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George Archibald (horse Racing)
George Archibald may refer to: * George Archibald, 1st Baron Archibald (1898–1975), British Labour politician * George Archibald (footballer) (1919–2006), Australian footballer for Melbourne * George Archibald (jockey) (1890–1927), American jockey * George Archibald (politician) George Archibald is a Canadian politician. He represented the constituency of Kings North in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1984 to 1999. He sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Archibald was first elected in 1984, w ... (born 1946), Canadian provincial politician of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia * George Christopher Archibald (1926–1996), British economist * George D. Archibald (1820–1902), American college president * George W. Archibald (born 1946), North American ornithologist who founded the International Crane Foundation See also * {{hndis, Archibald, George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
George Archibald, 1st Baron Archibald
George Archibald, 1st Baron Archibald CBE (21 July 1898 – 25 February 1975) was a British Labour politician. Early life Archibald was the son of George W. Archibald, of Glasgow, and was educated at St George's Road Elementary School and Alan Glen's High School. Career He fought Birmingham Sparkbrook as the Labour candidate in 1931, but was heavily defeated by Leo Amery in the Conservative landslide of that year. During the Second World War he served as Controller of the Ministry of Information from 1944 to 1945. In 1949 he was raised to the peerage by the Labour government of Clement Attlee as Baron Archibald, of Woodside in the City of Glasgow. He served under Attlee as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords) from June to October 1951. He was later Chairman of the Federation of British Film Makers from 1957 to 1966 and Deputy President of Film Production of Great Britain from 1966 to 1968. Personal life Lord Archibald married first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
George Archibald (footballer)
George Archibald may refer to: * George Archibald, 1st Baron Archibald (1898–1975), British Labour politician * George Archibald (footballer) (1919–2006), Australian footballer for Melbourne * George Archibald (jockey) (1890–1927), American jockey * George Archibald (politician) (born 1946), Canadian provincial politician of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia * George Christopher Archibald (1926–1996), British economist * George D. Archibald (1820–1902), American college president * George W. Archibald George William Archibald (born 13 July 1946) is a Canadian ornithologist. He co-founded the International Crane Foundation, and was the inaugural winnerBergquist, Lee (22 August 2006) "Crane conservationist to receive $100,000 prize" ''Milwaukee Jo ... (born 1946), North American ornithologist who founded the International Crane Foundation See also * {{hndis, Archibald, George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
George Archibald (jockey)
George William Archibald (1890 – April 5, 1927) was an American jockey. He rode the winning horse Meridian in the 1911 Kentucky Derby. He was also a Champion Jockey in Germany four times (1913-1916) where he rode for Baron Simon Alfred Oppenheim's Schlenderhan stable. He won the 1912 German St. Leger on Royal Blue, the 1913 German 2000 Guineas and Austrian Derby on Csardas and German Oaks and German St. Leger on Orchidee II and the 1914 German 2000 Guineas on Terminus and German Derby on Ariel. He moved to Spain where he won the Gran Premio de Madrid three times (1919,20,21). Archibald came to England in 1922 to take up retainer with Peter Gilpin at Clarehaven Stables in Newmarket. He won the 2000 Guineas Stakes with St Louis. He rode in the Epsom Derby for King George VI. His other good mounts included that year's leading 2 year old, Town Guard, and the Irish 2000 Guineas and Irish Derby winner, Spike Island. Further important winners included A. K. Macomber's Rose Prince i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
George Archibald (politician)
George Archibald is a Canadian politician. He represented the constituency of Kings North in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1984 to 1999. He sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Archibald was first elected in 1984, was re-elected in 1988, 1993 and 1998. He did not re-offer in 1999. Archibald served in the Executive Council of Nova Scotia The Executive Council of Nova Scotia (informally and more commonly, the Cabinet of Nova Scotia) is the cabinet of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Almost always made up of members of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, the cabinet is s ... as Minister of Transportation, and Minister of Agriculture. References Living people Canadian people of Ulster-Scottish descent Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia MLAs Politicians from Kings County, Nova Scotia Members of the Executive Council of Nova Scotia 1946 births 20th-century members of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly {{NovaSco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
George Christopher Archibald
George Christopher Archibald (30 December 1926 – 22 February 1996), briefly 2nd Baron Archibald in 1975, also known as Chris Archibald, was a British economist, a researcher and professor. He played a significant role in building the new University of Essex into a premier UK research centre for the social sciences in the 1960s. Richard Lipsey (1996), a friend and colleague, in reviewing Archibald's last book, ''Information, Incentives, and the Economics of Control'' (1992) usefully summarises his approach to economics. He was "firmly in the camp of those who accept the practical value of the price system as a coordinator of decentralized decision making while rejecting the cruder versions of Chicagoism that everything produced by the price system is optimal." And while emphasising "the virtues of the price system" noted that "its unaided operations were, in his own words, 'not beyond human wit to improve upon.'" (Lipsey, 1996, p1005-6) Archibald was born in Scotland, the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
George D
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |