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Perks (surname)
Perks is a surname. List of people with the surname * Ellis Perks (born 1997), British speedway rider * Gord Perks (born 1963), Canadian environmentalist, political activist, writer and Toronto city councillor * Marcelle Perks, British author and journalist * Micah Perks (born 1963), American fiction writer and memoirist * Reg Perks (1911–1977), English cricketer * Robert Perks (1849–1934), British politician * Sarah Perks, English curator and producer of contemporary visual art and independent films * Thomas Perks (1883–1953), English cricketer * William George Perks, better known as Bill Wyman, bassist of the Rolling Stones See also * Parks (surname) * Perkins Perkins is a surname derived from the Anglo-Saxon corruption of the kin of Pierre (from Pierre kin to Pierrekin to Perkins), introduced into England by the Norman Conquest. It is found throughout mid- and southern England. Another derivation com ... * Perks (other) {{Surname English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellis Perks
Ellis George Perks (born 18 March 1997) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from England. In 2019, he became the first ever rider to win all three tiers of the British Speedway leagues in the same season; the Premiership, Championship and National League. Family He is the great nephew of former rider Dave Perks and son of former referee Robbie Perks. Career Born in Worcester, England, Perks began riding grasstrack at the age of 6 and took up speedway aged 10 after moving to Australia with his family in 2007.Ellis Perks Up Rockets , Rye House Speedway, 5 December 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2018 He made his British speedway league debut in 2014 with ' |
Gord Perks
Gordon Perks (born October 7, 1963) is a Canadian politician and environmental activist who has served on Toronto City Council since 2006. Perks currently represents Ward 4 Parkdale—High Park. Career Perks has worked for a number of environmental organizations. He was a writer for Pollution Probe from 1987 to 1989 and a "Pulp and Paper" campaigner at Greenpeace Canada from 1989 to 1993. He was executive director of the Better Transportation Coalition from 1994 to 1996 and was a senior campaigner at the Toronto Environmental Alliance from 1997 until 2006 with a focus on waste reduction and public transit. He also works as an adjunct professor at the Environmental Studies department of the University of Toronto. Perks was the focus of province-wide attention when he disrupted Ontario Premier David Peterson's press conference launching the 1990 provincial election campaign. As Peterson announced the election and began to make a statement as to why his government should be re-e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelle Perks
Marcelle Perks is a British author and journalist living in Germany. She specializes in writing sexually-themed guide books, but also writes short stories. As a film journalist, she has contributed to such publications as '' British Horror Cinema'', ''Fangoria'', ''The Guardian'' and ''Kamera Kamera may refer to: * ''Kamera'' (wfi), a genus of eukaryotes with only one known species * Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services * "Kamera", a song from Wilco's 2002 album '' Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'' * Ivan Kamera (1897–1952), a Sovi ...''. Bibliography *''Incredible Orgasms: Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, YESSS!!'' (2006) *''The User's Guide to the Rabbit'' (2006) *''Incredible Sex: 52 Brilliant Little Ideas to Take You All the Way'' (2006) *''The Little Book of Big O's: Brilliant Ideas to Take You to the Limit'' (2007) *''Secrets of Porn Star Sex: Brilliant Ideas for No-holds Barred Pleasure'' (2007) *''Bare Souls: tales of love, sex and death (2010)'' References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micah Perks
Micah Perks is an American fiction writer and memoirist. Her three books, ''We Are Gathered Here'' (St. Martin's Press 1997), ''Pagan Time'' (Counterpoint Press 2001), and ''What Becomes Us''Outpost19 Books2016) examine the utopian impulse in U.S. history. Biography Micah Perks grew up on a commune in the Adirondack Mountains. She later went to high school in Middlebury, Vermont, and received her BA and MFA from Cornell University. She is a 2008 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship Grant, five Pushcart Prize nominations and has been a resident of the Blue Mountain Center several times. She has taught at Cornell University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and University of California, Santa Cruz, where she is Professor of Literature and Co-Director of The Creative Writing Program, with her partner, Latin American/Latino critic Juan Poblete. They live in Santa Cruz, California with their four children. Literary works Novels ''We Are Gathered Here'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Perks
Reginald Thomas David Perks (4 October 1911 – 22 November 1977) was an English cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1939, and was the mainstay of Worcestershire's bowling for a long period from the middle 1930s until the middle 1950s. He was also an aggressive left-handed tail-end slogger, who frequently hit up thirty runs in twenty or so minutes, and on three occasions hit three sixes off consecutive balls. His highest first-class score of 75 against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in 1938 took just thirty minutes. He does, however, hold the world record for the most ducks in a first-class career, with 156. Perks was first involved with Worcestershire as early as 1928, when he joined their ground staff. He showed considerable promise in his first season with the first team in 1930, with 59 wickets for 23 each, with 7 for 20 against Leicestershire on a rain-affected wicket his outstanding performance. It was several years before he improved upon this, but by 1935 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Perks
Sir Robert William Perks, 1st Baronet (24 April 1849 – 30 November 1934) was a British Liberal politician. He was the son of George Thomas Perks (1819 – 1877), a Wesleyan Methodist preacher. He was educated at Kingswood School and at King's College London (1867–71). He then qualified as a solicitor, and became a partner of Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton. He was elected to Parliament at the 1892 general election as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Louth. Perks was a prominent member of the Liberal Imperialists and its successor the Liberal League, in both organisations acting as treasurer. He was made a baronet in 1908, and retired from Parliament at the 1910 general election. In 1898, Perks proposed the creation of the Wesleyan Methodist Twentieth Century Fund (also known as the 'One Million Guinea Fund') which aimed to raise one million guineas (£1.1s. or £1.05) to build a church in Central London. The fund had raised £1,073,682 by the time it clo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Perks
Sarah Perks is an international curator and producer of contemporary visual art, independent film and engagement. She will be Artistic Director for Visual Arts and Film of HOME (Manchester), HOME, the centre for international contemporary arts, theatre and film formed by the merger of Cornerhouse and the Library Theatre Company. She is currently artistic director of Cornerhouse and is the founder of Cornerhouse Artist Film. Career In January 2014, Perks curated ''Jamie Shovlin: Hiker Meat'', Cornerhouse Jamie Shovlin Hiker Meat a solo exhibition that included the new commission ''Rough Cut'', an installation and feature-length film produced in partnership with Toronto International Film Festival and in competition at 43rd Rotterdam International Film Festival. In 2011, Perks founded Cornerhouse Artist Film, a UK sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Perks
Thomas Perks (2 October 1883–15 January 1953) was an English cricketer who played one first-class match, for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against London County at Crystal Palace Park in August 1902. In an innings defeat for MCC, Perks claimed three stumpings and one catch, although John Whiteside (who stumped one further man) was listed as MCC's wicket-keeper on the scorecard. Perks was born in Worcester; he died in Ledbury, Herefordshire at the age of 69. His son, Reg Perks, had a far more substantial career, playing nearly 600 first-class matches including two Tests and playing for Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see His ... for more than two decades. Notes External links *Statistical summaryfrom CricketArchivefrom CricketArchive {{DEFAULTSOR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Wyman
William George Wyman (né Perks; born 24 October 1936) is an English musician who achieved international fame as the bassist for the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1993. In 1989, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Rolling Stones. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. He has worked producing records and films, and has scored music for films and television. Wyman has kept a journal since he was a child during World War II, and has published seven books. He is also a photographer, and his works have been displayed in galleries around the world. Wyman became an amateur archaeologist and enjoys metal detecting. He designed and marketed a patented "Bill Wyman signature metal detector", which he has used to find relics in the English countryside dating back to the era of the Roman Empire. Early life Born William George Perks in Lewisham Hospital in Lewisham, South London, the son of bricklayer Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parks (surname)
Parks is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alan Parks (1920-1982), British surgeon * Alan Parks (writer) (born 1963), Scottish crime writer * Alex Parks (born 1984), English singer-songwriter * Bernard C. Parks (born 1943), American politician, former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department * Bert Parks (1914–1992), American actor, singer, and radio and television announcer * Billy Parks (1948–2009), American football player * Bobby Parks (1961–2013), American basketball player, member of the Philippine Basketball Association Hall of Fame * Bobby Ray Parks Jr. (born 1993), American basketball player, son of the above * Bobby Parks (cricketer) Robert James Parks (born 15 June 1959) is a former English cricketer who played for Hampshire County Cricket Club. He is the grandson of Jim Parks senior and son of Jim Parks junior. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perkins
Perkins is a surname derived from the Anglo-Saxon corruption of the kin of Pierre (from Pierre kin to Pierrekin to Perkins), introduced into England by the Norman Conquest. It is found throughout mid- and southern England. Another derivation comes from the Welsh Perthyn, relative or belonging to a particular person or family, and also thought to be the Anglicized form of Peredur, from medieval Welsh. Notable people with the surname * Al Perkins, American guitarist * Annie Stevens Perkins (1868–1911), American writer * Anthony Perkins (1932–1992), American actor * Benjamin Douglas Perkins (1774–1810), American, son of Elisha Perkins, bookseller and propagandist of therapy with "Perkins tractors" * Bill Perkins (other), several people * Bishop Perkins (1787–1866), member of New York State Assembly, later congressional Representative from New York * Bishop W. Perkins (1841–1894), U.S. Representative and Senator from Kansas * Brian Perkins, New Zealander anch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perks (other)
Perks may refer to: People * Perks (surname) Other uses * Perks baronets, an extinct title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom * Perks, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community * Perks Matriculation Higher Secondary School, India * Polly Perks This article contains brief biographies for characters from Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' series. This list consists of human characters. For biographies of noted members of the Discworld's "ethnic minorities" (dwarfs, trolls, undead, etc.), ..., a character in the Discworld fantasy universe See also * Perk (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
