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Fyfe
Fyfe is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: People with the given name *Fyfe Dangerfield, (born 1980), English musician * Fyfe Ewing, (born 1970), Northern Irish drummer *Fyfe Robertson (1902–1987), Scottish television journalist People with the surname * David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir (1900–1967) * Iain Fyfe (born 1982), Australian footballer * Iona Fyfe (born 1998), Scottish singer * James Fyfe (1942–2005), American criminologist * Lee Fyfe (1879–1942), baseball umpire * Liz Fyfe (born 1987), Canadian curler * Maria Fyfe (1938–2020), Scottish politician * Nat Fyfe (born 1991), Australian rules footballer * Robert Fyfe (1930–2021), Scottish actor * Theodore Fyfe (1875–1945), Scottish architect * Tom Fyfe (1870–1947), New Zealand mountaineer * William Fyfe (1927–2013), New Zealand geologist * William Patrick Fyfe (born 1955), Canadian serial killer * William Hamilton Fyfe (1878–1965), English and Canadian classi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Fyfe
Nathan Fyfe (born 18 September 1991) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He has served as Fremantle captain since the 2017 season. Fyfe is a dual Brownlow Medallist, dual Leigh Matthews Trophy recipient, three-time All-Australian (including as captain in the 2019 team) and three-time Doig Medallist. He received a nomination for the 2010 AFL Rising Star award in Round 9 of the 2010 season. Early life Fyfe grew up in Lake Grace, Western Australia, and went to school as a boarder at Aquinas College in Perth. In 2009, he played West Australian Football League colts for Claremont, his highlights of the season being his eight-goal, 34 possession effort against East Fremantle and six goals in the Colts Grand Final. In 2010, he made his league debut, kicking 4 goals against Peel Thunder. He was also selected for Western Australia in the 2009 AFL National Under 18 Championships and played fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl Of Kilmuir
David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, (29 May 1900 – 27 January 1967), known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge who combined an industrious and precocious legal career with political ambitions that took him to the offices of Solicitor General, Attorney General, Home Secretary and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. One of the prosecuting counsels at the Nuremberg Trials, he subsequently played a role in drafting the European Convention on Human Rights. As Home Secretary he led a crackdown against homosexuals in the UK in the 1950s, and declined to commute Derek Bentley's death sentence for the murder of a police officer. His political ambitions were ultimately dashed in Harold Macmillan's cabinet reshuffle of July 1962. Early life Born in Edinburgh, the only son of William Thomson Fyfe, Headmaster of Aberdeen Grammar School, by his second wife Isabella ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iona Fyfe
Iona Fyfe (born 16 January 1998) is a Scottish singer from Huntly, Aberdeenshire known for singing Scots folk songs and ballads. In 2016, she was a semi-finalist of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award and, in 2017 and 2021, was a finalist of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician award. In 2018, she won "Scots Singer of the Year" at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. In 2019, she won "Young Scots Speaker o the Year" at the inaugural Scots Language Awards, winning "Scots Performer o the Year" in the 2020 Awards, and "Scots Speaker o the Year" in the 2021 Awards. She has advocated for official recognition of the Scots language, successfully petitioning Spotify to add Scots to their list of languages. Fyfe is a National Director of the Traditional Music and Song Association and serves as a committee member of the Musicians' Union Scotland. Biography Fyfe was born on 16 January 1998 and was raised in Huntly. She started learning poems in the Doric dialect of Scots as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Fyfe
Iain Stuart Fyfe (born 3 April 1982) is a retired Australian A-League professional Football (soccer), footballer. Club career On completion of his SASI program in 2000, Iain joined hometown National Soccer League, NSL club Adelaide City. After just three appearances off the bench in 2000–01, he broke into the Adelaide first team the following season, making 52 appearances in two years before moving to Sydney Olympic FC, Sydney Olympic in 2003. He also earned a call up to the Australia national under-23 football team, Australian Under-23 side for a friendly against Spain national football team, Spain, but it would be the only one. Domestically, his move was positive, becoming a key figure for Olympic, playing all-but-one matches of the 2003–04 season. Scotland Following the collapse of the NSL after that season, Fyfe went overseas and trialled at various clubs, including Scottish Premier League side Hibernian F.C., Hibernian, before signing for Hamilton Academical F.C., Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Fyfe
Elisabeth Fyfe (born May 11, 1987) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She attended the 2016 Scotties Tournament of Hearts as second on Kerri Einarson's Team Manitoba. She was a Canadian Junior Curling Champion having won the 2008 Canadian Junior Championships as a second on the Kaitlyn Lawes team. Fyfe is the daughter of former Brier champion Vic Peters. She currently plays second for Team Chelsea Carey. Career Juniors (2001–2008) As a junior, Fyfe won the Manitoba Junior championships in 2001 with teammates Allison Nimik, Kristin Loder and Lindsay Titheridge. The team finished with a 4–8 record at the 2001 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. Fyfe tied for third best leads at the competition, curling an average 73% in the round robin. She returned to the Canadian Juniors in 2008, playing second for Kaitlyn Lawes. The team finished round-robin with a 10–2 record which qualified them for the final. Manitoba won the final 7-6 which qualified the team for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Fyfe
Maria Fyfe (''née'' O'Neill; 25 November 1938 – 3 December 2020) was a Scottish politician and educator who served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Glasgow Maryhill (UK Parliament constituency), Glasgow Maryhill from 1987 to 2001. She was Minister for Women and Equality, Deputy Shadow Minister for Women from 1988 to 1991, Convener of the Scottish Group of Labour MPs from 1991 to 1992 and Frontbencher, front bench spokesperson for Scotland from 1992 to 1995. Fyfe campaigned for 50-50 representation of women in the Scottish Parliament. Early life She was the daughter of James O'Neill, a clerk, tram driver and shopworker, and Margaret Lacey, a former shop assistant. She was born in Gorbals, Glasgow, and was educated at Notre Dame High School. She became a member of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party in 1960. She returned to education as a mature student, studying Economic History at the University of Strathclyde and graduated in 1975 with a BA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore Fyfe
David Theodore Fyfe (3 November 1875 – 1 January 1945), known simply as Theodore Fyfe, was a Scottish architect. He is widely known as Arthur Evans’s architect during the Knossos (modern history)#Excavation, 1900–1905, first five excavations at the Knossos#Palace complex, Palace of Knossos from 1900 to 1904. Biography Theodore Fyfe was born on 3 November 1875 in the Philippines, second son of James Sloan Fyfe and Jane Charlotte Abercrombie Fyfe. After the deaths of his parents, Fyfe was brought up by his aunt Jane Sloan Fyfe, and uncle John Alexander Fyfe, in Glasgow. He was educated at The Glasgow Academy. In 1890, he became an apprentice of the architect John James Burnet, then Burnet's assistant after completing his apprenticeship. He took classes at the Glasgow School of Art where he was awarded the Haldane Bursary in 1894. He moved to London in 1897 and studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, then at the British School at Athens. In 1899â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Fyfe
Robert Douglas Fyfe (25 September 1930 – 15 September 2021) was a Scottish actor, best known for his role as List of Last of the Summer Wine characters#Other regular characters, Howard in the long-running British sitcom ''Last of the Summer Wine'' from 1985 to 2010. Early life Fyfe was born in Kirkcaldy on 25 September 1930, the son of Douglas Fyfe, a watchmaker, and Mary Fyfe née Irvine. He attended Kirkcaldy High School, before studying English literature at Edinburgh University. He did not complete his degree and instead trained under Esmé Church at the Northern Theatre School in Bradford, graduating in 1954. Whilst studying, he performed in Halifax, West Yorkshire, Halifax, York and Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Scarborough, including appearing in the York Mystery Plays in 1954. Career Fyfe appeared in the films ''Xtro'', ''The 51st State'', ''Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film), Around the World in 80 Days'', ''Gaolbreak'' and ''Babel (film), Babel''. In 2012 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Dixon (musician)
Paul Dixon (born 8 August 1989 in London, England) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was known in the years 2010–2012 as David's Lyre, but is now using the musical project name Fyfe. He picked the name David's Lyre during his university studies in Manchester, in reference to the musical skills of the biblical King David with the lyre. He was featured by ''The Guardian'' as 'New band of the day' in 2010, by which time he had received attention for cover versions (of Ellie Goulding among others), remixes of other artists – notably, Marina and the Diamonds and Everything Everything – and had himself been remixed by producers The Last Skeptik and JaKwob. His debut EP release in 2011, ''In Arms'', was described as "promising" by BBC reviewer Mike Diver, and drew comparisons with Patrick Wolf for its blend of folk and electronic instruments. A music video was released for "In Arms", using a short film animation which fitted the song. Dixon had signed a record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyfe Dangerfield
Fyfe Antony Dangerfield Hutchins (born 7 July 1980) is an English musician and songwriter, best known as the founding member of the indie rock band Guillemots. Early life Born in Moseley, Birmingham, in 1980, he moved to Bromsgrove at the age of eight. He studied at Bromsgrove School where he was also the singer in the band Senseless Prayer. He was also a music teacher at Cranbrook College for a brief period. Career Compositions Dangerfield composed a choral piece performed at The Lichfield Festival in 2000 – a setting of Christina Rossetti's "A Better Resurrection". This led to a commission from Ex Cathedra Chamber Choir to write a choral setting of one of the 'O Antiphons' for Ex Cathedra's Christmas Music by Candlelight concert in 2000. This has been performed many times since, was included on Ex Cathedra's Christmas Music by Candlelight CD which received some glowing reviews, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. In 2002, Dangerfield was commission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hamilton Fyfe
Sir William Hamilton Fyfe (9 July 1878 – 13 June 1965) was an English and Canadian classics scholar, educator, and educational administrator. He served as the 10th Principal of Queen's University, Ontario, from 1930 to 1936, and was the first layman to hold that position. He served as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen from 1936 to 1948. He was knighted in 1942. Life William Hamilton Fyfe was born in Kensington, London in 1878. He attended Fettes College in Edinburgh, Scotland. He then went on to Merton College, Oxford, where he graduated with a double first in Classics. He taught at Radley College from 1901 to 1903. He then returned to Merton to teach for 15 years. He married Dorothea Hope Geddes White in 1908; the couple had three children, Maurice, Margaret, and Christopher. During World War I, he served as a major with the British Intelligence Department of the War Office. In 1919 he was appointed headmaster of Christ's Hospital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyfe Ewing
Fyfe Alexander Ewing (born 1 November 1970), is best known as the original drummer and founding member of rock band Therapy?. Therapy? In 1989, while playing drums in a punk covers band at a charity gig in Jordanstown, Ewing met Andy Cairns and subsequently formed Therapy? with Cairns on guitar and Michael McKeegan on bass. Ewing and Cairns would share lead vocal duties. In his near seven-year spell with the million selling outfit, Ewing recorded three full-length albums, two mini-albums and numerous EP's (as well as featuring heavily on two compilation albums and a box set following his departure) before leaving the band in January 1996. The official Therapy? press release stated: :'' Therapy? have parted company with drummer Fyfe Ewing. The split is totally amicable, Ewing being unable to cope with the rigours of touring. With Therapy? about to embark on a 5 month US tour to coincide with the release of "Infernal Love" in America, a parting of ways was mutually agreed".'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
