Infobox Company name FawcettComics logo type List of comic book publishing companies Comic publisher genre Superhero , Horror comics horror fate predecessor successor foundation 1939 founder defunct 1953 ... key people industry Publishing products Comics services market cap revenue operating income net income aum assets equity owner num employees parent Fawcett Publications divisions subsid homepage footnotes intl FawcettComics , a division of Fawcett Publications , was one of several successful comic ... , Captain Midnight FawcettComics Captain Midnight , Phantom Eagle , Mister Scarlet and Pinky , Minute Man , Commando Yank and Golden Arrow FawcettComics Golden Arrow . Aside from the better known superhero books, Fawcett also published a short lived line of horror comics during the early 1950s, a string ... and Western comics Western Lash LaRue , Six Gun Heroes . Fawcett also produced comics based on contemporary ... was dropped in 1953, when Fawcett closed down their comics publishing wing though many titles were ... up of artists who contributed to FawcettComics include Al Allard, Harry Anderson, Ken Bald , Phil ..., 1972 . ref Facing a declining comics market, in 1953 FawcettComics ceased publication of its ... to Charlton Comics . Fawcett returned to publishing comics in the 1960s but mainly to publish Dennis ... continued in Charlton Comics series of the same name Fawcett s Funny Animals 83 issues, 1942 ... of Fun 50 issues, 1969 1980 See also National Comics Publications v. Fawcett Publications References reflist External links gcdb publisher id 88 title FawcettComics Shazam GoldenAge Comic book publishers in North America navbox Category Defunct comics and manga publishers Category FawcettComics es FawcettComics fr FawcettComics it FawcettComics pt FawcettComics sv FawcettComics zh ... Marvel DC Comics Captain Marvel , the alter ego of radio reporter Billy Batson, who transformed into the hero whenever he said the magic word Shazam Other characters published by Fawcett include ... more details
Unreferenced date May 2009 Notability Notability date May 2009 Dan Dare is a fictional character who had his own strip in Fawcett Comics Whiz Comics appearing in its first issue dated February 1940 . A skilled detective and crime fighter helped by his assistant Carol Clews , Dare s adventures appeared in Whiz Comics during the title s earliest years. Category Fawcett Comics superheroes comics char stub ... more details
Superherobox Wikipedia WikiProject Comics image Image Master Man Fawcett Comics.jpg character name Master Man FawcettComics real name publisher FawcettComics 1939 1953 debut Master Comics 1 March 1940 creators alliance color background ffc0c0 status alliances previous alliances aliases relatives unknown powers Superhuman strength, Superspeed, & Invulnerability. Master Man ref http www.comicbookdb.com character.php?ID 8280 Comic Book DB Master Man Fawcett Bot generated title ref was a short lived comic book superhero created during the 1930s to 1940s period historians and fans called the Golden Age of Comic Books . His exact creator is uncertain His first story, in FawcettComics Master Comics 1 March 1940 , was drawn by Newt Alfred, but that issue s cover was drawn by Harry Fiske. The leader character in the anthology Master Comics , he was described Where date July 2011 as bquote ...the world s greatest hero Master Man Stronger than untamed horses Swifter than raging winds Braver than ... Comics licensed Fawcett s Captain Marvel character, and would eventually become the intellectual property owners of Fawcett s superhero characters. Citation needed date December 2010 This character has no connection to the Marvel Comics villain, a Nazism Nazi called Master Man Marvel Comics Master Man in the 1970s comic book series The Invaders , or the Master Man from Quality Comics , a Kid Eternity ...?dlid 15615 Master Comics 1 download at Golden Age Comics Category Comics characters introduced in 1940 Category FawcettComics superheroes Category Golden Age superheroes GoldenAge Comics char stub ... issues, due to a lawsuit threat Citation needed date September 2010 from National Comics later DC Comics , the publishers of the Superman series, which had been emboldened by a recent legal victory against a similar character called Wonder Man Fox Publications Wonder Man . Fawcett would discontinue ... Master Man at the Grand Comics Database Jess Nevins Nevins, Jess . http ratmmjess.tripod.com gold ... more details
wiktionary Fawcett may refer to Fawcett City , a fictional DC Comics city FawcettComicsFawcett Publications Fawcett Society Fawcett Stadium Fawcett Street, Sunderland Fawcett surname disambig de Fawcett fr Fawcett nl Fawcett ... more details
National Comics Publications v. Fawcett Publications Court United States Court of Appeals for the Second ... 1951 DecideDate August 30 DecideYear 1951 FullName National Comics Publications, Inc. v. Fawcett Publications ... of 1909 National Comics Publications v. Fawcett Publications , case citation 191 F.2d 594 2d Cir. 1951 ... battle between DC Comics National Comics and the FawcettComics division of Fawcett Publications , concerning Fawcett s Captain Marvel DC Comics Captain Marvel character being an copyright infringement ... of FawcettComics and the cancellation of all of its superhero related publications ... like hero Wonder Man Fox Publications Wonder Man , and filed against Fawcett the following year for their Master Man FawcettComics Master Man character. In the case of Master Man, Fawcett simply .... Superhero comics sales had decreased dramatically during the early 1950s, and Fawcett decided that it was not worthwhile ... to be derivative of him. Cover art by C. C. Beck , Nick Cardy , and Murphy Anderson . FawcettComics ... cases Category United States copyright case law Category DC Comics Category FawcettComics Category ... to another who fails to properly copyright works which incorporate the original property. Fawcett Publications Captain Marvel comic strips were proven to have plagiarized those of National Comics Superman ... to Captain Marvel in the 1970s, which they hold to this day. History Pre trial File Action Comics 1.jpg thumb 185px left Action Comics 1 Action Comics 1 June 1938 , the debut of Superman . Cover art by Joe Shuster . Image Whiz2.JPG thumb 185px right Whiz Comics 2 February 1940 , the first appearance of Captain Marvel DC Comics Captain Marvel . Cover art by C. C. Beck . Captain Marvel was not the first superhero comic book character, or even the first Fawcett superhero character, to be the subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit. In 1939, National Comics then known as Detective Comics, Inc ... in their Master Comics periodical with a new strip Bulletman . However, after receiving a cease and desist ... more details
A list of Quality Comics Quality , FawcettComicsFawcett and Charlton Comics Charlton comics characters that have not been used by DC Comics since each respective date of acquisition below. All Quality and Fawcett characters listed here lapsed into the public domain prior to the acquisition of the companies .... GoldenAge Category Charlton Comics characters Category FawcettComics characters Category Quality .... Expand list date August 2008 Quality Bought out by DC in 1956 711 Quality Comics 711 Ace of Space Blue Tracer Destiny Quality Comics Destiny this is not the same Destiny DC Comics Destiny that appears in The Sandman DC Comics Modern Age The Sandman series Destroying Demon Dragon Quality Comics The Dragon G 2 comics G 2 Ghost of Flanders Just N Right Margo the Magician Marksman comics The Marksman Marmaduke Mouse Monsieur X Mouthpiece comics The Mouthpiece Raven Quality Comics The Raven Red, White, and Blue Quality Comics Red, White, and Blue Rusty Ryan Scarlet Seal Sniper comics The Sniper Spider Widow Torchy comics Torchy used by her creator Bill Ward comics Bill Ward after her Quality run. Presumably now owned by his estate Unknown Quality Comics The Unknown USA Quality Comics USA The Voice comics The Voice Whistler Quality Comics The Whistler Wildfire Golden Age Wildfire Wonder Boy comics Wonder Boy Yankee Eagle Fawcett Bought out by DC in 1980 Atom Blake Balbo the Boy Magician comics Balbo the Boy Magician Banshee O Brien Bulletboy Dan Dare FawcettComics Dan Dare Devil s Dagger comics Devil s Dagger Diamond Jack comics Diamond Jack Doctor Voodoo comics Doctor Voodoo El Carim Master of Magic comics El Carim Master of Magic Golden Arrow comics Golden Arrow Hunchback comics The Hunchback Master Man FawcettComics Master Man Mystic Moot Radar comics Radar Red Gaucho comics Red Gaucho Spooks comics Spooks Warlock the Wizard comics Warlock the Wizard White Rajah comics White Rajah Zoro The Mystery Man comics Zoro the Mystery Man Charlton Charlton s Action Heroes were acquired ... more details
Fawcett as a surname may refer to Benjamin Fawcett 1808 1893 , English woodblock colour printer Brian Fawcett born 1944 , Canadian poet and novelist Cesar Fawcett , Colombian footballer Charles Fawcett , British historian Charles Bungay Fawcett . British geographer Charles Fernley Fawcett 1915 2008 , U.S. soldier, actor, and co founder of the International Medical Corps David Fawcett born 1963 , Australian politician Eric Fawcett 1927 2000 , British Canadian physicist Farrah Fawcett 1947 2009 , U.S. actress Henry Fawcett 1833 1884 , British economist and politician Joan Fawcett born 1937 , Canadian politician John Fawcett 1768 1837 , English actor and playwright John Fawcett of Bolton 1789 1867 , English composer Joy Fawcett born 1968 , American soccer player Millicent Fawcett 1847 1929 , British feminist Norman Fawcett 1910 1997 , Canadian politician Percy Fawcett 1867 c. 1925 , British archaeologist and explorer Philippa Fawcett 1868 1948 , British mathematician and educator Quinn Fawcett , pen name of a pair of authors, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Bill Fawcett Ron Fawcett born 1955 , English rock climber Ruth Fawcett born 1961 , Canadian physicist Taylor Fawcett born 1993 , British actor Theodore Fawcett 1832 1898 , Australian settler and politician Wilford Hamilton Captain Billy Fawcett 1885 1940 , American publisher Fawcett Publications , FawcettComics William Fawcett author 1902 1941 , English writer on horses and hunting William Fawcett disambiguation See also Fawcett surname Fawcett ... more details
by the wizard Shazam comics Shazam , and was said to have protected Fawcett from the influences of outside ...Infobox comics location Wikipedia WikiProject Comics name image filename format only imagesize default 250 caption publisher DC Comics debut creators type city y residents Captain Marvel DC Comics Captain Marvel br Marvel Family races locations subcat DC Comics altcat sortkey Fawcett City Fawcett City is a fictional city , and the home of DC Comics Captain Marvel DC Comics Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family . It first appeared in the graphic novel The Power of Shazam by Jerry Ordway in 1994. Its name is derived from the original publishers of Captain Marvel comics, FawcettComics . It is also home to Bulletman and Bulletgirl , Spy Smasher , Ibis the Invincible , Mister Scarlet and Pinky the Whiz Kid and Minute Man also characters from FawcettComics. Features of Fawcett City include radio station WHIZ comics WHIZ , which employs Captain Marvel s teenaged alter ego Billy Batson as an on air and field reporter. Streets in Fawcett City have been named in honour of creators who worked on the Shazam property over the decades including Otto Binder Binder Boulevard and Bill Parker comics Bill Parker . Fawcett City, like those of the other cities that appear in comics published by DC, has no exact location, besides being identified as being located in the Midwest region of the United States . However, in the 1990s series The Power of Shazam , it was suggested that it was located in Wisconsin ... special, however, stated that Fawcett City was located in Indiana ref http www.karridian.net dcusa ... in the modern world, with current technologies and events, Fawcett seems old fashioned, as if stuck ... 11 January 1996 , and Fawcett began to slowly become a more modern city, although most of its Art ... Captain Marvel DC Comics Category Fictional populated places in the United States DC Comics stub fict location stub de DC Universum St dte it Fawcett City pt Fawcett City ... more details
553 29035 6 ref According to an article in Comics Scene 45, Fawcett was the inspiration of Kent Allard ...Use British English date July 2011 Use dmy dates date July 2011 Infobox person name Percy Harrison Fawcett image PercyFawcett.jpg caption Fawcett in 1911 birth date Birth date df yes 1867 8 18 birth place ... August 2011 Lt. Colonel United Kingdom Percival Harrison Fawcett 18 August 1867 spaced ndash Death ... and South America n exploration explorer . Along with his eldest son, Fawcett disappeared under ... explorer John Hemming , the Canadian explorer and historian of the Brazilian Indians , declared Fawcett ... that Fawcett exhibited enlightened traits. Biography An adventurous father Percy Fawcett was born on 18 August 1867 in Torquay , Devon, England to Edward Boyd Fawcett and Myra Elizabeth n e Macdougall . ref http www.keverelchess.com e douglas fawcett 1866 1960 www.keverelchess.com E. Douglas Fawcett ... Robinson , a future friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle see below . Percy Fawcett s India Indian born father was a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society RGS . His elder brother Edward Douglas Fawcett ... used Fawcett s Amazonian field reports as an inspiration for his novel, The Lost World Conan Doyle novel The Lost World see External links below . Early expeditions Fawcett s first expedition to South .... Whilst on the expedition in 1907, Fawcett claimed to have seen and shot a 62 feet long giant anaconda ... of locals. ref Fawcett, P. H. and Fawcett, B. Exploration Fawcett 1953 ref ref cite web url http www.phfawcettsweb.org apazauca.htm title Apazauca spider work The Great Web of Percy Harrison Fawcett ref Fawcett made seven expeditions between 1906 and 1924. He mostly got along with the locals through ... Double nosed dog not to be sniffed at 10 August 2007 ref Based on documentary research, Fawcett had ... 1924 ref Fawcett returned to Brazil with his elder son Jack for an exploratory expedition. He had studied ... Grosso region, a city Fawcett named Z. Fawcett left behind instructions stating that if the expedition ... more details
Bryan Fawcett or similar may refer to Bryan Faussett , English antiquary Bryan Godfrey Faussett , naval officer Brian Fawcett , Canadian writer hndis Fawcett, Bryan ... more details
on February 7, 1940. That same year, the company launched FawcettComics , as recalled by circulation director Roscoe Kent Fawcett I was responsible, I feel, for Captain Marvel DC Comics Captain ... of Fawcett writer Bill Parker comics William Parker and Fawcett staff artist C. C. Beck Charles ... in 1942. Fawcett s line of comics expanded with such colorful characters as Captain Midnight , Bulletman ... Comics Publications v. Fawcett Publications , resulted in Fawcett folding its line of comic books ... FawcettComicsFawcettComics Category Magazine companies of the United States Category Military ... founder Wilford Fawcett successor CBS Magazines magazines , Ballantine Books Ballantine books country ... revenue numemployees nasdaq url Fawcett Publications was an USA American publishing company founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota by Wilford Hamilton Captain Billy Fawcett 1885 1940 . At the age of 16, Fawcett ran away from home to join the Army, and the Spanish American War took him to the Philippines ... . While a World War I Army captain, Fawcett s experience with the Army publication Stars and Stripes ... Bang combined Fawcett s military moniker with the nickname of a destructive World War I artillery .... Captain Billy Image William Fawcett.jpg left thumb Wilford H. Fawcett, aka Captain Billy ... Billy s Whiz Bang , Fawcett racked up more sales with Whiz Bang annuals, and in 1926, he launched ... stayed at Breezy Point included Carole Lombard , Tom Mix and Clark Gable . The Fawcett House, Captain ... skins, Fawcett House ref http www.breezypointresort.com groups lodging unique retreats fawcett house.html Fawcett House ref has ten bedrooms and eight baths. The living room has a cathedral ceiling ... Lardner . March of the magazines During the 1930s, Fawcett and his sons established a line of magazines ..., during the World War II paper shortages Fawcett folded 49 magazines and kept only 14. Magazines published by Fawcett over the decades included Battle Stories , Cavalier magazine Cavalier , Daring Detective ... more details
William Fawcett may refer to William Fawcett British Army officer 1727 1804 , former Adjutant General to the Forces William Fawcett botanist 1851 1926 , British botanist and co author of the Flora of Jamaica William Fawcett author died 1941 , English journalist and writer on horses, hunting, and racing Wilford Hamilton Captain Billy Fawcett 1885 1940 , publisher, founder of Fawcett Publications William Fawcett actor 1894 1974 , character actor in Hollywood B films and in television Bill Fawcett born 1947 , mystery and science fiction author and editor hndis name Fawcett, William de William Fawcett ... more details
James Fawcett may refer to James Fawcett professor 1752 1831 , Norrisian professor at Cambridge Sir James Fawcett QC 1913 1991 , lawyer. James Fawcett of Fawcett and Ashworth , a British design partnership hndis Fawcett, James Short pages monitor This long comment was added to the page to prevent it from being listed on Special Shortpages. It and the accompanying monitoring template were generated via Template Long comment. Please do not remove the monitor template without removing the comment as well. ... more details
John Fawcett may refer to John Fawcett theologian 1740 1817 , British theologian, pastor and hymn writer John Fawcett organist 1825 1857 , English organist John Fawcett actor died 1793 , British actor John Fawcett actor 1768 1837 , his son, English actor and playwright John Fawcett of Bolton 1789 1867 , composer musician John Fawcett director born 1968 , Canadian director of film and television See also intitle John Faucette , American science fiction writer hndis Fawcett, John ... more details
Ruth Fawcett born April 13, 1961 in Malvern, Worcestershire Malvern , England is the daughter of British Canadian physicist Eric Fawcett , and the sister in law of historian Roger Sarty . She is the author of Nuclear Pursuits , the biography of Canadian nuclear industry pioneer Bennett Lewis Wilfrid Bennett Lewis . Fawcett currently lives with her family in Ottawa , Canada . Her second cousin, Samuel Fawcett, is a NOVA teacher in Osaka, Japan. Bibliography cite book last Fawcett first Ruth year 1994 title Nuclear Pursuits The Scientific Biography of Wilfrid Bennett Lewis publisher McGill Queen s University Press location Montreal isbn 0 7735 1186 5 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Fawcett, Ruth ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1961 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Fawcett, Ruth Category 1961 births Category Living people Category English biographers Category People from Malvern, Worcestershire ... more details
The Fawcett Society is an organisation in the United Kingdom which campaigns for women s rights. The organisation s roots date back to 1866 when Millicent Fawcett Millicent Garrett Fawcett dedicated her life to the peaceful campaign for women s suffrage. It is a charity registered with the Charity Commission . Previously known as the London and National Society for Women s Service and originally the National Union of Women s Suffrage Societies , the organisation was renamed in 1953 as the Fawcett Society, in honour of founder Millicent Fawcett who led the peaceful suffragist movement. The organisation states that it campaigns on women s representation in politics and public life pay, pensions and poverty valuing caring work and the treatment of women in the justice system . ref http www.fawcettsociety.org.uk index.asp?PageID 37 FawcettFawcett today Bot generated title ref The Fawcett Society recently filed papers with the High Court seeking a Judicial Review of the government s June 2010 United Kingdom budget recent budget , contending that the Treasury did not fully assess the impact that budget cuts would affect different groups, as is required by law. An analysis of the budget found that women would supposedly be paying around 5.8 billion of the 8 billion of savings planned. Their judicial review was denied. ref http www.fawcettsociety.org.uk index.asp?PageID 1165 ref The library and archives of the Society, formerly the Fawcett Library , are now part of the Women s Library at London Metropolitan University . Criticism The Society has been criticised by business groups for comparing ... of transparency in making their methodology clear. ref http timworstall.com 2008 02 25 the fawcett society on the gender pay gap ref The Fawcett Society contend that the comparison is a valid one. Citation needed date October 2011 References reflist External links http www.fawcettsociety.org.uk Fawcett Society website http twitter.com fawcettsociety THe Fawcett Society on twitter http www.londonmet.ac.uk ... more details
Infobox scientist name Philippa Fawcett image Phillipafawcett.jpg image size 200px caption Philippa Garrett Fawcett 1868 1948 birth date birth date df yes 1868 4 4 birth place death date death date and age df yes 1948 6 10 1868 4 4 death place residence UK citizenship nationality British ethnicity fields Mathematician workplaces London County Council alma mater Newnham College, Cambridge doctoral advisor There was not PhD at Cambridge until 1919 academic advisors Ernest William Hobson doctoral students ... influenced awards religion signature filename only footnotes Philippa Garrett Fawcett 4 April ... Millicent Fawcett and of Henry Fawcett Member of Parliament MP , Professor of Political Economy ... English female Physician doctor . Philippa Fawcett was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge which had been co founded by her mother. In 1890 Fawcett became the first woman to obtain the top score ... was unofficially ranked as eighth wrangler. When the women s list was announced Fawcett was described as above the senior wrangler . Coming amidst the women s suffrage movement, Fawcett s feat gathered ... Fawcett worked from 1902 to 1905 setting up schools in South Africa, before returning to England to take ... www.agnesscott.edu lriddle women fawcett.htm Philippa Fawcett , Biographies of Women Mathematicians , Agnes Scott College MacTutor Biography id Fawcett Rita McWilliams Tullberg, http www.oxforddnb.com index 101039169 Philippa Fawcett , ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Stephen Siklos ... biographies content philippa fawcett Philippa Fawcett , 2004. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Fawcett, Philippa ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Mathematician DATE OF BIRTH 4 April 1868 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 10 June 1948 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Fawcett, Philippa Category ... Category Women mathematicians Category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge de Philippa Fawcett fr Philippa Fawcett ht Philippa Fawcett ... more details
Jacob Fawcett was a jurist in the states of Illinois and Nebraska . Biography Fawcett was born on April 9, 1847 to Joshua and Margaret Fawcett in Benton, Wisconsin . ref http politicalgraveyard.com bio faull faxon.html 02R0157X9 ref On April 16, 1868 he married Margaret J. Doxey. Career Fawcett was County Judge of Jo Daviess County, Illinois from 1886 to 1887. He then served in the district court in Nebraska from 1896 to 1904. From 1908 to 1917, Fawcett was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, serving as Chief Justice in 1915. Fawcett served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Fawcett, Jacob ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American judge DATE OF BIRTH 1847 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Fawcett, Jacob Category People from Lafayette County, Wisconsin Category Illinois state court judges Category Nebraska state court judges Category Chief Justices of the Nebraska Supreme Court Category Union Army soldiers Category People of Wisconsin in the American Civil War Category 1847 births Category Year of death missing ... more details
for the American adventurer and resistance fighter Charles Fernley Fawcett Sir Charles Fawcett was a United Kingdom British History historian . He served in the Indian Civil Service whilst India was a part of the British Empire . He published a number of articles and books related to Indian history and was an expert on the British East India Company. His most famous article, in 1937, suggests that the design of the flag of the United States of America may have been derived from the flag and Maritime flags Jacks jack of the British East India Company . External links http flagspot.net flags gb eic2.html Fawcett s article DEFAULTSORT Fawcett, Charles Category British historians UK historian stub flag stub ... more details
Infobox Officeholder honorific prefix name Henry Fawcett honorific suffix br small Her Majesty s Most Honourable Privy Council PC small image Henry Fawcett Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett n e Garrett by Ford Madox Brown.jpg imagesize 200px caption Henry Fawcett and Millicent Garrett Fawcett by Ford Madox ... Millicent Fawcett Millicent Garrett br 1847 1929 Henry Fawcett Her Majesty s Most Honourable Privy ... ?id WH1038&type P title University of Glasgow,Biography of Henry Fawcett accessdate 2008 03 01 ref Background and education Fawcett was born in Salisbury , and educated at King s College School ... he graduated BA as 7th Wrangler University of Cambridge Wrangler . ref Venn id FWCT852H name Fawcett ... Victorian Henry Fawcett and British Liberalism first Lawrence last Goldman publisher Cambridge ... left Henry Fawcett Two years later, Fawcett reportedly attended the 1860 Oxford evolution debate ..., Fawcett replied loudly, Oh no, I would swear he has never read a word of it . Ready to recriminate ..., p. 126. ref At the next meeting in September 1861 of the British Association in Manchester, Fawcett ... ref This significantly affected its acceptance. In 1863 Fawcett published his Manual of Political ... was elected Rector of Glasgow University . Political career Image Henry fawcett cartoon.png thumb left 1881 Cartoon from Punch PROFESSOR FAWCETT, M.P and P.M.G., A Politician of a certain stamp, and President ... UK Liberal Party candidate, Fawcett was elected Member of Parliament for Brighton UK Parliament constituency ... s suffrage , Fawcett met Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Elizabeth Garrett , to whom he proposed in 1865 ... extremely rare. However, in 1867 Fawcett married her younger sister Millicent Fawcett Millicent Garrett in 1867. ref http www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk WfawcettM.htm Millicent Garrett Fawcett Spartacus ... 40 AEST 3 August 2007. ref They had one child, Philippa Fawcett . Fawcett s career was cut short by his ... wrote a biography of him, Life of Henry Fawcett , in 1885. References reflist A Short Biographical ... more details
Use dmy dates date April 2012 Orphan date February 2009 Image Theodore Fawcett.jpg thumb right Theodore Fawcett Theodore Fawcett 10 February 1832 21 March 1898 was an early settler in colony colonial Western Australia , and became a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council . Theodore Fawcett was born at Craven Hill , London , England on 10 February 1832. The son of a colonel in the British Army Army , he was educated at Cheltenham College , and in 1851 was commissioned in The Carabiniers 6th Dragoon Guards . In 1859, Fawcett emigrated to Western Australia , taking up land in the Swan, Western Australia Swan district. He became a Justice of the Peace in 1862. He returned to England in 1863 and 1864, where he married Eliza Hill on 30 March 1864. They would have three sons and four daughters. Fawcett returned to Western Australia in 1864, farming at Pinjarra Park near Pinjarra, Western Australia Pinjarra until 1882. He was twice acting resident magistrate for the Shire of Murray Murray district. He was also the only brandy distillation distiller in Western Australia. On 28 November 1876, Fawcett contested the Western Australian Legislative Council Electoral region of Wellington seat of Wellington , but was unsuccessful. Ten years later, on 12 May 1886, Fawcett won the Legislative Council Electoral region of Murray and Williams seat of Murray and Williams in a by election , holding it until 30 January 1889. He died at Pinjarra Park on 21 March 1898. References Black and Bolton 2001 Persondata NAME Fawcett, Theodore ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION politician DATE OF BIRTH 10 February 1832 PLACE OF BIRTH Craven Hill , London , England DATE OF DEATH 21 March 1898 PLACE OF DEATH Pinjarra, Western Australia DEFAULTSORT Fawcett, Theodore Category 1832 births Category 1898 deaths Category English emigrants to Australia Category People from Westminster Category Carabiniers 6th Dragoon Guards officers Category Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council ... more details
Infobox person name Amelia C. Fawcett image caption birth date citizenship alma mater nowrap University of Virginia br Wellesley College occupation non Executive Chairman of Guardian Media Group plc br Managing director Europe for Morgan Stanley predecessor religion awards Dame Commander of the British Empire DBE , 2010 br Commander of the British Empire CBE , 2002 Amelia Fawcett , DBE , is a former banking executive for Morgan Stanley ref name guardian cite news last Brook first Stephen title Amelia Fawcett named chair of Guardian Media Group url http www.guardian.co.uk media 2009 apr 22 amelia fawcett guardian media group accessdate 18 March 2012 newspaper The Guardian date 22 April 2009 ref and current non executive chairman for the United Kingdom British multimedia business Guardian Media Group plc . ref name forbes cite news title Amelia C. Fawcett Profile url http people.forbes.com profile amelia c fawcett 74432 accessdate 18 March 2012 newspaper Forbes ref Fawcett was the head of Morgan Stanley s European division, and in her last year of service, was responsible for US 6.7 billion in revenue. In 2006, Fawcett was named one of Fortune magazine Fortune magazine s 50 most powerful women . ref name cnnmoney cite web title Fortune Global Power 50 url http money.cnn.com popups 2006 fortune mostpowerfulwomen intl 49.html publisher CNN Money accessdate 18 March 2012 ref In 2004, Fawcett received the Prince of Wales Ambassador award recognizing responsible business activities. In January 2010, Fawcett was made Dame Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II , for her services to the financial industry. ref name forbes References references Category University of Virginia School of Law alumni Category Wellesley College alumni Category Guardian Media Group Category Living people UK business bio stub ... more details
Image Ron fawcett.jpg thumb right 220px Fawcett on the cover of Ron Fawcett, Rock Athlete Ron Fawcett born 1955 is an England English rock climbing rock climber . He is noted for being amongst the outstanding rock climbers of the 1970s and 1980s, and for being one of the first professional rock climbers. ref name mount http www.mountain heritage.org entity.php?ID 147 Fawcett, Ron 1955 , mountain heritage.org. Retrieved 14 December 2010. ref ref http www.thebmc.co.uk News.aspx?id 3559 BMC notice , bmc.org. Retrieved 15 December 2010. ref He won the 2010 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature with Ed Douglas, for their book Ron Fawcett, Rock Athlete . ref http www.boardmantasker.com Boardmantasker homepage , boardmantasker.com. Retrieved 14 December 2010. ref Notable climbs 1978 The Cad E5, 6a , North Stack , Gogarth, Anglesey ref name mount ref http www.ukclimbing.com logbook c.php?i 4311 The Cad , ukclimbing.com.Retrieved 17 December 2010. ref May 1982 Tequila Mockingbird E6 6b , Chee Tor, Derbyshire ref http www.ukclimbing.com logbook c.php?i 12188 Tequila Mockingbird , ukclimbing.com. Retrieved 17 December 2010. ref 1982 The Prow E6 6b , Raven s Tor, with Gill Fawcett, over ... and Beyond BMC, 2005 , edited by David Simmonite and Niall Grimes ref this is Fawcett s masterpiece ... lunge . Fawcett has made the longest rock climb in the United Kingdom, the 5000 metre Girdle Traverse ... Bibliography Fawcett on Rock with John Beatty and M. John Harrison , 1987, HarperCollins. ISBN 978 0044400769. Ron Fawcett, Rock Athlete with Ed Douglas , 2010, Vertebrate Graphics Ltd. ISBN 978 1906148171. References reflist External links http www.ukclimbing.com articles page.php?id 2495 Ron Fawcett talks about soloing Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Fawcett, Ron ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1955 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Fawcett ... British rock climbers de Ron Fawcett ... more details
Use mdy dates date April 2012 pp move indef Infobox person name Farrah Fawcett image Farrah Fawcett 1977.JPG imagesize 200px caption Fawcett in a publicity still as Jill Munroe in Charlie s Angels ref ... 3616 Stars Gone Too Soon . Retrieved 2009 12 21 ref birth name Ferrah Leni Fawcett ref name foundation ... Fawcett Majors occupation Actress years active 1969 2009 spouse Lee Majors br small m. 1973 1982 divorced ... education alma mater Farrah Fawcett February 2, 1947 June 25, 2009 ref name ap farrah62 Cite web url http www.msnbc.msn.com id 30072275 print 1 displaymode 1098 title Farrah Fawcett succumbs to cancer ..., Fawcett rose to international fame when she first appeared as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series Charlie s Angels , in 1976. Fawcett later appeared Off Broadway ... Hutton Story Margaret Bourke White and sometimes unsympathetic Small Sacrifices . Fawcett was a sex ... of young women in the 1970s and 1980s. Early life Ferrah Leni Fawcett was born in Corpus Christi ... bio.html title Biography publisher The Farrah Fawcett Foundation accessdate 2010 07 14 ..., James William Fawcett October 14, 1917 August 23, 2010 , was an oil field contractor. ref Cite web url http www.filmreference.com film 85 Farrah Fawcett.html title Farrah Fawcett biography at publisher Filmreference.com accessdate 2010 09 30 ref Her sister was Diane Fawcett Walls October 27, 1938 ... year 2001 page 72 isbn 0 312 09466 3 ref Fawcett once said the name Ferrah was made up by her mother ... Catholic, ref name fight Fawcett s early education was at the parish school of the church her family ... by her classmates in 1965. For three years, 1965 68, Fawcett attended the University of Texas at Austin ... ran in Cashbox magazine Cashbox magazine. A Hollywood publicist saw the photo, called Fawcett and over ... name wilson She did not return. Career Early career In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Fawcett appeared ... video.google.com videosearch?q Farrah Fawcett Ultra Brite&hl en&emb 0&aq f q Farrah Fawcett commercials&hl ... more details
Joseph Fawcett c.1758 24 January 1804 was an 18th century English Presbyterianism English Presbyterian minister and poet. Fawcett began his education at Reverend French s school in Ware, Hertfordshire Ware , Hertfordshire and in 1774 entered the dissenting academy Daventry Academy at Daventry . At the school, he practiced his preaching on thorn bushes. In 1780 Fawcett was called to be the morning preacher at Marsh Street Presbyterian Chapel in Walthamstow , east of London. His adoption of Unitarianism led to a schism in the congregation and he resigned in 1787. On 23 September 1782, Fawcett married the daughter of his schoolteacher, Charlotte French. In 1785 he began a series of Sunday evening lectures at the Old Jewry meeting house in the City of London . This series established Fawcett as one of the most popular Dissenting preachers of the time. He supposedly drew the largest and most genteel London audience that ever assembled in a dissenting place of worship . ref Monthly Repository 1817 , 90. ref He appealed to a broad audience, including Anglican s, actors such as Sarah Siddons and the Kembles. William Wordsworth admired his sermons, although he felt that Fawcett was unstable, and modeled the Solitary in his poem The Excursion after him. In 1795 Fawcett abandoned his preaching and leased a farm called Edge Grove near Aldenham , Hertfordshire . In the late 1790s he published a series of poems opposing French revolutionary wars Britain s war with France . These were much lauded ... Fawcett associated with other reformers, such as William Godwin and William Hazlitt . Godwin and Fawcett ... knew . ref Hazlitt, William. Complete Works . 8.224. ref Fawcett died in 1804 and was buried in Aldenham churchyard. ref Ruston, Alan. http bert.lib.indiana.edu 2378 view article 9225 Joseph Fawcett . Oxford .... ref Notes reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Fawcett, Joseph ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1804 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Fawcett ... more details
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