian lords of Árta (Ghin Bua Spata and Peter L... |
8fbc05431dff5685d0254a7d32c332a1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Kyd | Thomas Kyd | Thomas Kyd
Thomas Kyd, (baptized Nov. 6, 1558, London, Eng.—died c. December 1594, London), English dramatist who, with his The Spanish Tragedy (sometimes called Hieronimo, or Jeronimo, after its protagonist), initiated the revenge tragedy of his day. Kyd anticipated the structure of many later plays, including the de... |
707d877b9198a77be49f06b9c5bb3967 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Littleton | Sir Thomas Littleton | Sir Thomas Littleton
Sir Thomas Littleton, Littleton also spelled Lyttelton or Luttelton, (born 1422, probably at Frankley, Worcestershire, England—died August 23, 1481, Frankley), jurist, author of Littleton on Tenures (or Treatise on Tenures), the first important English legal text neither written in Latin nor signi... |
df59797cfe48eea6ef8cf7d875e0511d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Love-Peacock | Thomas Love Peacock | Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock, (born Oct. 18, 1785, Weymouth, Dorset, Eng.—died Jan. 23, 1866, Lower Halliford, Middlesex), English author who satirized the intellectual tendencies of his day in novels in which conversation predominates over character or plot. His best verse is interspersed in his novels.
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3ec6b38efde763ac737f2874da7975eb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Luckmann | Thomas Luckmann | Thomas Luckmann
For example, Thomas Luckmann, a German-American sociologist, described the sacred in modern society as that “strata of significance to which everyday life is ultimately referred”; and this definition includes such themes as “the autonomous individual” and “the mobility ethos.”
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6e293e13138547bf89bd76c724d7b0cd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Lucy | Sir Thomas Lucy | Sir Thomas Lucy
Sir Thomas Lucy, (born April 24, 1532, Charlecote, near Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, Eng.—died July 7, 1600, Charlecote), English squire whom William Shakespeare may possibly have caricatured as Justice Shallow in Henry IV, Part 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
At 16 Lucy married an heiress, Joyc... |
8a1de3a93b1cc30af5c07fbf7ebb1db6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Mackenzie | Sir Thomas Mackenzie | Sir Thomas Mackenzie
Sir Thomas Mackenzie, (born March 10, 1854, Edinburgh—died Feb. 14, 1930, Dunedin, N.Z.), Scottish-born explorer, businessman, and politician who was for a short time prime minister of New Zealand (1912) and who later served as High Commissioner in London during World War I.
Mackenzie’s family ha... |
ea5736964a617313fa7b420bd9f64653 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Malory | Thomas Malory | Thomas Malory
Thomas Malory, in full Sir Thomas Malory, (flourished c. 1470), English writer whose identity remains uncertain but whose name is famous as that of the author of Le Morte Darthur, the first prose account in English of the rise and fall of the legendary king Arthur and the fellowship of the Round Table.
E... |
a74081a252b47d33775c5c79af83b669 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Malthus | Thomas Malthus | Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus, in full Thomas Robert Malthus, (born February 13/14, 1766, Rookery, near Dorking, Surrey, England—died December 29, 1834, St. Catherine, near Bath, Somerset), English economist and demographer who is best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food sup... |
1c4da75607c9e14886979bca046e3cc0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Mellon | Thomas Mellon | Thomas Mellon
Following the discovery, Thomas Mellon built the Gulf refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. The firm continued to develop oil fields in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, as well as in Mexico and Venezuela; by 1923 the Port Arthur refinery was the largest in the world. Gulf was the first…
…was founded in 1869 by T... |
ee34d467c13553b934c326350e2a3760 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Merton | Thomas Merton | Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton, original name of Father M. Louis, (born January 31, 1915, Prades, France—died December 10, 1968, Bangkok, Thailand), Roman Catholic monk, poet, and prolific writer on spiritual and social themes, one of the most important American Roman Catholic writers of the 20th century.
Merton was th... |
e377b11676e68fb7ae518c66259a025a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Midgley-Jr | Thomas Midgley, Jr. | Thomas Midgley, Jr.
Thomas Midgley, Jr., (born May 18, 1889, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died November 2, 1944, Worthington, Ohio), American engineer and chemist who discovered the effectiveness of tetraethyl lead as an antiknock additive for gasoline. He also found that dichlorodifluoromethane (a type of fluoroc... |
2eccae43fb6449bcc28c4f3e148d038d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-More-English-humanist-and-statesman | Thomas More | Thomas More
Thomas More, in full Sir Thomas More, also called Saint Thomas More, (born February 7, 1478, London, England—died July 6, 1535, London; canonized May 19, 1935; feast day June 22), English humanist and statesman, chancellor of England (1529–32), who was beheaded for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as hea... |
5b787242e177e0d5b75ba4bb2c3b3249 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Mudge | Thomas Mudge | Thomas Mudge
Thomas Mudge, (born Sept. 1717, Exeter, Devon, Eng.—died Nov. 14, 1794, Newington Place, Surrey), considered England’s greatest watchmaker, who was the inventor of the lever escapement, the most dependable and widely used device for regulating the movement of the spring-driven watch.
Mudge served as appre... |
ca2cafd72ea20d2c6f033c00f5b41b53 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Nagel | Thomas Nagel | Thomas Nagel
…to Be a Bat?” (1974), Thomas Nagel pointed out that no matter how much someone might know about the objective facts about the brains and behaviour of bats and of their peculiar ability to echolocate (to locate distant or invisible objects by means of sound waves), that knowledge alone would…
The American ... |
f4e9bc7d9474af9b582ba6c78fbec706 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Osborne-Davis | Thomas Osborne Davis | Thomas Osborne Davis
Thomas Osborne Davis, (born Oct. 14, 1814, Mallow, County Cork, Ire.—died Sept. 16, 1845, Dublin), Irish writer and politician who was the chief organizer and poet of the Young Ireland movement.
A Protestant who resented the traditional identification of Irish nationalism with Roman Catholic inte... |
3d80ece456a5833465183dfea8eb3047 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-R-Marshall | Thomas R. Marshall | Thomas R. Marshall
Thomas R. Marshall, (born March 14, 1854, North Manchester, Ind., U.S.—died June 1, 1925, Washington, D.C.), 28th vice president of the United States (1913–21) in the Democratic administration of President Woodrow Wilson. He was the first vice president in almost a century to serve two terms in off... |
63dfc764fbff6f23b59cd6912e464dd5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Radcliffe-3rd-earl-of-Sussex | Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd earl of Sussex | Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd earl of Sussex
Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd earl of Sussex, Radcliffe also spelled Ratclyffe, also called (1542–53) Viscount Fitzwalter, or(1553–57) Baron Fitzwalter, (born c. 1525—died June 9, 1583, London), English lord lieutenant of Ireland who suppressed a rebellion of the Roman Catholics in the fa... |
b9e5e24da208e13b237605ac3cfce4b6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Rainborow | Thomas Rainborow | Thomas Rainborow
Thomas Rainborow, Rainborow also spelled Rainsborough, (died Oct. 29, 1648, Doncaster, Yorkshire, Eng.), English soldier and republican who fought for Parliament during the English Civil Wars.
His father, Captain William Rainborow, had been an officer in the royal navy. Thomas commanded the Swallow i... |
3b694895e47d7457f9c2b488960acfb3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Ravenscroft | Thomas Ravenscroft | Thomas Ravenscroft
Thomas Ravenscroft, (born c. 1582?, Sussex?, Eng.—died c. 1633, London?), composer remembered for his social songs and his collection of psalm settings.
He took his bachelor of music degree at the University of Cambridge, possibly in 1605. From 1618 to 1622 he was music master at Christ’s Hospital. ... |
443722ff8847ede6040ce31eb88ed290 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Reid | Thomas Reid | Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid, (born April 26, 1710, Strachan, Kincardineshire, Scot.—died Oct. 7, 1796, Glasgow), Scottish philosopher who rejected the skeptical Empiricism of David Hume in favour of a “philosophy of common sense,” later espoused by the Scottish School.
Reid studied philosophy at Marischal College, Aberde... |
42664e5deb75f97a13dc7263deed1117 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Rudolphus-Dallmeyer | Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer | Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer
His son Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer (1859–1906) introduced telephoto lenses into ordinary practice (patented 1891) and wrote a standard book on the subject (Telephotography, 1899).
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76dc54947216bcf4ba1064e0a7b3d938 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Selle | Thomas Selle | Thomas Selle
Matthew Passion setting of Thomas Selle (1599–1663) uses a double chorus extensively, while his setting of the St. John Passion incorporates instruments and a “distant choir.” Contrast between the interlocutors is achieved by assigning particular instruments or groups to different characters. Chorales, or ... |
61717707461068fb44638c7888496c57 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Shadwell | Thomas Shadwell | Thomas Shadwell
Thomas Shadwell, (born 1642?, Norfolk, England—died November 19, 1692, London), English dramatist and poet laureate, known for his broad comedies of manners and as the butt of John Dryden’s satire.
Educated at Caius College, Cambridge, and at the Middle Temple, London, after the Restoration (1660) Shad... |
5a9c3fb18f71b3c11a7ef95f23da50dc | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Shelton | Thomas Shelton | Thomas Shelton
Thomas Shelton, (flourished 1598–1629, England), first English translator of Don Quixote. His work (1612 and 1620) was based not on Cervantes’s originals (1605 and 1615) but on the Velpius edition first published in Brussels in 1607.
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c9f57c38171b1ff38077f14659f1885b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Solly | Thomas Solly | Thomas Solly
…in 1839 the English writer Thomas Solly presented an extensional logic in A Syllabus of Logic, though not an algebraic one.)
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aca1caece34b889db0346e8da1f185be | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Story-Kirkbride | Thomas Story Kirkbride | Thomas Story Kirkbride
Thomas Story Kirkbride, (born July 31, 1809, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died December 16, 1883, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), American psychiatrist and administrator best known for his influential ideas about the design and construction of hospitals for the mentally ill.
Kirkbride was born ... |
520ee38daeda2868fc5c0e5823bdc407 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Sumter | Thomas Sumter | Thomas Sumter
Thomas Sumter, (born August 14, 1734, Hanover county, Virginia [U.S.]—died June 1, 1832, South Mount, South Carolina, U.S.), legislator and officer in the American Revolution, remembered for his leadership of troops against British forces in North and South Carolina, where he earned the sobriquet “the ... |
de761a7c7a81d8040a80c373c5fc825a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Telford | Thomas Telford | Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford, (born Aug. 9, 1757, near Westerkirk, Dumfries, Scot.—died Sept. 2, 1834, London, Eng.), versatile Scottish civil engineer whose crowning achievement was the design and construction (1819–26) of the Menai Bridge in Wales.
Telford began his career as a mason and educated himself to become ... |
0c886ceeaf471576293e4ab7f5fbce8a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-the-Rhymer | Thomas The Rhymer | Thomas The Rhymer
Thomas The Rhymer, also called Thomas Learmont, or Thomas Of Erceldoune, (flourished 1220–97), Scottish poet and prophet who was likely the author of the metrical romance Sir Tristrem, a version of the widely diffused Tristan legend. The romance was first printed in 1804 by Sir Walter Scott from a ma... |
c5e7dff29dd82283685ee42d91771cdd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Venner | Thomas Venner | Thomas Venner
…an armed uprising, led by Thomas Venner in April 1657, was easily suppressed. Venner attempted another, equally abortive uprising in January 1661. He and a number of others were executed, and the special doctrines of the sect died out.
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bcf154447f0cd597dfd95db3c7822e18 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Walker-American-physician | Thomas Walker | Thomas Walker
…1750s and ’60s, Virginian physician Thomas Walker and a survey party in 1750 established the region’s southern boundary—the so-called “Walker Line,” at 36°30′ N—as an extension of the Virginia–North Carolina boundary. (Kentucky was to remain part of Virginia until 1792.) The French and Indian War (1754–6... |
be6f53b02a76e5a43195d537a25c3ebf | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Walker-British-inventor | Thomas Walker | Thomas Walker
…at any time; another Englishman, Thomas Walker, introduced successive refinements of the patent log beginning in 1861. This form of log is still in use.
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738116832e7c43dd946adf156bc43c25 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Wentworth-earl-of-Cleveland | Thomas Wentworth, earl of Cleveland | Thomas Wentworth, earl of Cleveland
Thomas Wentworth, earl of Cleveland, also called (from 1593) 4th Baron Wentworth of Nettlestead, 4th Lord Le Despenser, (born 1591—died March 25, 1667), prominent Royalist during the English Civil Wars.
The eldest son of Henry Wentworth (whom he succeeded as 4th Baron Wentworth and... |
74c6f9448774aa74f1d4692622fcf38e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Wentworth-Wills | Thomas Wentworth Wills | Thomas Wentworth Wills
Concerned about off-season fitness, cricketer Thomas Wentworth Wills (1835–80), who was born in Australia but educated at Rugby School in England—where he captained the cricket team and excelled in football—believed that a football club should be formed to keep his teammates fit during winter. Th... |
540535d823ea5a1b9bbd797c88501dc7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Willis | Thomas Willis | Thomas Willis
Thomas Willis, (born Jan. 27, 1621, Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, Eng.—died Nov. 11, 1675, London), British physicians, leader of the English iatrochemists, who attempted to explain the workings of the body from current knowledge of chemical interactions; he is known for his careful studies of the nervous sy... |
768b85e65d79c78067068a190a2ef6d8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Worthington | Thomas Worthington | Thomas Worthington
…Martin (the chief translator), and Thomas Worthington, who provided the Old Testament annotations, was instrumental in its production. They undertook the work—initiated by Allen—in order to provide English-speaking Roman Catholics with an authoritative Roman Catholic version of the Bible, as an alte... |
32419404c0931c5b4da0465594be210c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Yayi-Boni | Thomas Yayi Boni | Thomas Yayi Boni
…elections held in March 2006, Thomas Boni Yayi, former chief executive of the West African Development Bank and relatively new to national politics, running as an independent candidate, emerged victorious after two rounds of voting. The new president focused on economic development as well as the elim... |
195846d61943d781a6ccf105ec33b686 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thoralf-Albert-Skolem | Thoralf Albert Skolem | Thoralf Albert Skolem
In 1934 the Norwegian Thoralf Skolem gave an explicit construction of what is now called a nonstandard model of arithmetic, containing “infinite numbers” and infinitesimals, each of which is a certain class of infinite sequences.
…and of the Norwegian mathematician Thoralf Skolem, a pioneer in met... |
ecf6ed65b46d639eddc87b3cbe35e385 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thorbjorn-Egner | Thorbjørn Egner | Thorbjørn Egner
…Mexico City and northern India; Thorbjørn Egner, who is the author of, among other books, a tiny droll fantasy, Karius and Baktus (1958; Eng. trans. 1962), which will actually persuade small children to brush their teeth; and Alf Prøysen, creator of Mrs. Pepperpot, a delightful little old lady who neve... |
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