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Dicks (surname)
Dicks is a surname of the English West Midlands, Scotland, and Wales. It ranks 6,404 in frequency in the United States, out of 88,799. Some notable individuals with the surname Dicks include: * Alan Dicks (born 1934), retired English footballer and manager * Arthur Frederick Dicks (1935–1994), Australian actor and theater designer * David Dicks (born 1978), Australian sailor * Jeanie Dicks (1893–1980) British engineer who led permanent electrification of Winchester Cathedral in 1934. * John Dicks (actor) (born 1947), English film and television actor * Julian Dicks (born 1968), British footballer and manager * Norman D. Dicks (born 1940), U.S. Representative for Washington's 6th district * Paul Dicks (born 1950), Canadian lawyer and former politician in Newfoundland * Peter Dicks (born 1942), English investment manager and venture capitalist * Pete Dicks (born 1953), Radio presenter of ‘BeatlesandBeyond’ Radio programme, and others * Philip Dicks (born 1962), forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Midlands (county)
West Midlands is a Metropolitan county, metropolitan and Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the larger West Midlands (region), West Midlands region of England. A landlocked county, it is bordered by Staffordshire to the north and west, Worcestershire to the south, and is almost surrounded by Warwickshire to the east. The largest settlement is the city of Birmingham. The county is almost entirely urban, with an area of and a population of 2,953,816, making it the List of ceremonial counties of England, second most populous county in England after Greater London. After Birmingham (1,144,919) the largest settlements are the cities of Coventry (345,324) and Wolverhampton (263,700), Solihull (126,577), and Sutton Coldfield (109,899). Nearly all of the county's settlements belong to the West Midlands conurbation, West Midlands and Coventry and Bedworth urban area, Coventry built-up areas, though the 'Meriden Gap' between them is rural. For Local government in Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Dicks
Julian Andrew Dicks (born 8 August 1968) is an English football coach and former Association football, footballer, currently manager of Heybridge Swifts F.C., Heybridge Swifts. Playing from 1985 until 2002, he was a left back, notably in the Premier League for West Ham United F.C., West Ham United and Liverpool F.C., Liverpool. He was voted West Ham's player of the year four times between 1990 and 1997. He also played in the Football League for Birmingham City F.C., Birmingham City where he started his footballing career, ending it in 2002 in Non-League football, non-league football with Canvey Island F.C., Canvey Island. He became manager of Wivenhoe Town F.C., Wivenhoe Town in 2009, before moving to Grays Athletic F.C., Grays Athletic later that year. He was capped by both the England national under-21 football team, England U21 and England B national football team, England B sides. Dicks had a reputation for aggressive behaviour and being one of the hardest players in footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick (surname)
Dick is used as a surname in English language, English, German language, German and other languages. In English, the surname is patronymic surname, patronymic based on the use of Dick (nickname), ''Dick'' as a first name, meaning 'son of Dick' or 'son of Richard', just like ''Dickson (surname), Dickson''. The name can also be based on the use of the Middle English words ''dich, diche, dik, dike'' 'ditch' as a place name description. In German, surnames with the form ''Dick'' has arisen through different sources: the adjective ''dick'' 'plump', the noun ''Dickicht'' 'thicket' used about someone living in such a location, as a patronymic surname based on ''Dick'' used as a first name or nickname, or as a variant of ''Dieck''. It is the 1,513th most common name in Great Britain with 6,545 bearers. Although found in every part of Britain, the form Dick is especially common in Scotland, and it was from there, in the 17th century, that the surname was taken to Northern Ireland. It is mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Dicks
Terence Patrick "Phil" Dicks (17 March 1937 – 17 June 2020) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was MP for the constituency of Hayes and Harlington from 1983 to his retirement in 1997, having unsuccessfully contested Bristol South in 1979. He obtained the nickname Phil for, according to ''The Telegraph'', "elevating Philistinism to an art form". Early life and career Dicks was born with cerebral palsy on 17 March 1937 in Bristol to Frank and Winifred Dicks. He "saw little of his father", who "did not play a part in his childhood"; his mother, a cleaner, died of arthritis. Leaving school at 15, he worked at Imperial Tobacco as a clerk until 1959, then at the Ministry of Labour. He was educated at the University of Oxford (DipEcon) and the London School of Economics ( BSc ( Econ)). Political career Outside Parliament Dicks was elected to Hillingdon Borough Council in 1974. In 1978, as housing committee chairman, he attracted controversy after he offered hoste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrance Dicks
Terrance William Dicks (14 April 1935 – 29 August 2019) was an English author and television screenwriter, script editor and producer. In television, he had a long association with the BBC science-fiction series ''Doctor Who'', working as a writer and also serving as the programme's script editor from 1968 to 1974. The ''Doctor Who'' News Page described him as "arguably the most prolific contributor to ''Doctor Who''". He later became a script editor and producer of classic serials for the BBC. Dicks wrote many children's books during the 1970s and 1980s. He also maintained his association with ''Doctor Who'' by adapting televised stories into novelisations for Target Books and in later years contributing to many documentaries and DVD commentaries for the series. Early career Born in East Ham, Essex (now part of Greater London), Dicks was the only son of William, a tailor's salesman and Nellie (née Ambler), a waitress. His parents later ran a pub, the Fox and Hounds, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Dicks
Philip John Dicks (born 4 May 1962) is a former English cricketer. Dicks was a right-handed batting (cricket), batsman who bowled right-arm off break and slow-medium swingers. He was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire. Dicks made his Minor Counties Championship debut for Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club, Cambridgeshire against Hertfordshire County Cricket Club, Hertfordshire in 1988. From 1988 to 1990, he represented the county in 19 Minor Counties Championship matches, the last of which against Durham County Cricket Club, Durham. He made his debut in the MCCA Knockout Trophy in 1988 against Norfolk County Cricket Club, Norfolk. From 1988 to 1989, he represented the county in 6 Trophy matches, the last of which came against Bedfordshire County Cricket Club, Bedfordshire. It was for Cambridgeshire that he made 2 List A cricket, List A appearances. These came against Warwickshire County Cricket Club, Warwickshire in the 1988 NatWest Trophy and Worcestershire County Cricket C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Dicks
Peter F. Dicks (born 1942) is a London-based investment manager and venture capitalist. He was the co-founder of Abingworth (company), Abingworth PLC, one of the earlier venture capital funds in Europe. He is also the former chairman of Sportingbet, Sportingbet PLC, one of the world's largest sportsbooks. He is currently a committee vice-chairman with Mercia Fund Management. Career Early in his career, Dicks was a stock broker with Joseph Sebag, Joseph Sebag & Co where he met Anthony Montagu. In 1973, Dicks and Montagu left Joseph Sebag and formed Abingworth PLC in London. Abingworth was one of the earlier venture capital firms formed in Europe. Abingworth primarily invested in early-stage companies, specializing in technology start-up companies in the United States, and invested in such notable companies as Apple Computer, Silicon Graphics and 3COM. Dicks has served as non-executive chairman or director of numerous companies and investment funds, but it was Dicks' tenure as no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Dicks
Paul D. Dicks (born 1950) is a lawyer and former politician in Newfoundland and Labrador. He represented Humber West in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1989 to 2001 as a Liberal. He was born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador and was educated at Memorial University for undergraduate degrees in Arts and Education, and then at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia for his LL.B. Dicks was then called to the Newfoundland bar and set up practice in his hometown of Corner Brook. He ran successfully for the Liberal Party in Humber West in the general election of 1989. He was Speaker of the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1993 until 1995. Dicks served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Justice and Attorney General from 1989 to 1991 and from 1998 to 1999, as Minister of Finance and President of Treasury Board from 1995 to 2000 and as Minister of Mines and Energy from 2000 to 2001. He left politics in 2001 after running unsu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman D
Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 9th and 10th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norman conquest of southern Italy in the 11th and 12th centuries ** Normanist theory (also known as Normanism) and anti-Normanism, historical disagreement regarding the origin of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and their historic predecessor, Kievan Rus' ** Norman dynasty, a series of monarchs in England and Normandy ** Norman architecture, romanesque architecture in England and elsewhere ** Norman language, spoken in Normandy ** People or things connected with the French region of Normandy Arts and entertainment * ''Norman'' (2010 film), a 2010 drama film * ''Norman'' (2016 film), a 2016 drama film * ''Norman'' (TV series), a 1970 British sitcom starring Norman Wisdom * ''The Normans'' (TV series), a documentary * "Norman" (song), a 1962 song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dicks (actor)
John Dicks (born 23 July 1947) is an English stage, film and television actor. His stage work includes appearances with the RSC, and in Andrew Lloyd Webber's flop musical ''Jeeves'' in London, 1975, in which he also sang on the rare recording. His film appearances include ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980), ''The First Kangaroos'' (1988), ''Flirting'' (1991), ''Return to the Blue Lagoon'' (1991) and ''Queen of the Damned ''Queen of the Damned'' is a 2002 horror film directed by Michael Rymer from a screenplay by Scott Abbott and Michael Petroni, and based on the 1988 novel ''The Queen of the Damned'' by Anne Rice, the third novel of the book series ''The Vampi ...'' (2002). Filmography References External links * English male stage actors English male film actors English male television actors 1947 births Living people {{UK-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjacent Islands of Scotland, islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. To the south-east, Scotland has its Anglo-Scottish border, only land border, which is long and shared with England; the country is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the north-east and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. The population in 2022 was 5,439,842. Edinburgh is the capital and Glasgow is the most populous of the cities of Scotland. The Kingdom of Scotland emerged as an independent sovereign state in the 9th century. In 1603, James VI succeeded to the thrones of Kingdom of England, England and Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland, forming a personal union of the Union of the Crowns, three kingdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winchester Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity,Historic England. "Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity (1095509)". ''National Heritage List for England''. Retrieved 8 September 2014. Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Swithun, commonly known as Winchester Cathedral, is the cathedral of the city of Winchester, England, and is among the largest of its kind in Northern Europe. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and is the mother church for the ancient Diocese of Winchester. It is run by a dean and chapter, under the Dean of Winchester. The cathedral as it stands today was built from 1079 to 1532 and is dedicated to numerous saints, most notably Swithun, Swithun of Winchester. It has a very long and very wide nave in the Perpendicular Gothic style, an Early English Retroquire, retrochoir, and Norman transepts and tower. With an overall length of , it is the List of longest church buildings, longest medieval cathedral in the world. With an area of , it is also the sixth-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
