Famous People with Name Mckelvey

Frank McKelvey            Origin/Culture/Country: Irish

Frank McKelvey: was an Irish painter from Belfast.McKelvey was born in 1895 in Belfast, the son of a painter and decorator. He attended the Belfast School of Art and won the "Sir Charles Brett" prize for figure drawing there in 1912. By 1918 his work was exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy and in 1921 he was elected a member of the Belfast Art Society.

Patricia ("Trisha") Frances McKelvey            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Patricia ("Trisha") Frances McKelvey: a former New Zealand cricketer. She played 15 women's Test matches for New Zealand, captaining the side in all of them. The record was two wins, three defeats and five draws. Her Test career spanned the period 1966 to 1978/9, and included Tests against not only traditional rivals England and Australia, but also against South Africa and India. Indeed, the three-Test tour of South Africa in 1971/2, which was won one-nil, was the last official representative match any South African cricket team, men's or women's, would play against South Africa for 18 years as teams boycotted South Africa because of the apartheid regime.