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David Macdonald (accountant)
David MacDonald may refer to: *David MacDonald (British politician) (1857–1919), Conservative MP for Bothwell *David MacDonald (director) (1904–1983), Scottish film director * David R. Macdonald (1930–2008), U.S. Under Secretary of the Navy *David MacDonald (Canadian politician) (born 1936), Canadian minister and politician *Dave MacDonald (1936–1964), American sports car driver * David Macdonald (accountant) (born 1942), New Zealand accountant who served as auditor-general between 1994 and 2001 *David Macdonald (biologist) (born 1951), British zoologist * David Bruce MacDonald (born 1973), political scientist * D. K. C. MacDonald (1920–1963), Scottish-Canadian physicist * D. R. MacDonald (born 1939), pen-name, American-Canadian author, lives Cape Breton Island * David Ross Macdonald, guitarist, drummer and singer/songwriter * David Robertson MacDonald (1764–1845), British army officer *Robert David MacDonald Robert David MacDonald (27 August 1929 – 19 May 2004) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David MacDonald (British Politician)
David Henderson MacDonald (c. 1857 – 22 June 1919) was briefly the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative MP for Bothwell (UK Parliament constituency), Bothwell in Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was elected MP for Bothwell at the 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 General Election after defeating the Labour party (UK), Labour candidate John Robertson (Bothwell MP), John Robertson by 322 votes, becoming the first MP from Bothwell. MacDonald did not serve long as an MP, as he died in June 1919 (at age 61), after just 176 days in office. Robertson went on to win the ensuing by-election. See also *List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service References * External links * 1850s births 1919 deaths Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs UK MPs 1918–1922 {{Conservative-UK-MP-1850s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David MacDonald (director)
David MacDonald (9 May 1904 in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire – 22 June 1983 in London) was a Scottish film director, writer and producer. Career MacDonald was the son of a wealthy landowner. His intention was to become a doctor but changed his mind and aged 17 went to British Malaya, Malaya to work on a rubber plantation for seven and a half years. When he had leave to return to Scotland, he travelled via Hollywood and became interested in filmmaking.Macdonald, D. (1948)"David MacDonald"''The Tatler and Bystander'', 188(2439), 14. He returned to Malaya and worked at a plantation in Kedah. According to one story, while in Malaya he met Douglas Fairbanks who encouraged MacDonald to try his luck in Hollywood. Hollywood MacDonald broke into Hollywood by getting a job as technical adviser on a film ''Prestige (film), Prestige''. After that he was out of work for nine months. He eventually gained a job working for Cecil B. DeMille. MacDonald worked as DeMille's assistant on ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the Kings of Israel and Judah, third king of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase (), which is translated as "Davidic line, House of David" by most scholars. The Mesha Stele, erected by King Mesha of Moab in the 9th century BCE, may also refer to the "House of David", although this is disputed. According to Jewish works such as the ''Seder Olam Rabbah'', ''Seder Olam Zutta'', and ''Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. Apart from this, all that is known of David comes from biblical literature, Historicity of the Bible, the historicit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David MacDonald (Canadian Politician)
David Samuel Horne MacDonald (born August 20, 1936) is a Canadian United Church of Canada minister, former politician, and author. Early life Born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, David MacDonald was ordained in the United Church by the Maritime Conference on June 11, 1961, and was a minister at Alberton, Tignish, and Cascumpec, Prince Edward Island before going into federal politics. Political career He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from the former Prince Edward Island riding of Prince in the 1965 election, and was re-elected in the realigned Egmont riding from 1968 until 1979. After the Tory victory in the 1979 election, he was appointed Minister of Communications, Minister responsible for the Status of Women and Secretary of State for Canada in the short-lived Cabinet of Prime Minister Joe Clark. MacDonald lost his seat to Liberal George Henderson in the 1980 election but ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave MacDonald
David George MacDonald (July 23, 1936 – May 30, 1964) was an American racing driver noted for his successes driving Chevrolet Corvette, Corvettes and Shelby Cobras in the early 1960s. He was killed in the 1964 Indianapolis 500, along with fellow driver Eddie Sachs. Sports car career MacDonald began racing in 1956, competing in a 1955 Chevrolet Chevrolet Corvette, Corvette on Southern Californian Dragstrip, drag strips. At the 1958 National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Western US Drag Racing Championships at Williams Air Force Base in Arizona, MacDonald set two standing start speed records in a stock 1958 Corvette – 104.68 mph in the ¼ mile and 123.11 mph in the 1/2 mile. Between 1958 and 1962, he drove Corvettes to six more speed records in the 1/4, 1/2 and one-mile distances at annual US speed trials. MacDonald began competing on the road racing circuit in 1960; his first race was at Willow Springs International Motorsports Park, Willow Springs Raceway on Feb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Macdonald (accountant)
David MacDonald may refer to: *David MacDonald (British politician) (1857–1919), Conservative MP for Bothwell *David MacDonald (director) (1904–1983), Scottish film director * David R. Macdonald (1930–2008), U.S. Under Secretary of the Navy *David MacDonald (Canadian politician) (born 1936), Canadian minister and politician *Dave MacDonald (1936–1964), American sports car driver * David Macdonald (accountant) (born 1942), New Zealand accountant who served as auditor-general between 1994 and 2001 *David Macdonald (biologist) (born 1951), British zoologist * David Bruce MacDonald (born 1973), political scientist * D. K. C. MacDonald (1920–1963), Scottish-Canadian physicist * D. R. MacDonald (born 1939), pen-name, American-Canadian author, lives Cape Breton Island * David Ross Macdonald, guitarist, drummer and singer/songwriter * David Robertson MacDonald (1764–1845), British army officer *Robert David MacDonald Robert David MacDonald (27 August 1929 – 19 May 2004) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Macdonald (biologist)
David Whyte Macdonald CBE FRSE is a Scottish zoologist and conservationist. He is the Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) at the University of Oxford, which he founded in 1986. He holds a Senior Research Fellowship at Lady Margaret Hall with the Title of Distinction of Professor of Wildlife Conservation. He has been an active wildlife conservationist since graduating from Oxford. Career David Macdonald's concept was, and remains, to undertake original research on aspects of fundamental biology relevant to solving practical problems of wildlife conservation and environmental management, and thus to underpin policy formation and public debate of the many issues that surround the conservation of wildlife and its habitats. From his early work on red foxes he retains a specialisation in carnivores, with an increasing emphasis on felids. He has published over 300 papers in refereed international journals, and written or edited more than a dozen books, of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bruce MacDonald
David Bruce MacDonald (born 15 June 1973) is a Canadian political scientist who studies international relations, genocide, and political myths. Career MacDonald is professor in Political Science at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada and served as the Research Leadership Chair for the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences (2017 to 2020). From 2002 to 2008, he worked as a senior lecturer at the Political Studies Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. From 1999 to 2002 he was Assistant Visiting Professor in the Social Sciences at the ECSP Europe (Paris). He was deputy editor/book reviews editor of '' Millennium: Journal of International Studies''. He holds a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics LSE, which he attended as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. His PhD thesis was entitled Balkan holocausts? Comparing genocide myths and historical revisionism in Serbian and Croatian nationalist writing: 1986-1999. He earned his BA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ross Macdonald
The Waifs (originally styled as The WAiFS) are an Australian folk rock band formed in 1992 by sisters Vikki Thorn (harmonica, guitar, vocals) and Donna Simpson (guitar, vocals) as well as Josh Cunningham (guitar, vocals). Their tour and recording band includes Ben Franz (bass), David Ross Macdonald (drums) and Tony Bourke (keyboard / piano). The band's 2003 album '' Up All Night'' reached the top five of the Australian Albums Chart, achieving double platinum status and winning four ARIA Awards in October. Two further top five albums were issued, ''Sun Dirt Water'' in 2007 and ''Temptation'' in 2011. The Waifs have three top 50 singles, "London Still" (2002), " Bridal Train" (2004) and "Sun Dirt Water". The band supported Bob Dylan on his 2003 Australian tour and then his 2003 North American tour, including a gig at the Newport Folk Festival. The Waifs founded the independent label Jarrah Records in July 2002, co-owned with fellow musician John Butler and their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Robertson MacDonald
Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart (1764–1845), born David Robertson, was a British Army officer linked to the history of Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon). Life He was born David Robertson on 29 September 1764, the son of the eminent Edinburgh historian and minister of Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, William Robertson (historian), William Robertson, and his wife Mary Nisbet. His brothers included William Robertson, Lord Robertson, William Robertson and Lord Robertson. Trained in the military, he served in the British Army linked to the East India Company and raised the first Malay Regiment in Ceylon in 1796. He served as Deputy Adjutant General of Ceylon in the late 18th century. In 1802 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Playfair, Alexander Dirom, and James Russell (surgeon), Dr James Russell. In later life he lived at 24 Walker Street. Robertson Macdonald died on 7 September 1845. He is buried in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert David MacDonald
Robert David MacDonald (27 August 1929 – 19 May 2004) was a Scottish playwright, translator and theatre director. Early life Robert David MacDonald was born in Elgin, in Morayshire, Scotland on 27 August 1929, the son of a doctor and a tobacco company executive. He attended Wellington School, then read modern history at Magdalen College at Oxford University, and later trained as a conductor at the Royal College of Music and the Munich Conservatory. Career as a director MacDonald spent some years as a translator for UNESCO, where he met German director Erwin Piscator in 1957, leading to his involvement in theatre as a director. His collaboration with Piscator also led to his first significant success, when he translated Piscator's version of '' War and Peace'' in 1962. This was televised by Granada Television as well as being performed on Broadway for two years. He became assistant director at Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
