Piddington is an English surname, originally given to people from
Piddington, Northamptonshire
Piddington is a village in the south of the English shire county of Northamptonshire (known as Northants) and just north of Buckinghamshire. It is south of Northampton town centre, in a cul-de-sac off the main road at the War Memorial in the v ...
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Piddington, Oxfordshire
Piddington is a village and civil parish about southeast of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England. It lies close to the border with Buckinghamshire. Its toponym has been attributed to the Old English ''Pyda's tun''. The 2011 Census recorded the ...
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Notable people with the surname include:
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Albert Piddington
Albert Bathurst Piddington King's Counsel, KC (9 September 1862 – 5 June 1945) was an Australian lawyer, politician and judge. He was a member of the High Court of Australia for one month in 1913, making him List of Justices of the High C ...
(1862–1945), Australian High Court Justice
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Andrew Piddington Andrew J. Piddington (born October 18, 1949 in Romford, Essex) is an English film and television director, screenwriter, and producer.
Career
He directed films such as '' Shuttlecock'' (1991), '' The Fall'' (1999), '' The Dinosaur Hunters'' (2002) ...
(born 1949), English film director
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Henry Piddington
Henry Piddington (7 January 1797 – 7 April 1858) was an English sea captain who sailed in East India and China and later settled in Bengal where he worked as a curator of a geological museum and worked on scientific problems, and is particular ...
(1797–1858), British-Indian scientist
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Jack Piddington
Jack Hobart Piddington (6 November 1910 – 16 July 1997) was an Australian research physicist and radio scientist. He was chief research scientist at the National Measurement Laboratory in Sydney, Australia from 1966 to 1975.
Piddington was b ...
John Hobart "Jack" Piddington (1910–1997), Australian research scientist
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Marion Louisa Piddington
Marion Louisa Piddington (1869–1950) was an Australian publicist active in the promotion of eugenics and sex education. The wife of a high-profile judge and politician, and related to Australian literary and political figures, she sought to prom ...
, (1869–1950) Australian activist in sex education and eugenics
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Phyllis Piddington (1910–2001), Australian novelist, poet and short story writer
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Ralph Piddington
Ralph O'Reilly Piddington (19 February 1906 – 8 July 1974) was a New Zealand psychologist, anthropologist and university professor.
Biography
He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1906, the son of Albert and Marion O'Reil ...
(1906–1974), New Zealand psychologist, anthropologist and university professor
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William Henry Piddington
William Henry Burgess Piddington (24 April 1856 – 27 September 1900) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for six years.
Birth and education
Piddington was born in Brisbane, Colony of New Sou ...
(1856–1900). Australian politician
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William Piddington
William Richman Piddington (1815 – 25 November 1887) was an Australian bookseller and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1877 and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1 ...
(1815–1887), Australian bookseller and politician
* William Piddington, better known as
Bill Tarmey
Bill Tarmey (born William Piddington; 4 April 1941 – 9 November 2012) was an English actor and singer, best known for playing Jack Duckworth in the soap opera '' Coronation Street''. First appearing in the role in November 1979, he played ...
(1941-2012), English actor
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The Piddingtons
Sydney Piddington (14 May 191829 January 1991) and Lesley Piddington (1925 2 August 2016) were an Australian husband and wife mentalism team who performed as The Piddingtons and gave one of the most famous stage and radio telepathy acts of modern ...
, Sydney Piddington (1918–1991) and Lesley Piddington (1925–2016) Australian husband and wife performers of mentalism
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