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Tweedie
Tweedie is a surname of Scottish origin. The name is a habitational name from Tweedie, located in the parish of Stonehouse, south of Glasgow. The origin and meaning of the name is unknown. Retrieved on 2012-07-13 Notable people with the surname include: * (1794–1884), Scottish physician and writer * (born 1975), South African cricketer * Charles Tweedie (1868-1925), Scottish mathematic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Tweedie
Penelope "Penny" Anne Tweedie (30 April 1940 – 14 January 2011) was an English photojournalist who is noted for her work with the Aboriginal peoples in Arnhem Land in the late 1970s. Born into a farming family she went to the Guildford School of Art in spite of her parents’ opposition. Tweedie's first job came with ''Queen'' in 1961 after it asked her college to send their best performing student to them. She left two years later to go freelance and set herself assignments in which she covered various newsworthy stories. She and others travelled to East Bengal during the 1971 East Pakistan crisis but were arrested by the Indian Army after they were mistaken for spies. Tweedie was embroiled in controversy when she refused to photograph prisoners accused to being collaborators when she noticed they were to be bayoneted to death for the assembled foreign media. She was asked by the BBC to photograph the filming of a programme called ''Explorers: The Story of Burke and Wills'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Brilliana Tweedie
Ethel Brilliana Tweedie Royal Geographical Society, FRGS (1862–1940) was a prolific English author, travel writer, biographer, historian, editor, journalist, photographer and illustrator. She wrote as Mrs. Alec Tweedie, Mrs. Alec-Tweedie and as Ethel B. Harley. Early life Ethel Tweedie was born 1 January 1862 in London, the daughter of George Harley (physician), George Harley F.R.S. and Emma Jessie (Muspratt) Harley, into an early life of wealth and privilege. Her siblings included a sister (Olga) and three brothers (Edward Vaughan Berkeley Harley, Vernon De V. and Harold S.), She was named by her father for a famous relative, Lady Brilliana Harley (wife of Robert Harley (1579–1656), Sir Robert Harley of Brampton Bryan). She was educated at Queen's College, London, and abroad in Germany. In 1886 she visited Iceland on holiday with her brother Vaughan B. Harley, her future husband Alexander (Alec) Leslie Tweedie, a woman friend, and one other man. At the suggestion of her fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tweedie
William Tweedie CSI (1836–1914) was a soldier, diplomat and author, who served in India, Abyssinia and Turkish Arabia. The son of Reverend and author William King Tweedie, he is also known as the author of a book on the Arabian Horse. Early life He was born in Scotland on 31 October 1836, the eldest of five children of William King Tweedie and Margaret Tweedie (née Bell). Tweedie's younger brother, John, served in the Indian Civil Service, progressing to Postmaster General of Bengal. After graduating from St Andrews College, Edinburgh as a Doctor of Divinity, Tweedie joined the army of the East India Company at the age of 21. Military and diplomatic service After enlisting as a Cadet, Tweedie was promoted to Ensign shortly after arrival in India. The Indian Mutiny had begun soon after Tweedie's arrival, and he soon saw action, being severely wounded in the shoulder in the action at Benares on 4 June 1858. Upon recovery, Tweedie volunteered for service with the 78th Hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Tweedie (mathematician)
David Tweedie (1865, Swinton – 1934, Edinburgh) was a Scottish mathematician, who taught in Scotland and Egypt. Biography Tweedie was the son of George Tweedie (1837–1905, a schoolmaster, inspector of the poor and registrar) and Charlotte Lugton (1836–1909). He was the oldest of nine children: Annie (born 1866), Charles (born 1868), Euphemia (born 1870), George (born 1872), Andrew (born 1873), Charlotte (born 1875), William (born 1877), and Jessie (born 1879). One of his brothers, Charles Tweedie, also became a mathematician. He attended Swinton Parish School from 1869 to 1879 and George Watson's School in Edinburgh from 1879 to 1881. He matriculated at the University of Edinburgh in 1881 at the age of sixteen. He obtained an MA (First class) in Mathematics from University of Edinburgh in 1886 and a BSc (Mathematics) in 1887. He taught mathematics at George Watson's College and in 1892 joined the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. He was appointed Honorary Treasurer of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William King Tweedie
William King Tweedie (1803–1863) was an historian, biographer and a minister of the Free Church of Scotland Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh. Life He was born in Ayr on 8 May 1803, the eldest son of John Tweedie and Janet King. His parents moved to Buenos Aires in South America while William was young and he was left in the care of an aunt in Maybole. He never saw his parents again, and was effectively abandoned. He studied Divinity at Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews University. He was licensed to preach as a minister of the Church of Scotland by the Presbytery of Arbroath in 1828. He was ordained as minister of the Scots Church at London Wall in 1832. In 1836 he was translated to Aberdeen South Parish and in March 1842 to the Tolbooth Church on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh in place of Rev Thomas Randall Davidson, but as first minister of the recently completed masterpiece by James Gillespie Graham and Pugin. He left the established church in the Disruption of 1843 and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Tweedie
David Russell Tweedie (born November 27, 1968, in Richmond, California) is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Tweedie’s compositions have appeared on Fox’s '' So You Think You Can Dance'', ''The Bernie Mac Show'', and others. Early life Tweedie's father was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and grew up in Glasgow, Scotland before moving to Richmond in 1960. His mother is from Richmond, California. He has one older sister. Living in the small, working-middle class town of Crockett, California, Tweedie grew up with Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt of the rock band Green Day, as well as Scott Holderby of pioneering heavy funk metal band Mordred. His first instrument was trumpet, which he played first chair in the school band, and it took his teacher a few years to realize he was learning the music by ear rather than reading it. This teacher noted Tweedie's aptitude and demonstrated interest in music, and made the band room available to him wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Tweedie
Maurice Charles Kenneth Tweedie (born September 30, 1919 – died March 14, 1996), or Kenneth Tweedie, was a British medical physicist and statistician from the University of Liverpool. He was known for research into the exponential family probability distributions. Education and career Tweedie read physics at the University of Reading and attained a B.Sc. (general) and B.Sc. (special) in physics in 1939 followed by a M.Sc. in physics 1941. He found a career in radiation physics, but his primary interest was in mathematical statistics where his accomplishments far surpassed his academic postings. Contributions Tweedie distributions Tweedie's contributions included pioneering work with the Inverse Gaussian distribution. Arguably his major achievement rests with the definition of a family of exponential dispersion models characterized by closure under additive and reproductive convolution as well as under transformations of scale that are now known as the Tweedie expo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Tweedie
Admiral Sir Hugh Justin Tweedie KCB (5 April 1877 – 20 August 1951) was an officer in the Royal Navy who served in the First and Second World War. Naval career Tweedie was born at Charlton, Kent, the son of General Michael Tweedie of the Royal Artillery, and his wife Louisa Bateson Hammond. He joined the Royal Navy in 1891. As a midshipman on he witnessed the sinking of after she collided with . He served in and the sailing corvette as the midshipman of the fore cross trees in 1896. On ''Rodney'' he undertook a course on mine warfare. His instructor was Robert Falcon Scott. At the time of the Diamond Jubilee Review in 1897, Tweedie was appointed to the destroyer . He then served on the cruiser at the Cape. Promoted to lieutenant he received his first command, the governor's paddle yacht ''Countess of Derby'' for an operation on the Bumpeh River in Sierra Leone. There had been an uprising due to the imposition of Hut Tax War of 1898, Hut tax. He was tasked to transpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Tweedie (accountant)
Sir David Philip Tweedie (born 7 July 1944) is a British accountant. He is the former chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board (2001-2011) and the ninetieth member of The Accounting Hall of Fame. Career Born in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Tweedie graduated with a BCom followed by a PhD in 1969 from the University of Edinburgh Management School, and is currently a visiting professor.Sir David Tweedie ''Accountancy Age'', 11 Nov 2004 He then trained as a Chartered Accountant with Mann Judd Gordon & Co, qualifying in 1972. He lectured at his alma mater from 1973 to 1978, then became the technical director of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Tweedie
Michael Willmer Forbes Tweedie (2 September 1907 – 25 March 1993) was a naturalist and archaeologist working in South East Asia, who was Director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore. Biography Tweedie was the son of Maurice Carmichael Tweedie, who was Deputy Inspector-General in the Imperial Indian Police Service, and his wife Mildred Clarke. He read Natural Science at Cambridge University, specializing in zoology and geology, followed by a short spell working as an oil geologist in Venezuela. He became assistant curator of the Raffles Museum (now the National University of Singapore's Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum) in 1932 until the Japanese occupation in 1941. At the outbreak of war in 1939, he joined the volunteer Royal Air Force and in 1941 joined the Royal Air Force as a camouflage officer, drawing on his knowledge of camouflage in nature. After Singapore fell, he was evacuated to Java, where his knowledge of Malay, learned from the local staff in Singapore, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Tweedie
Thomas Mitchell March Tweedie (March 4, 1871 – October 4, 1944) was a Canadian politician, lawyer and Chief Justice in Alberta, Canada. Early life Thomas Mitchell March Tweedie was born in River John, Nova Scotia, on March 4, 1871, to James Tweedie a Methodist Minister, and his wife Rachael Susannah. He graduated from Mount Allison University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1902 and subsequently entered Harvard University, where he earned a law degree in 1905. He was admitted to the bar in Nova Scotia in 1905, and then moved to Alberta where he would be one of the last individuals admitted to the bar in the Northwest Territories on July 10, 1907. Settling in Calgary he would begin to practice law with future MLA Alexander McGillivray, and was named King's Counsel on March 19, 1913. Provincial career Tweedie was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in a 1911 by-election and served the Calgary seat that had been previously vacated by Richard Bennett. In this ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Tweedie
Stephen C. Tweedie is a Scottish software developer who is known for his work on the Linux kernel, in particular his work on filesystems. After becoming involved with the development of the ext2 filesystem working on performance issues, he led the development of the ext3 filesystem which involved adding a journaling layer ( JBD) to the ext2 filesystem. For his work on the journaling layer, he has been described by fellow Linux developer Andrew Morton as "a true artisan". Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1969, Tweedie studied computer science at Churchill College, Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh, where he did his thesis on ''Contention and Achieved Performance in Multicomputer Wormhole Routing Networks''. After contributing to the Linux kernel in his spare time since the early nineties and working on VMS filesystem support for DEC for two years, Tweedie was employed by Linux distributor Red Hat where he continues to work on the Linux kernel. Tweedie has published a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
