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Whittle (name)
Whittle is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alasdair Whittle, British archaeologist specialising in the Neolithic * Albert Whittle (1877–1917), English cricketer *Alex Whittle (born 1993), English footballer *Bill Whittle (born 1959), American conservative * Brian Whittle (born 1964), Scottish Conservative politician and former international athlete * Chris Mary Francine Whittle (born 1927), Belgian composer *Chris Whittle (born 1947), American entrepreneur who founded Channel One News and Edison Schools, Inc *Daniel Webster Whittle (1840–1901), American gospel song writer *Francis McNeece Whittle (1823-1902), Episcopal bishop of Virginia *Frank Whittle (1907–1996), British RAF officer who invented the jet engine *Gwendolyn Yates Whittle (born 1961), sound editor * Harry Whittle (1922–1990), British hurdler * Jason Whittle (born 1975), American football player *Jenny Whittle (born 1973), Australian basketball player *John Woods Whittle (1882–19 ... [...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] |
Jason Whittle
Jason Whittle (born March 7, 1975) is a former American football guard. He went to high school in Camdenton, Missouri and played for the Camdenton Lakers. He spent four years at Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State University playing college football for the Bears where, in 1995, he won the Arthur Briggs Award for being an outstanding scholar athlete. He was an American football offensive lineman last playing for the Buffalo Bills. He was originally signed by the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent in 1998. He was part of New York Giants teams that won two NFC East titles in 2000 and 2005, and the NFC Championship in 2000. He played 11 years in the NFL as a Guard and Center. He is currently co-owner/broker of RE/MAX Lake of the Ozarks one of the top RE/MAX brokerages in the midstates region. He currently resides at Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri, with his wife Natalie and 6 children. See also *History of the New York Giants (1994-present) The N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Whittle The Elder
Thomas Whittle (1803–1887) was an English landscape and still life artist. Early life Thomas Whittle was born in Beddington, Surrey to Thomas and Mary Whittle. He was christened on 6 November 1803. Whittle's father and son were also both named Thomas; this one was generally known as "Thomas Whittle the Elder" because his son was also an artist but his father was not. Career A largely self-taught artist, Whittle also worked as a journeyman, furniture dealer, clerk and draper Draper was originally a term for a retailer or wholesaler of cloth that was mainly for clothing. A draper may additionally operate as a cloth merchant or a haberdasher. History Drapers were an important trade guild during the medieval period .... He was not a wealthy man and during his lifetime did not make much money from his art. Often it can be hard to distinguish between Whittle and his son as they both had similar styles. Thomas Whittle the Elder often painted still lives of fruit and sometimes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Whittle
Stephen Thomas Whittle, (born 29 May 1955) is a British legal scholar and activist with the transgender activist group Press for Change. Since 2007, he has been Professor of Equalities Law in the School of Law at Manchester Metropolitan University. Between 2007 and 2009, he was president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). Having been assigned female at birth, he is described as "a radical lesbian before his sex change and now a leading commentator on gender issues", who after the Gender Recognition Act 2004 came into force in April 2005, achieved legal recognition as a man and so was able to marry his female partner. Early life Whittle was born on 29 May 1955 at Altrincham Cottage Hospital, Cheshire, where his grandmother was a senior nurse. He was assigned female at birth. He was a sickly child, suffering from rickets. He was the middle child of the five children in his family. In 1955 the family lived in Wythenshawe. At that time, Wythensh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stafford G
Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 70,145 in the United Kingdom Census 2021, 2021 census, It is the main settlement within the larger borough of Stafford which had a population of 136,837 (2021). History Stafford means "ford (crossing), ford" by a staithe (landing place). The original settlement was on a dry sand and gravel peninsula that offered a strategic crossing point in the marshy valley of the River Sow, a tributary of the River Trent. There is still a large area of wetland, marshland north-west of the town, which is subject to flooding and did so in 1947, 2000, 2007 and 2019. Stafford is thought to have been founded about AD 700 by a Mercian prince called Bertelin, who, legend has it, founded a hermitage on a peninsula named Betheney. Until recently it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Whittle (politician)
Peter Robin Whittle (born 6 January 1961) is a British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster who served as a Member of the London Assembly from 2016 to 2021 and as Deputy Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) to Paul Nuttall from 2016 to 2017. He is the founder and director of the New Culture Forum think tank and host of ''So What You're Saying Is...'', a weekly cultural and political interview show on YouTube. After a career in media in the United Kingdom and United States, Whittle founded the New Culture Forum in 2006. He joined the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and was the party's candidate for the 2016 London mayoral contest, which was held at the same time as his election to the London Assembly. He served as the party's deputy leader between November 2016 and October 2017 and was a prominent, but unsuccessful, candidate in the 2017 UKIP leadership election. Whittle resigned as UKIP's London Assembly leader in January 2018, following Henry Bolton's refusal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Whittle (mathematician)
Peter Whittle (27 February 1927 – 10 August 2021) was a mathematician and statistician from New Zealand, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimisation and stochastic dynamics. From 1967 to 1994, he was the Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research at the University of Cambridge. Career Whittle was born in Wellington. He graduated from the University of New Zealand in 1947 with a BSc in mathematics and physics and in 1948 with an MSc in mathematics. He then moved to Uppsala, Sweden in 1950 to study for his PhD with Herman Wold (at Uppsala University). His thesis, ''Hypothesis Testing in Time Series'', generalised Wold's autoregressive representation theorem for univariate stationary processes to multivariate processes. Whittle's thesis was published in 1951. A synopsis of Whittle's thesis also appeared as an appendix to the second edition of Wold's book on time-series analysis. Whittle re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kidnapping And Murder Of Lesley Whittle
British teenager Lesley Whittle was kidnapped on 14 January 1975, and her body discovered on 7 March 1975. Her kidnapping and murder dominated national headlines for 11 months. The investigation involved over 400 officers from the West Mercia Constabulary, Staffordshire and West Midlands police forces and the Metropolitan Police. Whittle, aged 17, was kidnapped from her home in Highley, Shropshire, by Donald Neilson, who by that time had committed over 400 burglaries and three murders. He was known to the British press as "the Black Panther", for the black balaclava he wore during robberies of post offices. Neilson held Whittle in an underground drainage shaft of a reservoir at Bathpool Park in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. He had placed a hood over her head, left her naked, and tethered her to the side of the shaft by a wire noose. After what was later seen as a bungled police operation, including two failed attempts to engage with Neilson's demand for a ransom of £50,000, her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kennon C
Kennon may refer to: Places * Kennon Island, a 0.3-mi-long satellite of Attu Island in the Near Islands group at the extreme western end of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska * Kennon Observatory, astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of Mississippi *Kennon Road, a roadway in Benguet province, Philippines, connecting the mountain city of Baguio to the lowland town of Rosario in La Union province * Kennon, Virginia, unincorporated community in Charles City County, Virginia, United States Persons with the surname *Beverley Kennon (1793–1844), career officer in the United States Navy *James Kennon (1925–1991), British naval officer *Kevin Kennon (born 1958), American architect * Lyman W. V. Kennon (1858–1918), American military officer *Matt Kennon, American singer and songwriter * Paul A. Kennon (1934–1990), American architect * Robert F. Kennon (1902–1988), American politician * Sandy Kennon (1933–2015), South African footballer * Sidney Kennon (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Woods Whittle
John Woods Whittle, Victoria Cross, VC, Distinguished Conduct Medal, DCM (3 August 1882 – 2 March 1946) was an List of Australian Victoria Cross recipients, Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British and British Commonwealth armed forces. Whittle was serving as a sergeant in the First World War when he was decorated with the Victoria Cross following two separate actions against German forces during their retreat to the Hindenburg Line in 1917. In the latter action, he attacked a machine gun crew, killing the group and seizing the gun. Born in Tasmania, Whittle completed twelve months active service during the Second Boer War, before returning to Australia and enlisting in the Royal Navy, where he served for five years as a Fireman (steam engine), stoker. Re-enlisting in the army, he was posted to the Army Service Corps, artillery, and Tasmanian Rifle Regiment before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Whittle
Jennifer Hazel (Jenny) Whittle (born 5 September 1973) is a retired Australian women's basketball player. Whittle was a regular member of the national team for over a decade, from 1994 until 2006. Playing Centre, Whittle was a key contributor to the Opals' success at international events during the 1990s and 2000s, with strong rebounding and defence a feature of her game. Following an outstanding national and WNBL career, Whittle was elected to the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016.Lulham, Amanda (23 October 2016)''Liesl Tesch, Jenny Whittle, Jeanie Kupsch inducted into basketball Hall of Fame'' The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 November 2016. Biography National team Whittle broke into the Australian side as a 20-year-old, following her success at the 1993 World Championship for Junior Women, where she won a Gold medal. Averaging 10.1 points per contest, the centre added six points and provided a dominant defensive presence under the rim in the gold medal game as Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Whittle
Harold 'Harry' Whittle (2 May 1922 – 11 May 1990) was a British hurdler and long jumper. He competed in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics. He also represented England in four events at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about ..., New Zealand; the 440 yards, 440 yards hurdles, long jump and triple jump. He was a three times long jump national champion. References 1922 births 1990 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics British male hurdlers British male long jumpers Olympic athletes of Great Britain Place of birth missing Athletes (track and field) at the 1950 British Empire Games Commonweal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
