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Rothwell
Rothwell may refer to: Places Australia *Rothwell, Queensland, Australia Canada * Rothwell, New Brunswick, Canada United Kingdom * Rothwell, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom *Rothwell, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom *Rothwell, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom ** Rothwell (ward) People with the surname * Annie Rothwell (1837–1927), Canadian novelist and poet *Ben Rothwell (born 1981), American professional mixed martial arts fighter * Ben Rothwell (boxer) (1902–1979), American boxer * Caroline Rothwell (born 1967), English-Australian sculptor * Charlotte Rothwell, British actress * Edward Rothwell (c. 1844–1892), English-born Newfoundland merchant and politician *Evelyn Rothwell (1911–2008) (Lady Barbirolli), oboist; wife of Sir John Barbirolli, orchestral conductor * Frank Rothwell (born 1936), Irish weightlifter * Geoff Rothwell (1920–2017), British bomber pilot * Harry Rothwell, former Canadian football player *Herbert Rothwell (born 1880), English footballer *Jarred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Rothwell
Dame Nancy Jane Rothwell (born 2 October 1955) is a British physiologist. She served as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester from 2010 to 2024, having deputised in both roles until January 2010. Rothwell served as non-executive director of pharmaceuticals company AstraZeneca from 2006 to 2015. She also served as co-chair of the Council for Science and Technology, and past President of the Royal Society of Biology. She served as Deputy Lieutenant of Greater Manchester and served as chair of the Russell Group from 2020 to 2023, which represents 24 of the research intensive universities in the UK. In March 2021, students at the University of Manchester passed a vote of no confidence in Rothwell due to her response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. Education and early life Rothwell was born in Tarleton, a village near Preston, Lancashire. She was educated at Penwortham Girls' Grammar School and then went to college where she took A-lev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rothwell, West Yorkshire
Rothwell is a town in the south-east of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England, situated between Leeds and Wakefield. It is located in the eponymous Rothwell ward of Leeds City Council and Wakefield and Rothwell parliamentary constituency, and is part of the West Yorkshire Urban Area. At the 2011 census the ward had a population of 20,354. As of the 2021 census, Rothwell has a population of 20,600. The town is close to the A1/ M1 link road and the Stourton park and ride. The nearest railway station is Woodlesford. History Early history Rothwell was mentioned in the Domesday Book, an 11th-century landholding survey commissioned by King William the Conqueror, as ''"Rodewelle"''. One of the royal lodge’s documented owners was John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, who is supposed to have killed the last wild boar in England while hunting nearby; hence, a boar’s head formed part of the arms of the former Rothwell Urban District Council. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rothwell, Queensland
Rothwell is a coastal Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. In the , Rothwell had a population of 7,538 people. Geography Rothwell is in the west of the Redcliffe Peninsula, approximately north-northeast of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland. The suburb is bounded to the north by the bay of Deception Bay (Queensland), Deception Bay (part of Moreton Bay), to the east in part by Nathan Road, and to the south and south-west by Saltwater Creek (Moreton Bay), Saltwater Creek. Anzac Avenue enters the suburb from the east (Kippa-Ring, Queensland, Kippa-Ring) and proceeds west, where at a large intersection () Anzac Avenue continues to the south-west exiting to Mango Hill, Queensland, Mango Hill, while Deception Bay Road heads north-west exiting to the suburb of Deception Bay, Queensland, Deception Bay.The Redcliffe Peninsula railway line enters the suburb from the east (Kippa-Ring) and exits to the south (Mango Hill), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarred Rothwell
Jarred Craig Rothwell is a South African Muay Thai boxer. He is a five time South African Muay Thai champion in four weight divisions, a bronze medalist at the 2011 IFMA World Championships and a silver medalist at the 2011 Arafura Games. He won the World Muaythai Council (WMC) MAD World Title Belt in 2012, and the South African Muaythai Association Middle Weight Professional Champion in 2013. Jarred qualified for the 2013 World Combat Games The 2013 World Combat Games were held in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from October 18 to 26, 2013. Venues Games Opening ceremony The opening ceremony was officially opened on October 18, 2013 at 20:30-22:00 local time. Sports Compared to the 5 ..., competing in the 71kg division. Titles * SAMA Middleweight Professional Champion 2013 * South African Light Middleweight Champion 2012 * World Muaythai Council MAD Title 2012 (WMC) * Arafura Games Silver 2011 * IFMA World Championships Bronze 2011 * South African Middle Weight Champion 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talbot Rothwell
Talbot Nelson Conn "Tolly" Rothwell, Order of the British Empire, OBE (12 November 1916 – 28 February 1981) was an English screenwriter. Life and career Rothwell was born in Bromley, Kent, England. He had a variety of jobs during his early life: Municipal clerk, town clerk, police officer and Royal Air Force Aircraft pilot, pilot. Rothwell was made a prisoner of war during World War II after being shot down over Norway. It was during this period, while incarcerated in Stalag Luft III, that he started to write. Peter Butterworth was in the same camp and the two became firm friends, working on camp concerts with Rothwell mostly writing and Butterworth performing. These concerts helped to relieve the boredom of camp life and the noise helped cover tunnelling escape efforts. After World War II, Rothwell took up writing as his profession, writing scripts for Crazy Gang (comedy group), the Crazy Gang, Arthur Askey, Ted Ray (comedian), Ted Ray and Terry-Thomas. His hit play ''Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Henry Rothwell
Walter Henry Rothwell (22 September 1872 – 13 March 1927) was an English conductor. Biography He was born in London on 22 September 1872 to an English father and an Austrian mother. After initial training from his mother, who had been a piano pupil of Friedrich Wieck, he entered the Royal Academy of Music in Vienna at the age of nine. On graduating from the academy he undertook further studies in piano and composition in Vienna before becoming a coach at the Court Opera in that city. In this role he was discovered by an impresario named Pollini who brought him to Hamburg where he was assistant conductor to Gustav Mahler. After a two-year apprenticeship under Mahler, Rothwell left Hamburg to conduct operatic performances in many European cities, becoming director of the Royal Opera in Amsterdam. In 1904-5 he went on a large tour of the United States with the Henry W. Savage company conducting ''Parsifal'' by Wagner: this was so successful that he later undertook a sim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Richard Rothwell, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Rothwell, 1st Baronet (c. 1628 – 1694) of Stapleford, Lincolnshire was an English Member of Parliament between 1677 and 1681. He was the 2nd son of William Rothwell of Ewerby, Lincolnshire. He succeeded his elder brother c. 1655 and was created a baronet (of Ewerby, Lincolnshire) on 16 August 1661. He served as Member of Parliament for Newark from 1677 to 1681. He married in 1673, Elizabeth, the daughter of Robert Clifton and widow of Edward Rothwell of Haverholme, Lincolnshire, and with her had 2 daughters. The baronetcy thereby became extinct on his death in 1694. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rothwell, Richard, Sir 1620s births 1694 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England English MPs 1661–1679 English MPs 1679 English MPs 1680–1681 English MPs 1681 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Rothwell (painter)
Richard Rothwell (20 November 1800 – 13 September 1868) was a nineteenth-century Irish portrait painter, portrait and genre painter. Biography Richard Rothwell was born 20 November 1800 in Dublin. His father has generally been stated to be James Rothwell of Lisdaly, near Cloghen, King's Co. (Offaly), though primary source evidence suggests that he was the son of William Rothwell, gentleman, who appears in the 1820s as a publican of Ferbane, King’s Co., acquiring land at Ballicknahee, King’s Co. His mother was Elizabeth Rothwell (née Holmes). He had at least three siblings (a brother and two sisters) and possibly as many as six [3]. He trained to become a painter at the Dublin Society, Dublin Society's school from 1814 until 1820 and won a silver medal for his work. At the age of 24, he was made a member of the newly established Royal Hibernian Academy and exhibited portraits there from 1826 to 1829. He subsequently moved to London and worked as a studio assistant to Thoma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Pennefather Rothwell
Richard Pennefather Rothwell (May 1, 1836 – April 17, 1901) was a Canadian-American civil, mechanical and mining engineer. He was the co-founder of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and was awarded the gold medal at the Paris Exposition, in 1898, by the Soeiete d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale de France, as founder and editor of ''The Mineral Industry''. Early life and education Richard Pennefather Rothwell was born May 1, 1836, at Ingersoll, Upper Canada. He studied in early life at Trinity College, Toronto, the Rensselaer Institute at Troy, New York, and the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris. Career His professional practice in France and England, and his subsequent career as civil, mechanical and mining engineer in Pennsylvania, from the year 1866 to 1873, prepared him for his later work as editor, writer and manager of statistical and scientific publications. Rothwell already was known as an accomplished writer on engineering and mining t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Rothwell
Squadron Leader Peter Rothwell (20 October 1920 – 20 December 2010) was an English bomber pilot in the Second World War and a key figure in the defence of Malta during World War II. Life Rothwell was born in Bristol, the son of a vicar. He was the eldest of seven children and was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead. His education was cut short by the early death of his father, resulting in him taking a job with Imperial Tobacco. He joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve in 1938 and joined 221 Squadron after pilot training. In early 1942 Rothwell transferred from Iceland to the Special Duties Wellington flight based on Malta. The Special Duties group flew with the Royal Navy to locate enemy convoys, and bring in ships or aircraft, dropping flares, observing results and also bombing themselves. He arrived during one of the coldest winters on record and was billeted in a former leper colony. In an interview Rothwell said "It was freezing. The boys were all drinking gin with hot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Rothwell
Nicolas Rothwell is a journalist and the Northern Australia correspondent for ''The Australian'' newspaper. He is also an award-winning writer with two novels and several works of non-fiction to his name. Background Rothwell is the child of Czech and Australian parents. His father Bruce Rothwell was a prominent journalist, and the family resided in Australia, Washington DC, and New York among other places. Rothwell attended boarding school in Switzerland and France, and graduated from the University of Oxford. In the 1980s and early 1990s he was a foreign correspondent for ''The Australian'' and reported from the Americas, the Pacific and Western and Eastern Europe, latterly during the Yugoslav conflict. Burned out by the latter upheaval, in the 1990s he sought out a posting in Australia, again for ''The Australian'' newspaper. , he was based in Far North Queensland. His partner is indigenous activist and politician Alison Anderson. Journalism The majority of Rothwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi D
Naomi or Naomie may refer to: People and biblical figures * Naomi (given name), a given name and a list of people with the name * Naomi (biblical figure), Ruth's mother-in-law in the Old Testament Book of Ruth * Naomi (Romanian singer) (born 1977), a.k.a. Naomy * Naomi (wrestler) (born 1987), professional wrestler * Terra Naomi, American indie folk singer-songwriter Arts and entertainment Fictional entities * Naomi, a character in the 2009 American fantasy comedy movie '' 17 Again'' * Naomi Bohannon, a character in the TV series ''Hell on Wheels'' * Naomi, Florida, a fictional town in the Kate DiCamillo novel ''Because of Winn-Dixie'' Music * Naomi Awards, a former British music award * ''Naomi'' (album), by American band The Cave Singers * "Naomi" (song), by Neutral Milk Hotel Other uses in arts and entertainment * ''Naomi'' (novel), a 1924 novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki * ''Naomi'' (comics), a 2019 miniseries published by DC Comics under the Wonder Comics imprint * ''Naom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
