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6 unusual facts about John Denison-Pender


John Denison-Pender

Pender (he assumed the additional name of Denison, his mother's maiden name, in 1890) was the third son of Sir John Pender, the founder of the Eastern Telegraph Company.

John Denison-Pender, 1st Baron Pender

His Uncle (half) Sir James Pender, 1st Baronet (from Sir John Pender's first marriage) was the first chairman of Eastman Kodak (UK).

In 1925 he was Vice-Chairman and Joint Managing Director Cable & Wireless Ltd.

John Denison-Pender, 2nd Baron Pender

Denison-Pender ran C&W services during the war years and it was some feat that it remained undisrupted during that time, despite numerous setbacks including the Electra House HQ (London), Brentwood wireless station, the Moorgate-Porthcurno landlines and Porthcurno Telegraph Museum (Cornwall) all receiving direct hits in 1940 and up to 1945.

His paternal Great Grandfather was Sir John Pender, the submarine communications cables pioneer who founded the Eastern Telegraph Company and other Worldwide Telegraph Companies, which became Cable & Wireless, and was the lead financier in the first successful laying of the Transatlantic Telegraph in 1866.

In 1934, the new name Cable & Wireless (from Imperial and International Communications Limited) was designed to more clearly reflect the combined radio and cable services which it offered, without reference to the Empire.


Alexander S. Foxhall

Foxhall was born to Peter Christopher Foxhall and Glenda Jill "Jill" Foxhall née Pender in 1969, the eldest of four children of that marriage, his father having a son by his first wife.

Alfred Moore Scales

With General Pender at his side, Scales rode back to Virginia in an ambulance, and after being left at Winchester, he recovered enough from his wounds to be returned to service however, General Pender died from his wounds.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 17

Business US 17 darts northeast through Ogden and Kirkland before returning to its parent route near the New Hanover/Pender county line.

IEEE Eric E. Sumner award

2002 - John Midwinter, Pender Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, University College London and President, IEE, and Tsuneo Nakahara, Advisor and CEO, Sumitomo Electric Industries, For pioneering contributions to the physical understanding, manufacture, and deployment of optical fiber communications systems.

John Denison

John A. Denison, American Politician of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1875-1948

John G. Denison, acting CEO and chairman of ATA Airlines and Global Aero Logistics, Inc

John Keigwin

He was a leading member of a group of antiquaries in west Penwith; this group also included John Boson and Thomas Boson, William Gwavas, Thomas Tonkin, William Borlase, Oliver Pender, and James Jenkins of Alverton.

Mark Pender

Mark Pender graduated in 1975 from Grandview Senior High School in Grandview, Missouri.

Mike Pender's Searchers

In 1994 Mike Pender's Searchers were the very first 1960s band to be invited to play on board the QE2 as part of the ocean liner's 25th anniversary celebrations.

Paul Pender

The New York Boxing Commission stripped Pender of his title for not defending it against Dick Tiger.

Pender, Nebraska

European-American settlers founded the village in April 1885, naming it in honor of the Scottish politician and businessman Sir John Pender, a pioneer of the Transatlantic Cable.

Peter Foxhall

While working as a librarian at James Cook University, he met Glenda Jill "Jill" Pender, whom he married in February 1968.

Sandra Hughes

She has represented the 18th district (New Hanover and Pender counties) since her appointment in April 2008 to replace Thomas E. Wright, who had been expelled.

Shauna Pender

Shauna Pender is a Miss America preliminary scholarship winner who was crowned Miss Florida in 2003 after preceding Miss Florida Ericka Dunlap won Miss America.

Victory Square, Vancouver

The square is bordered by West Hastings Street to the northeast, West Pender Street to the southwest, Cambie Street to the southeast, and Hamilton Street to the northwest.

Webster Street Station

The Swedes in Omaha used the Webster Street Station to connect with their ethnic communities in Oakland, Pender, Wakefield, and Wausa.

William Des Vœux

Des Vœux married Marion Denison Pender (1856–1955), daughter of John Pender, in 1875.

Wknd@stv

The programme was presented by two Scottish teenagers, Kimberley Neill ('Kim') and Jonathon Pender ('Johnny').


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