Minnett
Minnett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Cora Minnett (born 1868), Australian author and actress * Harry Clive Minnett (1917–2003), Australian astronomer *Leslie Minnett (1883–1934), Australian cricketer *Roy Minnett (1888–1955), Australian cricketer, brother of Leslie and Rupert *Rupert Minnett Rupert Villiers Minnett (2 September 1884 – 24 June 1974) was an Australian architect and sportsman. He played six first-class cricket matches for New South Wales between 1909/10 and 1914/15. His two other brothers, Leslie and Roy, both p ...

Cora Minnett
Cora Minnett (1868 – after 1918) was an Australian author, actress, and confidence trickster. Her birth name was Minnie Warren Jones, but she later assumed the stage name Cora Minnett Vane, and wrote under the pen name Pellew Hawker. She is known for her science fiction and fantasy novels. Early life and education Minnie Warren Jones was born in 1868, with her birthplace registered as Pittwater in the Colony of New South Wales. Her parents were Eliza Warren (1840–1902) and James Jones, and her sister, Ruth Jones, was later an artist and/or actor. Career Jones left school at 19, and in 1888 started her career as a stage actress called Cora Minnett Vane. She married to Adolphus J. Braggett in Sydney in 1892, but left him a few years later, returning to the stage as Cora Minnett. Her agent, subsequently manager, was Herbert Cowell, who said he was an actor who was born in New Zealand. They met in Melbourne in 1907, the year she divorced Braggett in New South Wales. She move ...
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Roy Minnett
Roy Baldwin Minnett (13 June 1886 – 21 October 1955) was an Australian cricketer who played in nine Test matches from December 1911 to August 1912. He became a medical practitioner. Life and career Minnett was born in Sydney and attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School."A Chat about Mr. R. B. Minnett", ''Cricket'', 30 March 1912, pp. 37–38. He first played first-class cricket for New South Wales while he was studying medicine at Sydney University.''The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket'', Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, pp. 366–67. A brilliant, sometimes impetuous batsman, fast-medium bowler and excellent fieldsman, he scored 151 in 150 minutes against Tasmania in January 1911. A year later he scored 216 not out in 197 minutes against Victoria at the Sydney Cricket Ground, adding 169 for the tenth wicket in 83 minutes with Cecil McKew. On his Test debut a few weeks earlier, also at the SCG, he had scored 90 in 111 minutes, adding 109 for the sixth wicket with Victor ...
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Harry Clive Minnett
Harry Clive Minnett OBE (12 June 1917 – 20 December 2003) was an Australian physicist and radio engineer who, with Jack Piddington, co-discovered Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, and played a leading role in building the Parkes Radio Telescope. Minnett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1972, and elected a fellow of Australian Academy of Science in 1976. Early life and education Harry Minnett was born in Hurstville, New South Wales on 12 June 1917, to parents Frederick Harry Brook Minnett and Elsie May Garnsey. He attended Hurstville Primary School, where he was dux of his final year in 1929, followed by Sydney Boys High School from 1930 to 1934. He then attended the University of Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science (majoring in mathematics and physics) in 1939 and a Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours in 1940. Career Minnett joined the CSIR (later the CSIRO) in 1940, as part of the ...
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Leslie Minnett
Leslie Minnett (19 May 1883 – 8 August 1934) was an Australian cricketer. He played ten first-class matches for New South Wales between 1907/08 and 1914/15. See also * List of New South Wales representative cricketers This is a list of male cricketers who have played for New South Wales in first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket. It is complete to the end of the 2017–18 season. The list refers to the sides named as "New South Wales" and does not include pl ... References External links * 1883 births 1934 deaths Australian cricketers New South Wales cricketers Cricketers from Sydney {{Australia-cricket-bio-1880s-stub ...
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