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MacFarlane (surname)
__NOTOC__ MacFarlane or Macfarlane is a surname derived from the Scottish Gaelic language, Gaelic patronymic ''Mac Phàrlain'' (son of Parlan), shared by: A * Alan Macfarlane (born 1941), professor of anthropological science at Cambridge University * Alan Brock MacFarlane (1924–2018), lawyer, judge and political figure in British Columbia * Alexander Macfarlane (other) (or Alex or MacFarlane), several people * Alistair MacFarlane, Sir Alistair MacFarlane (1931–2021), British electrical engineer * Allison Macfarlane, chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission * Amy MacFarlane (born 1974), former field hockey forward * Andrew Macfarlane (died 1819), Anglican clergyman who served as a bishop in the Scottish Episcopal Church * Angus Macfarlane, New Zealand, schoolteacher and educational psychologist B * Bruce MacFarlane, Canadian lawyer, Crown prosecutor, legal scholar, and former federal and provincial Department of Justice official C * Catharine Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Gaelic Language
Scottish Gaelic (, ; Endonym and exonym, endonym: ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a member of the Goidelic language, Goidelic branch of Celtic, Scottish Gaelic, alongside both Irish language, Irish and Manx language, Manx, developed out of Old Irish. It became a distinct spoken language sometime in the 13th century in the Middle Irish period, although a Classical Gaelic, common literary language was shared by the Gaels of both Ireland and Scotland until well into the 17th century. Most of modern Scotland was once Gaelic-speaking, as evidenced especially by Gaelic-language place names. In the 2011 United Kingdom census#2011 Census for Scotland, 2011 census of Scotland, 57,375 people (1.1% of the Scottish population, three years and older) reported being able to speak Gaelic, 1,275 fewer than in 2001. The highest percentages of Gaelic speakers were in the Outer Hebrides. Nevertheless, there is a language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Horne Macfarlane
Sir Donald Horne Macfarlane (July 1830 – 2 June 1904) was a Scottish merchant who entered politics and became a Member of Parliament (MP), firstly as a Home Rule League MP in Ireland and then as Liberal and Crofters Party MP in Scotland. Macfarlane was born in Scotland, the youngest son of Allan Macfarlane, J.P., of Caithness and his wife Margaret Horne. He became an East Indies merchant as a tea trader and indigo plantation owner. While in India he was a passionate amateur photographer. He experimented freely and produced semi-abstract images. At the 1880 general election Macfarlane was elected as a Home Rule Member of Parliament for County Carlow. The Carlow constituency lost one of its two seats under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and at the 1885 general election Macfarlane stood instead for the Crofters Party in Argyllshire. He won the seat, but lost it in 1886. He was re-elected (by a narrow margin) at the 1892 general elections as a Liberal/Crofters candida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Macfarlane
Helen Macfarlane (25 September 1818 – 29 March 1860) was a Scottish Chartist feminist journalist and philosopher, known for her 1850 translation into English of ''The Communist Manifesto'' by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels which was published in German in 1848. Between April 1850 and December 1850, Macfarlane wrote three essays for George Julian Harney's monthly, the ''Democratic Review'' and ten articles for his weekly paper, '' The Red Republican'' (which changed its name to the ''Friend of the People'' in December 1850). In 1851 Macfarlane "disappeared" from the political scene. Until recent research by Macfarlane's biographer David Black and BBC Radio Scotland researcher and broadcaster Louise Yeoman, very little was known for sure about her early and later life. Yeoman writes of Macfarlane: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a period drama must be in want of a feisty heroine who finds love at last. But our heroine, Helen Macfarlane was no fictional character and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus MacFarlane
Angus "Gus" MacFarlane (February 19, 1925 – February 22, 1991) was the Liberal MP for Hamilton Mountain from 1974 to 1979. He served as Chief Government Whip from 1977 to 1979. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. MacFarlane served as a flying officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo .... He was defeated when he ran for reelection to the House of Commons in 1979 and 1980. References * 1925 births 1991 deaths Anglophone Quebec people Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Politicians from Montreal 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{Liberal-Ontario-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George W
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Bush family and the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he is the eldest son of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush, and was the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. Bush flew warplanes in the Texas Air National Guard in his twenties. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1975, he worked in the oil industry. He later co-owned the Major League Baseball team Texas Rangers (baseball), Texas Rangers before being elected governor of Texas 1994 Texas gubernatorial election, in 1994. Governorship of George W. Bush, As governor, Bush successfully sponsored legislation for tort reform, increased education funding, set higher standards for schools, and reformed the criminal justice system. He also helped make Texas the Wind power in Texas, leading producer of wind-generated electricity in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George G
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leonard Hamblin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaynor Macfarlane
Gaynor Macfarlane is a theatre and radio drama director, and producer for BBC Radio Drama at BBC Pacific Quay, Pacific Quay, Glasgow. Career Macfarlane directed the first up to the eleventh radio series of ''The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (radio series), The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency''. In the theatre, Macfarlane has directed ''#Wit (theatre), Wit'' by Margaret Edson, ''#Folie à Trois (theatre), Folie à Trois'' by Sarah Wooley and ''#The Past is not a Place, The Past is not a Place'' by Beatrice Colin for the Stellar Quines Theatre Company; ''#The Birds, The Birds'' by Aristophanes and ''After the Rain'' by Sergi Belbel at the Gate Theatre (London), Gate Theatre; ''#The House of Desires, The House of Desires'' by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and ''#Burdalane, Burdalane'' by Judith Adams at the Battersea Arts Centre; ''Damon and Pythias (play), Damon and Pythias'' at the Globe Theatre, Globe and ''Helen (play), Helen'' at the Royal National Theatre#National Theatre Studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve MacFarlane
Eve Macfarlane (born 27 September 1992) is a New Zealand rower. Described as a "natural rower", she went to the 2009 World Rowing Junior Championships within a few months of having taken up rowing and won a silver medal. She represented New Zealand at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London as the country's youngest Olympian at those games. She was the 2015 world champion in the women's double sculls with Zoe Stevenson. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, they came fourth in the semi-finals and thus missed the A final. Junior rowing Macfarlane was born in 1992 and grew up in Parnassus, just north of Cheviot. She was educated at Rangi Ruru Girls' School in Christchurch where she was into many sports, including "netball, basketball, athletics, volleyball, touch, cross-country running". She excelled at any sport she tried and Rex Farrelly, Rangi Ruru's long-term rowing coach, asked her if she wanted to try rowing, which she started in 2009. Farrelly says that "there's very few natural rowers. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Mary Macfarlane
Edith Mary Macfarlane (; 20 May 1871 – 2 December 1948) was a New Zealand community worker, active with the British Red Cross Society during both World Wars, and with the Victoria League in Auckland. Early life Edith Mary Durrieu was born in Torquay, Devonshire, England, on 20 May 1871, the daughter of accountant Louis Adolphus Durrieu and the former Marianne Feltham. The Durrieu family moved to New Zealand when Edith was a small child.Kathleen Anderson"Edith Mary Macfarlane"in ''Dictionary of New Zealand Biography'' (1996). She attended Auckland Girls' High School. Community work During World War I, Macfarlane organized the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society and the Auckland Women's Patriotic League. She also organized a 1917 concert for sailors in Wellington, with the Sailors' Friend Society, and was active in the Women's Patriotic League. Her contributions during the first World War were recognised when she was appointed Officer of the Order of the Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward C
Edward is an English male name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortunate; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Macfarlane
Edward David Macfarlane (born 15 May 1984) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and the lead vocalist of the English electronic music band Friendly Fires. He is often called by the nickname "Ed Mac" to avoid confusion with his bandmate and guitarist Edd Gibson. He has written, co-written, produced or co-produced all of the Friendly Fires' songs. Background and education Macfarlane attended St Albans School in Hertfordshire, where he met his future bandmates Edd Gibson and Jack Savidge. They formed their first band, a post-hardcore band, called First Day Back, at age 13. Because St Albans lacked big-name artists coming into town to do shows, the three often went into London for shows ("St Albans is close enough to London that no one ever wants to go near it.") Macfarlane looks upon the lack of gigs or scene in St Albans as a benefit to living there, saying to American music blog PopWreckoning in an interview at Dot to Dot Festival in Nottingham in May 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Macfarlane
Duncan MacFarlane (15 January 1827 – 3 May 1903) was a New Zealand grocer, merchant, government agent, farmer and magistrate. He was born in Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland on 15 January 1827. He married Christina Thomson in 1858. His eldest daughter married Joseph Grimmond in May 1898. He died in Hokitika in 1903. References 1827 births 1903 deaths New Zealand farmers District Court of New Zealand judges People from Dumbarton New Zealand traders Scottish emigrants to New Zealand Colony of New Zealand judges Burials at Hokitika Cemetery {{NewZealand-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
