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McDougall
McDougall or McDougal (see also MacDougall) is a Scottish surname that can refer to several people, places and things. It is derived from the Gaelic ''Mac Dubhghaill'', meaning "son of Dubhghall." It shares the same origin as McDowell. People named McDougall *Alexander McDougall, American privateer, merchant, and revolutionary leader *Barbara McDougall, former Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs *Charles McDougall, British television director *Christopher McDougall, American author * Colin McDougall, Canadian author * Dan McDougall, award-winning Scottish human-rights journalist * David McDougall (footballer) (1894–1918), Scottish footballer * Donnie McDougall, Canadian musician *Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall, nineteenth-century American author, abolitionist, and feminist * Francine McDougall, Australian director and photographer. *Frank Lidgett McDougall, British-born Australian farmer and economic adviser *Gay McDougall, American lawyer * Gordon McDougall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall (1732 9 June 1786) was a Scottish-born American seaman, merchant, a Sons of Liberty leader from New York City before and during the American Revolution, and a military leader during the Revolutionary War. He served as a major general in the Continental Army, and as a delegate to the Continental Congress. After the war, he was the president of the first bank in the state of New York and served a term in the New York State Senate. Early life McDougall was born on the Isle of Islay, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland in the summer of 1732. He was one of the five children of Ranald and Elizabeth McDougall. In 1738 the family emigrated to New York as part of a party led by a British Army veteran, Captain Lachlan Campbell. Campbell had described fertile land available near Fort Edward, but when they arrived in New York City, they discovered that Lachlan had been awarded a patent for about and expected them to become tenants to his estate. Ranald withdrew and fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Lidgett McDougall
Frank Lidgett McDougall (1884–1958) was a British-born Australian farmer and economic adviser, now best known for his part in the foundation of the Food and Agriculture Organization. Early life He was the son of John McDougall, a Wesleyan Methodist, and his second wife Ellen Lidgett (1858–1952). She was a first cousin of Methodist leader John Scott Lidgett, and wrote devotional works. He was born in Greenwich, his father's third son, and was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School. He was then a student at Darmstadt University of Technology. John Scott Lidgett's father was John Jacob Lidgett (1828–1869), who had a younger brother George Lidgett (1831–1907). McDougall's mother Ellen was the daughter of George Lidgett, meaning that he had relations in South Africa: Sidney Bunting and his uncle Jack Lidgett. Sidney and Jack planned to farm wattle at Lidgetton in Natal, on a family property, a scheme put on foot in 1906–7. After leaving university, McDougall spent tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Robert McDougall
Stanley Robert McDougall, (23 July 1889 – 7 July 1968) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award given to British and Commonwealth forces for gallantry in the face of the enemy. Early life The son of the sawmiller John Henry McDougall (1854–1910), and Susannah Ann McDougall (1856–1919), née Cate, McDougall was born on 23 July 1889 at Recherche Bay, Tasmania, where he was raised and educated. In civilian life, he was an amateur boxer, and a blacksmith by trade, and was considered an excellent horseman, an expert marksman, and a competent bushman. War service Illness prevented him from enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force to fight in the First World War until 31 August 1915. He was 28 years old and a sergeant in the 47th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force when he performed the actions for which he was awarded the VC. On 28 March 1918 at Dernancourt, France, when an enemy attack succeeded in securing a foothold in the Allied line, McDo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McDougall (other)
John McDougall may refer to: Politics Canada * John Lorn McDougall Sr. (1800–1860), businessman and politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada * John McDougall (Quebec politician) (1805–1870), member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada East * John Lorn McDougall (1838–1909), member of the Canadian House of Commons and the Legislative Assembly of Ontario * John Chantler McDougall (1842–1917), missionary and politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta * John McDougall (Ontario politician), member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, 1875–1879 * John Alexander McDougall (1854–1928), mayor of Edmonton and member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Elsewhere * John Frederick McDougall (1820–1896), Australian politician and pastoralist, member of the Queensland Legislative Council * Sir John McDougall (British politician) (1844–1917), chairman of the London County Council * John E. McDou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan McDougall
Dan McDougall is an international journalist. He is the current Africa Correspondent for ''The Sunday Times'' of London. He has reported from over 126 countries and war zones including Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistani Kashmir, Northern Yemen, The Sudan, The Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Burma, Rwanda, Bosnia, China, Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. A former New Delhi–based South Asia Correspondent for The Observer Newspaper (London, he has won three Amnesty International UK Media Awards for outstanding human rights journalism, and was voted the British Foreign Journalist of the Year at the 2009 British Press Awards. Dan is a media leader at The World Economic Forum and is a visiting lecturer in Human Rights at The University of Cambridge Awards and commendations McDougall's foreign reportage has appeared in magazines, periodicals and newspapers worldwide including ''The Guardian'', ''The Sunday Times'', ''The Times'', ''The Sunday T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt McDougall
Walter Hugh McDougall (February 10, 1858 – March 6, 1938) was an American cartoonist. He produced some of the earliest full color newspaper comic strips, and was one of the first producers of regular political cartoons in American daily papers. His satirical cartoons, published in outlets such as the ''New York World'' and ''The North American'', were influential in the 1884 U.S. presidential election, and soon after political cartoons became a fixture in American papers. He also drew children's comic strips, including '' Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz'' written by L. Frank Baum, and has been called the first syndicated cartoonist for his contributions to the weekly columns of humorist Bill Nye. His books include ''The Hidden City'' (1891) and ''The Rambillicus Book'' (1903). Biography Walter Hugh McDougall was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of John Alexander McDougall (1810–1894), a painter and close associate of writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Washin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara McDougall
Barbara Jean McDougall (born November 12, 1937) is a former Canadian politician. She served as a Member of Parliament from 1984 to 1993, and as Secretary of State for External Affairs from 1991 to 1993. She did not run again in the 1993 Canadian federal election which saw the incumbent Progressive Conservative government reduced to two seats in the House of Commons. In 2000 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Government and political experience McDougall served as a member of parliament from St. Paul's (Toronto) for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1984 to 1993. At the Cabinet table she was a vocal proponent of free choice for women in the abortion debate. She based her opposition to Senate reform partly on the fact that this institution is responsible for the state of abortion law in Canada at present. She held the following government posts: McDougall has remained active in conservative political circles. She was a member of the Red Tory C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriette McDougall
Henriette McDougall (, became Harriette McDougall, 30 August 1818 – 1886) was a British missionary, teacher and artist in what is now Malaysia. Life McDougall was born in Blackfriars, London in 1818. Her elder sister, Sarah, married John Colenso and was also to be a bishop's wife. Her father, Robert John Bunyon, had an interest in an ironworks in Trimsaran in South Wales. The University of London surgeon and Oxford graduate who was overseeing the ironworks was Francis McDougall and she married him in Llanelli in July 1843. The ironworks closed the following year and her husband decided to join the church. McDougall was offered a position as a missionary to go out to join James Brooke who had recently been installed as the White Rajah in an area of Borneo known as Sarawak. Her husband had opted instead for a position with the British Museum, but she persuaded him that they should be missionaries. The McDougalls sailed for six months as missionaries for Borneo via the Cape an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin McDougall
Colin Malcolm McDougall (1917–1984) was a Canadian author best known for his 1958 Governor General's Award-winning novel ''Execution''. Biography Born in Montreal, McDougall studied at McGill University before enlisting in Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry during World War II. He was sent overseas, where he served as an officer during Canadian participation in the Italian campaign. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and was Mentioned in Despatches. The recommendation for his DSO describes how he had fought in virtually every major engagement following the Allied invasion of Sicily, rising from a platoon commander, to regimental adjutant, then commanding the support company and finally, for the year before the recommendation was made, becoming commander of B company. It further describes three particular attacks led by him, including an action on 21 September 1944 when the company was ordered to improve the battalion's bridgehead over the river Marec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gay McDougall
Gay Johnson McDougall (born August 13, 1947, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American lawyer who has spent her career addressing international human rights and racial discrimination. She is currently a Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Leitner Center on International Law and Justice of Fordham University Law School. She was executive director of Global Rights, Partners for Justice (from September 1994 to 2006). In August 2005, she was named the first United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues, serving until 2011. Early years Gay Johnson McDougall was born August 13, 1947, to Louis and Inez Gay Johnson. Her father was a hospital cook and her mother a high school math teacher. She grew up in the Dixie Hills neighborhood of Atlanta. She attended Atlanta public schools and in 1965 graduated from Booker T. Washington High School. As a child, Gay McDougall was banned from many public places in Atlanta. When she finished high school, she was chosen to be the first bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon McDougall
Gordon Sholto McDougall (born 7 February 1916 – 18 May 1991) was a Scottish-born Australian actor. He trained at the Glasgow Athenaeum (now known as The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). After immigrating to Australia, he worked primarily in theatre in numerous productions as both an actor and director, but became best known in TV soap opera ''Number 96'', firstly as amateur inventor Les Whittaker, who was a comedy character opposite Sheila Kennelly, his character perished in the infamous bomb blast storyline, after ratings of the series fell and it was decided to write out some of the long term older cast members, however producers realized that the decision was a mistake, and McDougall was subsequently brought back, albeit as the less successful character of Les's aristocratic brother Andrew Whittaker, the Lord McCraddenow. Career Theatre and radio McDougall started acting professionally in 1936 working in various facets of the entertainment industry, including radio and stag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher McDougall
Christopher McDougall (born 1962) is an American author and journalist. He is best known for his 2009 book '' Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen''. He has also written for ''Esquire'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''Outside'', ''Men's Journal'', and ''New York'', and was a contributing editor for ''Men's Health''. Biography McDougall resides in Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania, a town located within Fulton Township. ''Born to Run'' In 2009's ''Born to Run'', McDougall tracks down members of the reclusive Tarahumara Indian tribe in the Mexican Copper Canyons. After being repeatedly injured as a runner himself, McDougall marvels at the tribe's ability to run ultra distances (over 100 miles) at incredible speeds, without getting the routine injuries of most American runners. The book has received attention in the sporting world for McDougall's description of how he overcame injuries by modeling his running after the Tara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |