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Salmond Family
Salmond is a Scottish and English surname that is a variant of the surname Salmon. Notable people with the surname include: *Anne Salmond (historian) (born 1945), New Zealand historian, anthropologist and writer *Alex Salmond (1954–2024), Scottish politician, First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014 * Charles Salmond (1853–1932), Scottish minister and ecclesiastical author *Felix Salmond (1888–1952), English cellist *James Salmond (1536–1545), Prior of Blantyre in Scotland *George Salmond (born 1969), Scottish cricketer and football referee * James Salmond (minister) (1898–1976), leader in the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand *J. B. Salmond (James Bell Salmond; 1891–1985), Scottish journalist, poet and novelist * James Louis Salmond (1868–1950), New Zealand architect *Sir John Maitland Salmond (1881–1968), senior commander in the Royal Air Force and brother of William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond *Sir John William Salmond, (1862–1924), legal scholar based in Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salmon (surname)
Salmon is a surname. Alternative spellings are Salmons (surname), Salmons, Sammon (surname), Sammon and Sammons. Notable people * Adjani Salmon, co-writer of and actor in British TV series ''Dreaming Whilst Black'' * Alex Salmon (born 1994), English footballer * André Salmon (1881–1969), French writer * Barnett Salmon (1829–1897), co-founder of Salmon & Gluckstein, by 1900 the world's largest retail tobacconist * Benoît Salmon (born 1974), French professional road racing cyclist * Cecil Salmon (1885–1975), American agronomist * Chris Salmon, banker * Christine Salmon (1916–1985), American architect and educator * Colin Salmon (born 1962), British actor * Cyril Salmon, Baron Salmon, Cyril Salmon (1903–1991), Privy Council of the United Kingdom * Daniel Elmer Salmon (1850–1914), American veterinary surgeon * David Salmon (other), multiple people * Ebony Salmon (born 2001), English footballer * Edward Salmon (other), multiple people * Eleanor Seely Sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Salmond (historian)
Dame Mary Anne Salmond (née Thorpe; born 16 November 1945) is a New Zealand anthropologist. She was New Zealander of the Year Awards, New Zealander of the Year in 2013. In 2020, she was appointed to the Order of New Zealand, the highest honour in New Zealand's royal honours system. Early life and family Born in Wellington in 1945, Mary Anne Thorpe was raised in Gisborne, New Zealand, Gisborne, before being sent to board at Solway College in Masterton, where she was Dux (education), dux in 1961. In 1962 and 1963, she attended Cleveland Heights High School in the US as an AFS Intercultural Programs, American Field Service scholar. At the University of Auckland, Salmond graduated with Bachelor of Arts in 1966 and Master of Arts in anthropology in 1968. In the same year at Auckland Secondary Teachers' College, she received a Teaching Diploma with Distinction. Salmond later attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she gained a PhD in 1972. Her thesis was titled ''Hui – a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Salmond
Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond ( ; 31 December 1954 – 12 October 2024) was a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014. A prominent figure in the Scottish nationalist movement, he was Leader of the Scottish National Party (Scottish National Party, SNP) on two occasions, from 1990 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2014. He then served as leader of the Alba Party from 2021 until his death in 2024. A graduate of the University of St Andrews, he worked as an economist in the Scottish Office, and later, the Royal Bank of Scotland. He was elected to the British House of Commons in 1987 United Kingdom general election, 1987, serving as the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Banff and Buchan (UK Parliament constituency), Banff and Buchan from 1987 to 2010. In 1990, he successfully defeated Margaret Ewing in the 1990 Scottish National Party leadership election, SNP leadership contest. Salmond led the party through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Salmond
Charles Adamson Salmond (1853–1932) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland and ecclesiastical author. Life He was born in Arbroath. He studied divinity at the University of Edinburghthen trained as a Free Church minister at New College, Edinburgh. He did a postgraduate year at Princeton University in America. He was ordained at the Free Church in Cults, Aberdeen in 1879. He was translated to St Matthew's Free church in Glasgow in 1881. He was then living at 4 Royal Crescent (West). In 1887 he translated to the West Free Church in Rothesay and finally in 1890 he settled at the newly built South Morningside Free Church on Braid Road in Edinburgh. Salmond was the first minister of this spectacular church, designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson. In Edinburgh he lived very close to the church at 9 Cluny Drive. In 1900 he and his church joined the Union in creating the United Free Church of Scotland, usually just referred to as the UF Church. In the same year h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Salmond
Felix Adrian Norman Salmond (19 November 188820 February 1952) was an English cellist and cello teacher who achieved success in the UK and the US. Early life and career Salmond was born to a family of professional musicians. His father Norman Salmond was a baritone, and his mother Adelaide Manzocchi was a pianist who had studied with Clara Schumann. At age twelve, Salmond started studying with the man who became his primary cello teacher, William Whitehouse. He won a scholarship to continue studies with Whitehouse four years later at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He continued on to the Brussels Conservatoire at age nineteen, where he studied for two years with Édouard Jacobs. His concert debut was in 1908, playing Frank Bridge's Fantasy Trio in C minor and Johannes Brahms's Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor. Salmond's mother was the pianist, with Bridge on viola and Maurice Sons playing the violin. The recital, which took place at the Bechstein Hall, was very successfu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prior Of Blantyre
The Prior of Blantyre (later Commendator of Blantyre) was the head of the medieval community of Augustinian canons based at Blantyre Priory (in modern South Lanarkshire). It was founded between 1239 and 1248, but the first prior is not known by name until 1296. Few of the priors are known thereafter until records become more extensive in the 16th century. The following is a list of known priors and commendators: List of priors * William de Cokeburne, 1296–1304 * John de Eglinton, 1380–1381 * William Forfare, 1430 * William Fressell, 1451 * William Bassindene, 1451 - c. 1472 * John Cavers, 1472 * John Bassindene, 1472–1476 * John Turnbull, 1476 * William Busby, x 1489 * William Bell, 1489–1508 * John Aitkenhead, 1506 * Robert Cottis, 1508–1536 * John Cessford, 1509–1512 * William Cottis, 1536 * Robert Cottis junior, 1534–1536 * James Salmond, 1536–1545 * John Donaldi (mac Donald/Donaldson), 1538–1541 * John Moncreif, 1538–1547 * Thomas Hugonis, x 1543 * John Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Salmond
George Salmond (born 1 December 1969) is a former Scottish cricketer, with 146 full caps (104 as captain) later became a football referee. During a distinguished cricketing career, Salmond captained Scotland in Under-16, Under-19 B and senior levels. A right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler, Salmond's top-score was 181 in a 1996 three-day match against Ireland, smashing his previous two records from the corresponding fixture in 1992, in a match where he only narrowly missed getting two centuries in a single game. He played List A cricket as well as performing in the ICC Trophy between 1997 and 2001. Salmond is now head of the Junior School at George Watson's College, Edinburgh Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh .... Since his retirement from cricke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Salmond (minister)
James David Salmond (1 May 1898 – 1 April 1976) was a notable New Zealand teacher, Presbyterian minister and religious educationalist. He was born in Queenstown, New Zealand, in 1898. His mother was amateur astronomer Sarah Salmond. In the 1962 Queen's Birthday Honours, Salmond was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ..., for services to the community, especially in connection with youth work and Christian education for the Presbyterian Church. References 1898 births 1976 deaths New Zealand Presbyterians New Zealand schoolteachers People from Queenstown, New Zealand People educated at Gore High School New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire {{NewZealand-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Maitland Salmond
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Maitland Salmond, (17 July 1881 – 16 April 1968) was a British military officer who rose to high rank in the Royal Flying Corps and then the Royal Air Force. During the First World War he served as a squadron commander, a wing commander and then as General Officer Commanding the RAF on the Western Front towards the end of the war. He went on to be Air Officer Commanding British Forces in Iraq in the early 1920s when he halted a Turkish invasion and sought to put down a Kurdish uprising against King Faisal, the British-sponsored ruler of Iraq. He was Chief of the Air Staff in the early 1930s and bitterly opposed the position taken by British politicians at the World Disarmament Conference in Geneva, which would have led to the UK's complete aerial disarmament. In the event the talks broke down when Adolf Hitler withdrew from the Conference in October 1933. Early life John Salmond was born the son of Major General Sir William Salmond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Salmond
Sir John William Salmond (3 December 1862 – 19 September 1924) was a legal scholar, public servant and judge in New Zealand. Biography Salmond was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England, the eldest son of William Salmond (died 1917), a Presbyterian minister and professor. His family emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1876 where he attended Otago Boys' High School (1876–79). Salmond graduated from the University of Otago in 1882 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and later a Master of Arts. He then obtained a Gilchrist scholarship to study at University College, London, where he graduated in law and became a fellow. Returning to New Zealand in 1887, he was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court, and practised in Temuka in South Canterbury. In 1897 he was appointed professor of law at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, and in 1906 he returned to New Zealand to take up the founding chair in law at Victoria University College, Welling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Salmond
Kathleen Lucy Salmond (21 August 1895 – 5 May 1946) was a New Zealand artist, born in Dunedin. Early life and education Salmond was born in Dunedin, the eldest daughter of architect Louis Salmond. She studied at the Dunedin Art School (now Otago Polytechnic). She travelled to the UK and spent a year at the Harvey-Proctor Art School in Cornwall (run by Ernest Procter and Harold Harvey), and the one year at the Slade School of Fine Art and St Martin's School of Art. Career Salmond worked primarily with watercolour. She exhibited with: * Auckland Society of Arts * Canterbury Society of Arts * New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts * Otago Art Society * The Group (1934) Her work ''The Sunlit Farm'' was included in the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dunedin, 1925–6. She also exhibited works in London at the British Empire Art Exhibition and the Coronation Exhibition. Works by Salmond are held in the collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Salmond died in Duned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Salmond (other)
William Salmond may refer to: * Sir William Salmond (British Army officer) (1840–1932), British Army general * Sir Geoffrey Salmond Air Chief Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond, (19 August 1878 – 27 April 1933) was a senior commander in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Remaining in the Royal Air Force after the war, he held senior appointments in ... (William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond, 1878–1933), British commander in the Royal Flying Corps during WWI * William Salmond (Presbyterian minister) (1835–1917), New Zealand Presbyterian minister, university professor and writer See also * William Salmon (other) {{hndis, Salmond, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
