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Penney
Penney (also spelled Penny) is a common surname of British origin. The name Penney dates from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It was derived from the Old English "Penig," denoting a coin (cognate with German " Pfennig"). The penny was the only unit of coinage in England until the early 14th century, and as such was a coin of considerable value. The name was first found in Northampton where they held a family seat from very early times; before the 12th century had become associated with London; later moved north into Scotland and west into Ireland settling mostly in the provinces of Ulster and Munster. Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: George Penny who settled in the Barbados in 1635; William Penny settled on Eastern Long Island prior to 1740; Charles Penny settled in Maryland in 1775; P. Penny settled in Boston, Massachusetts in 1769; the family also settled in Pennsylvania in the 18th century. In Newfoundland, Benedict Pen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JC Penney
Penney OpCo LLC, doing business as JCPenney and often abbreviated JCP, is a midscale American department store chain operating 667 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. Departments inside JCPenney stores include Mens, Womens, Boys, Girls, Baby, Bedding, Home, Fine Jewelry, Shoes, Lingerie, ''The Salon by InStyle'', ''Sephora inside JCPenney'', as well as leased departments such as Seattle's Best Coffee, US Vision optical centers, and Lifetouch portrait studios. Most JCPenney stores were initially located in downtown areas, but, as shopping malls grew in popularity during the 1960s, the chain began relocating and developing stores to anchor the malls. In recent years, JCP has opened stores in power centers, as well as stand-alone stores, sometimes adjacent to competitors. The company has been an Internet retailer since 1998, and it has streamlined its catalog and distribution while undergoing renovation improvements at store level. In May 2020, JCPenney filed for Chapt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirk Penney
Kirk Samuel Penney (born 23 November 1980) is a New Zealand professional basketball player. He played four years of college basketball for the Wisconsin Badgers between 1999 and 2003, where he was twice named first-team all-conference and an all-American. He became the second New Zealander in the NBA when he appeared briefly for the Miami Heat in 2003 and the Los Angeles Clippers in 2005, and went on to play professionally in Spain, the NBA Development League, Israel, Lithuania, Germany and Turkey. He also played six seasons for the New Zealand Breakers of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). He was named the NBL MVP in 2009 won his a championship with the Breakers in 2011. Penney represented New Zealand at the Sydney and Athens Olympics and averaged 16.9 points at the World Championships at Indianapolis in 2002 and 24.7 points at the World Championships at Turkey in 2010. Early life Born in the Auckland suburb of Milford, Penney attended Westlake Boys High Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William George Penney
William George Penney, Baron Penney, (24 June 19093 March 1991) was an English mathematician and professor of mathematical physics at the Imperial College London and later the rector of Imperial College London. He had a leading role in the development of High Explosive Research, Britain's clandestine nuclear programme that started in 1942 during the Second World War which produced the first British atomic bomb in 1952. As the head of the British delegation working on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos Laboratory, Penney initially carried out calculations to predict the damage effects generated by the blast wave of an atomic bomb. Upon returning home, Penney directed the British nuclear weapons directorate, codenamed Tube Alloys and directed scientific research at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment which resulted in the first detonation of a British nuclear bomb in Operation Hurricane in 1952. After the test, Penney became chief advisor to the new United Kingdom Atomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cash Penney
James Cash Penney Jr. (September 16, 1875 – February 12, 1971) was an American businessman and entrepreneur who founded the JCPenney stores in 1902. Early life J. C. Penney was born on September 16, 1875, on a farm outside of Hamilton, Caldwell County, Missouri. He was the seventh of twelve children, only six of whom lived to adulthood, born to James Cash Penney and Mary Frances (born Paxton) Penney. Penney's father was a Baptist preacher and farmer whose strict discipline included making his son pay for his own clothing once he reached 8 years of age. After graduation from Hamilton High School, Penney intended to attend college with the hopes of becoming a lawyer. However, his father's untimely death forced a change in plans, and Penney was forced to take a job as a store clerk to help support the family. Penney's tuberculosis caused him to venture west to Longmont, Colorado.Brown, John W. ''Missouri Legends: Famous People From The Show-Me State''. Reedy Press: St. Louis, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darby Penney
Darby Penney (December 10, 1952 – October 11, 2021) was an American mental health worker and human rights activist working for improvements in psychiatric care. Early life Penney was born in Oceanside, New York, the daughter of Arthur Penney and Audrey Stiefel Penney. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a civil engineer. She graduated from Empire State College, and in 1980 earned a master's degree in library science at the University at Albany. Career Penney, who identified as a psychiatric survivor, was the first Director of Recipient Affairs at the New York State Office of Mental Health when the position was established in 1992. She was a founding member of the National Association of Consumer/Survivor Mental Health Administrators in 1993. In 1997, she was keynote speaker at a conference of the New Jersey Self-Help Clearinghouse. As director of historical projects from 2001 to 2003, along with photographer Lisa RInzler and psychiatrist Peter Stastny, Penney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Penney
David Mark Penney (born 17 August 1964) is an English football manager and former player. Born in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, Penney entered professional football at the relatively late age of 21. He had been working as a bricklayer and playing for nothing at Pontefract Collieries for 5 years before he was spotted by Derby County scout Ron Jukes, who recommended him to manager Arthur Cox. He was offered a contract at the then Third Division club and they climbed two divisions before he left for Oxford United for £175,000. He then went on to Wales, where he played for Swansea City and Cardiff City, latterly signing for Doncaster Rovers in 1998. He played as a midfielder. Managerial career In 2002 Penney retired to pursue a career in management and he remained at Doncaster, taking the managerial job on a full-time basis. After a well-placed finish in his first season, Penney guided Doncaster back into the Football League with victory in the 2003 play-off final. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Penney
Trevor Lionel Penney (born 12 June 1968 in Salisbury, Rhodesia) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer who played for Warwickshire County Cricket Club, noted particularly for his fielding. He was a substitute fielder for England during the 2005 Ashes series. He had a career average of almost 40 runs per innings. Penney later became an assistant coach of the West Indies cricket team. Personal life Penney went to Blakiston Junior School; the same primary school in Zimbabwe as England cricketer Graeme Hick. Career Playing career A right-handed occasional medium-pace bowler and batsman, he was chiefly recognised for his fielding, being described by '' The Guardian'' as 'one of the best fielders to have graced the county game'. Penney played for Warwickshire in the match where Brian Lara scored a world record 501 *. In 2003, Penney scored 52 runs from 28 balls in the first Twenty20 match in England. Whilst still playing, he worked as a specialist fielding coach with the Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Penney (ice Hockey)
Joseph Romeo Steve Penney (born February 7, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. Penney played with the Montreal Canadiens and original Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League. Early life Penney was born in Sainte-Foy, Quebec. As a youth, he played in the 1974 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Sainte-Foy. Career Penney made his NHL debut with a handful of games left in the 1983-84 NHL season when Canadiens coach Jacques Lemaire, dissatisfied with the play of regular goaltending tandem Rick Wamsley and Richard Sevigny, called up the 23-year-old Penney from the AHL and made him the starting goaltender for the 1984 Stanley Cup playoffs. Penney was an immediate sensation, posting three shutouts as Montreal upset both the Boston Bruins and Quebec Nordiques to reach the Wales Conference final against the 4-time defending Stanley Cup champion New York Islanders. Montreal won the first two games but the Islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Penney (footballer)
Steven Alexander Penney (born 6 January 1964) is a former Northern Ireland international footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ... who played as a right winger. Penney started his career with hometown Ballymena United, before moving to England with Brighton & Hove Albion in 1983. Penney spent 8 seasons playing for Brighton in the second and third tier of English football before a single season cameo with Heart of Midlothian in 1991–92. After a similarly short spell with Burnley, a serious knee injury forced him into early retirement. He was capped 17 times by Northern Ireland, earning selection for the 1986 World Cup squad in Mexico. References External links * London Hearts profile 1964 births Living people Sportspeople from Ballyme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stef Penney
Stef Penney (born 1969 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish filmmaker and novelist. She grew up in the Scottish capital and turned to film-making after a degree in Philosophy and Theology from Bristol University. She made three short films before studying Film and TV at Bournemouth College of Art, and on graduation was selected for the Carlton Television New Writers Scheme. She has also written and directed two short films; a BBC 10 x 10 starring Anna Friel and a Film Council Digital Short in 2002 starring Lucy Russell. She won the 2006 Costa Book Awards and The Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award with her debut novel '' The Tenderness of Wolves,'' which is set in Canada in the 1860s. The novel starts with the discovery of the murder of a trapper, and then follows various events that occur as the murderer is sought. As Stef Penney suffered from agoraphobia at the time of writing this novel, she did all the research in the libraries of London and never visited Canada. She has sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Penney
Frederick Penney FRSE (1816–1869) was a 19th-century Scottish chemist and forensic scientist. He had a deformity of the spine caused by an injury from his youth. Life He was born in London on 10 April 1816, the third son of Charles Penney, a wholesale stationer. He studied chemistry at the Royal Institution under Michael Faraday. He served an apprenticeship under Henry Hennell at Apothecaries' Hall, London 1833 to 1838 then went to Giessen University in central Germany where he obtained a doctorate (PhD) in 1839. Then, on the recommendation of Thomas Graham he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at Anderson's College in Glasgow. He also worked as an analytical chemist in Glasgow, his work including analysis of the water in Loch Katrine in determining it as a water supply for the city. In 1856 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposer was George Wilson. He was an expert forensic witness in several famous murders where poison was susp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphonsus Liguori Penney
Archbishop Alphonsus Liguori Penney (17 September 1924 – 12 December 2017) was a Canadian Catholic priest who was Archbishop of St. John's from 1979 to 1991. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland. Sexual abuse scandal The Winter Commission was appointed in 1989 by Archbishop Penney and released its report during the following year. Its final report, submitted in 1990, was entitled ''The report of the Archdiocesan Commission of Enquiry into the Sexual Abuse of Children by Members of the Clergy''. Archbishop Penney resigned on February 2, 1991, following the release of the commission's report, which placed some of the blame for cover-ups of the abuse on him.Ulbrich, Jeffrey"Archbishop offers resignation in sex abuse scandal" ''The Free Lance-Star ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
