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James Dickson (archaeobotanist)
James or Jim Dickson may refer to: Politicians *James Dickson (Scottish politician) (c. 1715–1771), MP for Lanark Burghs 1768–1771 *James Dickson (New South Wales politician) (1813–1863), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly *James Dickson (Queensland politician) (1832–1901), Australian politician and 13th Premier of Queensland *James Dickson (Irish politician) (1850–1941), Liberal MP for Dungannon 1880–1885 *James Dickson (New Zealand politician) (1854–1937), Reform Party member *James Dickson (Swedish politician) (1899–1980), MP for The Right 1941–1968 *James Hill Dickson (1863–1938), Northern Ireland politician *James M. Dickson, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1872 and 1873 *James Samuel Dickson (1870–1939), New Zealand politician *Jim Dickson (politician) (born 1964), English politician Sport *James Sinclair Dickson (1885–1961), Australian rules footballer *James Dickson (cricketer) (1887–1970), New Zealand cricketer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Dickson (botanist)
James (Jacobus) J. Dickson (1738–1822) was a Scottish nurseryman, plant collector, botanist and mycologist. Between 1785 and 1801 he published his ''Fasciculus plantarum cryptogamicarum Britanniae'', a four-volume work in which he published over 400 species of algae and fungi that occur in the British Isles He is also the editor of the exsiccata work ''Hortus siccus Britannicus, being a collection of dried British plants, named on the authority of the Linnean herbarium and other original collections'' (1793–1802). The plant genus ''Dicksonia'' is named after him. Life He was born at Kirke House, Traquair, Peeblesshire, of poor parents, and began life in the gardens of the Earl of Traquair. While still young he went to Jeffery's nursery-garden at Brompton, and in 1772 started in business for himself in Covent Garden. Dickson made several tours in the Scottish Highlands in search of plants between 1785 and 1791, that of 1789 being in company with Mungo Park (explorer), Mungo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aramoana Massacre
The Aramoana massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 13 November 1990 in the small seaside township of Aramoana, northeast of Dunedin, New Zealand. Resident David Gray killed 13 people, including local police Sergeant Stewart Graeme Guthrie, Stewart Guthrie, one of the first responders to the reports of a shooting, after a verbal dispute between Gray and his next-door neighbour. After a careful house-to-house search the next day, police officers led by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (now known as the Special Tactics Group) located Gray, and shot and injured him as he came out of a house firing from the hip. He died in an ambulance while being transported to hospital. At the time, the incident was the deadliest mass shooting in New Zealand's history, being surpassed 28 years later by the Christchurch mosque shootings. After the shootings, sweeping changes were made to New Zealand's firearms legislation in 1992, including 10-year photographic licences and tight restrictions on mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Dickson (producer)
James Dickson (January 17, 1931 - April 19, 2011) was born in Los Angeles, California, son of a diesel engineer in the United States Navy. He was an avid sailor as a teenager, and enlisted in the United States Army in 1946 before he embarked on a career in the recording industry as a self-taught record producer and band manager. Before producing the first Elektra Records Bluegrass records he produced his first record, an LP on his own label, Vaya. He eventually sold the rights of Lord Buckley's 1955 album ''Hipsters, Flipsters and Finger Poppin' Daddies, Knock Me Your Lobes'' to Elektra and it was in print for another 25 years. Jim Dickson was the lone individual behind Elektra Records Los Angeles Bluegrass albums. In 1962 he produced his first bluegrass record for Elektra called ''Dian and the Greenbriar Boys'' by the Greenbriar Boys and a Hollywood country singer, Dian James.Rosenberg, Neil V. Bluegrass: A History. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1985. Print. While working on the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chills
The Chills are a New Zealand indie rock band that formed in Dunedin in 1980. The band were fronted by founding mainstay singer-songwriter, guitarist Martin Phillipps (singer), Martin Phillipps (2 July 1963 – 28 July 2024). During the mid-1990s they were billed as Martin Phillipps & the Chills. Their top ten studio albums in their homeland are ''Submarine Bells'' (1990), ''Soft Bomb'' (1992), ''Snow Bound (The Chills album), Snow Bound'' (2018) and ''Scatterbrain'' (2021). The Chills were a cult band in other parts of the world as one of the earliest proponents of the Dunedin sound. Their top 20 singles are "Pink Frost", "" (both 1984), "Kaleidoscope World (The Chills album), I Love My Leather Jacket" (1986), "Heavenly Pop Hit" (1990) and "Male Monster from the Id" (1992). History Early years and first breakup (1980–1983) After the demise of the Same, one of the earliest punk rock bands in New Zealand, vocalist and guitarist Martin Phillipps started a new ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Douglas Hamilton Dickson
James Douglas Hamilton Dickson FRSE MRI (1 May 1849 – 6 February 1931) was a Scottish mathematician and expert in electricity. He was a Senior Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Glasgow University elected him an Eglinton Fellow. He was the elder brother of Charles Dickson, Lord Dickson.''Who Was Who'', 2014: J D H Dickson. He had in-depth knowledge in fields of electricity and electrostatics and also a great interest in low temperature physics. Life He was born in Glasgow on 1 May 1849, a son of Dr John Robert Dickson of Edinburgh. He attended both Glasgow and Cambridge Universities, graduating MA. From 1867 to 1869 he was assistant to William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, being the joint-builder of the technical equipment which Kelvin used to measure electrostatic energy. In 1869, he assisted Kelvin in the laying of the first Transatlantic communication cables. The French company overseeing the work were impressed by Dickson and kept him in their employ as Electrician-in-Charge, base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Robertson Dickson
James Robertson Dickson or James R:son Dickson (10 March 1810 – 4 July 1873) was a Swedish shipping and logging businessman. He was a partner in ''James Dickson Co'' who ran shipping and logging in Sweden. He was involved in unsuccessful court cases that accused his company of sawing up timber belonging to the crown at Baggböle in northern Sweden. Life Dickson was born in Gothenburg in 1810. He was the eldest of four children born to Scotsman Robert Dickson (1782–1858) and Wilhelma Charlotta Dickson née Murray. He was a partner in ''James Dickson Co'' who ran shipping and logging in Sweden. The business employed the largest merchant fleet in Sweden with offices in both Gothenburg and London. James Robertson Dickson was involved in establishing timber sawing and loading stations in many of the rivers of Norrland.Scots in Sweden S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Jameson Dickson
James Jameson Dickson (17 September 1815 – 14 November 1885) was a Scottish Swedish logging industrialist and philanthropist. Life Dickson was born in 1815 in Gothenburg. He was the son of James Dickson Sr. James Dickson Sr and his brother had established a timber export business that returned with British cotton goods to Sweden in exchange for the sawn timber. foretagsamheten.se, retrieved 21 May 2014 Dickson Jr was educated at . The Dickson business employed the largest merchant fleet in Sweden with offices in both Gothenburg and London. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James G
James may refer to: People * James (given name) * James (surname) * James (musician), aka Faruq Mahfuz Anam James, (born 1964), Bollywood musician * James, brother of Jesus * King James (other), various kings named James * Prince James (other) * Saint James (other) Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Film and television * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * "James", a television episode of ''Adventure Time'' Music * James (band), a band from Manchester ** ''James'', U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bell Dickson
James Bell "Jim Bell" Dickson (January 19, 1923 - April 8, 1944), a native of Aberdeen, Mississippi, was a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces. James Bell Dickson was killed in action April 8, 1944, flying his Mustang fighter-plane P-51B, tail number 43-7147, YF-X. Lt. Dickson was assigned to the 358th Squadron, 355th Fighter Group, 8th AAF Fighter Station at Steeple Morden, England. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross which was pinned on by Colonel Jesse Anton of Covington, Kentucky. On April 8, 1944, above and around Haulerwijk (the Netherlands) a heavy air battle arose between a number of German and American fighter planes. During the fight that unfolded an American aircraft went down. Either hit by enemy-fire or as a result of exposing the plane to too many G-forces, fact is that it disintegrated while still in the air. The pieces crashed into a stretch of farmland about 1 km. southeast of Haulerwijk. The pilot, James Bell Dickson, was found still strapped in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Dickson (priest)
James Dickson was an Irish Anglican Dean. Dickson was born in England. He was Dean of Elphin from 1757 until 1768; and Dean of Down from 1768 unil his death in 1787. His son was Bishop of Down and Connor The Bishop of Down and Connor () is an episcopal title which takes its name from the town of Downpatrick (located in County Down) and the village of Connor (located in County Antrim) in Northern Ireland. The title is still used by the Catholic C ... from 1784 to until 1804."The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 2, The Province of Ulster" Cotton, H p212 Dublin; Hodges and Smith; 1849 References 1787 deaths Deans of Elphin Deans of Down 18th-century English Anglican priests {{Ireland-Anglican-dean-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Dickson (merchant)
James Dickson (3 February 1784 – 17 November 1855) was a Scottish-Swedish merchant, industrialist, banker and philanthropist active in Gothenburg, Sweden. He served as a ''kommerseråd'' (member of the Swedish National Board of Trade). Life James Dickson was the son of the merchant James Dickson and Christina Murray, the brother of Robert Dickson (merchant), Robert Dickson, and the father of James Jameson Dickson and Oscar Dickson. James Dickson was first employed in the Dickson family office in Edinburgh in 1798, but emigrated to Sweden in 1809, seven years after his older brother Robert, and settled in Gothenburg, where he was granted Swedish citizenship on 1 March 1810. He was an ambitious businessman, who in 1816 founded the firm James Dickson & Co, one of the wealthiest of the many Gothenburg trading companies. Dickson served as principal of the Gothenburg Savings Bank (1829-1833) and in 1831 he became a member of the Health Committee of Gothenburg, created to deal w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
