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Sillitoe Tartan Black And White is a nickname given to the distinctive black and white chequered pattern often used by police
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Sillitoe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Acton Sillitoe (1840–1894), British Anglican bishop *Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010), British writer *Les Sillitoe (1915–1996), British trade union leader and politician * Linda Sillitoe (1948–2010), American journalist, poet and historian * Neville Sillitoe (born 1925), Australian athletics coach * Nicholas Sillitoe (born 1971), British composer and music producer * Percy Sillitoe (1888–1962), British law enforcement executive See also * Sillitoe tartan Sillitoe tartan is the nickname given to the distinctive black and white chequered pattern, correctly known as ''dicing'', which was originally associated with the police in Scotland. It later gained widespread use in the rest of the United Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acton Sillitoe
Acton Windeyer Sillitoe (also Wyndeyer; 12 July 18409 June 1894) was the first Bishop of New Westminster. Sillitoe was born in Sydney and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and ordained in the Church of England: he was made deacon on 21 February 1869 by George Selwyn (Bishop of Lichfield) at St Peter's Church, Wolverhampton and ordained priest by Selwyn in 1870. After curacies at Brierley Hill and Wolverhampton he was the incumbent at Ellenbrook from 1873 to 1876. After this he was a chaplain at Geneva then Darmstadt. He was consecrated a bishop 1 November 1879 by Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury at Croydon Parish Church and went to British Columbia (Canada) to serve as the first Bishop of New Westminster; he also became a Doctor of Divinity A Doctor of Divinity (D.D. or DDiv; la, Doctor Divinitatis) is the holder of an advanced academic degree in divinity. In the United Kingdom, it is considered an advanced doctoral degree. At the University of O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, FRSL (4 March 192825 April 2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel ''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' and his early short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", both of which were adapted into films. Biography Sillitoe was born in Nottingham to working-class parents, Christopher Sillitoe and Sabina (née Burton). Like Arthur Seaton, the anti-hero of his first novel, ''Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'', his father worked at the Raleigh Bicycle Company's factory in the town. His father was illiterate, violent, and unsteady with his jobs, and the family was often on the brink of starvation. Sillitoe left school at the age of 14, having failed the entrance examination to grammar school. He worked at the Raleigh factory for the next four years, spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Sillitoe
Leslie Richard Sillitoe (August 1915 – 10 October 1996) was a British trade union leader and politician. Sillitoe served in the British Army during World War II and took part in the Normandy Landings. After the war, he found work at the Campbell Tile Factory in Stoke on Trent, and joined the National Society of Pottery Workers (NSPW). Sillitoe was a supporter of the Labour Party, and won election to Stoke-on-Trent City Council, ultimately serving for 36 years. He became a leading proponent for safer and cleaner working conditions in the pottery industry, and in 1966 he won election as assistant general secretary of the NSPW. At the end of 1974, Alf Dulson retired as general secretary of the union, by then renamed as the Ceramic and Allied Trades Union, and Sillitoe won the election to replace him. He had immediate success by securing a closed shop agreement with the British Pottery Manufacturers' Federation, agreeing how future wage increases would be calculated, and se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Sillitoe
Linda Buhler Sillitoe (July 31, 1948 – April 7, 2010) was an American journalist, poet and historian. She is best known for her journalistic coverage about Mark Hofmann and the "Mormon forgery murders." Her subsequent book Salamander, coauthored with Allen Roberts, examined Hofmann's creation of an industry for forged documents, the 1985 bombing murders of two people, and the police investigation, arrest and conviction. The murder investigation eventually revealed Hofmann's documents, initially seen as undermining the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were forgeries. Sillitoe’s published works also included fiction and poetry. Biography Sillitoe was one of eight children born to Robert E. and Phyllis Liddle Buhler. She was reared in Salt Lake City, Utah and graduated from the University of Utah. She married John Sillito (spelling difference intentional), in 1968 and they had three children. Sillitoe was a staff writer for the '' Deseret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neville Sillitoe
Neville John Sillitoe (24 April 1925 – 20 June 2021) was an Australian athletics coach. Sillitoe competed for the Coburg Athletic Club. Upon his retirement, he took up athletics coaching and helped lay the foundations for one of the most successful eras of Australian sprinting with the East Melbourne Harriers Athletic Club. Australian representatives that Sillitoe has coached include Peter Norman, Gary Holdsworth, Greg Lewis (athlete), Greg Lewis, Aaron Rouge-Serret, Colin McQueen, Denise Boyd, Richard James (Australian sprinter), Richard James, Bruce Frayne, Tamsyn Lewis and Ken Hall. He was the coach of the 1982 Commonwealth Games Team and held a long serving athletics coaching post with Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne from 1983 to 2014. Sillitoe was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2018 for services to athletics. Sillitoe died on 20 June 2021. He is buried at the Fawkner Cemetery. See also * Australian athletics champions * List of Caulfield Grammar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Sillitoe
Nicholas "Nick" Sillitoe (born September 1971) is an English composer/music producer. Based in Norway, Sillitoe won the 2015 Amanda Award for Best Music for the film '' Dirk Ohm''. Sillitoe has composed the music for the Norwegian TV-drama series ''Okkupert ' (Norwegian: ') is a Norwegian political thriller TV series that premiered on TV2 on 5 October 2015. Based on an original idea by Jo Nesbø, the series is co-created with Karianne Lund and Erik Skjoldbjærg. Season 2 premiered on 10 October ...''. He is married to Velvet Belly singer Anne Marie Almedal. References External links * * 1971 births Living people English film score composers English male film score composers English television composers English male composers British emigrants to Norway {{UK-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Sillitoe
Sir Percy Joseph Sillitoe KBE DL (22 May 1888 – 5 April 1962) was a chief constable of several police forces. He changed the role of radios, civilian staff, and women police officers within the police. He was later Director General of MI5, the United Kingdom's internal security service, from 1946 to 1953. Life Born in London, Sillitoe was educated at St Paul's Cathedral School (then St Paul's Cathedral Choir School). By 1908 he had become a Trooper in the British South Africa Police and in 1911 transferred to the Northern Rhodesia Police. During the First World War he took part in the German East Africa campaign. After serving as a political officer in Tanganyika from 1916 to 1920, he returned to England with his family. In 1923 he was appointed Chief Constable of Chesterfield, a position he held for the next two years. After a further year as Chief Constable of the East Riding of Yorkshire in 1925, he became in 1926 the Chief Constable of Sheffield, where he was credit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
