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Not to be confused with George Pocock (inventor).
Sir George Pocock, KB (March 6, 1706-April 3, 1792) was a British admiral, son of Thomas Pocock, chaplain in the navy, entered the navy under the protection of his maternal uncle, Captain Streynsham Master (1682-1724), in Superbe in 1718.
On his return to England Pocock is said to have been disappointed because another officer, Sir Charles Saunders (1713-1775), was chosen in preference to himself as a member of the admiralty board, and to have resigned in consequence.
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  SIR GEORGE POCOCK - LoveToKnow Article on SIR GEORGE POCOCK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
(1706-1792), British admiral, son of Thomas Pocock, chaplain in the navy, was born on the 6th of March 1706, and entered the navy under the protection of his maternal uncle, Captain Streynsham Master (1682-1724), in the Superbe in 1718.
Again Pocock was unable to prevent his opponent from reaching Pondicherry, and a wellcontested battle between them on the 10th of September 1759 proved again indecisive.
On his return to England Pocock is said to have been disappointed because another officer, Sir Charles Saunders (1713-1775), was chosen in preference to himself as a member of the admiralty board, and to have resigned in consequence.
65.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PO/POCOCK_SIR_GEORGE.htm   (567 words)

  
 Clergyman/Schoolmaster/Writer/Inventer George Pocock
The son of a Church of England clergyman, Pocock, was born in 1774, and at the early age of 25, succeeded Revd.
Pocock thought that if a charvolant and a set of kites were to be introduced into all boys' schools, for gymnastic exercise, " the youth of our country would be rendered manly and active and nothing would afford such a cost in recreation.
George Pocock's boundless energy, however, was by no means confined to the case of well-to-do boys in Clifton.
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 Kite History 101
As Pocock moved into adulthood and the teaching profession, he continued to be fascinated by kites and their power of lift and traction.
Pocock had also devised a framing principle for the kites which permitted them to be folded using an umbrella like mechanism when they were not in use.
Pocock records that on his first test, his kite-drawn carriage reached an estimated speed of 20 miles per hour and overtook a horse-drawn carriage belonging to the Duke of Gloucester.
www.kitelife.com /archives/SEPT98/kite.htm   (1003 words)

  
 The fascinating tale of George Pocock and his kite-propelled transport.
George Pocock ran his own academy in the city and also went around as an itinerant evangelical preacher, barnstorming the local mining community from a tent mission he pitched in their midst and waging a private war with the official Methodist authorities.
Pocock's kites, however, could be used at any state of the tide and passengers ended up more or less where they wanted to be.
Pocock built a number of Charvolants and raced them, but his best public relation stunt was replacing the sails on a yacht with giant kites and taking a party on a three week cruise of the Bristol Channel.
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 George Pocock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir George Pocock (March 6, 1706-April 3, 1792) was a British admiral, son of Thomas Pocock, chaplain in the navy, entered the navy under the protection of his maternal uncle, Captain Streynsham Master (1682-1724), in Superbe in 1718.
Again Pocock was unable to prevent his opponent from reaching Pondicherry, and a well-contested battle between them on September 10, 1759 proved again indecisive.
He was compelled to return to the islands, and the British were left in possession of the Coromandel and Malabar coasts.
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 Pocock Rowing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pocock Rowing is a Seattle, Washington-based racing shells manufacturer, founded in 1911.
The company traces its roots to George Pocock, son of the head boat builder for Eton College at Windsor.
Pocock Rowing also has assisted in the development of west coast rowing through the founding of Lake Washington Rowing Club and the Pocock Rowing Club.
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 Site Title - Person Page 32   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
George Pocock married Sarah Rosehannah Ballard, daughter of Thomas Ballard and Hannah Tidbury, on 5 October 1839 at Chieveley, Berkshire, England.
George Pocock witnessed the sealing of parent to child of Esther Pocock on 24 September 1948 at SLAKE.
George Pocock witnessed the sealing of parent to child of Harriett Pocock on 24 September 1948 at SLAKE.
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 Aeropleustic art
Pocock is probably best known for his invention of the Char-volant, a lightweight carriage that would be pulled along by two kites attached by controllable lines rather than horses.
Pocock also explains how the kite will not act as a conductor for electricity and so is not a danger around electric clouds.
Pocock suggests that the optimum way of using this device is for the lecturer to stand on a pedestal in the centre of the balloon with his students sitting around him/her.
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 EDWARD POCOCKE - LoveToKnow Article on EDWARD POCOCKE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pococke does not seem to have been an extreme churchman or to have meddled actively in politics.
These cares seriously hampered Pococke in his studies, as he complains in the preface to his Eutychius; he seems to have felt most deeply the attempts to remove him from his parish of Childrey, a college living which he had accepted in 1643.
Pococke married in 1646, and died in 1691.
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 Pocock Racing Shells, 1-888-POCOCK1
Pocock Racing Shells was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1911 and has been an integral part of nearly 100 years of American rowing.
George Pocock grew up in England, where his father was the head boat builder for prestigious Eton College at Windsor around the turn of the century.
George eventually became foreman of the assembly department, Dick became boat-builder for Yale University, and their father returned to England.
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 History - George Pocock Rowing Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born in 1891, George Pocock learned his craft from his father, who was a boat builder in England.
George Pocock stayed with the business for almost 60 years, contributing to the local community as well as the national rowing communities.
As a testament to the durability of Pocock’s wooden racing shells, however, the old Husky Clipper – which hangs from the ceiling of Conibear Shellhouse on the University of Washington campus– was brought out for a ceremonial row as part of the 2005 Opening Day of boating season parade.
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 SIR GEORGE POCOCK (170... - Artículo en línea de la información acerca de SIR GEORGE POCOCK (170...
sistema de la monzón en Pocock fue alrededor a Bombay.
Pocock no podía otra vez prevenir a su opositor de Pondicherry que alcanzaba, y una batalla bien-disputada entre ellos en el reacio del septiembre de 1759 probó otra vez indeciso.
parte atribuible a la ayuda vigorosa e inteligente que Pocock dio a las tropas.
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 Pocock Rowing Center - About Us
Seattle's Pocock Rowing Center is open to anyone or any organization with an interest in rowing - whether that interest is in learning the sport for the first time, junior rowing, recreational or competitive master's rowing or developing world-class boat speed.
Soon their shells were making the Pocock name famous by winning races, and by the early Twenties orders were coming in from all of the major colleges where rowing was practiced.
George Pocock was an early proponent of high school rowing programs, and kept his prices low so that high schools could afford his boats.
www.pocockrowingcenter.org /about.html   (613 words)

  
 Sir George Pocock : Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen: The Twickenham Museum
George Pocock's working life was spent in the navy.
He lived here for the remainder of his life and was buried at St Mary's Church where there is a memorial slab in the floor of the west end of the nave.
By coincidence, Pocock's maternal uncle, Streynsham Master, was ancestor to the Rev George Streynsham Master, Vicar of Twickenham from 1859 until 1865.
www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=164   (191 words)

  
 Site Title - Person Page 36   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sarah Rosehannah Ballard witnessed the sealing of parent to child of Orson George Pocock on 24 September 1948 at SLAKE.
She was the daughter of George Pocock and Sarah Rosehannah Ballard.
Ann Quayle married George Cannon, son of George Cannon and Leonora Callister, on 24 October 1825 at Liverpool, Lancashire, England.
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superior and Pocock was required by the practice of his See also:
Again Pocock was unable to prevent his opponent from reaching Pondicherry, and a well-contested battle between them on the loth of September 1759 proved again indecisive.
The final victory was largely attributable to the vigorous and intelligent aid which Pocock gave to the troops.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /PIG_POL/POCOCK_SIR_GEORGE_1706_1792_.html   (770 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Pacific Northwest Magazine
George Pocock and his son, Stan, made some of the world's finest shells on its shores, helping local crews win Olympic gold and add glitter to the sport's aura.
George Pocock in his shell house workshop in 1938.
George Pocock ate breakfast and held court in the diner.
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 Pocock Racing Shells, 1-888-POCOCK1
This tradition was born back in the late 1930s when Pocock Racing Shells founder George Pocock and University of Washington crew coach Al Ulbrickson came up with the idea of placing a mark on the bow of the boats whenever a crew won a race.
George Pocock at the University of Washington's shellhouse.
With Pocock boats winning so many races and as part of the celebration of our coming centennial, Pocock Racing Shells has decided to rekindle this special chevron tradition.
www.pocock.com /chevrons.html   (401 words)

  
 row2k features
As was discussed earlier, even though both Ulbrickson and Pocock believed in the concurrent use of legs, back and arms, all working together starting at the catch, George's ideal stroke included a component not part of Ulbrickson's 2nd Generation Conibear Stroke, namely initial leg drive strong enough to initially immobilize the backs and arms.
This distinction between Ulbrickson's pure concurrent technique and Pocock's hybrid-concurrent technique with legs emphasized was subtle in the extreme, and Pocock was aware that even mentioning stronger leg drive ran the risk of losing the Schubschlag "one cut" feeling, encouraging slide shooting and/or a Kernschlag segmented pull-through, which George abhorred as much as Al.
The issue that George Pocock was addressing on the day that von Wrangell was listening in probably had a lot to do with the difficult transition from an eight to a four.
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 OBITUARIES: Tony Pocock Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
Pocock was born in Bombay in 1922, the elder son of Maisie (nee Bramfitt) and George Pocock, a chartered accountant with the Bombay Company.
Pocock saw active service with the Royal Marines at Cassino and in the invasion of France, and met his first wife, Jetteke Estourgie, when stationed in Singapore in 1945.
Pocock famously set up innovative barter arrangements with Eastern Bloc countries to surmount the problem of currency restrictions, and became a prominent figure at book fairs in Warsaw, Prague and Budapest until, after an encounter with the woman representing the Czech Import- Export agency, he was warned by the Foreign Office never to return.
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 1950
George Pocock, now in his fifth decade with the team, had his own shop on site, and Al Ulbrickson had an office with a view.
Even by the winter, with George Pocock now ensconced in his new shop (the northernmost boat bay of the shellhouse), the docks were not installed.
A desperate Stan Pocock, in his first year as freshmen coach (Gus Eriksen had left for the head coaching job at Syracuse), had the freshmen lay a path with scrap lumber across the frozen marsh out to the lake so they could get on the water.
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 Peter Lynn Kites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
George Pocock, the father of kite traction, made the first recorded kite powered upwind course in a carriage pulled by his patented four line controllable kite systems on the back roads of Bristol, 170 years ago.
His intention was to establish kitepower as an alternative to horsepower, partly to avoid the hated "horse tax" that was levied at that time.
George’s system proved the principles of kite traction but wasn’t even nearly practical.
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 Sports Features Communications™ - Press Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Foundation was established in 1984 as a tribute to the late world-renowned shell-builder George Y. Pocock.
Its facility, the Pocock Rowing Center on north Lake Union in Seattle, is home to over 400 rowers, six rowing clubs, public learn-to-row classes, and serves as a gathering place for community events.
The George Pocock Rowing Foundation is active in the development of new rowing programs throughout the Northwest, provides rowing opportunities for “at risk” children and adults in the community, and sponsors men and women
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 Northwest Maritime Center & Wooden Boat Foundation on Port Townsend Bay• Preserving Maritime Heritage
The Hoh, the restored wooden Pocock “four” that was rowed to Olympic gold in 1960, will be presented to the George Pocock Rowing Foundation in a public ceremony to be held at the George Pocock Memorial Rowing Center in Seattle at 5:30 p.m.
She was lovingly and meticulously restored by countless volunteers under the leadership of Ted Shoulberg and the guidance of master shipwright Steve Chapin, and for the past three years has been a treasured jewel of the Port Townsend community rowing fleet.
In honor of her builder, Stan Pocock (who also coached the Lake Washington Rowing Club men’s crew to that Olympic gold), the Hoh will now be returned to the George Pocock Memorial Rowing Center, where she will be on prominent display.
www.nwmaritime.org /news/news_136.shtml   (279 words)

  
 Fuller Family of Sussex - pafg146 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
George Drake [Parents] was christened on 04 Dec 1696 in Buckland Monachorum, Devon.
Dawsonne Drake was christened on 07 Jul 1724 in Fort St George, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India.
George Drake was born on 20 Jun 1728 in Buckland Monochorum, Devon.
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 Kite Traction
In eighteenth century England George Pocock used kites to pull a specially designed carriage at speeds up to 25 miles per hour.
Pocock's is the earliest written record of a kite buggy.
Despite Pocock's success it was not until 1990 when New Zealander Peter Lynn introduced the first commercially available kite buggy, that it gained popularity.
www.aka.kite.org /traction.html   (5237 words)

  
 Pocock Rowing Center Juniors - High School and Junior Rowing in Seattle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pocock is the crew in fl finishing in 2nd place.
The Pocock Junior Girls finished a close 2nd behind Everett Rowing and ahead of the Canadian crew from Victoria City and the Cincinnati Junior's.
The summer session at Pocock is very relaxed and a great time to refine your rowing skills at your own pace and prepare for next year.
www.pocockjuniors.com   (505 words)

  
 frippuk - pafn07 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
According to family records, Charles was the Grandson of Captain Nicholas Pocock, the marine painter, but in his daughter, Lena's, biography "Myself a Player" she states that Nicolas was his Uncle.
One of the highlights of “Following the Frontier” is the detailed account of Pocock’s horse ride along the infamous Outlaw Trail, a 3,000 mile solo journey that took the adventurer from Canada to Mexico City.
Lena Ashwell Pocock was born on the "Wellesey" on the 28th September, 1869.
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