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Fawcett (surname)
Fawcett is an English language, English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *A. Chase Fawcett (1863–1934), Canadian politician. *Benjamin Fawcett (1808–1893), English woodblock colour printer *Brian Fawcett (1944–2022), Canadian poet and novelist *Cesar Fawcett (born 1983), Colombian footballer *Charles Fawcett (historian), British historian *Charles Bungay Fawcett (1883–1952), British geographer *Charles Fernley Fawcett (1915–2008), U.S. soldier, actor, and co-founder of the International Medical Corps *Charlotte Johnson Wahl, Charlotte Fawcett (1942–2021), British artist, mother of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson *David Fawcett (born 1963), Australian politician *Edward Douglas Fawcett (1866-1960), English mountaineer, philosopher and novelist *Eric Fawcett (1927–2000), British-Canadian physicist *Farrah Fawcett (1947–2009), U.S. actress *Henry Fawcett (1833–1884), British economist and politician * James Farish Malcolm Fawcett (after 1918), Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Fawcett
Joseph Fawcett (c. 1758 – 24 January 1804) was an 18th-century English Presbyterian minister and poet. Fawcett began his education at Reverend French's school in Ware, Hertfordshire and in 1774 entered the dissenting academy at Daventry. At the school, he practiced his preaching on thorn bushes. In 1780 Fawcett was called to be the morning preacher at Marsh Street Presbyterian Chapel in Walthamstow, east of London. His adoption of Unitarianism led to a schism in the congregation and he resigned in 1787. On 23 September 1782, Fawcett married the daughter of his schoolteacher, Charlotte French. In 1785 he began a series of Sunday evening lectures at the Old Jewry meeting house in the City of London. This series established Fawcett as one of the most popular Dissenting preachers of the time. He supposedly drew "the largest and most genteel London audience that ever assembled in a dissenting place of worship". He appealed to a broad audience, including Anglicans, actors such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Fawcett
''Life of Riley'' is a British comedy television series, shown on BBC One and BBC HD. The show stars Caroline Quentin and Neil Dudgeon as a recently married couple, and is set around their dysfunctional family. The show also features the couple's four children, Danny (Taylor Fawcett), Katy (Lucinda Dryzek), Ted (Patrick Nolan), and Rosie (Ava and Neve Lamb). After three series the show was cancelled. It is not to be confused with ''The Life of Riley'', a 1940s–1950s radio show, or with a 1950s American television series which starred William Bendix as Chester A. Riley. Airing The first episode aired on 8 January 2009, and was shown on Thursdays at 8:00pm on BBC One. Each episode of ''Life of Riley'' also aired in high-definition on BBC HD. Series 2 was shown on Wednesdays at 7:30pm from 17 March 2010. Series 3 was shown on Wednesdays at 8:30pm from 13 April 2011. Development The six episode series was commissioned by Lucy Lumsden, BBC Controller, Comedy Commissioning. The sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Fawcett
Sarah Fawcett is a South African oceanographer and climatologist. A senior lecturer in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Cape Town, she is particularly interested in the role of oceans in regulating biogeochemical cycles and how their dysregulation contributes to climate change. She was honoured in the World Economic Forum Young Scientists Class of 2020, and a P-Rating from the National Research Foundation, which recognizes that the scientist's work will likely have high impact. Early life Fawcett was born in Benoni, Gauteng, and attended Benoni High School. She went on to study Earth and planetary science at Harvard University (2006) and completed a PhD at Princeton (2012) where she later held a postdoctoral fellowship (2012-2015). Career In 2015, Fawcett was appointed a lecturer in oceanography at the University of Cape Town. She has worked to build up a diverse research group, aware of the discrimination still faced by female scientists. From 2016, she ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Fawcett
Ruth Fawcett (born 13 April 1961 in Malvern, England) is the daughter of British-Canadian physicist Eric Fawcett, and the sister-in-law of historian Roger Sarty. She is the author of ''Nuclear Pursuits'', the biography of Canadian nuclear-industry pioneer Wilfrid Bennett Lewis. Fawcett currently lives with her family in Ottawa, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot .... Her second cousin, Samuel Fawcett, is a NOVA teacher in Osaka, Japan. Bibliography * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fawcett, Ruth 1961 births Living people English biographers People from Malvern, Worcestershire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Fawcett
Ron Fawcett (born 6 May 1955) is a British rock climber and rock climbing author who is credited with pushing the technical standards of British rock climbing in traditional, sport, bouldering and free soloing disciplines, in the decade from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, and of pioneering the career of being a full-time professional rock climber. At the end of the 1970s to the early 1980s, Fawcett was widely considered the best and most notable rock climber in Britain. Climbing career Fawcett is considered as a legend of British rock climbing, and a prolific developer of challenging new routes that attracted international recognition. By the start of the 1980s, Fawcett was considered the most famous rock climber in Britain, with a reputation for high levels of fitness and mental fortitude. He produced bold routes that embraced both traditional climbing and early sport climbing techniques, and that are still considered test-pieces for rock climbers. Fawcett's dominance of Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quinn Fawcett
Quinn Fawcett is the pen name of a pair of authors, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Bill Fawcett (writer), Bill Fawcett, who also write separately. Among their collaborations are a series of mysteries featuring Victoire Vernet, fictional wife of one of Napoleon I, Napoleon's generals; a series featuring Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft Holmes, Mycroft; and a series fictionalizing the espionage experiences of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Bibliography Mme. Vernet books *''Napoleon Must Die'' (1993, ) *''Death Wears a Crown'' (1993, ) Mycroft Holmes books *''Against The Brotherhood'' (1997, ) *''Embassy Row'' (1998, ) *''The Flying Scotsman'' (1999, ) *''The Scottish Ploy'' (2000, ) Ian Fleming books *''Death to Spies'' (2002, ) *''Siren Song'' (2003, ) *''Honor Among Spies'' (2004, ) References 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American crime fiction writers Collective pseudonyms {{US-novelist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippa Fawcett
Philippa Garrett Fawcett (4 April 1868 – 10 June 1948) was an English mathematician and educationalist. She was the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams. She taught at Newnham College, Cambridge, and at the normal school (teacher training college) in Johannesburg, and she became an administrator for the London County Council. Family Philippa Garrett Fawcett was born on 4 April 1868, the daughter of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett (née Garrett) and Henry Fawcett MP, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge and Postmaster General in William Ewart Gladstone, Gladstone's Premierships of William Ewart Gladstone#Second government (1880–1885), second government. Her aunt was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first English female doctor. When her father died, she and her mother went to live with Millicent's sister Agnes Garrett, who had set up an interior design business on Gower Street, London, Gower Street, Bloomsbury. Education Phili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Fawcett
Percy Harrison Fawcett (18 August 1867 during or after 1925) was a British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist, and explorer of South America. Fawcett disappeared in 1925 (along with his eldest son, Jack, and one of Jack's friends, Raleigh Rimell) during an expedition to find " Z"—his name for an ancient lost city which he and others believed existed in the jungles of Brazil. Life Early life Percy Fawcett was born on 18 August 1867 in Torquay, Devon, England, to Edward Boyd Fawcett and Myra Elizabeth (née MacDougall). Fawcett received his early education at Newton Abbot Proprietary College, alongside the sportsman and journalist Bertram Fletcher Robinson. Fawcett's father, who had been born in India, was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), while his elder brother, Edward Douglas Fawcett (1866–1960), was a mountain climber, an Eastern occultist, and the author of philosophical books and popular adventure novels. Fawcett attended t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novice Gail Fawcett
Novice Gail Fawcett (March 29, 1909 – June 19, 1998) was an American academic administrator who served as the 8th president of Ohio State University from 1956 to 1972. Early life and education Fawcett was born in Gambier, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in science and mathematics from Kenyon College in 1931 and a Master of Education from Ohio State University in 1937. He took courses toward a PhD but did not complete the degree. Career A teacher and coach, Fawcett was superintendent of Gambier Public Schools (1934–1938), Defiance Schools (1938–1943), Bexley Schools (1943–47), assistant superintendent in Akron Public Schools (1947–1949), and superintendent of Columbus City Schools in 1949. Legacy The Fawcett Center at Ohio State University and Fawcett Hall at Wright State University Wright State University is a public research university in Fairborn, Ohio. Originally opened in 1964 as a branch campus of Miami University and Ohio State University, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Fawcett
Norman Edward Fawcett (July 29, 1910 – January 26, 1997) was a Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Nickel Belt in the House of Commons of Canada from 1965 to 1968. He was a member of the New Democratic Party of Canada. He was born in Adanac, Saskatchewan. He later settled in Capreol, Ontario, where he worked as a railway conductor and a union activist before entering municipal politics, serving as a municipal councillor and deputy mayor beginning in 1962.The Late Norman Fawcett: Oral Statement by Bill Blaikie '''', February 5, 1997. Fawcett won a 1965 |
Nicole Fawcett
Nicole Marie Fawcett (born December 16, 1986) is an American indoor volleyball player who won the 2014 World Championship and 2015 Pan American Games gold medal with the United States national team. Fawcett played for Penn State University from 2005–2008, winning two NCAA national championships in 2007 and 2008. During her collegiate career, Fawcett was a four-time All-American and racked up many honors, including the American Volleyball Coaches Association National Player of the Year in 2008, National Freshman of the Year in 2005, and the Honda Sports Award winner for volleyball in 2008. She played professionally for Gigantes de Carolina (The Carolina Giants) in Liga de Voleibol Superior Femenino, Puerto Rico's pro league in 2009. Fawcett set the most points in a single match world record, scoring 55 points while playing for the Seongnam KEC Hi-pass club in South Korea's V-League on February 14, 2013. High school and early life Nicole Fawcett was born in San Anton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
