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McKerrow
McKerrow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Amanda McKerrow (born 1964), American ballet dancer * Bob McKerrow (born 1948), New Zealand humanitarian and writer * Clarence McKerrow (1877–1959), Canadian lacrosse player *James McKerrow (1834–1919), New Zealand astronomer and surveyor * Ronald Brunlees McKerrow (1872–1940), British bibliographer and Shakespearean scholar * Shirley McKerrow (born 1933), Australian politician *William McKerrow (1803-1878), Scottish-born, Manchester-based Presbyterian minister, radical activist and newspaper co-founder * William Stuart McKerrow (1922–2004), British geologist and palaeontologist See also *Lake McKerrow Lake McKerrow (officially Lake McKerrow / Whakatipu Waitai) lies at the northern end of Fiordland, in the southwest of New Zealand's South Island. The lake runs from southeast to northwest, is in length, and covers . Lake McKerrow drains, and ..., a lake of New Zealand * McKerrow, Ontario * Mount McKerrow [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob McKerrow
Robert James "Bob" McKerrow (born 21 March 1948), a native of New Zealand, is a humanitarian, mountaineer, polar traveller, writer and poet. He currently works as Country Coordinator for the Swiss Red Cross in the Philippines working on the Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) operation. When the Indian Ocean tsunami struck on 26 December 2004, McKerrow worked in India, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia, coordinating Red Cross programmes for people affected by the tsunami for an eight-year period. He was Editor of the ''New Zealand Adventure Magazine'' in 1989 and 1990, and continues to write and contribute photographs to various magazines, websites, and blogs. He has published a number of his poems in the ''New Zealand Alpine Journal'' and '' North & South'' Magazine, and wrote a biography of mountaineer Ebenezer Teichelmann. Early life McKerrow was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 21 March 1948 and is registered as "Robert James McKerrow" in the Deaths, Births and Marriages office in Duned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stuart McKerrow
William Stuart McKerrow (28 June 1922, Glasgow – 12 June 2004, Oxford) was a British geologist and palaeontologist, known as a leading expert on the Palaeozoic. Biography After primary school education at The Glasgow Academy, W. Stuart McKerrow became a boarding student at Derbyshire's Abbotsholme School, where he received his secondary school education. He matriculated in 1940 at the University of Glasgow and there in 1941 studied radio science. From 1942 to 1945 he served in the Royal Navy. He joined the Navy as a sub-lieutenant assigned to convey escort duties in the North Atlantic. He served as an expert in high-frequency direction-finding of enemy submarines. In an Atlantic gale, he repaired a faulty radio receiver. He was awarded the UK's Distinguished Service Cross in 1943 and was demobilised with the rank of lieutenant in November 1945. McKerrow returned to the University of Glasgow and graduated there in 1947 with a degree in geology. He was appointed a departmental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William McKerrow
William McKerrow (7 September 1803 – 4 June 1878) was a Scottish minister of the Presbyterian Church of England who had a particular interest in education. He lived for most of his life in Manchester, England, where he immersed himself in the radical politics prevalent there at the time. Early life William McKerrow was born on 7 September 1803. His parents were William and Elizabeth McKerrow, both of whom were very involved with the United Secession Church, which was a small sect formed from a schism of the wider Presbyterian church. He was schooled at Kilmarnock Academy and then attended the University of Glasgow between 1817 and 1823. In 1821, he had joined the Divinity Hall of the United Secession Church and in 1826 he was licensed to preach. A year later, in May, he moved to Manchester to take a position in the Lloyd Street Presbyterian chapel, with which he remained associated for the rest of his life. He was ordained on 7 September 1827. Church work McKerrow did ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Brunlees McKerrow
Ronald Brunlees McKerrow (12 December 1872 – 20 January 1940) was one of the leading bibliographers and Shakespeare scholars of the 20th century. Life R.B. McKerrow was born in Putney, Surrey, son of Alexander McKerrow, a civil engineer, and Mary Jane Brunlees, daughter of Sir James Brunlees, a president of the Institution of Civil Engineers. His paternal grandfather was William McKerrow, a noted cleric in the Presbyterian Church Presbyterianism is a historically Reformed Christianity, Reformed Protestantism, Protestant tradition named for its form of ecclesiastical polity, church government by representative assemblies of Presbyterian polity#Elder, elders, known as .... R.B. died at Picket Piece in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, where he was buried.W. W. Greg, 'McKerrow, Ronald Brunlees (1872–1940)', rev. John V. Richardson Jr., ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 200accessed 14 Sept 2009/ref> He was educated a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |