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Hitchings is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfred Percy Hitchings (1912–1979), English racing driver * Benjamin Hitchings Jr. (1813–1893), American shoe manufacturer and politician * Charles S. Hitchings (1844–1894), American shoe manufacturer and politician * Gavin Hitchings (1937–2018), New Zealand jeweler * George H. Hitchings (1905-1998), American doctor who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology * Helen Hitchings (1920–2002), New Zealand art dealer * Henry Hitchings (born 1974), British author, reviewer and critic * John B. Hitchings (1815–1887), American shoe manufacturer and politician * Otis M. Hitchings (1822–1894), American shoe manufacturer and politician * Lionel Hitchings (born 1936), English cricketer * Tracy Hitchings Tracy Hitchings (11 October 1962 – 10 December 2022) was an English musician and the former lead vocalist for the progressive rock band Landmarq. Her musical credits spanned from 1989 to 2022 with ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Percy Hitchings
Alfred Percy Hitchings (13 June 1912 – 1979) was an English racing driver, active during the 1950s. Born in Stoke-on-Trent, he became managing director of the family printing business, based in Hanley, but then served as an officer in the British Army from 1943 to at least 1952. He took part in the famous Le Mans 24 Hours race in 1951 and 1954. On the former occasion, his co-driver Peter Reece crashed their Allard J2 on lap 22, and although the pair were nevertheless able to complete a total of 230 laps they were disqualified because their final lap exceeded the prescribed thirty minute limit. In the 1954 race, the Kieft Sport of Hitchings and his co-driver Georges Trouis completed 26 laps over seven hours before overheating forced its retirement. Between these outings, Hitchings and Trouis met with better fortune in the 1953 RAC Tourist Trophy at the Dundrod Circuit in Northern Ireland, where their DB HBR Panhard took first place in its class. Off the track, Hitchings raced h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Hitchings Jr
Benjamin ( ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob's twelfth and youngest son overall in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was also considered the progenitor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin. Unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan according to biblical narrative. In the Samaritan Pentateuch, Benjamin's name appears as "" (Samaritan Hebrew: , "son of days"). In the Quran, Benjamin is referred to as a righteous young child, who remained with Jacob when the older brothers plotted against Joseph. Later rabbinic traditions name him as one of four ancient Israelites who died without sin, the other three being Chileab, Jesse and Amram. Name The name is first mentioned in letters from King Sîn-kāšid of Uruk (1801–1771 BC), who called himself “King of Amnanum� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles S
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was ''Churl, Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinisation of names, Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as ''Carolus (other), Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as wikt:churl, churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its deprecating sense in the Middle English period. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch language, Dutch and German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Hitchings
Gavin John Hitchings (26 December 1937 – 21 August 2018) was a jeweller who lived in New Zealand. Early life Born in Woolwich, London, Hitchings grew up in Wales and moved to New Zealand in 1965 where he worked as an entomologist in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand) The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) was a government science agency in New Zealand, founded in 1926 and broken into Crown Research Institutes in 1992. History DSIR was founded in 1926 by Ernest Marsden after calls from .... Jewellery In 1968 Hitchings trained in the workshop of Jens Hoyer Hansen, becoming a working partner in the business. In the mid 1970s founded his own workshop and along with Hoyer-Hansen was a foundation tutor at Nelson Polytechnic Institute.Telford, Helen. ''Suter Art Gallery Magazine'', 7 April – 7 May 2000.The Jeweller's Mark: The Jens Hansen Workshop Story He taught at Nelson Polytechnic between 1986 and 1995 and was the recip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George H
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Hitchings
Helen Hitchings (17 June 1920 – 4 July 2002) was a New Zealand art dealer, best known for the short-lived but influential eponymous dealer gallery she opened in Wellington in 1949. Gallery of Helen Hitchings At age 28 Hitchings opened New Zealand's first modernist dealer gallery, in a converted warehouse space at 39 Bond Street in central Wellington. Previous to this she had worked as a theatre designer and advertising assistant. In the gallery Hitchings showed the work of emerging painters who went on to become major figures in New Zealand art, including Toss Woollaston, Rita Angus and Colin McCahon, alongside Douglas MacDiarmid and Evelyn Page. She recruited the modernist architect Ernst Plischke to produce furniture designs sold through the gallery, and A. R. D. Fairburn and May Smith to design textiles. Hitchings also showed the work of important potter Len Castle. Hitchings also designed pieces of pottery which were commercially produced and sold through her galle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Hitchings
Henry Hitchings (born 11 December 1974) is an author, reviewer and critic, specializing in narrative non-fiction, with a particular emphasis on language and cultural history. The second of his books, ''The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English'', won the 2008 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. He has written two books about Samuel Johnson and has served as the president of the Johnson Society of Lichfield. As a critic, he has mainly written about books and theatre. He was chair of the drama section of the UK's Critics' Circle from 2018 to 2020. Life He was a King's Scholar at Eton College, before going to Christ Church, Oxford, and then to University College London to research his PhD on Samuel Johnson. Books ''Dr Johnson's Dictionary'' In 2005, Hitchings published ''Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World'', a biography of Samuel Johnson's epochal ''A Dictionary of the English Language'' (1755). The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John B
John Bryn Williams (born 1977), known as John B, is an English disc jockey and electronic music producer. He is widely recognised for his eccentric clothing, wild hair, and his production of several cutting edge drum and bass tracks. John B ranked number 76 in '' DJ Magazine''s 2010 Top 100 DJs annual poll, announced on 27 October 2010. Career Williams was born on 12 July 1977 in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He started producing music around the age of 14, and now is the head of drum and bass record label Beta Recordings, together with its more specialist drum and bass sub-labels Nu Electro, Tangent, and Chihuahua. He also has releases on Formation Records, Metalheadz and Planet Mu. Williams was ranked 92nd drum and bass DJ on the 2009 '' DJ Magazine'' top 100. Style While his trademark sound has evolved through the years, it generally involves female vocals and trance-like synths (a style which has been dubbed "trance and bass", "trancestep" and "futurestep" by listeners). Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otis M
Otis may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Otis'' (film), a direct-to-DVD 2008 American comedy horror film * "Otis" (''The Jeffersons''), a television episode * "Otis" (''Prison Break''), a television episode Music * ''Otis'' (Brian McFadden album), 2019 * ''Otis'' (Mojo Nixon album), 1990 * "Otis" (song), by Jay-Z and Kanye West, 2011 * "Otis", a song by Magma from '' Merci'', 1985 * "Otis", a song by Medeski Martin & Wood from '' Notes from the Underground'', 1992 * "Otis", a song by The Durutti Column from ''24 Hour Party People'' (soundtrack), 2002 * "Otis", a song by John Medeski from '' A Different Time'', 2013 People and fictional characters * Otis (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Otis (surname), a list of people * Otis (wrestler), a ring name of American professional wrestler Nikola Bogojević (born 1991) * Otis family, an American political family * Otis, American rapper in the duo Axe Murder Boyz Places United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Hitchings
Lionel Hitchings (born 15 May 1936) was an English cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Buckinghamshire. He was born in Hereford. Hitchings, who represented Buckinghamshire in the Minor Counties Championship between 1956 and 1968, made a single List A appearance for the side, during the 1965 season, against Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, former county in South East England, now mainly within Greater London. Its boundaries largely followed three rivers: the River Thames, Thames in the south, the River Lea, Le .... From the upper-middle order, Hitchings scored 3 runs. External links * 1936 births Living people English cricketers Buckinghamshire cricketers Wicket-keepers Cricketers from Hereford 20th-century English sportsmen {{England-cricket-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Hitchings
Tracy Hitchings (11 October 1962 – 10 December 2022) was an English musician and the former lead vocalist for the progressive rock band Landmarq. Her musical credits spanned from 1989 to 2022 with many notable sessions with various bands and artists, predominantly in the British neo-prog scene. Hitchings was known for her charismatic stage presence and her wide vocal range. Early years Hitchings was born in St Mawes, Cornwall, going to London at the age of 20 to pursue a career in Music. After many line-up changes, neo-prog band Quasar were auditioning for a lead vocalist. Hitchings answered the band's advert in ''Melody Maker'' and joined the band. Her first work with them was the 1989 album ''The Loreli'', to which she contributed lyrics for four of the five tracks. Hitchings toured with the band for 18 months. In 1990, Hitchings collaborated with Pendragon keyboardist Clive Nolan and Threshold guitarist Karl Groom to form Strangers on a Train, which recorded the album ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitching (other)
Hitching could refer to: * Hitching (short story), a short story by Orson Scott Card * Hitching tie, a knot * Ringbolt hitching, a knot * Hitchhiking, * ''Hitching'', a synonym for lag-related overclocking (i.e. when a digital image runs smoothly, stops and repeat again) See also * Hitchin (other) * Hitching post (other) A hitching post is a post to which a horse (or other animal) may be tethered to prevent it from straying. The term can also refer to: * The "hitching post", a contentious punishment in the case of ''Hope v. Pelzer'' * The Hitching Post, a steakh ... * Hitchings, a surname {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
