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Herriot Museum
Herriot is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Édouard Herriot (1872–1957), French politician *James Herriot (1916–1995), British veterinary surgeon and writer * Jim Herriot (born 1939), Scottish footballer * John George Herriot (1916–2003), mathematician Fictional characters: *Zoe Herriot, character in ''Doctor Who'' See also *Heriot (other) Heriot or Heriots may refer to: *Old English for "war-gear", see Anglo-Saxon weaponry *Heriot, the English term used for the tenurial relief in feudal Europe, in French known as ''le droit du meilleur catel'' *Heriot, Scottish Borders, a town ... * Herriott {{surname, Herriot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard Herriot
Édouard Marie Herriot (; 5 July 1872 – 26 March 1957) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister (1924–1925; 1926; 1932) and twice as President of the Chamber of Deputies. He led the first Cartel des Gauches. Under the Fourth Republic, he served as President of the National Assembly until 1954. An historian by occupation, Herriot was elected to the Académie Française's eighth seat in 1946. Life Hérriot was born at Troyes, France on 5 July 1872. He served as Mayor of Lyon from 1905 until his death, except for a brief period from 1940 to 1945, when he was exiled to Germany for opposing the Vichy regime. As mayor, Herriot improved relations between municipal government and local unions, increased public assistance funds, and began an urban renewal programme, amongst other measures. He died in Lyon on 26 March 1957. He is buried at the Loyasse Cemetery. Herriot's First Ministry, 14 June 1924 – 17 April 1925 *Édo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Herriot
James Alfred Wight (3 October 1916 – 23 February 1995), better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author. Born in Sunderland, Wight graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939, returning to England to become a Veterinarian, veterinary surgeon in Yorkshire, where he practised for almost 50 years. He is best known for writing a series of eight books set in the 1930s–1950s Yorkshire Dales about veterinary practice, animals, and their owners, which began with ''If Only They Could Talk'', first published in 1970. Over the decades, the series of books has sold some 60 million copies. The All Creatures Great and Small (franchise), franchise based on his writings was very successful. In addition to the books, there have been several television and film adaptations of Wight's books, including the 1975 film ''All Creatures Great and Small (film), All Creatures Great and Small''; a All Creatures Great and Small (1978 TV series), BBC telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Herriot
James Herriot (born 20 December 1939) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for clubs in Scotland, England and South Africa. Herriot represented both Scotland and the Scottish League XI. Career Herriot was an apprentice bricklayer playing part-time for Junior club Douglasdale before he joined Dunfermline Athletic in 1958. He became the ''Pars'' established number 1 when Eddie Connachan left for Middlesbrough in 1963. Herriot adopted the American Football technique of applying boot polish under and around his eyes to reduce the effects of glare from the sun. Herriot helped Dunfermline reach the 1965 Scottish Cup Final, which they lost 3–2 to Celtic. Herriot was transferred to Birmingham City for £18,000 in 1965. He was a fixture in the City side during the next four-and-a-half years and eventually gained international recognition. He made his Scotland debut in October 1968, in a 1–0 defeat by Denmark in a friendly in Copenhagen, and played a further ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John George Herriot
John George Herriot (1916 – 16 March 2003) was a mathematician at Stanford University who worked on numerical analysis. Herriot received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1941. He was a professor of mathematics and then of computer science at Stanford University from 1946 until his retirement in 1982. From 1953 to 1961 he was director of the Stanford Computation Center. Selected publications *Cesà ro summability of ordinary double Dirichlet series. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (1940) Part 1: 920–929. *Nörlund summability of double Fourier series. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 52 (1942) 72–94. "Blockage Corrections for Three-Dimensional-Flow Closed-Throat Wind Tunnels, With Consideration of the Effect of Compressibility."(1947). *with Stefan Bergman Stefan Bergman (5 May 1895 – 6 June 1977) was a Congress Poland-born American mathematician whose primary work was in complex analysis. His name is also written Bergmann; he dropped the second "n" when he came to the U. S. He is be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Herriot
Zoe Heriot (sometimes spelled Zoe Herriot) is a fictional character played by Wendy Padbury in the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. A young astrophysicist who lived on a space wheel in the 21st century, she was a companion of the Second Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1968 to 1969. Character history Zoe first appears in the serial ''The Wheel in Space'', where she is the librarian on board Space Station W3, also known as the Wheel. When the Cybermen attack, she aids the Doctor and Jamie in defeating them before stowing away aboard the TARDIS. In David Whitaker's script for ''The Wheel in Space'', Zoe's last name is spelled "Heriot", but the double-"r" misspelling is also seen in reference works. Zoe's age is not given in the series, but according to initial publicity she was fifteen when she joined the TARDIS crew. She holds a degree in pure mathematics and is a genius, with intelligence scores comparable to the Doctor's. Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heriot (other)
Heriot or Heriots may refer to: *Old English for "war-gear", see Anglo-Saxon weaponry *Heriot, the English term used for the tenurial relief in feudal Europe, in French known as ''le droit du meilleur catel'' *Heriot, Scottish Borders, a town in the Scottish Borders *Heriot, New Zealand, a township in the South Island of New Zealand *George Heriot (1563–1624), a Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist * George Heriot (artist) (1759 – 22 July 1839), a Scottish-Canadian artist *George Heriot's School, a school he founded in Edinburgh *Heriot's Rugby Club, originally for former pupils of the school * Heriot-Watt University, also named for George Heriot *Heryot, an unidentified poet attested in William Dunbar's ''Lament for the Makaris "I that in Heill wes and Gladnes", also known as "The Lament for the Makaris", is a poem in the form of a danse macabre by the Scottish poet William Dunbar. Every fourth line repeats the Latin refrain '' timor mortis conturbat me'' (fear of deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
