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Jaffray Hospital
Jaffray may refer to: * Jaffray, British Columbia, Canada * Jaffray baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom * " Katharine Jaffray", a traditional Scottish ballad People with the surname * David Jaffray (born c. 1970), Canadian medical physicist * Jason Jaffray (born 1981), Canadian hockey player * Jean-Yves Jaffray (1939–2009), French mathematician and economist * John Jaffray (journalist) (1818–1901), British journalist * Lyn Jaffray (born 1950), New Zealand All Black rugby union player * Merv Jaffray (born 1949), New Zealand All Black rugby union player * Robert A. Jaffray (1873–1945), Canadian religious leader * William Jaffray (1832–1896), Canadian newspaper editor and mayor of Berlin, Ontario ) , image_flag = Flag of Kitchener, Ontario.svg , image_seal = Seal of Kitchener, Canada.svg , image_shield=Coat of arms of Kitchener, Canada.svg , image_blank_emblem = Logo of Kitchener, Ontario.svg , blank_emblem_type = ... See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaffray, British Columbia
Jaffray, British Columbia () is an unincorporated village in southeast British Columbia. As of the RDEK 2011 census, the population was 82 spread over a rural area of roughly 44 square kilometres. History Jaffray was formerly a siding, depot and steam train water stop. In the early 1900s Robert Jaffray and several of his brothers worked at the local sawmills, eventually leaving and homesteading in Lacombe, Alberta, and even though some local people believed that Jaffray may have been named after the brothers, according to folklore, Jaffray had already been named by the time they came to the area. Frank Desrosier may have been the first resident to purchase land in the Jaffray town-site, purchasing District Lot 3055. In September 1900, Robert Elmsby received a crown grant on D.L. 3543, obtaining for two hundred dollars, including most of what is now Jaffray proper. Since the first residents settled in, Jaffray has had four hotels, including the Jaffray Hotel, the Henderson's Hot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaffray Baronets
The Jaffray Baronetcy, of Skilts in the Parish of Studley in the County of Warwick, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 8 October 1892 for the journalist and newspaper proprietor John Jaffray. He was the co-founder of the ''Birmingham Post'' and ''Birmingham Mail''. The second Baronet was High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1906. The fourth Baronet, Sir William Edmund Jaffray, was a Colonel in the Warwickshire Yeomanry and a deputy lieutenant of Warwickshire. The fifth and present baronet succeeded to the title as an infant on his father's death. He was educated at Eton and in 1981 married Cynthia Ross Corrington, a daughter of John Corrington III, of Montreal. They have three sons and a daughter and are divorced. The heir to the baronetcy is Nicholas Gordon Alexander Jaffray, born 1982.Charles Mosley, ed. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', 107th edition, volume 2 (Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), p. 2,077 Jaffray baron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Jaffray
Katharine Jaffray is Child ballad 221 ( Roud 93). It exists in several variants. The poem first appears in ''Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border'' (Kelso: James Ballantyne, 1802), 1.216–19, under the title "The Laird of Laminton". The editor of this collection states :''There are two copies of this ballad in Mr Herd’s MS. in one of which the bride’s name is Katherine Jaffrey, and the unlucky bridegroom is called the Laird of Lochinton, ‘out frae the English border.’—The Editor has been unable to discover whether the story is founded in fact'' Synopsis A woman is wooed by a man who asks her family for leave. Another man comes and wins the consent of her family but does not bother to tell her until the wedding day. Her original lover comes to the wedding and carries her off. Sometimes there is a bloody fight. Some variants end with a warning that Englishmen should not seek Scottish brides. Adaptations This is similar to the Lochinvar tale included in Sir Walter Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Jaffray
David A. Jaffray is a Canadian medical physicist and Senior Scientist in the Division of Biophysics and Bioimaging at the Ontario Cancer Institute. He is also a professor and Vice Chair in the University of Toronto's Department of Radiation Oncology. He is the inventor, together with John Wong and Jeffrey Siewerdsen, of on-line volumetric kv- imaging guidance system for radiation therapy Radiation therapy or radiotherapy, often abbreviated RT, RTx, or XRT, is a therapy using ionizing radiation, generally provided as part of cancer treatment to control or kill malignant cells and normally delivered by a linear accelerator. Radia .... He was named as one of "Canada's Top 40 Under 40" in 2003 by Caldwell Partners. On 21 May 2019, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center announced that Jaffray would be joining the institution as its "first chief technology and digital officer". PublicationsCited by 126 References CTV News – Treatment allows better targeting of tum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Jaffray
Jason Jaffray (born June 30, 1981) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Vancouver Canucks, Calgary Flames and the Winnipeg Jets before finishing his career with EHC München of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Playing career Jaffray appeared in five seasons of major junior in the Western Hockey League. He played six games for the Edmonton Ice in 1997–98 before they relocated to Cranbrook, British Columbia the following season, becoming the Kootenay Ice. In 1999–2000, Jaffray appeared in the 2000 Memorial Cup as Kootenay won the WHL Championship. He recorded 19 points in 21 WHL playoff games before Kootenay was eliminated in the round robin of the Memorial Cup tournament. Midway through Jaffray's final WHL season, 2000–01, he was traded to the Swift Current Broncos and accumulated a junior career-high 83 points in 73 games. Undrafted, Jaffray turned professional in the ECHL with the Roanok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Yves Jaffray
Jean-Yves Jaffray (1939–2009) was a French mathematician and economist who made influential contributions in the fields of decision theory and mathematical statistics.A. Bouyssou et al., Decision Making Process: Concepts and MethodsM. Cohen, Tribute to Jean-Yves Jaffray He pioneered methods in decision theory such as linear utility theory for belief functions,Jaffray, Jean-Yves (1989). "Linear utility theory for belief functions"P.H. Giang, On Jaffray’s Decision Model for Belief Functions bridging the gap between expected utility and the maximin rule by using subjective probability Bayesian probability is an interpretation of the concept of probability, in which, instead of frequency or propensity of some phenomenon, probability is interpreted as reasonable expectation representing a state of knowledge or as quantification o ... to encompass belief functions. References 1939 births 2009 deaths French mathematicians {{France-mathematician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jaffray (journalist)
Sir John Jaffray, 1st Baronet (11 October 1818 – 4 January 1901) was a Scottish journalist and newspaper proprietor. Born in Stirling, he moved to Birmingham in 1844, to work for John Frederick Feeney on the '' Birmingham Journal'', and became a partner in it in 1852. Together they founded the ''Birmingham Daily Post'', (now ''Birmingham Post'') in 1857. He founded the ''Birmingham Mail'' with Feeney's son John Feeney in 1870. He was president of Birmingham General Hospital and founded Birmingham's Jaffray Hospital. In an 1873 by-election, he stood for the parliamentary seat for East Staffordshire, as a Liberal, but was defeated by 2,893 votes to 3.630 by the Conservative candidate, Samuel Allsopp. He served as High Sheriff of Warwickshire This is a list of sheriffs and high sheriffs of the English county of Warwickshire. The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyn Jaffray
John Lyndon Jaffray (born 17 April 1950) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A first or second five-eighth, Jaffray represented Otago and South Canterbury at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks ( mi, Ōpango), represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport. The team won the Rugby World Cup in 1987 ..., between 1972 and 1979. He played 23 matches for the All Blacks including seven internationals. References 1950 births Living people Rugby union players from Dunedin People educated at Kaikorai Valley College New Zealand rugby union players New Zealand international rugby union players Otago rugby union players Rugby union fly-halves Rugby union centres South Canterbury rugby union players {{NewZealand-rugbyunion-bio-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merv Jaffray
Mervyn William Rutherford Jaffray (born 18 January 1949) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A Rugby union positions#Back row, back rower, Jaffray represented Otago Rugby Football Union, Otago at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, on their 1976 New Zealand rugby union tour of South America, 1976 tour to South America. He played four matches for the All Blacks but no full internationals. References 1949 births Living people Rugby union players from Dunedin People educated at Kaikorai Valley College New Zealand rugby union players New Zealand international rugby union players Otago rugby union players Rugby union flankers Rugby union number eights New Zealand rugby union coaches {{NewZealand-rugbyunion-bio-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert A
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Jaffray (politician)
William Jaffray (6March 183229September 1896) was an English-born publisher and politician in Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada. He served as the mayor of Berlin, Ontario ( which is now known as Kitchener) from 1882 to 1883. Biography William Jaffray was born on 6 March 1832 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. His father, Peter Jaffray, was born in 1800 in Stirlingshire, Scotland. Peter was educated at the University of Glasgow and became involved in the publishing industry through working for the Edinburgh printing and publishing firm of Oliver and Boyd. After moving to Shrewsbury, Peter then worked for the ''Shrewsbury Chronicle'' for twenty-two years, later starting the '' Shrewsbury News''. He married Mary Ann Gittins, who had been born in Shrewsbury, and together they had eight children, most of them also born in Shrewsbury. William was the second child and also their eldest son. In his youth, he attended the Diocesan School in Shrewsbury for one year. In 1844, Peter Jaffr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin, Ontario
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