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Peg (nickname)
Peg is a generally feminine nickname, usually a short form of Margaret or Peggy (given name), Peggy. It may refer to: People Women * Peg Alexander, UK journalist, broadcaster, and former politician * Peg Blitch (1934–2021), American politician and judge * Peg Bracken (1918–2007), American author of humor books * Peg Entwistle (1908–1932), British actress * Peg Fenwick (1907–1987), American screenwriter and playwright * Margaret Flory (born 1948), American politician * Margaret Hughes (1630–1719), English actress often credited as the first professional actress on the English stage, mistress of Prince Rupert of the Rhine * Peg Kehret (born 1936), American children's writer * Peg LaCentra (c. 1910–1996), American contralto singer * Peg Lautenschlager (1955–2018), American attorney and politician, first woman Attorney General of Wisconsin * Peg Lynch (1916–2015), American writer, actress, and sitcom creator * Peg Maltby (1899–1984), English-born Australian book illust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl". It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Iranian languages, Old Iranian. It has been an English language, English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the 16th and 18th century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second-most popular female name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth-most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the List of most popular given names, 1990 census. Margaret has many diminutive forms in many languages, including Daisy (given name), Daisy, Greta (given name), Greta, Gretchen, Maggie, Madge (given name), Madge, Maisie (given name), Maisie, Marge, Margie, Margo (given name), Margo, Margot, Marnie (given name), Marnie, Meg, Megan, Molly (name), Molly, Peggy (given name), Peggy, and Rita (given name), Rita. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peg Maltby
Peg Maltby (17 January 1899 – 12 March 1984) was an English-born Australian book illustrator and children's writer. She is best known for ''Peg's Fairy Book'', first published in 1944, which sold more than 180,000 copies in the 1940s and 1950s. Life Born Agnes Newberry Orchard in Leicestershire, England on 17 January 1899, she married George Bradley Maltby in 1917. They moved to Australia in 1924. Maltby held several exhibitions of her artwork, including at Newman's Gallery in Melbourne in 1934, where it was reported that her pen and colour drawings were in the style of Arthur Rackham and '' The Bulletin's'' art critic wrote that she "has the needful imagination to work out dainty scenes as acceptable to adults as to children and swing back the mature cynic to his infantile faith in fairies". In 1937, while visiting her parents in England, she created illustrations of "gum leaves and quaint folklore scenes" for a London company, who were interested in her work. Her first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Duval (ice Hockey)
William James "Peg" Duval (August 3, 1877 – June 7, 1905) was a Canadians, Canadian professional ice hockey Defenceman (ice hockey), defenceman who played for the Ottawa Hockey Club and the Pittsburgh Victorias in the late 1890s and early 1900s. He was a member of the Canadian champion 1901 Ottawa team and captain of the Ottawa team for the 1902 season. He was one of the first professional players in ice hockey. Playing career Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Duval played intermediate hockey for the Ottawa Aberdeens and Ottawa Atlantic Railway teams before joining the Ottawa Hockey Club in the 1899–1900 season. He played two further seasons for Ottawa, and was named captain prior to the 1902 season. In February 1903, his teammate Rat Westwick married Duval's sister Ruby. Duval moved to Pittsburgh to play professional ice hockey with the Pittsburgh Victorias of the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League (WPHL) in 1902–03. After two seasons with the Victorias, Duval joined the Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprague Cleghorn
Henry William Sprague "Peg" Cleghorn (March 11, 1890 – July 12, 1956), also known as "The Big Train", was a Canadian professional ice hockey player from Westmount, Quebec who played 17 professional seasons between 1911 and 1929 for the Renfrew Creamery Kings and Montreal Wanderers in the National Hockey Association (NHA) and the Ottawa Senators, Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was a member of three Stanley Cup championship teams, winning with the Senators in 1920 and 1921 as well as with the Canadiens in 1924. His brother Odie was also a professional player and the two played several seasons together. A tough and physical defenceman, Cleghorn had a reputation for violent play; he was twice charged with assault following on-ice incidents and was subject to efforts to have him banned from the NHL. His reputation made him an effective defender, and he used his offensive skill to become one of hockey's first offensive defencemen. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peg Yorkin
Peg Yorkin (April 16, 1927 – June 25, 2023) was an American feminist activist, philanthropist, and fundraiser. She served as cofounder and chair of the Feminist Majority Foundation. Early life Yorkin was born Peggy Diem on April 16, 1927, in New York City, where she also grew up. An only child of a Catholic father and Jewish mother, Yorkin was raised in neither religion and described herself as "no believer". "The religions are patriarchal. I don't believe in any of them, or a God, or a Goddess." She described her family circumstances as "genteel poverty". Her father's alcoholism negated his career as a cinematographer for legendary filmmaker D.W. Griffith and forced the family to live "on the kindness of my mother's relatives." She went to Barnard College, had a brief acting stint and an early marriage that lasted two years. Career In 1991, she made a endowment and gift to the Feminist Majority Foundation (of which she was a cofounder and chair) and the Fund for the Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peg Woffington
Margaret Woffington (18 October 1720 – 28 March 1760), was an Irish actress and socialite of the Georgian era. Early life Woffington was born of humble origins in Dublin, Ireland yet excelled in playing women from the upper classes. Her father is thought to have been a bricklayer, and after his death, the family became impoverished. Her mother was obliged to take in washing while Peg sold watercress door to door. Madame Violante, a famous tightrope walker took her on as her apprentice.Richards, Sandra. ''The Rise of the English Actress''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Her sister Mary Woffington was also an actress but she did not enjoy the same success. Acting career Around 1730, Madame Violante featured the young Woffington in her Lilliputian Theatre Company's production of John Gay’s '' The Beggar’s Opera''. Her performance as Mackheath served as a springboard for continued fame in Dublin. She continued dancing and acting in the area – playing Dorinda in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peg Taylor (cricketer)
Margaret Jean "Peg" Taylor (19 February 1917 – 22 July 2004) was a New Zealand cricketer who played primarily as a right-arm medium bowler. She appeared in one Test match for New Zealand, their first, in 1935. She played domestic cricket for Canterbury Canterbury (, ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the county of Kent, England; it was a county borough until 1974. It lies on the River Stour, Kent, River Stour. The city has a mild oceanic climat .... References External links * * 1917 births 2004 deaths Cricketers from Christchurch New Zealand women cricketers New Zealand women Test cricketers Canterbury Magicians cricketers 20th-century New Zealand sportswomen {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peg Shreve
Peg Shreve (July 23, 1927 – October 27, 2012) was an American politician who served in the Wyoming House of Representatives from the 24th district from 1979 to 1999. She died on October 27, 2012, in Cody, Wyoming Cody is a city in and the county seat of Park County, Wyoming, United States. It is named after Buffalo Bill Cody for his part in the founding of Cody in 1896. The population was 10,028 at the United States Census, 2020, 2020 census, making Cod ... at age 85. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Shreve, Peg 1927 births 2012 deaths Republican Party members of the Wyoming House of Representatives 20th-century members of the Wyoming Legislature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peg Putt
Margaret Ann Putt (born 5 June 1953) is a former Australian politician and parliamentary leader of the Tasmanian Greens. Early life Putt was born in Sydney and attended school at Hornsby High School. At the age of 16, she won a scholarship to the Australian International Independent School in Epping. At this time, Putt was also part of organising High School Students against Vietnam. She then travelled to the United Kingdom where she studied a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in international relations, at the University of Sussex, graduating with Honours. After completing her degree, Putt travelled back to Australia through Asia, and in 1975 got a job developing pollution control programs at Botany, at a time when the NSW Environment Protection Agency had just been set up. In the late 1970s Putt moved up to Nimbin, and camped at a commune. She later moved to the Northern Territory to work with Aboriginal communities on Elcho Island in Arnhem land. She then moved to live on Dangar I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peg Phillips
Margaret May Phillips (née Linton; September 20, 1918 – November 7, 2002) was an American actress best known for playing storekeeper Ruth-Anne Miller on the television series ''Northern Exposure''. Early life Phillips was born Margaret Linton in Everett, Washington, to Charles and Myrtle Linton. She wanted to be an actress from the age of four and performed in dinner theater as a hobby. She was the wife of Daniel Greene, a Navy man stationed in the Territory of Hawaii when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred. She was married to Chester Phillips in the 1950s, during which time she suffered a near-fatal bout of "polio and a serious abdominal infection". She lived with her children Kathy, Virginia and Arthur in Santa Cruz, California, in the early to mid-1960s. Her oldest daughter, Elisabeth, had left the household. She worked as an accountant at Sweet Service in Santa Cruz during that time. She was involved with local theatrical groups; her favorite play was ''Bell, Book a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peg O'Connor
Peg O'Connor, is a Professor of Philosophy and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies as well as Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College. Her present research interests include two separate but intersecting strains: Wittgenstein's approach to ethics, and the philosophy of addiction. She also contributes to public discourse about her areas of interest through contributing to popular media, especially around philosophical issues surrounding addiction, and has actively spoken out about issues of gender equity facing the field of philosophy. Education and career O'Connor earned her bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University in 1987, and her master's and doctorate in philosophy from the University of Minnesota in 1993 and 1996, respectively. Her doctoral thesis focused on Wittgensteinian moral realism. While pursuing her doctorate, O'Connor also acted as an instructor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota from 1994 to 1995, and an instructor of philosoph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peg Murray
Margaret L. Murray (February 14, 1924 – November 29, 2020) was an American actress of stage and television. Murray graduated from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, then known as Western Reserve College, in 1945. Career The Denver, Colorado-born actress, one of three children and the only daughter of John and Helen Murray, won a Tony Award for her performance as the vile "Fräulein Kost" in the original Broadway production of ''Cabaret'' (1966). She understudied the role of "Fräulein Schneider", originated by Lotte Lenya, and eventually took over that role full-time when Lenya left the production. Murray later worked in daytime television, playing the roles of Carrie Johnson Lovett on ''Love of Life'' and modeling agent Olga Swenson on ''All My Children''. She also substituted for Constance Ford for several weeks as Ada Hobson on '' Another World'', and starred in the short-lived NBC-TV sitcom ''Me & Mrs. C.'' Her film credits included roles in '' Some of My Best F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
