Thwaites may refer to:
Companies
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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 ori ...
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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
Surnames
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Ann Thwaites
Ann Thwaytes (2 October 1789 – April 1866), known to contemporaries as Mrs Thwaytes, was the wealthy and eccentric English widow of grocer William Thwaytes, owner of Monkhouse Davison, Davison, Newman & Co. She became the benefactress to many ...
(1789–1866) English philanthropist also known as Mrs Thwaites, Ann Thwaytes and Mrs Thwaytes
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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
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Bryan Thwaites
Sir Bryan Thwaites, FIMA, FRSA (born 6 December 1923) is an English applied mathematician, educationalist and administrator.
Early life
Bryan Thwaites was born on 6 December 1923, the eldest son of Ernest and Dorothy Thwaites. He was educated ...
(born 1923), English applied mathematician, educationalist and administrator
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Caitlin Thwaites
Caitlin Thwaites (born 29 December 1986) is a former Australian netball player and volleyballer.
Career
Caitlin Thwaites was born in Bendigo, Australia. Thwaites began her career at for the Melbourne Kestrels of the Commonwealth Bank Trophy at t ...
(born 1986), Australian netball and volleyball player
*Daniel Thwaites, Sr. (1777–1843), founder of
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 ori ...
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Daniel Thwaites
Daniel Thwaites (1817 – 21 September 1888) was an English brewer and a Conservative Party politician from Blackburn in Lancashire. He owned what is now Thwaites Brewery, and sat in the House of Commons from 1875 to 1880.
He was the son of Dan ...
(1817–1888), English brewer and Liberal Party politician
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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 (19 ...
(born 1976), British actor
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Denis Thwaites
Denis Thwaites (14 December 1944 – 26 June 2015) was an English professional footballer who made 86 appearances in the Football League for Birmingham City. He represented England at schoolboy and youth level. He played as an outside left.
L ...
(1944–2015), English professional footballer who plays outside left
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Edward Thwaites
Edward Thwaites (Thwaytes) (baptised 1661–1711) was an English scholar of the Anglo-Saxon language. According to David C. Douglas he was "one of the most inspiring teachers which Oxford has ever produced".
Life
Thwaites was the son of William ...
(1667–1711), English scholar of the Anglo-Saxon language
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F. J. Thwaites
Frederick Joseph Thwaites (23 May 1908 – 13 August 1979) was an Australian novelist whose books sold over four million copies. He was best known for his first work ''The Broken Melody'', which was adapted into a The Broken Melody (1937 film), ...
(1908–1979), Australian novelist
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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
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Guy Thwaites
Guy Edward Thwaites (born 19 January 1971) is a British professor of infectious diseases at the University of Oxford, and director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. His focus is on severe ba ...
(born 1971), British professor
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John Barrass (Jack) Thwaites (1902–1986), Tasmanian bushwalker and conservationist
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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 a ...
(1909–1981), British art critic and author
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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 to ...
(born 1955)
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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)
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Kate Thwaites
Kate Lynne Thwaites (born 19 January 1980) is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2019 federal election, representing the Division of Jagaj ...
(born 1980), Australian politician)
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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
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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
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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
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Ronald Thwaites
Ronald George Thwaites (born February 12, 1945) is a Jamaican attorney-at-law and politician, representing the People's National Party (PNP). He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Kingston Central, serving from 1989 to 2002, ...
(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 ...
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Thomas Thwaites (disambiguation) Thomas Thwaites can refer to:
* Thomas Thwaites (civil servant) (c.1435–1503), English civil servant
* Thomas Thwaites (cricketer) (1910-2000), Australian cricketer
* Thomas Thwaites (designer)
Thomas Thwaites is a British designer and writer ...
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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
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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
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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
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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 and writer
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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
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Thwaites, Bradford, a
U.K. location
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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
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Thwaites, Ontario, Canada
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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 excee ...
, Antarctica
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Thwaites Ice Shelf
Thwaites Ice Shelf (), is an Antarctic ice shelf in the Amundsen Sea. It was named by ACAN
after Fredrik T. Thwaites, a glacial geologist and geomorphologist. The Thwaites Ice Shelf is one of the biggest ice shelves in West Antarctica, though ...
, Antarctica
See also
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Thwaite (disambiguation)
Thwaite may refer to:
Placenames
*Thwaite (placename element)
* Thwaite, North Norfolk, England
*Thwaite St Mary, South Norfolk, England
*Thwaite, North Yorkshire, England
*Thwaite, Suffolk, England
Buildings
*Thwaite Hall, University of Hull ...
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