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Peter Edwards (field Hockey)
Peter Edwards may refer to: * Peter Edwards (vexillologist) (1931–2019), Canadian vexillologist * Peter Edwards (artist) (born 1955), British painter * Peter Edwards (rugby league) (born 1969), New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer * Peter Edwards (rugby union) (born 1980), English rugby union player * Peter Edwards (chemist) (born 1949), British scientist * Peter Edwards (historian) (born 1945), Australian diplomatic and military historian * Peter Edwards (rower) (born 1939), Australian Olympic rower * Peter Edwards (pianist) Peter Edwards is a British pianist, composer and band leader, who is musical director of Tomorrow's Warriors' ensemble the Nu Civilisation Orchestra. He won the "Newcomer of the year" category of the 2015 Parliamentary Jazz Awards, and was nomi ..., British pianist, composer and band leader See also * Edward Peters (other) {{human name disambiguation, Edwards, Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Edwards (vexillologist)
Peter Brian Edwards CD, CStJ, FRHSC (March 19, 1931 – July 25, 2019) was a vexillologist Vexillology ( ) is the study of the history, symbolism and usage of flags or, by extension, any interest in flags in general.Smith, Whitney. ''Flags Through the Ages and Across the World'' New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. Print. The word is a synth ... and scholar of flags. He established the ''Canadian Flag Institute'' on October 31, 1978. Life Interested in vexillology, he was a Member of the North American Vexillological Association and on October 31, 1978, he established the ''Canadian Flag Institute'', renamed Burgee Data Archive (BDA) August 31, 1993. Peter was diligent in researching the often-neglected field of maritime flags and became the world's top reference in the study of burgees. The Burgee Data Archive published “The Private Signal”, a periodical vexillological journal, and was accepted as a member of the International Federation of Vexillological Associations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Edwards (artist)
Peter Edwards, (born 20 November 1955), is a British painter. He won the 1994 BP Portrait Award. Early career In 1980 he exhibited a small self-portrait in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. The painting was bought by the art collector, Sir Brinsley Ford. In 1986 his portrait of The Liverpool Poets was purchased by the National Portrait Gallery. His continuing involvement with the gallery and Robin Gibson then 20th Century Curator (later Chief Curator) led to a major one-man exhibition and tour in the Gallery in April 1990 "Contemporary Poets", which consisted of 17 large canvasses of 20 poets, alongside a poem from each poet, numerous studies, and a series of Saturday morning readings from Seamus Heaney, Douglas Dunn, Charles Causley, Wendy Cope, and Craig Raine. On 30 July 1991, Bobby Moore unveiled Edwards' portrait of Bobby Charlton in the National Portrait Gallery, Sponsored by British Gas plc, it marked the 25th anniversary of England winning the FIFA W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Edwards (rugby League)
Peter Edwards (born 4 July 1969) is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand in 1993. Playing career A product of Manawatu, Edwards played for the Upper Hutt Tigers in the Wellington Rugby League, and was part of the side that won the Appleton Shield in 1993.Lion Red Rugby League Annual 1992 ''New Zealand Rugby League'', 1992. p.16 He then played for Wellington in the 1993 National Provincial Competition, and was selected to trial for the New Zealand national rugby league team.''Lion Red Rugby League Annual 1993'', New Zealand Rugby Football League, 1993. p.p.180-191 Edwards was subsequently selected to tour Great Britain with the national side and made his Test début against France. Edwards has also represented the New Zealand Māori side. In 1994 Edwards joined the Hutt Valley Firehawks in the new Lion Red Cup. He was named as Fullback in the Lion Red Cup team of the year and toured Australia with the New Zealand Residents.''Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Edwards (rugby Union)
Peter Edwards (born 12 August 1980) is a rugby union player. A prop forward, he plays club rugby for the Welsh regional team the Scarlets having previously played for Llanelli RFC and Llandovery RFC. After his release from the Scarlets, he joined London Welsh for the 2013-14 season. On 20 May 2014, Edwards re-signed for the Scarlets from the 2014-15 season. References External links Scarlets profile 1980 births Living people English rugby union players Rugby union players from Shrewsbury Scarlets players Rugby union props {{England-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Edwards (chemist)
Peter Philip Edwards FRSC FRS (born 1949, Liverpool) is British Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and former Head of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. Edwards is the recipient of the Corday-Morgan Medal (1985), the Tilden Lectureship (1993–94) and Liversidge Award (1999) of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996 and was awarded the 2003 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society "for his distinguished work as a solid state chemist. He has made seminal contributions to fields including superconductivity and the behaviour of metal nanoparticles, and has greatly advanced our understanding of the phenomenology of the metal-insulator transition". In 2009 Edwards was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and he was elected Einstein Professor for 2011 by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he was awarded the Bakerian Lecture The Bakerian Medal is one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Edwards (historian)
Peter Geoffrey Edwards, AM (born 29 August 1945) is an Australian diplomatic and military historian. Educated at the University of Western Australia and the University of Oxford, Edwards worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Australian National University and the University of Adelaide before being appointed Official Historian and general editor of ''The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948–1975'' in 1982. The nine-volume history was commissioned to cover Australia's involvement in the Malayan Emergency, Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation and Vietnam War. Edwards spent fourteen years at the Australian War Memorial (AWM) writing two of the volumes, while also researching, editing, and dealing with budget limitations and problems with staff turnover. Since leaving the AWM in 1996, Edwards has worked as a senior academic, scholar and historical consultant. In 2006 his book ''Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins'' won the Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Edwards (rower)
Peter Frederick Edwards (born 8 September 1939) is an Australian former representative rower. A national champion sculler, he competed in the men's single sculls event at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Club, state and Olympic rowing Edwards' senior club rowing was from the Melbourne Rowing Club. State representative honours for Edwards came in 1960 when he was selected as the Victorian entrant to race for the Presidents Cup in the men's single scull at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. He placed third that year. He made further President's Cup appaeranace for Victoria in 1964, 1965 and 1968 achieving podium finishes everytime and winning the Australian Interstate title in 1964. Edwards' national victory in 1964 saw him selected as Australia's entrant in the single scull for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Edwards (pianist)
Peter Edwards is a British pianist, composer and band leader, who is musical director of Tomorrow's Warriors' ensemble the Nu Civilisation Orchestra. He won the "Newcomer of the year" category of the 2015 Parliamentary Jazz Awards, and was nominated for the 2015 Jazz FM "Breakthrough Artist" award."Peter Edwards" Associate Educators – National Youth Jazz Orchestra. Edwards composes and arranges music for large ensembles as well as writing for his own Peter Edwards Trio, and artists he has worked with include Mica Paris, , |