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Tillett (surname)
Tillett or Tillet is a French surname that may refer to *Barbara Tillett (born 1946), American librarian and library scholar * Ben Tillett (1860–1943), British politician and trade unionist * Évrard Titon du Tillet (1677–1762), French biographer * Gladys Avery Tillett (1891–1984), American political organizer * iO Tillett Wright, American author, photographer, TV host, and activist * Jacob Henry Tillett (1818–1892), English politician * Jacques du Tillet (1857–1942), French author and critic * Jeanette Tillett (1888-1965) American composer and music educator * John Tillett (British Army officer) (1919–2014), British Army officer * Louis Tillett (1959–2023), Australian rock music singer-songwriter, keyboardist and saxophonist *Louis Tillett (politician) (1865–1929), British politician * Mathieu Tillet (1714–1791), French scientist and administrator * Maurice Tillet (1903–1954), French poet and wrestler * Wilbur Fisk Tillett (1854–1936), American clergyman and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Tillett
Barbara Ann Barnett Tillett (born 1946) is a librarian and library scholar known for her work on authority control and bibliographic data modeling. Library of Congress Tillett began working at the Library of Congress in 1994. As director of the Library's Integrated Library System (ILS) Program from August 1997 through July 2001, Tillett undertook the massive task of leading the selection and implementation of the Library of Congress' first Integrated Library System. A library press release referred to the project as the "largest single information technology project in the Library's history." Tillett served as chief of the Library's Cataloging Policy & Support Office, which sometimes put her into conflict with Sanford Berman's subject heading activism. Tillett retired from the Library of Congress on November 30, 2012. Cataloging theory Tillett has been particularly well known for her development and explanation of the FRBR model. Tillett served as a consultant to the IFLA St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Tillett
Louis Rohan Tillett (13 March 1959 – 6 August 2023) was an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, keyboardist and saxophonist. Tillett was the front man in Australian bands The Wet Taxis, Paris Green and The Aspersion Caste. He also worked as a backing musician with Catfish, Laughing Clowns, New Christs and Tex Perkins. As a solo artist, he issued seven albums, ''Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell'' (1987), ''A Cast of Aspersions'' (1990), ''Letters to a Dream'' (1992), ''Cry Against the Faith'' (1998), ''Learning to Die'' (2001), ''The Hanged Man'' (2005) and ''Soliloquy'' (2006). He often worked with Charlie Owen (musician), Charlie Owen, releasing two albums, ''The Ugly Truth'' (1994) and ''Midnight Rain'' (October 1995). The latter album won the ''Rolling Stone Australia, Rolling Stone'' Critics Award for Best Album of 1996. Biography Louis Rohan Tillett was born on 13 March 1959, and grew up in Sydney. In 1977 his first band, The Wet Taxis, began as a group "based around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Du Tillet (bishop)
Jean du Tillet (Angoulême c.1500/9? – 18 December 1570) was a French Catholic bishop. Life The son of a mayor and captain of Angoulême under Francis I, he was appointed bishop of Saint-Brieuc in 1553. Although a Gallican,Donald R. Kelley (1966), "Jean Du Tillet, Archivist and Antiquary", ''The Journal of Modern History'' 38(4): 337–354. he took part in the Council of Trent, where he encouraged Gentian Hervet to undertake a Latin translation of Photius' ''Syntagma'' together with Balsamon's interpretation from a manuscript which had recently come into his possession. Tillet also in 1553 obtained in Rome a Hebrew version of St. Matthew's Gospel. In 1564 he became bishop of Meaux, the fifteenth known Jean to hold that see. In 1568 he published an edition of works of Lucifer of Caralis against emperor Constantius II. He had a brother also named Jean du Tillet, with whom he collaborated in scholarship. Another brother, Louis, curé of Claix and archdeacon of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William S
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilbur Fisk Tillett
Wilbur Fisk Tillett (1854–1936) was an American Methodist clergyman and educator. Early life Wilbur Fisk Tillett was born August 25, 1854, in Henderson, North Carolina, which at that time was in Granville County (later Vance). He was named for the early 19th-century Methodist theologian Willbur Fisk. His father was an itinerant Methodist minister in North Carolina, John Tillett (1812–1890). Tillett graduated from Randolph–Macon College in 1877 and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1880. Career Tillett spent the bulk of his teaching career at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He was Professor of Systematic Theology and Dean of the Theological Faculty after 1884 and vice chancellor after 1886. During his tenure, he invited Booker T. Washington to speak at Vanderbilt on the topic, "How can a young Southern man help in the lifting up of the Negro race?". Tillett argued that the United States had been established by God himself to usher in the Kingdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Tillet
Maurice Tillet (23 October 1903 – 4 September 1954) was a Russian-born French professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, The French Angel. Tillet was a leading box office draw in the early 1940s and was twice World Heavyweight Champion in the American Wrestling Association run by Paul Bowser in Boston. Early life Tillet was born in 1903 in the Ural Mountains in Russia to French parents. His mother was a teacher and his father was a railroad engineer. Tillet's father died when he was young. As a child, he had a completely normal appearance and was even given the nickname "The Angel" by his mother due to his innocent face. In 1917, Tillet and his mother left Russia due to the Revolution and moved to France, where they settled in Reims. When Tillet was twenty years old, he noticed swelling in his feet, hands, and head, and after visiting a doctor was diagnosed with acromegaly—a condition usually caused by a benign tumor on the pituitary gland, resulting in bone ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathieu Tillet
Mathieu Tillet (10 November 1714 Bordeaux - 13 December 1791) was a French botanist, agronomist, metallurgist and administrator. Life He was the son of the goldsmith Gabriel Tillet and began studying metals at his father's workshop. In 1740 he was appointed Director of the Mint at Troyes. Ten years later he published his first book, about alloys. In 1750, he was awarded a prize by the Academy of Bordeaux for his research concerning the plagues of cereals, especially wheat. In 1755, he published the results of his research as ''Dissertation sur la cause qui corrompt et noircit les grains de blé dans les épis; et sur les moyens de prévenir ces accidents'' (''Explanation of the cause that corrupts and blackens the grains of wheat in the ears; and the means to prevent these accidents''), and was awarded another prize for it. The fungus '' Tilletia tritici'', which he describes in this work, was named after him a century later by Charles and Louis Tulasne. In 1756 he resigned from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Tillett (politician)
Louis John Tillett (13 June 1865 in Sprowston, Norfolk – 24 November 1929 in Buxton, Norfolk) was a Liberal Party politician. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich at the 1904 by-election on 15 January 1904. He was re-elected in 1906 Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ... and held the seat until he stood down from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons at the January 1910 United Kingdom general election, 1910 general election in January of that year. Personal life Tillett's grandfather was Liberal politician Jacob Henry Tillett, MP for Norwich and Mayor of Norwich (1875-1876). He married the daughter of Norwich Castle, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery curator James Reeve, Ellen May in 1896; she died in 1905. Before his el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tillett (British Army Officer)
Colonel John Maurice Arthur Tillett (4 November 1919 – 14 December 2014) was a British Army officer who had a critical role in the planning of the capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges on D-Day, 6 June 1944, during the Second World War. He was one of the last surviving British Army officers to have served with the 6th Airborne Division in Operation Mallard, on 6 June 1944, and in Operation Varsity, on 24 March 1945. He later commanded the Ugandan Army. Early life and Second World War John Tillett was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, on 4 November 1919, just under a year after the end of the First World War. His father, Major A. R. Tillett, served with the Suffolk Hussars. He was educated at Ipswich School and went to Germany on a school hockey tour in 1936, where he encountered the Hitler Youth organisation, which made him an honorary member. In Germany, he saw army manoeuvres in the Harz mountains which convinced him that war was approaching and he enlisted in the 4th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Tillett
Benjamin Tillett (11 September 1860 – 27 January 1943) was a British socialist, trade union leader and politician. He was a leader of the "new unionism" of 1889 that focused on organizing unskilled workers. He played a major role in founding the Dockers Union, and played a prominent role as a strike leader in dock strikes in 1911 and 1912. He enthusiastically supported the war effort in the First World War. He was pushed aside by Ernest Bevin during the consolidation that created the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1922, who gave Tillett a subordinate position. Scholars stress his evangelical dedication to the labour cause, while noting his administrative weaknesses. Clegg Fox and Thompson described him as a demagogue and agitator grasping for fleeting popularity. Early career Tillett was born in Bristol. He started work in a brickyard at eight years of age and was a "Risley" boy for two years. At 12 years of age, he served for six months on a fishing smack, was afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanette Tillett
Jeanette Laura Tillett (August 8, 1888 – July 22, 1965) was an American composer and music educator based in Texas. Tillett was born in Abilene to Henry Augustus and Mary Benjamin Smith Tillett. Her father was an attorney who represented his district in the Texas Senate. Her birth name was "Nettie," which she later changed to "Jeanette." Tillett studied piano with Harold von Mickwitz and Severin Eisenberger. She founded and managed the Fort Worth Conservatory of Music, and also taught at Texas Christian University. She belonged to Mu Phi Epsilon Mu Phi Epsilon () is a co-ed international professional fraternity, professional music fraternity. It has over 75,000 members in 227 collegiate chapters and 113 Alumnus/a, alumni chapters in the US and abroad. History Mu Phi Epsilon was founde .... In 1932, she was a founding member of the Fort Worth Music Teachers Association, serving as its president in 1954–55. Tillett's fellow composer Esther Cox Todd promoted and sold Til ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Du Tillet
Jacques du Tillet (1857–1942) was a French writer and critic. He published four novels. He was a theatre critic for the ''Revue politique et littéraire A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre, theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketch comedy, sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural pr ...''. Works * * * * References 1857 births 1942 deaths French novelists French theatre critics {{France-journalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
