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Norris Dewar McWhirter CBE (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 ...
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Get to Your Marks (1951, with Norris McWhirter) OCLC 963645353; The Guinness Book of Records (1955–1975, with Norris McWhirter) Ross: The Story of a Shared Life (Norris McWhirter) ISBN 0-902782-23-1, OCLC 3540709; Ross Was Right – The McWhirter File (Covenant Pub., 29 September 2014) ISBN 978-085205-118-4, OCLC 911093351
The Freedom Association was founded in 1975 as the National Association for Freedom (NAFF) by the Viscount De L'Isle, Norris McWhirter, Ross McWhirter and John Gouriet.Ross McWhirter had drawn up a fifteen-point Charter of Rights and Liberties before being murdered by the Provisional IRA in November 1975.
Treason at Maastricht (1994, with Norris McWhirter, ISBN 0-9509353-9-5; Europe's Full Circle (1996) ISBN 0-9525110-3-7; Fascist Europe Rising (2001) ISBN 0-9525110-4-5 "The South Molton Declaration", The Lantern, January 2001 "The Democratic and legal Rights of the British people", speech, Leicester, 15 March 2001
Norris Coleman (born 1961), NBA forward for the Los Angeles Clippers, 1994 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP; Norris McWhirter, co-compiler of The Guinness Book of Records; Norris Webb (born 1945), Panamanian basketball player; Norris Denton Wilson (1938–2017), known by his stage name Norro Wilson, American country music singer-songwriter
McWhirter and Macwhirter, MacWhirter (also spelled McWherter and Macwherter, MacWherter) are Anglicisations of the Scottish Gaelic Mac an Chruiteir, meaning "son of the harpist or fiddler". Mawhorter and McWhorter are less common forms of this Scottish name, and are found in North America.