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Bartholomew Roberts (17 May 1682 – 10 February 1722), born John Roberts, was a Welsh pirate who was, measured by vessels captured, the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy. [2] During his piratical career, he took over 400 prize ships , although most were mere fishing boats.
John Roberts (Australian businessman), John C. Roberts, founder of Multiplex, an Australian construction firm; John Roberts (martyr), Saint John Roberts, one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales; John Roberts (urban planner), founder of TEST Transport & Environment Studies consultancy; John Maddox Roberts, American science fiction ...
This caused much hurt to Roberts. He replied, with the help of Leo Amery and J. A. Cramb, with Fallacies and Facts (1911). [65] In a speech in Manchester's Free Trade Hall on 22 October 1912, Roberts pointed out that Cobden and Bright's prediction that peace and universal disarmament would follow the adoption of free trade had not happened. He ...
Roberts is the youngest chief justice since John Marshall in 1801. Timeline 1979-1980 - Clerk for Judge Henry J. Friendly, US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
The other two Roberts children are son Richard, an evangelist and former president of Oral Roberts University, and daughter Roberta Potts, an attorney. Roberts died of complications from pneumonia on December 15, 2009, [72] [73] at the age of 91. He had been "semi-retired" and living in Newport Beach, California. [74]
Henry Edward Roberts (September 13, 1941 – April 1, 2010) was an American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who invented the first commercially successful personal computer in 1974. [1] He is most often known as " the father of the personal computer ."
Thomas William Roberts (8 March 1856 – 14 September 1931) was an English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism. After studying in Melbourne , he travelled to Europe in 1881 to further his training, and returned home in 1885, "primed with whatever was the latest in ...
Henry Martyn Robert (May 2, 1837 – May 11, 1923) was an American soldier officer and general, engineer, and author. In 1876, Robert published the first edition of his reference manual of parliamentary procedure, Robert's Rules of Order, which remains today 150 years later, as the most common parliamentary authority on democratic parliamentary procedure in the United States.