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2 unusual facts about John I. Thornycroft & Company


Keningau Oath Stone

A plaque was commissioned and made by the Thornycroft Shipyard in Singapore to be affixed to the stone.

LCM 1

The craft derived from a prototype designed by John I. Thornycroft Ltd. of Woolston, Hampshire, UK.


Archie McLeod

An injury ended his career and he returned home to Glasgow where he worked as a machinist with John Brown & Company.

Bayley House

Breck was in the agricultural tools business at 51 North Market in Boston, known as Joseph Breck & Company (now called Breck's, founded by his grandfather Joseph Breck and his father, Charles H.B. Breck).

BL 16 inch Mk I naval gun

Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth & Company at Elswick, Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness, William Beardmore & Company at Dalmuir and the Royal Gun Factory at Woolwich made a total of 29 guns of which 18 would be required for both ships at any time.

Bloomberg Government

Bloomberg implemented an aggressive recruiting strategy to staff the Bloomberg Government newsroom in Washington, D.C. which included hiring many of the reporters from leading D.C. media outlets including CQ-Roll Call, the Associated Press, Dow Jones and other industry publications including Kaiser Health News, Army Times and Defense Week.

BNS Sangu

Built by Hall, Russell & Company, she was modelled on the ocean-going trawlers FPV Jura (1973) and FPV Westra (1974).

Capital lending

This financing is done on a wide range of products, from telephones, to copiers, to $200,000 combine harvesters by Deere & Company and CNH Global, or even larger and more expensive construction equipment from manufacturers like Caterpillar and Komatsu.

Carol Remond

Carol S. Remond is an award-winning journalist for Dow Jones Newswires, a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company, publisher of the Wall Street Journal.

Charles I, Duke of Bourbon

He was Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis from 1424, and Duke of Bourbon and Auvergne from 1434 to his death, although due to the imprisonment of his father after the Battle of Agincourt, he acquired control of the duchy more than eighteen years before his father's death.

Christophe Agou

He first came to prominence with photographs taken in the subway, and published Life Below in 2004 (Quantuck Lane Press / W.W. Norton & Company).

Darrell Zimmerman

By 1992 Zimmerman was a floor trader at Lee B. Stern & Company where his "questionable billion-dollar trades jolted the Treasury bond market".

Dean G. Witter

Dean G. Witter (August 2, 1887, Wausau, Wisconsin – May 1969, San Francisco, California) was a U.S. businessman who co-founded Dean Witter & Company, which became the largest investment house on the West Coast.

Donnie Elbert

He returned to All Platinum and had a run of minor R&B hits, but left after he claimed authorship of Shirley & Company's R&B chart-topper "Shame Shame Shame" which was credited to label owner Sylvia Robinson.

E. C. Stearns Bicycle Agency

Edward C. Stearns continued to design important components for his bicycle line in much the same manner as he designed tools for his hardware enterprise, E. C. Stearns & Company.

William Martin, a famous professional bicyclist and winner of the Madison Square Garden races, was hired by E. C. Stearns & Company in April 1896 to ride the Stearns bicycle in Paris, France.

Francis Marion McDowell

He later became partner in the banking and brokerage firm of Hallett & Company of New York City, and in this connection made frequent trips to Europe, especially to interest European capitalists in the construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway, of which his banking firm was a sponsor.

Gateway Fashion Mall

The mall was opened in September 1979 with anchor stores Sears, A.W. Lucas & Co., and White Mart.

Gibson Advanced Jumbo

In 1931 Gibson's introduced its first versions of the Dreadnought acoustic guitars branded by C. F. Martin & Company.

Godfrey McHugh

The Air Force then spent $5,000.00 of taxpayer money at Jordan Marsh & Company to purchase new furniture, and allowed media photographs of an Air Force captain proudly standing next to the purchase.

Henry William Clothier

In 1905 Clothier went to Tyneside to work with Charles Hesterman Merz and Bernard Price and joined Mr Alphonse C. Reyrolle at A. Reyrolle & Company in 1906, and remained employed with them for the rest of his life.

Jesse W. Weik

In 1892, Weik published a revised version of the book (Herndon had died in 1891) titled, Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (New York: D. Appleton. 2 vols.).

John Edward Thornycroft

Thornycroft was born in Chiswick in 1872 and was the eldest son of Sir John Isaac Thornycroft, the founder of the Thornycroft shipbuilding company.

John Hinsdale

From 1986 through 1991, Hinsdale decided to apply his computer science in the field of management consulting, working as a specialist for the New York firm of McKinsey & Company.

John I, Count of Armagnac

Sumption, Jonathan, The Hundred Years War, Vol 1, Trial by Battle, 1990, ISBN 0-571-13895-0

John I, Count of Waldeck

In Augsburg, he was sharply reprimanded by Bishop Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, who represented the Emperor.

After the Peace of Augsburg of 1555, John proposed to the other counts of Waldeck to hold a meeting with all ministers in the county to improve the Lutheran church.

John I, Duke of Opava-Ratibor

King John of Bohemia then enfeoffed Leszek's brother-in-law, Nicholas II, who was John I's father.

John I. Nolan

He had been re-elected in 1922 to the 68th United States Congress before he died in San Francisco, California on November 18, 1922.

John I. Vanmeter

He moved to Pike County, Ohio, in 1826 and engaged in agricultural pursuits.

Lloyd Bell

Bell added expertise to his repertoire while employed also at Max Factor & Company in Hollywood, CA.

Monjo Company

In early 1906 the company purchased a whaling schooner, the Era, from the Thomas Luce Company of New Bedford and hired Capt. George Comer as its master.

Natalie Gregory

She also starred in the Disney, animated film Oliver & Company (1988) as the speaking voice of Jenny Foxworth and appeared in other films.

National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management

Among the members of the volunteer group reported in 2008 were Adobe Systems chairman Charles Geschke, Korn/Ferry chief executive Paul Reilly, former Freddie Mac CEO Richard Syron, Gerard R. Roche of Heidrick & Struggles, and former McKinsey managing director Frederick Gluck; Lawrence Bossidy, former CEO of Honeywell, has been a pro bono consultant.

Next: The Future Just Happened

Next: The Future Just Happened is a book by Michael Lewis published on July 17, 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company.

Otto III, Count of Rietberg

Otto III was probably born between 1475 and 1485 as the eldest son of John I and his wife Margaret of Lippe.

Richard Heygate

As a businessman, he is chiefly known for being part of the team which created the world's first on-line ATM and for a long career as a McKinsey & Company partner.

Robert Wiebking

Originally designed for Kuppenheimer & Company, who later decided it would be too expensive to cast, it was later bought by Frederick Sherman.

RSA Tower

Its tenants include Raycom Media's headquarters, Morgan Keegan & Company, the Capital City Club, the Alabama Public Health Association, Alabama Department of Health, Alabama Department of Insurance, Alabama Artists Gallery, Bell Microproducts, and other legal, financial, and insurance firms.

Schmargendorf

It was probably established about 1220 by German settlers in the course of the Ostsiedlung under the co-ruling Ascanian Margraves John I and Otto III of Brandenburg, after the former Slavic territories had been conquered by their great-grandfather Albert the Bear.

Signs and Symbols

"Signs and Symbols" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in English and first published, May 15, 1948 in The New Yorker and then in Nabokov's Dozen (1958: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York).

Sir Michael Barber

In the past, Sir Michael served as a partner and head of the global education practice at McKinsey, advisor to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and a global expert on education reform and implementation of large-scale system change.

SS Tobruk

Tobruk was a 7,090 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1941 as Empire Builder by William Gray & Sons Ltd for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).

Steve Brozak

Mr. Brozak is frequently interviewed and quoted by such media sources as the Associated Press, ABC, Barron's, Bloomberg, CNN, Forbes, Dow Jones, Reuters, SmartMoney, TheStreet.com, and The Wall Street Journal.

Tandberg

Halvorsen was a relatively new hire with a background from McKinsey.

The Wounded Surgeon

The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets is a book by Adam Kirsch, published in 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company (ISBN 978-0393051971).

Trollbäck + Company

Projects include the on-air re-brand of CBS, the visual content for the IAC Video Wall (one of the world’s largest video walls at the Frank Gehry-designed IAC headquarters in New York), titles for the global TED conference, and Oscar-winning Capote, numerous HBO collaborations and live action campaigns for companies such as Infiniti, Nike and Callaway.

WBusiness Books

Academic Learning Company, LLC traces its roots as an academic and educational publisher to D. Appleton & Company (Boston, 1813) which later became Appleton Century Crofts (New York).

Wenceslaus II, Duke of Opava

On 27 December 1428, he participated in the Battle of Stary Wielisław, in which John I, the last Piast duke of Münsterberg, died.

William Best, 2nd Baron Wynford

Wynford was the son of William Best, 1st Baron Wynford, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and his wife, Mary Anne, daughter of Jerome Knapp Junior of Chilton in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), Clerk of the Haberdashers' Company, by his second wife, Sarah, daughter and eventual heiress of George Noyes of Southcote, Berkshire & Andover.


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