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Rayford Whittingham Logan was an African-American historian and Pan-African activist. He was best known for his study of post-Reconstruction America,a period he termed "the nadir of American race relations". In the late 1940s he was the chief advisor to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on international affairs. He was professor emeritus of history at Howard University.
Charles Edward Whittingham was an American Thoroughbred race horse trainer who is one of the most acclaimed trainers in U.S. racing history.
Guy Whittingham is an English football manager and former professional footballer.
Kyle David Whittingham is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at the University of Utah,a position he has held since 2005,and is the all-time leader in wins at Utah. Prior to becoming the head coach at Utah,Whittingham served as Utah's defensive coordinator for ten seasons. He was named head coach of Utah after Urban Meyer left for the University of Florida in 2004. He won AFCA Coach of the Year and the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award in 2008 after leading the 2008 Utah Utes football team to an undefeated season and a win in the 2009 Sugar Bowl over the 2008 Alabama Crimson Tide football team. He and Oklahoma State's Mike Gundy are the second longest tenured FBS coaches,trailing only Kirk Ferentz.
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Sir Michael Stanley Whittingham is a British-American chemist. He is a professor of chemistry and director of both the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials Science and Engineering program at Binghamton University,State University of New York. He also serves as director of the Northeastern Center for Chemical Energy Storage (NECCES) of the U.S. Department of Energy at Binghamton. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside Akira Yoshino and John B. Goodenough.
Whittingham is a civil parish in the City of Preston,Lancashire,England. The parish measures 4 miles (6 km) east-to-west,from the outskirts of Longridge to the outskirts of Broughton,but only 1 mile (1½ km) north-to-south. Its population was 2,189 in 2001,reducing to 2,027 at the time of the 2011 Census. The village of Goosnargh is at its centre.
The Whittingham Hospital Railway (W.H.R.) was a private light railway operated by Lancashire County Council to serve Whittingham lunatic asylum. Opened in 1889,it carried goods and passengers between Grimsargh on the Preston and Longridge Railway and the hospital grounds. It closed to all traffic in 1957.
Whittingham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Fred George "Mad Dog" Whittingham was an American football player and coach. He played as a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Los Angeles Rams,Philadelphia Eagles,New Orleans Saints,and Dallas Cowboys. Whittingham played college football at Brigham Young University (BYU) and California Polytechnic State University. He coached in the NFL and at the college level from 1973 to 2000.
Ken Whittingham is an American television director.
Whittingham Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in the parish of Whittingham,near Preston,Lancashire,England. The hospital opened in 1873 as the Fourth Lancashire County Asylum and grew to be the largest mental hospital in Britain,and pioneered the use of electroencephalograms (EEGs). It closed in 1995.
The Chiswick Press was founded by Charles Whittingham I (1767–1840) in 1811. The management of the Press was taken over in 1840 by the founder's nephew Charles Whittingham II (1795–1876). The name was first used in 1811,and the Press continued to operate until 1962. C. Whittingham I gained notoriety for his popularly priced classics,but the Chiswick Press became very influential in English printing and typography under C. Whittingham II who,most notably,published some of the early designs of William Morris. The Chiswick Press deserves conspicuous credit for the reintroduction of quality printing into the trade in England when in 1844 it produced The Diary of Lady Willoughby.
The 1908–09 season was Blackpool F.C.'s 12th season in the Football League. They competed in the twenty-team Division Two,then the second tier of English football,finishing bottom. The club's application for re-election was successful.
The 1976 New York Giants season was the franchise's 52nd season in the National Football League. The Giants had a 3–11 record in 1976 and finished last in the five-team NFC East.
Whittingham railway station was a railway station on the Main North railway line,serving the locality of Whittingham in the Hunter Region,New South Wales.
Pendley Manor is a hotel,conference and function centre near Tring,Hertfordshire,UK. It is a historic country house and is Grade II listed as an important example of Victorian architecture.
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- ↑ Barrie Whittingham at CricketArchive (subscription required)
