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William Humphrey Page (1848 –26 October 1925) was an Irish-born Indian Judge and Australian politician.
Page was born in 1848. Following legal training in London,he served as a justice at the Bombay High Court. In 1897 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly,representing the seat of Hobart. He served until his defeat in 1900.
He died in 1925 in Bruges,Belgium,having survived the occupation during World War One. [1] His son was the noted legal writer and prison reformer Sir Leo Page.
John Peters Humphrey was a Canadian legal scholar,jurist,and human rights advocate. He is most famous as the principal author of the first draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party (FLP) was a left-wing American political party in Minnesota between 1918 and 1944. The FLP largely dominated Minnesota politics during the Great Depression. It was one of the most successful statewide third party movements in United States history and the longest-lasting affiliate of the national Farmer–Labor movement. At its height in the 1920s and 1930s,FLP members included three Minnesota governors,four United States senators,eight United States representatives and a majority in the Minnesota legislature.
Baron Hampton,of Hampton Lovett and of Westwood in the County of Worcester,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1874 for the Conservative politician Sir John Pakington,1st Baronet.
William Orlando Butler was a U.S. political figure and U.S. Army major general from Kentucky. He served as a Democratic congressman from Kentucky from 1839 to 1843,and was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee under Lewis Cass in 1848.
John Humphrey Noyes was an American preacher,radical religious philosopher,and utopian socialist. He founded the Putney,Oneida and Wallingford Communities,and is credited with coining the term "complex marriage".
William Ewart Humphrey was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1917. He represented the state of Washington at large from 1903 to 1909 and the First Congressional District of Washington from 1909 to 1917. Humphrey also served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission from 1925 to 1933.
Wolvercote Cemetery is a cemetery in the parish of Wolvercote and district of Cutteslowe in Oxford,England. Its main entrance is on Banbury Road and it has a side entrance in Five Mile Drive. It has a funeral chapel,public toilets and a small amount of car parking. It was awarded plaques as a category winner of 'Cemetery of the Year' in 1999 and 2001.
Waldo Porter Johnson was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Missouri state representative,as well as briefly as a U.S. Senator before being expelled for treason in 1862,then serving as a Confederate States Army officer and Confederate States Senator from Missouri from 1863 to 1865 and finally as chairman of the Missouri constitutional convention of 1875.
John Michael Carroll was an American educator,lawyer,and politician who served one term as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1871 to 1873.
William Humphrey Bennett,KC was a Canadian politician.
Herman Loin Humphrey was an American attorney,judge,and Republican politician. He served three terms in the United States House of Representatives,representing Wisconsin's 7th congressional district (1877–1883). Prior to his election to Congress,he was a Wisconsin circuit court judge for ten years in western Wisconsin,and served two years in the Wisconsin State Senate. Some sources give his middle name as Leon.
Humphrey Bate was an American harmonica player and string band leader. He was the first musician to play old-time music on Nashville-area radio. Bate and his band,which had been given the name "Dr. Humphrey Bate &His Possum Hunters" by Opry founder George D. Hay,were regulars on the Grand Ole Opry until Bate's death in 1936. The band's recordings,while scant,are considered some of the most distinctive and complex string band compositions in the old-time genre.
David Churchill Gould was a former New Zealand rower and businessman. He won a silver medal representing his country in the men's coxless pair with his brother,Humphrey,at the 1950 British Empire Games.
Levi William Humphrey was a Progressive party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Monson,Maine,United States and became a locomotive engineer for Canadian Pacific Railways.
Frank Shipley Collins (1848–1920) was an American botanist and algologist specializing in the study of marine algae. He was a pioneer in the study of the distribution of algae on the Atlantic seaboard and Bermudas and was the leading American algologist of his time. He wrote The Green Algae of North America and Working Key to the Genera of North American Algae. Several species bear his name in his honor,including Collinsiella tuberculata,and Phaeosaccion collinsii.
Edward William Cornelius Humphrey,also known as "Alphabet Humphrey" and "Judge Humphrey",was a theological and legal scholar and influential member of the National Presbyterian General Assembly. A Harvard graduate with an honorary degree from Amherst,he was also an 1864 graduate of Centre College,of which he became a trustee in 1885. He was a trustee of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and for forty-four successive terms was elected Director of the Louisville Law Library Company. He was a key figure in a long discussion and eventual acceptance of a Presbyterian creed revision held in May 1902 in New York City by the national Presbyterian General Assembly.
Edward Porter Humphrey (1809–1886) was an American Presbyterian minister,orator,writer,and moderator of the national Presbyterian General Assembly. He was a planner and co-founder of Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville,Kentucky.
The Advocate-General of Bengal was charged with advising the Government of the British administered Bengal Presidency on legal matters. The Presidency existed from 1765 to 1947. Prior to 1858,when it was administered by the East India Company,the Advocate-General was the senior law officer of that company but was also the Attorney-General of the Sovereign of Great Britain.
William J. Plant was an Irish-American politician in New York.