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Patrick Walker (Scot)
Patrick Walker may refer to: * Patric Walker (1931–1995), American-born British astrologer * Patrick Walker (executive), British media executive * Sir Patrick Walker (MI5 officer) (1932–2021), director general of MI5 1988–1991 * Patrick Gordon Walker Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker, (7 April 1907 – 2 December 1980) was a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years, and served twice as a Cabinet Minister. He lost his Smethwi ... (1907–1980), British politician * Pat Walker (born 1959), Irish football manager and former player * Patrick Walker, British musician, Warning lead singer and guitarist * Pat Walker (rugby league) (born 1986), English rugby league player {{hndis, Walker, Patrick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patric Walker
Patric William Walker (25 September 1931 – 8 October 1995) was an American-born, British astrologer. Walker's columns, famed for their literary style, appeared in numerous publications throughout the world, leading to claims that he had a readership of one billion. Raised in Whitby, England, Walker did his national service with the Royal Air Force before working as an accountant and a property developer, among other jobs. A chance meeting at a dinner party led to Walker learning astrology from Helene Hoskins. Hoskins later recommended Walker to ''Nova'', for whom he worked as an astrologer from the magazine's launch in March 1965 until taking over Hoskins' 'Celeste' column in ''Harpers & Queen'' in 1974. He later moved to ''The Daily Mirror'' then, in 1976, to Associated Newspapers, for whom he wrote astrology columns in the ''Evening Standard'' and ''The Mail on Sunday'' until the 1990s. Walker enjoyed the London social scene of the 1970s and counted Elton John and The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Walker (executive)
Patrick Walker is the CEO at Rightster, a London-based Multi Channel Network. Formally he worked at Base79 as Chief Content Officer after serving 8 years with Google and YouTube as the Senior Director of Content Partnerships, where he was responsible for launching and managing YouTube in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Walker has also worked at RealNetworks, IMG, Intel, and the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board ex ... as a foreign news journalist in Japan and Southeast Asia. He began his career in media and technology as a TV producer and director with NHK in Tokyo, Japan. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{UK-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Walker (MI5 Officer)
Sir Patrick Jeremy Walker, KCB (25 February 1932 – 13 October 2021) was a British civil servant who was Director General (DG) of MI5, the United Kingdom's internal security service, from 1988 to 1992. Early life and education Walker was the only surviving son of civil servant Reginald Plumer Walker and his wife, Gladys. He was born at Bungsai Hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where his parents were married in 1929. The Walkers had once owned considerable lands in northern Nottinghamshire around Mattersey and Lound, but, according to his research, lost it all "thanks to a combination of incompetence and the agricultural slump" at the end of the 19th century. His paternal grandfather, Plumer Cosby Walker, worked for the Great Northern Railway. After three years in Malaysia, the family moved to Nairobi, Kenya, where his father was chief accountant of East African Railways. At age 13, Walker left Kenya to be educated at The King's School, Canterbury, followed by Trinity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Gordon Walker
Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker, (7 April 1907 – 2 December 1980) was a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years, and served twice as a Cabinet Minister. He lost his Smethwick parliamentary seat at the 1964 general election, in a bitterly racial campaign conducted in the wake of local factory closures. Early life Born in Worthing, Sussex, Gordon Walker was the son of Alan Lachlan Gordon Walker, a Scottish judge in the Indian Civil Service. He was educated at Wellington College and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a Second in Modern History in 1928 and subsequently gained a B. Litt. He served as a Student (Fellow) in history at Christ Church from 1931 until 1941.''The Times'', 3 December 1980, p.19 col.6 From 1940 to 1944, Gordon Walker worked for the BBC's European Service, where from 1942 he arranged the BBC's daily broadcasts to Germany. In 1945, he worked as Assistant Director of BBC's German Ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Walker
Patrick Joseph Walker (born 20 December 1959) is an Irish former professional footballer. Playing career He played for Gillingham between 1977 and 1981, making 51 appearances in the Football League. He also briefly played for Bohemians, before quitting the professional game and moving to Sweden. International career Walker earned two caps for the Republic of Ireland U21 side. Coaching career Walker was coach of Varbergs BoIS, GIF Sundsvall between 2000 and 2004 and brought them to their highest league finish in the Allsvenskan to date. In 2005, he took over as manager of Örebro SK and helped them gain promotion to the Allsvenskan, before moving to Norway and Norwegian First Division club Sandefjord Fotball. He guided Sandefjord to their best league finish in the history of the club in 2010. On 9 May 2011 he was fired from Sandefjord Fotball after a weak season opening, which included one win, two draws and two defeats in the first five matches. In April 2016 he took over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warning (UK Band)
Warning was a UK-based doom metal band. Warning flagged the rise of post-2000 wave of traditional doom metal, and were one of the most important, highly regarded and influential bands to emerge from the '90s doom metal scene. The band was founded by guitarist/singer/songwriter Patrick Walker in 1994 in Harlow, Essex. Warning's music is notable for its down-tempo, progressive, melodic and heavy doom-laden sound; the idiosyncratic and poignant vocals of Patrick Walker; and his introspective, darkly-confessional lyrical themes. The band released two demo tapes, Revelation Looms in February 1996 and Blessed by the Sabbath in March 1997, which led them to gain underground metal press attention and label interest. Warning debuted in 1999 with The Strength to Dream on the Miskatonic Foundation label. With this album, Warning gained a cult status within doom metal circles, but they soon disbanded after their 2001 European tour with Jack Frost. They regrouped for an acclaimed perfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
