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Here are a few HALEs who have won fame, for a variety of reasons
ALEXANDER of HAILES (d. 1245) English Schoolman, known as the 'Irrefragable Doctor'.
Originally an ecclesiastic of Hailes, Gloucestershire, (Eng.) he became a professor of philosophy and theology in Paris, and later entered the Franciscan order. His chief work was the Summa Universae Theologiae.
born in Bath (Eng.) Educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford he became a fellow and lecturer at Merton College. In 1616 he went to The Hague as chaplain to the ambassador, Sir Dudley Carleton, for whom he made a report of the famous synod of Dort, which convinced him of the futility of extreme dogma, and so inspirirng him to reject Calvinism.
In 1619 he returned to Eton to study. His too-liberal Tract, concerning Scism and Schismatics displeased Laud, who was, however, satisfied after a personal conference and an apologetic letter, and appointed him to a canonry at Windsor (1639).
Lord Chief Justice of England. He studied at Oxford and was called to the bar in 1637. Despite his support for the Royalists he was renowned for his judicial impartiality during the Civil War (1642-51) and was persuaded by friends to accept the appointment to justice of the common pleas when Cromwell became Lord Protector. He served in this capacity from 1654 until Cromwell's death in 1658. After the Restoration he refused to serve as a judge and was returned as Member of Parliament for Oxford. In 1660 he was made chief-baron of the Exchequer. He became chief justice of the King's bench in 1671.Devout, learned, acute and sensible, he wrote a History of the Common Law (1713) and a History of the Pleas of the Crown, both still important, and the Prerogatives of the King as well as religious works.
His work on the Bench - in an age when these attributes were not common even among judges - was characterized by singular personal integrity and impartiality. He directed proceedings with scrupulous fairness toward prisoners.
His place amongst the principal figures in the history of English common law is reflected in the size of his entry in the Dictionary of National Biography which runs to seven pages.
See Sir Matthew HALE
Eighth son of WILLIAM HALE of King's Walden, Hertfordshire. Born Mar 1677, entered Gray's Inn October 1696, called to the bar February 1704.
Appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Irish exchequer 28th June 1722, and transferred to the English court of exchequer as a Puisne Baron June 1st 1725.Knighted on February 4th 1726.
He died in Red Lion Square, London, on November 7th 1729 and was buried in the parish of King's Walden, the manor of which had been in his family since the time of Elizabeth, and still belongs to his posterity.
born in Beaksbourn,Canterbury (Eng.). He entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1696, was elected fellow in 1702, and became in 1709 perpetual curate of Teddington.
His Vegetable Staticks (1727) was the foundation of vegetable physiology. In Haemastaticks (1733) he discussed the circulation of the blood and blood pressure. Besides a work on dissolving stones in the bladder, he wrote the Philosphical Transactions on ventilation, electricity, analysis of air, etc. He also invented machines for ventilating, distilling sea water, preserving meat, etc.
Aide-de-Camp to General James Wolfe, Loiseburg Cape
Breton in 1758 and the plains of Abraham Quebec, 1759. He was given a warrant by King George the III to raise the 17th Dragoons, later 17th Lancers.
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1974-1980; wrote "The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance" 1993.
Many descendants of early HALE immigrants to the United States made their mark on American society
Probably the only HALE who is known to the majority of Americans Nathan Hale is regarded as a national hero, and as the 'Patron saint' of American espionage.
A graduate of Yale University he joined a Connecticut regiment in 1775, served in the Siege of Boston, and was commissioned as a captain in 1776. He volunteered to penetrate the British lines on Long island to procure intelligence for Washington.
While attempting to return to his regiment he was captured and hanged as a spy without trial the next day. He is supposed to have said before his death that his only regret was that he had but one life to lose for his country, a remark similar to one in Joseph Addison's play ' Cato'
His statue stands at the HQ of the CIA at Langley, Virginia.
Nephew of Nathan Hale, (above), he introduced the editorial as a newspaper feature.
American writer, born in Newport, New Hampshire. In 1828 she became the first female editor of a magazine, "The Ladies' Magazine." One of her important books is "The Ladies' Wreath", a collection of poetry by English and American women, which had a wide sale.
Her most significant work is "Woman's Record : Or, Sketches of all Distinguished Women from 'the Beginning' till AD 1850"
The 2,500 entries contain valuable, orderly biographical information. She is chiefly remembered as a proponent of the National Thanksgiving celebration, as the author of a novel "Northwood", and the children's nursery rhyme " Mary had a little lamb ", which appeared in her " Poems for Our Children " (1830).
Anthropologist who made valuable liguistic and ethnographic studies of North American Indians.
In 1856 he entered legal practice at Clinton, Ontario and for the next twenty years was engaged primarily with his practice. In the late 1860's he began collecting traditional Iroquois literature from the Six Nations Reserve, Brantford, Ont.
Those collections are the basis of his major contribution to the literature of anthropology. His most important work, The Iroqois Book of Rites (1883), summarizes much of his research and reconstructs the later prehistory of the tribes of the Six Nations.
In the early 1880's he chose Franz Boas to conduct fieldwork among the Northwest Coast Indians for the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He not only provided Boas with material support but also corresponded with him regularly, offering guidelines and advice. Boas' ideas came to dominate U.S anthropology for about 50 years.
born in Boston, Mass. where he became pastor of the South Congregational Church in 1856.
His ministry, which began in 1846, was characterized by his forceful personality, organizing genius, and liberal theology which placed him in the vanguard of the Social Gospel movement.
Many of his 150 books and pamphlets were tracts for such causes as the education of blacks, workmen's housing, and world peace, and his book Ten Times One is Ten (1870) inspired numerous 'Lend a Hand clubs'.
He edited religious and other journals, and documents on the founding of Virginia, and wrote short stories. The grand-nephew of Nathan Hale, in 1903 he was named chaplain of the United States Senate.
George Ellery Hale earned fame for his brilliant research on sunspots and for his invention of the spectroheliograph. In 1892 he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago and began organising the Yerkes Observatory Wis., of which he was director until 1904. There he built the the 40-inch refracting telescope which remains the largest of it's type in the world.
He established the Astrophysical Journal in 1895.
In 1904 he organised the Mount Wilson Observatory near Los Angeles and was it's director until 1923.
There he built solar apparatus of great power as well as the huge 60-inch and 100-inch reflecting telescopes. In 1928 he began work on the giant reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory in California which, having a dameter of 5m is second only to the 6m telescope in Zelenchkskaya, Russia.
The recipient of many honours, George Ellery Hale was also elected to most of the world's leading academies of science. He died on February 21 1938 in Pasadena, California.
Born in Los Angeles, California, actor Alan Hale appeared in over two hundred movies.
He also played the Skipper in the TV series 'Gilligan's Island.'
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