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Catherine Smith (UK Poet)
Katherine, Katharine, or Catherine Smith may refer to: *Catharina Smith or Catherine Smith (fl. c. 1807), English novelist and actress *Cat Smith (born 1985), British Labour Party politician * Catherine Smith, Baroness Smith of Cluny (born 1973), British lawyer and government minister *Karen Zerby (born 1946), real name Katherine Smith * Katharine Smith Salisbury (1813–1900), sister to Latter Day Saints founder Joseph Smith * Katherine Smith (Navajo activist) (1918–2017), Navajo activist, cultural educator, and resistor *Katherine Smith (footballer) (born 1998), Australian rules footballer *Katherine Douglas Smith (1878 – after 1947), British suffragette *Catherine Smith (died 1944), wife of Al Smith and First Lady of New York * Katharine Smyth (fl. 2019), American memoirist See also *Cath Smith, character in ''Gavin & Stacey'' *Kathy Smith (other) * Kathryn Smith (other) *Kate Smith (other) Kate Smith (1907–1986) was an American singer. Kate Smit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catharina Smith
Catherine Smith (or Catherina Smith) was an English novelist and actress, best known for her gothic fiction. Almost all that is known of her is that she came from a wealthy family, and had acted at the Haymarket Theatre in London. Novels *''The Misanthrope Father, or The Guarded Secret'' (1807) *''The Castle of Arragon: or, The Banditti of the Forest'' (1809Worldcat *''The Caledonian Bandit or The Heir of Duncaethal'' (1811WorldCat *''Barozzi; or, The Venetian Sorceress'' (1815)Internet Archive Valancourt Books edition ) References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cat Smith
Catherine Jane Smith (born 16 June 1985) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 2015, representing Lancaster and Wyre since 2024 after her former constituency, Lancaster and Fleetwood, was abolished. She was a member of the shadow cabinets led by Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer from 2016 to 2021 as Shadow Secretary of State, previously Shadow Minister, for Young People and Democracy. Early life and education Smith was born in Barrow-in-Furness. She has said that she "didn't have a political upbringing". Her mother was a Methodist and, through going to church with her, Smith became involved with youth movements in the church. Her father was a trade unionist. She attended Parkview School (in 2009 this merged into Furness Academy) and Barrow Sixth Form College. In 2003, she began studying for a bachelor's degree at Lancaster University. She was a member of Cartmel College and initially studied religious studies, but switched ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Smith, Baroness Smith Of Cluny
Catherine Anne Smith, Baroness Smith of Cluny, (born 4 May 1973), is a British lawyer and life peer who has served as Advocate General for Scotland since 2024. She is the youngest daughter of former Labour Party leader John Smith. Early life and education Catherine Anne Smith was born on 4 May 1973 in Edinburgh as the youngest of three daughters. Her father, John Smith, was at that time the member of Parliament for North Lanarkshire, and later served as the leader of the Labour Party from 1992 until his death in 1994. Her mother, Elizabeth Smith (), was made a life peer and appointed to the House of Lords as Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill in 1995. Her elder sister, Sarah Smith, is a BBC journalist. Smith was educated at Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh. She studied history and law at the University of Glasgow, gaining Master of Arts (MA) and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degrees, followed by a Diploma in Legal Practice (DipLP) from the University of Strathclyde. Career After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Zerby
Karen Elva Zerby (born July 31, 1946) is the leader of The Family International, founded by her former husband David Berg as the “Children of God”, proven in court to have promoted and enacted sexual abuse of adults and children, including prostitution as a means of proselytizing. She is also referred to by her followers as Maria, “Mama” Maria, Maria David, Maria Fontaine, and “Queen” Maria. Biography Zerby was raised in evangelical Pentecostalism. Her father was a Nazarene minister, and she is credited with bringing the "fundamental Pentecostal principle of being 'Spirit-led'" into the movement she eventually came to lead. She joined the group, then called ''Teens for Christ'', in 1969. Trained as a stenographer, she became the personal secretary to David Berg, the group's founder, and was instrumental in transcribing his classes. He later separated from his first wife, Jane, and Zerby became his wife. Berg openly explained this to his followers via a missive calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Smith Salisbury
Katharine Smith Salisbury (July 8, 1813 – February 1, 1900) was a sister to Joseph Smith and an early convert in the Latter Day Saint movement. Early life Katharine Smith was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, as the seventh surviving child of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack. Later in her life, she recollected that when her brother Joseph brought the golden plates to the family home in Manchester, New York, in September 1827, he "entered the house running", with the plates "clasped to his side with his left hand and arm, … his right hand … badly bruised from knocking down at least three men who had leaped at him from behind bushes or fences as he ran."Andrew H. Hedges"'Take Heed Continually': Protecting the Gold Plates" ''Ensign'', January 2001. Several times she was permitted to lift the plates, which were always covered with a cloth when she did so. She also provided a detailed recollection of the visits of the Angel Moroni to her brother. Latter Day Saint convert Katharine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Smith (Navajo Activist)
Katherine Smith (1918–2017) was a Navajo activist, cultural educator, land defender, and resistor who protected Navajo land and refused to leave Big Mountain ( Black Mesa). A 1985 documentary Broken Rainbow depicts the struggle of the Navajo amid government enforced relocation of thousands from Black Mesa in Arizona after the enactment of the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974. The documentary film about the relocation was nominated for an Oscar. She famously shot a rifle overhead as a warning to construction workers hired by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to build a fence between the Hopi and Navajo land in order to mine for uranium and coal for the coal company Peabody . In the 1988 documentary "Heart of Big Mountain," Smith said, “I was born from Big Mountain. That’s my mother. So all of my life I will always be thinking of this place. My spirit will be here forever.” Early life Katherine Smith was born to the Tábąąhá clan. Her known family are her maternal and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Smith (footballer)
Katherine Smith (born 28 September 1998) is an Australian rules footballer playing for Greater Western Sydney in the AFL Women's competition. She was drafted by Melbourne with their seventh selection and 56th overall in the 2016 AFL Women's draft. She made her debut in the 15-point loss to at Casey Fields in the opening round of the 2017 season. After the two-point win against at TIO Stadium in Round 6—in which she recorded ten disposals and a mark—she was the round nominee for the AFLW Rising Star. She played every match in her debut season to finish with seven games. Melbourne signed Smith for the 2018 season during the trade period in May 2017. She suffered an ACL injury in December 2019, and missed the entire 2020 season. She joined the Giants during the 2020 trade season, traded for draft picks 29 and 42, and played her first game for the Giants on 27 February 2021. On 23 February 2022, Smith became the first player in AFL Women's history to kick a match-winni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Douglas Smith
Katherine Douglas Smith (1878 – after 1947) was a militant British suffragette and from 1908 a paid organiser of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). She was also a member of the International Suffrage Club. Activism Douglas Smith was the daughter of a professor of surgery at King’s College, London and a militant member of the WSPU. In 1908 she campaigned with Annie Kenney and Mary Blathwayt around the seaside towns of the west of England and Wales and on one occasion in Pembrokeshire the three women had to share a small and cramped room.Krista Cowman''Women of the Right Spirit: Paid Organisers of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) 1904–18'' Manchester University Press (2007) – Google Books pp. 52–53 On 21 June 1908 Douglas Smith was a key speaker at a rally of suffragettes at Hyde Park, London, Hyde Park in London. The rally was organised for Women's Sunday when twenty platforms were erected in the Park from which leading suffragettes delivered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Smith
Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was the 42nd governor of New York, serving from 1919 to 1920 and again from 1923 to 1928. He was the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party's presidential nominee in the 1928 United States presidential election, 1928 presidential election, losing to Herbert Hoover of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party in a Landslide victory, landslide. The son of an Irish Americans, Irish American mother and a American Civil War, Civil War–veteran Italian Americans, Italian American father, Smith was raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, near the Brooklyn Bridge. He resided in that neighborhood for his entire life. Although Smith remained personally untarnished by Corruption in the United States, corruption, he—like many other New York Democrats—was linked to the notorious Tammany Hall political machine that controlled New York City politics during his era. Smith served in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Smyth
Katharine Smyth is an American memoirist, most known for writing ''All The Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf'', a memoir about her father's death as well as literary criticism of Virginia Woolf's 1927 novel ''To the Lighthouse''. Early life and education Smyth grew up in Boston and Rhode Island. She attended the Park School, graduating in 1996. Her mother, Minty, was Australian, and her father, Geoffrey, was an English architect and a co-founder of the architecture magazine ''Clip-Kit''. Geoffrey was diagnosed with kidney cancer when Katharine was a child, and later, when she was in graduate school in 2007, he died at age 59 of cancer as well as complications from alcoholism. Smyth graduated from Brown University, and also studied abroad at Oxford. After college, she worked at an art gallery, and then at the ''Paris Review''. She later earned an MFA in non-fiction from Columbia University. Career Her memoir, ''All The Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin & Stacey
''Gavin & Stacey'' is a British sitcom created, written by and starring James Corden and Ruth Jones about two families: one from Billericay in Essex, and the other from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan. Mathew Horne and Joanna Page play the eponymous characters Gavin and Stacey, while Corden and Jones star as their respective friends Smithy and Nessa. Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb co-star as Gavin's parents Pam and Mick, Melanie Walters plays Stacey's mother Gwen, and Rob Brydon plays Stacey's uncle Bryn. Baby Cow Productions produced the sitcom for BBC Cymru Wales. The first series, consisting of six episodes, premiered on BBC Three in May 2007 to positive reviews and strong ratings. It returned for a second series of seven episodes in March 2008, before being transferred to BBC One for a Christmas Eve special, due to the show's growing mainstream popularity. The third and final series aired from 26 November 2009 to 1 January 2010, forming a significant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Smith (other)
Kathy, Kathie, Cathy or Cathie Smith may refer to: * Cathy Smith (1947–2020), Canadian convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of John Belushi * Cathy Smith (cricketer) (born 1961), Australian cricketer * Kathy Smith (fitness personality) (born 1951), personal trainer * Kathy Smith (filmmaker) (born 1963), Australian independent filmmaker * Kathy Smith (Australian politician) (1948/1949–2017), Australian politician in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * Kathy Smith (American politician), member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors *Kathy Smith, Californian singer-songwriter who performed at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 See also * Cathy Gilliat-Smith (born 1981), English field hockey player *Kate Smith (other) * Katherine Smith (other) * Kathleen Smith (other) *Katie Smith Katie Smith (born June 4, 1974) is an American basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes women's basketba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
