Chadwick
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Chadwick is an English
surname of Anglo-Saxon/Norse
origin, it is a combination of the modernised Old English given name Ceadda, and the anglicised
Old Norse word vík
which was introduced into England by Scandinavian
settlers.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
surname of Anglo-Saxon/Norse
Old Norse
Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
origin, it is a combination of the modernised Old English given name Ceadda, and the anglicised
Anglicisation
Anglicisation, or anglicization , is the process of converting verbal or written elements of any other language into a form that is more comprehensible to an English speaker, or, more generally, of altering something such that it becomes English in form or character.The term most often refers to...
Old Norse word vík
Vik (disambiguation)
Vik means wick or bay in Norwegian and Swedish , and it may refer to the following:-Places:Norway*Vik, a village and municipality in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway*Vik, Buskerud, a village in Hole municipality, Buskerud, Norway...
which was introduced into England by Scandinavian
Norsemen
Norsemen is used to refer to the group of people as a whole who spoke what is now called the Old Norse language belonging to the North Germanic branch of Indo-European languages, especially Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish and Danish in their earlier forms.The meaning of Norseman was "people...
settlers.
- Chadwick, IllinoisChadwick, IllinoisChadwick is a village in Carroll County, Illinois, United States. The population was 551 at the 2010 census, up from 505 at the 2000 census.- Geography :Chadwick is located at ....
- Chadwick, Western AustraliaChadwick, Western AustraliaChadwick is a northern suburb of Esperance, a town in south-eastern Western Australia. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Esperance.Chadwick was gazetted in 1971, and at the 2006 census, Chadwick had a population of 165....
- Chadwick EndChadwick EndChadwick End is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the English West Midlands area. Chadwick means 'farm near a spring'. Part of Chadwick End falls into the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull and part into Warwickshire....
, West MidlandsWest Midlands (county)The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The... - The Chadwick, a building listed on the NRHP in Indianapolis, IndianaNational Register of Historic Places listings in Center Township, Marion County, IndianaThis is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Center Township, Marion County, Indiana.This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Center Township, Marion County, Indiana, United States...
- Chadwick SchoolChadwick SchoolChadwick School is a nonsectarian independent K-12 day school located on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County, California.-History:...
, a private K-12 school in Southern California - Chadwick (crater)Chadwick (crater)Chadwick is a lunar crater that lies on the far side of the Moon's surface, just beyond the southwestern limb. It is located to the northwest of the crater De Roy, and was previously designated De Roy X before being given its current name by the IAU...
, a lunar crater - KatwijkKatwijkKatwijk is a coastal municipality and town in the province of South Holland in the western Netherlands. It has a population of 61,292.-Location:...
, Dutch equivalent of Chadwick
People
- Andrés ChadwickAndrés ChadwickAndrés Pío Bernardino Chadwick Piñera is a Chilean right-winged politician and lawyer, member of the Independent Democrat Union party. Chadwick was elected deputy for the District #33 in 1989, and was re-elected in 1993...
, Chilean politician - Alan ChadwickAlan ChadwickAlan Chadwick , English master gardener, was a leading innovator of organic farming techniques and influential educator in the field of biodynamic/French intensive gardening. He was a student of Rudolf Steiner, and is often cited as inspirational to the development of the "California Cuisine"...
, English organic farming innovator - Arthur ChadwickArthur ChadwickArthur Chadwick was a professional footballer whose playing career included spells at Portsmouth and Southampton, before going on to be manager at Exeter City, Reading and Southampton...
, former English footballer - Cassie ChadwickCassie ChadwickCassie L. Chadwick is the infamous name used by a Canadian woman who defrauded several U.S. banks out of millions of dollars by claiming to be an illegitimate daughter and heiress of Andrew Carnegie.-Early life:...
- David Chadwick (footballer)David Chadwick (footballer)David Edwin Chadwick is an English retired professional footballer/soccer player, who played as a wing-forward, before a career coaching in the United States. He was born in Ootacamund, India.-Playing career:...
- Edgar ChadwickEdgar ChadwickEdgar Wallace Chadwick was a left-sided footballer who had a long and distinguished career with Everton during the 1890s...
, former footballer - Edwin ChadwickEdwin ChadwickSir Edwin Chadwick KCB was an English social reformer, noted for his work to reform the Poor Laws and improve sanitary conditions and public health...
, an English social reformer - Frank ChadwickFrank ChadwickFrank Chadwick is a multiple-award–winning game designer and New York Times Best Selling author.-Beginnings:Frank Chadwick, along with Rich Banner and Marc Miller, were members of the Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal Games Club. They used their club funding to design war games...
, acclaimed American game designer and and New York Times Best Selling author - French Ensor ChadwickFrench Ensor ChadwickRear Admiral French Ensor Chadwick USN was a United States Navy officer who became prominent in the naval reform movement of the post-Civil War era...
, United States Navy officer who contributed much to naval education. - George Whitefield ChadwickGeorge Whitefield ChadwickGeorge Whitefield Chadwick was an American composer. Along with Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was a representative composer of what can be called the New England School of American composers of the late 19th century—the generation before Charles Ives...
, American Romantic composer - Hector Munro ChadwickHector Munro ChadwickHector Munro Chadwick was an English philologist and historian, professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge . He helped develop an integral approach to Old English studies. With his wife, Nora Kershaw Chadwick, he compiled a multi-volume survey of oral traditions and oral poetry,...
, prominent English philologist and historian and a professor at the University of Cambridge. - Henry Chadwick, prominent baseball figure, often called "the father of baseball"
- Henry Chadwick (theologian)Henry Chadwick (theologian)Henry Chadwick KBE was a British academic and Church of England clergyman. A former Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford — and as such also head of Christ Church, Oxford — he also served as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, becoming the first person in four centuries to have headed a college at...
, renowned English theologian and Regius Professor at both the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. - James ChadwickJames ChadwickSir James Chadwick CH FRS was an English Nobel laureate in physics awarded for his discovery of the neutron....
, English physicist and recipient of the 1935 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of the neutron. - James Read ChadwickJames Read ChadwickJames Read Chadwick was an American gynecologist and medical librarian remembered for describing the Chadwick sign of early pregnancy in 1887.- Biography :...
, prominent American gynecologist and medical librarian. - John ChadwickJohn ChadwickJohn Chadwick was an English linguist and classical scholar most famous for his role in deciphering Linear B, along with Michael Ventris.-Early life and education:...
, co-author of the decipherment of the Linear B Greek script - John White ChadwickJohn White ChadwickJohn White Chadwick was an American clergyman of the Unitarian Church. He was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1864 from Harvard Divinity School. A shoemaker early in life, he became one of the leading preachers of his denomination, and became pastor of Second Unitarian Church ....
- June ChadwickJune ChadwickJune Chadwick is an English actress. Her most well-known TV roles are as Lydia in the science fiction TV series V: The Series, and as Lt. Joanna Parisi on the third season of the series Riptide....
- Justin ChadwickJustin ChadwickJustin Chadwick is an English actor and television and film director.Chadwick began acting at the age of eleven. He graduated from the University of Leicester and in 1991 made his screen debut in London Kills Me...
- Lee ChadwickLee ChadwickLee Chadwick is an is an English mixed martial artist. He trains with HAMMA Mixed Martial Arts Academy based in St. Helens, England.He formally trained at Team Kaobon...
, early American automotive designer and builder, building well respected superchargedSuperchargerA supercharger is an air compressor used for forced induction of an internal combustion engine.The greater mass flow-rate provides more oxygen to support combustion than would be available in a naturally aspirated engine, which allows more fuel to be burned and more work to be done per cycle,...
cars during the early 20th century. - Les ChadwickLes ChadwickLes Chadwick is an English bassist.His bass guitar work can be heard on all of the recordings made by the 1960s pop group, Gerry & The Pacemakers....
- Luke ChadwickLuke ChadwickLuke Harry Chadwick is an English footballer, currently playing for MK Dons. His favoured position is on the right side of midfield, but he can also operate on the left flank or behind the front two.-Manchester United:...
- Lynn ChadwickLynn ChadwickLynn Russell Chadwick CBE was an English artist and sculptor trained as an architectural draughtsman,but began producing metal mobile sculpture during the 1940s. Chadwick was born in London and went to Merchant Taylor's School.Chadwick was commissioned to produce 3 works for the 1951 Festival of...
, English artist and sculptor - Nick ChadwickNick ChadwickNicholas Gerald "Nick" Chadwick is an English footballer who plays for Football League Two club Plymouth Argyle as a striker, on loan from Conference National side Stockport County, having previously played for Everton, Derby County, Millwall, Plymouth Argyle, Hereford United, Shrewsbury Town,...
, Plymouth Argyle F.C.Plymouth Argyle F.C.Plymouth Argyle Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Plymouth, Devon, that plays in Football League Two.Since becoming professional in 1903, the club has won five Football League titles, five Southern League titles and one Western League title. The 2009–10 season was the...
footballer - Nora Kershaw ChadwickNora Kershaw ChadwickNora Kershaw Chadwick , CBE, was a noted medievalist.-Background:Chadwick was born in Lancashire in 1891. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and lectured at St Andrews during World War I. She returned to Cambridge in 1919 to study Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse under...
- Owen ChadwickOwen ChadwickWilliam Owen Chadwick, OM, KBE, FBA, FRSE is a British professor, writer and prominent historian of Christianity. He was also a rugby union player.-Early life and education:Chadwick was born in Bromley in 1916...
- Paul ChadwickPaul ChadwickPaul Chadwick is an American comic book creator best known for his series Concrete about a normal man trapped in a rock-hard body....
, comic-book creator - Paul Chadwick (author)Paul Chadwick (author)Paul Chadwick was a pulp magazine author who wrote many stories under his own name and various pseudonyms. As was the case with many prolific contributors to the pulps, he wrote in a number of different genres including detective stories, science fiction and westerns...
, pulp magazine author - Roy ChadwickRoy ChadwickRoy Chadwick, CBE, FRAeS was an aircraft designer for Avro. Born at Marsh Hall Farm, Farnworth in Widnes, son of the mechanical engineer Charles Chadwick, he was the Chief Designer for the Avro Company and was responsible for practically all of their aeroplane designs...
- Stephanie ChadwickStephanie ChadwickStephanie "Steve" Anne Chadwick is a New Zealand Labour Party politician. She held the positions of Minister of Conservation, Women's Affairs, and Associate Health in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand....
- Stephen F. ChadwickStephen F. ChadwickStephen Fowler Chadwick was an American Democratic politician who served as the fifth Governor of Oregon from 1877 to 1878. Governor Chadwick was the first person to obtain the governorship by way of the state's Line of Succession.- Occupational background :Chadwick was a lawyer, admitted to the...
- E. Wallace ChadwickE. Wallace ChadwickE. Wallace Chadwick was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.E. Wallace Chadwick was born in Vincennes, Indiana, and moved with his parents to Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1890. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1906, and from the law school of...
- Chadwick Newman