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Atkin
Atkin is an English surname derived from a pet form of the name Adam. Notable people with the surname include: * A. O. L. Atkin (1925–2008), British mathematician * George Atkin (1836–1899), American politician * Harvey Atkin (1942–2017), Canadian actor * Isabel Atkin (born 1998), British-American skier * James Atkin (1867–1944), British judge * Jerry Atkin (born 1949), American businessman * John Atkin (fl. 1980s), American politician * Leon Atkin (1902–1976), British minister, human rights activist, and politician * Paul Atkin (born 1969), English footballer * Pete Atkin (born 1945), British singer-songwriter * Polly Atkin, English poet and non-fiction writer * Ralph Atkin (born 1943), American businessman * Robert Travers Atkin (1841–1872), Irish-Australian politician * Tim Atkin, British journalist, broadcaster, and commentator * Tommy Atkin (1906–1986), English footballer * Victoria Atkin (born 1986), English actress * Wendy Atkin (1947–2018), British pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atkinson (surname)
Atkinson is an English-language surname. The name is derived from a patronymic form of the Middle English ''Atkin''. The personal name ''Atkin'' is one of many pet forms of the name ''Adam''. The name corresponds to the Scottish name Aitchison. The name Atkinson is particularly common in Northern England. At the time of the British Census of 1881, Retrieved 25 January 2014 its relative frequency was highest in Westmorland (19.8 times the British average), followed by Cumberland, County Durham, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Cheshire and Rutland. In Ireland the name is common only in Ulster and particularly in counties Antrim and Down. Some Atkinsons are descended from Planters, although the name was recorded in Ireland before that period. Acheson is a variation of the name in Scotland and the Border region, having been originally spelt ''Atzinson'' (with the 'z' being pronounced as 'y', as in ''yet''). People with the surname A * Adeline Detroit Wood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atkins (surname)
Atkins is a surname of English origin. At the time of the 1881 United Kingdom census, British Census of 1881, Retrieved 25 January 2014 its frequency was highest in Buckinghamshire (6.0 times the British average), followed by Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Rutland, Kent, Dorset, Norfolk, and Berkshire. Art and Entertainment * Al Atkins (born 1947), British singer * Anna Atkins (1799–1871), British pioneer of photography * Chet Atkins (1924–2001), guitarist and record producer * Cholly Atkins (1913–2003), American choreographer for Motown artists * Christopher Atkins (born 1961), American actor * Coral Atkins (1936–2016), British actress * David Atkins (born 1955), Australian stage director * Eileen Atkins (born 1934), English actress * Essence Atkins (born 1972), American actress * Ivor Atkins (1869–1953), Welsh choirmaster * Jeffrey Atkins (born 1976), American rapper Ja Rule * Juan Atkins (born 1962), American techno musician * Lucy Atkins, British author ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Atkin
Pete Atkin (born 22 August 1945) is a British singer-songwriter and radio producer, notable for his 1970s musical collaborations with Clive James and for producing the BBC Radio 4 series, '' This Sceptred Isle''. Early life Born in Cambridge, England, Atkin attended Romsey County Primary School where he began to play the violin, and subsequently attended The Perse School. He taught himself piano and guitar. In 1959, he formed a church youth club band called 'The Chevrons' for whom he played piano with four schoolfriends. He studied Classics and English at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1966 he joined Cambridge Footlights as a performer, writer and occasional music director, where he met future collaborators Julie Covington and Clive James. Music career Atkin made his first recording in 1967: a private pressing of 160 copies of ''While The Music Lasts'', with vocals by Atkin and fellow Footlights alum Julie Covington and songs written by Atkin solo as well as with Clive James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Atkin, Baron Atkin
James Richard Atkin, Baron Atkin, (28 November 1867 – 25 June 1944), commonly known as Dick Atkin, was an Australian-British jurist, who served as a lord of appeal in ordinary from 1928 until his death in 1944. He is especially remembered as the judge giving the leading judgement in the case of ''Donoghue v Stevenson'' in 1932, in which he established the modern law of negligence in the UK, and indirectly in most of the common law world. Early life and practice Atkin was the son of Robert Travers Atkin (1841–1872) and his wife, Mary Elizabeth ''née'' Ruck (1842–1920). Robert was from Kilgarriff, County Cork, Mary's father from Newington, Kent, and her mother from Merioneth, Wales. The couple married in 1864 and soon emigrated to Australia intending to take up sheep farming. However, little more than a year into their enterprise Robert was badly injured in a fall from a horse and the couple moved to Brisbane where Robert became a journalist and politician. He always t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Atkin
Polly Rowena Atkin (born 1980) is an English poet and non-fiction writer based in Grasmere, Cumbria. Early life and education Atkin was born in 1980 in Nottingham and grew up there, then lived seven years in East London before moving north. She has a PhD (2010) from Lancaster University, for which her thesis was "A place re-imagined : the cultural, literacy and spacial making of Dove Cottage, Grasmere". She has an MA in creative writing from Royal Holloway, University of London, for which her thesis was "Writing the Body Well: Poetry and Illness". Career Atkin taught English and creative writing at Lancaster University from 2010 to 2014, and at the University of Strathclyde from 2014 to 2017, and has since taught creative writing at the universities of Lancaster and Cumbria. Atkin's pamphlet ''bone song'' was shortlisted for the first Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlets, in 2009. Her second pamphlet, ''Shadow Dispatches'' (2013), won the '' Mslexia'' pamphlet prize, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Travers Atkin
Robert Travers Atkin (29 November 1841 – 25 May 1872) was an Irish-born newspaper editor and politician in colonial Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Early life Atkin was born in Fernhill, County Cork, Ireland, the son of William Francis Atkin and his wife Alice Hungerford (née Stewart). In 1864 he married Mary Elizabeth ''née'' Ruck (1842–1920) and soon emigrated to Australia intending to take up sheep farming. However, little more than a year into their enterprise Robert was badly injured in a fall from a horse and the couple moved to Brisbane where Atkin became a journalist and politician. He had three sons in Brisbane, but in 1871, Mary took the children back to her own mother's house, "Pantlludw" on the River Dovey in Wales. Newspaper editor Atkin became editor of the '' Brisbane Guardian'' but resigned over policy disagreements. In partnership with W. C. Belbridge, Atkin started the '' Queensland Express'' in August 1868 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atkin & Low Family Tree
Atkin is an English surname derived from a pet form of the name Adam. Notable people with the surname include: * A. O. L. Atkin (1925–2008), British mathematician * George Atkin (1836–1899), American politician * Harvey Atkin (1942–2017), Canadian actor * Isabel Atkin (born 1998), British-American skier * James Atkin (1867–1944), British judge * Jerry Atkin (born 1949), American businessman * John Atkin (fl. 1980s), American politician * Leon Atkin (1902–1976), British minister, human rights activist, and politician * Paul Atkin (born 1969), English footballer * Pete Atkin (born 1945), British singer-songwriter * Polly Atkin, English poet and non-fiction writer * Ralph Atkin (born 1943), American businessman * Robert Travers Atkin (1841–1872), Irish-Australian politician * Tim Atkin, British journalist, broadcaster, and commentator * Tommy Atkin (1906–1986), English footballer * Victoria Atkin (born 1986), English actress * Wendy Atkin (1947–2018), British p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Atkin
Isabel Atkin (born 21 June 1998) is a British-American freestyle skier who competes internationally for Great Britain. She won bronze in women's slopestyle at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the first British Olympic medal in skiing. Early life Atkin was born in Boston, United States to English father Mike and Malaysian mother Winnie. She has a younger sister Zoe Atkin who is also a freestyle skier. She started learning to ski on Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine when she was three. In order to help with her skiing, her family moved to Park City, Utah when she was 14 to attend the Winter Sports School whose academic calendar runs from April to November so that she may ski in the winter. She enrolled at Colorado College in 2017, graduating in 2022. Career Atkin has dual British and US nationality, but joined the GB Park & Pipe programme, and started competing for Great Britain when she was 15 during the 2013–2014 season. In 2017, she competed in the ski slopestyle World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atkinson (other)
Atkinson may refer to: Places *Atkinson, Nova Scotia, Canada *Atkinson, Dominica, a village in Dominica * Atkinson, Illinois, U.S. *Atkinson, Indiana, U.S. *Atkinson, Maine, U.S. * Atkinson Lake, a lake in Minnesota, U.S. *Atkinson, Nebraska, U.S. *Atkinson, New Hampshire, U.S. *Atkinson, North Carolina, U.S. Other uses * Atkinson (surname) * Atkinsons, a department store in Sheffield, England, U.K. * Atkinsons of London, a British perfume house * Atkinson Candy Company, Texas Candy company * Atkinson Clock Tower, clock tower in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia * Atkinson cycle, asymmetrical thermodynamic cycle * Atkinson Film-Arts, former Canadian animation studio * Atkinson Graduate School of Management for the Willamette University MBA program * Atkinson Hyperlegible, a typeface * Atkinson resistance, characterizing airflow * Seddon Atkinson, British truck company See also *Atkinson Point, Northwest Territories, a community in the Northwest Territories, Canada *Atkinson To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Atkin
Victoria Atkin is a British actress who has played roles in ''Extinct'', '' Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'', and ''Hollyoaks'', the last of which she has won several awards for in her portrayal of Jason Costello. Early years and education Atkin attended Fernhill School and Language College,and Farnborough Sixth Form College, studied Dance and Theatre Performance at The University of Chichester in 2008, and took a postgraduate course in Musical Theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2009. Career Originally training as a slalom skier, Atkin landed her first major television appearance and series regular role, shortly after graduating from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in Swiss Cottage in London. She was cast as the first fictional transgender teenager on British television, completing 134 episodes in the role in the series ''Hollyoaks'' and ''Hollyoaks Later''. Atkin's portrayal of her character Jasmine/ Jason Costello, increased awareness for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Atkin
Elliot Harvey Atkin (18 December 1942 – 18 July 2017) was a Canadian actor. He was best known for his roles as Morty Melnick in ''Meatballs'', Sergeant Ronald Coleman in '' Cagney & Lacey'', and for voicing King Koopa in '' The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' and Sam in '' The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police''. Early life Atkin was born 18 December 1942 in Toronto, Ontario to parents of Russian-Jewish descent. He developed his interest in acting while a student at Northview Heights Secondary School by performing in a high school production of Eugene O'Neill's one-act play ''The Rope'', for which he won an award at the Simpson's Drama Festival. Atkin initially worked at his father's construction company. He then became a real estate agent, eventually transitioning to acting in commercials. Career Atkin played Morty Melnick in the comedy film ''Meatballs'' (1979), for which performance he earned a Genie nomination. Atkin had a role in William Fruet's horror film ''Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Atkin
Wendy Sheila Atkin (née Green; 5 April 1947 – 2 October 2018) was Professor of Gastrointestinal Epidemiology at Imperial College London. Early life and education Aitken was born in London on 5 April 1947 to Gella (née Binder) and David Green. She studied pharmacy at the University of London gaining a bachelor's degree in 1968. She studied public health at Columbia University, which she graduated in 1985 with a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in 1984. She joined University College London for her graduate studies, where she researched the long-term risk of colorectal cancer following the removal of adenomas and was awarded a PhD in 1991. Career and research Atkin joined the Colorectal Cancer Unit at Cancer Research UK in St Mark's Hospital, and was made deputy director in 1997. She was made a senior lecturer at Imperial College London in 1997, reader in 2000 and professor in 2004. From 1994 she worked with Jane Wardle on a trial of flexible sigmoidoscopy that include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
