Sweetman
Sweetman is an Irish surname. Notable people with the name include: * Aaron Pajich-Sweetman (1998–2016), Australian murder victim * Bill Sweetman (born 1956), American military historian * Brendan Sweetman (born 1962), Irish philosopher * Caroline Sweetman (born 1983), Scottish cricketer * Courtney Sweetman-Kirk (born 1990), English footballer * Dan Sweetman (born 1985), Australian television presenter * David Sweetman (1943–2002), British writer and broadcaster * Edmund Sweetman (1912–1968), Irish Fine Gael politician * Elinor Sweetman (c1861–1922), Irish poet and author * Gerard Sweetman (1908–1970), Irish Fine Gael politician and lawyer * Harvey Sweetman (1921–2015), New Zealand fighter pilot * John Sweetman (United Irishman) (1752–1826), Irish brewer and United Irishman * John Sweetman (1844–1936), Irish politician and former leader of Sinn Féin * Joseph Sweetman Ames (1864–1943), American physicist, professor and provost at Johns Hopkins University ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Sweetman
John Sweetman (9 August 1844 – 8 September 1936) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as an Anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1890s, but later radicalised. He was one of the founders of Sinn Féin and was the party's president from 1908 to 1911. Early life He was the eldest son of John Sweetman (1805-1859), a Dublin brewer, and Honoria (1804-1879), daughter of Malachy O'Connor (a Dublin merchant). He was born in County Dublin and educated at Downside School in Somerset. He lived at Drumbaragh, Kells, County Meath. He married Agnes Hanly in Navan, County Meath on 11 September 1895. They had six children, four sons and two daughters. Political career In 1879, he was prominent enough in Irish nationalist circles to be a committee member and propose the election of Charles Stewart Parnell as president of the Irish Land League. In 1880, he visited Minnesota and became involved with Bishop Ireland's scheme to settle poor Iri ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Roger Sweetman
Roger Mary Sweetman (18 August 1874 – 20 May 1954) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician and barrister. Early life Sweetman was the son of brewer Hugh Sweetman of Roebuck Hall, Dundrum, Dublin, from a Catholic family that became prosperous as brewers in the 18th century. His mother was Gertrude Blackney. He was educated at Downside School. He was called to the bar from King's Inns in 1898. An amateur tennis player, he won the 1905 East of Ireland championship, and in 1902 reached the final of the Irish Open men's doubles and lost to Sydney Howard Smith in the first round of the Wimbledon singles. Sinn Féin Sweetman's cousin John Sweetman was an Irish Parliamentary Party MP from 1892 to 1895, who migrated to Sinn Féin and became its second president in 1908. When John declined on age grounds to stand in the 1918 UK general election in Wexford North, Roger stood instead and unseated Thomas Esmonde of the Irish Parliamentary Party. He joined the other Sinn Féin members by ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Courtney Sweetman-Kirk
Courtney Alexandra Sweetman-Kirk (born 16 November 1990) is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Sheffield United in the FA Women's Championship. She has previously played for FA WSL clubs Liverpool, Everton, Notts County and Lincoln as well as Coventry City and Leicester City in the FA Women's Premier League. Sweetman-Kirk has represented England at under-23 level. Club career Lincoln / Notts County, 2013–2014 Sweetman-Kirk signed with FA WSL 1 club, Lincoln Ladies in July 2013. During her first season with the club, she made seven appearances and scored one goal during a 2–0 win over Chelsea L.F.C. Notts County finished in sixth place during the regular season with a . Doncaster Rovers Belles, 2015–2017 In July 2014, Sweetman-Kirk signed with FA WSL 2 club, Doncaster Rovers Belles. She scored 20 goals in 20 matches during the 2015 FA WSL 2 season, helping lift the team to FA WSL 1 the following year. She was subsequently named FA WSL 2 Players ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gerard Sweetman
Hugh Gerard Sweetman (20 June 1908 – 28 January 1970) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Minister for Finance from 1954 to 1957. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kildare constituency from 1948 to 1970. He was a Senator for the Labour Panel from 1943 to 1948. Family and childhood Hugh Gerard Sweetman was born on 20 June 1908. His father, James Sweetman, was a practising barrister, and the family's return for the 1911 census shows that they employed three servants at their Lower Baggot Street home. His mother Agnes was the daughter of Sir George Fottrell of North Great George's Street, Dublin. His brothers, Séamus, George, and Denis, served in the World War II; Denis was killed 23 May 1940 at Boulogne and Séamus was awarded an MBE in 1945. James' brother, Roger Sweetman, was elected to the First Dáil representing Wexford North and was one of the first TDs to publicly call for a negotiated settlement to the Irish War of Independence. Gerard was educated ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Harvey Sweetman
Harvey Nelson Sweetman, (10 October 1921 – 15 January 2015) was a New Zealand fighter pilot of the Second World War. He flew extensively with No. 486 (NZ) Squadron over Europe and was later commander of No. 3 Squadron. He was credited with shooting down three aircraft and at least eleven V-1 flying bombs. Early life Harvey Sweetman was born on 10 October 1921 in Auckland, New Zealand, and educated at Matamata District High School in the Waikato, where he was swimming champion and captain of the 1st XI cricket team. He later worked as a clerk. Second World War Sweetman enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) in April 1940 and, after flight training, left New Zealand for Europe as a sergeant pilot later in the year. After converting to the Supermarine Spitfire fighter at an Operational Training Unit, he served briefly with No. 234 Squadron before being posted to No. 485 (NZ) Squadron. Sweetman achieved his first aerial victory on 29 August, when he shot down a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Sweetman (United Irishman)
John Sweetman (1752 – 1826) was an Irish republican, a delegate to the 1792 Catholic Convention and a member of the Leinster directory of the United Irishman. He was born of Catholic parents in Dublin in 1752. The family had for more than a century conducted in that city an extensive brewery, to which Sweetman succeeded on the death of his father. He became identified with the movement for the removal of the civil and religious disabilities of the Catholics, the Catholic Committee and was one of the chief supporters of the vigorous policy initiated by John Keogh in 1791, which led to the secession from the Committee of most of the Catholic gentry Sweetman was a delegate to the national Catholic Convention which assembled in Dublin on 3 December 1792, the proceedings of which led to the partial Catholic Relief Act of 1793. In the same year a secret committee of the Irish House of Lords accused certain "ill-disposed members" of the Catholic Church of contributing money in sup ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Elinor Sweetman
Elinor Sweetman (c. 1860/1861 – 1922) was a Victorian era Irish poet and author who worked with both her sisters. Early life Elinor Mary Sweetman was born in County Dublin to Michael James Sweetman (1829-1864), of Lamberton Park, Queen's County, JP, High Sheriff of Queen's County in 1852, and (Mary) Margaret, only child and heir of Michael Powell, of Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin. She had two brothers and three sisters. The Sweetman family were landed gentry of Longtown, County Kildare, and per family tradition were "long settled in Dublin" and "previously resident near Callan and Newtown, County Kilkenny", tracing their line back to the mid-1500s. After her father's death, when she was a small child, the remaining family moved to Brussels in 1873 and she spent her summers in Switzerland. Her sisters, Agnes and Mary Elizabeth were also writers. With her sisters she began two family magazines: the ‘Ivy Home Magazine’ and ‘Ivy Home Library’.Her poetry was used in seve ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rory Sweetman
Rory Sweetman (born 1956) is a professional New Zealand historian. He teaches at the University of Otago in modern Irish history and has published widely on New Zealand’s ethnic and religious past. Early life Sweetman was born in Ireland and spent his childhood there and in New Zealand. He received his secondary education at St Peter's College, Auckland, New Zealand. He commenced his tertiary studies at the University of Auckland. He has history degrees from the Universities of Dublin (Trinity College) (BA (Hons) 1981) and Cambridge (Peterhouse) (Ph.D, 1991). Sweetman's doctorate from Cambridge University was on the subject, ''New Zealand Catholicism, War, Politics and the Irish Issue 1912-22''. Academic career Sweetman has specialised on the history of the Irish in New Zealand especially in the areas of religion, education, sectarianism and their engagement in general New Zealand politics. He helped develop the modern Irish history programme at the University of Otago from 1997 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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David Sweetman
David Sweetman (16 March 1943 – 7 April 2002) was a British writer, critic, teacher and broadcaster. Early life Born David Robert Sweetman in 1943, he left Dilston in 1960 to study Fine Art at King's College, Newcastle (University of Durham), as a scholarship student. At King's he formed what would become a lifelong friendship with Bryan Ferry, an artist and performer. After graduation, he went to Africa to teach English. He took a diploma at Makerere College in Uganda and wrote a series of textbooks on teaching English for the British Council in Tunisia, as well as a series of adventure books (''Skyjack over Africa'' and other titles) and biographies (''Queen Nzinga: The Woman Who Saved Her People'', among other titles in his series called Makers of African History) published by Longmans for younger African readers to encourage their language skills. Toward the end of the decade, he taught English and art at a school in Dar es Salaam. Writer and poet Sweetman was a freque ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Milo Sweetman
Milo Sweetman (died 1380) was a fourteenth-century Irish Archbishop of Armagh, who was noted for his fierce defence of the privileges of his archdiocese. He was treasurer of the Diocese of Ossory by 1360, and in that year he was elected Bishop of Ossory by the Cathedral Chapter. His election was cancelled by Pope Innocent VI in favour of John de Tatenhale, who had already been promised the see. However in the following year as a "consolation prize" Innocent appointed him to the vacant office of Archbishop of Armagh. Sweetman revived the old controversy as to whether the Archbishop of Armagh had primacy over the Archbishop of Dublin, a claim which successive Archbishops of Dublin had always denied. He and Thomas Minot, Archbishop of Dublin from 1363 to 1375, maintained the dispute with such vehemence that King Edward III intervened personally in 1365, urging the two men to live in friendship and proposing that they settle the matter as a similar controversy between the Archb ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rebecca Sweetman
Rebecca Jane Sweetman is an Irish classical scholar. She is Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology and Head of the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews. Sweetman is known in particular for her work on the archaeology of Roman and Late Antique Greece. From September 2022, she will take up an appointment as Director of the British School at Athens. Career Sweetman studied Archaeology and Classics at University College Dublin. She spent a year working on excavations and then completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham on the Roman and Early Christian Mosaics of Crete. She was the assistant director of the British School at Athens from 2000 to 2003 and then moved to the University of St Andrews as a lecturer in Ancient History and Archaeology in 2003. She has been Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology since 1 August 2016. She gave her inaugural lecture as professor on 25 September 2019 with a talk entitled 'Resilience in the Wine Dark Sea: the arc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Joseph Sweetman Ames
Joseph Sweetman Ames (July 3, 1864 – June 24, 1943) was a physicist, professor at Johns Hopkins University, provost of the university from 1926 to 1929, and university president from 1929 to 1935. He is best remembered as one of the founding members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, the predecessor of NASA) and its longtime chairman (1919–1939). NASA Ames Research Center is named after him. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1911. He was the 1935 recipient of the Langley Gold Medal from the Smithsonian Institution. Ames was also an assistant editor of ''The Astrophysical Journal'' and associate editor of the '' American Journal of Science''; editor-in-chief of the ''Scientific Memoir Series''; and editor of Joseph von Fraunhofer's memoirs on ''Prismatic and Diffractive Spectra'' (1898).Henry Crew (1944Biographical Memoir of Joseph Sweetman Amesfrom National Academy of Sciences Career Joseph Sweetman Ames was bor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |