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Tennant (surname)
Tennant is a Scottish surname, and may refer to: * Alan Tennant (1930–1997), rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 1950s * Alexander Tennant (1772–1814), British colonist of South Africa * Amy Tennant (born 1994), English field hockey player * Andrew Tennant (other) Andrew or Andy, multiple people * Billy Tennant (footballer) * Charles Tennant (1768–1838), Scottish chemist and industrialist * Christopher Tennant (born 1978), Danish-American Ganjapreneur * Clive Tennant (born 1956), English rugby league footballer of the 1970s * David Tennant (other) * Don Tennant (1922–2001), American advertising executive * Dorothy Tennant (1855–1926), British artist * Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner (1859–1920), British politician * Edward Tennant (1897–1916), British poet * Emma Tennant (1937–2017), British novelist * Forest Tennant, American physician and advocate for opioid pain medications * Georgia Tennant (née Moffett) (b. 1984), English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish People
The Scots ( sco, Scots Fowk; gd, Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged in the early Middle Ages from an amalgamation of two Celtic-speaking peoples, the Picts and Gaels, who founded the Kingdom of Scotland (or ''Alba'') in the 9th century. In the following two centuries, the Celtic-speaking Cumbrians of Strathclyde and the Germanic-speaking Angles of north Northumbria became part of Scotland. In the High Middle Ages, during the 12th-century Davidian Revolution, small numbers of Norman nobles migrated to the Lowlands. In the 13th century, the Norse-Gaels of the Western Isles became part of Scotland, followed by the Norse of the Northern Isles in the 15th century. In modern usage, "Scottish people" or "Scots" refers to anyone whose linguistic, cultural, family ancestral or genetic origins are from Scotland. The Latin word ''Scoti'' originally referred to the Gaels, but came to describe all inhabitants of Scotland. Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Tennant
Georgia Elizabeth Tennant (; born 25 December 1984) is an English actress and producer. She played Detective Inspector Samantha Nixon's daughter Abigail in ''The Bill'', Jenny in the ''Doctor Who'' episode "The Doctor's Daughter" and Lady Vivian in the show '' Merlin''. Early life Moffett was born on Christmas Day at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in Hammersmith, West London, the daughter of actors Peter Moffett (known by his stage name, Peter Davison) and Sandra Dickinson. She attended St Edward's School in Oxford. Career Moffett made her television debut at the age of 15 in ''Peak Practice'' (1999), playing Nicki Davey. Moffett has appeared in television dramas such as ''The Second Quest'' and ''Like Father Like Son''. She played downtrodden Alice Harding in the ITV drama '' Where the Heart Is'' in 2004 and 2005 and has performed alongside her father in ''Fear, Stress & Anger '' and ''The Last Detective.'' In 2007, she made her theatrical debut as Mathilde Verlaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smithson Tennant
Smithson Tennant FRS (30 November 1761 – 22 February 1815) was an English chemist. He is best known for his discovery of the elements iridium and osmium, which he found in the residues from the solution of platinum ores in 1803. He also contributed to the proof of the identity of diamond and charcoal. The mineral tennantite is named after him. Life Tennant was born in Selby in Yorkshire. His father was Calvert Tennant (named after his grandmother Phyllis Calvert, a granddaughter of Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore). His own name derives from his grandmother Rebecca Smithson, widow of Joshua Hitchling. He attended Beverley Grammar School and there is a plaque over one of the entrances to the present school commemorating his discovery of the two elements, osmium and iridium. He began to study medicine at Edinburgh in 1781, but after a few months moved to Cambridge, where he devoted himself to botany and chemistry. He graduated M.D. at Cambridge in 1796, and about the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Tennant
Scott Tennant is an American classical guitarist. He is a member of the Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Born in Detroit, Michigan in March 1962, he began his musical and guitar studies at the age of six. He attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit, where he also studied violin (which he played in the Cass Tech Symphony Orchestra), and trombone (Cass Tech Concert Band) and was in the graduating class of 1980. He was admitted into the school of music of the University of Southern California in 1980, and studied there until 1986.Ljiljana GrubisicThornton Faculty, Alums Win Grammys, USC Public Relations, March 12, 2007, Accessed March 4, 2009. He won silver medals in both the Toronto International Guitar Competition in 1984, and Paris Radio France Competition in 1988, and won the gold medal/first prize in the Tokyo International Competition in 1989. He taught guitar at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 1989–1993, and has since been on the facult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelson Tennant
Nelson Tennant (9 February 1923 - August 2006) was an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s. He played at club level for Featherstone Rovers ( Heritage № 185), as a , i.e. number 7. Playing career Tennant made his début for Featherstone Rovers and scored a try against Huddersfield at Fartown Ground on Tuesday 26 March 1940.Bailey, Ron (20 September 2001). ''Images of Sport - Featherstone Rovers Rugby League Football Club''. The History Press. He made a WW2 guest appearance for St Helens on 15 Nov 1941, when Saints were short of players. Nelson played on the for this match. Genealogical information Nelson Tennant is the son of the rugby league footballer; Buff Lord, and the younger brother of Margaret Tennant (birth registered during first ¼ 1919 in Pontefract district), the rugby league footballer; Walter Tennant, and the older brother of Alice Tennant (birth registered during second ¼ 1925 in Pontefract district), Maurice Tenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Tennant (philosopher)
Neil Tennant (born 1 March 1950) is an American philosopher. He is Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University; and, before taking up his appointment at the Ohio State University he held positions at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Stirling, and the Australian National University. Along with Michael Dummett, Crispin Wright, Tennant is one of the most notable figures who have attempted to extend the project of providing anti-realist semantics for empirical language. He has also written extensively on intuitionistic logic and other non-classical logics. Education and career Tennant was the editor of the journal ''American Philosophical Quarterly'' from 2004 to 2007. He was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities, as a Corresponding Fellow, in 1990. Selected publications * ''Natural Logic'', Edinburgh University Press, 1978, ix+196pp.; Japanese translation by T. Fujimura for Orion Press, 1981; second, revis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Tennant
Neil Francis Tennant (born 10 July 1954) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and music journalist, and co-founder of the synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, which he formed with Chris Lowe in 1981. He was a journalist for ''Smash Hits'', and assistant editor for the magazine in the mid-1980s. Tennant coined the phrase imperial phase to describe the period in which a musical artist is regarded to be at their commercial and creative peak simultaneously. This observation was initially self-referential, made as the Pet Shop Boys had achieved commercial success with four British number one hits ("It's a Sin", "What Have I Done to Deserve This", "Heart", and " Always on My Mind"), had received unanimous critical praise for their first three albums, and had expanded their creative horizons through innovative collaborations in the visual and performing arts. Biography Early life Neil Francis Tennant was born in North Shields, a fishing port near Newcastle upon Tyne, to William W. Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Tennant
Natalie E. Tennant (born December 25, 1967) is an American politician who served as the Secretary of State of West Virginia from 2009 to 2017. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Tennant was the 2014 Democratic Party nominee for West Virginia's open U.S. Senate seat, which she lost to Republican Shelley Moore Capito. In 2016 she was defeated for re-election by Republican Mac Warner, and left office on January 16, 2017. Prior to her election as Secretary of State, Tennant was a television reporter and co-owner of a video production company. Early life and education Tennant grew up on a farm in Fairview, Marion County, West Virginia and is the daughter of Rose Mary (née Brunetti) and John D. Tennant, Jr. Her mother was of Italian descent. Tennant is a 1986 graduate of North Marion High School in Farmington, West Virginia. She graduated from West Virginia University in 1991 with a bachelor's degree in journalism, and she obtained a master's degree in corporate and organiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kylie Tennant
Kathleen Kylie Tennant AO (; 12 March 1912 – 28 February 1988) was an Australian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, critic, biographer, and historian. Early life and career Tennant was born in Manly, New South Wales; she was educated at Brighton College in Manly and Sydney University, though she left without graduating. She was a publicity officer for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, as well as working as a journalist, union organiser, reviewer (for ''The Sydney Morning Herald''), a publisher's literary adviser and editor, and a member of the Commonwealth Literary Fund advisory board. She married L. C. Rodd in 1933; they had two children (a daughter, Benison, in 1946 and a son, John Laurence, in 1951). Her work was known for its well-researched, realistic, yet positive portrayals of the lives of the underprivileged in Australia. In a video interview filmed in 1986, three years before her death, for the Australia Council's Archival Film Series, Tennant told ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tennant (other)
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John Tennant may refer to: * John Tennant (bushranger), Australian bushranger *John Tennant (footballer, born 1939) (1939–1985), English football goalkeeper *John Tennant (RAF officer) (1890–1941), British airman, explorer, banker and politician *John Tennant (pastoralist) *John Tennant (politician), British politician and MEP *Jack Tennant (John William Tennant, 1907–1978), English football defender See also *John Tennent (other) John Tennent may refer to: * John Tennent (courtier) John Tennent or Tennand of Listonshiels (died c. 1549) was a servant and companion of King James V of Scotland. He kept an account of the king's daily expenses which is an important source docum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Tennant
Jan Tennant (born 1937) is a Canadian television journalist. Early life Tennant was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1937, growing up in the High Park North neighbourhood, attended Runnymede Public School and Humberside Collegiate Institute, and then attended the University of Toronto. Teaching She graduated with a degree with Physical Education and Health and began teaching at Queen Elizabeth Junior High in Port Credit, Ontario (1960), Switzerland (1961–62), then obtained a Type A Certificate in Physical and Health Education, and Type B in English and French at the Ontario College of Education (1962–63) before resuming teaching at Castle Frank High School in Toronto until 1965. Broadcasting Jan Tennant joined the CBC in 1966 as a unit secretary. She soon became a script assistant for ''The Way It Is'' and ''The Nature of Things'' and then moved into announcing for both radio and television. She was formerly an announcer for the CBC Radio and CBC Television including commentar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Tennant (other)
James Tennant may refer to: * James Tennant (mineralogist) (1808–1881), English mineralogist * James Tennant (RFC officer) (1896–?), Scottish World War I flying ace * James Tennant (army officer) (1789–1854), British soldier * James Francis Tennant (1829–1915), British soldier and astronomer * Jim Tennant James McDonnell Tennant (March 3, 1907 – April 16, 1967) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He made one relief appearance for the New York Giants, on September 28, 1929, as the third of four pitchers in relief of Carl Hubbell.James Tennent (1888–1955), Scottish international rugby and cricket player * James Emerson Tennent (1804–1869), Irish politician a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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