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Cator is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albemarle Cator (1877β1932), British Army officer * Geoffrey Edmund Cator (1884β1973), British civil servant * Joe Cator (born 1998), English rugby league footballer * John Cator (1728β1806), British timber merchant and landowner * John Cator (Huntingdon MP) (1862β1944), English politician * Harry Cator (1894β1966), English recipient of the Victoria Cross * Rhonda Cator (born 1966), retired female badminton player from Australia * Silvio Cator Sylvio or Silvio Paul Cator (October 19, 1900 β July 21, 1952) was a Haitian athlete most successful in the long jump. Biography Born in Cavaillon, Haiti, Cator was a footballer who played for the Trivoli Athletic Club and the Racing ... (1900β1952), Haitian athlete * Thomas Vincent Cator (1888β1931), American composer * William Cator (1839β1902), Irish cricketer and clergyman {{surname, Cator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albemarle Cator
Major-general (United Kingdom), Major General Albemarle Bertie Edward Cator, (12 April 1877 β 18 November 1932) was a senior British Army officer who served as General Officer Commanding London District (British Army), London District and Major-General commanding the Household Division, Major-General Commanding the Brigade of Guards. Military career Cator was Officer (armed forces), commissioned a second lieutenant in the Scots Guards on 9 June 1897, and was promoted to Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), lieutenant on 17 May 1899. He served with the 1st battalion of his regiment in South Africa during the Second Boer War, and was present at the battles of Battle of Belmont (1899), Belmont, Battle of Modder River, Modder River, and Battle of Magersfontein, Magersfontein in 1899. The following year, he took part in the march to Bloemfontein and Pretoria, the battles of Battle of Diamond Hill, Diamond Hill and Battle of Belfast, Belfast , and advance to Komatipoort. Foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Edmund Cator
Sir Geoffrey Edmund Cator (14 August 1884 – 21 April 1973) was an English diplomat mainly active in the Malayan Civil Service. Biography Cator was born in Lacock, Wiltshire, the son of brewer Robert Cator of Bath and Evelyn Susan Sotheron Estcourt. He married Elizabeth Margaret Wynne Mostyn in 1922; they had a son, Peter John Cator (26 October 1924 β 22 January 2006) and daughter Rosemary Ann Cator. Sir Geoffrey joined the Malayan Civil Service in 1907 until 1939. He was the British Resident of Brunei from May 1916 until March 1921. Later he was posted as the Superintendent of Government Monopolies of Straits Settlements, the District Officer of Klang and also member of the Legislative Council of Federated Malay States. He was the British Resident of Selangor (1932-1933) and British Resident of Perak (1933-1939). His last post was the head of the Malay States Information Agency in London. He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1946 New Year Honours. He had previously ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Cator
Joe Cator (born 15 June 1998) is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a loose forward for Hull F.C. in the Betfred Super League. He played for Hull Kingston Rovers in the Championship and the Super League, and on loan from Hull KR at the Coventry Bears and the Newcastle Thunder in Betfred League 1. Cator also played for the Leigh Centurions in the Betfred Championship. Background Cator was born in Kingston Upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Playing career Hull KR Cator began his career with Hull Kingston Rovers and was part of the side which was promoted back to the Super League. He then spent time on loan at Leigh before signing for his boyhood club Hull F.C. Hull F.C. Cator played 11 games for Hull F.C. in the 2020 Super League season including the club's semi-final defeat against Wigan. Cator had a loan spell with Bradford during the early stages of 2020. When he returned to Hull, he became one of the standout performers and went on to win the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cator
John Cator (21 March 1728 β 26 February 1806) was an English timber merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1772 and 1793. He became a landowner and property developer with estates in later life in: Blackheath, Beckenham, Addington, Croydon and Waltham Forest β now in London, then in Kent, Surrey and Essex; at Leigh and Hever in Kent. Business The son of John Cator the Elder, a Herefordshire timber merchant and Quaker (who in turn was the son of Jonah Cator of Ross-on-Wye, a glovemaker), Cator joined the family business which had relocated to a new London base at Mould Strand Wharf (now the Bankside site of the Tate Modern art gallery) in Southwark, and sought to capitalise on the growth of the capital by investing in property, mainly in south-east London and Kent. He married Mary Collinson (daughter of botanist Peter Collinson) in 1753. In 1778, Fanny Burney wrote: :"Mr. C--, who was formerly a timber-merchant, but having amassed a fortune of on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cator (Huntingdon MP)
John Cator, JP, DL (24 September 1862 – 27 April 1944) was Conservative MP for Huntingdon. The head of an old family with Quaker antecedents whose members included John Cator, MP between 1772 and 1793, Cator was educated was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He stood unsuccessfully in 1906, won the seat from the Liberals in January 1910, and held it in December 1910. His seat was abolished in 1918. He was High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1920–21. His daughter Elizabeth Margaret married Captain The Hon. Michael Claude Hamilton Bowes-Lyon, brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 β 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI. She was the l .... Sources *'' Whitaker's Almanack'', 1907 to 1918 editions * Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Cator
Harry Cator VC, MM (24 January 1894 – 7 April 1966) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was born in Drayton in Norfolk to a railway worker. After leaving school, he was a porter on the London Midland and Great Northern Joint Line before joining a building contractor in Great Yarmouth. He joined the British Army in September 1914, and arrived on the Western Front in June 1915 already a sergeant in the 7th Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment. In 1916 at the time of the Somme Offensive, he was awarded the Military Medal for bringing back 36 wounded men from no-mans land. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Arras offensive. On 9 April 1917 near Arras, Sergeant Cator's platoon had suffered heavy casualties from a hostile machine-gun. Under heavy fire the sergeant, with one man, advanced across the open t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhonda Cator
Rhonda Cator (born 23 August 1966) is a retired female badminton player from Australia. Career Cator competed in badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with Anna Lao, and they lost in quarterfinal to Lin Yan Fen and Yao Fen. The same year, they won the French Open. She also competed at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics. Domestically, Cator has won the national championship in singles, doubles and mixed doubles and has competed at five Commonwealth Games, winning 5 bronze medals as follows: the team event in the 1986 Commonwealth Games, in both the team event and mixed doubles at the 1994 Commonwealth Games and also in both the women's teams event and mixed doubles at the Kuala Lumpur Games four years later. Cator was the Australian badminton assistant coach at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and team manager at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvio Cator
Sylvio or Silvio Paul Cator (October 19, 1900 β July 21, 1952) was a Haitian athlete most successful in the long jump. Biography Born in Cavaillon, Haiti, Cator was a footballer who played for the Trivoli Athletic Club and the Racing Club HaΓ―tien. He participated in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris in the high jump, where he finished 15th, and the long jump, where he came in 12th. In the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam he won a silver medal in the long jump. His 7.58 m effort was 16 cm short of gold ( Edward Hamm). A month later, on September 9, 1928, Sylvio Cator broke Edward Hamm's two-month-old world record with a 7.93 m jump at the 1924 Olympic stadium near Paris. He participated one more time in the long jump at the 1932 games in Los Angeles, where he took the 9th place. As of 2021, his silver medal is the best result of a Haitian athlete in the Olympics, with only one other medal (bronze) for the Haitian free rifle team in the 1924 Olympics. His wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Vincent Cator
Thomas Vincent Cator (23 March 1888 β 9 April 1931) was an American composer. His most significant achievement was the discovery and use of what he caleed the aura-modal scale. Biography Thomas Vincent Cator was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on March 23, 1888. He was the son of Thomas Vincent Cator Sr. (1851-1920), a lawyer and politician who ran for office for the Populist Party in California in the late 19th century. He had a sister Marie (1883-1968), who became a writer and poet and first married Max Wardall (from 1902 to 1912) and later the famous figure skating couch Gustave Lussi (from 1921 to around 1930). Cator became popular in the late 1910s and 1920s with his songs. A notable story was when renowned singer Eleonora de Cisneros sang his song "The Kiss" in a Liberty Bonds sale in New York City in early 1919 and received 43 million dollars for 43 kisses to bankers. He also invented the ''Aura-Modal Scale'', in which he composed several piano pieces. In 1922, Cator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
