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Piddington (surname)
Piddington is an English surname, originally given to people from Piddington, Northamptonshire, or Piddington, Oxfordshire. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Piddington (1862–1945), Australian High Court Justice * Andrew Piddington (born 1949), English film director * Henry Piddington (1797–1858), British-Indian scientist * Jack Piddington John Hobart "Jack" Piddington (1910–1997), Australian research scientist * Marion Louisa Piddington, (1869–1950) Australian activist in sex education and eugenics * Phyllis Piddington (1910–2001), Australian novelist, poet and short story writer * Ralph Piddington (1906–1974), New Zealand psychologist, anthropologist and university professor * William Henry Piddington (1856–1900). Australian politician * William Piddington (1815–1887), Australian bookseller and politician * William Piddington, better known as Bill Tarmey (1941-2012), English actor * The Piddingtons Sydney Piddington (14 May 191829 Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piddington, Northamptonshire
Piddington is a village in the south of the English shire county of Northamptonshire (known as Northants) and just north of Buckinghamshire. It is south of Northampton town centre, in a cul-de-sac off the main road at the War Memorial in the village of Hackleton, and about south-west of there. It has a geographic size of and an average height of , rising steadily to in Salcey Forest. Demographics It is part of Hackleton (where the actual population is included) parish, which in total has a population of 1,568, according to the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 census, and contains 606 dwellings. Governance The village is part of Hackleton Parish councils in England, parish council, which also covers the nearby villages of Preston Deanery and Horton, Northamptonshire, Horton. History The villages name means 'Farm/settlement connected with Pyda'. In a field near Piddington is the site of the Piddington Roman Villa. In Roman times, one of the most important roads in the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piddington, Oxfordshire
Piddington is a village and civil parish about southeast of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England. It lies close to the border with Buckinghamshire. Its toponym has been attributed to the Old English ''Pyda's tun''. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 370. Manor Just before the Norman Conquest of England, Hacun, a Dane, held the manor of Piddington, and also the nearby manor of Merton. The Domesday Book records that by 1086 Judith, Countess of Huntingdon, a niece of William I of England held the manor. After the Revolt of the Earls in 1075 Judith's husband Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria was executed and William the Conqueror betrothed her to Simon I de Senlis. She refused to marry him and fled England, so William confiscated her estates and allowed Simon to marry Judith's eldest daughter Maud. Simon received estates including Merton and Piddington as part of the honour of Huntingdon. In 1152 Simon II de Senlis inherited Piddington and almost immediately gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Piddington
Albert Bathurst Piddington King's Counsel, KC (9 September 1862 – 5 June 1945) was an Australian lawyer, politician and judge. He was a member of the High Court of Australia for one month in 1913, making him List of Justices of the High Court of Australia by time in office, the shortest-serving judge in the court's history. Piddington was born in Bathurst, New South Wales. He studied classics at the University of Sydney, and later combined his legal studies with teaching at Sydney Boys High School. Piddington was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1895, representing the Free Trade Party. He was defeated after a single term, and subsequently returned to his legal practice, becoming one of Sydney's best-known barristers. Piddington was sympathetic to the labour movement, and in April 1913 Andrew Fisher nominated him to the High Court as part of a court-packing attempt. His appointment was severely criticised, and he resigned a month later without ever sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Piddington
Andrew J. Piddington (born October 18, 1949 in Romford, Essex) is an English film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. Career He directed films such as '' Shuttlecock'' (1991), '' The Fall'' (1999), '' The Dinosaur Hunters'' (2002) and ''The Killing of John Lennon'' (2006). The low-budget ''The Killing of John Lennon'' starred Jonas Ball as Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman, and was screened at the Edinburgh and Rotterdam Film Festivals. In 1990 he directed the documentary '' Hidden Heritage: The Roots of Black American Painting'' featuring David Driskell, funded by the Arts Council of Great Britain and produced by Maureen McCue. In 1996 he directed the series '' SAS: The Soldiers' Story'', featuring soldiers in different wars and locations in each of the seven episodes, including the Falklands War, the Gulf War The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a Coalition of the Gulf War, 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Piddington
Henry Piddington (7 January 1797 – 7 April 1858) was an English sea captain who sailed in East India and China and later settled in Bengal where he worked as a curator of a geological museum and worked on scientific problems, and is particularly well known for his pioneering studies in meteorology of tropical storms and hurricanes. He noted the circular winds around a calm centre recorded by ships caught in storms and coined the name ''cyclone'' in 1848. Scientific pursuits Henry Piddington was the third of eight (excluding a ninth child who died at infancy) children born to an innkeeper at Lewes, James John Piddington (1757–1837) and his wife, Elizabeth Ann (1762–1835). The family moved to Uckfield in 1802–03 where the Henry would have encountered travelling sailors at the inn where his father worked. Little is known of his early sailing life but he rose to command a ship and by 1824 he was living in Bengal and settled in Calcutta (city in India) around 1831 and took an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Piddington
Jack Hobart Piddington (6 November 1910 – 16 July 1997) was an Australian research physicist and radio scientist. He was chief research scientist at the National Measurement Laboratory in Sydney, Australia from 1966 to 1975. Piddington was born at Wagga Wagga in 1910. William Henry Piddington and Albert Piddington were elder brothers of his grandfather Frederick Hobart Piddington, and Ralph Piddington was a son of Albert Piddington. He received his tertiary education at the University of Sydney, from where he graduated with a B.Sc. in 1932, B.E. in 1934, and M.Sc. in 1936. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1938 from the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the David Syme Research Prize in 1958. He was awarded the T. K. Sidey Medal in 1959, an award set up by the Royal Society of New Zealand for outstanding scientific research. He was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science The Australian Academy of Science was founded in 1954 by a group of distinguished Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Louisa Piddington
Marion Louisa Piddington (1869–1950) was an Australian publicist active in the promotion of eugenics and sex education. The wife of a high-profile judge and politician, and related to Australian literary and political figures, she sought to promote ideas of racial hygiene and single mothers through association with several organisations and progressive movements. Piddington was most well known for her advocacy of contraception, 'celibate motherhood', racialist theory and social legislation in Australia during the interwar period of the nineteen twenties and thirties, works that were neglected until the nineteen eighties; Peddingtons first biographer concludes, "She defied modern categories such as 'puritan' or 'libertarian', being in some curious measure both." Biography Marion Louisa O'Reilly was born to Rosa, née Smith on 23 December 1869 in Sydney, youngest of four fathered by a clergyman in the Anglican faith, the canon Thomas O'Reilly (1819–1881).Neil O'Reilly,O'Reilly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Piddington
Phyllis Piddington (9 October 1910 – 8 July 2001) was an Australian writer. The eldest of daughter of Melbourne optician William James and Lilian Aird, she was one of the first female graduates from the University of Melbourne with an MA degree. After her marriage in 1938 she went to Britain to study and teach, spending the war in Aberystwyth. She moved back to Australia in 1946, lecturing in speech and drama for 15 years. After her retirement in 1969 she published ''Southern Rainbow'' a book set in the late 1830s of South Australia. It was adapted as an anime television series ''Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow is a Japanese anime series by Nippon Animation. This 1982 adaptation is part of the studio's popular ''World Masterpiece Theater'' franchise, based on the 1982 novel ''Southern Rainbow'' by Australian writer Phyllis Piddington (1910–2001), ...'' as part of World Masterpiece Theater series by Nippon Animation. Notable works * ''Southern Rainbow'', Ox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Piddington
Ralph O'Reilly Piddington (19 February 1906 – 8 July 1974) was a New Zealand psychologist, anthropologist and university professor. Biography He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1906, the son of Albert and Marion O'Reilly. He studied anthropology at the London School of Economics under Bronisław Malinowski. He gained a Ph.D. for his study of the Karajarri people of Pilbara, North western Australia. However, when he raised the issue of racial discrimination towards indigenous peoples he was censured by the Australian National Research Council. In 1946, he was appointed Reader in anthropology at the Department of Mental Philosophy, University of Edinburgh. He accepted the offer by the Auckland University College in October 1949 to chair their new anthropology department, and arrived in Auckland with his wife and son in September 1950. However, before he left he encouraged Kenneth Little to take over his position, which lead to the formation of the Departme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Piddington
William Henry Burgess Piddington (24 April 1856 – 27 September 1900) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for six years. Birth and education Piddington was born in Brisbane, Colony of New South Wales and educated there and Newington College whilst the school was situated at Newington House on the Parramatta River. He was the first son of London-born William Jones Killick Piddington and his Tasmanian wife Annie, née Burgess. William Snr was a Methodist minister who in later life became an Anglican. Albert Piddington was a younger brother, and Ralph Piddington was his nephew. Banking and parliament In 1872, Piddington commenced working for the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney and he was the branch manager in Walcha, New South Wales, when he won the local Legislative Assembly seat in 1894. He resigned from the Legislative Assembly on 23 May 1900 and was made bankrupt on his own petition 2 days later. He retained the seat a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Piddington
William Richman Piddington (1815 – 25 November 1887) was an Australian bookseller and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1877 and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1879 until his death. He served two brief terms as the Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales in 1872 and 1877. Early life Piddington was born in the parish of Newington St Mary, Surrey, England on 8 March 1813, to parents Bythima (née Richman) and William Weston Piddington. Being from a family of booksellers, William Richman Piddington was initially apprenticed to a bookshop in Bond Street, London. He emigrated to Sydney in 1838 and after farming for a short time on the Hunter River established a stationary and book shop at 332 George St, Sydney (replaced in 1906 by the Eastway Brothers' Building). Philosophically a radical, he became politically active during the 1840s and 1850s and opposed the conservative constitution proposed by Willia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Tarmey
Bill Tarmey (born William Piddington; 4 April 1941 – 9 November 2012) was an English actor and singer, best known for playing Jack Duckworth in the soap opera '' Coronation Street''. First appearing in the role in November 1979, he played it continually from 1981 to 2010. Early life and education Tarmey was born in Ardwick, Manchester, Lancashire. Shortly after his birth, he moved with his family to live in Bradford, Manchester, where he was also educated. Following the death of his father William in 1944 whilst driving an ambulance at the Battle of Arnhem during the Second World War, his mother Lilian remarried, to Robert Cleworth. Tarmey attended the Bradford Memorial School and the Queens Street School (which became the Philips Park Secondary Modern School). On leaving school, he was apprenticed to his stepfather, who was an asphalt spreader by trade. He also worked in the construction industry for a number of years. Career In 1968, Tarmey gave up his job in the build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
