Wishart
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- Arthur WishartArthur WishartArthur Allison Wishart, CM was a politician and cabinet minister in Ontario, Canada.Born in New Brunswick, Wishart got his law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1930, and then practised in Windsor and Blind River. He served as mayor of Blind River before moving to Sault Ste. Marie in 1939...
, Canadian politician - Bridget WishartBridget WishartBridget Wishart is a vocalist and performance artist who performed with Hawkwind from 1989 to 1991, appearing on the albums Space Bandits, Palace Springs, California Brainstorm and Take Me to Your Future and, among others, the Nottingham 1990 video.She obtained BA in Fine Art from Newport Art...
, English performance artist - Craig WishartCraig WishartCraig Brian Wishart is a former Zimbabwean cricketer who retired in 2005 .During his career he played for several Mashonaland districts as well as the Zimbabwean national team. He made his Test debut in 1995 in Harare...
, Zimbabwean cricketer - David WishartDavid Wishart-Life and work:Wishart was born in Arbroath, Scotland. He studied Greek and Latin classics at Edinburgh University and after graduation taught for four years in a secondary school. He then retrained as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language and worked abroad for eleven years, in Kuwait, Greece...
, Scottish author - George WishartGeorge WishartGeorge Wishart was a Scottish religious reformer and Protestant martyr.He belonged to a younger branch of the Wisharts of Pitarrow near Montrose. He may have graduated M.A., probably at King's College, Aberdeen, and was certainly a student at the University of Leuven, from which he graduated in 1531...
, Scottish Protestant of the sixteenth century - Ian WishartIan WishartIan Wishart is a New Zealand journalist, author, an opponent to the hypothesis of anthropogenic climate change, and the editor of Investigate magazine...
, New Zealand journalist, non-fiction books author - James Wishart, English composer
- John Wishart (bishop)John Wishart (bishop)John Wishart was a 14th century bishop of Glasgow. He was archdeacon of Glasgow from 1321 or earlier. After the death of Bishop John de Lindesay in 1335, John was elected to succeed him at Glasgow, and was consecrated in February 1337 at the orders of Pope Benedict XII at Avignon by Annibald de...
, Scottish bishop of the fourteenth century - John Wishart (statistician)John Wishart (statistician)John Wishart was a Scottish mathematician and agricultural statistician.He worked successively at University College London with Karl Pearson, at Rothamsted Experimental Station with Ronald Fisher, and then as a reader in statistics in the University of Cambridge where he became the first...
- Kenneth WishartKenneth WishartKenneth Leslie Wishart was a West Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1934-35....
, Guyanese cricketer - Peter Wishart (composer)Peter Wishart (composer)Peter Charles Arthur Wishart was an English composer. Wishart was born in Crowborough. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris from 1947-1948 and taught at the Guildhall School of Music, Birmingham University, King's College London and Reading University where he was Professor of Music from 1977...
, English composer - Pete Wishart, Scottish politician
- Robert WishartRobert WishartRobert Wishart was Bishop of Glasgow during the Wars of Scottish Independence and a leading supporter of Robert Bruce. For Wishart and many of his fellow churchmen the freedom of Scotland and the freedom of the Scottish church were one and the same thing...
(d. 1316), Scottish bishop - Rod WishartRod WishartRod Wishart is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australia international representative goal-kicking winger, he played club football with the Illawarra Steelers and the St...
, Australian rugby league player - Trevor WishartTrevor WishartTrevor Wishart is an English composer, based in York. Wishart has contributed to composing with digital audio media, both fixed and interactive...
, English composer - Ty WishartTy WishartTy Wishart is an Canadian professional ice hockey player currently playing in the New York Islanders organization.-Playing career:...
, Canadian ice hockey player - William WishartWilliam WishartWilliam Wishart was a 13th century Bishop of St. Andrews. He was postulated to the see of St. Andrews while holding the position as Bishop-elect of Glasgow, which he resigned when, on 2 June 1271, he was elected to that vacant see. He was succeeded at Glasgow by his cousin , Robert Wishart...
(d. 1279), Scottish bishop
See also
Places- Wishart, QueenslandWishart, QueenslandWishart is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is 14 km south-east of the CBD.The Brisbane Adventist College, Mansfield State High School and Primary Schools are located near to Wishart. Bulimba Creek flows through the suburb....
suburb of Brisbane, Australia - Wishart, Victoria, Australia
Other
- Wishart distribution
- Lawrence and WishartLawrence and WishartLawrence & Wishart is a British publishing company formerly associated with the Communist Party of Great Britain. It was formed in 1936, through the merger of Martin Lawrence, the Communist Party's press and Wishart Ltd, a family-owned liberal and anti-fascist publisher.It publishes the journals...
(successors to Wishart Ltd), publishers - HMS Wishart, a W classV and W class destroyerThe V and W class was an amalgam of six similar classes of destroyer built for the Royal Navy under the War Emergency Programme of the First World War and generally treated as one class...
destroyerDestroyerIn naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...