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Northcott Society
Northcott may refer to: ;People *Bayan Northcott (1940–2022), English composer *Douglas Northcott (1916–2005), British mathematician *Gordon Stewart Northcott, Canadian serial killer * Gustavus A. Northcott, American politician serving 1905–1907 *John Northcott (1890–1966), Australian general * Lawrence Northcott (1908–1986), Canadian ice hockey player *Michael Northcott (born 1955), British theologian and professor of Ethics *Ron Northcott (1935–2023), Canadian curling player * Ruth J. Northcott (1913–1969), Canadian astronomer *Tom Northcott, Canadian folk-rock singer * Tommy Northcott (1931–2008), English footballer ;Other uses * Northcott, Cornwall, a hamlet in England * Northcott, Devon, a village and civil parish in England * Northcott Disability Services also known as The NSW Society for Crippled Children or The Northcott Society *Northcott Theatre at University of Exeter, England * Northcott Municipal Council, original name for the first City of South Sydney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayan Northcott
Bayan Peter Northcott (24 April 1940 – 13 December 2022) was an English music critic and composer. Biography Born in Harrow on the Hill (London), Northcott read English at Oxford University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford in 1962. He then taught English from 1964 to 1970. Northcott developed an interest in composition and was encouraged by Alexander Goehr and Hans Keller.Don Michael Randel (editor) (1999). ''The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians''. Belknap Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA). . p 454. Subsequently he read music at the University of Southampton, where his instructors included Goehr and Jonathan Harvey. Northcott earned a BMus degree from Southampton in 1971. He mentored other composers such as Robin Holloway and Julian Anderson. Northcott served as a music critic for the ''New Statesman'', for the '' Sunday Telegraph'' from 1976 to 1986, and he was chief music critic of ''The Independent'' from 1986 to 2009, where he wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northcott, Cornwall
Northcott is a hamlet in Cornwall, England. Northcott is north of Bude and on the coast close to Northcott Mouth.''Philip's Street Atlas Cornwall''. London: Philip's, 2003; p. 4 References Hamlets in Cornwall {{Cornwall-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Surnames
English is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots language, Scots, and then closest related to the Low German, Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is Genetic relationship (linguistics), genealogically West Germanic language, West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by Langues d'oïl, dialects of France (about List of English words of French origin, 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold Northcott
Cold Northcott is a hamlet in Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the A395 road two miles southeast of Hallworthy. It is in the civil parish of St Clether. Wind farm Cold Northcott wind farm is a wind farm situated near the hamlet either side of the A395. It consists of 22 twin-bladed turbines (similar to Great Eppleton) with a nameplate electrical capacity of 6.6 megawatts and estimated annual output of 16 GWh A kilowatt-hour (unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a unit of energy: one kilowatt of power for one hour. In terms of SI derived units with special names, it equals 3.6 megajoules (MJ). Kilowatt-hours are a common bil .... accessed 2014-05-25 The turbines began operation in and are manufac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3670 Northcott
__NOTOC__ Year 367 ( CCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lupicinus and Iovanus (or, less frequently, year 1120 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 367 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Battle of Solicinium: Emperor Valentinian I launches a punitive expedition against the Alamanni, due to the crises in Britannia and Gaul. The Alamanni re-cross the Rhine and plunder Moguntiacum (modern Mainz). * Valentinian I declares that Christians will not be forced into gladiator training schools. * Great Conspiracy: The Roman garrison on Hadrian's Wall revolts and allows Picts from Caledonia to devastate Britain. Simultaneously Attacotti, the Scotti from Hibernia ( Ireland), and the Saxons from Germania invade the island's mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Northcott
Northcott was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales between 1968 and 1999. History It was named after Sir John Northcott who served as Governor of New South Wales from 1 August 1946 to 1 August 1957. Northcott was the first Australian appointed to a State vice-regal position. It was represented by Jim Cameron, Bruce Baird, and Barry O'Farrell, all of whom served as Deputy Leaders of their party, although in O'Farrell's case he became Deputy Liberal leader after moving to Ku-ring-gai following Northcott's abolition. O'Farrell succeeded Baird in Northcott in 1995. When O'Farrell resigned as NSW Premier in 2014 he was succeeded by Baird's son Mike Mike may refer to: Animals * Mike (cat), cat and guardian of the British Museum * Mike the Headless Chicken, chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off * Mike (chimpanzee), a chimpanzee featured in several books and docume .... Bruce Baird himself had fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of South Sydney
The South Sydney City Council was a local government area covering the inner-eastern and inner-Southern Sydney suburbs of Sydney. It was forcibly merged with the Sydney City Council by the New South Wales State Government in 2004. The council chambers were located in the Erskineville Town Hall, with the administrative offices at Joynton Avenue in Zetland. The administrative offices were relocated to the TNT tower building in Redfern in 2001. History First creation, 1968–1981 The forerunner of the City of South Sydney was the Northcott Municipal Council (named after the late Governor Sir John Northcott, who served from 1946 to 1957 as the first Australian Governor of NSW), which was created on 1 January 1968 when the City of Sydney boundaries were changed. Newtown, Darlington, Erskineville, Alexandria, Waterloo and Redfern were combined to form the new council. The council was renamed the South Sydney Municipal Council on 1 December 1968, which was itself abolished on 1 Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northcott Theatre
The Northcott Theatre is a theatre situated on the Streatham Campus of the University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, England. It opened in 1967 and was run until 2010 by the Northcott Theatre Foundation, when the company ceased operating after a period in administration. The theatre is now known as Exeter Northcott Theatre and became a registered charity (no. 1151620) in June 2013. History The Northcott is the seventh building in Exeter to be used as a theatre. In 1962, the Theatre Royal, Exeter, was demolished to be replaced by an office block; however, there were many people in Exeter who were determined that the city should not be without a theatre for very long. Early in 1962, Mr George Vernon Northcott (1891-1963) had started negotiations with the board of directors of the Theatre Royal with the view to "saving" the theatre, and its re-creation as a theatre and arts centre. A small group from the University of Exeter prepared a memorandum explaining how they saw the Theatre Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northcott Disability Services
Northcott was established as the New South Wales Society for Crippled Children in 1929 by the Rotary Club of Sydney, in response to the growing number of children left with the effects of illnesses such as polio and tuberculosis. History Northcott was established in 1929 as the NSW Society for Crippled Children by the Rotary Club of Sydney to provide services for children with disabilities due to polio, tuberculosis and other diseases. In 1992, the name changed to The NSW Society for Children and Young Adults with Physical Disabilities, and in 1995 to The Northcott Society. Northcott is named in honour of NSW's first Australian-born Governor, Sir John Northcott, who was patron from 1946 to 1957. On 18 March 1930 the first auxiliary was formed at Killara. Auxiliaries continued to assist the society for many years; the service of the North Shore Auxiliary'se members provided 70 years of dedicated support. In 1957, Northcott president, Sir Kenneth Coles, held the role of Presiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northcott, Devon
Northcott is a small settlement and civil parish in the far west of Devon, England. It lies about seven miles south of the town of Holsworthy and forms part of the local government district of Torridge. It is bordered on the north by the parish of Luffincott and on the east and south by the parish of St Giles on the Heath. Its western border follows the River Tamar which forms the county boundary with Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic .... In 2001 its population was 26, down from 60 in 1901. Whilst it is administered as a separate parish in Devon, for ecclesiastical purposes it is linked with the parish of Boyton across the River Tamar in Cornwall, and it has been transferred from one county to the other several times. Boyton Mill is a stone building nea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Northcott
Thomas Theodore Northcott (5 December 1931 — 26 September 2008) was an English professional footballer. Although he played for several clubs during his career, Northcott is particularly remembered for his time at Torquay United, where he is regarded as one of the club's all-time greats and Lincoln City where he was voted as one of their 100 league legends in 2006. He played twice for England at Youth level, against Scotland and Wales. Career Northcott was born and raised in the Barton area of Torquay and began his career with local club Hele Spurs before joining his hometown Football league club Torquay United on his 17th birthday. He made his debut in April 1949 against Northampton Town. Within two years he had established himself in the Torquay side and for a short time had a successful forward line partnership with Sammy Collins. He also completed his apprenticeship as a plumber and did his National Service before signing for Cardiff City in October 1952, as part of an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Northcott
Douglas Geoffrey Northcott, FRS (31 December 1916, London – 8 April 2005) was a British mathematician who worked on ideal theory. Early life and career Northcott was born Douglas Geoffrey Robertson in Kensington on 31 December 1916 to Clara Freda (née Behl) (1894-1958) and her first husband Geoffrey Douglas Spence Robertson (1894-1978). His mother remarried in 1919 to Arthur Hugh Kynaston Northcott (1887-1952). In 1935, he legally adopted his step-father's surname. He was educated in London, then at Christ's Hospital and St John's College, Cambridge, where he started research under the supervision of G.H. Hardy His work was interrupted by active service during World War II. Captured at Singapore, he survived his time as a prisoner of war in Japan, and returned to Cambridge at the end of the war. Back at Cambridge, he published his dissertation "Abstract Tauberian theorems with applications to power series and Hilbert series ". He then turned to algebra under the influence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
