Yardley
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Sportspeople
- Bruce YardleyBruce YardleyBruce Yardley is a former Australian cricketer who played in 33 Tests and 7 ODIs from 1978 to 1983...
, a former Australian cricketer - George YardleyGeorge YardleyGeorge Harry Yardley III , best known as simply George Yardley, was an NBA Hall of Fame basketball player. He was the first player in history to score 2,000 points in one season, breaking the 1,932-point record held by fellow Hall of Famer George Mikan...
, a former NBA player - George Yardley (footballer)George Yardley (footballer)George MacArthur Yardley is a Scottish former footballer. Yardley began his career as a goalkeeper before becoming a centre forward.-Early football:...
, Scottish footballer - Jim Yardley (cricketer)Jim Yardley (cricketer)Thomas James Yardley was an English cricketer: a left-handed batsman, occasional wicket-keeper and even more occasional right-arm medium pace bowler who played for Worcestershire and Northamptonshire between 1967 and 1982.-Career:Yardley played football for his local team Chaddesley Corbett and...
, English cricketer - Norman YardleyNorman YardleyNorman Walter Dransfield Yardley was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England, as a right-handed batsman and occasional bowler. An amateur, he captained Yorkshire from 1948 to 1955 and England on fourteen occasions between 1947 and 1950,...
, an English cricketer - William Yardley (cricketer)William Yardley (cricketer)William Yardley was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent from 1868 to 1878 and for Cambridge University from 1869 to 1872. In the early 1870s, only WG Grace was reckoned his superior amongst amateur batsmen...
, English cricketer
Other people
- Charles Yardley TurnerCharles Yardley TurnerCharles Yardley Turner was an American artist and muralist.Born in Baltimore, Turner studied art in Europe under French masters Jean-Paul Laurens, Mihály Munkácsy and Léon Bonnat...
- Doyle YardleyDoyle YardleyColonel Doyle R. Yardley was the commanding officer of the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion, who was captured and later escaped from a German Prisoner of War camp.-Career:...
- Herbert YardleyHerbert YardleyHerbert Osborne Yardley was an American cryptologist best known for his book The American Black Chamber . The title of the book refers to the Cipher Bureau, the cryptographic organization of which Yardley was the founder and head...
, an early American cryptographer - Jane YardleyJane YardleyJane Yardley is an English author, raised in a village in 1960s Essex, . She went to university in London and gained a Ph.D. degree from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School...
- Jim YardleyJim YardleyJames Barrett Yardley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist currently working in New Delhi.Yardley is a graduate of Walter Hines Page High School in Greensboro, North Carolina and received a B.A. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, class of '86...
- Jimmy YardleyJimmy YardleyJames "Jimmy" Yardley was a Scottish professional footballer, best known as a player for Luton Town.-Playing career:Yardley signed for Luton Town from Clapton Orient during the 1926–27 season, but failed to score before the season ended. During 1927–28, his first full season with the club, Yardley...
- Jonathan YardleyJonathan YardleyJonathan Yardley is a book critic at The Washington Post, and at one time of the Washington Star. In 1981 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.-Background and education:...
- Mark YardleyMark YardleyMark Yardley is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker.He is perhaps best known for his time with St Mirren where he scored 71 goals in 263 appearances...
- Robert Morris YardleyRobert Morris YardleyRobert Morris Yardley was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....
- Tracy YardleyTracy YardleyTracy Yardley is an American comic book artist best known for his work with the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series, published by Archie Comics. He currently is still working on the same series since 2005 and was occasionly working in Archie Comics' now-ended side-series Sonic X...
- Vanessa YardleyVanessa YardleyVanessa Yardley is an Australian scriptwriter. Her credits include Foreign Exchange, Streetsmartz and The Sleepover Club-External links:* http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1568353/...
- William YardleyWilliam YardleyWilliam Yardley was an early settler of Bucks County, Pennsylvania and is the namesake of the borough of Yardley, Pennsylvania. As a persecuted Quaker minister, Yardley and his wife, Jane moved from Ransclough, England near Leeke in the County of Stafford to Bucks County when Yardley was 50...
- Yardley ChittickYardley ChittickCharles Yardley Chittick was for several years the oldest living patent attorney in the United States. Yardley was also the oldest living member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity...
Places
- Yardley, a province of the former West Indies FederationWest Indies FederationThe West Indies Federation, also known as the Federation of the West Indies, was a short-lived Caribbean federation that existed from January 3, 1958, to May 31, 1962. It consisted of several Caribbean colonies of the United Kingdom...
- Yardley, BirminghamYardley, BirminghamYardley is an area in east Birmingham, England. It is also a council constituency, managed by its own district committee.Birmingham Yardley is a constituency and its Member of Parliament is John Hemming.-Features:...
, an area of Birmingham city - Birmingham Yardley (UK Parliament constituency), a constituency represented in the British House of Commons
- South YardleySouth YardleySouth Yardley is one of the 40 electoral wards in Birmingham, England. The name of the ward was changed from Acocks Green Ward and with the name change, the boundary changed with Acocks Green village and Acocks Green railway station being lost and the boundary being extended north to Bordesley...
- Stechford and Yardley NorthStechford and Yardley NorthStechford and Yardley North is one of the 40 electoral wards in Birmingham, England.Stechford and Yardley North is one of the four wards that make up the council constituency of Yardley...
- Yardley ChaseYardley ChaseYardley Chase is a fairly large forest in Northamptonshire , which consists of two similar shaped forests, which are each about long, and wide, in places...
- Yardley CourtYardley CourtYardley Court is a preparatory school in Tonbridge, Kent, England, for boys aged seven to thirteen. The school motto is Comites in comitate, "Courtiers in courtesy"....
- Yardley GobionYardley GobionYardley Gobion is a village in the south of the English county of Northamptonshire off a by-pass of the A508 Northampton to Milton Keynes road.-Facilities:The Grand Union Canal runs nearby east of the village....
, Northamptonshire - Yardley HastingsYardley HastingsYardley Hastings is a village in the English county of Northamptonshire. It is located south-east of the county town of Northampton and is skirted on its south side by the main A428 road to Bedford.-History:...
, Northamptonshire - Yardley WoodYardley WoodYardley Wood is an area of Birmingham, United Kingdom, and is located within the parliamentary constituency of Hall Green. The area is served by Yardley Wood railway station, and offers amenities including multiple schools, as well as a depot run by National Express West Midlands.Nearby...
- Yardley, PennsylvaniaYardley, PennsylvaniaYardley is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The small community of Yardley is bordered by the Delaware River and Ewing, New Jersey on the east, and by Lower Makefield Township on the north, west, and south...
, United States - Yardley-Wilburtha BridgeYardley-Wilburtha BridgeThe Yardley–Wilburtha Bridge was a bridge spanning the Delaware River that was destroyed in 1961.-History:The first structure located at the site of the now demolished Yardley–Wilburtha Bridge was built in 1835 by the Yardleyville-Delaware Bridge Company...