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Whitefield Urban District
Whitefield may refer to: Places India *Whitefield, Bangalore **Whitefield (Bangalore) railway station United Kingdom * Whitefield, Dorset, England, a United Kingdom location *Whitefield, Greater Manchester, England * Whitefield, Perthshire, Scotland, birthplace of the writer James Browne * Whitefield, Somerset, England, a United Kingdom location United States *Whitefield, Maine *Whitefield, New Hampshire, a New England town **Whitefield (CDP), New Hampshire, village in the town *Whitefield, Oklahoma *Whitefield Township, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota People *Aaron Whitefield (born 1996), Australian professional baseball player *Edwin Whitefield, 19th century landscape artist *George Whitefield, Methodist evangelist (1714–1770) *Karen Whitefield, Scottish Labour politician *Patrick Whitefield, British permaculture expert * Stephen Whitefield Sykes (1939-2014), Church of England bishop and academic *Whitfield (surname), list of people surnamed Whitfield Schools *Whitefie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitefield, Bangalore
Whitefield is a neighbourhood of Bangalore in the state of Karnataka, India. Established in the late 1800s as a settlement for the Eurasians and Anglo Indians of Bangalore, Whitefield remained a quaint little settlement at the eastern periphery of Bangalore city till the late 1990s when the local IT boom turned it into a major suburb. It is now a major part of Greater Bangalore. The locality is named after D. S. White, founder of the European and Anglo Indian Association which received 4,000 acres of land from Mysore Maharaja Chamaraja Wodeyar in the 19th century. History In 1882, King Chamaraja Wodeyar IX, the Maharaja of the Mysore State, granted of land to the Eurasian and Anglo-Indian Association for the establishment of agricultural settlements at Whitefield, which lay within his territory. The association was then about 170 strong with a committee of 30 members. They were part of the formation of the only settlement in India that Europeans and Eurasians could call their ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitefield Township, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
Whitefield Township is a township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 571 at the 2000 census. History Whitefield Township was organized in 1870, and named for Edwin Whitefield, an artist who visited the area with explorers in the 1850s. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 36.2 square miles (93.8 km), of which 35.3 square miles (91.4 km) is land and 0.9 square mile (2.4 km) (2.59%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 571 people, 194 households, and 156 families residing in the township. The population density was 16.2 people per square mile (6.2/km). There were 201 housing units at an average density of 5.7/sq mi (2.2/km). The racial makeup of the township was 98.25% White, 0.18% African American, 0.35% Asian, 0.53% Pacific Islander, 0.35% from other races, and 0.35% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.05% of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitefield Christian Schools
Whitefield Christian Schools is a private educational institution registered with the Ontario Ministry of Education, established in 1989. Influential people include: * Dr. Larry Saunders - administrator and pastor of Toronto Free Presbyterian Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that broke from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland by John Knox, who was a priest at St. Giles Cathedral (Church of Scotland). Presbyterian churches derive their nam ... Church. * Dr. Frank McClelland - president and pastor emeritus of Toronto Free Presbyterian Church. He has written several books and is the editor of The Canadian Revivalist. . References {{coord, 43.8165, N, 79.2298, W, display=title Private schools in Toronto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitfield (surname)
Whitfield is a surname of Old English and Anglo-Saxon origins deriving from ''hwit'' (white or chalky) and ''feld'' (open lands). It can also be an Americanized or Anglicised form of the German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname Weissfeld, composed of the elements weiss 'white' and feld 'field'. Persons with the surname include: * Allan George Williams Whitfield (1909–1987), English physician * Andrew Whitfield (politician) (born 1982), South African politician * Andrew Carnegie Whitfield (born 1910), nephew of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie who disappeared in New York in 1938 * Andy Whitfield (1971–2011), Welsh-Australian actor * Anne Whitfield, American actress * Arthur Whitfield (1868–1947), English physician and professor of medicine * Barrence Whitfield (born 1955), American soul and R&B vocalist and bandleader * Bob Whitfield (born 1971), American football player * Brent Whitfield (born 1981), American soccer player * Charles Whitfield (other) * David Whitfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Whitefield Sykes
Stephen Whitefield Sykes (1 August 1939 – 24 September 2014) was a Church of England bishop and academic specialising in divinity. He was Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University from 1974 to 1985, and Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University from 1985 to 1990. Between from 1990 and 1999, he served as the Bishop of Ely, the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Ely. He was the Principal of St John's College, Durham from 1999 to 2006. He served as an Honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Durham during his time as head of St John's College and in retirement. Early life Sykes was born on 1 August 1939 in Bristol, England; his father was principal of one of the city's theological colleges. He was educated at Monkton Combe School, then an all-boys independent school in Bath, Somerset. He matriculated into St John's College, Cambridge in 1958 to study theology. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Whitefield
Patrick Whitefield (born Patrick R. Vickers, 11 February 1949 – 27 February 2015) was a British permaculture teacher, designer, author, and consulting editor for '' Permaculture Magazine''. He was regarded as one of the leading and pioneering permaculture authorities in Europe. He was born Patrick Vickers, in Devizes, Wiltshire, and grew up on a smallholding in Somerset before studying agriculture at Shuttleworth College in Bedfordshire. After several years working in agriculture in the Middle East and Africa, he returned to Somerset and bought a flower-rich hay meadow, the White Field near Butleigh, to maintain it as a nature reserve. Thereafter he took his name from the field, which, after 25 years, he transferred to the care of the Somerset Wildlife Trust. As well as producing vegetables, Whitefield undertook a variety of traditional country crafts, and for a period was a prominent member of the Ecology Party (forerunner of the Green Party of England and Wales) and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Whitefield
Karen Whitefield (born 8 January 1970, Bellshill Bellshill (pronounced "Bells hill") is a town in North Lanarkshire in Scotland, southeast of Glasgow city centre and west of Edinburgh. Other nearby localities are Motherwell to the south, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Hamilton to the south ...) is a Scottish Labour politician. She was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Airdrie and Shotts (Scottish Parliament constituency), Airdrie and Shotts constituency from 1999 Scottish Parliament election, 1999 to 2011 Scottish Parliament election, 2011. Political career Prior to her election as MSP, she worked as a personal assistant to Rachel Squire Member of parliament, MP. MSP for Airdrie and Shotts: 1999–2011 She was elected as MSP for Airdrie and Shotts at the 1999 Scottish Parliament election, 1999 Scottish Parliament general election. As an MSP, she chaired the Scottish Parliament, Parliament's Education Committee, where she used her casting vote to reject ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Whitefield
George Whitefield (; 30 September 1770), also known as George Whitfield, was an Anglican cleric and evangelist who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement. Born in Gloucester, he matriculated at Pembroke College at the University of Oxford in 1732. There he joined the "Holy Club" and was introduced to the Wesley brothers, John and Charles, with whom he would work closely in his later ministry. Whitefield was ordained after receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree. He immediately began preaching, but he did not settle as the minister of any parish. Rather he became an itinerant preacher and evangelist. In 1740, Whitefield traveled to North America, where he preached a series of revivals that became part of the " Great Awakening". His methods were controversial and he engaged in numerous debates and disputes with other clergymen. Whitefield received widespread recognition during his ministry; he preached at least 18,000 times to perhaps 10 million listeners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Whitefield
Edwin Whitefield (September 22, 1816 – December 26, 1892) was a landscape artist who is best known for his lithographed views of North American cities and for a number of illustrated books on colonial homes in New England. Born in East Lulworth, near Wareham, Dorset, England, he emigrated to the United States in 1838. Whitefield visited a series of North American cities, where he published books reproducing the paintings he made there. His collections were published by subscription. The cities he visited included Brooklyn (1845), Toronto (1851), Quebec City (1852), Montreal (1853-1854), Hamilton, Ontario (1854), Ithaca, New York (1855), Jamestown (1882), and Boston (1889). In 1856, after visiting Minnesota, he made it his home, using landscapes to help persuade those seeking land to let him play a role in their purchases. Whitefield Township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota Kandiyohi County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Whitefield
Aaron James Whitefield (born 2 September 1996) is an Australian professional baseball outfielder for the Sioux Falls Canaries of the American Association of Professional Baseball. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins and Los Angeles Angels. Career Whitefield began his career playing fastpitch softball. Whitefield won the bronze medal at the 2012 U-18 Men's Softball World Cup as a member of Australia's national softball team. Minnesota Twins After signing with the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball in 2015, Whitefield was assigned to the Gulf Coast Twins of the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League. He played in only seven games for the Twins due to visa issues. After the season, he played for the Brisbane Bandits of the Australian Baseball League (ABL) for 2015–16 ABL season. In 2016, Whitefield returned to the Gulf Coast League and played in 51 games, posting a .298 batting average with two home runs, 17 RBIs and 31 stolen bases. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitefield, Oklahoma
Whitefield is a town in northwestern Haskell County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 391 at the 2010 census, compared with the figure of 231 recorded in 2000. It was named for Methodist bishop George Whitefield (1714 - 1770).Hyder, Glenn O. "Whitefield." ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.'' Accessed October 18, 2016. History At the time of its founding, the community that became Whitefield was located in the of the |
Whitefield (Bangalore) Railway Station
Whitefield railway station (station code: WFD) is an Indian Railways train station located in Whitefield, Bangalore, in the Indian state of Karnataka, which is about 8 km away from the Krishnarajapuram railway station and serves the Whitefield area. The Whitefield railway station is about 3 km north of the Whitefield Bus stop. It lies on the Bangalore–Chennai route and is double and electrified, the Krishnarajapuram–Whitefield section is slated to be converted to a quadruple line. The station is slated to become a junction with a new Whitefield–Kolar (53 km; 33 miles) line being laid. Structure Whitefield railway station has four platforms, each running to 650m in length, shelters, lighting, benches and a booking office. Line Whitefield railway station is on the Bangalore–Chennai main line. The railway station is located between Hoodi Halt railway station and Devangonthi railway station. Originating/terminating trains See also * List of railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
