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William Whitworth (engineer)
William Whitworth may refer to: * Sir William Whitworth (Royal Navy officer) (1884–1973) * William Whitworth (journalist) (born 1937), American journalist and editor * William Whitworth (politician) (1813–1886), British cotton manufacturer and politician * William Allen Whitworth William Allen Whitworth (1 February 1840 – 12 March 1905) was an English mathematician and a priest in the Church of England.. Education and mathematical career Whitworth was born in Runcorn; his father, William Whitworth, was a school headmaste ... (1840–1905), English mathematician and Church of England priest * William Whitworth (archdeacon) (died 1804), Anglican priest {{hndis, Whitworth, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Whitworth (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Sir William Jock Whitworth, (29 June 1884 – 25 October 1973) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel from 1941 to 1944. Naval career Whitworth joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1899, and was on 15 January 1901 posted to the battleship HMS ''Ocean'', as she was sent to the China station during the Boxer Rebellion. He served in the First World War, commanding the destroyers , and . He then became commanding officer at the Physical and Recreational Training School in Portsmouth in 1926. He was given command of HMS ''Stuart'' and the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla of the Mediterranean Fleet in 1928. In 1933 Whitworth was appointed Captain of the Fleet to the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet and in 1936 he took command of the battleship . He was made Naval Secretary in 1937. Whitworth served in the Second World War and commanded the Battlecruiser Squadron in 1939. He participated in the Norwegian Campaign and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Whitworth (journalist)
William Alvin Whitworth (born February 13, 1937) is an American journalist and editor. He worked as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune from 1963 to 1966, columnist and associate editor for ''The New Yorker'' from 1966 to 1980, and editor in chief of ''The Atlantic'' from 1981–99. Career In 1960, on completion of his BA in English/Journalism at the University of Oklahoma, Whitworth began work at the ''Arkansas Gazette'' where he covered low-level community and political stories. After 4 years at the Gazette, he moved to New York to work as a reporter for the ''New York Herald Tribune'' (1963–66), covering the political turmoil of the 1960s beginning with the Kennedy assassination, and including the student antiwar movement, Harlem riots, and Bobby Kennedy's U.S. Senate race. He also reported on entertainment stories, including the Beatles’ first two U.S. appearances. From 1966 to 1980, he was hired by William Shawn as a columnist for ''The New Yorker'',Hendrik H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Whitworth (politician)
William Whitworth (23 August 1813 – 28 December 1886) was a British cotton manufacturer and politician. He was a Liberal Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and represented the constituency of Newry, Ireland from 1874 to 1880. Whitworth was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, to Nicholas Whitworth, an iron worker maker, and Sarah Barratt, and was baptised in a Methodist church.''England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970'' He was a prominent local businessman, being a partner with his brother in Benjamin Whitworth and Brothers, in the cotton merchants who by 1876 employed 1,000 people around Drogheda Drogheda ( , ; , meaning "bridge at the ford") is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, north of Dublin. It is located on the Dublin–Belfast corridor on the east coast of Ireland, mostly in County Louth ..., Ireland. He was sheriff of Drogheda in 1869 and mayor in 1876. He married Ruth Newton o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Allen Whitworth
William Allen Whitworth (1 February 1840 – 12 March 1905) was an English mathematician and a priest in the Church of England.. Education and mathematical career Whitworth was born in Runcorn; his father, William Whitworth, was a school headmaster, and he was the oldest of six siblings. He was schooled at the Sandicroft School in Northwich and then at St John's College, Cambridge, earning a B.A. in 1862 as 16th Wrangler. He taught mathematics at the Portarlington School and the Rossall School, and was a professor of mathematics at Queen's College in Liverpool from 1862 to 1864. He returned to Cambridge to earn a master's degree in 1865, and was a fellow there from 1867 to 1882. Mathematical contributions As an undergraduate, Whitworth became the founding editor in chief of the ''Messenger of Mathematics'', and he continued as its editor until 1880. He published works about the logarithmic spiral and about trilinear coordinates, but his most famous mathematical publication is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |