- John Tower
John Goodwin Tower (September 29, 1925 - April 5, 1991) was the first Republican United States senator from Texas since Reconstruction. He served from 1961 until his retirement in January 1985, after which time he was the chairman of the Reagan-appointed Tower Commission that investigated the Iran-Contra Affair. - Joan Tower
Joan Tower (born September 6, 1938 in New Rochelle, New York) is a contemporary American composer. She became known for her first orchestral composition, "Sequoia", a tone poem which structurally depicts a giant redwood from trunk to needles. Among her other prominent pieces are the "Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman", which is something of a response to Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man", her two string quartets, … - Leonard H. Tower Jr.
Leonard "Len" H. Tower Jr. (born June 17, 1949) is a hacker and activist in the free software movement, environmentalist, artist, poet, and gardener. An Eagle Scout, Tower was also awarded the Vigil Honor in the Order of the Arrow. In 1971, he received a B.S. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he held several management roles at "The Tech," the student newspaper, … - Keith Tower
Keith Raymond Tower (born May 15, 1970 in Libby, Montana), is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'11" forward-center from the University of Notre Dame, Tower was never drafted by an NBA team but did manage to play in 4 NBA seasons from 1993 to 1997. He played for the Orlando Magic, Los Angeles Clippers and Milwaukee Bucks. In his NBA career, Tower played in 53 games and scored a total of 98 points. - Beauchamp Tower
Beauchamp Tower (1845 - 1904) was an English inventor and engineer who is chiefly known for his discovery of full-film or hydrodynamic lubrication. In 1882 he was appointed by the Institute of Mechanical Engineering to study high-speed bearings and demonstrated that with a suitable supply of lubricating oil the surfaces of the bearings were separated by a continuous film of lubricant which prevented them from ever coming into contact. - Whitney Tower
Whitney Tower (June 30, 1923 - February 11, 1999) was an American journalist reporting on Thoroughbred horse racing and a president of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. He was the son of oil broker Roderick Tower and Flora Payne Whitney, a member of the prominent Whitney family. - Charlemagne Tower
Charlemagne Tower. Married Amelia Malvina Bartle in June 14, 1847 eventually settling in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Original interment at West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania; reinterment at Waterville Cemetery, Waterville, New York - Joan Of The Tower
Joan of England (July 5, 1321-September 7, 1362), known as Joan of the Tower was the first wife and Queen consort of David II of Scotland. She was born at the Tower of London and was the youngest daughter of Edward II of England and Isabella of France. In accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Northampton, she was married on 17 July, 1328 to David II of Scotland at Berwick-upon-Tweed. - Philip Tower
Major-General Philip Thomas Tower, CB, DSO, MBE (1 March 1917 - 8 December 2006) was a British soldier. The only son of Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Tower was born in Rhu, Dunbartonshire. Educated in Harrow College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, he was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1937. Tower served with the 25th Field Regiment, in India until the outbreak of the Second World War. - George Bates Nichols Tower
George Bates Nichols Tower was an American civil and mechanical engineer and Union naval officer during the American Civil War. He served for at least part of his term of service on the "USS Canandaigua" as chief engineer. He was also a Chandler Instructor in civil engineering at Dartmouth College. In 1874, he wrote "Instructions on Modern American Bridge Building". - Patrick Tower
Sergeant Patrick Tower, S.M.V., C.D.<BR> Edmonton, Alberta, and Victoria, British Columbia<BR> Star of Military Valour<BR>; Sergeant Tower is recognized for valiant actions taken on August 3, 2006, in the Pashmul region of Afghanistan. Following an enemy strike against an outlying friendly position that resulted in numerous casualties, Sergeant Tower assembled the platoon medic and a third soldier and led them across 150 metres of open terrain, … - Jack Tower
Jack Tower (27 March, 1885, Italy - Unknown) was an American racecar driver. He lived in Flint, Michigan. - Jeremiah Tower
Jeremiah Tower is a celebrity chef who, along with Alice Waters, is generally credited with inventing California cuisine. - Sol Lewitt
Sol LeWitt (September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements including conceptual art and minimalism. His media were predominantly painting, drawing, and structures (a term he preferred in opposition to sculpture). He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide since 1965. His prolific two and three-dimensional work ranges from "Wall Drawings", over 1200 of which have been executed, … - John Gordon
John Gordon, D.D., (1544-1619), was a Scottish prelate. He was born on 1 Sept. 1544, the natural son of Alexander Gordon (c. 1516-1575), Bishop of Galloway and former Archbishop of Glasgow, and Barbara Logie; his parents married, perhaps clandestinely, only in 1546, before Alexander obtained ecclesiastical preferment (for this, see his new DNB entry). He first studied at St Leonard's College, St. Andrews. In June 1565 he was sent to pursue his education in France, … - Alessandro Mendini
Alessandro Mendini (born 1931 in Milan) is an Italian designer and architect. He played an important part in the development of Italian design. He also worked, aside from his artistic career, for Casabella, Modo and Domus magazines. In the seventies he was one of the main personalities of the Radical design movement. In 1979 he joined the Studio Alchimia as a partner and here he worked with Ettore Sottsass and Michele De Lucchi. - William Harrison Ainsworth
William Harrison Ainsworth (February 4 1805 - January 3 1882) was an English historical novelist. He was born in Manchester, the son of a solicitor. He went to the Manchester Grammar School before becoming trained in the law. However the legal profession had no attraction for him, and going to London to complete his studies he made the acquaintance of John Ebers, publisher, and at that time manager of the Opera House, … - William Dugdale
Sir William Dugdale (September 12, 1605 - February 10, 1686) was an English antiquary. He was born at Shustoke, near Coleshill, Warwickshire, of an old Lancashire family, and he was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry. To please his elderly father, he married at seventeen, and lived with his wife's family until his father's death in 1624, when he went to live at Fillongley, near Shustoke, an estate formerly purchased for him by his father. - Francis Tresham
Francis Tresham (c. 1567 - December 1605), English Gunpowder Plot conspirator, eldest son of Sir Thomas Tresham of Rushton (a descendant of Sir Thomas Tresham, Speaker of the House of Commons, executed by Edward IV in 1471), and of Muriel, daughter of Sir Thomas Throckmorton of Coughton, was educated at Oxford. He was, like his father, a Roman Catholic, and his family had already suffered for their religion and politics. - Krzysztof Wodiczko
Krzysztof Wodiczko is an artist currently living in Boston and teaching at MIT. The son of Polish conductor Bohdan Wodiczko, he was born in 1943 in Warsaw, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw in 1968 with a degree in industrial design, and taught at the Warsaw Polytechnic until 1977. He emigrated that year to Canada to teach at the University of Guelph in Ontario. - Anthony Cooke
Sir Anthony Cooke (1504 - 11 June 1576) was an eminent English scholar who became tutor to Edward VI. He is particularly remembered because of his attitude to educating his daughters who were taught both Latin and Greek. The Cooke family home was the now demolished Gidea Hall at Romford in Essex. Cooke was a convinced Protestant who supported the claim to the throne of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey. - James Croft
Sir James Croft PC (d. September 4, 1590), Lord Deputy of Ireland, belonged to an old family of Herefordshire, which county he represented in the Parliament of England in 1541. He was made governor of Haddington in 1549, and became lord deputy of Ireland in 1551. There he effected little beyond gaining for himself the reputation of a conciliatory disposition. Croft was all his life a double-dealer. He was imprisoned in the Tower for treason in the reign of Mary, … - William Strode
William Strode (1598-1645), English parliamentarian, second son of Sir William Strode, of Newnham, Devon (a member of an ancient family long established in that county), and of Mary, daughter of Thomas Southcote of Bovey Tracey in Devon. He was admitted as a student of the Inner Temple in 1614, matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1617, and took the degree of BA. in 1619. He was returned to parliament in 1624 for Beeralston, … - William Lambarde
William Lambarde (October 18, 1536 - August 19, 1601) was an antiquarian and writer on legal subjects. Lambarde was born in London. His father was a draper (serving three times as Master of the Drapers' Company), an alderman and a sheriff of London. In 1556, he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn. He studied Old English with Laurence Nowell, and in 1568, with Nowell's encouragement, published a collection of Anglo-Saxon laws, "Archaionomia", which was printed by John Day. - Alexander Briant
Saint Alexander Briant was an English Jesuit and martyr, born in Somerset about 1556; executed at Tyburn, 2 December 1581. He entered Hart Hall, Oxford (now Hertford College), at an early age. While there, he became a pupil of Father Robert Parsons to which fact, together with his association with Richard Holtby, is attributed his conversion. Having left the university he entered the English College at Reims, and was ordained priest 29 March 1578. - Richard Eliot
Richard Eliot (c.1614 - unknown date in 1660s) was the wayward second son of Sir John Eliot (April 11 1592 - November 27 1632) and Rhadigund Geddy (c.1595 - June 1628). Richard went to the University of Oxford at his father's suggestion, but did not fare well with academic life. He became embroiled at Oxford in various difficulties, which are mentioned without further detail in his father's writings. - Charles Philip Yorke
Charles Philip Yorke (12 March 1764 - 13 March 1834), was a British politician. Yorke was the second son of Charles Yorke and grandson of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke. He sat as a Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire from 1790 to 1810 and afterwards for Liskeard from 1812 to 1818. In 1801 he was appointed Secretary at War in Addington's ministry, transferring to the Home Office in 1803, where he was a strong opponent of concession to the Roman Catholics. - William Parker 4th Baron Monteagle
William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle and 11th Baron Morley (1575 - July 1, 1622), was the eldest son of Edward Parker, 10th Baron Morley (d. 1618), and of Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of William Stanley, 3rd Baron Monteagle (d. 1581). When quite a youth he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Tresham, and was styled Lord Monteagle in right of his mother. He was allied with many Roman Catholic families, … - William Carstares
William Carstares (also Carstaires, Scottish clergyman, was born at Cathcart, near Glasgow. He was the son of the Rev. John Carstares, a member of the Covenanting party of Protestors. He was educated at the university of Edinburgh, and then passed over to Utrecht, where he commenced his lifelong friendship with the prince of Orange, and began to take an active part in the politics of his country. The government disliked Carstares for several reasons. - Phoebe Hessel
Phoebe Hessel was best known for disguising herself as a man to serve in the British Army, probably to be with her lover, Samuel Golding. Hessel was born Phoebe Smith, in Stepney, and was baptised at the local church, St Dunstan's, on 13 April 1713. She enlisted in the 5th Regiment of Foot to serve alongside her lover, and served as a soldier in the West Indies and Gibraltar. Both remained in the British Army, and fought and were wounded in the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745. - John Freind
John Freind (1675 - 26 July 1728), English physician, younger brother of Robert Freind (1667-1751), headmaster of Westminster School, was born at Croton in Northamptonshire. He made great progress in classical knowledge under Richard Busby at Westminster, and at Christ Church, Oxford, under Dean Aldrich, and while still very young, produced, along with Peter Foulkes, an excellent edition of the speeches of Aeschines and Demosthenes on the affair of Ctesiphon (orator). - Arthur Capel 1st Baron Capel
Arthur Capel, 1st Baron Capel (c. 1608 - 1649), English royalist, son of Sir Henry Capel of Rayne Hall, Essex, and of Theodosia, daughter of Sir Edward Montagu of Broughton, Northamptonshire, was elected a member of the Short and Long Parliaments in 1640 for Hertfordshire. He at first supported the opposition to Charles' arbitrary government, but soon allied himself with the king's cause, on which side his sympathies were engaged, … - Blessed Edward Jones
Blessed Edward Jones was born in the diocese of St Asaph and baptised an Anglican. He was received into the Catholic Church in Reims in 1587 and ordained priest in 1588. He returned to England and was arrested in Fleet Street in 1590. Tortured in the Tower he made a skilful defence, for which the court complimented him. This, however, did not stop him being convicted of high treason. He was hanged, drawn and quartered on 6 May 1590, … - Sir Hugh Wyndham
Sir Hugh Wyndham (1602 - December 241684), of Silton, English judge, was born at Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, the eighth son of Sir John Wyndham (1558 - 1645) of Orchard Wyndham, and his wife, Joan, daughter of Sir Henry Portman. The judge Sir Wadham Wyndham was his younger brother. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 19 March 1622, being called to the bar on 16 June 1629 and became a Bencher in 1648. - Hospitius
Saint Hospitius (in French, Saint Hospice and anciently Saint Sospis) (d. May 21, 581) was a French recluse who, according to tradition, had been a monk in his native Egypt towards the beginning of the 6th century. He immigrated to Gaul and retired to a dilapidated tower, situated on the peninsula of Cap Ferrat, a few miles east of Nice. The people of the environs frequently consulted him; he forewarned them on one occasion, … - Thomas Abington
Thomas Abington (or Habington) (1550-1647) was an English antiquarian, son of John Habington and Catherine Wykes, and the brother of Edward Habington. His father, who was treasurer to Queen Elizabeth, had him educated at Oxford, Reims, and Paris. For six years he was imprisoned in the Tower, being accused, with his brother Edward, of having taken part in the plot of Babington to effect the escape of Mary Queen of Scots. - Sophia Montecarlo
Swirtty Mae Nibley better known by her screen name Sophia Montecarlo born on March 1, 1986 in Echelon Tower Malate,Manila) is a half Filipino, quarter Japanese and American who used to be a contestant on the reality television of Born Diva. - James Fiennes 1st Baron Saye and Sele
James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele (c.1395-4 July 1450), was an English soldier and politician. Fiennes fought in the Hundred Years' War and also served as Constable of Dover and Warden of the Cinque Ports from 1447 to 1450 and as Lord High Treasurer of England from 1449 to 1450. He was summoned to Parliament from 1446 to 1449 and is said to have been created Baron Saye and Sele by letters patent in 1447. - Richard III of England III of England
Richard III (2 October 1452 - 22 August 1485) was King of England from 1483 until his death. He was the last king from the House of York, and his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth marked the culmination of the Wars of the Roses and the end of the Plantagenet dynasty. After the death of his brother King Edward IV, Richard briefly governed as regent for Edward's son King Edward V with the title of Lord Protector, … - Sir Thomas Adams 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet (Wem, England, 1586-24 February 1667/68). He was born in 1586, at Wem, Shropshire, educated at Shrewsbury School and admitted as a sizar to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University in 1600. He received his BA in 1605-6, and became draper in London. In 1609, he was elected as sheriff, giving up his business, and applying himself to public affairs. He then served as Master of the Drapers' Company, sat as an alderman, …
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