|
Whitty
Whitty is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Alice Whitty (born 1934), Canadian high jumper * Allen Whitty (1867–1949), English sport shooter * Bill Whitty (1886–1974), Australian Test cricketer * Chris Whitty (born 1966), British physician and epidemiologist * Dennis Whitty (1941–1963), English convicted murderer * Edward Michael Whitty (1827–1860), English journalist * Ernest Whitty (1907–1985), English footballer * Frank Whitty (1905–2001), Australian rules footballer * Geoff Whitty (born 1946), British professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia * George Whitty American musician, composer, producer, and engineer * Jeff Whitty (born 1971), American playwright * Jim Whitty (born 1931), American politician from Oregon * Joseph Whitty (1904-1923), Irish Republican, died on hunger strike * Larry Whitty, Baron Whitty (born 1943), British Labour Party politician * Lucinda Whitty (born 1989), Australian sailor * May Whitty (1865–1948), En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Whitty
Sir Christopher John MacRae Whitty (born 21 April 1966) is a British epidemiologist serving as Chief Medical Officer for England (CMO) and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government since 2019. He has also been Gresham Professor of Physic since 2018. Whitty served as Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) to the Department of Health and Social Care and Head of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) from 2016 to 2021. He was also the Acting Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2017 to 2018. Since March 2020, Whitty has played a key role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, alongside Government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance. Whitty was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to public health. Early life Whitty was born in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, on 21 April 1966, the first of four sons born to Kenneth and Susannah Whitty. His father was a British Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Whitty
Dennis John Whitty (1941 – 17 December 1963) was, along with his accomplice Russell Pascoe, the third-to-last prisoner to be executed by hanging in a British prison. Whitty had been convicted for his part in the murder of 64-year-old Cornish farmer William Garfield Rowe on 14 August 1963. Murder of William Rowe Background During 1963, Whitty and 23-year-old Pascoe were living with three young women in a caravan at Kenwyn Caravan Park, on the outskirts of Truro, Cornwall. Whitty was working as a labourer at Truro Gas Works. Pascoe had previously worked as a labourer at Nanjarrow Farm, at Ponjeravah, Constantine, near Falmouth, and knew the farmer, William Rowe. Rowe was somewhat reclusive, living in the untidy sitting room of his farmhouse, the four bedrooms unoccupied after his mother and brother had died. Local rumour held that Rowe had a large sum of money concealed on the premises, and he had been the victim of a burglary in 1960, during which £200 and some other items had b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Whitty
William James Whitty (15 August 1886 – 30 January 1974) was an Australian cricketer who played 14 Test matches between 1909 and 1912. Early career Born in Sydney, Whitty had only played junior cricket before he was noticed by Test batsman Victor Trumper, who recommended him for coaching and gave him the opportunity to bowl to the New South Wales state team. In 1907, at the age of 21, Whitty made his first-class debut for New South Wales against Queensland at the Sydney Cricket Ground, taking 3 wickets. This was the only first-class match Whitty played for his home state, as he was recruited to Adelaide by Clem Hill to play for South Australia in 1908. Whitty played 5 first-class games in the 1908–09 Australian season, including one match for a "Rest of Australia" team against the Australian XI, where he took 3 wickets. Over the entire season, Whitty took 11 wickets with an average of 49.00, which was enough to earn him selection into the Australian team to tour England in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Whitty
Jeffrey Daniel Whitty (born September 30, 1971) is an American playwright, actor, and screenwriter. For the stage musical ''Avenue Q'', he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. For his work on the Fox Searchlight film '' Can You Ever Forgive Me?'' (2018), he was nominated for the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and won numerous awards including the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay, AARP's Movies for Grownups, the Satellite Awards, and the Film Independent Spirit Awards. ''Avenue Q'' was his first produced musical and ''Can You Ever Forgive Me'' his first produced screenplay. Early life and education Jeffrey Whitty was born September 30, 1971 in Coos Bay, Oregon where he was raised as the fifth of six children. After graduating from the University of Oregon in 1993, he moved to New York City and received a master's degree from New York University's Graduate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother Vincent Whitty
Mother Mary Vincent Whitty, R.S.M., (3 March 1819 – 9 March 1892) was an Irish religious sister known for her work in the colony of Queensland. She was a leading figure in the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy, both in Ireland and in its expansion into the Australian colonies. Early life She was born Ellen Whitty at Pouldarrig, near Oylegate, a village seven miles from the town of Wexford in Ireland. She was the fourth of the six children of William and Johanna Whitty (née Murphy). One of Whitty's two sisters also became a Sister of Mercy, known as Sister Mary Agnes. The other sister married the brother of a famous convert and publicist, Frederick Lucas. Father Robert Whitty, S.J., leader of the Jesuits in Great Britain, was her brother. Religious life in Ireland At the age of 19 Whitty joined Catherine McAuley, the founder of the Sisters of Mercy, at the convent in Baggot Street, Dublin, in 1839. Serving as Whitty's spiritual guide through her novitiate, Catherin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophia St John Whitty
Sophia St John Whitty (4 November 1877 – 26 February 1924) was an Irish woodcarver, teacher, and cooperativist. Whitty was part of the Irish Celtic cultural revival and the Irish Art and Crafts movement. Early life and education Sophia St John Whitty was born at 69 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin on 4 November 1877. Her parents were Richard Lawrence Whitty and Jane Alicia, the daughter of Hugh Palliser Hickman of Fenloe house, Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare. Richard Lawrence Whitty was an active freemason, who served as an assistant secretary of the Dublin Masonic orphan schools from 1876 to 1882, and worshipful master of the grand master's lodge in 1882. The stained-glass artist Catherine Amelia O’Brien was her first cousin. The Whittys lived at Hillcot, Whitechurch, County Dublin near the Dublin mountains in the 1880s, and Whitty would spend her holidays at Fenloe House with the Hickman family. Whitty attended the South Kensington School of Art to study wood carving, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Whitty
Michael Joseph Whitty (1904 – 2 August 1923) was the youngest (19 years of age) of the 22 Irish republicans who died while on hunger strike in the 20th century. He fought with the IRA in the Irish War of Independence, on the Anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and died while interned by the Irish Free State government. Background, IRA membership, arrest and internment Whitty was born in 1904 in Newbawn, Wexford, Ireland. He was a Volunteer (Irish republican) in the Irish Republican Army (IRA), who served in the South Wexford Brigade of the IRA during the Irish War of Independence (1919 to 1921) and after the signing of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty he joined the anti treaty side in the Irish Civil War. In late October 1922 Whitty was arrested (he was never charged or convicted of any crime) in a round up of dissidents and was interned by Irish Free State troops initially at Wexford Prison and from there was transferred to the Curragh Camp. It has been asserted that Whitty w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Whitty, Baron Whitty
John Lawrence Whitty, Baron Whitty, (born 15 June 1943), known as Larry Whitty, is a British Labour Party politician. Early life Born in 1943, Whitty was educated at Latymer Upper School and graduated from St John's College, Cambridge, with a BA (Hons) degree in Economics. He worked for Hawker Siddeley Aviation from 1960 to 1962 and at the Ministry of Aviation Technology from 1965 to 1970. Career Trade unions He was employed by the Trades Union Congress from 1970 to 1973 and the General Municipal Boilermakers and Allied Trade Union from 1973 to 1985. The Labour Party In 1985, Whitty became the General Secretary of the Labour Party, a post he held until 1994. He was part of the reforming leadership of Neil Kinnock and in the role progressed a wide-ranging agenda including the modification of internal rules, a shift towards a national membership scheme, the expulsion of entryist Militant group members and, following the 1987 election defeat, the internal Policy Review. Whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Michael Whitty
Edward Michael Whitty (1827–1860) was an English journalist, known for biting parliamentary reporting, and credited for popularising the concept of the "governing classes". Life The son of Michael James Whitty, was born in London, and was educated at the Liverpool Institute and in Hanover. About 1844 he became a reporter on the provincial press, and from 1846 to 1849 he was the writer of the parliamentary summary of ''The Times''. He was also the London correspondent of the ''Liverpool Journal''. For several years Whitty served with George Henry Lewes and E. F. S. Pigott on the staff of '' The Leader'', where his sarcastic style came out in parliamentary sketches. These columns built up with essays, published from 14 August 1852), to the innovative description of the debates by "The Stranger in Parliament" appearing from 13 November that year. In time, however, Whitty quarrelled with his colleagues on ''The Leader''. Whitty was appointed editor of the '' Northern Whig'' early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucinda Whitty
Lucinda Whitty (born 9 November 1989) is an Australian sailor. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in sailing. Personal Nicknamed Lu, Whitty was born on 9 November 1989 in Sydney. Jeremy Whitty is her father and has competed in several sailing races. She has siblings and they are active in competitive sailing. She attended Lane Cove Public School before going to high school at SCEGGS Darlinghurst. She enrolled at the University of Technology, Sydney in 2008 and is enrolled as of 2012. She is working on a Bachelor of Business. , she lives in Sydney. Whitty is tall and weighs . Sailing Whitty is a sailor, acting as a bowman. As a five-year-old, she started participating in the sport. The boat she competes in is Only Racing and is operated by teammate Olivia Price. Her primary training base is Sydney, with a secondary training base in Weymouth. She is a member of the Middle Harbour Yacht Club. She has a sailing scholarship from the Australian Institute o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Whitty
Geoffrey James Whitty CBE (31 December 1946 – 27 July 2018) was a British economist and professor for equity in education at the University of Newcastle, Australia and who was also a director of the Institute of Education, University of London. Born in 1946, Whitty was educated at Latymer Upper School and graduated from St John's College, Cambridge. After postgraduate study at the Institute of Education, he became a lecturer in education (sociology and social studies) at the University of Bath in 1973. In 1981, he became a lecturer in urban education at King's College London before becoming Head, Professor and Dean of Education at Bristol Polytechnic (now the University of the West of England) in 1985. In 1990, Whitty became Professor of Policy and Management in Education, Goldsmiths College. In 1992, he became Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education, Institute of Education. In 2000, he became director of the Institute of Education and finished his term at the en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Whitty
Robert Whitty (7 January 1817 – 1 September 1895) was an Ireland, Irish Jesuit priest. Biography Born at Pouldarrig, near Oylegate, Whitty entered Maynooth College in his fourteenth year. Having added two years on the Dumboyne Establishment to his college course, he was still too young for ordination. He offered his services to Thomas Griffiths (bishop), Thomas Griffiths, the Vicar Apostolic of the London District, who ordained him priest at St. Edmund's, Ware, 19 September 1840. From the first he showed a warm sympathy with the Oxford religious conversion, converts and formed a friendship with John Henry Newman and Frederick Oakeley before they had become Catholics. Nicholas Patrick Wiseman showed his appreciation of his priestly zeal by making him provost of the newly appointed metropolitan chapter and his vicar-general in 1850. In this capacity he was responsible for the publication of the pastoral "From the Flaminian Gate". Whitty recounted some English readers taking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Chris Whitty")
