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Hugh Roy Cullen (July 3, 1881 – July 4, 1957) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Cullen was heavily involved in the petroleum industry having struck oil near Texas in 1928. [ 1 ] He was a large supporter of multiple educational institutions in and around Houston, in one of which, the University of Houston , he became a longtime ...
Robertson is the grandson of Texas oil magnate Hugh Roy Cullen, the founder of Quintana Petroleum. Robertson's father also worked for Quintana. Robertson was an All-American linebacker at the University of Texas, captaining the team to a victory at the 1969 Cotton Bowl Classic. [1]
Hugh Roy Cullen—a wealthy businessman—and his wife Lillie Cullen donated a combined $335,000 for the first permanent building to be built at the campus. The building was named the "Roy Gustav Cullen Memorial Building" as a memorial to the Cullens' only son who had died in an oil field accident two years earlier.
They raised six children, [7] all of whom were among the first African-Americans in Texas to receive a college education. [1] It was three decades after their initial purchase that Edward first discovered oil under his land. By 1921, a producing oil well had been drilled by Hugh Roy Cullen on what became known as the Pierce Junction field. [3]
Houston oilman Hugh Roy Cullen, a grandson of Ezekiel, hired Raiford Stripling to restore the house in 1952. To ensure the care and maintenance of the house, Cullen donated it to the Ezekiel Cullen Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT) in 1953. As of 2000, the local DAR chapter still owned and maintained the property. [2]
Hugh Grant On Tuesday, Oct. 29, the Heretic actor, 64, appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show and discussed how he named his younger daughters, 8 and 5, who he shares with wife Anna Eberstein.
In addition to Grant’s two children with Hong and their son John, the married couple welcomed a daughter in 2015 and a third baby in 2018. Those babies’ names have not been revealed.
Elizabeth Hurley says having a child with Hugh Grant was never on the table for them, but that they did discuss what a prospective baby of theirs would look like. In a new interview with Andy ...