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Peter Hughes (public Servant)
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Peter Hughes may refer to: *Pete Hughes (born 1968), American college baseball coach *Peter Hughes (actor) (1922–2019), English actor * Peter Hughes (Australian politician) (born 1932), former Australian politician *Peter Hughes (diplomat) (born 1953), British former ambassador to North Korea *Peter Hughes (footballer) (1934–2020), Australian rules footballer * Peter Hughes (Irish politician) (died 1954) *Peter Hughes (musician), member of the Mountain Goats (American folk rock band) *Peter Hughes (South African footballer), active in the 1950s *Peter Tuesday Hughes, (1940–2005) American science fiction and mystery author See also * Hughes (surname) Hughes is an English language surname. Origins Hughes is an Anglicized spelling of the Welsh and Irish patronymic surname. The surname may also derive from the etymologically unrelated Picard variant Hugh (Old French ''Hue'') of the Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Hughes
Pete Hughes (born January 11, 1968) is an American college baseball coach and head coach of the Kansas State Wildcats baseball team. Previously he served as the head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners baseball and the Virginia Tech Hokies baseball team. Playing career After growing up in Brockton, Massachusetts, Hughes attended Boston College High School, lettering in both baseball and football for the Eagles. Hughes then was a four-year starting quarterback at Davidson College. He also played third base for the Wildcats baseball team. Coaching career After completing college, Hughes became an assistant coach for both baseball and football at Hamilton College. He stayed there for one academic year before moving to Northeastern in the same dual capacity. After five years, he decided to focus on baseball and landed his first head coaching job at Trinity University in Texas. Taking just two seasons to improve the Tigers to a conference championship, Hughes was hired by Boston Colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hughes (actor)
Peter Clowe Hughes (20 May 1922 – 5 February 2019) was an English actor with a career spanning five decades. He was an actor, founder and director of theatre, but was best known for his film and television roles. Early life and theatre Hughes was born in Kensal Rise, London, an only child of a single mother. He was partly raised in foster institutions, and initially trained as a draughtsman designing car chassis, before moving to Coventry after his mother died in 1939 where he took a post designing armoured cars. After helping establish the Talisman Theatre in 1942, he trained as an actor, making his professional debut in 1949, in a production of Noël Coward's '' Fallen Angels''. His West End debut would occur four years later in 1953, after which he would establish a long association with both the Richmond Theatre and the Watford Palace Theatre. Film and television In television, Hughes would play the recurring role of a bank manager in the BBC series '' Bergerac''. Other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hughes (Australian Politician)
Peter Dalton Hughes (born 28 July 1932) is a former Australian politician. He was the first leader of the Liberal Party in the Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly. Hughes, who had joined the Liberal Party in 1969, entered the House of Assembly as a member for Canberra at its inaugural election in 1974 and was elected Liberal leader. In January 1977 he resigned from the Liberal Party, arguing that he could better represent his constituents as an independent (he was succeeded as Liberal leader by James Leedman James is a common English language surname and given name: * James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambigua ...). He was defeated in 1979. References 1932 births Living people Liberal Party of Australia members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Independent politicians in Australia Members of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hughes (diplomat)
Peter John Hughes (born 14 September 1953) is a British diplomat. From 2013 to 2018 he was the British High Commissioner to Belize. Hughes joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1976 and served in Islamabad, Rome, Warsaw, Sydney, Castries, Colombo and Kabul before being appointed Ambassador to North Korea in 2008 where he served until 2011. In 2009 he wrote a blog entry that noted the fair weather and festive mood in Pyongyang during that year's parliamentary election, prompting accusations in the British and South Korean press that he was an apologist for the North Korean government. Honours Hughes was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ... (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours. References 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hughes (footballer)
Peter Hughes (17 June 1934 – 27 November 2020) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL) recruited from Wangaratta and signed by Hawthorn in September 1951 as a seventeen year old. Hughes was jointly awarded best first year player together with Alf Hughes (no relation) in his first year playing with Hawthorn in 1953. Hughes captained the Wangaratta South Wanderers to a premiership in 1950 in the Wangaratta Junior Football League. In 1951 he was a member of the Wangaratta second eighteen that won the premiership of the Benalla-Tungamah League by 23 goals. in 1952 while studying Civil Engineering at Swinburne Technical College he played with the Wangaratta and won an Ovens and Murray Football League premiership that year defeating Rutherglen in the Grand Final. In 1955 Hughes was appointed to the Shire of Oxley as Assistant Borough Engineer of Wangaratta and he played football with the Wangaratta Football Club team and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hughes (Irish Politician)
Peter Hughes (1878 – 24 June 1954) was an Irish politician. A publican and a farmer, he was a member of Louth County Council and Dundalk Urban District Council. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1921 general election as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth–Meath constituency. As a supporter of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 he later went on to join Cumann na nGaedheal. He was appointed to the Cabinet in 1924, serving as Minister for Defence {{unsourced, date=February 2021 A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is an often-used name for the part of a government responsible for matters of defence, found in states ... until 1927. Although he was a member of the government he lost his Dáil seat at the June 1927 general election, and failed to be elected in the two subsequent general elections. He died on the 24 June 1954, at Mount Street, Dundalk, aged 75. He was predeceased by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hughes (musician)
Peter Hughes is an American multi-instrumentalist currently with the band The Mountain Goats. During live performances, he accompanies leader John Darnielle on bass. His first official recording with the band was 2002's ''Tallahassee'', and he has performed on every subsequent studio album up to 2022’s '' Bleed Out'', but he also sang backup vocals on the song "Cubs in Five" from the 1995 EP '' Nine Black Poppies''. That year, The Mountain Goats also dedicated an EP to him, '' Songs for Peter Hughes''. Hughes is also a member of DiskothiQ and was the bassist for Nothing Painted Blue. In 2001, Hughes published ''The Baseball Diaries'', his account of 31 ballgames that he attended in 2000. In 2004, Hughes released a solo album titled ''The One Hundred Thousand Songs of Peter Peter Hughes''. In 2010, he released a solo album titled ''Fangio''. Personal life Hughes's father was a flight-test technician for McDonnell Douglas, prompting a lasting interest in aviation. Hughes cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hughes (South African Footballer)
Peter Hughes was a South African footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le .... He featured in a number of games for the South Africa national soccer team in 1955, scoring nine times in five appearances. Career statistics International International goals :''Scores and results list South Africa's goal tally first.'' References Date of birth unknown Date of death unknown South African men's soccer players South Africa men's international soccer players Men's association football players not categorized by position {{SouthAfrica-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Tuesday Hughes
Peter Tuesday Hughes was an American science fiction and mystery author. He was an early exponent of the " gay gothic" subgenre. Though published primarily by Greenleaf Classics, a firm known for insisting that its authors include graphic sex in their works, his novels " epictgay relationships with a depth surprising for the markets he published for." However, some of his contemporaries objected to the pessimism Hughes occasionally expressed. He was the creator of fictional detective Bruce Doe, who featured in six mystery novels that are now considered to "have an unexpected resonance in a post-9/11 world." In 2013, the Bruce Doe novels were named one of the ten best gay mystery series by the ''Lambda Literary Review''. A San Francisco travel agent, Hughes briefly partnered with fellow authors Dirk Vanden, Phil Andros, Richard Amory, Larry Townsend, and Douglas Dean in an attempt to found the first all-gay publishing company, which was to be called The Renaissance Group. The grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
