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Hitchen
Hitchen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Brian Hitchen (1936–2013), British publisher and newspaper editor * Cedric Hitchen (1905–1975), English cricketer and chemist * Charles Hitchen (c. 1675 – 1727), English mobster * Steve Hitchen (born 1976), English footballer *Trevor Hitchen (born 1926), English footballer and manager *William Thomas Hitchen During World War I, recruitment marches or snowball marches to state capital cities were a feature of volunteer recruiting drives for the Australian Imperial Force in rural Australia. Between October 1915 and February 1916, nine marches were h ..., Australian Army soldier See also * Hitchens {{surname, Hitchen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hitchen
Charles Hitchen, also mentioned as Charles Hitchin in other sources, (''c.'' 1675 – 1727) was a "thief-taker" (private policeman) and under-marshal of the City of London in the early 18th century, also, famously tried for homosexual acts and sodomitical offences. Alongside his former assistant and then a major rival Jonathan Wild, against whom he later published a pamphlet (The Regulator) and contributed to his sentencing to death, Hitchen blackmailed and bribed people and establishments irrespective of their reputation, suspicious or respectable. Despite the disgrace of the people he earned through his abusive exercising of his power, he remained in power and continued fighting against violent crime, especially after the ending of the war of the Spanish Succession and until 1727. Widely known for his homosexual activities and considerably nicknamed as ''Madam'' or ''Your Ladyship,'' Hitchen publicly condemned this crime and even raided so called Molly houses being a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Hitchen
Brian Hitchen, CBE (8 July 1936 – 2 December 2013) was a British newspaper editor. Late in his career, he worked as a publisher.Obituary: Brian Hitchen telegraph.co.uk, 3 December 2013 Hitchen began his career with the ''Daily Despatch'' in Manchester as a copyboy, and then joined the ''Bury Times'' as a trainee reporter a year later. His followed in which he served in the Parachute Regiment during 1954–56. |
Cedric Hitchen
Cedric Hitchen (3 July 1905 – 21 May 1975) was an English first-class cricketer and chemist. The son of Elias Hitchen and Betsy Halstead, he was born at Todmorden in July 1905. He was educated at Todmorden Secondary School, from there he studied applied chemistry at the University of Manchester. He later moved to British India with his wife, Louise, where he gained employment as an industrial chemist. Having played club cricket for Todmorden in the Lancashire League prior to his departure for India, Hitchen made four appearances in first-class cricket in India for the Europeans cricket team in Madras Presidency Matches The Madras Presidency Matches were annual first-class cricket matches played in Madras (now Chennai) from the 1915–16 season to 1951–52 between the cricket teams of Indians and the Europeans (i.e., Europeans who were living in India). The ... between December 1943 and January 1948. He scored 12 runs in his four first-class matches, in addition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Hitchen
Steven James Hitchen (born 28 November 1976) is an English retired professional footballer who played as a defender for Blackburn Rovers and Macclesfield Town in the Football League. He is the former Director of Technical Performance for Tottenham Hotspur. Career Hitchen was born in Salford, England. A defender, he played for Blackburn Rovers and Macclesfield Town in the Football League and Bangor City. After his playing career ended, he worked as a football talent scout . He started at Tottenham Hotspur in the mid-2000s as a part-time European scout, and played a part in the signings of Luka Modrić and Benoît Assou-Ekotto. He moved to Liverpool in 2010 to join Damien Comolli Damien Jacques Comolli (born 24 November 1971) is a French former association football, football coach and scout and the current director of football of Toulouse FC. He has previously worked with the clubs AS Monaco FC, Monaco, AS Saint-Étienne, ... who was once his superior as the direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Hitchen
Trevor Hitchen (born 25 September 1926) is an English former footballer who played in The Football League for Southport and Oldham Athletic. He was also appointed as player-manager at Wigan Athletic, scoring seven goals in 37 Lancashire Combination games during the 1957–58 season. He finished his career at Formby Formby is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, which had a population of 22,419 at the 2011 Census. Historically in Lancashire, three manors are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 under "For ..., where he later became chairman. In September 2019, on his 93rd birthday, it was announced that he would be inducted into the Southport F.C. Hall of Fame. References External links 1926 births Living people People from Sowerby Bridge Sportspeople from Calderdale Footballers from West Yorkshire English men's footballers Men's association football wing halves Halifax Town A.F.C. players Notts County F.C. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thomas Hitchen
During World War I, recruitment marches or snowball marches to state capital cities were a feature of volunteer recruiting drives for the Australian Imperial Force in rural Australia. Between October 1915 and February 1916, nine marches were held starting from various points in the state; the most notable was the first march from Gilgandra, New South Wales, known as the Cooee march. The March of the Dungarees took place in south-eastern Queensland in November 1915. In 1918, in an effort to promote recruitment, another march was staged, but this was less spontaneous and the marchers in fact travelled by train. The marches were called "snowball marches" in the hope that like a snowball rolling down a hill will pick up more snow, gaining more mass and surface area, and picking up even more snow as it rolls along, the marchers would also collect more marchers as they progressed to the recruiting depot. Background The Australian Imperial Force was formed promptly on the decl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
