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2 unusual facts about Francis Wegg-Prosser


Francis Wegg-Prosser

For many years he was a zealous member of the Superior Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a member of the Catholic union, and a representative of the Diocese of Newport on the Catholic Education Council.

In 1849 he inherited the very substantial estates (estimated at over £250,000 - equivalent to ca£10 million in 2005) of his great-uncle, Rev. Dr. Richard Prosser, Archdeacon of Durham.


Bolthouse Farms

The company operates some facilities in Prosser, Washington, but shut down operations in Michigan in June 2010.

Dan Man

In April 2005, Belizeans protested the underhanded moves by owners of local telecommunications giant Belize Telecommunications Limited (BTL) toward former investor Jeffrey Prosser.

Freddie Sweetan

In part to an agreement with Sweetan and Leo Burke, Prosser and Sweetan( being the same person) began wrestling in the Kansas City-area as Killer Kox and K.O. Kox with Bob Geigel's NWA Central States.

Wrestling under the name Freddie Sweetan, Prosser teamed with Stampede Wrestling veteran "Bruiser" Bob Sweetan and eventually won the Stampede Wrestling Tag Team Championship before losing the titles to Bud & Ray Osborne in Calgary, Alberta on April 18, 1969.

Gabriel Prosser

Tim Barry, a singer/songwriter from Richmond, wrote and performed “Prosser’s Gabriel” for the album 28th & Stonewall.

Hugh Prosser

Prosser was killed in an automobile accident near Gallup, New Mexico, at the age of 52.

Inez Beverly Prosser

After growing up in Texas, Prosser was educated at Prairie View Normal College, the University of Colorado and the University of Cincinnati.

Luke Prosser

In July 2009, a "momentary lapse of concentration" led to Prosser hitting 108 mph on the M6 Toll road.

Prosser, Washington

Colonel William Farrand Prosser first surveyed the area in 1879, then claimed homestead in 1882.

Roy Prosser

Prosser played 25 Test matches: seven against South Africa, six against New Zealand, five against France, three against Ireland and one each against England, Scotland, Wales and Fiji.

Second Toughest in the Infants

The unusual name of the album derives from a comment made by member Rick Smith's six-year-old nephew, Simon Prosser, when asked on his progress at infant school, the level of schooling attended by four- to seven-year-old children in the United Kingdom.

Sons of Champlin

In 1965 the draft claimed the drummer and bass player of the Opposite Six, and Champlin joined forces with guitarist Terry Haggerty, sax player Tim Cain, bassist John Prosser and drummer Jim Meyers in the band that became the Sons of Champlin.

The Judge Child

The 'Jigsaw Man' is a human called Prosser who had been the pilot of a spaceship hijacked by the Angel Gang, who are heading to the free robot planet of Xanadu.

UTF-8

Dave Prosser of Unix System Laboratories submitted a proposal for one that had faster implementation characteristics and introduced the improvement that 7-bit ASCII characters would only represent themselves; all multibyte sequences would include only bytes where the high bit was set.

W. Page Keeton

Keeton's brother, Robert Keeton was a federal judge and a prominent legal scholar, who contributed to the writing of Prosser and Keeton on Torts.

William Farrand Prosser

He married Flora Louise Thornton in Seattle on April 6, 1880 and settled in the Yakima River valley area in 1882, where he founded the town of Prosser, Washington.

Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Notable property owners on Penzance Point at the beginning of the twentieth century included Seward Prosser of New York's Bankers Trust Company; Francis Bartow, a partner in J. P. Morgan and Company; Joseph Lee, a partner in Lee, Higginson & Co.; and Franklin A. Park, an executive of Singer Sewing Machine.


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