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Palfrey (surname)
Palfrey is an occupational surname, denoting a person responsible for the maintenance and provision of saddle horses. Notable people with the surname include: *Daf Palfrey (born 1973), Welsh television, film and video director, producer and writer *Deborah Jeane Palfrey (1956–2008), operated an escort agency in Washington, D.C., convicted in 2008 of racketeering, money laundering, etc. *Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1831–1889), American historian, born in Boston, Massachusetts son of J. G. Palfrey *John G. Palfrey (1796–1881), American clergyman and historian who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts *John Palfrey (born 1972), faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School *Judith Palfrey (born 1943), the T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School *Lisa Palfrey, Welsh television actress best known for playing the character of ''Rhiannedd Frost'' in the Welsh soap ''Pobol y Cwm'' * Mianne Palfrey, Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Occupational Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Palfrey Cooke
Sarah Hammond Palfrey Danzig (née Palfrey; September 18, 1912 – February 27, 1996) was an American tennis player whose adult amateur career spanned 19 years, from June 1926 until September 1945. She won two singles, nine women's doubles, and four mixed doubles titles at the U.S. National Championships. Career She was 32 years old, married to Elwood Cooke, and a mother in 1945 when she won her second singles title at the U.S. National Championships. Pauline Betz was her opponent in the final. Since she lost to Cooke in the 1941 final, Betz had won three consecutive titles and 19 consecutive matches at these championships. In 1945, Cooke lost the first set and squandered her 5–2 lead in the second set before recovering to win it 8–6. In the third set, Betz got close to winning yet another title when she served for a 5–3 lead. Cooke, however, broke her serve and then won the next two games to win the tournament. She became only the second mother to win this title, with Haz ... [...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] |
Yolande Palfrey
Yolande Anne Elissa Palfrey (29 March 1957 – 9 April 2011) was a British actress. She appeared in many BBC programmes including '' Pennies from Heaven'', ''Measure for Measure'', ''Elizabeth Alone'', ''Wings'', ''Blake's 7'' ("Pressure Point"), ''Crime and Punishment'', ''Nanny'', and ''Doctor Who'' (in the serial ''Terror of the Vervoids''), as well as ''The Ghosts of Motley Hall'' for Granada Television in the Christmas special "Phantomime" (1977). She also appeared in (among others) ''The Finishing Line'', ''Love in a Cold Climate'' for Thames Television, ''Dragonslayer'' for The Walt Disney Company and Paramount Pictures, and ''The Breadwinner'' for Yorkshire Television. Her stage performances included ''Murder, Dear Watson'' at The Mill at Sonning and ''Great Expectations'' at the Old Vic. Palfrey died from a brain tumour A brain tumor occurs when abnormal cells form within the brain. There are two main types of tumors: malignant tumors and benign (non-cancerous) tumo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Palfrey
William Palfrey (1741–1780) was an American Patriot. Early life William Palfrey was born February 24, 1741 in Boston, Massachusetts. Freemasonry In 1769, Palfrey was Substitute Master of the Lodge of St Andrew, a masonic lodge warranted by the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1756. Palfrey was Substitute Master when the Master was Joseph Warren and the lodge Secretary was Paul Revere. Member, St. Andrew's Lodge at Boston: EA, December 5, 1760; FC, December 18, 1760; MM, January 27, 1761, and later served as Junior Warden and Senior Warden of this Lodge. Palfrey, with seven others, petitioned the Massachusetts Grand Lodge on May 11, 1770, for new lodge under the title of The Massachusetts Lodge. The charter was granted May 13, 1770, and Palfrey's name is the second one on the charter. He is on record as SW of this lodge on June 1, 1770; elected WM December 3, 1770, and again, December 18, 1778. Elected Grand Secretary of the Massachusetts Grand Lodge December 4, 1778. "It was in al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Palfrey
Thomas Rossman Palfrey (born 1953) is the Flintridge Professor of Economics and Political Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California, and Fellow of the Econometric Society. He received his Ph.D. in Social Science from Caltech in 1981. He has authored influential papers in the fields of political economy ("Voter Participation and Strategic Uncertainty" with Howard Rosenthal, APSR 1985), game theory ("Quantal Response Equilibria in Normal Form Games" with Richard McKelvey, GEB 1995), implementation ("Nash Implementation Using Undominated Strategies" with S. Srivastava, Econometrica 1991), and experimental economics Experimental economics is the application of experimental methods to study economic questions. Data collected in experiments are used to estimate effect size, test the validity of economic theories, and illuminate market mechanisms. Economic expe ... ("An Experimental Study of the Centipede Game" with R. McKelvey, Econometrica 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Palfrey Webb
Stephen Palfrey Webb (March 20, 1804 – September 29, 1879) was an American politician who served as the third and twelfth List of mayors of Salem, Massachusetts, mayor of Salem, Massachusetts, and the 5th mayor of San Francisco, California. Early life, family life, education, and death Stephen Palfrey Webb was born to Captain Stephen Webb and Sara Putnam Palfrey Webb in Salem, Massachusetts on March 20, 1804. Webb graduated from Harvard College in 1824 and studied law with John Glen King. Career Webb was admitted to the Essex County Bar in 1826 and began his practice of law in Salem, Massachusetts, Salem. Webb served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Massachusetts Senate. He was elected mayor of Salem, Massachusetts in 1842, 1843, and 1844.City Council of Salem, Massachusetts. Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Volume 1, Issue 1. Pg. 227. Philadelphia : J. W. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Palfrey
Simon Palfrey is an English Scholar at Oxford University and a Fellow in English at Brasenose College, Oxford University. He specialises in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. Life and career Palfrey was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, grew up in Australia and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He is known for his approach to Shakespeare's work, in which he discusses the dynamism of the playwright's language, its psychological effects and the actorly and bodily decisions generated by word-use. His book ''Doing Shakespeare'' has been called "an original and long-overdue resource for theatre scholar-artists." It was listed as an "International Book of the Year" in 2004 by the '' Times Literary Supplement''. In the TLS, Jonathan Bate said that although the work was "sometimes wayward," the book was 'always provocative of serious thought'. Bate could think 'of no critic since Empson who has teased out so much so lucidly and (usually) so persuasively from the int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Palfrey
Sean, also spelled Seán or Séan in Irish English, is a male given name of Irish origin. It comes from the Irish versions of the Biblical Hebrew name ''Yohanan'' (), Seán (anglicized as ''Shaun/Shawn/ Shon'') and Séan (Ulster variant; anglicized ''Shane/Shayne''), rendered ''John'' in English and Johannes/Johann/Johan in other Germanic languages. The Norman French ''Jehan'' (see ''Jean'') is another version. For notable people named Sean, refer to List of people named Sean. Origin The name was adopted into the Irish language most likely from ''Jean'', the French variant of the Hebrew name ''Yohanan''. As Gaelic has no letter (derived from ; English also lacked until the late 17th Century, with ''John'' previously been spelt ''Iohn'') so it is substituted by , as was the normal Gaelic practice for adapting Biblical names that contain in other languages (''Sine''/''Siobhàn'' for ''Joan/Jane/Anne/Anna''; ''Seonaid''/''Sinéad'' for ''Janet''; ''Seumas''/''Séamus'' for ''Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quentin Palfrey
Quentin Palfrey (born April 29, 1974) is an American lawyer, policymaker, and political candidate. He currently serves as Deputy General Counsel at the United States Department of Commerce. He previously served as the Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) North America and is the Co-Director of the Global Access in Action project at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. During President Obama’s first term, Palfrey worked as Senior Advisor for Jobs & Competitiveness in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In that role, he served as lead policy staffer on reform efforts and also coordinated White House input into a report to Congress on the national strategy for innovation and competitiveness. He has written and spoken widely on innovation, poverty, and evidence-based policy. Palfrey was the Democratic candidate in the 2018 Massachusetts election for lieutenant governor, running with gubernatorial candidate Jay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daf Palfrey
Dafydd (Daf) Palfrey (born 26 March 1973) is a Welsh people, Welsh director, producer and writer. Education He received 1st Class Bachelor of Arts, BA Hons Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts London Institute. His other interests include writing and performing music, which he has done semi-professionally since he was 16, as a lead guitarist with legendary Cardiff funk band Hanner Pei. He has written a pilot for a TV series, directed numerous prime time shows, shot over thirty music videos and worked in the UK and abroad, including the US, Puerto Rico, Berlin, Patagonia and Canada. Palfrey graduated in 1997 from Camberwell College of Arts with a 1st class degree in Graphic Design. One of his graduation projects was a short film starring Rhys Ifans, which was a surrealist interpretation of the events leading up to "The Scream" by Edvard Munch. He worked in Puerto Rico for a few months on a documentary about photographer Jack Delano. He directed music videos for a short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Palfrey Woodrow
Margaret Germaine "Polly" Palfrey Woodrow (October 7, 1906 – August 26, 1997) was an American tennis player from Boston, active in the 1920s and 1930s. Palfrey won the Massachusetts and national Junior Doubles championships in 1924, with Fanny Curtis as her partner. Early life and education Palfrey was born in Boston, the eldest daughter of John Gorham Palfrey and Methyl Gertrude Oakes Paltrey. Her father was a lawyer. She graduated from Smith College in 1929. At Smith, she was president of the Student Government Association. Career Palfrey and her siblings, including John Gorham Palfrey (academic), John Palfrey, Sarah Palfrey Cooke and Mianne Palfrey, all competed in tennis at the national level. Polly Palfrey won the Massachusetts and national Junior Doubles championships in 1924, with Fanny Curtis as her partner. She also played doubles with younger sister Elizabeth, also known as Lee, as her partner. In 1929, she played in both singles and doubles games at a tournament in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
