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Wearing (surname)
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Wearing is a surname, and may refer to: * Alison Wearing (born 1967), Canadian writer * Ben Wearing (born 1989), Australian football player * Benny Wearing (1901–1968), Australian rugby league player * Clive Wearing (born 1938), British musicologist * Gillian Wearing (born 1963), English conceptual artist * J. P. Wearing (born circa 1945), English-American author * Michael Wearing (1939–2017), British television producer * William Alfred Wearing (1816–1875) South Australian Supreme Court judge See also *Waring *Waering Waering is a Germanic surname. Although Grant Allen and Isaac Taylor described ''Wæring'' as an Anglo-Saxon clan name equivalent to the Norse ''Væringjar'' (autonym of the Varangians), the eminent British philologist Walter William Skeat su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Wearing
Alison Wearing (born 1967) is a Canadian writer and performer most noted for her memoir and solo play, ''Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter''. Wearing, born in Peterborough, Ontario, studied French, music, and political science across various universities in Canada and Germany. She began her writing career in Prague, publishing articles, stories, and winning awards for her travel writing. Her first book, ''Honeymoon in Purdah'', a travel memoir about her trip to Iran, received international acclaim. After relocating to Mexico in 2002, she ventured into performing arts, winning awards for her solo play ''Giving Into Light''. ''Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter'', a memoir and solo play, shares her experience growing up with a gay father in the 1980s. Her 2020 book, ''Moments of Glad Grace'', explores the relationship between a daughter and her aging father. Wearing has held various literary positions, including writer-in-residence and distinguished visiting fellow, and facilitates M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Wearing
Ben Wearing (born 8 May 1989) is a former Australian footballer. Club career On 28 November 2009, Ben made his senior debut for Gold Coast United starting in a four nill loss to Melbourne Victory. Wearing was sent out on loan to VPL club Heidelberg United during the A-League and Youth League off seasons. Honours With Gold Coast United Gold Coast United Football Club is an Australian soccer club based in Gold Coast, Queensland. The earliest incarnation of the club formed in 1966 and its home ground was at Nikiforides Family Park in Broadbeach. The first era of Gold Coast Unit ...: * National Youth League Championship: 2009–2010, 2010–2011 References External links Gold Coast United profile Living people Gold Coast United FC players Australian men's soccer players 1989 births A-League Men players Men's association football central defenders Sportspeople from Maitland, New South Wales Sportsmen from New South Wales Soccer players from New South Wales [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Wearing
Benny Wearing (11 June 1901 – 9 April 1968) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. An Australian international and New South Wales representative three-quarter, he played his club football in the NSWRFL Premiership for South Sydney. Wearing was the third player in Australian rugby league history to score 100 premiership tries. Playing career Wearing was a prodigious try-scoring wing three-quarter and scored all of Souths' 12 points in their grand final loss in 1923. He then went on to play a major part in South Sydney's 7 premiership victories between 1925 and 1932. For the seasons 1925 and 1928 he was the NSW Rugby League's top point scorer and in three consecutive seasons from 1926 to 1928 he was the League's top try scorer, a feat only ever achieved by two other players – Gordon Wright in the 1920s and Nathan Blacklock 1999 to 2001. Having been representing New South Wales since 1924, Wearing debuted for Australia in the 3rd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Wearing
Clive Wearing (born 11 May 1938) is a British former musicologist, conductor, tenor and keyboardist who has chronic anterograde and retrograde amnesia. He lacks the ability to form new memories and cannot recall aspects of his memories, frequently believing that he has only recently awoken from a comatose state. In educational psychology contexts, Wearing's dual retrograde-anterograde amnesia phenomenon is often referred to as '30-second Clive' in reference to his 30-second episodic memory capacity. Musical career Clive Wearing is an accomplished musician and is known for editing the works of Orlande de Lassus. Wearing sang at Westminster Cathedral as a tenor lay clerk for many years and also had a successful career as a chorus master and worked as such at Covent Garden and with the London Sinfonietta Chorus. In 1968, he founded the Europa Singers of London, an amateur choir specialising in music of the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries. It won critical approval, especially for p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Wearing
Gillian Wearing CBE, RA (born 10 December 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett stands in London's Parliament Square. From 5 November 2021 to 4 April 2022, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City showed ''Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks'', the first retrospective of Wearing's work in North America. Early life Wearing was born in 1963 in Birmingham, England."Gillian Wearing" Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Retrieved 20 November 2018. She attended Dartmouth High School in |
Michael Wearing
Michael Wearing (12 March 1939 – 5 May 2017) was a British television producer, who spent much of his career working on drama productions for the BBC. He is best known as the producer of the well received serials ''Boys from the Blackstuff'' (1982) and ''Edge of Darkness'' (1985), which created for him a reputation as one of British television's foremost drama producers. His initial career was in the theatre, where he worked as a director, before in 1976 he joined the BBC's English Regions Drama Department as a Script Editor under producer David Rose. The department, based at the Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham, had been set up as an attempt to counter the BBC's tradition of producing dramas that were almost exclusively made and set in London and the home counties, and was charged with making regional drama based in all areas of the country. Over the following five years, Wearing worked as both a script editor and producer on various series and plays for the department, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Alfred Wearing
William Alfred Wearing (12 November 1816 – 24 February 1875) was a prominent jurist in the Colony of South Australia, who lost his life in the wreck of '' S.S. Gothenburg''. Wearing was born in London, a son of businessman Christopher Hammond Wearing (ca.1785 – 29 February 1860) and his wife Elizabeth Augusta, née Soulsby. He was educated at Trinity College, or St John's College,'Wearing, William Alfred (1816–1875)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wearing-william-alfred-4818/text8035, accessed 2 March 2013. Cambridge, where he took the degree of B.A. He studied law, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1847. He shortly afterwards left for South Australia, following his parents, who had emigrated in 1839. He immediately began practising and it was not long before he was taken into partnership with the Charles Fenn, one of the largest practices in Adelaide. The part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waring
Waring is an English surname with two derivation hypotheses: from the Frankish ''Warin'', meaning 'guard,' via Norman French ''Guarin,'' or from the Anglo-Saxon ''Wæring'', meaning 'confederate' or, more literally, 'oath companion.' Both hypotheses suggest that ''Wareing'' is a variant of this name. (''Ware,'' as in the modern English ''aware'' and ''beware,'' is derived from the Anglo-Saxon ''waer''.) Notable people with the surname include: * Antonio J. Waring, Jr. (1915–1964), American amateur archaeologist *Amanda Waring, British actress, singer and campaigner, daughter of Derek *Charles Waring (1827–1887), British politician and Liberal MP * Charles E. Waring (1909–1981), American chemist and educator * Derek Waring (1927–2007), British actor, father of Amanda *Dorothy Grace Waring (1891–1977), English fascist campaigner and novelist *Edward Waring (c. 1736–1798), British mathematician and eponym of Waring's Problem *Eddie Waring (1910–1986), British spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
