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Winifred (other)
Winifred is a feminine given name, an anglicization of Welsh ''Gwenffrewi'', from ''gwen'', "fair", and ''ffrew'', "stillness". It may refer to: People * Saint Winifred * Winifred Atwell (1914–1983), a pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain in the 1950s with a series of boogie woogie and ragtime hits * Winifred Mitchell Baker (born 1957), better known simply as Mitchell Baker, the "Chief Lizard Wrangler" and the President of the Mozilla Corporation * Winifred, Countess of Dundonald, wife of Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald * Winifred Brown (1899–1984) English sportswoman, aviator and author, first woman to win the King's Cup air race * Winifred Brunton (1880–1959), a painter from South Africa * Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (née ''Dallas-Yorke;'' 1863–1954), wife of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland * Winifred Copperwheat (1905–1976), English violist * Winifred Crossley Fair (1906–1984) British aviator, one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Language
Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language family, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). Historically, it has also been known in English as "British", "Cambrian", "Cambric" and "Cymric". The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 gave the Welsh language official status in Wales. Both the Welsh and English languages are ''de jure'' official languages of the Welsh Parliament, the Senedd. According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the Welsh-speaking population of Wales aged three or older was 17.8% (538,300 people) and nearly three quarters of the population in Wales said they had no Welsh language skills. Other estimates suggest that 29.7% (899,500) of people aged three or older in Wales could speak Welsh in June 2022. Almost half of all Welsh speakers consider themselves fluent Welsh speakers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Hackett
Winifred Hackett (2 October 1906 – 3 June 1994) was an electrical and aeronautical engineer who worked on guided weapon systems and the DEUCE computer. Early life and education Hackett was born in Kings Norton, an area of Birmingham on 2 October 1906. She attended King Edward's Girls’ High School in Edgbaston, Birmingham. Hackett was an exceptional student and won a scholarship whilst at the school. She originally planned to study architecture and for a time attended UCL with this purpose, but decided to change academic direction, returning to Birmingham to study engineering instead. In 1929 Hackett was the first woman to graduate from the University of Birmingham with an engineering degree, and won the prize for the 'Best Engineer in the University of Birmingham' in 1930. Hackett's academic success resulted in the award of the Bowen Scholarship for Electrical Engineering, which enabled her to stay on to earn an MSc. A further grant from the Institution of Electrical En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Mary Letts
Winifred Mary Letts (1882–1972) was an English-born writer who spent most of her life in Ireland. She was known for her novels, plays and poetry. Biography She was born on 10 February 1882 in Broughton, Salford, in what was then the County of Lancaster, (now Greater Manchester), to an English father (the Revd Ernest Letts) and Irish mother (Isabel Mary Ferrier). She spent many childhood holidays in Knockmaroon, Phoenix Park, Dublin, which was her mother's home. After her father's death, she and her mother returned to Ireland and lived in a house called Dal Riada in Blackrock, County Dublin. She was educated first in Bromley in Kent and later at Alexandra College in Dublin. She trained as a masseuse and during World War I worked at army camps in Manchester. In 1926 she married widower William Henry Foster Verschoyle, of Kilberry, County Kildare; they lived in Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, and in County Kildare. After his death in 1943 she lived for a time with her sisters in Fave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Lewellin James
Winifred Lewellin James (20 March 1876 – 27 April 1941) was an Australian writer. As a novelist, travel writer and journalist, James's career began with her first novel published in 1907. During her time in London, she lost her Australian nationality and after a fight extending over many years, regained her nationality in 1935. Her final novel ''The Gods Arrive'', was published in Melbourne shortly after her death in 1941. Biography James, daughter of the Rev. Thomas James and Gertrude (née Peterson), was born at Prahran, near Melbourne, Victoria in 1876. She took up journalism in Melbourne, and in 1905, at the age of 29, went to London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ... where her first novel ''Bachelor Betty'' was published in 1907. It was followed by ''Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Lawson
Winifred Lawson (15 November 1892 – 30 November 1961) was an English opera and concert singer in the first half of the 20th century. She is particularly remembered for her performances in the soprano roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas as a member of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company between 1922 and 1932. She started her career as a concert singer. In 1920, she made her operatic debut as Countess Almaviva in ''The Marriage of Figaro'', appeared in the first performances of Purcell's ''The Fairy-Queen'' in more than 200 years, and created the role of Guinevere in ''The Round Table''. Lawson was soon playing a range of roles, from as Marguerite in ''Faust'' to Bessie Throckmorton in '' Merrie England''. She was a D'Oyly Carte principal soprano for nearly a decade, playing 10 of the leading Savoy opera roles. The only other role she played during this time was Lili in '' Lilac Time'', although she also began a broadcast career in 1929 on BBC radio. In the mid-1930s, Lawson app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Lamb
Winifred Lamb (3 November 1894 – 16 September 1963) was a British archaeologist, art historian, and museum curator who specialised in Greek, Roman, and Anatolian cultures and artefacts. The bulk of her career was spent as the honorary keeper (curator) of Greek antiquities at the University of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum from 1920 to 1958, and the Fitzwilliam Museum states that she was a "generous benefactor ... raising the profile of the collections through groundbreaking research, acquisitions and publications." She directed archaeological excavations in Greece and Turkey; was a founding member of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara; and was the author of numerous books on Greek and Roman antiquities, including the 1929 publication ''Greek and Roman Bronzes'', which was standard reading for studies on the subject. Early life and education Lamb was born on 3 November 1894 at Holly Lodge, Campden Hill, London. She was the daughter of Edmund Lamb, who was a Membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Kamit
Lady Winifred (Winnie) Taretaufi Kamit is a Papua New Guinean lawyer. In the 2006 Birthday Honours she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for service to law, commerce and public administration. Life Lady Kamit studied at the University of Papua New Guinea, graduating with a law and arts degree. In 1998 she joined Gadens Lawyers in Port Moresby, becoming a partner in 1993 and a managing partner in 1999. Lady Kamit's industry and community roles include president of the Papua New Guinea Business Council, councilor and later Trustee of the Papua New Guinea Institute of National Affairs and chair of Coalition for Change Papua New Guinea, an initiative against violence against women and children. She is also patron of the Papua New Guinea Business Coalition for Women. Her director positions have included positions with Newcrest Mining (from 2011 to 2017), Interoil, Nautilus Minerals Niugini, South Pacific Post, Bunowen Services, Post-Courier, Allied Press, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Jordan
Winifred Sadie Jeffrey, later Jordan (15 March 1920 – 13 April 2019), was an English athlete who competed at the 1938 British Empire Games, 1946 European Athletics Championships, and 1948 Summer Olympics. She was born in Kings Norton, Birmingham. She left school aged 14 to work at Dunlop, where her father was employed, and where she participated with the athletics club. In the athletics at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, she was a member of the English relay team which won the silver medal in the 220-110-220-110 yards event and the bronze medal in the 110-220-110 yards competition. In the 100 yards contest she was eliminated in the semi-finals. Her athletics career was interrupted by the Second World War, and then she won silver medals in the 100 metres and 200 metres at the 1946 European Athletics Championships in Oslo, while her 4 × 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Holtby
Winifred Holtby (23 June 1898 – 29 September 1935) was an English novelist and journalist, now best known for her novel '' South Riding'', which was posthumously published in 1936. Biography Holtby was born to a prosperous farming family in the village of Rudston, East Riding of Yorkshire. Her father was David Holtby and her mother, Alice, was afterwards the first alderwoman on the East Riding County Council. Holtby was educated at home by a governess and then at Queen Margaret's School in Scarborough. Although she passed the entrance exam for Somerville College, Oxford, in 1917, she chose to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in early 1918 but soon after she arrived in France, the First World War came to an end and she returned home. During this period, Holtby met Harry Pearson, the only man who stimulated romantic feelings in her, due primarily to his tales of the suffering soldiers endured during the war. In 1919, she returned to study at the University of Oxf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Herbert
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Winifred G
Winifred is a feminine given name, an anglicization of Welsh ''Gwenffrewi'', from ''gwen'', "fair", and ''ffrew'', "stillness". It may refer to: People * Saint Winifred * Winifred Atwell (1914–1983), a pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain in the 1950s with a series of boogie woogie and ragtime hits * Winifred Mitchell Baker (born 1957), better known simply as Mitchell Baker, the "Chief Lizard Wrangler" and the President of the Mozilla Corporation * Winifred, Countess of Dundonald, wife of Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald * Winifred Brunton (1880-1959), a painter from South Africa most famous for her haunting portraits of Egyptian pharaohs * Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (née ''Dallas-Yorke;'' 1863–1954), wife of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland * Winifred Copperwheat (19051976), English violist * Winifred Starr Dobyns (18861963), American suffragist and landscape designer * Dr. Winifred Margaret 'Winnie' Ewing (born 1929) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Electric DEUCE
The DEUCE (''Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine'') was one of the earliest United Kingdom, British commercially available computers, built by English Electric from 1955. It was the production version of the Pilot ACE, itself a cut-down version of Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine, ACE. Hardware description The DEUCE had 1450 thermionic valves, and used mercury (element), mercury delay-line memory, delay lines for its main memory; each of the 12 delay lines could store 32 instructions or data words of 32 bits each. It adopted the then high 1 megahertz clock rate of the Pilot ACE. Input/output was via Hollerith 80-column punch-card equipment. The reader read cards at the rate of 200 per minute, while the card punch rate was 100 cards per minute. The DEUCE also had an 8192-word magnetic drum for main storage. To access any of the 256 tracks of 32 words, the drum had one group of 16 read and one group of 16 write heads, each group on indepen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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