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Nick Wright (other)
Nicholas or Nick Wright may refer to: Sports * Nicholas Wright (cricketer, born 1960), English cricketer * Nicholas Wright (cricketer, born 1901) (1901–1974), English cricketer * Nick Wright (footballer, born 1975), English footballer * Nick Wright (footballer, born 1987), English footballer * Nick Wright (sportscaster) (born 1984), sports radio and television personality Other people * Nicholas Wright (academic) (born 1945), English academic * Nicholas Wright (playwright) (born 1940), British dramatist * Nicholas L. Wright (born 1981), archaeologist and numismatist * Nicolas Wright (born 1982), Canadian actor * Nick Wright (politician) (born 1982), Canadian politician and lawyer * Nick Wright (Royal Navy officer) (born 1949), private secretary to the Princess Royal * N. T. Wright (born 1948), British New Testament scholar and Anglican bishop See also * Phoenix Wright Phoenix "Nick" Wright, known as in the original Japanese language versions, is the fictional titular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Wright (cricketer, Born 1960)
Nicholas Peter Gerrard Wright (born 9 January 1960) is a former English cricketer. Wright was a left-handed batsman, his bowling style is unknown. He was born in Mill Hill, Middlesex. Wright made his debut for Hertfordshire in the 1980 Minor Counties Championship against Norfolk. Wright played Minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire from 1980 to 1997, which included 76 Minor Counties Championship matches and 21 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. He made his List A debut against Hampshire in the 1983 NatWest Trophy. He made 6 further List A appearances for the county, the last coming against Warwickshire in the 1991 NatWest Trophy. In his 7 List A matches, he scored 67 runs at a batting average of 9.57, with a high score of 17. With the ball, he took a single wicket for the cost of 11 runs. His brother, Martin Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (other) * Martin County (other) * Martin Township (other) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Wright (cricketer, Born 1901)
Nicholas Edward Wright was an English cricketer active from 1921 to 1922 who played for Northamptonshire (Northants). He appeared in eight first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm medium pace. Wright was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire on 28 August 1901 and died in Corby, Northamptonshire on 20 May 1974. He scored 30 runs with a highest score of 8 and took two wicket In cricket, the term wicket has several meanings: * It is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch. The fielding team's players can hit the wicket with the ball in a number of ways to get a batsman out. ...s with a best performance of two for 59. References 1901 births 1974 deaths English cricketers Northamptonshire cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Wright (footballer, Born 1975)
Nicholas John Wright (born 15 October 1975, in Codnor) is an English former professional footballer who played for Derby County, Carlisle United and Watford before his career was cut short by injury. Wright, who played as a forward, is best remembered for scoring an overhead kick in the 1999 Football League First Division play-off Final, helping secure Watford's promotion to the Premier League. The following season in the top flight Wright only made four league appearances, though this included games against Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of City of Salford, Salford to .... References External links * 1975 births Living people English men's footballers Men's association football forwards Derby County F.C. players Carlisle United F.C. players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Wright (footballer, Born 1987)
Nicholas "Nick" Wright (born 25 November 1987) is an English footballer who plays as a striker Wright played in the Football League for Bristol City and Northampton Town while on loan from Birmingham City where he began his career. He went on to play non-league football for a variety of clubs: three years at Tamworth, two with Kidderminster Harriers, and shorter periods for Ashford Town (Kent), Halesowen Town, Mansfield Town, Lincoln City and Worcester City. In 2008, he was first capped by England C, the team that represents England internationally at semi-professional level. Club career Birmingham City Wright was born in Birmingham, West Midlands. He joined Birmingham City's youth academy when he was a teenager, but never progressed into the first-team. He spent spells on loan to several clubs before turning down Birmingham's offer of a new one-year contract, and left the club at the end of the 2006–07 season. Loans In January 2006, Wright joined Conference Premier st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Wright (sportscaster)
Nick Wright (born October 3, 1984) is an American sports television personality and sports radio talk show host. Wright currently serves as a co-host on Fox Sports 1's '' First Things First'' (''FTF'') alongside Kevin Wildes and Chris Broussard. Early years Nick Wright was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. He attended Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, graduating with a degree in broadcast journalism in 2007. While at Syracuse, he worked at WAER-FM as Sports Director. Shortly after graduating, he was a contestant on ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire''. Sports broadcasting career After graduating from Syracuse, Wright began his sports broadcasting career as production assistant and weekend host for the KCSP 610 AM radio station, based in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. He then began hosting ''What's Wright with Nick Wright?'', his own weekly program on the station. ''The Pitch'', a local Kansas City newspaper, called Wright "610 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Wright (academic)
Sir Nicholas Alcwyn Wright is a British professor and medical doctor. He was the Warden of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Wright attended Bristol Grammar School and Durham Medical School accepted him straight into the second year before he graduated in 1965 and proceeded to achieve two post-graduate degrees in pathology at Newcastle University. He was Professor of Pathology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at the Hammersmith Hospital, and then became the Dean of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School before becoming the Deputy Principal of the Imperial College School of Medicine in 1998. Sir Nicholas was Warden of Barts and The London from 2001 until 2009. He is also Head of the Histopathology Unit at Cancer Research (UK) Ltd, President of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland and was the President of the British Society of Gastroenterology in 2003-04. He was knighted in the New Year Honours list The New Year Honours is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Wright (playwright)
Nicholas Verney Wright (born 1940 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a British dramatist. Biography Nicholas Wright was born in Cape Town, attended Rondebosch Boys' School and from the age of six was a child actor on radio and on the stage. He came to London in 1958 to train as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and subsequently worked as a floor-assistant in BBC Television and as a runner in film, notably John Schlesinger's ''Far From the Madding Crowd''. He started work at the Royal Court Theatre in 1965 as Casting Director and became, first, an Assistant Director there and then the first Director of the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs, where for several years he presented an innovatory programme of new writing. From 1975 to 1977 he was joint artistic director of the Royal Court and he was subsequently a member of the Royal Court Theatre's Board. He is former literary manager and associate director of the Royal National Theatre, and a former member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Luke Wright
Nicholas is a male given name and a surname. The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the name and its derivatives are especially popular in maritime regions, as St. Nicholas is considered the protector saint of seafarers. Origins The name is derived from the Greek name Νικόλαος ('' Nikolaos''), understood to mean 'victory of the people', being a compound of νίκη ''nikē'' 'victory' and λαός ''laos'' 'people'.. An ancient paretymology of the latter is that originates from λᾶς ''las'' ( contracted form of λᾶας ''laas'') meaning 'stone' or 'rock', as in Greek mythology, Deucalion and Pyrrha recreated the people after they had vanished in a catastrophic deluge, by throwing stones behind their shoulders while they kept marching on. The name became popular through Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra in Lycia, the inspi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Numismatist
A numismatist is a specialist in numismatics ("of coins"; from Late Latin ''numismatis'', genitive of ''numisma''). Numismatists include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholars who use coins and other currency in object-based research. Although use of the term numismatics was first recorded in English in 1799, people had been collecting and studying coins long before this, all over the world. The first group chiefly derives pleasure from the simple ownership of monetary devices and studying these coins as private amateur scholars. In the classical field amateur collector studies have achieved quite remarkable progress in the field. Examples are Walter Breen, a well-known example of a noted numismatist who was not an avid collector, and King Farouk I of Egypt was an avid collector who had very little interest in numismatics. Harry Bass by comparison was a noted collector who was also a numismatist. The second group are the coin dealers. Often called professional numismatist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Wright
Nicolas Wright (born March 23, 1982 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a Canadian actor and writer. Wright has performed on stage, television and film. In 2004, he received the "most promising newcomer" award at the Just for Laughs in for his short film, ''Toutouffe''. Recently he appeared in |
Nick Wright (politician)
Nicholas dePencier Wright (born May 20, 1982) is a Canadian business lawyer and politician. He was the founding leader of the Green Party of Nova Scotia and was the founding Executive Director of the Canadian animal advocacy organization Animal Justice. He is currently founder and CEO of foreign affairs publication Geopolitical Monitor and is an elected member ("Bencher") of the governing body of the Law Society of Ontario. Background and education Wright was born in Toronto, Ontario. He attended Lakefield College School before moving to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he received an honours degree in philosophy from the University of King's College, Halifax and an MBA and a law degree from Dalhousie University. He has since additionally earned an LLM in tax law from Osgoode Hall Law School. Politics On March 5, 2006, Wright became the leader of the Green Party of Nova Scotia at the Party's founding convention—after winning a contested nomination vote over long time Green Party of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Wright (Royal Navy Officer)
Captain Sir Nicholas Peter Wright, KCVO (born 1949) was Private Secretary to The Princess Royal from 2002 to 2019. On his retirement from the post he was appointed an Extra Equerry to Her Royal Highness from 1 February 2019. He was educated at Ampleforth College, the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and the Joint Service Defence College. Commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1968 as a Supply and Secretariat Branch officer, he served in HMS ''Whitby'' and HMS ''Diomede'' 1969–1973, and was flag lieutenant to the Flag Officer Medway 1973–1975. In 1976–1977 he was deputy supply officer in the guided missile destroyer HMS ''Norfolk''. From 1978 to 1980 he was on the staff of the Headquarters Allied Forces Northern Europe, Oslo (a NATO appointment). In 1980–1982 he was Supply Officer of the frigate HMS ''Lowestoft''. In 1982–1984 he was assistant secretary to the Second Sea Lord in Main Building, Whitehall, and from 1985 to 1987 on the staff of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |