Thwaites, Thwaits, or Thwaytes may refer to:
Companies
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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 ...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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 ...
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Daniel Thwaites (1817–1888), English brewer and Liberal Party politician
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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
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Denis Thwaites (1944–2015), English professional footballer who plays outside left
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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
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Emily Jane Thwaits (1860–1906), South African botanical illustrator
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F. J. Thwaites (1908–1979), Australian novelist
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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
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Guy Thwaites (born 1971), British professor
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John Barrass (Jack) Thwaites (1902–1986), Tasmanian bushwalker and conservationist
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John Anthony Thwaites (1909–1981), British art critic and author
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John Thwaites (Australian politician) (born 1955)
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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)
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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)
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Michael Thwaites (1915–2005), Australian academic, poet, intelligence officer, and activist
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Robert Thwaits (15th century), English academic administrator, also known as Thwayts and Thwaytes
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Reuben Gold Thwaites (1853–1913), American historical writer
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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
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Ronald Thwaites (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
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Steytler Thwaits (1911–1980), South African cricketer
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Thomas Thwaites (disambiguation)
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Thomas Thwaites (civil servant) (c.1435–1503), English civil servant
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Thomas Thwaites (cricketer) (1910-2000), Australian cricketer
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Thomas Thwaites (designer), British designer
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Thomas Thwaites (designer), British designer and writer
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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
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Thwaites, Bradford, a
U.K. location
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Thwaites, Cumbria, England
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Thwaites, Ontario, Canada
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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
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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
See also
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Thwaite (disambiguation)
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