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unusual facts about Wilfred


Wilfried

Wilfred and Wifred (also Wifredo) are closely related to Wilfried with the same roots (Old English wil and frið).


Albert Wilfred Barbelle

Albert Wilfred Barbelle (b. 15 February 1887 Fall River, Massachusetts; d. 3 February 1957 New York City) was an American artist known well for his work in advertising, particularly cover art for sheet music of Tin Pan Alley.

Ali Pasha Sherif

In 1880 Ali Pasha Sherif made the acquaintance of Wilfred and Lady Anne Blunt.

An Ecstasy of Fumbling – The Definitive Anthology

The title of the album is taken from the Wilfred Owen poem, "Dulce et Decorum est."

Captain Beaky and His Band

The title track from the first album, "Captain Beaky", was released as a 7 inch single with "Wilfred the Weasel" and "Blanche" on the B-side by Polydor in 1980; it reached Number 5 in the UK pop charts.

Caravan and the New Symphonia

Martyn Ford (Conductor), Paul Beer, Roger Chase, Robin Davies, Rita Eddowes, Liz Edwards, Wilfred Gibson, Roy Gillard, Tony Harris, Terry Johns, Skaila Kanda, Skaila Kanga, Chris Laurence, Helen Liebmann, Donald McVay, Geoff Perkins, Morris Pert, Martin Robinson, Godfrey Salmon, Jan Schlapp, Richard Studt, Colin Walker, Cathy Weiss, Dave Woodcock, Nick Worters, Gavyn Wright

Claire Windsor, Countess of Ulster

Claire is the elder child of Robert Booth, FCMI, of Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire (born 1948 at Rotherham and a scion of the ancient Cheshire Booth family) by his wife Barbara Patricia (daughter of Wilfred Robert Hitchin).

Condemned To Be Shot

The cast consisted of Reginald Brooke, Zoe Davies, Olga Edwardes, Wilfred Fletcher, Neil Porter, Hilary Pritchard, Henry Belling and Ben Soutten.

David Zuckerman

In 2011, Zuckerman created the American adaptation of the Australian television series of the same name, entitled Wilfred, for the cable network FX, starring Elijah Wood and Jason Gann.

Eden End

The production starred Alexander Gauge (Wilfred Kirby), Edward Irwin (Dr Kirby), Edgar Norfolk (Charles Appleby), Wilfred Seagram (Geoffrey Farrant), Louise Smith (Lillian Kirby), Ruth Vivian (Sarah), and Estelle Winwood (Stella Kirby).

Five Have a Mystery to Solve

The film starred David Palmer (Julian), Amanda Coxell (George), Darryl Read (Dick), Paula Boyd (Anne), Michael Wennink (Wilfred).

Front de libération du Québec

In 1963, Gabriel Hudon and Raymond Villeneuve were sentenced to 12 years in prison after their bomb killed Wilfred O'Neill, a watchman at Montreal's Canadian Army Recruitment Centre.

Glehn

Alfred de Glehn (1848–1936), French railroad engineer; brother of Louise Creighton, uncle of Oswald von Glehn and Wilfred de Glehn

Gustave Le Bon

Trotter's book, Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War forms the basis for the research of both Wilfred Bion and Ernest Jones who established what would be called group psychology.

Henry Austin

Bunny Austin (Henry Wilfred Austin, 1906–2000), English tennis player

J. W. Marcel Gilbert

Joseph Wilfred Marcel Gilbert (March 13, 1917 - September 28, 1942) was a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.

Jenny O.

Tracks off the EP were licensed for advertising campaigns by Subaru, Toyota, Roxy and Target, for the television series True Blood, Wilfred, and Off the Map, and for the video game Rocksmith.

Laurence Baker

Laurie Baker (Laurence Wilfred Baker, 1917–2007), Indian architect

Miro the Elder

In 870 Miro received the county of Conflent either directly from his uncle Solomon I, or by transfer via his brother Wilfred, who inherited the counties of Urgell and Cerdanya.

Conflent, and the interior counties of Gothia that had previously been linked with Rosselló (Vallespir, Capcir, and Fenolleda), passed to Wilfred, and upon his death to Miro the Young.

Porsche Club of America

The NNJR charter members are, Eugene Broberg, J. Howard Bryan, Francis Chambers, G. Harry Cusak, John Entwistle, Charles Fowler, Theodore Garrick, Robert Hammett, Edwin Hewitt, Joseph Hilton, Elroy Hull, Robert Jamison, Edward Jekkal, Arnold Ladd, Fred Linda, Don McDonnell, Edgar McHutchinson, Wesley Mock, Jr., William Olthoff, Alfred Parsons, Charles Pearce, David Preis, Norman Rose, Bengt Soderstrom, Clifford Sweetra, C. L. Thompson, John Tieman, Lake Underwood, Gerald White, and Wilfred Wing.

Randall Einhorn

He also directed many episodes in Season 5, 6 and 7 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and most episodes of the U.S. version of Wilfred.

Saint Benedict's College

The football playing field was to be the breeding ground of a number of national footballers and Warren Archibald, Leroy De Leon, Jan Steadman, Steve David, Dick Furlonge, Wilfred Cave, and Bobby Sookram.

The Two Pound Tram

The main story begins in 1937 when brothers Wilfred and Duncan Scrutton run away from their home at Ferring near Worthing on the Sussex coast and travel to London.

The Witness for the Prosecution

The play was also made into a 1957 film, starring Charles Laughton as Sir Wilfred and Marlene Dietrich as Romaine (whose name is changed to "Christine")

Warley Town

Wilfred Pickles and his wife Mabel were residents of Warley for many years, and Wilfred could occasionally be seen enjoying a pint of Webster's beer in the village pub, The Maypole.

Wheelbarrow Closers

The cast starred Norah Foster (Millie Grant), Ray Serra (John Mogan), Harvey Seigel (Larry Freede), Frances Helm (Beatrice Grant), James Allan Bartz (Chet Grant), Danny Aiello (Chester Grant), and Tom Degidon (Wilfred Dee).

Wil Culmer

Wilfred Hillard Culmer (born November 11, 1957 in Nassau, Bahamas, died November 14, 2003 in Nassau, Bahamas) was a Major League Baseball player for the Cleveland Indians.

Wilf Lunn

Wilfred Makepeace Lunn (b. 1942, Rastrick, West Yorkshire, England) is an English inventor, prop-maker and TV presenter.

Wilfred Bion

Symington, Neville and Joan The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion.

Wilfred Cass

Long-term friends of Henry Moore and Elisabeth Frink, Wilfred and Jeannette sold their own personal collection of Moores, Frinks and Ayrtons, which they had bought directly from these artists, to fund the creation of their park.

In 1979, Wilfred and his son, Mark, set up Image Bank UK - part of The Image Bank and this company was successfully sold to Getty Images in 2001.

Wilfred Green

Shorty Green (Wilfred Thomas Green, 1896–1960), Canadian professional ice hockey player

Wilfred Harvey Schoff

Schoff, Wilfred H., The ship "Tyre"; a symbol of the fate of conquerors as prophesied by Isaiah, Ezekiel and John and fulfilled at Nineveh, Babylon and Rome; a study in the commerce of the Bible, (New York Longmans, Green and co., 1920)

Schoff, Wilfred H., The descendants of Jacob Schoff who came to Boston in 1752 and settled in Ashburnham in 1757 : with an account of the German immigration into colonial New England (Philadelphia : J. McGarrigle, 1910)

Wilfred Hawker

Wilfred Hawker (died 13 March 1982) was a sergeant-major in the Surinamese military who staged two unsuccessful coup d'états in 1982.

Wilfred Mugeyi

Since 2007 after retiring from professional football as a player, Wilfred Mugeyi became an assistant coach at his former club Ajax Cape Town having served as an assistant to Craig Rosslee, Muhsin Ertuğral, Foppe de Haan and finally Maarten Stekelenburg.

On 2 October 2012, Wilfred Mugeyi briefly took over as interim Manager of Ajax Cape Town, following the dismissal of Maarten Stekelenburg, before himself being relieved by Jan Pruijn and finally Jan Versleijen to conclude the 2012/13 PSL season for Ajax CT.

Wilfred Nderitu

Wilfred Ngunjiri Nderitu is a former Chair of the Governing Council of the Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ).

Wilfred Tull

Wilfred Oliver "Coach" Tull (b. 5 October 1916, Brasso, Trinidad and Tobago; d. January 2003, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.) was a Track and Field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago, a representative in the United Nations and a long-time Coach for professional and amateur athletes.

William John Corbet

William Corbet is related to the renowned Guernsey poet and painter Denys Corbet, Jurat Wilfred Corbet, William Corbet (The Melon King) and Canadian sculptor and painter Christian Cardell Corbet.

William K. Everson

Everson was born in Yeovil, Somerset, England, the son of Catherine (née Ward) and Percival Wilfred Everson, an aircraft engineer.

World War I in literature

Critical study of Wilfred Owen's oeuvre and his life: Wilfred Owen: The Man, the Soldier, the Poet (Kolkata: Books Way, 2013) by Pinaki Roy (ISBN 978-93-81672-59-4)

Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927

At the beginning of the 1927 season, Yorkshire secretary Frederick Toone approached Wilfred Rhodes to suggest that he should resign from his position as senior professional.


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