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David Edwards (curler)
David Edwards (born 13 September 1979 in Dumfries, Scotland) is a Scottish male curler. He is a and a 2010 European Mixed champion. Teams Men's Mixed Private life He attended the University of Aberdeen , mottoeng = The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom , established = , type = Public research universityAncient university , endowment = £58.4 million (2021) , budget .... References External links * Team Edwards Living people 1979 births Sportspeople from Dumfries Scottish male curlers European curling champions Scottish curling champions Alumni of the University of Aberdeen {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumfries
Dumfries ( ; sco, Dumfries; from gd, Dùn Phris ) is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. It is located near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth about by road from the Anglo-Scottish border and just away from Cumbria by air. Dumfries is the county town of the historic county of Dumfriesshire. Before becoming King of Scots, Robert the Bruce killed his rival the Red Comyn at Greyfriars Kirk in the town on 10 February 1306. The Young Pretender had his headquarters here during a 3-day sojourn in Dumfries towards the end of 1745. During the Second World War, the bulk of the Norwegian Army during their years in exile in Britain consisted of a brigade in Dumfries. Dumfries is nicknamed ''Queen of the South''. This is also the name of the town's professional football club. People from Dumfries are known colloquially in Scots language as ''Doonhamers''. Toponymy There are a number of theories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Westwood (curler)
Paul Westwood (born 1953) is an English bass player, composer, educator and author. Discography Filmography Film * ''The World is Full of Married Men'' (1979) for composers Bugatti and Musker * ''Lost and Found'' (1979) for composer John Cameron * ''The Legend of the Lone Ranger'' (1981) for composer John Barry * ''Never Say Never Again'' (1983) for composer Michel Legrand * ''Joyeuses Paques (Happy Easter)'' (1984) for composer Philippe Sarde * Hors-La-Loi (Outlaws) (1985) for composer Philippe Sarde * ''Sid and Nancy'' (1986) for the Sex Pistols * ''Labyrinth'' (1986) for composer Trevor Jones, David Bowie * '' Evita'' (1996) for composers Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber * '' Little Voice'' (1998) for composer John Altman * ''The Life and Death of Peter Sellers'' (2004) for composer Richard Hartley * ''Bohemian Rhapsody'' (2018) (bass guitar coach) for composers Queen Television * Children’s Hospital theme, ‘Ray of Sunshine’ (1993-2003) for Debbie Wiseman * ''A Tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Macleod (curler)
Scott MacLeod may refer to: * Scott MacLeod (ice hockey) (born 1959), Canadian ice hockey player *Scott MacLeod (rugby union) Scott MacLeod (born 3 March 1979 in Hawick) is a retired Scottish rugby union footballer. He last played as a lock for Newcastle Falcons. He is currently still an active part of that club, in a coaching role. Having retired from playing at the ... (born 1979), Scottish rugby union footballer * G. Scott MacLeod (born 1965), Canadian multimedia artist and film director See also * Scott McLeod (other) {{hndis, name=MacLeod, Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Penny (curler)
John Penny (died 1520) was an English priest, successively Bishop of Bangor, 1504–1508, and Bishop of Carlisle, 1508–1520. He was also Prior to Bradley Priory 1503–1508. His education is uncertain, though he may have been educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, and later received his LLD from the University of Cambridge.T. Y. Cocks‘Penny, John (d. 1520)’ ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 He served as Abbot of Leicester Abbey from 1496–1509 and in around 1500 built the boundary wall, Abbot Penny's Wall, which is now named after him. In 1520, Penny died at Leicester Abbey The Abbey of Saint Mary de Pratis, more commonly known as Leicester Abbey, was an Augustinians, Augustinian religious house in the city of Leicester, in the East Midlands of England. The abbey was founded in the 12th century by the Robert de Be ..., where he had earlier been the abbot, and was buried at St Margaret's Church in Leicester. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ramsay (curler)
David Ramsay (born 14 April 1957 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish curler and curling coach Coach may refer to: Guidance/instruction * Coach (sport), a director of athletes' training and activities * Coaching, the practice of guiding an individual through a process ** Acting coach, a teacher who trains performers Transportation * Co .... At the national level, he is a two-time Scottish men's champion curler (1981, 1982) and a 1978 Scottish junior champion curler. At the international level, he is a bronze medallist. Awards * WJCC All-Star Team, Men: Teams Record as a coach of national teams References External links * * 1957 births Living people Curlers from Edinburgh Scottish male curlers Scottish curling champions Scottish curling coaches {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Muirhead
Glen Muirhead (born 10 April 1989) is a Scottish curler from Blair Atholl. He competed for Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Glen's brother Thomas and sister Eve are also British curlers, and their father Gordon is also a former professional curler. Personal life Glen Muirhead is the brother of Olympic gold medalist Eve Muirhead, and his brother Thomas is also a professional curler. Their father Gordon won a gold medal at the 1994 European Curling Championships, and was an alternate for the team that won the 1999 World Curling Championships. Aside from curling, Glen and Thomas rear sheep near Crieff. Career Muirhead began his curling career playing for Logan Gray's team. In 2014, Glen and his brother Thomas joined Tom Brewster's curling team. In 2016, Glen competed against his brother Thomas, losing the match 4–2. In 2016, he was part of the Scotland team that reached the final of the Grand Slam of Curling. Muirhead was on the team that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Murdoch
David Matthew Murdoch (born 17 April 1978) is a retired Scottish curler from Stirling. As the Scotland skip, he and his former team of Ewan MacDonald, Warwick Smith, Euan Byers and Peter Smith are the 2006 and 2009 World Curling Champions. Representing Great Britain, he has been skip at three Winter Olympics, Torino 2006, finishing fourth, Vancouver 2010, finishing fifth and Sochi 2014, where he won an Olympic silver medal. He currently serves as a coach, performance team manager and consultant for British Curling. Sporting career Junior Murdoch is a two time World Junior Curling Champion – in 1995, as an alternate for Tom Brewster, Jr., and in 1996 as a lead for James Dryburgh. In 1998 he won a silver medal at the World Juniors as a third for Garry MacKay. By 1999, Murdoch had moved up to the position of skip, and led Scotland to a 6–3 record and fifth place at that year's world juniors. Four years later, he led Scotland to the European Championship title, beatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Campbell (Scottish Curler)
Colin Campbell may refer to: Scottish history *Cailean Mór (died after 1296), also known as Sir Colin Campbell, or "Colin the Great" *Sir Colin Og Campbell of Lochawe (died before 1343), Lord of Lochawe *Colin Campbell (Swedish East India Company) (1686–1757), Scottish merchant and founder of the Swedish East India Company *Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure (c. 1708–1752), also known as the "Red Fox", killed in the Appin Murder, subject of ''Kidnapped'' by Robert Louis Stevenson *Sir Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1792–1863), Scottish soldier Scottish nobility * Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll (c. 1433–1493), Scottish nobleman * Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll (c. 1486–1535), Scottish nobleman and soldier * Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll (1541/46–1584), Scottish nobleman and politician *Sir Colin Campbell, 2nd Baronet (1577–1640), Scottish nobleman *Sir Colin Campbell, 1st Baronet, of Lundie (died c. 1650), Scottish noble *Colin Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Woods (curler)
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Richard Woods may refer to: * Richard Woods (diplomat) (born 1941), New Zealand diplomat and public servant * Richard Woods (politician), American politician, Georgia Superintendent of Schools See also * Richard Wood (other) Richard Wood may refer to: * Richard Wood (Welsh politician) (died 1682), Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons, 1646–1648 * Sir Richard Wood (consul) (1806–1900), British consul in Damascus and Tunis * Richard Wood (Australian poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Brewster
Ronald "Ron" Brewster (born 2 April 1976 in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland) is a Scottish male curler and curling coach. He won the . Teams Men's Mixed Record as a coach of national teams Private life Ronald is from curlers family: his older brother Tom Brewster is well-known curler, 2014 Winter Olympics The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games (russian: XXII Олимпийские зимние игры, XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye igry) and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (russian: Сочи 2014), was an international ... silver medallist. References External links * * Living people 1976 births Sportspeople from St Andrews Scottish male curlers European curling champions Scottish curling champions Scottish curling coaches {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Fernie
Duncan Fernie (born 1 April 1978) is a Scottish curler from Blair Atholl. He competed at the 2015 Ford World Men's Curling Championship in Halifax, Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native En ..., Canada, as vice-skip for the Scottish national curling team. He also competed at the 2011 World Championship, where the Scottish team won silver medals. References External links * 1978 births Living people Scottish male curlers Scottish curling champions Sportspeople from Perth and Kinross {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Brewster
Thomas Brewster Jr. (born 10 April 1974) is a Scottish curler from Aberdeen, Scotland. He is currently the coach of the Ross Paterson men's team. Career Brewster is a former World Junior champion, having won the title in 1995. The Scottish team which consisted of Paul Westwood, Ronald Brewster, Steve Still and David Murdoch finished 8–1 after the round robin, and defeated Sweden's Henrik Edlund and then Germany's Daniel Herberg to win the championship. Brewster has skipped Scotland to two European Mixed titles, in 2006 and in 2009. Brewster has been a frequent participant in World Curling Tour events, perhaps more so than the more successful Scottish teams. He has won a total of six WCT events, all European events. He has played in 12 Grand Slam events, advancing to the quarterfinals on five occasions (but never further). In 2002, Brewster was invited to play in his first World championship. He was an alternate for the Warwick Smith team which won a bronze medal in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
