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Pritchett And Gold
Pritchett may refer to: People * Aaron Pritchett (born 1970), Canadian country music singer * Bill Pritchett (1921–2014), Australian public servant * Chris Pritchett (born 1970), American baseball player * Florence Pritchett (1920–1965), American fashion editor, journalist, and radio and TV personality * Henry Smith Pritchett (1857–1939), American astronomer * James Pritchett (actor) (1922–2011), American actor * James Pritchett (footballer), football (soccer) player * James Pigott Pritchett, York architect (1789-1868) * James Pigott Pritchett junior, Darlington architect (1830-1911) * John Pritchett (other) * Kelvin Pritchett, American football player * Lant Pritchett, American economist * Matt Pritchett, British cartoonist * Phil Pritchett, American musician * Robert Taylor Pritchett (1828–1907), English gun manufacturer and artist * Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900–1997), British writer and critic * Wendell Pritchett, American lawyer, legal scholar, professor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Pritchett
Aaron Pritchett (born August 2, 1970) is a Canadian country music singer. He has one #1 hit on the ''Billboard'' Canada Country chart with " Better When I Do". Biography Pritchett got his start as a DJ at Rooster's Country Cabaret bar in Pitt Meadows, BC, and played in a house band performing cover tunes. He recorded his first album in 1996 titled ''Young in Love''. In 2001, after years of playing clubs in BC and Alberta, Pritchett entered a singing contest called "Project Discovery" sponsored by CMT and won a professional music video directed by internationally acclaimed director, Steven Goldmann as well as $10,000 cash. He put the money towards recording his first album to see any radio success, titled "Consider This". The title track was co-written by Pritchett and BC Country legend Rick Tippe. Pritchett's success continued with the release of his next albums "Something Going On Here" in 2003 and "Big Wheel" in 2006. In 2008 he was signed to 604 Records, the production com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Sawdon Pritchett
Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett (also known as VSP; 16 December 1900 – 20 March 1997) was a British writer and literary critic. Pritchett was known particularly for his short stories, collated in a number of volumes. His non-fiction works include the memoirs ''A Cab at the Door'' (1968) and ''Midnight Oil'' (1971), and many collections of essays on literary biography and criticism. Biography Victor Sawdon Pritchett was born in Suffolk, the first of four children of Walter Sawdon Pritchett and Beatrice Helena (''née'' Martin). His father, a London businessman, relocated to Ipswich to establish a newspaper and stationery shop. The business ran into difficulty and his parents were lodging over a toy shop at 41 St Nicholas Street in Ipswich where Pritchett was born on 16 December 1900. Beatrice had expected a girl, whom she planned to name after Queen Victoria. Pritchett disliked his first name, hence he always preferred being styled by his initials "VSP", despite formally becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Taylor Pritchett
Robert Taylor Pritchett (24 February 1828 – 16 June 1907) was a gun manufacturer, artist and illustrator. As artist he painted royal ceremonies for Queen Victoria, and he illustrated Darwin's ''The Voyage of the Beagle''. Early life and career He was the son of Richard Ellis Pritchet and his wife Ann Dumbleton; his father was head of the firm of gunmakers at Enfield which supplied arms to the East India Company and to the Board of Ordnance. After leaving King's College School, Robert entered his father's firm. By 1852 he knew the rifle designer William Ellis Metford; the "Pritchett bullet", with a hollow, unplugged base, which he and Metford invented in 1853, brought him fame and an award of £1000 from the government on its adoption by the small-arms committee. As early as 1854 Pritchett was using his three-grooved rifle of his own invention. The abolition of the East India Company in 1858 deprived Pritchett's firm of its principal customer, and he sought other interests; but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Pritchett
Phil Pritchett (born 1971) is an American rock and roll musician from Texas. Members of his band have varied over the years. The current incarnation of the Full Band includes J.W. "Blu" Marshall on bass and Stu Wiley on drums. Biography Pritchett's performance to his eighth grade class of The Beatles "Love Me Do" first inspired him to enter into music. He got his real musical start at age 13 starting a Van Halen-style cover band and started playing local parties. His original high school band the Suburbans was an acclaimed Texas rock trio before breaking up in 1990. Pritchett graduated from Highland Park High School in 1990, and entered Southwestern University studying history. At Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, Pritchett formed the eclectic acoustic duo Romantic Embargo with friend James Dewitt. They played regularly in Austin and surrounding cities and made two recordings, a live tape "Cut Me Some Slacks" and a CD "Central Chilling Station No.5." Pritchett w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Pritchett
Matthew Pritchett MBE (born 14 July 1964) is a British pocket cartoonist who has worked on ''The Daily Telegraph'' newspaper under the pen name Matt since 1988. Early life and education Pritchett's father Oliver Pritchett, who was a columnist for ''The Telegraph'' for several decades, is the son of the writer V. S. Pritchett. Matt's sister is screenwriter Georgia Pritchett. Pritchett attended a grammar school in south-east London before studying graphics at Saint Martin's School of Art. He began working as a waiter in a pizza restaurant, and began drawing cartoons in his spare time. His first cartoon was published in the ''New Statesman'', and he soon began drawing cartoons for ''The Telegraph'' diary. He had considered becoming a film-cameraman, but gave up after realising he had misunderstood the role. Career Following the death of Mark Boxer in 1988, Pritchett was hired by Max Hastings to be The Telegraph's new cartoonist. His first cartoon in this role came the day after th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lant Pritchett
Lant Pritchett (born 1959) is an American development economist. He is the RISE Research Director at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. He was born in Utah in 1959 and raised in Boise, Idaho. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1983 with a B.S. in economics, after serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Argentina (1978–1980). He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 with a PhD in economics. He worked for the World Bank from 1988 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2007. He was a contributor to the first Copenhagen Consensus. In 1991 he said that he wrote the controversial Summers memo that supposedly advocated the exportation of polluting industries to poor countries, for which Summers was receiving widespread criticism. From 2000 to 2004 he was a lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is currently a professor of the practice of economic de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelvin Pritchett
Kelvin Bratodd Pritchett (born October 24, 1969) is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League for the Detroit Lions and Jacksonville Jaguars. He was a first round selection by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1991 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Mississippi. Early years Pritchett attended Therrell High School. As a senior, he recorded 100 tackles and 18 sacks. He received All-state and Atlanta Journal-Constitution All-city honors. He accepted a football scholarship from the University of Mississippi. In 1988, he became a starter after the fifth game of the season, registering 84 total tackles (second on the team), 56 solo tackles and 3 sacks. The next year, he made 78 total tackles (fourth on the team), 64 solo tackles, 7 sacks (led the team), 2 passes deflected, 2 forced fumbles and 2 fumble recoveries. As a senior, he received third-team All-American honors, after starting at right defensive end, while finishing with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Pigott Pritchett Junior
James Pigott Pritchett (14 May 1830 – 22 September 1911), known as J P Pritchett junior or J P Pritchett of Darlington, was a British architect. Biography Early life He was born in York, the son of architect James Pigott Pritchett senior (1789 – 1868) and his second wife Caroline Benson. He was educated at St Peter's School, York, before being articled to his father's architectural firm in 1845. He travelled in Europe, the Near East and Africa. Career In 1854, he succeeded to the architectural practice of his brother-in-law John Middleton in Darlington, where he would continue to work until his retirement.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Pritchett
William Beal Pritchett (31 January 1921 – 28 January 2014) was a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of Defence between 1979 and 1984. Early life and education Bill Pritchett was born on 31 January 1921. He attended the Sydney Church of England Grammar School. Pritchett studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree at Sydney University, studying in history and anthropology. Career Pritchett served in World War II and then before joining the Commonwealth Public Service in 1945 as a Cadet in the Department of External Affairs. His first overseas post was to Indonesia, during the country's struggle for independence from the Netherlands. In 1965, Pritchett was appointed Australia High Commissioner to newly independent Singapore. In 1973, Pritchett was recruited to the Defence Department by his former boss in External Affairs, Arthur Tange. From 1978 to 1979, Pritchett was the Deputy Secretary for Strategy and Intelligence. He was later appointed Sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Pigott Pritchett
James Pigott Pritchett (14 October 1789 – 23 May 1868) was an English architect. He lived in London and York and his practice stretched from Lincolnshire to the Scottish borders. Personal life Pritchett was born on 14 October 1789 to Charles Pigott Pritchett and Anne née Rogers, and christened 4 January 1790 at St Petrox, Pembrokeshire. He lived for a time in London, and around 1813 moved to York, where he is recorded as a Congregationalist deacon, and, together with William Ellerby, wrote ''A History of the Nonconformist Churches of York''. He married Peggy Maria Terry on 22 December 1813 at Beckenham, Kent. They had three sons and a daughter. The eldest son, Richard, became a Congregationalist minister; the second, Charles Pigott Pritchett (1818–1891) was an architect; and in 1844 his daughter, Maria Margaret, married John Middleton (1820–1885), whose only child was the archaeologist and art historian John Henry Middleton (1846–1896), later a director of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Pritchett (footballer)
James Keith Pritchett (born 1 July 1982 in Watford, England) is an association football player who represented New Zealand as a defender at both age group and senior international level. He is the son of former New Zealand manager Keith Pritchett. His senior career included one season with the Football Kingz, New Zealand's professional franchise in the Australian NSL He represented Auckland City FC at the 2006 FIFA Club World Cup, where they lost against Al Ahly and Jeonbuk Hyundai. Pritchett was included in the New Zealand under-17 side for the 1999 FIFA under-17 World Cup hosted by New Zealand, appearing in all three group games. He also represented New Zealand at under-23 level in New Zealand's failed bid to qualify for the 2004 Olympics. Pritchett went on to make his full All Whites début in a 2–1 win over Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
