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Roger Elliott (other)
Roger Elliott may refer to: * Roger Elliott (governor) (1665–1714), governor of Gibraltar * Sir Roger Elliott (physicist) (1928–2018), British theoretical physicist * Roger Elliott (politician) (1949–2021), American politician and member of the Kansas House of Representatives See also * Roger Dyas-Elliott All-women shortlists (AWS) is an affirmative action practice intended to increase the proportion of female Members of Parliament (MPs) in the United Kingdom, allowing only women to stand in particular constituencies for a particular political p ..., political candidate * Roger Elliot (other) {{hndis, Elliott, Roger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Elliott (governor)
Major General Roger Elliott ( 1665 – 16 May 1714 ) was one of the earliest British Governor of Gibraltar, Governors of Gibraltar. A member of the Eliot family (South England), Eliot family, his son Granville Elliott became the first Count Elliott and his nephew George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, George Augustus Eliott also became a noted Governor and Great Siege of Gibraltar, defender of Gibraltar. Early life Roger Elliott was born, possibly in London but more probably in the English Tangier, English Colony of Tangier in Morocco, to George Elliott (surgeon), George Elliott ( 1636 – 1668, the Physician, Chirurgeon to the Tangier Garrison) and his wife Catherine (née Maxwell, 1638 – 1709). George Elliott was the illegitimate son of Richard Eliot (born c. 1614), Richard Eliot, the wayward second son of John Eliot (statesman), Sir John Eliot (1592–1632). Roger Elliott's father, George Elliott, died at Tangier in 1668, and his widowed mother remarried ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Elliott (physicist)
Sir Roger James Elliott (8 December 1928 – 16 April 2018) was a British theoretical physicist specialising in the magnetic, semiconductor, and optical properties of condensed matter. He was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize, the Guthrie Medal and Prize, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He was awarded honorary Doctor of Science degrees by the universities of Paris, Bath, and Essex. Life Born in Chesterfield, Elliott's father was a policeman, who died of tuberculosis when Elliott was three. Elliott was brought up by his mother and three unmarried aunts in Swanwick, Derbyshire. Elliott obtained a DPhil in mathematics and theoretical physics from the University of Oxford in 1952. He was a theoretical physicist specialising in the magnetic, semiconductor, and optical properties of condensed matter. He was a research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1952–3, then at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment until 1955, when he was appointed to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Elliott (politician)
Roger A. Elliott (October 20, 1949 – November 14, 2021) was an American politician who served in the Kansas House of Representatives as a Republican from the 87th district for one term, in 2017 and 2018. Elliott was born in Wichita, Kansas, where he graduated from high school in 1967. He attended Baker University for a time, and served in the Kansas Air National Guard; he transferred colleges and graduated from Wichita State University in 1976. He spent his career in banking A bank is a financial institution that accepts Deposit account, deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital m ..., retiring as a Senior Vice President at CornerBank in 2012. In 2016, Elliott was elected to the Kansas House from the 87th district. He served for one term, and declined to run for re-election in 2018. Elliott died in 2021. References 1949 births 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Dyas-Elliott
All-women shortlists (AWS) is an affirmative action practice intended to increase the proportion of female Members of Parliament (MPs) in the United Kingdom, allowing only women to stand in particular constituencies for a particular political party. Labour abandoned the shortlist for general election purposes in March 2022. Political parties in other countries, such as South Korea and various Latin American countries, have used practices analogous to AWS, especially in relation to government sex quotas. United Kingdom Background In the 1990s, women constituted less than 10% of MPs in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.Peake, Lucy (1997),Women in the campaign and in the commons, in Political parties used various strategies to increase female representation, including encouraging women to stand and constituency associations to select them, and providing special training for potential female candidates. Another strategy, the creation of all-women shortlists, is a positive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |