Horrocks

Horrocks

Horrocks may refer to the following people:
* Jeremiah Horrocks (c. 1618–1641), English astronomer
* John Horrocks (1768–1804), British cotton manufacturer
* John Horrocks (1816-1881), British born resident in Weimar, army officer, author, inventor, sports fisher
* John Ainsworth Horrocks, (1818-1846), English-born explorer and settler in South Australia
* Joseph Horrocks (1805–1866), British convict transported to Western Australia
* William Horrocks (1859-1941), a British military doctor
* Brian Horrocks (1895–1985), British military officer
* Peter Horrocks (born 1959), British television producer
* Jane Horrocks (born 1964), British comedian and actress
* Dylan Horrocks (born 1966), New Zealand cartoonist
* Geoffrey Horrocks, a mathematician
* Ian Horrocks, British academic

* Tony Horrocks, fictional character

Horrocks may also refer to the following geographical features:
* Horrocks (crater), a lunar crater named after Jeremiah Horrocks
* Mount Horrocks, a hill in the Clare Valley region of South Australia
* Horrocks Pass, a pass in the southern Flinders Ranges in South Australia


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  • Horrocks — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Brian G. Horrocks (1895–1985), britischer Generalleutnant Dylan Horrocks (* 1966), neuseeländischer Cartoonist Geoffrey Horrocks (* ?), britischer Mathematiker Jane Horrocks (* 1964), englische… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Horrocks —   [ hɔrəks], Họrrox, Horrocius, Jeremiah, englischer Astronom, * in der County Lancashire um 1619, ✝ Toxteth Park (heute zu Liverpool) 13. 1. 1641. Horrocks beobachtete 1639 einen von ihm selbst vorherberechneten Venusdurchgang (»Venus in Sole… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Horrocks Fold — is a small hamlet to the south of Belmont, near Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.Originally a farm and collection of barns and outbuildings, the site was sympathetically converted to private residences in the early 1980s.Horrocks Fold is… …   Wikipedia

  • Horrocks , Jeremiah — (1619–1641) English astronomer Little is known about the early life of Horrocks (or Horrox) other than that he was born into a Puritan family in Toxteth, Liverpool, and was admitted to Cambridge in 1632. Even though he died ‘in his twenty second… …   Scientists

  • Horrocks (crater) — lunar crater data latitude=4.0 N or S=S longitude=5.9 E or W=E diameter=30 km depth=3.0 km colong=355 eponym=Jeremiah HorrocksHorrocks is a lunar impact crater located entirely within the eroded northeast rim of the much larger Hipparchus walled… …   Wikipedia

  • Horrocks-Mumford bundle — In algebraic geometry, a branch of mathematics, the Horrocks–Mumford bundleis an indecomposable rank 2 vector bundle on 4 dimensional projective space P 4 named after Geoffrey Horrocks and David Mumford.It is the only such bundle known, although… …   Wikipedia

  • Horrocks, Jeremiah — ▪ British astronomer Horrocks also spelled  Horrox   born c. 1617, , Toxteth Park, near Liverpool [now in Merseyside], Eng. died Jan. 3, 1641, Toxteth Park       British astronomer and clergyman who applied Johannes Kepler s laws of planetary… …   Universalium

  • Horrocks, General Sir Brian — 1895–1985    Field Marshal MONTGOMERY felt that Horrocks was one of the best Corps Commanders available for World War II and appointed him to command XIII Corps in the Battles of Alam Halfa and Alamein in the Western Desert. He accompanied… …   Who’s Who in World War Two

  • Horrocks — /ˈhɒrəks/ (say horuhks) noun John Ainsworth, 1818–46, Australian pioneer explorer and pastoralist, born in England; first person to use camels for exploration in Australia …  

  • HORROCKS, JEREMIAH —    a celebrated astronomer, born at Toxteth, near Liverpool; passed through Cambridge, took orders, and received the curacy of Hoole, Lancashire; was devoted to astronomy, and was the first to observe the transit of Venus, of which he gave an… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

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