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Philp
Philp is a surname, and may refer to: * Chris Philp (born 1976), British entrepreneur and Conservative Party politician *Douglas Philp (born 1967), Scottish chemist *Geoffrey Philp (born 1958), Jamaican poet, novelist and playwright * Hugh Philp (1786–1856), Scottish golf club maker * James George Philp (1816–1885), English landscape and coastal painter * Peter Philp (1920–2006), Welsh dramatist and antiques expert *Robert Kemp Philp, (1819-1882), English chartist * Robert Philp (1851–1922), Scottish-Australian businessman and Premier of Queensland *Robert Philp (missionary) (1913–2008), Church of Scotland missionary in Kenya *Tom Philp (1923–1994), Scottish radiologist *Willie Philp Willie Philp was a Scottish professional Association football, football centre forward who played in the Scottish League for Cowdenbeath F.C., Cowdenbeath. Either side of his spell with Cowdenbeath, he played in the Soccer in the United States, U ..., Scottish footballer See also * Phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Philp
Sir Robert Philp, (28 December 1851 – 17 June 1922) was a Queensland businessman and politician who was Premier of Queensland from December 1899 to September 1903 and again from November 1907 to February 1908. Early life Philp was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the second son of John Philp, a lime-kiln operator, and Mary Ann Philp (''née'' Wylie). He emigrated to Brisbane with his parents and siblings in 1862, where his father took a lease on the municipal baths, and later became involved in the cattle and sugar industries. Philp was educated at the National (Normal) School until 1863 when he started work at Bright Bros & Co shipping company, before moving to Townsville in 1874 to take up the position of junior partner in the trading company Burns, Philp and Company. Burns, Philp & Co acted as agents and provisioners for the sugar cane and pastoral industries that sustained Northern Queensland, and Philp served as manager of the Townsville office. Beginning in 1881, Philp di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Philp
Christopher Ian Brian Mynott Philp (born 6 July 1976) is a British politician serving as Minister of State for Crime, Policing and Fire since October 2022. He served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General in October 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Croydon South since May 2015. In August 2019, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid. In September 2019, he was appointed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Ministry of Justice and in February 2020 at the Home Office. He was also briefly the Minister for London from December 2019 to February 2020. He was moved to the position of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy by Johnson in the September 2021 reshuffle. He resigned from this post during the July 2022 government crisis. After Johnson resigned in July 2022, Philp supported ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Philp
Hugh Philp (1786–1856) was a Scottish golf club maker, who is considered to be the greatest club maker of all time. Born in Cameron Bridge in Fife he moved to nearby St Andrews to establish a carpentry, joinery and housepainting business. In 1812 he started to repair and then make golf clubs as a sideline. This sideline became a great success and he subsequently opened a shop and workshop adjacent to the St Andrews Links. Philp used thorn, apple and pear woods as materials for its clubheads. He was recognized as the finest clubmaker of his time.Hugh Philp biography on Club Makers Art (archived, 4 Mar 2016) So well regarded were his clubs that even while he lived, forgeries were made after a couple of his name stamps had been stolen. Even to this day, fake clubs bearing an H. PHILP nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Philp
Geoffrey Philp (born 1958) is a Jamaican poet, novelist, and playwright. Philp used to reside in Jamaica, where he was born and attended Jamaica College, but he relocated in 1979 to Miami, Florida. He is the author of the novel ''Benjamin, My Son'' (2003), and six poetry collections: ''Exodus and Other Poems'' (1990), ''Florida Bound'' (1995), ''Hurricane Center'' (1998), ''Xango Music'' (2001), ''Twelve Poems and A Story for Christmas'' (2005), and ''Dub Wise'' (2010). He has also written two books of short stories, ''Uncle Obadiah and the Alien'' (1997) and ''Who's Your Daddy? and Other Stories'' (2009); a play, ''Ogun's Last Stand'' (2005), and the children's books ''Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories'' (2007) and ''Marcus and the Amazons'' (2011). He also has a blog where he critiques other people's literary works. His work has been mainly influenced by Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, V. S. Naipaul, Bob Marley, and Joseph Campbell and contains some elements of magical realism. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kemp Philp
Robert Kemp Philp (1819–1882) was an English journalist, author, and Chartist. Early life Born at Falmouth on 14 June 1819, he was son of Henry Philp (1793–1836) of Falmouth. His grandfather Robert Kemp Philp (1769–1850), a Wesleyan and then Unitarian minister of Falmouth, was one of the earliest supporters of ragged schools and city missions. Chartist On leaving school Philp was placed, in 1835, with a printer at Bristol, and then was a newsvendor in Bath, Somerset. For selling a Sunday newspaper, he was fined, and, on refusing to pay, was condemned to the stocks for two hours. He joined the Chartist movement, and edited a paper called ''The Regenerator'', and, with Henry Vincent, ''The National Vindicator'', a Bath weekly newspaper, which appeared from 1838 to 1842. In 1839 Philp began lecturing as a Chartist, of moderate opinions. After the Newport Rising (November 1840) he collected evidence for the defence of John Frost (d. 1877) . v. and was arrested at Newport, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Philp (missionary)
The Reverend Robert Anderson Philp (25 February 1913 – 1 March 2008) was a Church of Scotland missionary in Kenya and acted as interpreter during the trial of Jomo Kenyatta in 1952. Early life Robert Anderson Philp, born on 25 February 1913, was the only child of a Scottish missionary doctor, the Rev Dr Horace Philp, founder of Tumutumu Hospital near Nyeri, Kenya in the foothills of Mount Kenya. He was raised amongst the Kikuyu people of central Kenya, and was known for his mastery of the Gikuyu language as well as for the authenticity of his accent. Education After his formative years, he went to George Watson's School in Edinburgh, Scotland and went to study divinity at the University of Edinburgh, after which he spent a year studying at the Budapest College of the Reformed Church in Hungary. Ministry in Kenya In 1937 he returned to Kenya as a missionary, where his first station was at his birthplace Tumutumu. While there, he lived and worked as a missionary and also serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Philp
Thomas Philp FRCP(Ed), FRCR (19 April 1923 – 18 December 1994) was a Scottish consultant radiologist. Early life Philp was educated at Strathallan School in Perthshire and the University of Edinburgh, graduating ( MB, ChB) in 1945. Between 1946 and 1948 he completed his national service with the Royal Army Medical Corps serving in West Africa and India attaining the rank of major. Radiologist On his return to Edinburgh, Philp joined the Radiology Department at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh where he was appointed registrar 1951, senior registrar in 1952 and senior hospital medical officer in 1953. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and was appointed consultant at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh in 1956. Philp conducted extensive research in cardiovascular radiology at a time when traditional radiological techniques were undergoing an evolutionary period. In 1971, he was awarded a World Health Organization travelling fellowship to Japan where he researc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Philp
Douglas Philp (born 31 December 1967) is a Scottish chemist who is currently Professor in Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. He was previously a Reader in Physical Organic Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. Philp graduated from the University of Aberdeen with a BSc in Chemistry in 1989 and completed his PhD in 1992 at the University of Birmingham with a thesis entitled ''Self-Assembly in Chemical Systems''. He was awarded the Saltire Society Scottish Science Award in 2005 and the Royal Society of Chemistry Bader Award in 2009. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2021. Philp has an h-index of 46 according to Google Scholar Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes ... (). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Philp, Douglas 1967 births Living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James George Philp
James George Philp (1816– 11 April 1885), of Falmouth, Cornwall, was a landscape and coastal painter. Most of his subjects were found in Devon and Cornwall. He exhibited from 1846 to 1885 including the 1880 Winter Exhibition at the Institute of Painters in Water Colours. Philp was described by the critic of The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ... as ″...''the veteran, and most distinguished, coast painter of which Cornwall can boast'', ,,,″ and impressed by ''A Cornish Bulwark'' describing it as a ″''striking work''″ ″''and a passage of great beauty''″. Eighteen months before his death he suffered ″paralysis″, and just before his death in Falmouth he had a seizure. He left a widow and son. References 1816 births 1885 deaths 19th- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Philp
Denis Alfred Peter Philp (10 November 1920 - 5 February 2006), was a Welsh dramatist and antiques expert, best known for his television series, ''Collectors' Club''. Philp was born in Cardiff, and attended Penarth grammar school, but opted to enter the family antiques business, A. T. Philp & Sons, instead of going to university. The premises were in Cardiff's Royal Arcade, where they remained until 1968. He served in the RAF during the Second World War, and married Pamela Ayton in 1940. They had two sons. In the meantime, he continued to write plays, as he had done since his schooldays, and his major success was '' Castle of Deception'' (1951); this won him the title of Most Promising Young Playwright at the Edinburgh Festival. He lived for a time near Monmouth, but later returned to Cardiff. In 1958, the first programme in the series, ''Collectors' Club'', was shown on television, and Philp also wrote a column on antiques for ''The Times''. He published several books on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Philp
Willie Philp was a Scottish professional Association football, football centre forward who played in the Scottish League for Cowdenbeath F.C., Cowdenbeath. Either side of his spell with Cowdenbeath, he played in the Soccer in the United States, United States. Career statistics Honours Cowdenbeath * Scottish League Second Division (2): 1913–14 Scottish Division Two, 1913–14, 1914–15 Scottish Division Two, 1914–15 Individual *Cowdenbeath F.C., Cowdenbeath Hall of Fame References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
