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Leitch ( ) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Archibald Leitch, Scottish architect * Barry Leitch, Scottish video game music composer *Bill Leitch, Canadian curler List of teams on the 2011–12 World Curling Tour *Billy Leitch (1895–1963), Irish footballer * Cecil Leitch, English golfer *David Leitch (director), American director and stuntman *David Leitch (politician) (1923–1988), Australian politician *David Leitch (settler) (1753–1794), founder of Leitch's Station, Kentucky * David R. Leitch (born 1948), American politician *Donovan Leitch, known as Donovan, Scottish musician * Donovan Leitch, Jr., actor and the son of the above *George Leitch (died 1907), English actor-manager and dramatist in Australia * Harry Leitch, Scottish squash player *Ione Skye Leitch, known as Ione Skye, actress and daughter of Donovan Leitch *Kellie Leitch (born 1970) Canadian politician * Maurice Leitch, writer *Michael Leitch (born 1988), Japanese rugby union player * Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Leitch
Archibald Keir Leitch (27 April 1865 – 25 April 1939) was a Scottish architect, most famous for his work designing football stadiums throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Early work Born in Glasgow, Leitch's early work was on designing tea factories in Deltota in the former Kandyan Kingdom of Ceylon, as well as factories in his home city and in Lanarkshire, the sole surviving example of which being the category A listed at Jessie Street, Polmadie, south of Glasgow city centre. In 1896 he became a member of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, and later of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He moved into stadium design when he was commissioned to build Ibrox Park, the new home ground of his boyhood heroes Rangers, in 1899. Stadium design Leitch's stadiums were initially considered functional rather than aesthetically elegant, and were clearly influenced by his early work on industrial buildings. Typically, his stands had two tiers, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Leitch
is a Japanese rugby union player who plays in the back row for the Toshiba Brave Lupus in Japan Rugby League One and captains the Japan national team. Leitch was born in New Zealand and moved to Japan as a teenager. Early life Leitch was born in Burwood, Christchurch, New Zealand, to a European New Zealand father and a Fijian mother. He was raised in Christchurch where he attended St Bede's College. In 2004, at the age of 15, he went to Sapporo Yamanote High School in Sapporo, Japan, as part of St Bede's school exchange program. After finishing school he attended Tokai University and in 2008 captained the Japan U20 team at the Junior World Championship. He became a Japanese national in 2013 and officially inverted his name in Japanese from ''Michael Leitch'' to ''Leitch Michael''. Professional career He made his test match debut for Japan in 2008 against the USA in Nagoya aged 20, receiving a yellow card in that game for a dangerous tackle. He quickly established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William T
William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Liam, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Leitch (scientist)
William Leitch (20 May 1814 – 9 May 1864) was a Scottish astronomer, naturalist and mathematician, and a minister of the Church of Scotland. Leitch studied mathematics and science at the University of Glasgow, and moved to Canada in 1860 to take the post of principal at Queen's University. Space historian Robert Godwin published in October 2015 his discovery that Leitch gave the first modern scientific explanation of the potential for space exploration using rockets (1861). Leitch was said to be "a distinguished astronomer, naturalist and mathematician", and his proposal for rocket spaceflight came four decades prior to more well-known proposals by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1903), Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1913), Robert H. Goddard (1914), and Hermann Oberth (1923). Leitch's rocket spaceflight description was first provided in his 1861 essay "A Journey Through Space", which was later published in his book ''God's Glory in the Heavens'' (1862). This description correctly attributed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Leitch (footballer)
William Douglas Leitch (1863 – 1943 ), born on 16 December 1863 in Hobart, Tasmania to Scottish settlers John Leitch and Jean McCrone from Paisley, Renfrewshire, was a Tasmanian footballer, businessman and sports administrator. Leitch was an employee and later board of directors member of Henry Jones's IXL jam manufacturing business; taking his first job at the company at the age of only ten alongside Sir Henry Jones placing labels on jam tins, and working there until his death, he gave almost seventy years continuous service. Many of his sons would also have careers working for the firm during their lifetimes. In his youth Leitch was a highly regarded Australian rules football player at the Railway Football Club. In later life he was a patron of Australian rules football in Tasmania, and was a long-time Tasmanian delegate to the Australian National Football Council. The William Leitch Medal for the fairest and best player in the Tasmanian Australian National Football Leagu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Leitch (other)
William Leitch or Will Leitch or Bill Leitch may refer to: * William Leitch (footballer) (1863–1943), Tasmanian footballer, businessman and sports administrator * William Leitch (scientist) (1814-1864), Scottish astronomer and rocket visionary * William Leighton Leitch (1804–1883), Scottish landscape watercolour painter and illustrator * William T. Leitch (1808–1885), mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, 1862–1865 * Will Leitch founding editor of the Gawker Media sports blog Deadspin * Will Leitch (Northern Irish journalist) Will Leitch is a Northern Irish journalist who has worked for the BBC since 1990. His work for the BBC has included covering those killed during the Troubles and the Irish Catholic child abuse scandal, as well as other more general news coverage. ... * Bill Leitch, Canadian curler List of teams on the 2011–12 World Curling Tour {{hndis, Leitch, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Leitch (Northern Irish Journalist)
Will Leitch is a Northern Irish journalist who has worked for the BBC since 1990. His work for the BBC has included covering those killed during the Troubles and the Irish Catholic child abuse scandal, as well as other more general news coverage. He delivered a response on behalf of the BBC to Jenny Taylor's Catherwood Lecture in 2015, which criticised the BBC's religion coverage. Leitch studied at Queen's University Belfast , mottoeng = For so much, what shall we give back? , top_free_label = , top_free = , top_free_label1 = , top_free1 = , top_free_label2 = , top_free2 = , established = , closed = , type = Public research university , parent = .... References External links * Living people BBC newsreaders and journalists Alumni of Queen's University Belfast Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century journalists from Northern Ireland 21st-century journalists from Northern Ireland Place of birth missing (living people) Broadcasters f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Leitch
William F. Leitch (born October 10, 1975 in Mattoon, Illinois) is an American writer and the founding editor of the Gawker Media former sports blog ''Deadspin''. Leitch is a national correspondent for MLB.com, a contributing editor at ''New York'', critic at ''Grierson & Leitch'', contributor to ''The New York Times'', '' GQ'', ''The Washington Post'' and ''NBC News'' and has published six books, including ''Catch'', a novel, ''Life as a Loser'', a memoir, ''God Save the Fan'', a book of sports essays and ''Are We Winning?'', a book about fatherhood and baseball. His fifth book, the novel ''How Lucky,'' was published by Harper in May 2021 and received an endorsement from author Stephen King. His sixth book, the novel ''The Time Has Come'', will be published by Harper in May 2023. Background Leitch was born and raised in Mattoon, Illinois, which is also the setting of ''Catch''. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. While there, he was an editor at the u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Leitch
Thomas M. Leitch (born June 23, 1951) is an American academic and film scholar, the author of several authoritative books on film studies and one on Wikipedia. Early life Leitch was born in Orange, New Jersey, and educated at Columbia University, where in 1972 he graduated BA ''magna cum laude'' in English and Comparative Literature, and then at Yale University, where he became an MA in 1973 and a PhD in 1976.Thomas Leitch cv at udel.edu (), accessed 28 March 2020 Academic career Leitch's first academic post was as Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Yale, from 1976 to 1983. He then had the same position at the Depa ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Leitch
Donald Scott Leitch (born 6 October 1969) is a Scottish former football player and coach, who played as a midfielder. He played professionally for Dunfermline Athletic, Heart of Midlothian, Swindon Town and Motherwell, and managed Ross County. Career Leitch began his playing career in 1989 at junior club Shettleston before turning professional with Dunfermline Athletic in April 1990. After three years at Dunfermline he joined Heart of Midlothian, where he remained for another three years before moving to England with Swindon Town in a £15,000 transfer. Leitch returned to Scotland in 2000 with home-town team Motherwell where he played 128 league games, scoring 1 goal. A succession of injury problems prompted Leitch to retire as player in 2006 and turn to management with Ross County, where he was officially appointed on 18 April 2006. He guided the club to their first national trophy in November 2006, when they won the Scottish Challenge Cup against Clyde, however the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie Leitch
Ronnie Luke Leitch (19 October 1953 – 1 October 2018 as රොනී ලීච්), better known as Ronni Leitch and Thattaya, was a Sri Lankan actor, comedian, singer, presenter and a social activist. Largely popularized as a comedian, Leitch was a singer, having gained fame for singing over 350 songs. His most notable songs include "''Thattaya''" and "''Kauda Bole Alice''". Family Leitch was born on 19 October 1953 in Dehiwela. His father died on 26 December 2017 and funeral took place on 27 December at 4:00 p.m at the Mount Lavinia Cemetery. He married his childhood sweetheart, Yvette in 1986, and is the father of daughter Keshia and son Keshan. Leitch met Yvette first in 1974 in Bellanvila, when their homes were situated in close proximity to each other. They married on 7 June 1986. Their first child, Keshia was born on 17 September 1989. Keshia married on 8 June 2017. Keshia is a past pupil of Bishop's College, Colombo and Keshan is an old boy of S. Thomas' College, Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Leitch (VC)
Peter Leitch VC (August 1820 – 6 December 1892) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Early life Peter Leitch was brought up in Milnathort, Orwell, Kinross-shire in Scotland, becoming a carpenter and joiner. He enlisted in the Royal Engineers in about 1844–45. After a number of postings, in 1854 he joined the Baltic campaign as one of 106 army sappers who accompanied the Royal Navy fleet. In the Baltic he took part in the Battle of Bomarsund where, as a corporal, he had charge of the carpenters who laid the platform of a British battery landed on Åland Island. Leitch returned to England at the close of the Baltic operations, and was soon sent to the Crimea, arriving early in 1855. Here he took part in the siege of Sebastopol, maintaining the gun platforms of the siege batteries of the British 'right attack'. VC action ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
