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Alan Wright (other)
Alan Wright (born 1971) is an English football manager and former player. Alan, Allan or Allen Wright are also the name of: *Alan Wright (cricketer) (1905–1989), English cricketer *Alan Wright (cricket administrator) (1938–2013), English cricket administrator *Allan Wright (1920–2015), British pilot *Allan Wright (farmer) (1929–2022), New Zealand farming leader and businessman *Allen Wright (1826–1885), principal chief of Choctaw Nation *Allen Wright (journalist) Allen Wright (22 February 1932 - 16 November 1997) was a Scottish arts critic and journalist. He was, for nearly 30 years, arts editor of ''The Scotsman'' newspaper, and was regarded as a champion of young critics. Wright first began to review at ... (1932–1997), Scottish arts critic and journalist See also * Al Wright (other) {{hndis, Wright, Alan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wright
Alan Geoffrey Wright (born 28 September 1971) is an English football manager and former professional footballer. He was a left back who has played over 750 league and cup games for eight clubs, including an eight-year spell in the Premier League for Aston Villa. He has also played for Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Middlesbrough and Sheffield United plus he has had loan spells at Derby County, Leeds United, Cardiff City, Doncaster Rovers and Nottingham Forest. He finished his career with spells at Cheltenham Town and Fleetwood Town. He was capped twice by the England U21 team in 1992. Following retirement Wright was part of the coaching staff at Blackpool before going on to have spells as manager of Northwich Victoria and Southport. Club career Blackpool and Blackburn Rovers Wright was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. He began his career as a trainee at Blackpool, for whom he made 98 league appearances between April 1988 and October 1991. The new Blackburn Rovers mana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wright (cricketer)
Alan Jack Barton Wright (3 March 1905 – 29 July 1989) was an English cricketer. Wright was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Semilong, Northamptonshire. Wright made two first-class appearances for Northamptonshire against Yorkshire in the 1922 County Championship and Nottinghamshire in the 1923 County Championship. In the match against Yorkshire at the County Ground, Northampton, Wright scored a single run Northamptonshire's first-innings, before being dismissed by George Macaulay. In their second-innings he was dismissed for a duck by Wilfred Rhodes. Yorkshire won the match by ten wickets. In the match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge, he was dismissed for a duck in Northamptonshire's first-innings by Frank Matthews, while in their second-innings he scored 3 runs, before being dismissed by the same bowler. He died at Catford, London on 29 July 1989. His brother, Ronald Wright, also played first-class cricket for Northamptonshire. References Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wright (cricket Administrator)
Alan J Wright (1938–2013) was an English cricket administrator for the Middlesex County Cricket Club. External links British_Airways obituary February 2013*Middlesex CCC Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Middlesex which has effectively been subsumed within the ceremonial ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, Alan 1938 births 2013 deaths English cricket administrators Secretaries of Middlesex County Cricket Club Date of death missing Place of birth missing 20th-century English businesspeople ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Wright
Group Captain Allan Richard Wright, (12 February 1920 – 16 September 2015) was a Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and ... (RAF) fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War. Wright scored 11 kills, three shared kills, five probable kills and seven damaged against the German ''Luftwaffe'', and was one of the last surviving airmen called ''The Few'' who served in the Battle of Britain. Early life Wright was born in Devon on 12 February 1920. His father had been in the Royal Flying Corps from 1916 and retired from the RAF in 1943. Wright entered Royal Air Force College Cranwell as a flight cadet in April 1938. RAF career After training Wright was posted to No. 92 Squadron RAF at RAF Tangmere on 29 October 1939 flying Bristol Blenheim night figh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Wright (farmer)
Sir Allan Frederick Wright (25 March 1929 – 27 November 2022) was a New Zealand farming leader and businessman. He was president of Federated Farmers between 1977 and 1981, and served as the first chancellor of Lincoln University. Early life and family Wright was born in Darfield, Canterbury, on 25 March 1929, one of twin sons born to Quentin Alford Wright and Winifred Annie Wright (née Jarman). He was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch. On 22 January 1953, he married Dorothy June Netting at St Paul's Anglican Church, Papanui, and the couple went on to have five children. Wright's twin brother, Geoff, played first-class cricket for Canterbury, and was the father of New Zealand Test cricket captain John Wright. Career Wright started farming a mixed arable farm near Sheffield in 1946. He joined the Sheffield Young Farmers' Club in 1949, and went on to serve as the national president of Young Farmers' Clubs in 1958. In 1973, Wright won the A. C. Cameron Royal A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Wright
Allen Wright ( cho, Kiliahote, italic=no) (born November 1826 – December 2, 1885) was Principal Chief of the Choctaw Republic from late 1866 to 1870. He had been ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1852 after graduating from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He was very active in the Choctaw government, holding several elected positions. He has been credited with the name ''Oklahoma'' (Choctaw word meaning "Home of the Red Man" in English) for the land that would become the state.Meserve, John Bartlett. ''Chronicles of Oklahoma'' vol. 19, no. 4, December,1941. Retrieved December 17, 2012Chronicles of Oklahoma After serving in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, Wright was elected as Principal Chief, serving from 1866 to 1870. He was among the signatories of the Reconstruction Treaty of 1866 to re-establish peace with the United States. Wright served as superintendent of schools for the Choctaw Nation from 1880 to 1884. Early life Allen Wright was born ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Wright (journalist)
Allen Wright (22 February 1932 - 16 November 1997) was a Scottish arts critic and journalist. He was, for nearly 30 years, arts editor of ''The Scotsman'' newspaper, and was regarded as a champion of young critics. Wright first began to review at the annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1957 and today, the young writers' award at the Fringe is named the Allen Wright Award in his honour, having been established in 1998. He was 'arguably Scotland's most respected arts journalist' of the era and a 'major figure in the Scottish cultural scene'. Career Wright worked his entire life at ''The Scotsman''. He joined the paper straight from school as a 'tube boy', a messenger who delivered editorial copy via a vacuum tube system. He graduated to reporting, with film reviewing as a sideline, then became drama critic in succession to Ronald Mavor and deputy news editor. In 1964, the paper's editor Alastair Dunnet made him the Scotsman's first arts editor. He continued in much the same way un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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