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Moodie
Moodie is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alma Moodie (1898–1943), Australian violinist * D. Aubrey Moodie (1908–2008), Canadian politician * Benjamin Moodie (1789–1856), Scottish emigrant to the Cape Colony * Canan Moodie (b. 2002), South African professional rugby union player * D. C. F. Moodie (1838–1891), South African writer who published a newspaper in South Australia * Duncan Moodie (1897–1960), Australian rules footballer * Erica Moodie, Canadian biostatistician * George Moodie (b. 1872), Australian rules footballer * Graeme Moodie (1924–2007), British political scientist * Graham Moodie (b. 1981), Scottish field hockey player * Janice Moodie (b. 1973), Scottish golfer * Jason Moodie (b. 1974), Australian Rugby player * Jim Moodie (1905–1980), Australian rules footballer * Jim Moodie (motorcycle racer) (b. 1966), Scottish motorcycle racer * John Moodie (1859–1944), Canadian textile manufacture * John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma Moodie
Alma Mary Templeton Moodie (12 September 18987 March 1943) was an Australian violinist who established an excellent reputation in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. She was regarded as the foremost female violinist during the inter-war years, and she premiered violin concertos by Kurt Atterberg, Hans Pfitzner and Ernst Krenek. She and Max Rostal were regarded as the greatest proponents of the Carl Flesch tradition. She became a teacher at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. However, Alma Moodie made no recordings,Dreyfus, F. K. (2003). ''Alma Moodie and the landscape of giftedness''. Australasian Music Research, 7, 1–14 and she appears in very few reference sources. Despite her former renown, her name became virtually unknown for many years. She appeared in earlier editions of Grove's and Baker's Dictionaries, but does not appear in the more recent editions. Biography Alma Mary Templeton Moodie was born on 12 September 1898 in regional Queensland, Australia, the daughter o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanna Moodie
Susanna Moodie (born Strickland; 6 December 1803 – 8 April 1885) was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time. Biography Susanna Moodie was born in Bungay, on the River Waveney in Suffolk. She was the youngest sister in a family of writers, including Agnes Strickland, Jane Margaret Strickland and Catharine Parr Traill. She wrote her first children's book in 1822 and published other children's stories in London, including books about Spartacus and Jugurtha. In London she was also involved in the Anti-Slavery Society, transcribing the narrative of the former Caribbean slave Mary Prince. On 4 April 1831, she married John Moodie, a retired officer who had served in the Napoleonic Wars. In 1832, with her husband, a British Army officer, and daughter, Moodie immigrated to Upper Canada. The family settled on a farm in Douro township, near Lakefield, north of Peterborough, where her brother Samuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janice Moodie
Janice C. Moodie (born 31 May 1973) is a Scottish professional golfer who plays mainly on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour but is also a member of the Ladies European Tour. Amateur career Moodie was born in Glasgow. At age 11, she was taught to play golf by her mother, a former 6-handicap amateur, aWindyhill Golf Clubin Bearsden, Scotland. At age 16, she left school and started working in a grocery store and Greaves sporting-goods shop in Glasgow. She had to postpone her college enrollment when her mother suffered a brain aneurysm that left her with tunnel-vision blindness and for the next three and a half years Moodie worked in the winter (including a few weeks in a nightclub) so she could play competitive amateur golf in the summer. During this period she won the 1992 Scottish Women's Strokeplay Championship and represented Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup in 1994 when her win over Carol Semple Thompson in the final singles match secured a 9- 9 tie keeping the Curtis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Moodie
Captain Benjamin Moodie (1789 - 2 April 1856) was the 10th Laird of Melsetter who led a party of 200 Scottish immigrants to the Cape Colony in 1817, three years before the arrival of the 1820 Settlers. Moodie served in the Ross and Caithness Militia and returned from the Napoleonic wars in 1815 as a half-pay officer, and was forced to sell the heavily indebted family estate in the Orkney Islands. In 1817 he led a party of indentured Scottish artisans to settle in the Cape Colony. The first party arrived in Cape Town on 14 June 1817 on the ship ''Brilliant'', followed by a further 50 on the ''Garland'' on 23 August 1817, and a third party on the ''Clyde'' on 24 September 1817. Among the party was David Hume, who became an explorer and big-game hunter, and his brother Donald Moodie. A second brother, John Moodie, joined him in South Africa in 1819. Benjamin Moodie settled on the farm Groot Vaders Bosch near Swellendam and later at White Sands, now known as Witsand, at the mouth of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Moodie (lawyer)
Miss Alice (born October 1938, previously known as Rob Moodie) is a New Zealand lawyer and former police officer and politician. He was mayor of Manawatu from 1995 to 1998 and twice stood unsuccessfully for Parliament under the United Future banner. He is also known for his wearing of kaftans during the 1980s while Police Association secretary, and female attire in the High Court and Court of Appeal in 2006. Early life and family One of 10 children, Moodie was born in Dunedin in 1938. He was made a ward of the state following his father's death from tuberculosis and grew up in a boys' home from the age of seven. He was fostered by the Clyne family living near Oamaru and attended Waitaki Boys' High School. However, he did not do well at school and left aged 15. He worked as a freezing worker and a fencing contractor before deciding to join the police when he was 19. Police and legal careers Moodie joined the New Zealand Police in 1959 and served as a detective in Wellington, ris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Moodie
William Moodie or Mudie FRSE (1759–1812) was a Scottish Minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1799. He was also a philologist, and Professor of Hebrew (and Oriental Languages) at Edinburgh University. Early life He was born on 2 July 1759, the son of Roger Moodie, Minister of Gartly, Strathbogie and his wife, Margaret Scott. His father moved to the post of Minister of Monimail, near Cupar, in 1766, where William attended the parish school. In 1773, William enrolled at the University of St Andrews. His father died when he was sixteen, in 1775, and he moved to Edinburgh, where "''he finished his course of Theological study with distinguished approbation''" Contested appointment He was licensed by the Presbytery to preach the gospel in 1781 and became tutor to the family of James Oswald of Dunnikier. William apparently impressed with his preaching and Mr Oswald, the parish's Patron, along with several other parishioners presente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Moodie (motorcycle Racer)
Jim Moodie born 15 February 1966 in Dumfries is a retired British Superbike, Supersport and Isle of Man TT racer who retired in 2003 from the TT races after being caught up in the accident that claimed the life of David Jefferies Allan David Jefferies (18 September 1972 – 29 May 2003) was an English professional motorcycle racer. He died after crashing during practice for the 2003 Isle of Man TT races. Early life The son of Tony Jefferies, also a former Isle of Man .... He also raced successfully in British superbikes, finishing second on two occasions and winning the supersport championship twice, the first time with his own private bike. Moodie's first TT win was in 1993 when he was successful in winning both the 600 and 400 Supersport classes, his final win was in 2002 when he won the Junior TT giving him a total of eight TT wins. In the 1998 production TT, Moodie riding a Honda, posted the first ever lap of over 120mph by a rider on a standard road going production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canan Moodie
Canan Moodie (born 5 November 2002) is a South African professional rugby union player who currently plays for the Bulls in the URC and South Africa national team. His regular position is wing. Canan Moodie was born and raised in Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa. He initially attended Paarl Boys' Primary School and then chose to board at . This allowed him to focus on rugby development, away from home. At school, he played rugby as a centre, winning a high school championship. He also represented the Western Province's youth teams in 2019 and 2020. After completing high school, he joined the Blue Bulls Academy in Pretoria; competing in the 2021 RSA provincial under-20 championship. In the same year, he was selected for the South African under-20 team to compete in the International Series, a Covid-19 induced replacement series for the Junior World Championship. He performed well, scoring two braces against Uruguay and Argentina. Moodie was named in the side for the 2022 C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley Moodie
Wesley Moodie (born 14 February 1979) is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. Career Early life and college career He began to play tennis at an early age and won the South African Junior Masters tournament in February 1996. Moodie played college tennis in the United States from January 1997 until May 2000, originally for Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM), and then from September 1998 at Boise State (BSU). He turned professional in June 2000. Professional career Moodie first came to public notice when he reached the third round at Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * ... in 2003, losing to Sébastien Grosjean, whom he beat in the United States later that year. Moodie won his first top-flight tour singles event in capturing the 2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erica Moodie
Erica Eleanor Margret Moodie is a Canadian biostatistician known for her work on dynamic treatment regimes. She is Canada Research Chair and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at McGill University. Education and career Moodie graduated from the University of Winnipeg in 2000 with a double major in mathematics and statistics. She earned a master's degree in epidemiology at the University of Cambridge in 2001, a second master's degree in biostatistics at the University of Washington in 2004, and a Ph.D. in biostatistics at the University of Washington in 2006. Her dissertation was ''Inference for optimal dynamic treatment regimes'', and was supervised by Thomas Richardson. She has been on the McGill University faculty since 2006. Books With B. Chakraborty, Moodie is the coauthor of the book ''Statistical Methods for Dynamic Treatment Regimes: Reinforcement Learning, Causal Inference, and Personalized Medicine'' (Springer, 2013). She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Moodie
Graeme Cochrane Moodie (27 August 1924 – 3 August 2007) was the founding professor in 1963 of the Department of Politics at the University of York. He is most notable as principal author of ''The Moodie Report'', which set out what is now the general model for student participation in the governance of modern British universities, and ''The Government of Great Britain'' (1961), regarded as a classic in its field and a standard textbook for students of British politics. Early life and education Born in Dundee, the son of an ophthalmologist, and educated at Lathallan School in Fife, Moodie contracted polio at the age of nine (which left him with a lifelong limp) and was taught in hospital until 1936. His schooling was completed at the well-known Quaker school, Leighton Park near Reading, Berkshire and he then studied economics and political science at St Andrews University. While studying at The Queen's College, Oxford, he was elected president of the Junior Common Room and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Moodie
Jason Moodie (born 29 May 1974) is an Australian former professional rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ... footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. A New South Wales State of Origin representative , he played in the National Rugby League for the Newcastle Knights, Parramatta Eels and Wests Tigers. Playing career Moodie made his first grade debut for Newcastle in Round 2 1997 against North Sydney. Moodie played 12 games for Newcastle in 1997 but did not play in the club's maiden premiership victory over Manly-Warringah. Moodie joined Parramatta in 2000 and played in the club's preliminary final defeat against eventual premiers Brisbane. Moodie then played for the Parramatta Eels in their 2001 NRL grand final loss to the Newcastle Knights. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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