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Weldon may refer to: Places In Canada: * Weldon, Saskatchewan In England: * Weldon, Northamptonshire * Weldon, Northumberland In the United States: * Weldon, Arkansas * Weldon, California * Weldon, Illinois * Weldon, Iowa * Weldon, North Carolina * Weldon Township, Michigan * Weldon, Texas People People named Weldon, Welldon or Wheldon * Anthony Weldon, English courtier and politician * Caroline Weldon (1844–1921), Swiss-American artist and activist * Casey Bill Weldon, American blues musician * Christopher Joseph Weldon, American Roman Catholic bishop * Curt Weldon, former American Congressman (R-PA), involved in various national security roles * Dan Wheldon, British racecar driver who won 2 Indianapolis 500 races * Dave Weldon, American Congressman (R-FL) * Fay Weldon, British writer * Felix de Weldon * Fred Wheldon * George Weldon * Georgina Weldon, British campaigner against the lunacy laws * Huw Wheldon, British TV presenter and executive * James Welldon (1854–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weldon, Saskatchewan
Weldon (Canada 2016 Census, 2016 population: ) is a List of villages in Saskatchewan, village in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Kinistino No. 459 and Division No. 15, Saskatchewan, Census Division No. 15. The area is part of the aspen parkland biome. The village is located north of Saskatchewan Highway 3, Highway 3 at the midway point between the cities of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Prince Albert and Melfort, Saskatchewan. The village is just south of the Weldon Ferry linking it to Saskatchewan Highway 302, Highway 302 and is often used as an access point to the historic Saskatchewan River Forks where the North Saskatchewan River, North and South Saskatchewan River, South Saskatchewan rivers join just to the northeast. History Weldon incorporated as a village on January 24, 1914. 2022 stabbings On the morning of Sunday, 4 September 2022, multiple people were stabbed in Weldon and the nearby James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon CBE, FRSL (born Franklin Birkinshaw; 22 September 1931 – 4 January 2023) was an English author, essayist and playwright. Over the course of her 55-year writing career, she published 31 novels, including ''Puffball'' (1980), '' The Cloning of Joanna May'' (1989), '' Wicked Women'' (1995)'' and The Bulgari Connection'' (2000), but was most well-known as the writer of ''The Life and Loves of a She-Devil'' (1983) which was televised by the BBC in 1986. Married three times and with four children, Weldon was a self-declared feminist. Her work features what she described as "overweight, plain women". She said there were many reasons why she became a feminist, including the "appalling" lack of equal opportunities and the myth that women were supported by male relatives. Early life Weldon was born Franklin Birkinshaw to a literary family in Birmingham, England, on 22 September 1931. Her maternal grandfather, Edgar Jepson (1863–1938), her uncle Selwyn Jepson and her m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Weldon
Paul Weldon is a Canadian musician architect and graphic artist from Toronto, Ontario. Weldon was a founding member of the Canadian band Edward Bear, which had Top 5 hits in Canada and charted well in the United States. and worldwide. Weldon was a keyboardist and bass player for Edward Bear, and that band's '70s albums featured his cover art. Weldon continues to play in the Toronto area . Weldon's work designing album art spans over 30 years and several genres including classic rock, 70s funk, and modern cult-indie rock. Weldon designed a large percentage of the album covers released in Canada between 1971 and 1974. Weldon's work includes cover art for the 1972 release of Funkadelic Funkadelic was an American funk rock band formed in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1968 and active until 1982. The band and its sister act Parliament, both led by George Clinton, pioneered the funk music culture of the 1970s.John, Bush. Funkade ...'s '' America Eats Its Young''. His cover work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Weldon
Mark Rhys Weldon (born 19 September 1967) is a New Zealand businessman and swimmer. Education Born in Auckland, Weldon has Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Arts, and Master of Commerce (First Class Hons) degrees from the University of Auckland. From Columbia Law School in New York, Weldon has a Juris Doctor degree, and a diploma in International Law (Hons) Career Weldon worked at Skadden, Arps and McKinsey & Company, both in New York City. Weldon has served as the CEO of NZX Limited (NZX). When Weldon took over NZX, it was a mutual organization that had nearly been sold to the ASX for a peppercorn. He led the exchange through a demutualization and a listing, leading the organization for a ten-year period, from 2002 to 2012. Weldon has given a significant amount of time to public policy in New Zealand. Service includes: * leading the Prime Minister's Appeal for Christchurch, after the 22 February 2011 earthquake * chairing the Prime Minister's Job Summit in 2009 * part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliet Wheldon
Dame Juliet Louise Wheldon DCB, QC (26 March 1950 – 2 September 2013) was a British civil servant, latterly (as of 2009) the legal adviser to Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England. From July 2000 until 2006 she was the first British woman to serve as Treasury Solicitor and Head of the Government Legal Service. In 2008 she was named as one of ''The Times Law 100''. Education Wheldon attended Sherborne School For Girls and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read history, before being called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1975. Career * Department of the Treasury Solicitor (1976–83), Advisory Division * Law Officers' Department (1983–84) * Department of the Treasury Solicitor (1984–86), Assistant Legal Secretary * Law Officers' Department (1986–87) * Department of the Treasury Solicitor (1987–89), Legal Adviser * Law Officers' Department (1989–97), Legal Secretary * Home Office (1997–2000), Legal Adviser * HM Procurator General Office, Treasury Solicit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Weldon (other)
John Weldon may refer to: * John Weldon (animator) (born 1945), Canadian animator * John Weldon (musician) (1676–1736), British musician * John Wesley Weldon John Wesley Weldon (ca 1809 – 1885) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Kent County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1828. He married Frances Chandler, the da ... (died 1885), lawyer, judge and political figure in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada See also * Brinsley MacNamara (1890–1963), Irish writer, born John Weldon {{hndis, name = Weldon, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Weldon
Joan Weldon (born Joan Louise Welton; August 5, 1930 – February 11, 2021) was an American actress and singer in film, television, and theatre. Early years Weldon was born in San Francisco, California in 1930. Her grandmother, Olio Cornell, raised her there after she "was left motherless at five." Weldon's great-grandfather was an actor on stage and in vaudeville. She attended Galileo High School, and was inducted into their Hall of Merit in 2019. Stage Weldon began her career singing in the San Francisco Grand Opera Company chorus. She also sang with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. On Broadway, she appeared in ''Kean''. She sang at the opening of the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center in 1964. After working in film and television, she resumed her career as a singer in road company productions including ''The Music Man'' and ''Oklahoma!'' Weldon retired in 1980. Radio In 1953, Weldon appeared as the soprano soloist on a broadcast of ''The Standard Hour'' on NBC rad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Weldon
Jo Weldon (born 1962), commonly known as Jo Boobs or Jo Boobs Weldon, is a performer, author, activist, and educator based in New York City. Weldon's body of work centers around stripping and striptease. She established and runs The New York School of Burlesque and wrote ''The Burlesque Handbook''. She is an advocate for sex-worker rights and freedom of sexual expression. Early career After moving to New York in 1997, Weldon took part in burlesque shows at The Blue Angel and Coney Island and was inspired by performances from Angie Pontani, Bambi the Mermaid and Remy Vicious. Weldon's academic career includes a degree in Business Administration, with her graduate work in media ethics. During her internships, she worked writing summaries of House of Representatives activities and writing scripts for CNN. Burlesque Weldon's burlesque style spans classical burlesque to avant garde performance art. In her signature Godzilla act she strips from a monster costume to a mashup of Blue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Welldon (cricketer)
James Turner Welldon (3 August 1847 – 6 February 1927) was an English first-class cricketer active 1867 to 1869 who played for Kent and Cambridge University. He was born in Tonbridge; died in Ashford, Kent.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), p. 561.Available onlineat the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) was founded in England in 1973 for the purpose of researching and collating information about the history and statistics of cricket. Originally called the Association of Cricket Statis .... Retrieved 2020-12-21.) References 1847 births 1927 deaths English cricketers Kent cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1840s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Welldon
James Edward Cowell Welldon (25 April 1854 – 17 June 1937) was an English clergyman and scholar. He was Bishop of Calcutta from 1898 to 1902, Dean of Manchester from 1906 to 1918, and Dean of Durham from 1918 to 1933. Early life Welldon was born in 1854 in Tonbridge, Kent, the son of Edward Ind Welldon, the Second Master of Tonbridge School, and nephew of James Ind Welldon, Headmaster of Tonbridge. He was educated at Eton and was named the Newcastle scholar in 1873. He went on to King's College, Cambridge where he was academically prominent, becoming the Bell scholar in 1874 and the Browne's medallist in 1875 and 1876. In 1877, as well as gaining his BA degree, he was the senior classical and senior chancellor's medallist. He became a fellow in 1878 and in 1880 gained his MA degree.Ormiston, T. L., (1926), ''Dulwich College Register'', page 53, (J J Keliher & Co Ltd: London) Sporting achievements He had a reputation at Eton in both the college's Wall Game and Field Game a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huw Wheldon
Sir Huw Pyrs Wheldon, (7 May 1916 – 14 March 1986) was a Welsh broadcaster and BBC executive. Early life Wheldon was born on 7 May 1916 in Prestatyn, Flintshire, Wales. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor, at the time an all-boys grammar school, and graduated with a BSc(Econ) degree from the London School of Economics in 1938. His father, Sir Wynn Wheldon, was a prominent educationalist who had been awarded the DSO for gallantry in the First World War. His grandfather, Tomos Jones Wheldon, had been the Moderator of the Calvinist Methodist Church in Wales. His mother, Megan Edwards, was an accomplished pianist. Military service On the outbreak of war in 1939, Wheldon enlisted in the Buffs. He was commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1940, but subsequently volunteered for the airborne forces and joined the Royal Ulster Rifles, with whom he flew into Normandy. He was awarded the Military Cross for an act of bravery on D-Day + 1. Broadcasting career After th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgina Weldon
Georgina Weldon (née Thomas; 24 May 1837 – 11 January 1914) was a British litigant and amateur soprano of the Victorian era. Early years She was born at Tooting Lodge, Clapham Common in 1837, one of seven children and the oldest daughter born to Morgan Thomas MP, JP, DL (1803–1867), a member of the Welsh landed gentry, and his wife, Louisa Frances, daughter of John Apsley Dalrymple of Mayfield in Sussex. Morgan Thomas was a non-practising barrister, having inherited a large sum of money from his father and uncle, and concentrated on becoming Conservative Party MP for Coventry. Georgina spent most of her childhood in Florence, and her soprano singing voice was trained by her mother, except for a few lessons she had in 1855 with Jules de Glimes in Brussels. In 1856 the Thomas family changed its name to Treherne, the surname of Morgan Thomas's ancestors up to the mid-eighteenth century.John Martin"Weldon, Georgina (1837–1914)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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