Norris McWhirter holding a copy of the largest diamond in the world (1977)
Born
Norris Dewar McWhirter
(1925-08-12)12 August 1925
Winchmore Hill, Middlesex, England
Died
19 April 2004(2004-04-19) (aged 78)
Kington Langley, Wiltshire, England
Burial place
St Peter's Church, Langley Burrell, Wiltshire, England
Education
Marlborough College
Trinity College, Oxford
Occupations
writer
political activist
television presenter
Notable credit(s)
Guinness World Records, co-founder of the National Association for Freedom, Record Breakers
Spouses
Carole Eckert
(m. 1957; died 1987)
Tessa von Weichardt
(m. 1990)
Children
2
Relatives
Ross McWhirter (twin brother)
Norris Dewar McWhirterCBE (12 August 1925 – 19 April 2004) was a British writer, political activist, co-founder of The Freedom Association, and a television presenter. He and his twin brother Ross were known internationally for founding the reference book The Guinness Book of Records (known since 2000 as Guinness World Records) which they wrote and annually updated together between 1955 and 1975. After Ross's assassination by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), Norris carried on alone as editor.[citation needed]
Republican Army (IRA), Norris carried on alone as editor.[citation needed] Norris and Ross were the twin sons of William McWhirter, the editor of the Sunday...
Alan Ross McWhirter (12 August 1925 – 27 November 1975) was, with his twin brother, Norris, the cofounder of the 1955 Guinness Book of Records (known since...
McWhirter and Macwhirter, MacWhirter (also spelled McWherter and Macwherter, MacWherter) are Anglicisations of the Scottish Gaelic Mac an Chruiteir, meaning...
Castle with Guinness World Records founders twin brothers NorrisMcWhirter and Ross McWhirter. The programme was a spin-off series from Blue Peter which...
also accused the party of being "infiltrated by extremists". With NorrisMcWhirter, he laid misprision of treason charges against Francis Maude and Douglas...
of Sir Hugh Beaver, the book was co-founded by twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter in Fleet Street, London, in August 1955. The first edition topped...
Donald McFarlan & NorrisMcWhirter (1991). Guinness Book of World Records, 1991. New York City: Bantam Books. p. 487. ISBN 0553289543. Donald McFarlan...
days awake - but is it record?". The Guardian. May 26, 2007. McWhirter, Norris; McWhirter, Alan Ross (1978). Guinness book of world records, 1978. New...
McWhirter, Norris; McWhirter, Ross (1970). New Guinness Book of Records. Guinness Superlatives. p. 17. Retrieved 9 August 2016. Mcwhirter, Norris; McFarlan...
Chataway and Chris Brasher providing the pacing. When the announcer, NorrisMcWhirter, declared "The time was three...", the cheers of the crowd drowned...
William McWhirter (c. 1851–1933) was a Scottish electrical engineer, grandfather of NorrisMcWhirter, who invented the combined voltmeter and ammeter,...
originally hyphenated as super-centenarian, has existed since 1870. NorrisMcWhirter, editor of Guinness World Records, used the term in association with...
Freedom (NAFF) by the Viscount De L'Isle, NorrisMcWhirter, Ross McWhirter and John Gouriet. Ross McWhirter had drawn up a fifteen-point Charter of Rights...
[accessed 4 November 2015] Guinness Book of Records 1966, ed. by NorrisMcWhirter and Ross McWhirter (London: Guinness, 1965) 'Saturday Club' Archived 2015-11-18...
Matthews, Michelle Dunkley McCarthy (1994). The Guinness Book of Records 1994. Facts on File. p. 134. Donald McFarlan, NorrisMcWhirter (1990). The Guinness...
Biteback. p. 23. ISBN 9781785900013 – via Internet Archive. McWhirter, Norris; McWhirter, Ross (1974). Guinness Book of World Records. Enfield: Sterling...
Zao Wou-Ki's "Juin-Octobre 1985" auction results at Sotheby's McWhirter, Norris; McWhirter, Ross (1972). Guinness Book of World Records. Sterling Publishing...
Ziad Fazah | Financial Times". www.ft.com. Retrieved 15 August 2023. NorrisMcWhirter (1997). The Guinness Book of World Records 1997. Random House. p. 249...
lounge of the club, which now possesses the medal he won at the event. NorrisMcWhirter once commented that Abrahams "managed by sheer force of personality...
Alexander Pearce. He starred alongside fellow Northern Irish actor Ciarán McMenamin in the remote rainforests of north-west Tasmania. He joined the cast...
Osborne (1989). 60 Years of The Oscar. Abbeville Press. p. 8. NorrisMcWhirter; Ross McWhirter (1994). The Guinness Book of Records. Guinness Superlatives...
sex. Edwin Mellen Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-7734-6000-3. Ross McWhirter; NorrisMcWhirter (1972). Guinness Book of World Records. Sterling Publishing Company...
Time". Ulatus.com. Archived from the original on 29 April 2020. McWhirter, Norris; McWhirter, Ross (1976). Guinness Book of World Records, 11th U.S. Edition...
2017. Donald McFarlan & NorrisMcWhirter (1990). Guinness Book of World Records (1990). Bantam. p. 8. ISBN 9780553284522. McWhirter, Norris (1 March 1997)...
History. Rose Villa Publications. ISBN 978-0954854904. Donald McFarlan; NorrisMcWhirter (1990). The Guinness book of records 1991. Guinness. p. 298....
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