Burgoyne
Encyclopedia
Burgoyne may refer to:
People named "Burgoyne":
In astronomy:
In military history:
In nobility:
In occultism:
In places:
In plants:
Category:Surnames
People named "Burgoyne":
- Burgoyne DillerBurgoyne DillerBurgoyne A. Diller was an American abstract painter. Many of his best-known works are characterized by orthogonal geometric forms that reflect his strong interest in the De Stijl movement and the work of Piet Mondrian in particular...
(1906–1965), American abstract painter - Mike BurgoyneMike BurgoyneMike Burgoyne is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Victoria Salmon Kings of the ECHL....
(b. 1978), Canadian ice hockey player - Hugh Talbot BurgoyneHugh Talbot BurgoyneCaptain Hugh Talbot Burgoyne VC RN was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross. Born in Dublin, he was the son of John Fox Burgoyne and the grandson of John Burgoyne....
(1833–1870), Irish captain of the Royal Navy, son of John Fox Burgoyne - James Patrick Montagu Burgoyne Winthrop Stopford, 9th Earl of Courtown (b. 1954), British peer and politician
- John BurgoyneJohn BurgoyneGeneral John Burgoyne was a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, mostly notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762....
(1722–1792), British general during the American Revolutionary War, father of John Fox Burgoyne - John Fenwick Burgoyne BlackettJohn Fenwick Burgoyne BlackettJohn Fenwick Burgoyne Blackett was a British politician.He was the oldest son of Christopher Blackett, a Member of Parliament representing Northumberland South. John was educated at Harrow School, and was admitted to Christchurch, Oxford in 1841, earning a second class degree in Classics, and was...
(1851–1856), British politician - John Fox BurgoyneJohn Fox BurgoyneField Marshal Sir John Fox Burgoyne, 1st Baronet GCB was a British Army officer.-Military career:Burgoyne was the illegitimate son of General John Burgoyne and opera singer Susan Caulfield. In 1798, he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers as a Second Lieutenant...
(1782–1871), British field marshal of the British Army, son of John Burgoyne, father of Hugh Talbot Burgoyne - Montagu BurgoyneMontagu BurgoyneMontagu Burgoyne was a politician of Essex.Burgoyne was a younger son of Sir Roger Burgoyne, 6th Baronet of Burgoyne of Sutton, Bedfordshire. He was a member of Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he gained his M.A. in 1774. Lord North gave him the sinecure office of Chamberlain of the Till office in...
(1750–1836), British politician. - Peter BurgoynePeter BurgoynePeter Gabriel Burgoyne is a former Australian rules footballer with Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League. He played primarily in midfield and on the half back flank.-Early life:...
(b. 1978), Australian rules footballer, brother of Shaun Burgoyne - Shaun BurgoyneShaun BurgoyneShaun Playford Burgoyne is an Australian rules footballer playing with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League...
(b. 1982), Australian rules footballer, brother of Peter Burgoyne - Thomas BurgoyneThomas BurgoyneThomas John Burgoyne was an English amateur cricketer who made 24 known appearances in major cricket matches from 1796 to 1816.-Career:...
(1775–1847), British cricketer - Victoria BurgoyneVictoria BurgoyneVictoria Burgoyne is an English actress.She is known for being a guest actress in the infamously uncompleted Doctor Who serial Shada, the making of which was abandoned as the result of a BBC strike...
(b. 1965), British actress - William Burgoyne TavernerWilliam Burgoyne TavernerWilliam Burgoyne Taverner OBE was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for the Reform Party,and Mayor of Dunedin.- Member of Parliament :...
(c. 1880-1958), New Zealand politician
In astronomy:
- 19543 Burgoyne19543 Burgoyne19543 Burgoyne is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 10, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
, or 1999 JR30, a Main Belt asteroid
In military history:
- Burgoyne campaign, alternate name of the 1777 Saratoga campaignSaratoga campaignThe Saratoga Campaign was an attempt by Great Britain to gain military control of the strategically important Hudson River valley in 1777 during the American Revolutionary War...
In nobility:
- Burgoyne BaronetsBurgoyne BaronetsThere have been two creations of Baronetcies for members of the Burgoyne family.The Baronetcy of Burgoyne of Sutton was created in the Baronetage of England on 15 July 1641 for John Burgoyne of Sutton, Bedfordshire....
, two British baronetcies
In occultism:
- Thomas Henry Burgoyne, secretary and member of the Hermetic Brotherhood of LuxorHermetic Brotherhood of LuxorThe Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor was an initiatic occult organisation that first became public in late 1884, although according to an official document of the order it began its work in 1870...
and author of The Light in Egypt, published in 1889.
In places:
- Burgoyne, Ontario, a community of the municipality of Arran-Elderslie, OntarioArran-Elderslie, OntarioThe Municipality of Arran–Elderslie is a township in Bruce County in Western Ontario, Canada. The township is located at the headwaters of the Sauble River, and the Saugeen River forms the northwestern boundary.-Communities:...
, Canada - Burgoyne BayBurgoyne BayBurgoyne Bay is located at the southern end of Saltspring Island in British Columbia, Canada. The shores of the bay are part of the Mount Maxwell Ecological Reserve. The bay is a sidewater of Sansum Narrows, which separates Saltspring from Vancouver Island....
, a bay at the southern end of Saltspring Island in British Columbia, Canada, named after Hugh Talbot Burgoyne - Burgoyne Bay Provincial ParkBurgoyne Bay Provincial ParkBurgoyne Bay Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada located on southwestern Saltspring Island near Fulford Harbour and facing northwest to Sansum Narrows, which is the channel between Saltspring and Vancouver Island. It is 334 hectares in size and was established via...
, a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada - Fort BurgoyneFort BurgoyneFort Burgoyne, originally known as Castle Hill Fort, was built in the 1860s as one of the Palmerston forts around Dover in southeast England. It was built to a polygonal system with detached eastern and western redoubts, to guard the high ground northeast of the strategic port of Dover, just north...
, a fort northeast of Dover, England, United Kingdom
In plants:
- Ulmus americana 'Burgoyne'Ulmus americana 'Burgoyne'The American Elm Ulmus americana cultivar Burgoyne was grown at the Arnold Arboretum until removed in 1988. The tree was raised from seeds of the Burgoyne Elm, grown for the town of Weston, Massachusetts, in 1965...
, a cultivar of Ulmus Americana
Category:Surnames