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Walby (surname)
Walby is a surname. It derives from Walby in Cumbria, England, or Waulby near Kingston upon Hull. Notable people with the surname include: *Chris Walby (born 1956), Canadian football player and sportscaster *Kate Walby Kate Walby (née Webster) is a broadcast journalist, and was a presenter for ITV Yorkshire's ''Calendar'', but is currently a reporter for Lookaround. Based in Leeds, but originally from the Isle of Man, Walby was previously a reporter and pre ..., English television journalist * Steffon Walby (born 1972), American ice hockey player and coach * Sylvia Walby, British sociologist * Tony Walby (born 1973), Canadian judoka Michael Walby (born 1976), Corporate lawyer, Solicitor of the Supreme Court References {{surname, Walby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walby
Walby is a hamlet in the civil parish of Stanwix Rural, in the Carlisle district, in the county of Cumbria, England. It is a few miles away from the city of Carlisle and near the hamlet of Linstock. It is on Willow Beck near the River Eden and is about half a mile away from the main A689 road. It has an open farm. Circa 1870, it had a population of 40 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. The surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ... derives from the place. References Hamlets in Cumbria City of Carlisle {{Cumbria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingston Upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, inland from the North Sea and south-east of York, the historic county town. With a population of (), it is the fourth-largest city in the Yorkshire and the Humber region after Leeds, Sheffield and Bradford. The town of Wyke on Hull was founded late in the 12th century by the monks of Meaux Abbey as a port from which to export their wool. Renamed ''Kings-town upon Hull'' in 1299, Hull had been a market town, military supply port, trading centre, fishing and whaling centre and industrial metropolis. Hull was an early theatre of battle in the English Civil Wars. Its 18th-century Member of Parliament, William Wilberforce, took a prominent part in the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. More than 95% of the city was damaged or destroyed in the blitz and suffered a perio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Walby
Chris Walby (born October 23, 1956) is a retired Canadian Football League player who played the offensive tackle position almost exclusively with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He won three Grey Cups with the Bombers in 1984, 1988, and 1990. Walby was also a sportscaster with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's ''CFL on CBC'' telecasts following his retirement. Early life and college career Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Walby grew up in the city's North End on Polson Avenue. He attended school at St. John's High School where he started playing junior football for the first time in grade 12. Growing up in Winnipeg, the primary sport was hockey and Walby played for the West Kildonan/Kildonan North Stars. He played in the 1975–76 and 76-77 seasons, scoring four goals and nine assists but racking up 275 penalty minutes. Playing hockey in an era of fighting, he got into a pre-game altercation with teammate Kenny Sutherland. They were both arrested. Walby was charged with assau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Walby
Kate Walby (née Webster) is a broadcast journalist, and was a presenter for ITV Yorkshire's ''Calendar'', but is currently a reporter for Lookaround. Based in Leeds, but originally from the Isle of Man, Walby was previously a reporter and presenter for the ITV Border regional news programme ''Lookaround ITV News ''Lookaround'' is a British television news service produced by ITV Tyne Tees & Border and broadcasting to the “Border” region. Overview The news service is produced and broadcast from studios at The Watermark, Gateshead with rep ...''. Whilst at Border, she covered the Carlisle floods of January 2005. Walby returned to ''Lookaround'' in late 2014. From 2006 to 2014 Walby was a District Correspondent for the Leeds and West Yorkshire area and the main Friday female co-presenter of ''Calendar'', and was one of the faces of ITV Yorkshire. References Manx people Living people British reporters and correspondents English television journalists Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steffon Walby
Steffon Walby (born November 22, 1972) is an American retired ice hockey player and coach. Walby was the first head coach of the Mississippi Surge of the Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL) and was selected as the 2009–10 SPHL Coach of the Year in his inaugural season. The following year, he coached the Surge to capture the 2010–11 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ... SPHL championship. Prior to the start of the next season, the new owner of the team fired Walby from his post as the team's head coach. Awards and honors References External links * 1972 births Living people Ice hockey people from Madison, Wisconsin Ice hockey coaches from Wisconsin American ice hockey coaches Fort Wayne Komets players Hershey Bears players Kentucky Thorough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Walby
Sylvia Theresa Walby (born 16 October 1953) is a British sociologist, currently Professor of Sociology, Director of the Violence and Society Centre at the City University of London. She has an Honorary Doctorate from Queen's University Belfast for distinction in sociology. She is noted for work in the fields of the domestic violence, patriarchy, gender relations in the workplace and globalisation. Walby is coordinator of the Gender Equality Research Network International (GENIe) the aim of which is to develop, through research, the knowledge base to understand and reduce gender inequality. She is principal Investigator of the Lancaster node of Quing, an Integrated Project funded by the European Union under Framework 6 to investigate gender and citizenship in a multicultural context, 2006–2011, Member of the executive board, and Leader of the strand on Intersectionality. She is also co-organiser of an international network on Gender Globalization and Work Transformation (GLOW ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
