Thwaites, Thwaits, or Thwaytes may refer to:

Companies

Thwaites Brewery Thwaites Brewery is a regional brewery founded in 1807 by Daniel Thwaites in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, and now located near Mellor in the Ribble Valley. Part of the company's beer business was sold to Marston's in March 2015, and the ...

Thwaites & Reed Thwaites & Reed has been in continuous manufacture since its foundation and claims to be the oldest clock manufacturing company in the world. Geoffrey Buggins MBE, the last of the original family clockmakers, saw drawings of Thwaites clocks datin ...

, oldest clockmakers in the world * Thwaites (Dumper), England, founded 1937, builds agricultural machinery, since 1955 wheel dumpers

Surnames

* Ann Thwaytes (1789–1866) English philanthropist also known as Mrs Thwaites and Mrs Thwaytes *

Brenton Thwaites Brenton Thwaites (born 10 August 1989) is an Australian actor. Beginning his career in his home country in 2011, he had a starring role on the series ''Slide'' and later appeared on the soap opera ''Home and Away''. Since moving to the United S ...

(born 1989), Australian actor * Bryan Thwaites (born 1923), English applied mathematician, educationalist and administrator * Caitlin Thwaites (born 1986), Australian netball and volleyball player *Daniel Thwaites, Sr. (1777–1843), founder of

* Daniel Thwaites (1817–1888), English brewer and Liberal Party politician *

David Thwaites David Barry Thwaites (born 16 June 1976) is a British actor and producer. In 1989, aged 13, he appeared as Eustace Scrubb in the BBC's adaptation of ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader''. A year later he reprised this role in '' The Silver Chair (1 ...

(born 1976), British actor * Denis Thwaites (1944–2015), English professional footballer who plays outside left * Edward Thwaites (1667–1711), English scholar of the Anglo-Saxon language * Emily Jane Thwaits (1860–1906), South African botanical illustrator * F. J. Thwaites (1908–1979), Australian novelist *

George Henry Kendrick Thwaites George Henry Kendrick Thwaites (9 July 1812, Bristol – 11 September 1882, Kandy) was an English botanist and entomologist. Thwaites was initially an accountant and studied botany during his spare time. He was interested particularly in the lo ...

(1812–1882), British botanist and entomologist * Guy Thwaites (born 1971), British professor * John Barrass (Jack) Thwaites (1902–1986), Tasmanian bushwalker and conservationist *

John Anthony Thwaites John Anthony Thwaites (21 January 1909 - 21 November 1981) was a British art critic and author, who lived and worked in West Germany from 1946. Biography Thwaites studied history at the universities of Lausanne and Cambridge. From 1931 he was ...

(1909–1981), British art critic and author *

John Thwaites (Australian politician) Johnstone William "John" Thwaites (born 15 October 1955), is a former Australian politician, and served as Deputy Premier of the state of Victoria from 1999 to 2007. Early life Thwaites was born in Oxford, in the United Kingdom, and came t ...

(born 1955) *

John Thwaites (British politician) Sir John Thwaites (24 May 1815 – 8 August 1870) was a British politician who was the first Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works and therefore the first Leader of local government in London. Background Thwaites was a native of Maulds Mea ...

(1815–1870) * Kate Thwaites (born 1980), Australian politician) *

Michael Thwaites Michael Rayner Thwaites, AO (30 May 1915 – 1 November 2005) was an Australian academic, poet, and intelligence officer. Early life and education Thwaites was born in Brisbane, to Yorkshire immigrant Robert Ernest Thwaites who taught at Brisba ...

(1915–2005), Australian academic, poet, intelligence officer, and activist *

Robert Thwaits Robert Thwaits (also Thwayts and Thwaytes) was an English medieval academic administrator. Thwaits was the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University on 1441 and 1453. He was the Chancellor of Oxford University during 1445–6. From 1450 until 1465, ...

(15th century), English academic administrator, also known as Thwayts and Thwaytes *

Reuben Gold Thwaites Reuben Gold Thwaites ( May 15, 1853 – October 22, 1913) was an American librarian and historical writer. Biography Thwaites was born in 1853 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. His parents were William George and Sarah Bibbs Thwaites, who had mo ...

(1853–1913), American historical writer *

Robinson Thwaites Robinson Thwaites (1807 – 22 October 1884) was a nineteenth-century mechanical engineer and mill-owner in Bradford, Yorkshire. His companies included at different times Robinson Thwaites and Co, Thwaites and Carbutt and Thwaites Brothers. Comp ...

(1807-1884), English mechanical engineer and mill-owner * Ronald Thwaites (born 1945), Jamaican minister and politician; see

Constituencies of Jamaica Jamaica's fourteen parishes are subdivided into sixty-three constituencies. The country follows the Westminster system and elects sixty-three Members of Parliament (MPs) to the Jamaica House of Representatives. Constituencies and MPs as of 2 ...

* Steytler Thwaits (1911–1980), South African cricketer *

Thomas Thwaites (disambiguation) Thomas Thwaites can refer to: * Thomas Thwaites (civil servant) (c.1435–1503), English civil servant * Thomas Thwaites (cricketer) Thomas Thwaites (1 July 1910 – 24 May 2000) was an Australian cricketer. He played in one first-class mat ...

Thomas Thwaites (civil servant) Sir Thomas Thwaites or Thwaytes (c.1435–1503) was an English civil servant, who was involved in the Perkin Warbeck conspiracy. He served as Edward IV's Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1471 to 1483 and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster betwe ...

(c.1435–1503), English civil servant **

Thomas Thwaites (cricketer) Thomas Thwaites (1 July 1910 – 24 May 2000) was an Australian cricketer. He played in one first-class match for Queensland in 1940/41. See also * List of Queensland first-class cricketers This is a complete list in alphabetical order ...

(1910-2000), Australian cricketer **

Thomas Thwaites (designer) Thomas Thwaites is a British designer and writer. He describes himself as "a designer (of a more speculative sort), interested in technology, science, futures research & etc." Thwaites studied economics and biology at University College London ...

, British designer *

, British designer and writer *

William Thwaites General Sir William Thwaites, (9 June 1868 – 22 June 1947) was a British Army officer who served as commander of the British Army of the Rhine. Early life and education Thwaites was born in Kensington, the son of William Thwaites of Durham V ...

(1868–1947), former Commander of the British Army of the Rhine

Places

* Thwaites, Bradford, a U.K. location *

Thwaites, Cumbria Thwaites is a small village near Duddon Valley and on the edge of the Duddon Estuary in the Lake District National Park in the Borough of Copeland, Cumbria, England. The River Duddon flows through the valley, rising in the mountains between Es ...

, England * Thwaites, Ontario, Canada *

Thwaites Glacier Thwaites Glacier, nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier, is an unusually broad and vast Antarctic glacier flowing into Pine Island Bay, part of the Amundsen Sea, east of Mount Murphy, on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land. Its surface speeds exceed ...

, Antarctica ** Thwaites Ice Shelf, Antarctica