Thwaites, Thwaits, or Thwaytes may refer to:

Companies

Thwaites Brewery Thwaites Brewery is a regional brewery established in 1807 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England by founder Daniel Thwaites. Now located near Mellor, Lancashire, Mellor in the Ribble Valley, part of the company was sold to Marston's in 2015, and th ...

Thwaites & Reed Thwaites & Reed has been in continuous manufacture since its foundation and claims to be the oldest clock manufacturing company in the world. Geoffrey Buggins MBE, the last of the original family clockmakers, saw drawings of Thwaites clocks dati ...

, oldest clockmakers in the world

Surnames

Ann Thwaytes Ann Thwaytes (2 October 1789 – April 1866), known to contemporaries as Mrs Thwaytes, was the wealthy and eccentric English widow of grocer William Thwaytes, owner of Davison, Newman & Co. She became the benefactress to many causes and funded ...

(1789–1866) English philanthropist also known as Mrs Thwaites and Mrs Thwaytes *

Brenton Thwaites Brenton Thwaites (born ) is an Australian actor. Beginning his career in his home country in 2011, he had a starring role on the series '' Slide'' and later appeared on the soap opera ''Home and Away''. Since moving to the United States, Thwait ...

(born 1989), Australian actor *

Bryan Thwaites Sir Bryan Thwaites, FIMA, FRSA (born 6 December 1923) is an English applied mathematician, educationalist and administrator. Early life Bryan Thwaites was born on 6 December 1923, the eldest son of Ernest and Dorothy Thwaites. He was educated ...

(born 1923), English applied mathematician, educationalist and administrator *

Caitlin Thwaites Caitlin Thwaites (born 29 December 1986) is a former Australian netball player and volleyballer. Career Caitlin Thwaites was born in Bendigo, Australia. Thwaites began her career at for the Melbourne Kestrels of the Commonwealth Bank Trophy a ...

(born 1986), Australian netball and volleyball player *Daniel Thwaites, Sr. (1777–1843), founder of

Daniel Thwaites Daniel Thwaites (1817 – 21 September 1888) was an English brewer and a Conservative Party politician from Blackburn in Lancashire. He owned what is now Thwaites Brewery, and sat in the House of Commons from 1875 to 1880. He was the son of D ...

(1817–1888), English brewer and Liberal Party politician *

David Thwaites David Barry Thwaites (born 16 June 1976) is a British actor and producer. In 1989, aged 13, he appeared as Eustace Scrubb in the BBC's adaptation of ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader''. A year later he reprised this role in '' The Silver Chair (1 ...

(born 1976), British actor *

Denis Thwaites Denis Thwaites (14 December 1944 – 26 June 2015) was an English professional footballer who made 86 appearances in the Football League for Birmingham City. He represented England at schoolboy and youth level. He played as an outside left. L ...

(1944–2015), English professional footballer who plays outside left *

Edward Thwaites Edward Thwaites (Thwaytes) (baptised 1661–1711) was an English scholar of the Anglo-Saxon language. According to David C. Douglas he was "one of the most inspiring teachers which Oxford has ever produced". Life Thwaites was the son of William ...

(1667–1711), English scholar of the Anglo-Saxon language * Emily Jane Thwaits (1860–1906), South African botanical illustrator * F. J. Thwaites (1908–1979), Australian novelist *

George Henry Kendrick Thwaites George Henry Kendrick Thwaites (9 July 1812, Bristol – 11 September 1882, Kandy) was an English botanist and entomologist. Career Thwaites was initially an accountant and studied botany during his spare time. He was interested particularly ...

(1812–1882), British botanist and entomologist whose standard author abbreviation is Thwaites * Guy Thwaites (born 1971), British professor * John Barrass (Jack) Thwaites (1902–1986), Tasmanian bushwalker and conservationist *

John Anthony Thwaites John Anthony Thwaites (21 January 1909 – 21 November 1981) was a British art critic and author, who lived and worked in West Germany from 1946. Biography Thwaites studied history at the universities of Lausanne and Cambridge. From 1931 he wa ...

(1909–1981), British art critic and author *

John Thwaites (Australian politician) Johnstone William "John" Thwaites is an Australian former politician, and served as Deputy Premier of the state of Victoria from 1999 to 2007. Early life and education Thwaites was born in Oxford, England, and came to Australia as a child ...

(born 1955) *

John Thwaites (British politician) Sir John Thwaites (24 May 1815 – 8 August 1870) was a British politician who was the first Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works and therefore the first leaders of local government in London. Background Thwaites was a native of Maulds Me ...

(1815–1870) *

Kate Thwaites Kate Lynne Thwaites (born 19 January 1980) is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives since the 2019 Australian feder ...

(born 1980), Australian politician) *

Michael Thwaites Michael Rayner Thwaites, AO (30 May 1915 – 1 November 2005) was an Australian academic, poet, and intelligence officer. Early life and education Thwaites was born in Brisbane, to Yorkshire immigrant Robert Ernest Thwaites who taught at Brisba ...

(1915–2005), Australian academic, poet, intelligence officer, and activist *

Robert Thwaits Robert Thwaits (also Thwayts and Thwaytes) was an English medieval academic administrator. Thwaits was the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University on 1441 and 1453. He was the Chancellor of Oxford University during 1445–6. From 1450 until 1465, h ...

(15th century), English academic administrator, also known as Thwayts and Thwaytes *

Reuben Gold Thwaites Reuben Gold Thwaites ( May 15, 1853 – October 22, 1913) was an American librarian and historical writer. Biography Thwaites was born in 1853 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. His parents were William George and Sarah Bibbs Thwaites, who had m ...

(1853–1913), American historical writer *

Robinson Thwaites Robinson Thwaites (1807 – 22 October 1884) was a nineteenth-century mechanical engineer and mill-owner in Bradford, Yorkshire. His companies included at different times Robinson Thwaites and Co, Thwaites and Carbutt and Thwaites Brothers. Com ...

(1807-1884), English mechanical engineer and mill-owner *

Ronald Thwaites Ronald George Thwaites (born February 12, 1945) is a Jamaican attorney-at-law and politician, representing the People's National Party (PNP). He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Kingston Central, serving from 1989 to 2002, ...

(born 1945), Jamaican minister and politician; see

Constituencies of Jamaica Jamaica's Parishes of Jamaica, fourteen parishes are subdivided into sixty-three constituencies. The country follows the Westminster system and elects sixty-three Members of Parliament (MPs) to the Jamaica House of Representatives. History In 19 ...

Steytler Thwaits Steytler Thwaits (27 November 1911 – 13 October 1980) was a South African cricketer. He played in 41 first-class matches between 1939/40 and 1954/55. See also * List of Eastern Province representative cricketers This is a list of all cr ...

(1911–1980), South African cricketer *

Thomas Thwaites (disambiguation) Thomas Thwaites can refer to: * Thomas Thwaites (civil servant) (c.1435–1503), English civil servant * Thomas Thwaites (cricketer) (1910–2000), Australian cricketer * Thomas Thwaites (designer) Thomas Thwaites is a British designer and writ ...

Thomas Thwaites (civil servant) Sir Thomas Thwaites or Thwaytes (c.1435–1503) was an English civil servant, who was involved in the Perkin Warbeck conspiracy. He served as Edward IV's Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1471 to 1483 and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster betwe ...

(c.1435–1503), English civil servant **

Thomas Thwaites (cricketer) Thomas Thwaites (1 July 1910 – 24 May 2000) was an Australian cricketer. He played in one first-class match for Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern A ...

(1910-2000), Australian cricketer **

Thomas Thwaites (designer) Thomas Thwaites is a British designer and writer. He describes himself as "a designer (of a more speculative sort), interested in technology, science, futures research & etc." Thwaites studied economics and biology at University College London ...

, British designer *

, British designer and writer *

William Thwaites General Sir William Thwaites, (9 June 1868 – 22 June 1947) was a British Army officer who served as commander of the British Army of the Rhine. Early life and education Thwaites was born in Kensington, the son of William Thwaites of Durham V ...

(1868–1947), former Commander of the British Army of the Rhine

Places

* Thwaites, Bradford, a U.K. location *

Thwaites, Cumbria Thwaites is a small village near Duddon Valley and on the edge of the Duddon Estuary in the Lake District National Park in the district of Cumberland (unitary authority), Cumbria, England. The River Duddon flows through the valley, rising in t ...

, England * Thwaites, Ontario, Canada *

Thwaites Glacier Thwaites Glacier is an unusually broad and vast Antarctic glacier located east of Mount Murphy, on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land. It was initially sighted by polar researchers in 1940, mapped in 1959–1966 and officially named in 1967, ...

, Antarctica **

Thwaites Ice Shelf Thwaites Ice Shelf (), is an Antarctic ice shelf in the Amundsen Sea. It was named by ACAN after Fredrik T. Thwaites, a glacial geologist and geomorphologist. The Thwaites Ice Shelf is one of the biggest ice shelves in West Antarctica, thou ...

, Antarctica