Thomas Hales
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Thomas Hales may refer to:
- Thomas Hales, planter, soldier (c. 1606–1682), Founder of Hartford, CT and Norwalk, CT, USA and soldier of the Pequot War
- Sir Thomas Hales, 2nd BaronetSir Thomas Hales, 2nd BaronetSir Thomas Hales, 2nd Baronet , of Beakesbourne and Brymore in Kent, was an English Member of Parliament.Hales was the eldest son of Thomas Hales of Howlets and grandson of Sir Robert Hales, who had been created a baronet at the Restoration. His father having already died, he succeeded to his...
(1666–1748), British Member of Parliament - Sir Thomas Hales, 3rd BaronetSir Thomas Hales, 3rd BaronetSir Thomas Hales, 3rd Baronet , of Beakesbourne in Kent, was an English courtier and Member of Parliament.Hales was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Hales, 2nd Baronet, of Brymore, and was educated at Oriel College, Oxford...
(c. 1694–1762), British Member of Parliament and courtier - Sir Thomas Hales, 4th BaronetSir Thomas Hales, 4th BaronetSir Thomas Pym Hales, 4th Baronet , of Beakesbourne in Kent, was an English Member of Parliament.Hales was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Hales, 3rd Baronet, a long-serving Member of Parliament who held a series of lucrative posts in the Royal Household. He succeeded to his father's baronetcy on 6...
(c. 1726–1773), British Member of Parliament - Thomas Hales (dramatist)Thomas Hales (dramatist)Thomas Hales was a British-born French dramatist and librettist. He was from an Irish expatriate family in Gloucestershire and joined the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War. He settled in Jamaica for a short time and then in Havana, Cuba, before moving to Europe to travel...
(c. 1740–1780), Anglo-French - Thomas Callister HalesThomas Callister HalesThomas Callister Hales is an American mathematician. He is known for his 1998 computer-aided proof of the Kepler conjecture, a centuries-old problem in discrete geometry which states that the most space-efficient way to pack spheres is in a pyramid shape...
(born 1958), American mathematician - Tom Hales (Irish republican) (1892–1966), Irish republican and politician