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Alastair Macdonald (civil Servant)
Alastair McDonald, or variants, may refer to: After 1900 * Alistair MacDonald (born 1970), British judge * Alistair Macdonald (1925–1999), British Labour party politician * Alastair Macdonald (surveyor) (born 1932), British land surveyor and author * Alastair Macdonald (historian), Scottish historian * Alastair McDonald (musician) (born 1941), Scottish banjo-playing folk/jazz musician * Alisdair Macdonald (1940–2007), British press photographer Pre-20th century * Alastair Macdonald (British Army officer), 19th century Commander-in-Chief, Scotland * Alasdair Mac Colla (died 1647), 17th century Scottish military officer * Alexander of Islay, Earl of Ross (died 1449), also known as Alasdair MacDonald, 15th century Scottish nobleman * Alistair Carragh Macdonald, 15th century Scottish nobleman * Alasdair Óg of Islay (died 1299), known as Alasdair MacDonald, 13th century Scottish Lord of Islay and chief of Clann Domhnaill * Alasdair Mór Alasdair Mór mac Domhnaill was a young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alistair MacDonald
Alistair Huistean Macdonald (18 May 1925 – 6 February 1999) was a British Labour Party politician. Macdonald was educated at Dulwich College, Enfield Technical College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was a bank clerk and area treasurer of the National Union of Bank Employees. He served as a councillor on Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District Council (1958–62) and as an alderman on the newly formed London Borough of Bromley from 1964. Macdonald contested Beckenham in 1964. He was Member of Parliament for Chislehurst from 1966 to 1970, when he lost the seat to his Conservative predecessor, Patricia Hornsby-Smith. Macdonald's two subsequent bids for re-election in 1974 were unsuccessful, as was his further attempt to regain his seat in 1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alastair Macdonald (surveyor)
Alastair Macdonald MBE (born 1932) is a British retired land surveyor and author. Achievements Macdonald decided to become a surveyor at the age of nine. Macdonald took part in two Spitsbergen expeditions while at Cambridge University. Macdonald joined the Directorate of Colonial Surveys in 1955, serving in field parties in Kenya, Southern Cameroons, Uganda, the Bahamas, Sarawak, Nyasaland, Bechuanaland and Zambia. In 1969 he was seconded to the government of Malawi. From 1971 he served with the Ministry of Defence before becoming Deputy Director of the Directorate of Overseas Surveys. In 1982 he moved to the Ordnance Survey where he was Director of Surveys and Production until his retirement in 1992. In 2002 he spoke at the International Court of Justice in a case concerning the maritime boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria. In 2009 he was awarded an MBE for services to the resolution of boundary disputes in Africa and to cartography more generally. Publications *''Map ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alastair Macdonald (historian)
Dr Alastair Macdonald is a Scottish historian. He is the Mackie Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen. His field of research is Scotland-England relations during the late medieval period (1369-1403), particularly the development of "Frontier societies" and Scotland's place in the wider world during this period. His current research is "to examine the nature and impact of war on state and society in later medieval Scotland". He is also a deeply respected and talented cricketer famed for being a combative fast bowling all rounder playing mainly for Aberdeen Grammar School FPs. He once famously claimed a hat trick to defeat Inverurie and has regularly made important contributions with bat and ball and is viewed as a top 1st slip by many. Despite being hampered by injury in recent seasons, MacDonald has still managed to pile on runs in the lower leagues and remains a much feared opponent. Publications * ''Medieval Scotland 1100-1560'', R. A. Houston & W. J. Knox (eds), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alastair McDonald (musician)
Alastair McDonald (born 28 October 1941) is a Scottish banjo-playing folk and jazz musician. McDonald has mainly recorded songs written by other songwriters, such as Robert Burns and Jim MacLean, but has also written songs himself (Culloden's Harvest, The Village Green at Gretna), and reworked traditional songs (The Bell Rock Light, Mingulay Boat Song). He has toured the United States (every state except Hawaii and Alaska), Canada, Israel, Denmark, and Thailand. Much of his work in recent years has been political songs, usually socialist and/or republican, such as his tribute song to John MacLean and The Wee German Lairdie. He supports Scottish independence. He is also seen regularly performing the honky tonk. McDonald lives in Netherlee, East Renfrewshire East Renfrewshire (; ) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It was formed in 1996, as a successor to the Eastwood (district), Eastwood district of the Strathclyde region. The northeastern part of the council area is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alisdair Macdonald
Alisdair Macdonald (1940–2007) was a British press photographer who worked for 26 years with the ''Daily Mirror''. He took a seven-year break to help launch the first full-colour national newspaper ''Today''. In 1963 Macdonald travelled with the Beatles to Paris to document their shows at the Olympia. He would regularly photograph the band, up to and beyond their break up in 1970. In 1989 he won first place in the Humour category of the World Press Photo contest for his photograph of a workman leaving the scene of a burst water main. After his death, his child Helen Macdonald adopted a goshawk to help them cope and later wrote ''H is for Hawk ''H is for Hawk'' is a 2014 memoir by British author Helen Macdonald. It won the Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book of the Year award, among other honours. Content ''H is for Hawk'' tells Macdonald's story of the year they spent training a E ...'' about the experience.Stephen MossHelen Macdonald: a bird’s eye view of love ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alastair Macdonald (British Army Officer)
General Alastair M'Ian Macdonald was a British Army officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Scotland. Military career Macdonald was commissioned as an ensign in the 92nd Regiment of Foot in 1846 and became aide-de-camp to Sir John Pennefather in 1854. He fought at the Battle of Alma in September 1854 and the Battle of Inkerman in November 1854 during the Crimean War. He became Assistant-Adjutant-General at Dover and then aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cambridge. Promoted to major-general, he went on to command the troops in the North British District in 1881 before retiring in 1885. In August 1881 he oversaw and commanded the second Royal Volunteer Review in Holyrood Park with 44,000 soldiers parading in front of Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in January 1901. Her reign of 63 year .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alasdair Mac Colla
Alasdair Mac Colla Chiotaich MacDhòmhnaill ( – 13 November 1647), also known by the English variant of his name Sir Alexander MacDonald, was a military officer best known for his participation in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, notably the Irish Confederate Wars and Montrose's Royalist campaign in Scotland during 1644–45. A member of the Gaelic gentry of the Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg, a branch of the Clan Donald active in the Hebrides and Ireland, Mac Colla is particularly notable for the very large number of oral traditions and legends which his life inspired in the Highlands.See Matheson, ''Traditions of Alasdair Mac Colla'' in ''Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Glasgow'', v5 (1958), 9 During Montrose's campaign of 1644–45, in which the Royalist army won a series of remarkable victories, Mac Colla was given a knighthood. He died in 1647 in Ireland at the Battle of Knocknanuss. Name His full name can be translated from Scottish Gaelic as 'Alexander the son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Of Islay, Earl Of Ross
Alexander of Islay or Alexander MacDonald (died 1449; ) was a medieval Scottish nobleman who succeeded his father Domhnall of Islay as Lord of the Isles (1423–1449), later rising to the rank of Earl of Ross (1436–49). His lively career, especially before he attained the earldom of Ross, led Hugh MacDonald, the 17th century author of ''History of the MacDonalds'', to commemorate him as "a man born to much trouble all his lifetime". Alexander allied himself with King James I of Scotland against the power of the Albany Stewarts in 1425 but, once the Albany Stewarts were out of the way, Alexander quickly found himself at odds with the new king. War with King James would initially prove Alexander's undoing, and would see the King's power in Scotland greatly increased, but at the Battle of Inverlochy Alexander's army prevailed against the forces of the King. Alexander died in 1449, having greatly extended his family's landed wealth and power. He was buried, not in the Isles o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alistair Carragh Macdonald
Alastair Carragh MacDonald (Alexander the Strong) (d. c.1440) was a son of John of Islay, Lord of the Isles and Margaret Stewart, daughter of King Robert II of Scotland and Elizabeth Mure. He is the eponymous ancestor of Clan MacDonald of Keppoch. He fought alongside his brother, Domhnall of Islay, Lord of the Isles, Donald of the Isles, at the Battle of Harlaw in 1411, supporting Donald's claim to the Earldom of Ross. For his involvement in the 1431 insurrection of Domhnall Ballach, Donald Balloch and the Battle of Inverlochy (1431), Battle of Inverlochy, Alistair had a large portion of his lands confiscated, with those lands transferred to the Malcolm Beg Mackintosh, Chief of Clan MacKintosh. However, Alistair never gave up his lands but held them by his sword. After Alastair Carragh's death in 1440, his fellow clansmen and kinsmen would later identify themselves as the "race of Alastair" for the next 300 years. Family By his wife Mary (b. 1365), daughter of Maol Choluim II, Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alasdair Óg Of Islay
Alasdair Óg Mac Domhnaill (died probably 1299) was Lord of Islay and chief of Clann Domhnaill. He was the eldest son of Aonghus Mór mac Domhnaill, Lord of Islay. Alasdair Óg seems to first appear on record in 1264, when he was held as a hostage of the Scottish Crown for his father's good behaviour. During Alasdair Óg's career, the Scottish realm endured a Competitors for the Crown of Scotland, succession crisis as a result of the unexpected death of Margaret, Maid of Norway, heir to the Scottish throne, in 1290. One of several factions that staked a claim to the throne was the Bruce kindred. Both Alasdair Óg and his father were cosignatories of the Turnberry Band, a pact that may have partly concerned the Bruces' royal aspirations. Aonghus Mór last appears on record in 1293, which seems to have been about the time that Alasdair Óg succeeded him as Scottish clan chief, chief of Clann Domhnaill. Alasdair Óg's wife was apparently a member of Clann Dubhghaill. This marital a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
