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Margaret White (athlete)
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Margaret White may refer to: * Margaret White (judge) (born 1943), Australian judge * Margaret White (meteorologist) (1889–1977), British meteorologist and industrial researcher * Margaret White (''Carrie''), fictional character in Stephen King's novel ''Carrie'' *Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), American photographer *Peggy White (1924-1997), American pioneer in women's squash * Margaret Moore White (1902–1983), English gynaecologist See also *White (surname) White is a surname either of English or of Scottish and Irish origin, the latter being an anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic ''MacGillebhàin'', "Son of the fair gillie" and the Irish "Mac Faoitigh" or "de Faoite". It is the seventeenth most co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret White (judge)
Margaret Jean White (born 4 June 1943) is a former Supreme Court of Queensland justicethe first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Queensland. White was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1992 and was elevated to an Appeals Court Justice in 2010 until retirement in 2013. She has also previously served as a law lecturer at the University of Queensland. Royal commission In August 2016, White was appointed joint Commissioner with Mick Gooda for the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory, replacing Brian Ross Martin. Naval service White became an inaugural member of the revived Women's Royal Australian Naval Service Reserve (WRANSR) in 1968. She served as a commander in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve from 2002 to 2010. Order of Australia White was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2013 Australia Day Honours The 2013 Australia Day Honours were announced on 26 January 2013 by the Governor-General ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret White (meteorologist)
Margaret White (24 February 1889 – 21 October 1977), also known as Margaret White Fishenden, was a British meteorologist and industrial researcher. Biography Margaret Fishenden White was born in Altrincham, near Manchester on 24 February 1889 to organist Richard William White and Sarah Elizabeth White (''née'' Broadbent) (''b''. 1852). She was the third of four children. Education She was educated by governesses until being awarded a scholarship to attend Manchester Municipal Secondary School at the age of thirteen. In 1905 she gained a first-class matriculation which enabled her to enter the University of Manchester. She received the Higginbottom scholarship in 1907 and in 1909 graduated with a first-class honours degree in physics. White obtained a Master of Science degree from the University of Manchester in 1910 and was elected Beyer fellow of the university. She was awarded a Doctorate of Science from the University of Manchester in 1919. Career She lectured at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret White (Carrie)
Margaret White (née Brigham) is a fictional character created by American author Stephen King in his first published horror novel, ''Carrie'' (1974), where she is the main antagonist. Margaret is a deluded, abusive and fanatically religious mother who thinks almost everything is sinful, especially when related to the female body or sex. Her daughter, Carrie White, has the power of telekinesis, which causes Margaret to think that Carrie is a witch. Novel In the novel, Margaret is a formerly beautiful Christian woman who always dresses in shapeless black clothing. She works full-time at a laundromat and has held her job for many years. She often maims herself, or uses various other ways to harm herself, during times of great stress. Once, her daughter Carrie dreamed that Margaret had given herself a hysterectomy after battling the Devil. She was born Margaret Brigham. Her father was killed in a gun battle and she began attending a fundamentalist church group to deal with the los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White (; June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971), an American list of photographers, photographer and documentary photography, documentary photographer, became arguably best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet Union, Soviet industry under the Soviets' first five-year plan, five-year plan, as the first American female war photojournalist, and for taking the photograph (of the construction of Fort Peck Dam) that became the cover of the first issue of Life (magazine), ''Life'' magazine. She died of Parkinson's disease at age 67, about eighteen years after developing symptoms. Early life Margaret Bourke-White, born Margaret White in the Bronx, New York, was the daughter of Joseph White, a non-practicing Who is a Jew?, Jew whose father came from Poland, and Minnie Bourke, who was of Irish Catholic descent. She grew up near Bound Brook, New Jersey, Bound Brook, New Jersey (the Joseph and Minnie White House in Middlesex, New Jersey, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy White
Peggy Howe White (November 8, 1924 – 1997) was an American pioneer in women's squash. She was born in Natick, Massachusetts to William Francis Howe and Margaret Howe, a squash pioneer and acclaimed founder of The Howe Cup. Her twin sister Betty Constable also went on to be a champion. White won the national championship in 1952 and 1953. Peggy married Robert White in the 1950s and together they had two sons and one daughter. They spent their married life in Rochester, NY until retirement in Nantucket, Massachusetts Nantucket () is an island about south from Cape Cod. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck Island, Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a Consolidated city-county, combined county/town government t .... She died in Lutherville, MD in 1997 and is buried in Nantucket. References External links United States Squash Hall of Fame 1924 births 1997 deaths American female squash players 20th-century American wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Moore White
Margaret Moore White FRCS FRCOG (5 February 1902 - 17 January 1983) was an English gynaecologist who, with Miss Gertrude Dearnley, began one of the first infertility clinics in Britain at the Royal Free Hospital The Royal Free Hospital (also known simply as the Royal Free) is a major teaching hospital in the Hampstead area of the London Borough of Camden. The hospital is part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which also runs services at Barn ... in 1937. Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online, Royal College of Surgeons. Retrieved 21 May 2018. Selected publications * ''The Symptomatic Diagnosis and Treatment of Gynaecological Disorders''. H. K. ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
