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Hardisty (surname)
Hardisty is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Hardisty (born 1941), British rugby league footballer * Bob Hardisty (1921–1986), British footballer * Charles Hardisty (1885–1968), British cricketer * Dorothy Hardisty (1881–1973), English champion of refugee children *Huntington Hardisty Huntington Hardisty (February 3, 1929 – October 1, 2003) was a United States Navy four star admiral who served as Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO) from 1987 to 1988; and Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Command (USCINCPAC) from 1988 ... (1929–2003), American admiral * Jean Hardisty (1945–2015), American political scientist * Richard Hardisty (1831–1889), Canadian politician * Sarah Hardisty (1924–2014), Dene elder and quillworker See also * Hardisty family, Canadian family of British heritage {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Hardisty
Alan Hardisty (born 12 July 1941), also known by the nickname of "Chuck", is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and coached in the 1970s and 1980s. He played at representative level for Great Britain and Yorkshire, and at club level for Castleford ( captain) and Leeds ( captain) as a , and coached at club level for Castleford and York. Background Alan Hardisty's birth was registered in Pontefract district, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He attended Ashton Road Secondary School (now the site of Smawthorne Henry Moore Primary School), Castleford, where he played alongside Clive Dickinson and Johnny Ward in the school rugby league team. Playing career Castleford Hardisty made his debut for Castleford in September 1958 against Keighley. His first honours with the club came in the 1964–65 season, helping Castleford win the Yorkshire League. Hardisty played in Castleford's 4-0 victory over St. Helens in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Hardisty
John Roderick Elliot "Bob" Hardisty (1 December 1921 – 31 October 1986) was an English amateur footballer who represented Great Britain at the Olympics in 1948, 1952 and 1956, making a total of six appearances. Hardisty spent the majority of his career with Bishop Auckland, winning the Northern League seven times. Hardisty also won the FA Amateur Cup three times between 1955 and 1957. Hardisty also made 6 appearances in the Football League for Darlington between 1946 and 1949. Hardisty briefly came out of retirement in 1958 to play for Manchester United following the Munich air disaster, although he never made a league appearance for them. Hardisty later became a football coach and worked with Matt Busby. He was portrayed by the actor Liam Shannon in the 2011 BBC TV drama United United may refer to: Places * United, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community * United, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Arts and entertainment Films * ''United'' (2003 film), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hardisty
Charles Henry Hardisty (10 December 1885 – 2 March 1968) was an English first-class cricketer, who played thirty eight matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1906 and 1909, and a first-class match for J Bamford's XI in 1908. He also appeared for the Yorkshire Second XI from 1906 to 1910, H Hayley's XI in 1906 and Northumberland in 1911. Born in Horsforth, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, Hardisty was a right-handed batsman, who scored 998 runs at 19.19, with a best of 84 against Leicestershire. He also scored 74 against the Australian tourists. He made five fifties in all, and took 20 catches. He joined Horsforth Hall Park when a boy and played for Leeds from 1906 to 1910. In 1911, he joined the Northumberland club, Jesmond C.C., and spent over 12 years in the North-East, including spells at Consett, Wallsend and Ryton-on-Tyne. He was the professional at Wallsend C.C. in 1921, and returned to Yorkshire to captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Hardisty
Dorothy Hepburn Hardisty , née Jones (1881-1973) was an English civil servant and humanitarian. As General Secretary of the Refugee Children's Movement (RCM) from 1940 until 1948, she worked for the welfare of the Jewish child refugees who had arrived in the Kindertransport. Life Dorothy Hardisty was born on 4 July 1881, the daughter of Francis Jones, who taught at Manchester Grammar School, and Jessie, née Ferguson. She gained a degree at Manchester University before becoming a civil servant, eventually becoming a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Labour. In 1940 she was appointed General Secretary of the Refugee Children's Movement, responsible for ensuring that the ten thousand refugee children had homes, education, training and jobs. While she set up Regional Committees to decentralize the work, she herself kept files on every child and took personal interest in their welfare. She was awarded the MBE Mbe may refer to: * Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo * Mb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huntington Hardisty
Huntington Hardisty (February 3, 1929 – October 1, 2003) was a United States Navy four star admiral who served as Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO) from 1987 to 1988; and Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Command (USCINCPAC) from 1988 to 1991. Hardisty was offered a Major League Baseball contract with the Chicago Cubs but opted for a scholarship to the University of North Carolina. He later transferred to the United States Naval Academy where he played football. After graduation in 1952, he attended pilot training and earned his wings in 1953. As a test pilot in 1961, he set a low level speed record in an F4H-1 Phantom II of 900 miles per hour at 125 feet above the ground, a record which remained unbroken for 16 years.Honolulu Advertiser & Star-Bulletin Obituaries, Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Hardisty
Jean V. Hardisty (June 18, 1945 – March 16, 2015) was a political scientist and lesbian radical feminist activist who became a national resource for human rights movements seeking social and economic justice and an end to bigotry based on race, gender, or class. She was a senior scholar with the Wellesley Centers for Women. Biography Hardisty received her PhD from Northwestern University in Illinois, taught briefly and, in the 1980s, left academia to conduct a study of the anti-feminist women's movement for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. She predicted a massive organized right-wing backlash which saw the rise of the New Right and the election of Ronald Reagan as President in 1980. She then founded the think tank which became Political Research Associates in Massachusetts to study right-wing movements nationwide. She worked as an adviser to the legal team that overturned Colorado Amendment 43. Her study "Constructing Homophobia" was included in her book ''Mobilizi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hardisty
Richard Charles Hardisty (3 March 1831 – 18 October 1889) was a Hudson's Bay Company official at Edmonton and a politician in the Northwest Territories, Canada. He married Eliza McDougall on 21 September 1866 while he was a Hudson's Bay Company employee. He ran as an Independent Conservative in the 1887 Canadian federal election and finished a close second in the Alberta (Provisional District). He lost to Donald Watson Davis. He was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald on 23 February 1888, the first Metis Senator. He died just a year later while fording a river on horseback on October 18, 1889. His replacement in the Senate was Sir James Lougheed, who would marry his niece Belle Hardisty in 1891, and the grandfather of Peter Lougheed. The village of Hardisty, Alberta, is named in his honour, as is Mount Hardisty in Jasper National Park Jasper National Park is a national park in Alberta, Canada. It is the largest national ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Hardisty
Sarah Hardisty (1924–2014) was a Dene elder and quillworker. Early life Hardisty was born Sarah Sanguez on 17 July 1924 in the Jean Marie River (Tthek'éhdélı̨) community in the Dehcho Region of Canada's Northwest Territories. Joseph Sanguez, her grandfather, built the house where she was born and settled the community. Her family spent their summers in Jean Marie River and wintered at Fish Lake. She started sewing at the age of nine and by the time she was 12 she could prepare and tan a moosehide. She had no formal education and earned income selling handmade traditional clothing and moccasins. Family and artwork Sanguez married William Hardisty in 1941. They had 12 children. Hardisty worked in quillwork, beadwork, and embroidery. She specialized in porcupine quillwork and earned a reputation as one of the best sewers in the region. Her work was included in the 1977 exhibition ''Contemporary Art of Canada—the Western Subarctic'' at the Royal Ontario Museum. She was commis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
