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Jemmy is a male (seldom female)
given name. It is a
diminutive form of the
given name James.
Although po****r in the 18th and 19th centuries, the name...
- Orundellico,
known as "Jeremy Button" or "
Jemmy Button" or "Jimmy Button" (c. 1815–1864), was a
member of the
Yaghan (or Yámana)
people from
islands around...
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James "
Jemmy"
Hirst (1738–1829) was an
English eccentric.
Hirst was born to a
farmer family of Rawcliffe, Yorkshire. Even at
school he kept a pet jackdaw...
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James "
Jemmy" Wood (7
October 1756 – 20
April 1836) was the
owner of the
Gloucester Old Bank who
became nationally known as "The
Gloucester Miser". His...
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Jemmy Elton Shaw, also
known as
Jimmy Shaw and
James Shaw, was a 19th-century
pioneer fancier of the
early dog show days, a
promoter of dog
fighting and...
- bar or prisebar,
colloquially gooseneck, or pig bar, or in
Australia a
jemmy, is a
lever consisting of a
metal bar with a
single curved end and flattened...
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shortly thereafter, and the
similarity of Sandwich's
conduct to that of
Jemmy Twitcher,
betrayer of
Macheath in that play,
permanently attached to him...
- they were
Catholic and some
spoke Portuguese. The
leader of the rebellion,
Jemmy, was a
literate enslaved man. In some reports, however, he is
referred to...
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James "
Jemmy"
Grimshaw (29
March 1846 – 12
December 1889) was a classic-winning
jockey and the
British flat
racing Champion Jockey of 1864. He rode 164...
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known as "Wicked Jimmy", the "Bad Earl", the "Gloomy Earl" and "Jimmy" or "
Jemmy Grasp-all, Earl of Toadstool". He died in 1802,
having had no
children by...
