Horrocks
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Horrocks may refer to the following people:
Horrocks may also refer to the following towns and geographical features:
- Brian HorrocksBrian HorrocksLieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC was a British Army officer. He is chiefly remembered as the commander of XXX Corps in Operation Market Garden and other operations during the Second World War...
(1895–1985), British military officer - Dylan Horrocks (born 1966), New Zealand cartoonist
- Geoffrey HorrocksGeoffrey HorrocksGeoffrey Horrocks is a British mathematician whose work on vector bundles has been important for the ADHM construction.He was a professor at Newcastle University until his retirement in 1998.-References:...
, a mathematician - Geoffrey C Horrocks (born 1951), British linguist and Cambridge academic
- Ian HorrocksIan HorrocksIan Horrocks is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford in the UK and a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford . His research focuses on knowledge representation, particularly ontology languages , description logic, and optimised reasoning algorithms.His work on tableau reasoning for...
, British academic - Jane HorrocksJane HorrocksBarbara Jane Horrocks is an English voice, stage, screen and television actress, voice artist, musician, and singer. She is best known for her role as "Bubble" in the TV series Absolutely Fabulous as well as her distinctive voice....
(born 1964), British comedian and actress - Jeremiah HorrocksJeremiah HorrocksJeremiah Horrocks , sometimes given as Jeremiah Horrox , was an English astronomer who was the only person to predict, and one of only two people to observe and record, the transit of Venus of 1639.- Life and work :Horrocks was born in Lower Lodge, in...
(c. 1618–1641), English astronomer - John Horrocks (cotton manufacturer)John Horrocks (cotton manufacturer)John Horrocks was a British cotton manufacturer and Member of Parliament.-Early life:He was the youngest of two surviving sons in a family of eighteen children...
(1768–1804), British cotton manufacturer - John Ainsworth HorrocksJohn Ainsworth HorrocksJohn Ainsworth Horrocks was one of the first settlers in the Clare Valley in 1839. He established the town of Penwortham in South Australia. Horrocks is unfortunately known more for his death, when he was accidentally shot in a hunting accident...
, (1818-1846), English-born explorer and settler in South Australia - Joseph HorrocksJoseph HorrocksJoseph Lucas Horrocks was a convict transported to Western Australia in 1852, who established the town of Northampton.Joseph Horrocks was born in Cornwall in 1805...
(1805–1866), British convict transported to Western Australia - Peter HorrocksPeter HorrocksPeter John Gibson Horrocks is Director of BBC World Service. He was educated at the independent King's College School in Wimbledon and at Christ's College, Cambridge....
(born 1959), British television producer - Tony Horrocks, fictional character
- William HorrocksWilliam HorrocksSir William Heaton Horrocks KCMG, CB was an officer of the British Army remembered chiefly for confirming Sir David Bruce's theory that Malta fever was spread through goat's milk. He also contributed to the making safe of water, developing a simple method of testing and purifying water in the field...
(1859-1941), a British military doctor
Horrocks may also refer to the following towns and geographical features:
- Horrocks, Western AustraliaHorrocks, Western AustraliaHorrocks also known as Horrocks Beach is a town in the Mid West region of Western Australia. It is located north of the state capital, Perth and the closest populated town is Northampton....
, a small town - Horrocks (crater)Horrocks (crater)Horrocks is a lunar impact crater located entirely within the eroded northeast rim of the much larger walled plain Hipparchus. To the south of Horrocks are the craters Halley and Hind and Rhaeticus to the north. Gyldén and Saunder lie to the west and east, respectively...
, a lunar crater named after Jeremiah Horrocks - Mount Horrocks, a hill in the Clare ValleyClare ValleyThe Clare Valley is one of Australia's oldest wine regions, best known for Riesling wines. It lies in the Mid North of South Australia, approximately 120 km north of Adelaide. The valley runs north-south, with Main North Road as the main thoroughfare....
region of South Australia - Horrocks PassHorrocks PassHorrocks Pass is a geographical location in the southern Flinders Ranges, in South Australia, approximately 6 kilometres west of the town of Wilmington. Main North Road travels through the pass between Port Augusta and Wilmington...
, a pass in the southern Flinders RangesFlinders RangesFlinders Ranges is the largest mountain range in South Australia, which starts approximately north west of Adelaide. The discontinuous ranges stretch for over from Port Pirie to Lake Callabonna...
in South Australia