Whetstone (surname)
Whetstone is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * George Whetstone (1544?–1587), English dramatist and author * Peter Whetstone, American pioneer * Rachel Whetstone (born 1968), public relations specialist * William Whetstone Sir William Whetstone (died 1711) was an officer of the Royal Navy in the later 17th and early eighteenth century. He eventually rose to the rank of rear admiral, having spent his career serving with several distinguished figures. Family and ea ...

George Whetstone
George Whetstone (1544? – 1587) was an English dramatist and author. Biography Whetstone was the third son of Robert Whetstone (d. 1557), a member of a wealthy family that owned the manor of Walcot Hall, Northamptonshire, Walcot at Barnack, near Stamford, Lincolnshire, Stamford, Lincolnshire. George appears to have had a small inheritance which he soon spent, and he complains bitterly of the failure of a lawsuit to recover a further inheritance of which he had been unjustly deprived. In 1572 he joined an English regiment on active service in the Low Countries, where he met George Gascoigne and Thomas Churchyard. Gascoigne was his guest at Walcot when he died in 1577, and Whetstone commemorated his friend in a long elegy. Whetstone's first published work, the ''Rocke of Regard'' (1576), consisted of tales in prose and verse adapted from the Italian, and in 1578 he published ''The right, excellent and famous Historye of Promos and Cassandra'', a play in two parts, drawn from the ei ...
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Peter Whetstone
Peter Whetstone (c. late 18th century—1843) was an early pioneer leader in the Republic of Texas most remembered for founding the city of Marshall, Texas with Isaac Van Zandt. Whetstone married Dicey, or Dicy, Webster in 1816 in Arkansas. He may have left Arkansas for Texas in 1829, when he transferred land to a Charlton Thompson in Lovely County, Arkansas, in what is now Oklahoma. When he settled in Harrison County, Texas in 1838 he received a first-class certificate grant, which were only issued to married men who were in Texas when the Texas Declaration of Independence was ratified, indicating he was in Texas before March 2, 1836. In 1841 a new seat was sought for Harrison County, and Whetstone offered some of his land in central Harrison County to build a church and a school on, and to subsequently divide the remainder into 190 lots. Commissioners were initially concerned that the water in the area would not be good. The reason for moving the county seat from a site ...
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Rachel Whetstone
Rachel Marjorie Joan Whetstone (born 22 February 1968) is a British public relations executive. Whetstone was in charge of communications and public policy for Google for nearly 10 years. She was senior vice-president of communications and public policy for Uber until April 2017. She then joined Facebook as VP of communications of its WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger products. Since August 2018, she has been the chief communication officer (CCO) of Netflix. In February 2013, Whetstone was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by ''Woman's Hour'' on BBC Radio 4. Whetstone has been featured on ''PRWeeks Power List several times, most recently in 2016 at number 14. Early life Whetstone's maternal grandfather was Antony Fisher, founder of several libertarian think tanks, including the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Her mother was Linda Whetstone, who worked with Fisher's think tanks. Raised in East Sussex ...
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