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Batey (surname)
Batey is a surname of British origin, which may have multiple meanings. The name Batey can be a diminutive of the name Bartholomew. Alternatively, Batey may be an occupational surname for a boatman or fisherman, deriving from the Old English 'bāt' and the suffix '-ey', which loosely means "small boat".''House of Names''"Batey Family Crest, Coat of Arms and Name History" Retrieved on 4 January 2016. Related surnames include Bateman, Bates, and Bate. The name Batey may refer to: *Bob Batey (1912–1988), English football player * Carol S. Batey (born 1955), American writer *Derek Batey (1928–2013), British television presenter *Joey Batey (born 1989), English actor and musician *Joseph Batey (1867–1949), British politician * Kelvin Batey (born 1981), British BMX racer *Keith Batey (1919–2010), British codebreaker *Mavis Batey (1921–2013), British codebreaker *Peter Batey (born 1958), British businessman *Peter Batey (director) (1933–2019) Australian actor and director Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British People
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.: British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Ancient Britons, the indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain and Brittany, whose surviving members are the modern Welsh people, Cornish people, and Bretons. It also refers to citizens of the former British Empire, who settled in the country prior to 1973, and hold neither UK citizenship nor nationality. Though early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered a sense of British national identity.. The notion of Britishness and a shared Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Batey
Joey Batey (born 1989) is an English actor, musician, singer, and songwriter. He is known for portraying the bard Jaskier in the Netflix fantasy series ''The Witcher'', where he sang " Toss a Coin to Your Witcher", as well other songs featured in the series. Early life and education Joey Batey was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. He has said he grew up in a "musical family" and has always been around music. He studied at Robinson College, Cambridge and L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. Whilst at Cambridge, he co-wrote and performed the comedic sketch show ''Good Clean Men'' with Alex Owen, Ben Ashenden and others. Career Acting Batey's film debut was in the 2013 British thriller, ''Murder on the Home Front'', directed by Geoffrey Sax. In 2014, he appeared in ''The Riot Club'' directed by Lone Scherfig. In 2017, Paul McGuigan cast him as Eddie in ''Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool''. Batey also played in the British TV series ''Strike'' (2017), and '' In The Dar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatty (surname)
Beatty is a surname of Scottish and Irish origin. In some cases from Bartholomew, which was often shortened to Bate or Baty. Male descendants were then often called Beatty, or similar derivations like Beattie or Beatey. The name Beatty or Beattie, others think, arose in Ireland from Betagh, a surname meaning hospitaller. A majority of people named Beatty or Beattie in Ireland are the descendants of Scots who came over to Ulster in the seventeenth century. Beattie is common in counties Antrim and Down, whilst Beatty is more common in counties Armagh and Tyrone. In Fermanagh in 1962, Beatty was the fifteenth most common name and was recorded as synonymous with the names Betty and MacCaffrey (or McCaffrey). It is most likely that the name derives from Mac a'Bhiadhtaigh, from ''biadhtach'', "one who held land on condition of supplying food (''biad'') to those billeted on him by the chief". In the rest of Ireland, the name Biadhtach (Betagh; "public victualler") was changed to Bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaty (surname)
Beaty is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Albert Lee Beaty (1869–1936), American politician * Andrea Beaty, American children's author * Aubrey Beaty (1916–2009), British Army soldier *Daniel Beaty (born 1975), American actor, singer, writer, composer, and poet * David Beaty, several people *Forrest Beaty (born 1944), American track and field athlete * Gary Beaty (born 1943), American disc jockey and television announcer * Howard Beaty, American politician * James Beaty, several people *Madisen Beaty (born 1995), American teen actress * Malcolm Beaty (born 1939), English cricketer * Martin Beaty (1784–1856), United States Representative from Kentucky *Matt Beaty (born 1993), American baseball player *Powhatan Beaty (1837–1916), African American soldier and actor * Richard William Beaty (c.1799–1883), Irish music teacher, composer and organist *Robert T Beaty, Scottish engineer *Zelmo Beaty (1939–2013), American professional basketball player See also * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Batey (director)
Peter Batey (1933''–''14 June 2019) was an Australian actor, director and founder of the Bald Archy Prize. He was a founding member of the Melbourne Theatre Company and the South Australian Theatre Company. Early life and education Batey was born in Benalla, Victoria (Australia), Victoria in 1933 and moved to Melbourne when he was 16, where he studied drama. Career Batey worked as a playwright, a director, a founding member of both the Melbourne Theatre Company and the South Australian Theatre Company 1961 saw the debut of his first play ''The No Hopers''; he directed approximately 130 others. He was the first director of the Victorian Arts Council and helped Barry Humphries create the Dame Edna Everage character. Batey Launched the Bald Archy Prize in 1994 scheduled to occur during the Festival of Fun in the town of Coolac, New South Wales, Coolac where he lived at that time. He was awarded the Order of Australia in 1999 for services to community and arts. Death Bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Batey
Peter Batey (''贝彼德'') CMG OBE (born 1 July 1958) is a British businessman working in China. He is Chairman and co-founder of Vermilion Partners Ltd, a merger and acquisitions and strategic advisory firm focused on China. Batey has served with numerous organisations promoting business ties between China and the UK, receiving an OBE for services to Sino-British investment and trade in 1997, and a CMG for services to UK-China relations in 2015. Biography Education and early life Batey studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Keble College, Oxford. He took a sabbatical year in 1979 to undertake the role of President of the Oxford University Student Union, before graduating in 1981. Following graduation, he joined Citibank NA as an executive trainee. From 1982 to 1986 he was political private secretary\ to the Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Heath, KG, MBE, the Prime Minister who restored diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and China. Career Batey moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mavis Batey
Mavis Lilian Batey, MBE (née Lever; 5 May 1921 – 12 November 2013), was a British code-breaker during World War II. She was one of the leading female codebreakers at Bletchley Park. She later became a historian of gardening who campaigned to save historic parks and gardens, and an author. Batey was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal in 1985, and made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1987, in both cases for her work on the conservation of gardens. Early life Mavis Lilian Lever was born on 5 May 1921 in Dulwich to her seamstress mother and postal worker father. She was brought up in Norbury and went to Coloma Convent Girls' School in Croydon. She was studying German at University College, London at the outbreak of World War II: I was concentrating on German romantics and then I realised the German romantics would soon be overhead and I thought well, I really ought to do something better for the war effort. She decided to interrupt her university stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Batey
Keith Batey (4 July 1919 – 28 August 2010) was a codebreaker who, with his wife, Mavis Batey (5 May 1921 – 12 November 2013), worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during World War II. Education Keith Batey was at Carlisle Grammar School and went on to study mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, under a state scholarship, where he met Gordon Welchman, who would later assemble a group of code-breakers for Bletchley Park at the outbreak of the war. Bletchley Park years Batey was recruited by Welchman in 1940 and worked in Hut Six, which was responsible for breaking the German Army and Air Force Enigma ciphers. While there he met fellow code-breaker, Mavis Lever, who worked with Dilly Knox's research section, reconstructing new Enigma machines as they were introduced. Batey assisted Lever in reconstructing one of the rotors of a new Italian Enigma machine. They married in 1942. In 1942, Batey wished for a more physically active role in the war as a pilot i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelvin Batey
Kelvin Batey (born 9 May 1981 from Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire) is a British born professional "Mid/Current School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer who competed for Great Britain from the start of his career until 2008 and then for Ireland. Racing career milestones Note: Professional first are on the national level unless otherwise indicated. Started racing: Early 1988 age 6 at a track in Warsop, England Sanctioning body: First race result: 1st First win (local): First sponsor: Invert Magazine First national win: 1st Turned Professional: 1997 age 16 in England First Professional race result: 6th place - Coppull National May 1997 First Professional win: In Mansfield, England in August 1999. First Junior Pro* win: Holland European Round - Junior Men 1998 First Senior Pro** race result: First Senior Pro win: Retired: Active Height & weight at height of his career (1999–2015): Ht:6'2" Wt:197 lbs. *In the NBL it is B"/Superclass/"A" pro (beginning with 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Batey
Joseph Batey (4 March 1867 – 21 February 1949) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. Batey became a coal miner, before winning election as a checkweighman, and then becoming a full-time official for the Durham Miners' Association. A support of the Labour Party, Batey served on the South Shields Town Council and Board of Guardians. He was elected at the 1922 election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Spennymoor constituency in County Durham, which he had contested unsuccessfully at the 1918 election. Batey held the seat until he resigned from the House of Commons on 6 July 1942, by the procedural device of accepting the post of Steward of the Manor of Northstead The office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead functions as a procedural device to allow a member of Parliament (MP) to resign from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. As members of the House of Commons are forbidden .... References * * External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Batey
Derek Batey (8 August 1928 – 17 February 2013) was a British television presenter and television executive. Batey was born in Brampton, Cumberland, and educated at the White House School, Brampton. After appearing in clubs as a ventriloquist he made his first TV appearance in 1958 as an interviewer for the BBC. In 1961 he moved to the newly established Border Television, where he became known as "a classless hero who blazed a trail in popular television." He is best known for hosting the original 450-episode run of the game show '' Mr. and Mrs.'', which was for many years the only programme produced by Border Television that was networked nationally. He also hosted the talk show '' Look Who's Talking''. ''Try for Ten'' Batey also hosted ''Try for Ten'', another game show produced by Border in Carlisle. Contestants on the show tried to give ten consecutive correct True or False answers to a series of statements. Contestants were eliminated if they gave three wrong answers in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diminutive
A diminutive is a root word that has been modified to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment. A (abbreviated ) is a word-formation device used to express such meanings. In many languages, such forms can be translated as "little" and diminutives can also be formed as multi-word constructions such as " Tiny Tim". Diminutives are often employed as nicknames and pet names when speaking to small children and when expressing extreme tenderness and intimacy to an adult. The opposite of the diminutive form is the augmentative. Beyond the ''diminutive form'' of a single word, a ''diminutive'' can be a multi-word name, such as "Tiny Tim" or "Little Dorrit". In many languages, formation of diminutives by adding suffixes is a productive part of the language. For example, in Spanish can be a nickname for someone who is overweight, and by adding an suffix, it becomes which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
