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Hedley (given Name)
Hedley is a masculine given name which may refer to: People: * Hedley Atkins (1905–1983), British professor of surgery and President of the Royal College of Surgeons * Hedley Blackmore (1901-1992), Australian rules footballer * Hedley Francis Gregory Bridges (1902–1947), Canadian politician * Hedley Burrows (1887-1983), Anglican cleric, Dean of Hereford * Hedley Donovan (1914-1990), editor-in-chief of Time, Inc. * Hedley David Farquhar (politician) (1927–2009), Australian politician * Hedley Fitton (1859-1929), English engraver and printmaker * Hedley Hazelden (1915-2001), British civilian test pilot and Second World War RAF squadron leader * Hedley Hope-Nicholson (1888–1969), English barrister and littérateur * Hedley Howarth (1943-2008), New Zealand international cricketer * Hedley Kett (1913-2014), British Second World War submarine commander * Hedley Marston (1900-1965), Australian biochemist * Hedley Vicars Short, Canadian Anglican Bishop of Saskatchewan (1970-1985 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clans may claim descent from founding member or apical ancestor. Clans, in indigenous societies, tend to be endogamous, mea ...) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedley Howarth
Hedley John Howarth (25 December 1943 – 7 November 2008) was an international cricketer who played 30 Tests and nine One Day Internationals for New Zealand. The elder brother of Geoff Howarth, former New Zealand captain, he was born and died in Auckland. Domestic career Howarth attended Auckland Grammar School, where he was a pace bowler. After he left school he had back trouble, and his coach, Merv Wallace, suggested he take up spin bowling. He became an orthodox left-arm bowler, and made his first-class debut in 1962. International career Between 1969 and 1977, Howarth played 30 Tests for New Zealand, capturing 86 wickets at an average of 36.95. Justin Vaughan, chief executive of New Zealand Cricket, credited Howarth with playing a significant role in New Zealand's international cricket history, saying Howarth's "five-wicket bag against India at Nagpur in 1969 was a match winner that helped give New Zealand its first ever Test win on the sub-continent". India were chasing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedley Woodhouse
Hedley John Woodhouse (January 23, 1920 - December 29, 1984) was a Canadian jockey who won the New York state riding championship in 1953. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he began his racing career there in 1937 at the Lansdowne Park racetrack as an apprentice with A.C.T. Stock Farm owned by industrialist Austin C. Taylor. Woodhouse's ability would soon see him racing at tracks along the West Coast of the United States and in 1944 he rode Happy Issue to victory in the Grade I Vanity Handicap and Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. Woodhouse rode the colt Fisherman to a 3rd-place finish in the 1949 Kentucky Derby, the best result of his four tries between then and 1957. He rode in the Preakness Stakes on three occasions, his best finish a 5th in 1951. Racing out of New York tracks in the first part of the 1950s, Hedley Woodhouse won the 1953 New York riding championship with 138 victories, and was runner-up on three occasions. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedley Webster
Hedley Webster (21 July 1880 – 28 June 1954) was the 12th Bishop of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1904, his first posts were curacies at St Luke's, Cork and Holy Trinity, Cork. He held incumbencies at Kinneigh and Blackrock before being appointed Archdeacon of Cork in 1938. He was Bishop of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh from 1945 to 1953.''Bishop Of Killaloe To Resign'' The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' ... Tuesday, Aug 18, 1953; pg. 8; Issue 52703; col B References {{DEFAULTSORT:Webster, Hedley 1880 births Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Archdeacons of Cork 20th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Bishops of Killaloe and Clonfert 1954 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedley Verity
Hedley Verity (18 May 1905 – 31 July 1943) was a professional cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club, Yorkshire and England national cricket team, England between 1930 and 1939. A Left-arm orthodox spin, slow left-arm orthodox bowler, he took 1,956 Wicket#Dismissing a batsman, wickets in first-class cricket at an Bowling average, average of 14.90 and 144 wickets in 40 Test cricket, Tests at an average of 24.37. Named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year, ''Wisden'' Cricketers of the Year in 1932, he is regarded as one of the most effective slow left-arm bowlers to have played cricket. Never someone who spun the ball sharply, he achieved success through the accuracy of his bowling. On pitches which made batting difficult, particularly ones Sticky wicket, affected by rain, he could be almost impossible to bat against. Verity was born in Leeds and, from an early age, wished to play cricket for Yorkshire. After establishing a good reputation in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedley Thomas
Hedley Thomas is an Australian investigative journalist and author, who has won seven Walkley Awards, two of which are Gold Walkleys. Personal life Thomas is married and lives in Brisbane. He has two children. In 2002 Thomas and his family were victims of a death threat and a drive-by shooting. Career Soon after completing high school, Thomas started his career as a newspaper copy boy for the ''Gold Coast Bulletin'' in 1984. After nine months as a copy boy he started a journalism cadetship at the ''Gold Coast Bulletin'', then in 1988 moved to ''The Courier-Mail'' in Brisbane. After a year, he moved to London as a foreign correspondent for News Limited Australia for two years. As a 22-year-old journalist there he covered historic events such as the fall of the Berlin wall and the Romanian Revolution. Thomas returned to ''The Courier-Mail'' in late 1991, working there for 18 months. Thomas then moved to become the News Editor at the ''Hong Kong Standard'' for six months, bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicars Short
Hedley Vicars Roycraft Short was an Anglican bishop in the last third of the 20th century. He was educated at the University of Toronto and ordained in 1944. He held curacies at St Michael's Toronto and then Coventry Cathedral. Returning to Canada he was a lecturer at Trinity College, Toronto, and for a while its Acting Dean. After incumbencies at Cochrane and St. Catharines he became Rector of Prince Albert and Dean of Saskatchewan in 1963. From 1966 he was also Archdeacon An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that o ... of the area. In 1970 he became Bishop of Saskatchewan, serving for 11 years. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedley Marston
Hedley Ralph Marston FRS FAA (26 August 1900 – 25 August 1965) was an Australian biochemist who worked for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). First published in ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 15, (MUP), 2000. Originally published in ''Records of the Australian Academy of Science'', vol. 1, no. 2, Canberra, Australia, 1967. Education Marston was born in Bordertown, South Australia and educated at Unley District High School, Adelaide, where he met Mark Oliphant. He attended the University of Adelaide but did not complete a degree due to failing Mathematics. Career Marston was appointed a demonstrator in the university's department of physiology and biochemistry after a chance meeting with Professor Thorburn Robertson in 1922. On 1 March 1928 he joined Robertson's staff in the division of animal nutrition, CSIRO, Adelaide. Marston greatly impressed Robertson, and became the division's acting-chief on Robertson's death in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedley Kett
William Hedley Kett, DSC and Bar (28 July 1913 – 28 June 2014) was a British submariner who commanded two ships during the Second World War. Early life Kett was born at Ponders End, Lea Valley, London on 28 July 1913. He was a descendant of Robert Kett, who had led Kett's Rebellion in 1549. Brought up and educated at Blackheath, Hedley Kett first went to sea as a deck apprentice with the Bolton Steamship Company, and was later with the Glover Brothers company. His ship, the tanker ''Romney'', was requisitioned by the Admiralty during the Spanish Civil War, making Kett part of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, and in 1938 he joined the Royal Naval Reserve. He was second officer of RFA ''Arndale'' at the outbreak of the Second World War, and became her gunnery officer. He returned to Britain, and was called up for service in November 1939. Volunteering to serve on submarines, he joined the ''Odin-class'' submarine as her navigator. He joined in August 1940, at first as her n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedley Hope-Nicholson
Hedley Hope-Nicholson (born William Hedley Kenelm Nicholson; 17 July 1888 – 18 July 1969), barrister and littérateur, was, with his wife Jaqueline, notable in English artistic and literary circles in the first half of the twentieth century. Early life and education (William) Hedley Kenelm Nicholson was born at Bowdon, Cheshire, son of Alfred John Nicholson (1858-1928), a woollen merchant and coat manufacturer (Nicholson's Raincoats, of St Albans, Hertfordshire) from a family of Manchester tailors, and his wife Mary (1856-1926), daughter of currier Thomas Cleghorn, of Bildeston, Suffolk. His twin brother, Sigismund John Nicholson, died aged two. The family later lived at St Albans. Nicholson was educated at the University of Oxford. Career A barrister of the Inner Temple, and heir to his father's "raincoat fortune", Hope-Nicholson counted among various eccentric hobbies a keen interest in King Charles I and was editor of the quarterly magazine of the Society of King Charles t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedley Atkins
Sir Hedley John Barnard Atkins (30 December 1905 – 26 November 1983) was the first professor of surgery at Guy's Hospital and President of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was the son of Guy's Hospital physician Sir John Atkins and Elizabeth May (née Smith) and was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Oxford. He gained a physiology degree at Oxford and in 1937 was appointed to the staff of Guy's as assistant surgeon, spending all his professional life in that institution. In 1942, during World War II, he went to North Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps, subsequently served in Italy and the UK, was mentioned in despatches and demobilised with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He specialised in the scientific treatment of breast cancer and the Hedley Atkins Breast Unit at New Cross Hospital acknowledges his contribution in the field. He was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1934, and became vice-president from 1964 to 1966 and President from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedley Hazelden
Squadron Leader Hedley George "Hazel" Hazelden (7 June 1915 – August 2001) was a British test pilot. Royal Air Force career Hazelden trained as a pilot in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve before the outbreak of the Second World War. He joined the Royal Air Force in May 1939 and completed his flying training on Ansons at 12 Flying Training School located at RAF Redhill in Surrey. He joined No. 44 Squadron RAF with Bomber Command at RAF Waddington in September 1940, flying Handley Page Hampden twin-engine bombers. In 1941, after surviving one tour of duty, Hazelden underwent operational conversion training for the Avro Manchester twin-engined bomber at RAF Finningley in Yorkshire. He joined No. 83 Squadron RAF at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire. He remained with No. 83 Squadron during its conversion to the Avro Lancaster four-engined bomber. In July 1942, after a tour of operations during which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, he became a flying instr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
