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Peterkin
Peterkin is a surname, alternatively spelled Peterken. It is a medieval diminutive of the given name Peter. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Peterkin (1781–1846), Scottish writer * Daisy Ann Peterkin (1884–1952), a dancer professionally known as Mademoiselle Dazie * Elizabeth Helen Peterken, the birth name of Betsy McCaughey, an American politician * Freddie Lee Peterkin, an American singer-songwriter * George William Peterkin (1841–1916), the first Episcopal bishop of West Virginia * Jamie Peterkin, b. 1982, a Saint Lucian Olympic swimmer * Julia Peterkin (1880–1961), a South Carolina fiction writer * Dr. Michael Peterkin, the founder of the Pierro winery in Australia * Major-General Peter Grant Peterkin, b. 1947, a retired British army officer * Rebekah Dulaney Peterkin (1847–1891), an American philanthropist * Wilbur J. Peterkin (1904–1996), an American military officer. * Thomas Peterkin, the Mayor of Lower Hutt (1907 - 1909) Fictional c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddie Lee Peterkin
Freddie Lee Peterkin, also known as Freddie Lee, is a published author, singer–songwriter, actor and ordained interdenominational Minister, born in Pahokee, Florida. He is known for his gritty power soul vocals reminiscent of Bobby Womack. He has become an artist of public note through his 2008 independent release of the Soul and Gospel album ''Beyond Comprehension'' under the recording name of Freddie Lee. He made his prime time acting debut as "DJ Freddie Murphy" on Channel 4's T4 Stars & Strikes and as a character in BBC2's ''Grumpy Guide to Work'' in 2011. He was also the voice for Bewiser Owl in the Bewiser Insurance TV commercial in 2012 and 2013. He established himself in the live entertainment industry with his choreographed costume Soul Tribute stage productions for theatres and resorts in 1991. These critically acclaimed shows include The Sounds of the Four Tops, The Sounds of the Drifters and The Sounds of the Temptations. He is currently a DJ and presenter on Sola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George William Peterkin
George William Peterkin (March 21, 1841 – September 22, 1916) was the first Bishop of West Virginia in the Episcopal Church in the United States. Early life Born in Clear Spring, Washington County, Maryland as first child of Rev. Joshua Peterkin of Baltimore, Maryland (1814–1892) and his wife Elizabeth Howard Hanson, George Peterkin had two younger sisters, Mary Beall Peterkin (1842–1857) and Rebekah Dulaney Peterkin. He attended the University of Virginia until the American Civil War interrupted his studies to become a priest like his father. Peterkin joined the 21st Virginia Infantry in Richmond, and after the battle of Seven Pines in 1862 joined the staff of artillery General William N. Pendleton, who had been a priest in Maryland before the war and knew his father. As General Pendleton's aide, Lieutenant Peterkin witnessed the surrender ceremony at Appomattox. Ministry After the war, Peterkin attended Virginia Theological Seminary and graduated in 1868. Ordained a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Peterkin
Julia Peterkin (October 31, 1880 – August 10, 1961) was an American author from South Carolina. In 1929 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Novel/Literature for her novel ''Scarlet Sister Mary.'' She wrote several novels about the plantation South, especially the Gullah people of the Lowcountry. She was one of the few white authors who wrote about the African-American experience. Life and career Julia Mood was born in Laurens County, South Carolina. Her father was a physician, and she was the third of his four children. Her mother died soon after her birth, and her father later married Janie Brogdon. Janie was the mother of Henry Ashleigh Mood, Julia's half-brother and her father's fourth child. He became a doctor. In 1896, at age 16, Julia Mood graduated from Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina; she earned her master's degree there a year later. She taught at the public school in Fort Motte, South Carolina for a few years, then married William George Peterkin in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebekah Dulaney Peterkin
Rebekah Dulaney Peterkin (also known as Rebecca Dulany Peterkin) (September 24, 1847 – July 26, 1891) was an American philanthropist who founded the first circle of the International Order of the King's Daughters and Sons in Virginia, and then the Sheltering Arms Hospital in Richmond. Early and family life Born in Berryville, Virginia as the youngest child of Rev. Joshua Peterkin of Baltimore, Maryland (1814–1892) and his wife Elizabeth Howard Hanson (1820–1910), Rebekah Peterkin had a brother, future West Virginia bishop George W. Peterkin and a sister, Mary Beall Peterkin (1842–1857). During the American Civil War, she assisted her mother and Capt. Sally Tompkins in Richmond hospitals. After the war, and the evacuation fire which destroyed much of Richmond and the livelihoods of many Richmonders, she grew keenly aware of the problems of members of her father's parish, St. James Church, many of whom could not afford medical or hospital care. Sheltering Arms Hospita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Peterkin
Alexander Peterkin (26 March 1781 – 9 November 1846) was a Scottish lawyer, journalist and writer. Life Peterkin was born in Macduff in Banffshire, where his father, William Peterkin, was a parish minister. His father was translated to Leadhills, Lanarkshire, in 1785, and in 1787 to Ecclesmachan, West Lothian, where he died in 1792. Alexander's education, begun at the parish school, was completed in Edinburgh, and he closed his university curriculum as a law student in 1803. In this year he was enrolled in the first regiment of Royal Edinburgh volunteers, feeling with Walter Scott and others that the time needed a strong civilian army. After a full training in the office of a Writer to the Signet, Peterkin was duly qualified as a solicitor before the supreme courts ( S. S. C.), and he began his professional career at Peterhead before 1811 as "attorney, notary public, and conveyancer". He was sheriff-substitute of Orkney from 1814 to 1823, when he returned to Edinburgh. For s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Grant Peterkin
Major-General Anthony Peter Grant Peterkin (born 6 July 1947) is a retired senior British Army officer. He was the British House of Commons' Serjeant at Arms between 2004 and 2007. Early life Grant Peterkin was born on 6 July 1947. He is the son of the late Brigadier James Grant Peterkin, DSO and his wife Dorothea Grant Peterkin. He was educated at Ampleforth College, then an all-boys independent school in Ampleforth, North Yorkshire. Military career Having graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Grant Peterkin was commissioned into the Queen's Own Highlanders on 28 July 1967 as a second lieutenant. He was given the service number 483916. In 1968, he was selected for an in-service degree and began studying history at Durham University. He was promoted to lieutenant on 28 January 1969. He graduated from Durham with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1971. He was a member of Hatfield College during his studies. He was promoted to captain on 28 July 1973. Between 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Peterkin Papers
''The Peterkin Papers'' is a collection of humorous short stories by American author Lucretia Peabody Hale. The book was first published in 1880, and a sequel, ''The Last of the Peterkins'' was printed in 1886. Story publication history The first Peterkin story, ''The Lady Who Put Salt in Her Coffee'', was published in the April 1868 issue of the children’s magazine ''Our Young Folks''. Other stories in the series originally appeared in issues of ''Our Young Folks'', until the periodical ceased publication in 1873. Later Peterkin stories were published in ''St. Nicholas Magazine’’. Snyopsis The family consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Peterkin and their children Elizabeth Eliza, Soloman John, Agamemnon, plus three unnamed little boys. They lived near Boston, and encountered difficulties due to their "scatterbrained naivete and were rescued from disaster in each case by the commonsensical Lady from Philadelphia." The author based the Lady from Philadelphia on her friend, Susan Lyma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Peterkin
Thomas Alexander Peterkin (1839 – 12 June 1926) was a British born New Zealand engineer and politician who was mayor of Lower Hutt. Biography Peterkin was born in 1839 in London. He found employment with the London and North Western Railway, later becoming a leading hand. He then emigrated to Victoria, Australia, to become manager of the Vulcan Foundry at Geelong. Three years later he superintended the building of a freezing works at Rockhampton and established a foundry there as well. He then became an engineer overseeing cable work before shifting to New Zealand. In 1876 he was appointed as a railway engineer at Westport, later becoming manager of the Christchurch Tramway Company. He rejoined the railways department, working at Hillside and Addington, and was again manager at Westport for seven years. In 1897 he moved to Wellington where he was a locomotive engineer. In 1907 he was elected Mayor of Lower Hutt, defeating borough councillors Albert Burton Clark and Frederi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Coral Island
''The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean'' (1857) is a novel written by Scottish people, Scottish author . One of the first works of young adult fiction, juvenile fiction to feature exclusively juvenile heroes, the story relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a Pacific Ocean, South Pacific island, the only survivors of a shipwreck. A typical Robinsonade – a genre of fiction inspired by Daniel Defoe's ''Robinson Crusoe'' – and one of the most popular of its type, the book first went on sale in late 1857 and has never been out of print. Among the novel's major themes are the civilising effect of Christianity, 19th-century imperialism in the South Pacific, and the importance of hierarchy and leadership. It was the inspiration for William Golding's dystopian novel ''Lord of the Flies'' (1954), which inverted the morality of ''The Coral Island''; in Ballantyne's story the children encounter evil, but in ''Lord of the Flies'' evil is within them. In the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Peterkin
Jamie Peterkin (born February 28, 1982) is a male swimmer from Castries, Saint Lucia. He swam for Saint Lucia in the 2000 Summer Olympics, finishing 59th in the 50-meter freestyle. He is a member of the University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a Public University, public Land-grant University, land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentu ... swimming team, specializing in the 50- and 100-meter freestyle events. References 1982 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierro
__NOTOC__ Pierro Margaret River Vineyards (usually referred to simply as Pierro) is an Australian winery at Wilyabrup, in the Margaret River wine region of Western Australia. Established in 1979 on a scrubby, rocky and steeply sloping property, it has been described as having "one of the prettiest locations in an area that offers much, even at its most mundane." The winery's name, adapted from that of the folk tale character Pierrot, alludes to both the winery's founder, Dr Michael Peterkin, and its location, as both "Pierrot" and "Peterkin" mean "son of Peter" and "son of the rock". See also * Australian wine * List of wineries in Western Australia * Western Australian wine Western Australian wine refers to wine produced in Australia's largest state, Western Australia. Although the state extends across the western third of the continent, its wine regions are almost entirely situated in the cooler climate of its sou ... References Notes Bibliography * * * * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisy Ann Peterkin
Daisy Ann Peterkin (September 16, 1884 – August 12, 1952), known by the stage name Mlle. Dazie, was an American vaudeville and Ziegfeld Follies dancer at the turn of the 20th century. She was a toe-dancer. Biography Born on September 16, 1884, in St. Louis, Dazie's first appearance in vaudeville was as "Le Domino Rouge" in an act where she wore a red mask. After she got rid of the mask, she was billed as "Mlle. Dazie" and it was under this name that she appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies. She toured the B. F. Keith Circuit in a ballet pantomime, ''L'Amour d'Artiste'', and headlined the Palace in 1917 in another ballet pantomime directed by Herbert Brenon. She headlined ''The Garden of Punchinello'' ballet directed by Herbert Brenon at the Palace. She also appeared in ''La Belle Paree''. Her last stage performance was in ''Aphrodite'', in 1919. She married Cornelius Fellowes, president of the St. Nicholas Hygeia Ice Company and son of a famous horseman. A prize-winning racehor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
