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Priestley (Martian Crater)
Priestley may refer to: Places * Priestley, West Virginia, US, an unincorporated community * Priestley Glacier, a major valley glacier in Antarctica * Priestley (lunar crater), on the far side of the Moon * Priestley (Martian crater) * 5577 Priestley, an inner main belt asteroid People Arts * Alice Priestley (born 1962), Canadian children's writer and illustrator * Bel Priestley (born 2003), English actress and internet personality * Brian Priestley (born 1940), English jazz writer, pianist and arranger * Joanna Priestley (born 1950), American film director and animator * Chris Priestley (born 1958), British children's book author and illustrator * Jason Priestley (born 1969), Canadian-American actor * J. B. Priestley (1894–1984), English writer and broadcaster * Mark Priestley (1976–2008), Australian actor *Rick Priestley (born 1959), British miniature wargame designer and author * Robert Priestley (1901–1986), American set decorator * Tom Priestley (born 1932), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priestley, West Virginia
Priestley is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Alum Creek census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, suc .... References Unincorporated communities in Lincoln County, West Virginia Unincorporated communities in West Virginia {{LincolnCountyWV-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Taggart Priestley
James Taggart Priestley II (April 7, 1903 – February 9, 1979) was a senior surgeon at the Mayo Clinic and a pioneer of pancreatectomy. Biography At the University of Pennsylvania, he graduated with a B.A. in 1923, and an M.D. in 1926. From 1926 to 1928 he was a medical intern in surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. As a fellow in surgery at the Mayo Medical School (now known as the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine), he earned an M.Sc. in experimental surgery in 1931, followed by a Ph.D. in surgery in 1932. At the Mayo Clinic, he became a staff member in 1933 and the head of a section of surgery in 1934, retaining the post for then next 34 years. During World War II, he served as an officer in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army. Priestley was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the oak leaf cluster for his services during the war. At the Mayo Clinic he was appointed senior surgeon in 1963 and retired in 1968. He wrote surgical reports with his collea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Priestley (cricketer)
Robert Hugh Priestley (23 November 1911 – 30 November 2007) was an English first-class cricketer. Priestly was born at Maida Vale to Hugh Priestley and his wife, Elizabeth Grainger Hall. He was educated at Winchester College. He made one appearance in first-class cricket for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University at Cambridge in 1932. Batting twice in the match, Priestley was dismissed without scoring by Rodney Rought-Rought in the Free Forester's first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed by the same bowler for 16 runs. He married Mary Hermia, daughter of Sir George Menteth Boughey, 9th Bt in 1935, with the couple having three children. He died one week after his 96th birthday in November 2007 at Oakley, Hampshire Oakley is a village in the borough of Basingstoke and Deane in Hampshire, England, located around 4.5 miles (7 km) west of Basingstoke. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 5,322. Together with the smaller village of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Priestley
Neil Priestley (born 23 June 1961) is a former English cricketer. Priestley was a left-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Blyborough, Lincolnshire. Career Priestley made a single first-class appearance for Northamptonshire against the touring Sri Lankans in 1981. He batted once in this match, scoring 20 not out in Northamptonshire's first-innings, while behind the stumps he took a single catches and made 2 stumpings. He made no further appearances for Northamptonshire. He later made his debut for Lincolnshire in the 1983 Minor Counties Championship against Hertfordshire. He played Minor counties cricket for Lincolnshire from 1983 to 1990, which included 57 Minor Counties Championship appearances and 13 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. He made his List A debut against Surrey in the 1983 NatWest Trophy. He made a further List A appearance for Lincolnshire, against Gloucestershire in the 1990 NatWest Trophy. In his 2 List A matches for the coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Priestley (footballer)
John Priestley (19 August 1900 – January 1980) was a Scottish professional footballer who played for Johnstone, Chelsea, Grimsby Town, St Johnstone and Cowdenbeath. Playing career Born in Johnstone, Priestley started his career with hometown club Johnstone F.C. in Scotland before moving south of the border to join Chelsea in May 1920 at the age of nineteen. Priestley didn't make his debut for the ''Blues'' until a year after he joined the club, playing in a 0–0 draw away at Blackburn Rovers on 2 May 1921.http://www.stamford-bridge.com/player.php?id=456&surname=Priestley&firstname=John#matches He wouldn't make another appearance for Chelsea until Boxing Day 1922 (missing the 1921–22 season completely) turning out for the Pensioners in a 4–0 win at Nottingham Forest. Priestley made a further 22 appearances during the season, scoring his first goal in a 3–0 win against Bolton Wanderers in front of a crowd of 20,000 at Stamford Bridge. The 1923–24 season saw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Priestley
Gerald Priestley (2 March 1931 - 21 January 2020) was a former footballer who played as a winger in the Football League in the 1950s and 1960s. He was born in Halifax. He started with Nottingham Forest but did not play any League games for them and moved to Exeter City in 1953, before transferring to Grimsby Town. He made over 100 League appearances for Grimsby, before moving to Crystal Palace in 1958. He was at Palace for two years, and during his time there scored two senior goals for them. He subsequently transferred to Halifax Town FC Halifax Town is a professional association football club based in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. They currently compete in and play at the Shay. They replaced Halifax Town A.F.C., which went into administration in the 2007–08 season. ..., with whom he made another 105 League appearances. Gerry died 21 January 2020. References External linksCrystal Palace stats at holmesdale.net 1931 births 2020 deaths Footballers fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Priestley
Donald Lacey Priestley (; 28 July 188730 October 1917) was an English cricketer who played for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club from 1909 to 1910. He made his debut in the County Championship against Sussex County Cricket Club, Sussex at the County Cricket Ground, Hove, County Ground, Hove. In May 1910, he scored fiftyone Run (cricket), runs against Hampshire County Cricket Club, Hampshire at the County Ground, Southampton, County Ground, Southampton. His final first class appearance for Gloucestershire was against Worcestershire at the War Memorial Athletic Ground, War Memorial Ground, Stourbridge. He was the third son of a Tewkesbury head teacher and the younger brother of Joseph Hubert Priestley, Joseph Priestley, professor of botany at the University of Leeds, and Raymond Priestley, the British geologist and Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Antarctic explorer. He was educated at his father's school before joining his mother's family firm as a commercial representative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Priestley
Dennis Priestley (born 16 July 1950) is an English former professional darts player. He has won two world championships, and was the first player to win both the BDO and WDC (now PDC) world championships, in 1991 and 1994 respectively. He is nicknamed "The Menace", after the cartoon character Dennis the Menace, and reflects this by wearing red and black, and using red and black flights. Early career Born in Mexborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, Priestley was originally a coal merchant by trade, and did not enter professional darts until he was almost 40 years old. He first caught the eye in 1989 when he reached the final of the News of the World Darts Championship where he was beaten by the experienced Dave Whitcombe. He then reached the semi-finals of the 1990 Winmau World Masters, losing to eventual champion Phil Taylor. Rising to the top Shortly after becoming a newsagent, Priestley won the 1991 Embassy World Championship, after beating Eric Bristow 6–0 in the final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akeem Priestley
Akeem Sayeed Priestley (born 13 April 1985) is a Jamaican professional footballer who plays for Canadian club Master's Futbol as a winger. Club career Priestley played his college career in the United States at Jacksonville University and also at the University of Connecticut. He was an All-Big East 2nd team selection in 2008, and also lead University of Connecticut to the 2007 Big East title. Priestley was drafted by Kansas City Wizards in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft (50th overall), but was not offered a contract by the club. Priestley later signed with Jamaican club Harbour View who loaned him out to Azerbaijan based club FK Mughan for the 2009/2010 season. In April 2011, Priestley signed with the Los Angeles Blues for the season. He joined Dayton Dutch Lions for the 2012 season. On 15 August 2013, Priestley signed with RoPS in the Veikkausliiga for the remainder of the 2013 season. In January 2015, Priestley joined Sheikh Russel KC of the Bangladesh Premier League on tria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Priestley
Adam James Priestley (born 14 August 1990) is a Gibraltarian footballer who plays for English club Pontefract Collieries of the and the Gibraltar national team as a forward. After beginning his career in the academies of league clubs Leeds United and York City, Priestley has spent his entire senior career in the semi-professional lower divisions of the English football league system. Qualifying to represent Gibraltar internationally by being born there while his father served in the Royal Air Force, Priestley debuted for the overseas territory in its premier UEFA match in November 2013. He has since gone on to represent Gibraltar in friendlies and UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying. Club career Youth and amateur Priestley began his career in the academy of Leeds United at age 8 but was released when he admittedly, " ..asn’t good enough to reach the required standard they were looking for." At age 13, Priestley played in the academy of York City but was told that he was no bett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Priestley
Sir Raymond Edward Priestley (20 July 1886 – 24 June 1974) was an English geologist and early Antarctic explorer. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, where he helped found The Raymond Priestley Centre on the shores of Coniston Water in the Lake District National Park. Biography Raymond Priestley was born in Tewkesbury,Museum's artefacts suffering from cold. thisisdorset.co.uk 11 November 2010. Retrieved 16 September 2011. Gloucestershire, in 1886, the second son and second of eight children of Joseph Edward Priestley, headmaster of |
Maurice Priestley
Maurice Bertram Priestley (15 March 1933 – 15 June 2013 Tata Subba Rao and Granville Tunnicliffe-Wilson, Obituary: Maurice Priestley 1933–2013IMS Bulletin on line29 August 2013) was a professor of statistics in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester. He gained his first degree at the University of Cambridge and went on to gain a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester. He was known especially for his work on time series analysis, especially spectral analysis and wavelet A wavelet is a wave-like oscillation with an amplitude that begins at zero, increases or decreases, and then returns to zero one or more times. Wavelets are termed a "brief oscillation". A taxonomy of wavelets has been established, based on the num ... analysis. He was a longstanding editor of the Journal of Time Series Analysis, a special edition of which was published in his honour in 1993.Tata Subba Rao, editor, Developments in time series analysis: in honour of Maurice B. Priestley, Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
