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Winifred McKenzie
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 192 ... [...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 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 Utley
Winifred Utley (23 January 1898 – 21 January 1978), commonly known as Freda Utley, was an English scholar, political activist and best-selling author. After visiting the Soviet Union in 1927 as a trade union activist, she joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1928. Later, married and living in Moscow, she quickly became disillusioned with communism. When her Russian husband, Arcadi Berdichevsky, was arrested in 1936, she escaped to England with her young son. (Her husband was executed in 1938.) In 1939, the rest of her family moved to the United States, where she became a leading anticommunist author and activist.Professor D. A. FarnieFreda Utley, Crusader for Truth and Freedom which is excerpt from Chapter 30 on Freda Utley inBritain and Japan, Biographical Portraits editor, Hugh Cortazzi, Volume 4, LondonJapan Society 2002, 361–371. She became an American citizen in 1950. Early life and work Utley's father was involved with George Bernard Shaw, the Fabians, and lab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Tumim
Winifred Letitia Tumim, Lady Tumim ( Borthwick; 3 June 19365 November 2009) was an English charity administrator and reform campaigner. As chairperson of the Action on Hearing Loss, Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID) from 1985 to 1992, she led a reform of its management to create clear duties for all the staff. Tumim worked with the Charity Commission for England and Wales and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) to research attitude and performance in the charity world's wider managerial sector. She was chairperson of the NCVO between 1996 and 2001, writing a report advocating for the reform of charity law, which led the Third Blair ministry, Blair ministry to pass the Charities Act 2006. After Tumim's death. the NCVO created an award in her name to reward an improvement in charity governance. Biography Family background Tumim's father, Algernon Malcolm Borthwick, was chairperson of the family-owned global meat-importing business, served in the Gord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Todhunter
Winifred Ada Todhunter (1877, London – September 11, 1961, Ladner, British Columbia) was an educator, translator and founder of the Todhunter School for girls in New York City. Educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and London Day Training College, she was awarded a Gilchrist travelling studentship by the University of London for distinction in her B.A. degree in 1904. Said to be a graduate of the University of Oxford, she translated Voltaire's historical novel about Charles XII of Sweden in 1908. After lecturing in history at Stockwell Training College, she succeeded Canon Rowe as Principal of Lincoln Training College for Mistresses in 1912. In 1921 Todhunter purchased and renamed a private school for girls in Manhattan. The Todhunter School became known for being more than just a finishing school, but provided courses in the arts and a solid preparation for college. When Eleanor Roosevelt learned in 1927 that Todhunter wished to retire to England and needed a buyer for the sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor Of Bolton
Winifred Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton, (born 2 July 1947) is a British politician and life peer who served as Minister for International Defence and Security from 2008 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton West from 1974 to 1983 and for Dewsbury from 1987 to 2005. Early life and education Born in 1947, Taylor attended Bolton School and the University of Bradford, where she graduated with a BSc degree in Politics and History in 1969.Ann Taylor at Bradford.ac . Retrieved 27 July 2016 Political career After contesting Bolton West in |
Winifred, Lady Strickland
Winifred, Lady Strickland (1645–1725) was a member of the Jacobite court in exile. Life Winifred, the daughter of Sir Christopher Trentham and Winifred Biddulph, was baptized at Rocester, Staffordshire, on 19 May 1645.Edward Corp, "Strickland ée Trentham Winifred, Lady Strickland (1645–1725)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', (Oxford, 2004). She married the widower Sir Thomas Strickland, of Sizergh Castle, Westmorland, in 1674. Sir Thomas already had two daughters from his previous marriage. Together the couple had five sons, including Thomas, a future bishop of Namur. Lady Strickland was present at the birth of James, prince of Wales, in June 1688 and was appointed his under-governess. Her husband became a member of the Privy Council of England in July. In the wake of the Dutch invasion, she was among the servants who secretly accompanied Mary of Modena and the prince of Wales to France in December 1688. Sir Thomas and Lady Strickland remained courtiers at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Spooner
Winifred Evelyn Spooner (11 September 1900 – 13 January 1933), the daughter of Major Walter B. Spooner and Annie Spooner, was an English aviator of the 1920s and 1930s, and the winner of the Harmon Trophy as the world's outstanding female aviator of 1929. She died aged 32 from pneumonia. Early life and education Winifred Spooner was born in Woolwich in Kent. She attended Sherborne Girls in Dorset. She received a pilot's licence No. 8137 from London Aeroplane Club in September 1927, and then she became active competitor in sports aviation. She became only the 16th woman to receive a licence. She also received an Aviator's Certificate in the USA, dated 21 August 1931 and signed by Orville Wright. Winifred's brothers, Tony and Frank, had leased some farmland and stables near Folly Court in Wokingham where they schooled and sold polo-ponies, hunters and steeplechasers. They called their enterprise The Polo Farm. During the First World War Frank had served as a cavalry offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Rushforth
Margaret Winifred Rushforth (née Bartholomew; 21 August 1885 – 29 August 1983) was a Scottish medical practitioner and Christian missionary in India who, influenced by Hugh Crichton-Miller and his friend, Carl Jung, became the founder of a family clinic in Scotland, a therapist, Dream Group facilitator and writer. During a long and active career, spent mostly in Edinburgh, Scotland, she came to be revered and regarded as a local personality for people interested in spirituality and self-actualization. Early life and education Rushforth was born in West Lothian, Scotland, in 1885 and educated at the Edinburgh Ladies' College. She was a member of the Bartholomew family, farmers on the Hopetoun House, Hopetoun Estate since about 1650. Rushforth graduated with an Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery, MB ChB from the University of Edinburgh in 1908. Career India On graduating, she sailed for India to be a medical missionary. There she later met her husband, stockbroker Frank Victor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Nicholson
''From Bedroom Window, Bankshead'', date unknown, private collection. Typical of Nicholson's impressionist work, combining still life with landscape. Rosa Winifred Nicholson (née Roberts; 21 December 1893 – 5 March 1981) was a British painter. She was married to the painter Ben Nicholson, and was thus the daughter-in-law of the painter William Nicholson and his wife, the painter Mabel Pryde. She was the mother of the painter Kate Nicholson. Winifred Nicholson was a colourist who developed a personal impressionistic style, concentrating on domestic still life objects and landscapes. She often combined the two subjects as seen in her painting ''From Bedroom Window, Bankshead'' showing a landscape viewed through a window, with flowers in a vase in the foreground. Life Nicholson was born Rosa Winifred Roberts in Oxford on 21 December 1893. She was the eldest of the three children of the Liberal Party politician Charles Henry Roberts and Lady Cecilia Maude Howard, daugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Edgerton Merrill
Winifred Edgerton (September 24, 1862 – September 6, 1951) was born in Ripon, Wisconsin. She was the first woman to receive a degree from Columbia University and the first United States, American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics.Kelly, S. E. and Rozner, S. A. (2012''Winifred Edgerton Merrill: "She Opened the Door"'' Notices of the American Mathematical Society, NAMS 59(4), 504-512. She was awarded a PhD with high honors from Columbia University in 1886, by a unanimous vote of the board of trustees, after being rejected once. Early life and education Winifred Haring Edgerton was born in Ripon, Wisconsin on September 24, 1862. She was the only daughter of Clara and Emmett Edgerton, who apparently were well enough off to build her a small home observatory. She earned her B.A. degree from Wellesley College in 1883, and taught for a time at Sylvanus Reed's School. She continued her interest in astronomy by independently using data from the Harvard observatory to calcul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roper–Logan–Tierney Model Of Nursing
The Roper, Logan and Tierney model of nursing (originally published in 1980, and subsequently revised in 1985, 1990, 1998 and the latest edition in 2000) is a model of nursing care based on activities of living (ALs). It is extremely prevalent in the United Kingdom, particularly in the public sector. The model is named after the authors – Nancy Roper, Winifred W. Logan and Alison J. Tierney Introduction First developed in 1980, this model is based upon work by Nancy Roper in 1976. It is the most widely used nursing model in the United Kingdom. The model is based loosely upon the activities of daily living that evolved from the work of Virginia Henderson in 1966. The latest book edited by these women 2001 is their culminating and completing work, in which they upgrade their model based on their view of societal needs. The original purpose of the model was to be an assessment used throughout the patient's care, but it has become the norm in UK nursing to use it only as a checkli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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