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Rowett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: People *Catherine Rowett (born 1956), British Member of the European Parliament for the Green Party *Gary Rowett (born 1974), English footballer and manager *Henry Rowett, English cricketer in the 1760s *John Quiller Rowett (1874–1924), British businessman in the spirits industry *Richard Rowett (1830–1887), leading figure of nineteenth-century Illinois and American history *Tim Rowett (born 1942), British video presenter about toys Other *Rowett Island (South Shetland Islands) *Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland, researches nutrition See also *Shackleton-Rowett Expedition (1921–22), Antarctica *Rowetta, English singer {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Rowett
Catherine Joanna Rowett (born 29 December 1956, previously publishing as Catherine Osborne from 1979 to 2011) is a British former Member of the European Parliament representing the Green Party of England and Wales, and academic. She is Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. She is known in particular for her work on Ancient Greek philosophy, Greek Philosophy, especially the Pre-Socratic philosophy, Pre-Socratic philosophers. She was a Green Party of England and Wales, Green Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England (European Parliament constituency), East of England from 2019 until 31 January 2020, when the United Kingdom left the European Union. Academic career Rowett read Classics at the King's College, Cambridge, where she was also awarded her PhD with a dissertation on Hippolytus of Rome and Pre-Socratic philosophy, Pre-Socratic philosophers. The dissertation was published as ''Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy: Hippolytus of Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Rowett
Gary Rowett (born 6 March 1974) is an English professional football manager and former player, who is currently manager of Championship club Millwall. As a player, he was a defender, and played in the Premier League for Everton, Derby County, Leicester City and Charlton Athletic. He also played in the Football League for Cambridge United, Blackpool, Birmingham City and Burton Albion. His professional career ended in 2004, through a knee injury. In May 2009, he was appointed assistant manager to Paul Peschisolido at Burton, and took over as manager in 2012. He was appointed the manager of Birmingham City in October 2014 and served until December 2016. He became Derby County manager in March 2017, and joined Stoke City in May 2018. After failing to mount a promotion challenge, he was sacked in January 2019 and was appointed manager of Millwall that October. Playing career He started his career at Cambridge United as a product of their youth system. He was part of the Cambrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Rowett
Henry Rowett (dates unknown) was an English amateur cricketer who played for Surrey teams during the 1760s. He was chiefly noted for his patronage of Caterham Cricket Club which was prominent between 1767 and 1770. Nothing is known of Rowett apart from his involvement in cricket matches. Rowett is first mentioned in August 1767 in connection with a match between his Surrey team and Sir Horace Mann's XI.G B Buckley, ''Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket'', Cotterell, 1935 In the Caterham v Bourne match at Caterham Common on 10 June 1768, Rowett showed himself to be a capable batsman by scoring 30 in Caterham's total of 150, Caterham winning the match by 14 runs. This match has left one of the earliest known scorecards, printed in the 11 June 1768 edition of the ''Kentish Weekly Post''. Despite the match title, it was effectively Surrey v Kent. Another Caterham v Bourne match took place at Caterham Common on 26 July 1768. The result is unknown. It was announced in the ''St Jame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Quiller Rowett
John Quiller Rowett (1876 – 1 October 1924) was a British businessman, philanthropist, and co-founder of the Rowett Research Institute. Shackleton A schoolfriend of Sir Ernest Shackleton at Dulwich College, Rowett was the sole financial backer for Shackleton's final Antarctic venture, the Shackleton–Rowett expedition of 1921–1922, on the adapted sealer ''Quest''.Chojecki, Jan (2022). ''The Quest Chronicle - The Story of the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition''. Goldcrest. ISBN 9781913719722 Rowett Island is named after him. In 1920, Rowett promised a cornerstone amount towards the new expedition. At this time, Shackleton gave Rowett the , in which Shackleton had made his famed 1916 open-boat voyage from Elephant Island to South Georgia. In late May 1922, after Shackleton had failed to raise the remaining funds elsewhere, Rowett agreed to finance the entire Shackleton-Rowett Expedition. After Shackleton's death, Rowett presented the ''James Caird'' to Dulwich College. A mou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Rowett
Richard Rowett (November 17, 1830 – July 13, 1887) was a leading political figure of nineteenth-century Illinois, a famous animal breeder and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was born in East Looe, Cornwall in 1830, the son of William Rowett, a cooper and Jenny nee Williams. Richard was the eighth child in a family of ten (five boys and five girls) and was christened in the Anglican parish of Saint Martin, Looe, on March 24, 1831. In the early 1850's two of the Rowett brothers and a sister emigrated to Australia and in 1851 Richard decided to make a new life in the United States following in the footsteps of his brother Joseph. He arrived in New York in July of that year, and first settled in Johnson County, Indiana but by 1854 he had moved to Carlinville, Illinois. Rowett entered the war as captain of Company K of the 7th Illinois Ihnfantry Regiment, which is considered the first unit from Illinois to answer President Abraham Lincoln's call for vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Rowett
Timothy Quiller Rowett (born 12 July 1942) is a British YouTube personality and renowned toy collector, known for presenting videos about toys, optical illusions, novelties and puzzles on the YouTube channel ''Grand Illusions''. Rowett, known affectionately as "''Tim the Toyman''", (BBC documentary video on page, 00:03:52 runtime by Neil Meads) is a former children's entertainer, and claims to have collected upwards of 20,000 to 25,000 toys over a 50-year period, many of which are featured in his videos. In 2014, the ''Daily Mirror'' described Rowett as a "huge viral hit" and a "web sensation", while in the following year ''The Daily Telegraph'' published a piece naming him as one of "the best YouTubers over 50". Career Rowett worked as an entertainer at children's parties from his late 20s until retiring in 2007 when he was 65. In a short BBC documentary, Rowett said that he considered the toys in his suitcases "dead" because they were no longer used, and that he took "great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowett Island (South Shetland Islands)
Rowett Island is a rocky island long, lying immediately off Cape Lookout, Elephant Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Rowett Island is located at . Rowett Island was known to both American and British sealers as early as 1822. Rowett Island was named by members of a British expedition (1921-1922) under Ernest Shackleton for John Quiller Rowett, chief patron of the expedition. See also * Composite Antarctic Gazetteer * List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands * List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S * SCAR * Territorial claims in Antarctica Seven sovereign states – Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight territorial claims in Antarctica. These countries have tended to place their Antarctic scientific observation and st ... References External links Islands of the South Shetland Islands {{SouthShetlands-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowett Research Institute
The Rowett Institute is a research centre for studies into Food science, food and nutrition, located in Aberdeen, Scotland. History The institute was founded in 1913 when the University of Aberdeen and the Scottish Agricultural College, North of Scotland College of Agriculture agreed that an "Institute for Research into Animal Nutrition" should be established in Scotland. The first director was John Boyd Orr, later to become Lord Boyd Orr, who moved from Glasgow to "the wilds of Aberdeenshire" in 1914. Orr drew up some plans for a nutrition research institute. Orr also donated £5000 for the building of a granite laboratory building at Craibstone, not far from the Bucksburn site of the Rowett. At the breakout of the Great War, Orr left the institute, but returned in 1919 with a staff of four to begin work in the new laboratory. Orr continued to push for a new research institute and finally the Her Majesty's Government, Government agreed to pay half the costs but stipulated th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
