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William Cook (MP)
William, Will, Willie, Bill or Billy Cook may refer to: Sportsmen Association football (soccer) * William Cook (footballer) (1907-1968), English footballer who played for Darlington and Gateshead * Willie Cook (footballer) (1906–1981), Scottish footballer * Billy Cook (footballer, born 1890) (1890–1974), English-born footballer who played for Sheffield United * Billy Cook (footballer, born 1895), Huddersfield Town, Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur * Billy Cook (footballer, born 1909) (1909–1992), Irish footballer who played for Celtic and Everton * Billy Cook (footballer, born 1940) (1940–2017), Scottish-born footballer who played for Australia Cricket * William Cook (Lancashire cricketer) (1881–1947), English cricketer * William Cook (Surrey cricketer) (1891–1969), English cricketer * William Cook (Leeds/Bradford MCCU cricketer) (born 1995), English cricketer Other sports * William Cook (billiards player), World Champion of English billiards in the 19th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cook (footballer)
William Cook (23 May 1907 – 7 August 1968) was an English association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward in the English Football League, Football League for Darlington F.C., Darlington and Gateshead F.C., Gateshead. Life and career Cook was born in 1907 in Browney, Browney Colliery, County Durham, a son of Norris William Cook, a deputy overman in a coal mine, and his wife Elizabeth Ann. He played for clubs including New Brancepeth, Coxhoe United, Durham City A.F.C., Durham City, Chilton Colliery Recreation F.C., Chilton Colliery Recreation Athletic and Langley Park F.C., Langley Park, and was a team-mate of John Alderson (footballer), John Alderson at Willington A.F.C., Willington when both joined Stoke City F.C., Stoke City during the 1930–31 season. Neither represented Stoke in senior competition, and both signed for Darlington F.C., Darlington in July 1932. Cook made his debut on 31 August, playing at inside right in a 3–1 defea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewes (UK Parliament Constituency)
Lewes is a constituency in East Sussex represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Maria Caulfield, a Conservative. Constituency profile The constituency is centred on the town of Lewes. However, the constituency also covers most of the Lewes district, including the coastal towns of Seaford and Newhaven, which are rural and semi-rural and all in outer parts of the London Commuter Belt, though with a high number of people who have retired from across the country. The constituency excludes Peacehaven and Telscombe which since 1997 have been in Brighton, Kemptown, and includes part of neighbouring Wealden District. Electoral Calculus categorises the constituency as "Centrist", indicating average levels of education and wealth and moderate support for Brexit. Boundaries 1885–1918: The Borough of Brighton, the Sessional Divisions of Hove and Worthing, and parts of the Sessional Divisions of Lewes and Steyning. 1918–1950: The Borough of Lewes, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cook (computer Scientist)
William Randall Cook (November 21, 1963 – October 27, 2021) was an American computer scientist, who was an associate professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Early life and education Cook was born on November 21, 1963. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Brown University in 1989. Career Cook's research concentrated on object-oriented programming, programming languages, modeling languages, and the interface between programming languages and databases. Prior to joining UT in 2003, he was chief technology officer and co-founder of Allegis Corporation, where he was chief architect for several award-winning products, including the eBusiness Suite at Allegis, the writer's Solution for Prentice Hall, and the AppleScript language at Apple Computer. Cook won the Senior Dahl–Nygaard Prize The Dahl–Nygaard Prize is awarded annually to a senior researcher with outstanding career contributions and a younger researcher w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Cook (writer)
William Everett Cook (1921 – July 1964), was a western writer who used the pen names Will Cook, James Keene, Wade Everett and Frank Peace. Called "a master western storyteller,"Review of Rain Tree by Will Cook " , 10/02/1996. Cook published dozens of short stories and 50 novels before his death at age 42. A number of his stories and novels were turned into Hollywood westerns, including the 1961 film . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wallace Cook
William Wallace Cook (1867-1933) also known by the pen-name John Milton Edwards, was an American journalist and author of popular fiction. His works include westerns, adventure stories, dime novels The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term ''dime novel'' has been used as a catchall term for several different but related forms, r ..., serials and screen and stage plays. He is best remembered for his science-fiction works. Cook also created ''Plotto'', a system for plot suggestion and content structure that fiction writers can use. This came out in the 1920s, and in 1934 came out with a 7 part instruction guide. As by John Milton Edwards he wrote ''The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully'' in 1912. Works * ''Cast Away at the Pole'' (1904) * ''Adrift in the Unknown'' (1905) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Edwards Cook
William Edwards Cook (August 31, 1881 – November 10, 1959) was an American-born expatriate artist, architectural patron, and long-time friend of American writer Gertrude Stein. Following his 1903 departure from the U.S., Cook resided in Paris, Rome, Russia, and on the island of Majorca, in the Balearic Islands off the eastern coast of Spain. Today he is chiefly remembered not for his artistic achievements, but because, during World War I, he taught Stein to drive an automobile so that she could contribute to the French war effort, and because, in 1926, he commissioned the Swiss architect Le Corbusier (whose career was at an early stage) to design an innovative cubist home, on the outskirts of Paris, now called Maison Cook or Villa Cook. Formative years Cook grew up in the small community of Independence, Iowa, in the northeast section of the state. In the early 1890s, it was nationally known as a horseracing center, a distinction that earned it the popular name of the Lexing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Delafield Cook
William Delafield Cook AM (1936–2015) was an Australian artist who was known for his photorealistic landscapes. He won a number of awards, including the Order of Australia. Early life Delafield Cook was born in Melbourne, Australia on 28 February 1936.Obituary of William Delafield Cook, The Independent, 14 May 2015 Retrieved 13 August 2020 William Delafield Cook Retrieved November 2012 His grandfather, who was also named William Delafield Cook, was also a painter and had links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Marion Cook
William Mercer Cook (January 27, 1869 – July 19, 1944), better known as Will Marion Cook, was an American composer, violinist, and choral director.Riis, Thomas (2007–2011)Cook, Will Marion ''Grove Music Online.'' Oxford Music Online. Retrieved 2011-09-16. Cook was a student of Antonín Dvořák. In 1919 he took his New York Syncopated Orchestra (Southern Syncopated Orchestra) to England for a command performance for King George V of the United Kingdom, and tour. Cook is probably best known for his popular songs and landmark Broadway musicals, featuring African-American creators, producers, and casts, such as '' Clorindy, or The Origin of the Cake Walk'' (1898) and ''In Dahomey'' (1903). The latter toured for four years, including in the United Kingdom and United States. Cook served as musical director of the George Walker-Bert Williams Company, working with the comedy partners on ''Clorindy,'' ''In Dahomey,'' and several other musical successes. Early life Will Marion Cook ('' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Tudor
Antony Tudor (born William Cook; 4 April 1908 – 19 April 1987) was an English ballet choreographer, teacher and dancer. He founded the London Ballet, and later the Philadelphia Ballet Guild in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., in the mid-1950s. Early life and education Tudor was born William Cook in East London, and grew up in the Finsbury area. He discovered dance accidentally. Tudor's first exposure to professional ballet was in his late teens when he first saw Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. He witnessed the dancer Serge Lifar of the Diaghilev Ballet in Balanchine's ''Apollon Musagète'' in 1928. Later, the Ballet Russes would introduce him to Anna Pavlova, who further inspired his journey into the world of dance. Tudor reached out to Cyril W. Beaumont, the owner of a ballet book shop in the Charing Cross Road district in London, to seek advice regarding training and was instructed to study with Marie Rambert, a former Diaghilev Ballet dancer who taught the Cecchetti m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Cook
Willie Cook (November 11, 1923 – September 22, 2000) was an American jazz trumpeter. Cook was born in Tangipahoa, Louisiana, on November 11, 1923.Hogan, E"Willie Cook" AllMusic. Retrieved July 13, 2017. He grew up in Chicago and learned to play violin before settling on trumpet as a teenager. He joined King Perry's band in the late 1930s, then joined Jay McShann's band early in the 1940s. His later credits include performing and recording with Johnny Hartman, Earl Hines, Jimmie Lunceford, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, B.B. King, and Count Basie. He joined Ellington's band in October 1951 as lead trumpeter and stayed for a decade. He moved to Sweden in 1982 after spending time in the country touring. He died of heart failure in Maria Regina Hospice in Stockholm on September 22, 2000.Ratliff, Ben (October 21, 2000"Willie Cook, 76, Lead Trumpeter with Gillespie and Ellington" ''The New York Times''. Discography With The Young Swedes *''Christl Mood'' ( Phont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Cook (politician)
William Cook (born August 12, 1945) is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as member of the North Carolina General Assembly from 2011 to 2019. Cook graduated from the University of Maryland in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration, with a concentration in economics. After graduation, he was offered an analyst position with Potomac Electric Power Company The Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) is an American utility company that supplies electric power to the city of Washington, D.C. and to surrounding communities in Maryland. It is owned by Exelon. The company's current trademarked slogan i ..., where he worked for 34 years. Cook was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives for District 6 in 2010, defeating incumbent Stan White by 21 votes after a recount. He was elected to serve as North Carolina State Senator for District 1 in 2013. During his tenure in the North Carolina General Assembly, he ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Loch Cook
William Loch Cook (December 6, 1869 – March 5, 1942) was a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1923 to 1942. Born in Montgomery County, Tennessee, Cook served in the Tennessee House of Representatives for Dickson County in 1897. In 1908, he was elected to a seat on the Tennessee Ninth Judicial Circuit, where he remained until 1923, when Governor Austin Peay Austin Peay (June 1, 1876 – October 2, 1927) was an American politician who served as the 35th governor of Tennessee from 1923 to 1927. He was the state's first governor since the Civil War to win three consecutive terms and the first to die ... appointed Cook to a seat on the Tennessee Supreme Court vacated by the resignation of Justice D. L. Lansden. References 1869 births 1942 deaths People from Montgomery County, Tennessee Members of the Tennessee House of Representatives Justices of the Tennessee Supreme Court {{Tennessee-state-judge-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
