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Chater
Chater may refer to: People *Arthur Reginald Chater (1896–1979), Royal Marines general *Dan Chater (1870–1959), British politician * David Chater (born 1953), British broadcast journalist * Elizabeth Chater (1910–2004), Canadian author of novels and poetry *Eos Chater (born 1976), Welsh violinist *Geoffrey Chater (1921–2021), English actor *Gordon Chater (1922–1999), Australian actor and comedian *Hilda Chater (1874–1968), Irish and English chess master *James Chater (born 1951), British composer and musicologist * John W. Chater, 19th-century English publisher, printer and bookseller *Kamel Chater (born 1972), Tunisian boxer *Keith Chater (born 1944), British microbiologist *Kerry Chater (born 1945), Canadian musician and songwriter *Paul Chater (1846–1926), British businessman in Hong Kong *Shirley Chater (born 1932), American nurse, educational administrator and government official *Tony Chater (1929–2016), British former newspaper editor and communist activist *Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Reginald Chater
Major General Arthur Reginald Chater (7 February 1896 – 3 January 1979) was an officer in the Royal Marines during the First World War, the interwar years, and Second World War. Military career Chater was commissioned into the Royal Marines Light Infantry in 1913. He served in the First World War and saw action at Antwerp with the Chatham Battalion of the Royal Marine Brigade in 1914. He fought on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey from 28 April to 12 May 1915, and in March 1918 he participated in the Allied raid on Zeebrugge. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in July 1918, the citation for which appeared in '' The Edinburgh Gazette'' and reads as follows: During the interwar period Chater served with the Egyptian Army and the Sudan Camel Corps. He became Commanding Officer of the Sudan Camel Corps in 1927, Commander of military operations in Kordofan in Sudan in 1929 and Senior Royal Marines Officer at the East Indies Station in 1931. He served in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamel Chater
Kamel Chater (born 7 April 1972) is a welterweight boxer from Tunisia, who twice won the gold medal at the All-Africa Games The African Games, formally known as the All-Africa Games or the Pan African Games, are a continental multi-sport event held every four years, organized by the African Union with the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa and the ... in his weight division. He is a two-time Olympian (1996 and 2000). External linkssports-reference 1972 births Living people Welterweight boxers Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers for Tunisia Tunisian male boxers African Games gold medalists for Tunisia African Games gold medalists in boxing Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Tunisia Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing Boxers at the 1995 All-Africa Games Boxers at the 1999 All-Africa Games Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games 20th-century Tunisian sportsmen 21st-century Tuni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Chater
Veronica Chater is an American author and memoirist. Chater wrote a memoir of her childhood, ''Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family'', highlighting her father's obsession with traditional Catholicism The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ... and belief in a coming holy chastisement, and her ever-growing family's consequential spiral into poverty. Chater was one of nine children; She currently lives in Berkeley, California. See also * Atheist Film Festival References American women memoirists Date of birth missing (living people) Living people American biographers Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women Memoirists from California {{US-bio-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Chater
Anthony Philip John "Tony" Chater (21 December 1929 – 2 August 2016) was a British newspaper editor and Communist activist. Early life Born in Northampton, Chater attended Northampton Town and County Grammar School, and joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) whilst in the sixth form. Chater then studied at Queen Mary, University of London in London, gaining a first (BSc, 1951) and a PhD in chemistry in 1954. After a two years post-doctoral research fellowship at the Dominion Experimental Farm, Canada, and a year at Brussels University studying biochemistry, he returned to Britain to teach, initially at Northampton Technical High School, later Blyth Grammar School, Norwich, and from 1960 at the Luton College of Technology where he remained until 1969.Graham Stevenson,Chater Tony, ''Compendium of Communist Biographies'' He stood in the 1963 Luton by-election as a CPGB candidate, but was placed last gaining only 593 votes. Despite this, he stood in Luton again in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Chater
Shirley Sears Chater (born July 30, 1932) is an American nurse, educational administrator and government official who served as the 12th commissioner of the Social Security Administration from 1993 until 1997. In the 1970s and 1980s, Chater held faculty appointments in nursing and education at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively. She worked as an administrator at UCSF and then worked for two national education councils. Chater was president of Texas Woman's University from 1986 to 1993. She left TWU to serve as Commissioner of Social Security from 1993 to 1997. She helped the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation develop the Executive Nurse Fellows program. Chater was named a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing in 2000. Early life Born on July 30, 1932, in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, Chater received an undergraduate degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania. After finishing her nursing degree, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Chater
Sir Catchick Paul Chater (; ; 8 September 1846 – 27 May 1926) was a prominent British businessman of Armenians, Armenian descent in colonial Hong Kong, whose family roots were in Kolkata, Calcutta, India. Biography Early life Chater was born Khachik Pogose Astwachatoorean () in Calcutta, British India, one of thirteen offspring of Armenians, Armenian parents, Miriam and Chater Paul Chater. His father was a member of the Indian Civil Service (British India), Indian civil service. Chater was orphaned at the age of seven, and he gained entry into the La Martiniere Calcutta, La Martiniere College in Calcutta on a scholarship. In 1864, he moved to Hong Kong from Calcutta and lived with the family of his sister Anna and her husband, the Armenian-born Jordan Paul Jordan (1820–1875). Career In the early days in Hong Kong, he was an assistant at the Bank of Hindustan, China and Japan. Later, with the aid of the Sassoon family, he set up business as an exchange broker, resigned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Chater
Kerry Michael Chater (August 7, 1945 – February 4, 2022) was a Canadian musician and songwriter who was best known as a member of Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. He was also a successful Nashville songwriter for many years. Career Chater was born on August 7, 1945, in Vancouver, British Columbia. A bass player, in the mid-'60s he joined a band called The Progressives with Doug Ingle (keyboards), Gary 'Mutha' Whitem (sax) and Danny Weis (guitar). The Progressives eventually became part of Jeri and the Jeritones and then Palace Pages by 1965, after Jeri married Kerry. By 1966, Ingle, and Weis went off to form Iron Butterfly and Chater and Whitem joined The Outcasts with their friend Gary Puckett and others; this eventually became The Union Gap, which was signed by Columbia Records in 1967. Over the next two years the band had four songs in the top 10. Chater did much of the arranging for the live shows, wrote or co-wrote some of the album cuts and b-sides, and on rare occasion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Chater
Keith Frederick Chater FRS (born 23 April 1944) is a British microbiologist, formerly head of the departments of Genetics and Molecular Microbiology at the John Innes Centre. He has held honorary professorships at the University of East Anglia, Huazhong Agricultural University, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Microbiology. Career Chater studied for a PhD at the University of Birmingham working on the genetics of methionine biosynthesis in ''Salmonella''. Career and research He joined the John Innes Centre in 1969 and began working with David Hopwood. His group studied the complex life cycle of ''Streptomyces'', and developed ''bacteriophage'' ɸC31 - based cloning vectors used to isolate ''Streptomyces'' genes. He was also involved in comparative genomics Comparative genomics is a branch of biological research that examines genome sequences across a spectrum of species, spanning from humans and mice to a diverse array of organisms from bacteria to chimpanze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John W
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died ), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (died ), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John (disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Chater
Daniel Chater (17 November 1870 – 25 May 1959) was a British Labour and Co-operative politician. Early life and career Daniel Chater was born in Lambeth, London, on 17 November 1870 into a working-class family. After leaving school he worked as a clerk on the London Stock Exchange for more than 30 years. Chater was a member of the Co-operative movement, eventually becoming chairman of the Co-operative Political Committee. He was also a member of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers and was an active trades union worker for 25 years before becoming a Member of Parliament in 1929. He lost his last job at the Stock Exchange because of his socialist views. During the First World War he was actively involved in the movement for the production of the nation's food at home. Political career In both the 1923 general election and the 1924 general election Chater stood for parliament as the Labour candidate for Ilford Ilford is a large List of areas of London, to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Chater
James Chater is a British composer and musicologist born in Henley-on-Thames in 1951. He studied music at the University of Oxford, taking the BA in 1973 and the D.Phil. in 1980. His thesis, ''Luca Marenzio and the Italian Madrigal, 1577–1593'', was published as a book (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press) in 1981. He is the author of many articles on secular music in Italy in the late 16th century; these have appeared in ''Early Music'', the ''Journal of American Musicology'', ''Journal of Musicology'', ''Music & Letters'', ''The Musical Times'', ''Notes'', the ''Rivista italiana di musicologia'', ''Il saggiatore musicale'', ''Studi musicali'' and other periodicals and Festschrifts. In his writings several previously anonymous madrigal texts are identified, and the intimate ties between poets, musicians and patrons are explored. Chater was a Fellow of thHarvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti, Florence) from 1981–82. From 1982 to 1986 James Chater taught histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilda Chater
Hilda Florence Chater (28 August 1874 – 27 November 1968) was an English and Irish chess player, Irish Women's Chess Championship four-times winner. Biography Hilda Chater was active in Cornwall chess in the 1920s and 1930s. She was a member of the Cornwall County Chess Association. Hilda Chater represented the Cornwall County in correspondence chess and over the board chess tournaments. In 1928 and 1929 she twice won premier Cornwall County individual chess tournament. In 1939 Hilda Chater first time participated in British Women's Chess Championship in which she played several more times. Her best result in British Women's Chess Championship was 4th place in 1951. In 1950 Hilda Chater went to live in Belfast Belfast (, , , ; from ) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel .... In 1954, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
