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Derek Peter Francis Wheatley QC (died 23 September 2018) [1] was an English barrister, legal advisor and novelist.. Wheatley was educated at University College, Oxford, going up to Oxford in 1944. [2]
Phillis Wheatley Peters, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was an American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Born in West Africa , she was kidnapped and subsequently sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America ...
Wheatley was born on 17 January 1908 in Shettleston, Glasgow, the third and youngest child of Janet (1877–1951), a pupil teacher and daughter of Peter Murphy, a labourer from Belfast, and Patrick Wheatley (1875–1937), sometime miner and later publisher, who was born in County Waterford.
John Francis Wheatley, Lord Wheatley, PC (born 9 May 1941) [1] is a Scottish lawyer and retired Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary and the Inner House of the Court of Session.
Charles "Buddy" Wheatley is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky.Wheatley served as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives for the 65th District from 2019 to 2023.
Wheatley travelled to Los Angeles in December 1975 and touted the group to various record companies until Rupert Perry of Capitol Records signed them on Christmas Eve. [ 8 ] Under Wheatley's management, the band sold more than 30 million records; six studio albums reached the top 10 on the Australian albums chart and ten singles reached the top ...
Having pledged $850,000 to her law school alma mater, in 2012, Wong increased her pledge to $1.5 million, half of which would fund scholarships, and the other half to endow a professorship in immigration law. $1 million would be paid over ten years, and the remaining half-million dollars was a pledged planned giving gift from her estate. [7] [25]
Wheatley Housing Group (Scotland's largest registered social landlord) and John Wheatley College (now Glasgow Kelvin College) in Glasgow are named after him. His nephew, John Thomas Wheatley , became a Labour MP for Edinburgh East in 1947 and Lord Advocate .