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Toner (surname)
Toner is a surname in English and Turkish. In English, it is an anglicisation of the Gaelic name Ó Tomhrair, meaning a "descendant of Tomhrar". Notable people with the surname include: * Cole Toner (born 1994), American football player * Devin Toner (born 1986), an Ireland rugby union international * Fionnuala Toner (born 1990), a Northern Ireland netball international * Imogen Toner (born 1983), British actress and artist * James J. Toner (born 1940), American racehorse trainer * John Toner (1923–2014), American football coach * Máire Toner (born 1992), a Northern Ireland netball international * Mehmet Toner (born 1958), Turkish biomedical engineer * Michael E. Toner (born 1964), American lawyer * Michael Toner (born 1944), British journalist * Niall Toner (born 1944), Irish musician and radio broadcaster * Pauline Toner (1935–1989), Australian politician * Robin Toner (1954–2008), American journalist * Tom Toner (1950–1990), American football player See *Toney (n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Máire Toner
Máire Toner (born 1 April 1992) is a Northern Ireland netball international. She represented Northern Ireland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. She was also a member of the Northern Ireland team that were silver medallists at the 2012 European Netball Championship. Her older sister, Fionnuala Toner, is also a Northern Ireland netball international. Early life, family and education Toner was raised in the Malone Road district of Belfast. Her older sister, Fionnuala Toner, is also a Northern Ireland netball international. Between 2003 and 2010 Máire attended Our Lady and St Patrick's College. Between 2010 and 2011 she attended Kent School. Between 2011 and 2014 she attended Queen's University where she studied Law and Politics. As well as playing netball, Toner also played basketball for both Our Lady and St Patrick's College and Queen's University. Playing career Clubs ;Belfast Ladies At club level Toner played for Belfast Ladies. Northern Ireland Toner represented Northern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toney (name)
Toney is a given name and a nickname. Notable people with this name include the following: Given name First name *Toney Anaya (born 1941), American politician *Toney Clemons (born 1988), American gridiron football *Toney Douglas (born 1986), American basketball player *Toney Freeman (born 1966), American bodybuilder *Toney Lee (fl. 1982–1988) American singer, songwriter and music producer *Toney Mack (born 1967), American basketball player *Toney Penna (1908 – 1995), Italian golfer Middle name *Cheryll Toney Holley, native American chief *Peter Paul Toney Babey, Canadian indigenous leader Nickname *Kemp Toney, nickname of Hardin Kimbrough Toney, (1876 – 1955), American politician *Toney Rocks, stagename of Toney Robinson, (fl. 2017), American musician Surname *Albert Toney (187 –1931), American baseball player *Alrick Toney, Surinamese badminton player *Andrew Toney (born 1957), American basketball player *Anthony Toney (born 1962), American football player *Au'Diese T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Toner
Thomas Edward Toner (January 25, 1950August 26, 1990) was a professional American football player who played linebacker for four seasons for the Green Bay Packers The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC North, North division. It .... References 1950 births 1990 deaths People from Woburn, Massachusetts Players of American football from Massachusetts American football linebackers Idaho State Bengals football players Green Bay Packers players Deaths from cancer in California People from Solana Beach, California {{linebacker-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Toner
Roberta "Robin" Denise Toner (May 22, 1954 – December 12, 2008) was an American journalist from Pennsylvania. She was the first woman to be national political correspondent for ''The New York Times''. Biography Robin Toner was born on May 22, 1954, in Chester, Pennsylvania and grew up in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania. Her father, Charles, was an oil refinery supervisor and World War II pilot; her mother, Mary Louise, was a homemaker. She graduated summa cum laude from Syracuse University in 1976 with a dual major from the College of Arts and Sciences and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Toner reported for ''The Charleston Daily Mail'' in West Virginia and ''The Atlanta Journal and Constitution'' before joining the ''Times'' in 1985.Associated Press (12/12/2008)"New York Times Reporter Robin Toner Dies at 54".'' The Associated Press''. In 1996, Toner married economics correspondent Peter G. Gosselin. In 1992, Toner was the lead reporter on Bill Clinton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Toner
Pauline Therese Toner (16 March 1935 – 3 March 1989) was the first female cabinet minister in the Parliament of Victoria. A member of the Labor Party, she was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1977 and was Minister for Community Welfare Services from 1982 to 1985. She resigned from Parliament in 1989 and died on 3 March 1989. Biography Toner was born in Horsham, Victoria, the third child of William and Madge Hoare. After attending the Brigidine Convent in Horsham, she trained as a primary school teacher, then attended university, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts ( University of Melbourne) and a Bachelor of Education ( La Trobe University). In 1962 she married architect Brian Toner (d. 2008) and they had five children: Jane, Madeline, Rachel, Lucy and Denis. Illness forced her resignation from parliament on 28 February 1989, and she died of cancer three days later on 3 March. Career Following her early teaching career, Toner became a lecturer at the State C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niall Toner
Niall Edward Toner (born 1944) is an Irish bluegrass musician, songwriter and radio broadcaster from Dublin, known nationwide for his programmes ''Country Heartland'' and ''Roots Freeway''. Musical career Toner organised his first acoustic band in the early sixties with the formation of The Lee Valley String Band in Cork. He started the Sackville String Band in late 1975, a popular Dublin outfit that played at concerts and festivals all over the country. Influenced by the recordings of the Fuzzy Mountain, Hollow Rock, and Highwoods String Bands they played "American traditional music, old-time songs and bluegrass". A typical line-up in the late 1970s consisted of Imor Byrne (fiddle), Colin Beggan (guitar), John Caulfield (fiddle), Niall Toner (mandolin) and Richard Hawkins (banjo). The band's reputation was such that many visiting U.S. musicians would jam on stage with them, Bluegrass legends like Peter Rowan, Tex Logan and Kenny Baker. Niall Toner went off to form Hank Halfhead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Toner (journalist)
Michael Toner (born 1944) is a British journalist. He was political editor, diplomatic correspondent and leader writer at the ''Sunday Express'', chief leader writer on the ''Daily Mail'' until 2006, a political author and novelist.School of the Black & Red, A History of Bedford Modern School, A.G. Underwood (1981) Life and career Toner was born in Bedfordshire in 1944 and educated at Bedford Modern School and the University of Cambridge. He began his career in journalism at the ''Stoke Sentinel'' before moving to the ''Sunday Express'' where, in 1981, he interviewed Margaret Thatcher with fellow ''Express'' journalist Keith Renshaw. He became leader writer of the ''Sunday Express'' where he covered many of the controversial topics of the 1980s and 1990s including articles about the IRA, ''Britain Fumes at US Over I.R.A. Guns'', the miners' strike, the Falklands War, child abuse and the war crime allegations involving Kurt Waldheim. David Alton described Toner's approach to Alton's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael E
SS ''Michael E'' was a cargo ship that was built in 1941. She was the first British Catapult Aircraft Merchant ship: a merchant ship fitted with a rocket catapult to launch a single Hawker Hurricane fighter to defend a convoy against long-range German bombers. She was sunk on her maiden voyage by a German submarine. Description ''Michael E'' was built by William Hamilton & Co Ltd, Port Glasgow. Launched in 1941, she was completed in May of that year. She was the United Kingdom's first CAM ship, armed with an aircraft catapult on her bow to launch a Hawker Sea Hurricane. The ship was long between perpendiculars ( overall), with a beam of . She had a depth of and a draught of . She was and . She had six corrugated furnaces feeding two 225 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . The boilers fed a 443 NHP triple-expansion steam engine that had cylinders of , and diameter by stroke. The engine was built by David Rowan & Co Ltd, Glasgow. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehmet Toner
Mehmet Toner (born 1958) is a Turkish biomedical engineer. He is currently the Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School, with a joint appointment as professor at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). Toner is a co-founder and Associate Director of the Center for Engineering in Medicine (CEM) at MGH and Director of the Biomedical Engineering Research and Education Program at MGH. He is one of the Senior Scientific Staff of the Shriners Hospital for Children. He is the founding Director of the National Institute of Health's BioMicroElectroMechanical Systems or BioMEMS Resource Center at MGH. Toner has made contributions to the fields of cryobiology and biopreservation and to the wider field of biomedical engineering. He has developed techniques in microtechnology and nanotechnology for use in clinical medicine, including the treatment of cancer. He has been elected to the American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Toner
John L. Toner (May 4, 1923 – September 23, 2014) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the University of Connecticut (UConn) from 1966 to 1970 and as the school's athletic director from 1969 to 1987. During his 18-year tenure as athletic director Toner also served in several roles with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), including as its president from 1983 to 1985. Toner was responsible for several momentous decisions in his time as athletic director at UConn, including UConn becoming a founding member of the Big East Conference in 1979, as well as the hiring of future Hall of Fame coaches Geno Auriemma and Jim Calhoun. He also oversaw the funding and construction of Gampel Pavilion. Personal life Toner was born in 1923 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He died at the age of 91 in 2014. Football coach Toner became UConn's 21st head football coach in 1966. after having been the head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language
Turkish ( , ), also referred to as Turkish of Turkey (''Türkiye Türkçesi''), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Iraq, Syria, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Cyprus has requested the European Union to add Turkish as an official language, even though Turkey is not a member state. Turkish is the 13th most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with a Latin alphabet. The distinctive characteristics of the Turk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
