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Woolley (surname)
Woolley is the surname of: People * Albert Woolley (footballer), English footballer *Alma S. Woolley, American nurse, educator, historian and author * Bennie L. Woolley, Jr., American trainer of racing horses *Benjamin Woolley, author, media journalist, television presenter *Bruce Woolley (born 1953), English writer, performer and record producer * Cam Woolley, Ontario Provincial Police officer *Claud Woolley, English cricketer *Edmund Woolley, early American architect and master carpenter * Édouard Woolley, Canadian tenor, actor and composer * Edwin D. Woolley, elected to the Utah Territorial Legislature *Frank Woolley (1887–1978), English Cricketer *Geoffrey Harold Woolley, British Victoria Cross recipient *George Cathcart Woolley, British colonial administrator and ethnographer *Hannah Woolley, early English writer of household management books *Harry George Woolley, Canadian Lacrosse player and advocate * Helen Thompson Woolley (1874-1947), psychologist and behavioural researc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Woolley (footballer)
Albert Woolley (1871–1896) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Aston Villa and Derby County Derby County Football Club () is a professional association football club based in Derby, Derbyshire, England. In 2022, it was announced that DCFC was acquired by Clowes Developments (UK) Ltd, a Derbyshire-based property group. Founded in 1884 .... He was described as "a very fine outside left forward, combining great speed with cleverness and dash" and as a "speedy forward, tricky dodger, and fine accurate shot at goal". References 1871 births 1896 deaths English men's footballers Men's association football forwards English Football League players Aston Villa F.C. players Derby County F.C. players People from Rochford District Footballers from Essex {{England-footy-forward-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Woolley
Woolley in the 90's. James Joseph Woolley (September 26, 1966 – August 14, 2016) was an American keyboard and synthesizer player, best known for performing with industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails during the 1991 Lollapalooza Tour and the beginning part of the 1994 Self Destruct Tour. Woolley also appeared in the videos for " Wish" and " March of the Pigs", as well as parts of the Nine Inch Nails release '' Closure'' (1997). Woolley won a Grammy Award in 1993 for "Best Metal Performance" for "Wish". Prior to Nine Inch Nails, Woolley was a major collaborator along with former NIN drummer Chris Vrenna to Chicago band Die Warzau. In 1994, just before NIN hit the road, Woolley contributed to Sister Machine Gun's album, '' The Torture Technique''. Subsequent to Nine Inch Nails, Woolley made contributions to Die Warzau albums again, particularly 2005's ''Convenience''. In 1998, Woolley toured with Rob Halford's one-time band 2wo, which also included John 5 John 5 is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Van Der Riet Woolley
Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley Officer of the Order of the British Empire, OBE Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (24 April 1906 – 24 December 1986) was an English astronomer who became the eleventh Astronomer Royal. His mother's maiden name was Van der Riet. Biography Woolley was born in Weymouth, Dorset, Weymouth, Dorset and attended Allhallows College, then in Honiton, for about 18 months, but then moved with his parents to the Union of South Africa upon their retirement. There he attended and received his degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Cape Town. Woolley returned to the United Kingdom and studied for a further MA degree in Mathematics and, later, a PhD at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. After two years at Mount Wilson Observatory he again returned to the United Kingdom in 1931. From 1937 to 1939, he was Senior Assistant Observer and John Couch Adams Astronomer at the Cambridge Observatory. Woolley specialized in solar astronomy a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persia Woolley
Persia Woolley (November 8, 1935 – October 3, 2017) was an American author, perhaps best known for her Guinevere trilogy. She also has written a number of works on writing, such as ''How to Write and Sell Historical Fiction'' (2000). Works In the historical fiction genre, Woolley wrote the '' Guinevere trilogy'', about King Arthur's wife, Guinevere. This trilogy comprises '' Child of the Northern Spring'' (1987), ''Queen of the Summer Stars'' (1990) and '' Guinevere: The Legend in Autumn'' (1993). Her non-fiction work includes two books on divorce, ''Creative Survival for Single Mothers'' (1974) and ''The Custody Handbook'' (1979). Personal life Woolley grew up in Auburn, California as the only child of Lois and William Higman. She studied architecture at University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Woolley
Patrick Woolley is an American legal scholar working as the Beck, Redden & Secrest Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law The University of Texas School of Law (Texas Law) is the law school of the University of Texas at Austin. Texas Law is consistently ranked as one of the top law schools in the United States and is highly selective—registering the 8th lowest ac .... Education Woolley earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. Career Prior to joining the University of Texas as an assistant professor in 1994, Woolley practiced law at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles. Woolley's scholarship focuses on civil procedure, conflict of laws, federal courts, and constitutional law. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Texas School of Law faculty American lawyers Yale Law School alumni Stanford University alumni American legal scholars {{US-legal-acade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monty Woolley
Edgar Montilion "Monty" Woolley (August 17, 1888May 6, 1963) was an American film and theater actor.Obituary ''Variety'', May 8, 1963, page 223. At the age of 50, he achieved a measure of stardom for his role in the 1939 stage play ''The Man Who Came to Dinner'' and its 1942 film adaptation. His distinctive white beard was his trademark and he was affectionately known as "The Beard." Early life Woolley was born in New York City's Manhattan to William Edgar Woolley (1845-1927) and Jessie née Arms (1857-1927) and grew up in the highest social circles. Woolley received a bachelor's degree at Yale University, where Cole Porter was an intimate friend and classmate, and master's degrees from Yale and Harvard Universities. He eventually became an assistant professor of English and drama coach at Yale. Thornton Wilder and Stephen Vincent Benét were among his students. He served in World War I in the United States Army as a first lieutenant assigned to the general staff in Paris. Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Emma Woolley
Mary Emma Woolley (July 13, 1863 – September 5, 1947) was an American educator, peace activist and women's suffrage supporter. She was the first female student to attend Brown University and served as the 11th President of Mount Holyoke College from 1900 to 1937. Early life and education Woolley was the daughter of Joseph Judah (J.J.) Woolley and his second wife, Mary Augusta Ferris. She was given the nickname May, and enjoyed a comfortable, nurturing childhood in New England. She was first raised in Meriden, Connecticut and, starting in 1871, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Her father was a Congregational minister and his efforts to incorporate social work into religion, heavily influenced his daughter. Woolley attended Providence High School and a number of smaller schools run by women before finishing her secondary schooling, in 1884, at the Wheaton Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts. Woolley returned to teach there from 1885 to 1891. After traveling through Europe for two months ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Woolley
Kenneth Frank Charles Woolley, AM B Arch, Hon DSc Arch Sydney LFRAIA, FTSE, Architect, (29 May 1933 – 25 November 2015) was an Australian architect. In a career spanning 60 years, he is best known for his contributions to project housing with Pettit and Sevitt, the Wilkinson Award-winning Woolley House in Mosman, and his longstanding partnership with Sydney Ancher and Bryce Mortlock. He is regarded as being a prominent figure in the development of the Sydney School movement and Australian vernacular building. Personal life Ken Woolley was born in Sydney on 29 May 1933. He attended Sydney Boys High School and studied architecture at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1955. On graduation, he worked in the Government Architects Branch of the New South Wales Public Works Department. During this time he was the design architect for the Fisher Library at the University of Sydney and the State Office Block (now demolished). He joined Ancher Mortlock Murray & Woolley in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorin C
Lorin is a masculine given name. The meaning of Lorin derives from a bay or laurel plant; of Laurentum (wreathed/crowned with laurel). Laurentum, in turn is from laurus (laurel), from the place of laurel trees, laurel branch, laurel wreath. Laurentum was also a city in ancient Italy. Notable people with the name include: *Lorin Blodget (1823–1901), American physicist and writer *Lorin Farr (1820–1909), Mormon pioneer and the first mayor of Ogden, Utah *Lorin Maazel (1930–2014), conductor, violinist and composer *Lorin Morgan-Richards (1975), author and illustrator * Lorin J. Mullins (1917–1993), American biophysicist *Lorin Solon (1892–1967), All-American football player *Lorin C. Woolley (1856–1934), Mormon fundamentalist leader and a proponent of plural marriage * Lorin F. Wheelwright (1909–1987), American Latter-day Saint hymnwriter, composer, musical instructor and educator Surname Those with Lorin as a surname include: *René Lorin (1877–1933), inventor of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Woolley
Sir Charles Leonard Woolley (17 April 1880 – 20 February 1960) was a British archaeologist best known for his Excavation (archaeology), excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia. He is recognized as one of the first "modern" archaeologists who excavated in a methodical way, keeping careful records, and using them to reconstruct ancient life and history. Woolley was knighted in 1935 for his contributions to the discipline of archaeology. He married the British archaeologist Katharine Woolley. Early life Woolley was the son of a clergyman, and was brother to Geoffrey Harold Woolley, Victoria Cross, VC, and George Cathcart Woolley. He was born at 13 Southwold Road, Upper Clapton, in the modern London Borough of Hackney and educated at St John's School, Leatherhead and New College, Oxford. He was interested in excavations from a young age. Career In 1905, Woolley became assistant of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Volunteered by Arthur Evans to run the excavations on the Coria (Corbridge), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Woolley
The Reverend Joseph Woolley MA LLD FRAS (1817-1889) was a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a founding member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. Early life and education Woolley was born in Petersfield, Hampshire on 27 June 1817. He was the third son of George Woolley, a local surgeon, and later employee of the Royal Humane Society and his wife Charlotte. Woolley was educated at Brompton Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge in 1835. He graduated BA as third Wrangler in 1840, and became a Fellow and Lecturer at St John's College, and was Rede Lecturer in 1844. In 1846, Woolley gave up his post to become a country rector. Career in Naval Architecture Woolley's career in naval architecture began when he was appointed was the first Principal of the short-lived School of Mathematics and Naval Construction, Portsmouth which ran from 1848 to 1853. Its predecessor, the School of Naval Architecture, led by Professor James Inman, another Cambridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan Woolley
Jordan Woolley (born October 1, 1981) is an American actor who as appeared on television and film, including on ''As the World Turns''. Woolley attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York. Prior to acting, Woolley spent two years as a business major at Castleton State College in Vermont. Life Woolley was born on October 1, 1981, in West Long Branch, New Jersey. Growing up, Woolley was an active Boy Scout in Troop 145 in West Long Branch. He is the youngest of three children with an older brother and sister in addition to a large extended family. Woolley is a 1999 graduate of Shore Regional High School in West Long Branch. Appearances *''The Beautiful Life'' (2009) - Egan Russo *'' Breaking Point'' (2009) - Wayne *'' Nite Tales: The Movie'' (2008) - Tom *''CSI: Miami'' (episode: ''Just Murdered'') (2007) - Paul Warner *''As the World Turns ''As the World Turns'' (often abbreviated as ''ATWT'') is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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