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Alexander Wilson (other)
Alexander or Alex Wilson may refer to: Literature * Alexander Wilson (English writer) (1893–1963), MI6 officer and writer of a series of spy novels * L. Alex Wilson (1909–1960), African-American journalist * Alexander Wilson (Canadian writer) (1953–1993), American-born Canadian writer, landscape designer, and community activist Military * Alexander Wilson (Royal Navy officer) (1760–1834), Royal Navy rear-admiral * Sir Alexander Wilson (British Army officer) (1858–1937), British Army major-general and Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey * Sir James Wilson (British Army officer) (Alexander James Wilson, 1921–2004), British Army lieutenant-general Politics * Alexander Wilson (Virginia politician), United States Representative from Virginia, 1803–1809 * Alexander Wilson (Wisconsin politician) (1833–1888), attorney general of Wisconsin, 1878–1882 * Alexander Wilson (New South Wales politician) (1849–1927), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * Alex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Wilson (English Writer)
Alexander Joseph Patrick "Alec" Wilson (24 October 18934 April 1963) was an English writer, spy, MI6 officer, and Polygamy, polygamist. He wrote under the names Alexander Wilson, Geoffrey Spencer, Gregory Wilson, and Michael Chesney. After his death, his family discovered that he had been a serial polygamist, who had lied to many people. As of 2018, documents that could shed light on his activities remain classified as "sensitive" by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, under section 3(4) of the Public Records Act 1958. The effect of his deceptions on his wives and descendants were dramatised in the 2018 BBC miniseries ''Mrs. Wilson (miniseries), Mrs Wilson'', in which his granddaughter, actress Ruth Wilson, portrayed her grandmother Alison (Wilson's third wife). Early life Wilson was born in Dover, the eldest son and second of four children of Alexander Wilson (1864–1919), from Winchester, Hampshire, and Annie Marie (née O'Toole; 1865–1936), from Carlow, County Carlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Wilson (footballer, Born 1933)
Alexander Wilson (29 October 1933 – 29 July 2010) was a Scottish footballer who played as a defender (left or right full-back), mainly for Portsmouth. Career Having signed for his local junior club Buckie Rovers (based in Banffshire, north-eastern Scotland), Wilson joined Portsmouth on leaving school in 1949 – the local Highland Football League club Buckie Thistle, just missed out on signing him. He turned professional with Portsmouth the following year, and played there for 18 years, winning a Division Three championship in 1961–62. In 1967, he moved to Chelmsford City for a short spell and also played for Waterlooville before retiring. He won his only cap for Scotland in their last preparation match for the 1954 FIFA World Cup Finals against Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Wilkis Wilson
Alexandra Wilkis Wilson is an American entrepreneur and investor who co-founded the companies the Gilt Groupe, GlamSquad, and Fitz. She is currently co-founder and Managing Partner at Clerisy, a consumer-focused growth equity fund. Early life and education Wilkis Wilson was born and raised in New York City. She attended The Brearley School, Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, where she graduated ''magna cum laude'', and Harvard Business School. Wilkis Wilson grew up in a bilingual home (Spanish/English) and later learned French, Portuguese and Italian. She studied piano at the Manhattan School of Music and played competitively until about the 10th grade. She credits music as being a strong early influence in her life and in her dedication to entrepreneurial ventures. Her brother Alan Wilkis is the founder of the American Music Project, Big Data. Career Wilkis Wilson began her career working in investment banking at Merrill Lynch for three years, before returning to Harva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Wilson
Alexandra Muriel Wilson is an American actress. She is best known for playing the original Josie Watts on the soap opera '' Another World'' (1988–1991). She also starred in the television series '' Homefront'' (1991-1992) and the film '' Small Soldiers'' (1998). Biography Early life Alexandra Wilson attended Chantilly High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, and was involved in performing and cheerleading. Wilson then studied theater and history at Broward Community College in the Miami area, but left after a year to avoid the drug scene. Wilson's grandmother was one of the first Rockettes. Her mother (Elaine Wilson), an award-winning drama teacher at Chantilly High School, sparked her interest in acting, as early as age five. Wilson recounted her mother's influence: "She put me in some of her productions, and she taught me in high school. I was never sure I could do it, but I knew I had to be an actor." After graduating from high school, Wilson held drama seminars fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Wilson (musician)
Alex Wilson (born 21 November 1971) is a British pianist, composer, producer, arranger, and educator. Biography Alex Wilson was born in the UK and was brought up in Sierra Leone, UK, Austria and Switzerland. In 1993, after gaining a degree in electronics from the University of York, he embarked on a professional career as a pianist, performing and recording with Courtney Pine, Jazz Jamaica, Sandra Cross, Adalberto Santiago and Jocelyn Brown, Wynton Marsalis, Hugh Masakela & Ernest Ranglin quickly being signed to the Candid label. He won the Rising Star award at the 2001 BBC Jazz Awards. To date, he has released eight solo albums in a Latin Jazz and salsa vein; he also composes commissions, produces Latin hip hop, runs a 12-piece salsa band, works as a session keyboard player and works in educational institutions. His commissions include NITRO (a British black theatre company), the Royal Opera House, the Royal Northern College of Music, and several library music compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Wilson (British Architect)
Alexander Wilson LRIBA (26 December 1888 - 30 April 1969) was an architect based in Nottingham. Some of his most significant work include the 900 houses built on the Beeston Rylands estate in the late 1930s. Architectural career He entered into a partnership with Nehemiah Rigley as Architects, Surveyors and Land Agents, based at offices at 13 St Peter's Gate, Nottingham, but this partnership was dissolved in 1926. Later he was based in offices at 45 Burton St, Nottingham. He undertook a significant development in designing 900 houses to be built in Beeston south of Beeston railway station on an 57-acre estate which was then called Cliftonside, but is now known as Beeston Rylands. The houses were built as ‘dwellings for working men’ which at a total cost of £400 () only required an initial deposit of £20 and weekly repayments of 9s 9d. The semi-detached houses comprised a sitting room 11 ft 6in by 10 ft 3in, a living room 2 ft longer, a kitchen/scullery and up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Brown Wilson
Alexander Brown Wilson (5 June 1857, in Glasgow, Scotland – 5 May 1938, in Kangaroo Point, Queensland, Australia) was an architect in Queensland, Australia. A number of his works are listed on the Queensland Heritage Register. Life Alexander Wilson was the fourth son of George Wilson, a silk merchant, and Margaret Watson. The family lived at 168 St. Georges Road, Glasgow in 1861. They migrated to the Colony of Queensland (Australia), arriving in July 1864 aboard the '' Lady Bowen''. He began attending the Normal School. Wilson began work with the Department of Public Works in 1875 and joined the architect F D G Stanley as principal draughtsman in 1882. From 1878, as a draughtsman to Colonel Peter H. Scratchley, Commissioner of Defences for the Australian colonies, Wilson prepared drawings for the Lytton Battery, of which Stanley was architect. Wilson won a competition for the design of the western façade of St Stephens Cathedral, Sydney and then travelled to Britain wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Wilson (photographer)
Alexander Wilson (born in Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland; died 1922) was a noted amateur photographer who worked as supervisor in a Dundee Dundee (; ; or , ) is the List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, fourth-largest city in Scotland. The mid-year population estimate for the locality was . It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firt ... jute mill for over 20 years.PhotopolisBalfour Street Public School, Dundee. Wilson moved to Dundee in his twenties to become calendar manager in the Baltic Street Calendar of Baxter Brothers of Dundee. For over 30 years, he devoted his spare time to photography. He was particularly interested in architecture. He took black and white photographs of buildings in Dundee from the 1870s to 1905. It was fortunate that he was active at this time, because subsequent redevelopment work in Dundee resulted in some buildings of the City vanishing forever. Before his death in 1922 he bequeathed the majority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Stoddart Wilson
Alexander Stoddart Wilson (1854–1909) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland who was also a scientist, serving as interim Professor of Botany at Glasgow University. Life He was born in Glasgow in 1853. He was the son of Alexander Wilson (1810-1891) Free Church minister of Bridgeton. He studied Science at Glasgow University. From around 1873 he served as interim Professor of Botany at Glasgow University also lecturing in botany at other colleges: Anderson's College; West of Scotland Technical College and St Margaret's College. His period as interim professor seems to have been necessitated to cover a prolonged field trip by Alexander Dickson. Around 1878 he began retraining as a Free Church minister at the Free Church College in Glasgow and he was ordained at North Queensferry in 1881. His parish became swamped by construction workers in 1882 when the construction of the Forth Rail Bridge began. A separate mission hall was built to accommodate the several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Wilson (ornithologist)
Alexander Wilson (July 6, 1766 – August 23, 1813) was a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, Natural history, naturalist, and illustrator. Identified by George Ord as the "Father of American Ornithology", Wilson is regarded as the greatest American ornithologist before John James Audubon, Audubon. Biography Early life Wilson was born in a Presbyterian family in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Paisley, Scotland on July 6, 1766. Alexander senior ("Saunders") had given up smuggling and taken up weaving where he did well and he supplemented income with liquor distilling. The American revolution had caused economic hardship and after the death of Wilson's mother, Mary McNab, his father remarried and moved to Auchenbathie Tower, Auchinbathie. Wilson got a little bit of schooling but spent time herding livestock and at thirteen he apprenticed with his brother-in-law William Duncan. He also worked four years as a journeyman, shooting grouse in free time and peddling wares across Scotland. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Wilson (astronomer)
Alexander Wilson (171416 October 1786) was a Scottish surgeon, type-founder, astronomer, mathematician and meteorologist. He was the first scientist to use kites in meteorological investigations. He was the first Regius Professor of Practical Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. Early life Wilson was born in St Andrews, Fife, the son of Clara Fairfoul and Patrick Wilson, the town clerk of St Andrews. He was educated at the University of St Andrews, graduating in 1733 with an MA. He was first apprenticed to a physician in St Andrews where he became skilled in constructing mercury thermometers in glass. In 1737, he left for London to make his fortune, He found work as assistant to a French surgeon-apothecary, which included caring for his patients. During this time he was introduced to Lord Isla who like Wilson was interested in astronomy, and Wilson constructed instruments for Isla during 1738. After visiting a type foundry with a friend in London, he had an idea for m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Wilson (basketball)
Alex Brooke "Ally" Wilson (born 21 March 1994) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Mandurah Magic of the NBL1 West. Career WNBL Wilson debuted in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) in the 2010–11 season for the Adelaide Lightning. Her next stint came with the Townsville Fire in 2013–14 and 2014–15, where she won WNBL Rookie of the Year in 2013–14 and a championship in 2014–15. In 2015, Wilson joined the Sydney Uni Flames. She played five seasons for the Flames and won a championship in 2016–17. Wilson joined the Adelaide Lightning for the 2020 WNBL Hub season in Queensland. For the 2021–22, 2022–23 and 2023–24 seasons, Wilson played for the Bendigo Spirit. On 11 July 2024, Wilson signed with the Perth Lynx for the 2024–25 WNBL season. She was named to the All-WNBL First Team and earned Lynx Club MVP. In game one of the Lynx's semi-finals series against the Townsville Fire, Wilson scored a career-high 32 point ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
