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Pyke (other)
Pyke is a surname, and may refer to Fictional characters * George Alexander Pyke, Lord Tilbury, character devised by PG Wodehouse *Pyke, The Bloodharbor Ripper from League of Legends Real people * Don Pyke (born 1968), Australian rules footballer * Geoffrey Pyke (1893–1948), English journalist, spy and inventor *Helen Pyke, English pianist and composer * Hy Pyke (1935–2006), American character actor * Frank Pyke (1941–2011), Australian footballer, sports scientist and sports administrator * James Pyke (cricketer) (born 1966), Australian sportsman *James Pyke (rugby union) (1866–1941), English rugby union footballer * Josh Pyke (born 1983), Australian singer-songwriter-musician *Lionel Edward Pyke (1854–1899), English barrister *Magnus Pyke (1908–1992), British scientist and media personality *Margaret Pyke (1893–1966), campaigner for family planning * Mike Pyke (born 1984), Canadian player of rugby and Australian rules football *Stuart Pyke, British sports journalist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Alexander Pyke, Lord Tilbury
George Alexander Pyke, Lord Tilbury is a recurring fictional character in the stories of British author P. G. Wodehouse. Pyke is a publishing magnate, the founder and owner of the Mammoth Publishing Company. Outside his business, he has a passion for pigs and is the owner of a prize pig named Buckingham Big Boy. Pyke appears in several novels, including two set at Blandings Castle: '' Heavy Weather'' (1933) and '' Service With a Smile'' (1961). Inspiration According to Robert McCrum, Wodehouse knew the British publishing magnate Lord Northcliffe, who served as a source of inspiration for Lord Tilbury. Life Wodehouse introduces Pyke in ''Bill the Conqueror'' as plain Sir George Pyke. Mammoth Publishing Company is already a mighty undertaking and Pyke is about to become a Lord – he selects the Tilbury title based on the address of his headquarters, at Tilbury House on Tilbury Street. Pyke is not a tall man and runs somewhat to fat. His similarity to Napoleon, both in physique ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnus Pyke
Magnus Alfred Pyke (29 December 1908 – 19 October 1992) was an English nutritional scientist, governmental scientific adviser, writer and presenter. He worked for the UK Ministry of Food, the post-war Allied Commission for Austria, and different food manufacturers. He wrote prolifically and became famous as a TV and radio personality, and was featured on Thomas Dolby's 1982 synthpop hit, " She Blinded Me with Science". Early life and scientific career Pyke was born at Gloucester Terrace, Paddington, London, the son of Clara Hannah Lewis and Robert Bond Pyke, manager of a wholesale confectionery business. He went to St. Paul's School, Barnes, London, where he found he had a "certain bounciness combined with a lack of self-consciousness." He worked briefly for an insurance company before emigrating to Canada to attend Macdonald College, McGill University, Montreal, studying agriculture, gaining a BSc in 1933. During summers there, he worked as a farm labourer. He remaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Song Of Ice And Fire
''A Song of Ice and Fire'' is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. He began the first volume of the series, ''A Game of Thrones'', in 1991, and it was published in 1996. Martin, who initially envisioned the series as a trilogy, has published five out of a planned seven volumes. The fifth and most recent volume of the series, ''A Dance with Dragons'', was published in 2011, six years after the publication of the preceding book, ''A Feast for Crows''. He is currently writing the sixth novel, ''The Winds of Winter''. A seventh novel, ''A Dream of Spring'', is planned. ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' takes place on the fictional continents Westeros and Essos. The point of view of each chapter in the story is a limited perspective of a range of characters growing from nine in the first novel, to 31 characters by the fifth novel. Three main stories interweave: a dynastic war among several families for control of Westeros, the risin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George R
George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States * George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States * George V, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1910-1936 * George VI, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1936-1952 * Prince George of Wales * George Papagheorghe also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George Harrison, an English musician and singer-songwriter Places South Africa * George, Western Cape ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa * George, Missouri * George, Washington * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Characters * George (Peppa Pig), a 2-year-old pig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron Islands
The fictional world in which the ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' novels by George R. R. Martin take place is divided into several continents, known collectively as The Known World. Most of the story takes place on the continent of #Westeros, Westeros and in a large political entity known as the #Seven Kingdoms, Seven Kingdoms. Those kingdoms are spread across nine regions: #The North, the North, #The Iron Islands, the Iron Islands, #The Riverlands, the Riverlands, #The Vale of Arryn, the Vale, #The Westerlands, the Westerlands, #The Stormlands, the Stormlands, #The Reach, the Reach, #The Crownlands, the Crownlands, and #Dorne, Dorne. A #The Wall, massive wall of ice and old magic separates the Seven Kingdoms from the largely unmapped area to the north. The vast continent of #Essos, Essos is located east of Westeros, across the Narrow Sea. The closest foreign nations to Westeros are the #Free Cities and vicinity, Free Cities, a collection of nine independent city-states along the west ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Pyke
Veronica Pyke (born 11 April 1981) is an Australian former cricketer who played for Tasmanian Roar and Hobart Hurricanes. Early life From Orford on the east coast of Tasmania, Pyke first played senior cricket with the men's team in her home town. Tasmanian Roar Pyke has captained Tasmanian Roar since that team joined the domestic competition. Originally she was known as a left-arm bowler, but over time she has developed into an all-rounder. During the 2012–13 WNCL competition, she scored a total of 151 runs, more than any other Roar player. At Cricket Tasmania's awards night in 2013–14, Pyke won the Tasmanian Roar Player of the Year award, after also being named the team's WNCL Player of the Year and WT20 Player of the Year. In round 1 of the 2015–16 WNCL competition, Pyke scored 24 runs against the ACT Meteors and took 3/21 against the Victorian Spirit. However, the Roar lost all three of its matches in that round, including its match against the Queensland Fire. In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Pyke
Stuart Pyke (born 8 July 1961) is a British-born sports journalist and broadcaster. Stuart was born in St Helens, Lancashire, and is married to Christine. He has two children; Daniel and Rachael and two stepdaughters Emma and Victoria. He is now most well known for his darts and rugby league commentary on Sky Sports and rugby league commentary on BBC Radio Five Live. He also writes for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Express and the website of darts equipment manufacturer, Unicorn. Early career Stuart started commentating on sport back in 1984, when he joined Piccadilly Radio in Manchester, after a four-year grounding on local newspapers. He commentated on Oldham Athletic's football matches during their most successful era, when they reached the League Cup Final and won promotion to the Premier League. During his time at Piccadilly Radio Stuart also commentated on Rugby League matches often combining commentary with programme presentation from the ground he was at. He then moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Pyke
Michael Anthony Patrick Pyke (born 24 March 1984) is a Canadian retired dual-code football player, who was a professional Australian rules footballer with the Sydney Swans. Pyke is the first Canadian national and the first former rugby union professional to play in an Australian Football League (AFL) premiership team, having played in the Sydney Swans 2012 premiership-winning side. Before his Australian rules football career, Pyke was a professional rugby union player, having played for French Top 14 squad US Montauban and representing the Canada national rugby union team, Canadian national side. Pyke was known for his understated goal celebrations. Early life Pyke was born to parents Christine Peterson and Richard Pyke in Victoria, British Columbia. Pyke first started playing basketball, association football, soccer at St. Michaels University School in British Columbia, a school which has produced several Canadian national rugby players over the past few decades, as well as S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Pyke
Margaret Amy Pyke (née Chubb; 1893–1966) was a British family planning activist and pioneer. A founding member of the British National Birth Control Committee (NBCC), later known as the Family Planning Association (FPA), she succeeded Lady Gertrude Denman as chairman of that organization in 1954. Pyke was also involved in the founding of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. She was appointed OBE in 1963. The Margaret Pyke Trust was established in 1969 in her memor Early life Margaret Amy Chubb, the eldest child of William Lindsay Chubb (1856–1937), a medical practitioner, and his wife, Isabel Margaret Pringle, was born on 8 January 1893 at Darenth House, Sandgate, Kent, where she spent most of her first two decades. She attended Conamur School, Sandgate, to 1911 as a day girl and was happy there. In 1912 Margaret Chubb went to Oxford to read modern history at Somerville College, a period which she also enjoyed. She made many friends at Oxford, some of whom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Edward Pyke
Lionel Edward Pyke (1854–1899) an English-Jewish barrister, born at Chatham, Kent, England on 21 April 1854 and died in Brighton, Sussex, England on 26 March 1899. He was the second son of Joseph Pyke, warden of the Central Synagogue, London, father of Geoffrey Pyke, an inventor and uncle of scientist and TV personality Magnus Pyke. Family, hobbies and education Pyke was educated at Rochester Cathedral Grammar School and at the University of London, where he earned the degrees of LLB and BA He entered as a student of the Inner Temple on 3 November 1874, and was called to the bar on 13 June 1877. He took a great interest in yachting and developed an Admiralty practice. Professional experience His most extensive practise was in the Admiralty Court; he became Queen's Counsel in February 1892, and immediately attained a leading position in the Admiralty Court; he became the leader of that branch of the bar designated as the ''Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty'' division on the elev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends
''League of Legends'' (''LoL''), commonly referred to as ''League'', is a 2009 multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by ''Defense of the Ancients'', a Mod (video games), custom map for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, ''Warcraft III'', Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre. Since its release in October 2009, ''League'' has been free-to-play and is monetized through Freemium, purchasable character customization. The game is available for Microsoft Windows and macOS. In the game, two teams of five players battle in player-versus-player combat, each team occupying and defending their half of the map. Each of the ten players controls a character, known as a "champion", with unique abilities and differing styles of play. During a match, champions become more powerful by collecting experience points, earning gold, and purchasing Item (game terminology), items to defeat the opposing team. In ''League' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Pyke
Joshua Jon Pyke (born 18 December 1977) is an Australian singer-songwriter, producer, musician and children's book author. Biography Josh Pyke is a prolific songwriter, with a successful and critically acclaimed career both domestically and overseas. Josh’s 6 studio albums to date have all debuted in the ARIA Top 10. Amongst numerous other honours, he has received 4 ARIA Awards, 10 ARIA nominations, and gold/ platinum accreditations. Josh is a member of the AGSC, and a respected composer for Film/TV– having received an APRA Award for film composition, Josh has also worked on a slew of recent TV / advertising projects, including popular ABC series The Justine Clarke Show, Miki Vs The World (Season 1&2) and the upcoming dark drama Troppo. Through his work with the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, Josh has also run numerous song-writing workshops with Indigenous communities, and raised over $50,000 for the organisation through his Busking For Change events. Josh is a committed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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