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# William Beckett (British politician)

William Beckett (1784 – 26 January 1863) was an English Conservative politician

## Life

William Beckett was born in 1784 at Gledhow Hall, Leeds, one of eight sons and three daughters of Sir John Beckett (1743–1846) a banker who later became Mayor of Leeds and a baronet and his wife Mary Wilson. In 1841 Beckett married Frances Ingram and they had no children. He died 26 January 1863 at Brighton.

## Career

Beckett was an active partner in his father's bank, Old Bank in Leeds from 1840, it was known as Beckett's Bank from 1805. On their father's death, William and his brother Christopher (who also served as Mayor of Leeds) took over the family business. John Smith of Burley House, Burley, Leeds, became a partner in the business in 1841. Their running of the bank was noted as boldly liberal and prudent, saving many customers from embarrassment during the banking crisis of 1825, and Beckett was said to be a model banker. His banking reputation caused parliament to seek his comments on the renewal of the charter of the Bank of England in 1832.
Beckett was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the Yorkshire constituencies of Leeds (1841–1852) and Ripon (1852–1857). He changed seats because of a split in the party over Free Trade, causing him to withdraw as Leeds MP.

## Other Activities

Beckett's wealth and reputation gave him considerable status in Leeds, and in 1832 he bought an estate called New Grange in Headingley and renamed it Kirkstall Grange. The estate comprised large house on a hill and an extensive private park. He carried out extensive improvements and remodelling to the house and park, hoping at one point to have Queen Victoria as house guest when she visited Leeds in 1858. The park became Beckett Park, a public park, and the house a building within Leeds Beckett University.
Beckett was an officer in the Yorkshire Hussars, a part-time Yeomanry Cavalry regiment, from September 1817 when he raised two Troops at Leeds and was commissioned as a captain, until he retired in 1859. He was promoted to major on 27 October 1837 and to lieutenant-colonel on 8 October 1839. He commanded the regiment 1841–43 while the colonel, Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, was absent abroad.
# William Broughton (magistrate)

William Broughton (1768–1821) was an English public servant and early settler in the Colony of New South Wales.

## Life

William Broughton was baptised in November 1768 at Chatham, Kent. He arrived in the Colony of New South Wales with the First Fleet, under the auspices of Governor Arthur Phillip, as a servant to surgeon John White. He was employed under every subsequent administration, in the commissariat department of the territory and its dependencies. According to the obituary in the Sydney Gazette, in his various public duties "he afforded general satisfaction."

### Death

At Appin, on Sunday 22 July 1821, William Broughton, Esquire, acting assistant commissary general, and a magistrate for the territory, died after a painful illness. The funeral took place on Wednesday 25 July at St. Luke's Church, Liverpool, and was attended by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, and most of the civil and military officers, and prominent inhabitants of the Colony.
# William Broun

William Broun may refer to:
* William Leroy Broun (1827–1902), President of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama
* Sir William Broun, 9th Baronet (1804–1882), of the Broun baronets
* Sir William Broun, 10th Baronet (1848–1918), of the Broun baronets
* Sir William Windsor Broun, 13th Baronet (1917–2007), of the Broun baronets
# Rolf Thomsen

Rolf Thomsen (6 May 1915 – 26 March 2003) was a U-boat commander in the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II and later served with the Bundesmarine. He received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves for his command of the German submarine U-1202.
Thomsen served as a naval aviator from 1939 until early 1943. He transferred to the U-boat service on 1 January 1944 and on 27 January 1944 commissioned U-1202. During two patrols, Thomsen reported his ship's attacks on a destroyer, two corvettes, six freighters and an escort carrier, for which he received the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves. The loss of one of these ships, Dan Beard, was confirmed by the Allies.
Thomsen served in the Bundesmarine of West Germany since 1955, achieving the rank of Flotilla Admiral in 1966.

## Awards

* Iron Cross (1939( 2nd Class (25 November 1939) & 1st Class (17 May 1940)
* Wound Badge (1939) in Black (August 1940)
* Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe for reconnaissance pilots in Silver (25 April 1941) & in Gold (26 March 1942)
* German Cross in Gold on 14 October 1943 as Kapitänleutnant on U-1004 in the 11. Unterseeboots-Flottille
* U-boat War Badge (1939) (3 January 1945)
* U-boat Front Clasp in Bronze (27 January 1945)
* Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
** Knight's Cross on 4 January 1945 as Kapitänleutnant and commander of U-1202
** Oak Leaves on 29 April 1945 as Kapitänleutnant and commander of U-1202
* Commander's Cross, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
# Roger Colman

Roger Colman (c 1623 - 1660) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.
Colman was the eldest son of Francis Colman of Gornhay, Tiverton, Devon and his wife Bridget Cruwys, daughter of Lewis Cruwys of Cruwys Morchard. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 9 April 1641, aged 18. In 1650 he succeeded to Gorhnay on the death of his father. He was commissioner for assessment for Devon in 1657. In July 1660, he was elected Member of Parliament for Tiverton in a by-election to the Convention Parliament.
Colman died at the age of about 37 between 27 October 1660 when he wrote his will and 10 November when it was proved.
Colman married Elizabeth Drewe, daughter of William Drewe of The Grange, Broadhembury and had a son and four daughters.
# Roland Meledandri

Roland Meledandri (1929-July 19, 1980) was an American fashion designer who specialized in designing menswear. Meledandri founded his clothing store, named Meledandri after himself, in 1961. Meledandri hired unemployed actors to work as salespeople, dressing them in his own products to attract customers. He disliked the conservative nature of men's fashion at the time, and sold suits that were more closely fitting, with dark-patterned shirts and wider ties than was the norm. The shop was noted for being frequented by a wide range of politicians and celebrities. Meledandri died on July 19, 1980, of a heart attack. His son is Chris Meledandri, a film producer and the founder and CEO of Illumination.
# Roland McMillan Harper

Roland McMillan Harper (1878 – 1966) was an American botanist, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and writer. He wrote for the Savannah Morning News and covered the settlement of Georgia's wiregrass region in the late 19th century. He is known for his work in the Southeastern United States. The standard author abbreviation R.M.Harper is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

## Life and legacy

He was born in Farmington, Maine. When he was 10, his family moved to Dalton, Georgia and five years later to Americus, Georgia.
He and his brother Frances retraced William Bartram's journey through Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.
Harper discovered and described Scirpus georgianus before graduating high school and discovered another 29 flowering plants during his career. More than a dozen are named for him. He collected newspaper clippings, and train timetables. He was a white supremacist.
Harper left a collection of photographs and documents. He was an acquaintance of Nathaniel Britton, Hugo de Vries, and Charles Davenport.
# Roland Mengyi

Roland Mengyi (born 1 March 1975) is a Hungarian jurist and politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) for Tiszaújváros (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Constituency XII then VI) from 2010 to 2018. He was appointed President of the General Assembly of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in 2010, serving in this capacity until 2014.

## Career

He finished his academic studies at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Currently he attends the Faculty of Business Administration of the Corvinus University of Budapest. Mengyi became a member of the Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs on 14 May 2010. He also served as a member of the Economic and Information Technology Committee (from 2 November 2010 to 30 December 2011; and from 18 June 2012 to 5 May 2014). He was re-elected MP during the 2014 parliamentary election. Thereafter he became a member of the Legislative Committee, and beside that he functioned as a vice-chairman of the Economic Committee.

## Corruption charge

In early August 2016, weekly news magazine 168 Óra uncovered a corruption case around the State-initiated Social Renewal Operative Programme (TÁMOP), which suggested that Mengyi committed maladministration. According to leaked transcripts of telephone conversations, two businessmen turned to a third client during the tendering process, who claimed himself as a "friend of Mengyi". According to the conversation, the applicants wondered instead of the usual 50% of the total amount they would have to give back 90%. Following the investigation of the tax authority, the tender was revoked. After the article appeared, Mengyi denied the corruption charges and cast himself as the victim of criminals who abused his name. In September 2019, Mengyi was sentenced to 4 years in prison.
# Social and Environmental Responsibility World Forum

The Social and Environmental Responsibility World Forum is an initiative organized by the Réseau Alliances in 1993 in partnership with private and public organizations, to encourage social and economic responsibility among businesses.
The initiative was planned for four years (2007–2010), with the goal of creating a permanent cycle of continuous exchanges and communication between actors from all parts of the world.
The work of the Forum was based on concrete projects and actions to formulate to generalize social and environmental responsibility throughout the world. During that period, major events were supposed to take place in Lille to bring together actors and experts in social and environmental responsibility of all nationalities, especially during the international meetings scheduled in October each year.
Developed on economic leaders’ initiative, the Réseau Alliances federates and helps businesses anxious to improve their performance while being more respectful of people and the environment.

## Topics discussed

* A socially and environmentally responsible economy opened to the diversity of cultures and origins
* Diversity and equal opportunity
* The place and role of the world's women at all levels of responsibility
* Equal opportunities and territories: the conditions for fairer economic development
* Identifying, evaluating, and developing good practices in the company
* What it is about social and environmental responsibility
# Pseudeurotiaceae

The Pseudeurotiaceae are a family of fungi in the division Ascomycota. This family can not yet be taxonomically classified in any of the ascomycetous classes and orders with any degree of certainty (incertae sedis).

## General characteristics

The general characteristics for members within this family include hyaline or brown ascospores, within a thin-walled ascus inside a cleistothecial ascomata.
# Premium Passport

Premium Passport is a support system for large families in Ishikawa prefecture, Japan. The program began in January 2006.

## Overview

Families with three or more children under the age of 18 in Ishikawa prefecture can receive special discount cards, called Premium Passport or PRE-PASS, for shopping. The prefectural government issues the card which offers discounts at supermarkets, restaurants, clothing stores and other retailers. The cards had been received by 16,208 of the 16,363 households that were eligible at September 2009.
Shops of participating companies are recognized with a sticker distributed from the prefectural government. The companies can display the sticker at their shops or in their advertisements. The prefectural government lists the companies in newspaper advertisements and public bulletins. 1,023 companies and 1,976 shops had participated at September 2009.

## Purpose

Ishikawa Prefecture Governor Masanori Tanimoto explained the program was part of a strategy to encourage larger families in a nation with a falling birthrate, and corporate cooperation was necessary to put the brakes on the decline in the number of children. The prefectural government expected to encourage companies to support employees who were raising children by offering ample maternity or child-rearing leave, among other steps.
# Gervase of Blois

Gervase of Blois was the Abbot of Westminster in England between 1138 and around 1157. Historically, Gervase has a bad reputation for mismanaging the abbey, although modern historians have re-evaluated his performance as abbot.

## Biography

Gervase of Blois was the illegitimate son of King Stephen and his mistress, Damette. His father ensured that he was appointed as the Abbot of Westminster Abbey in the second half of 1138; the abbey would have hoped to receive additional royal funding as a result. Gervase was very young to be appointed abbot, but despite this probably attended the Second Lateran Council the following year. Working with the Prior Osbert of Clare, Gervase unsuccessfully attempted to have King Edward the Confessor canonized; the abbey held the remains of the king which would have brought in valuable pilgrims had he been canonised.
Pope Innocent II ordered Gervase to reform the estate management of the abbey; historians have disagreed over the years about whether the Pope was referring to long-standing issues of malpractice, or ones that had appeared during his term of office. Pope Eugene III appears to have thought Gervase a reasonable abbot, granting the abbey privileges in the 1140s, and Gervase got on well with his fellow senior clergy.
In 1154, however, Stephen died, being replaced by his former rival, King Henry II, putting Gervase's position at risk. Gervase was accused by Henry of mishandling the abbey's estates and he was dismissed from post in 1157, albeit without trial, dying shortly afterwards. He was replaced by Master Laurence from Durham, a supporter of the new king.
# Philip Syng

Philip Syng (September 29, 1703 – May 8, 1789) was, like his namesake father, Philip Syng, Sr. (1676–1739), a renowned silversmith who created fine works in silver and sometimes gold for the wealthy families of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1752 he created the Syng inkstand, which was used to sign the 1776 United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution in 1787.
A member of the St. John's Lodge of Freemasons in Philadelphia, he served as the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania in 1741.

## Biography

Philip Syng was born in Cork, Ireland, to Philip Syng, a silversmith by trade, and Abigail Murdock Syng. In 1714 the Syng family emigrated to the United States staying first in Annapolis, Maryland, and then moving to Philadelphia. Philip Syng, Sr. trained all three of his sons as silversmiths.
Besides becoming one of the highly-sought Philadelphia silversmiths, Philip Syng, Jr. was a member of Benjamin Franklin's Junto, and was a founder of the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Union Fire Company, Philadelphia Contributionship, Pennsylvania Hospital, and the American Philosophical Society. He was a founding trustee of the academy and College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania), serving from 1749 to 1773. Syng was also elected to various public offices including city assessor, warden of the port, and treasurer of the city and county of Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin considered Syng a "worthy and ingenious friend."
Syng married Elizabeth Warner in Christ Church, Philadelphia in 1730 and they had 18 children.
He died in Philadelphia in 1789, and is buried at Christ Church Burial Ground. According to the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Philip Syng, Sr., and Philip Syng, Jr., are both listed among the major silver makers of the 18th century in America.
# Philip Sutton

Philip Sutton may refer to:
* Philip Sutton (badminton) (born 1960), Welsh badminton player
* Philip Sutton (artist) (born 1928), British artist
* Philip R. N. Sutton (1915–1995), Australian dental researcher
# Philip Sweed House

The Philip Sweed House, in Petaluma, California, is a Queen Anne-style house built in 1892. It has sometimes, mistakenly, been reported as the "Philip Swede House."
The house is located at the intersection of Keokuk and Prospect Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
Sweed, though of limited formal education himself, was a champion of public education and served on the city's Board of Education from 1893 to 1925.
# Stockstreet

Stockstreet is a hamlet on the A120 road to the west of the town of Coggeshall in Braintree District, Essex, England
51°52′19″N 0°39′22″E﻿ / ﻿51.872°N 0.656°E﻿ / 51.872; 0.656
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# Stošíkovice na Louce

Stošíkovice na Louce is a municipality and village in Znojmo District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 300 inhabitants.
Stošíkovice na Louce lies approximately 15 kilometres (9 mi) east of Znojmo, 45 km (28 mi) south-west of Brno, and 186 km (116 mi) south-east of Prague.

## Economy

Stošíkovice na Louce is known for viticulture and wine-making. It lies in the Znojemská wine subregion.
# Phil Mitman

Phil Mitman is an American politician and former Mayor of Easton, Pennsylvania. Mitman served as the mayor of Easton for two, nonconsecutive four-year terms: His first term lasted from 1980 to 1984. Mitman was once again elected Mayor of Easton in November 2003 after being out of active politics for nearly twenty years. He served from January 2004 to January 2008. Mitman was a member of the Republican Party. However, he became a member of the Democratic Party shortly after the election of Donald Trump.
Mitman first served as Mayor from 1980 to 1984, having been elected in 1979. He decided not to seek re-election in the 1983 mayoral election to spend more time with his children. Mitman was succeeded by Democrat Sal Panto Jr.
In 2003, Mitman re-entered politics and announced his candidacy for mayor. Mitman narrowly defeated his opponent, Democratic city councilman Dan Corpora, by just 54 votes to win the November 2003 mayoral contest. He served one four-year term.
Mitman announced that he would not seek re-election to a second consecutive in a press conference held on January 23, 2007, at Easton City Hall. Mitman said he was leaving office to "seek new challenges and new opportunities" telling reporters and city officials, "It was a difficult decision on one hand, and yet I know I want other challenges now in my life—that's what drives me...I know I need to be helping Easton in the best way I can. I trust that something like that may work out. Once again, Mitman was succeeded by Sal Panto Jr., who took office on January 2, 2008.
# Philipota

Philipota is a genus of horse flies in the family Tabanidae.

## Species

* Philipota kanpurensis Kapoor, Grewal & Sharma, 1991
* Philipota ludhianaensis Kapoor, Grewal & Sharma, 1991

## Distribution

India
# Stolt

Stolt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Roine Stolt (born 1956), Swedish guitarist, vocalist, and composer
* William Alex Stolt (1900–2001), American mayor
# Strathmoor, Kentucky

Strathmoor is a former suburb of Louisville, Kentucky. It has since splintered into the cities of:
* Kingsley, Kentucky
* Strathmoor Manor, Kentucky
* Strathmoor Village, Kentucky
# Philipp Apian

Philipp Apian (14 September 1531 – 14 November 1589) was a German mathematician and medic. The son of Petrus Apianus (1495–1552), he is also known as the cartographer of Bavaria.

## Life

He was born in Ingolstadt as Philipp Bienewitz (or Bennewitz). At age eleven, the son of mathematician, astronomer and cartographer Peter Apian started to study mathematics at the University of Ingolstadt. Later, aged 18, he studied in Burgundy, Paris and Bourges.
Returning in 1552 he became a professor. As a Protestant he had to leave in 1569 due to Jesuits and the Counter-Reformation. At the University of Tübingen he lectured for 14 years until he lost this position in 1583 for refusing to negate Calvinism. He died in Tübingen.

## Cartography

In 1554, Duke Albrecht of Bavaria ordered Apian to create a map of Bavaria for the Bairische Chronik of Johannes Aventinus written 1526 to 1533. Over the course of seven years, Apian travelled through Oberbayern and Niederbayern, Oberpfalz, Archbishopric Salzburg and Bishopric Eichstätt. After two years work, a 5 x 5 meter sized map in scale 1:45.000 was finished, to be coloured by Bartel Refinger.
The map, which had been in the residence's library since 1563, was destroyed by a fire in 1782.
Smaller Bairische Landtafeln based on the map were ordered by Philipp Apian in 1566 from Jost Amman as 24 tables of scale 1:144.000. This second version was issued in 1568. It was considered the official map of Bavaria until the 19th century.
It is said that the accuracy was not surpassed until 19th century, and that Napoléon Bonaparte used them when invading Bavaria.
Abraham Ortelius published them as ex tabula Philippi Apiani.
# Philipp Bandi

Philipp Bandi (born 28 September 1977) is a Swiss track and field athlete competing mainly in the 5000 metres and middle distance events. Bandi competed in the 5000 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but failed to qualify for the final.
# Stouffville Aerodrome

Stouffville Aerodrome (TC LID: CBB2) is located 1.7 nautical miles (3.1 km; 2.0 mi) northwest of Stouffville Ontario, Canada.
The private airfield is home to Ultralight aviation aircraft stored in a heated hangar.
# Philippe Le Molt

Philippe Le Molt (26 March 1895 – 5 April 1976) was a French painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
# Strigatella aurora

Strigatella aurora is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails.

## Description

This species attains a size of 45 mm.

## Distribution

Shallow water, Queensland, Australia.
# Strawberry cervix

A strawberry cervix is a finding upon physical examination where the cervix has an erythematous, punctate, and papilliform appearance. It is named because of the superficial similar appearance to a strawberry.
As opposed to a more general inflammation of the cervix found in cervicitis, the strawberry cervix appearance is considered to be selectively associated with Trichomonas infections. A clinician discovering this finding would have a high suspicion for Trichomonas infection.
# Stoulton railway station

Stoulton railway station was a station to the northwest of Drakes Broughton, Worcestershire, England. The station was opened in 1899 and closed in 1966.
# Streptomyces ardesiacus

Streptomyces ardesiacus is a bacterium species from the genus of Streptomyces.
# Phegopteris hexagonoptera

Phegopteris hexagonoptera, commonly called the broad beech fern, is a common forest fern in the eastern United States and adjacent Ontario. It grows from a creeping rootstock, sending up individual fronds that more or less clump. Its native habitat includes moist, undisturbed, hardwood forests.
The fronds are broadly triangular. The specific name hexagonoptera refers to the winging of leaf tissue along the rachis between the basal pinnae.
Sori are small, round and naked. This aspect of the plant has caused it in the past to be placed, at first, in the genus Polypodium, then grouped with genus Dryopteris, then with the genus Thelypteris. Genetic analysis has shown the genus Phegopteris to be a sister clade to the rest of the thelypteroid ferns.
Rare hybrids with Phegopteris connectilis are known.
This fern makes an excellent garden plant, gradually filling in a bed.