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Driver (surname)
Driver is a surname of German origin, which referred to someone from the ancient Celtic tribes, Celtic tribe of Treveri who once inhabited the lower valley of the Moselle (river), Moselle between France, Belgium and Germany. The name was originally ''Trever'' and has other variants such as Treviri, Triver, Trevor, or Trier (other), Trier. In England, it is an occupational surname meaning the driver of horses or oxen attached to a cart or plough, or of loose cattle. It is recorded since the thirteenth century. List of People with the surname Driver * Alfred Carter (cricketer), Australian Rules footballer who played for four seasons (1888–1891) under the assumed surname "Driver" * Adam Driver (born 1983), American actor * Alexander Gooch and Alice Driver (both died 1558), English Protestant martyrs * Andrew Driver (born 1987), English footballer * Arthur Driver (1909–1981), Australian engineer, army officer, and public servant * Betty Driver (1920–2011), English singer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celtic Tribes
This is a list of Celtic tribes, organized in order of the likely ethnolinguistic kinship of the peoples and tribes. In Classical antiquity, Celts were a large number and a significant part of the population in many regions of Western Europe, Southern Central Europe, the British Isles and parts of the Balkans, in Europe, and also Central Asia Minor or Anatolia. Ancestors *Proto-Indo-Europeans (Proto-Indo-European speakers) **Proto-Celts (Proto-Celtic speakers) Continental Celts Continental Celts were the Celtic peoples that inhabited mainland Europe. In the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, Celts inhabited a large part of mainland Western Europe and large parts of Western Southern Europe (Iberian peninsula), southern Central Europe and some regions of the Balkans and Anatolia. They were most of the population in Gallia, today's France, Switzerland, possibly Belgica – far Northern France, Belgium and far Southern Netherlands, large parts of Hispania, i.e. Iberian Peninsula – Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfrey Rolles Driver
Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver (20 August 1892 – 22 April 1975), known as G. R. Driver, was an English Orientalist noted for his studies of Semitic languages and Assyriology.J. A. Emerton, 'Driver, Sir Godfrey Rolles (1892–1975)'. In ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004. He is considered the "most distinguished British Hebraist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries". Life Driver was born in Oxford, England, son of the noted English biblical scholar Samuel Rolles Driver, and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, (1911–1915) where he won the Pusey and Ellerton and Senior Kennicott Hebrew Scholarships and the Gaisford Prize for Greek prose (1913) and for Greek verse (1916). After serving in World War I, with tasks as varied as hospital work, postal censorship, and intelligence, in 1919, he was named fellow and classical tutor in Magdalen College, Oxford. He remained at Oxford for his entire car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Driver
Ryan Craig Driver (born 30 April 1979) is an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Worcestershire and Lancashire around the turn of the 21st century. He has captained the Jersey cricket team. Driver was born in Truro, Cornwall, and made his first List A appearance for his home-county club against Warwickshire in the 1996 NatWest Trophy. It proved a disappointing opening to his career in senior cricket, as he was run out for nought. He also played a few minor games for Cornwall that season, as well as appearing several times for Derbyshire's Second XI and once for Somerset's seconds. In 1997 he joined Worcestershire, but playing a handful of second-team games whilst also at Durham University, ending his three years of study and cricket as Durham University's Sportsman of the Year. He was also selected for British Universities. 1998 brought him his first-class debut against Durham, making 5 and 0, and had to wait until the middle of 1999 for another chance. In thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Driver
Rodney David Driver (July 1, 1932 – January 16, 2022) was a British-born American mathematician known for research on differential equations, and a former Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives. Between 1987 and 1995 he represented the towns of Richmond and Exeter in district 52. He was reelected on November 4, 2008, and represented the 39th District consisting of parts of Richmond, Exeter, and Charlestown from January 6, 2009, to January 4, 2011. Education and early career Driver was born in London, England, on July 1, 1932, to William and Marjorie Driver. Rod was a U.S. citizen from birth via his father's citizenship. He and his family lived in London during the Battle of Britain and The Blitz beginning in 1940 but were fortunate in surviving the bombardment and widespread destruction of the city during the war. Shortly after V-E Day in 1945, the Driver family was able to travel to the United States where they established residency in Minneapolis, Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Driver
Richard Driver (junior) (16 September 1829 – 8 July 1880) was a Sydney solicitor, politician and cricket administrator. Driver was born in Cabramatta, New South Wales, son of Richard Driver, hotel-keeper, and his wife Elizabeth, née Powell. In 1859, he became a solicitor for the Sydney City Council and also carried out a practice in the Sydney police court. Driver unsuccessfully contested three seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1858 and was defeated again for East Sydney in 1859, but won West Macquarie in 1860 and held it to 1869. He was the member for Carcoar from 1869 to 1872 and Windsor from 1872 to his death in 1880. He generally supported Henry Parkes, but turned down an offer of to be made minister of mines in 1872. He became Secretary for Lands in Parkes' 1877 government and as a cricket lover he provided £700 for improvements to the Sydney Cricket Ground and vested the ground in trustees in 1879, including himself as the representative of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy Driver
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Paddy may refer to: People *Paddy (given name), a list of people with the given name or nickname *An ethnic slur for an Irishman Birds *Paddy (pigeon), a Second World War carrier pigeon *Snowy sheathbill or paddy, a bird species *Black-faced sheathbill, also known as the paddy bird Entertainment * ''Paddy'' (film), a 1970 Irish comedy *Paddy Kirk, a fictional character in the British soap opera ''Emmerdale'' Other uses *Paddy field, a type of cultivated land *Paddy (unmilled rice) *Paddy mail, a train for construction workers *Paddy Whiskey, a liquor See also *Patty (other) * Paddi (other) *Padi (other) Padi, PADI or Pa Di may refer to: * Padi, Chennai, India, a locality and neighbourhood in the city of Chennai ** Padi railway station * Padi, Iran, a village * Padi Boyd, American astrophysicist * Padi Richo, Indian politician * Padi (band), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Driver
Oliver Driver (born 22 November 1974) is a New Zealand actor, director, broadcaster and television presenter. Television Driver was the host of ''Let's Be Frank'', and the Creative Director of New Zealand's only alternative music television station, ALT TV, The channel is now no longer on air. He co-hosted TV3's early morning news show ''Sunrise'', which was cancelled on 8 April 2010. Driver played Mike Galloway, a pot smoking nurse on the long-running New Zealand drama ''Shortland Street'' as well as starring in a comedy called ''Serial Killers'', which was based on the lives of six storyliners working on a Shortland Street style hospital based soap. For three years he hosted the TVNZ arts programme ''Frontseat''. Driver returned to ''Shortland Street'' in the 2010s as a co-producer and director for numerous episodes. He finished a three-year contract in 2008 of voicing advertisements for The Warehouse, a nationwide retail store in New Zealand. Driver is known outside of N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Walters
Nancy Walters (born Nancy Driver on June 26, 1933 – September 29, 2009) was an American model, actress and minister. Early years Walters was born in Mount Plymouth, Florida, and brought up near Mount Plymouth and Zellwood, Florida. A bone infection that was incurred when she was four years old prevented her from standing until her teenage years. When she was seven years old, she spent eight months in a hospital for treatment of the infection. After she finished high school, she went to secretarial school and took a business law class, both of which were in line with her plans to be a lawyer's secretary. Career Her career in modeling included appearances in magazines, including ''Glamour (magazine), Glamour'', Vogue (magazine), ''Vogue'', ''Harper's Bazaar'', and Mademoiselle (magazine), ''Mademoiselle''. In 1955, Walters left modeling and began working on the NBC game show ''The Big Payoff''. In 1958 she was also on the CBS show ''Strike It Rich (radio-TV), Strike It Rich' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
