Hitchings
Hitchings is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * George H. Hitchings (1905-1998), American doctor who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology * Helen Hitchings (1920–2002), New Zealand art dealer * Henry Hitchings (born 1974), British author, reviewer and critic * Lionel Hitchings (born 1936), English cricketer See also * Hitching (other) * Hitchin (other) Hitchin may refer to: Places * Hitchin, a town in Hertfordshire, England * Hitchin railway station * Hitchin (UK Parliament constituency) People * Derek Hitchins, a British systems engineer * Nigel Hitchin, a British mathematician Other * Hitchi ...

Henry Hitchings
Henry Hitchings (born 11 December 1974) is an author, reviewer and critic, specializing in narrative non-fiction, with a particular emphasis on language and cultural history. The second of his books, ''The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English'', won the 2008 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. He has written two books about Samuel Johnson and has served as the president of the Johnson Society of Lichfield. As a critic, he has mainly written about books and theatre. As of 2018, he is chair of the drama section of the UK's The Critics' Circle, Critics' Circle. Life He was a King's Scholar at Eton College before going to Christ Church, Oxford, and then to University College London to research his PhD on Samuel Johnson. Books ''Dr Johnson's Dictionary'' In 2005 Hitchings published ''Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World'', a biography of Samuel Johnson's epochal ''A Dictionary of the English Language'' ( ...
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Helen Hitchings
Helen Hitchings (17 June 1920 – 4 July 2002) was a New Zealand art dealer, best known for the short-lived but influential eponymous dealer gallery she opened in Wellington in 1949. Gallery of Helen Hitchings At age 28 Hitchings opened New Zealand's first modernist dealer gallery, in a converted warehouse space at 39 Bond Street in central Wellington. Previous to this she had worked as a theatre designer and advertising assistant. In the gallery Hitchings showed the work of emerging painters who went on to become major figures in New Zealand art, including Toss Woollaston, Rita Angus and Colin McCahon, alongside Douglas MacDiarmid and Evelyn Page. She recruited the modernist architect Ernst Plischke to produce furniture designs sold through the gallery, and A. R. D. Fairburn and May Smith to design textiles. Hitchings also showed the work of important potter Len Castle. Hitchings also designed pieces of pottery which were commercially produced and sold through her gallery. ...
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Lionel Hitchings
Lionel Hitchings (born 15 May 1936) was an English cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Buckinghamshire. He was born in Hereford. Hitchings, who represented Buckinghamshire in the Minor Counties Championship between 1956 and 1968, made a single List A appearance for the side, during the 1965 season, against Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, historic county in South East England, southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the Ceremonial counties of .... From the upper-middle order, Hitchings scored 3 runs. External links * 1936 births Living people English cricketers Buckinghamshire cricketers Wicket-keepers Cricketers from Hereford {{England-cricket-bio-stub ...
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Hitching (other)
Hitching could refer to: * Hitching (short story), a short story by Orson Scott Card * Hitching tie, a knot * Ringbolt hitching, a knot * Hitchhiking, * ''Hitching'', a synonym for lag-related overclocking (i.e. when a digital image runs smoothly, stops and repeat again) See also * Hitchin (other) * Hitching post (other) * Hitchings Hitchings is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * George H. Hitchings (1905-1998), American doctor who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology * Helen Hitchings (1920–2002), New Zealand art dealer * Henry Hitchings (born 1974) ...

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