Sturrock

	Sturrock Sturrock is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Archibald Sturrock (1816–1909), Scottish mechanical engineer Blair Sturrock (born 1981), Scottish soccer player * David Sturrock (born 1938), Scottish-born soccer player * Ian Sturrock, British botanist specialising in orchards and apple trees Jock Sturrock (1915–1997), Australian yachtsman John Sturrock (other), several people * John Leng Sturrock (1878–1943), Scottish newspaper publisher and politician * Kathron Sturrock, British pianist * Paul Sturrock (born 1956), Scottish soccer manager Peter Sturrock (MP) (1820–1904), Scottish civil engineer, colliery owner and politician Peter A. Sturrock Peter Andrew Sturrock (born 20 March 1924) is a British scientist. An emeritus professor of applied physics at Stanford University, much of Sturrock's career has been devoted to astrophysics, plasma physics, and solar physics, but Sturrock is i ... (born 1924), British astrophysicist {{surnam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Paul Sturrock Paul Whitehead Sturrock (born 10 October 1956) is a Scottish former football coach and former player. As a player, Sturrock spent his entire senior career with Dundee United, making more than five hundred appearances between 1974 and 1989. He won the Scottish Football League title with United in 1982–83 and the Scottish League Cup twice, in 1979 and 1980. He was named the SFWA Footballer of the Year in 1982. At international level, Sturrock played twenty times for Scotland and appeared at the 1982 and 1986 World Cups. Sturrock's managerial career began with St Johnstone in 1993, where he went on to win the Scottish First Division title in 1996–97 before returning to Dundee United as manager. Since 2000, Sturrock has worked as a manager in English football, initially with Plymouth Argyle where he helped the club to win two promotions before moving on to a brief spell with Southampton. He has subsequently also managed Sheffield Wednesday, Swindon Town and Southend U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Archibald Sturrock Archibald Sturrock (30 September 1816 – 1 January 1909) was a Scottish mechanical engineer who was born at Petruchie, Angus, Scotland. He was locomotive superintendent of the Great Northern Railway from 1850 until c. 1866, having from 1840 been Daniel Gooch's assistant on the Great Western Railway. Archibald Sturrock is often remembered for his unsuccessful experiment with steam tenders. However, his principal achievement was the opening of the Great Northern main line and the establishment of GNR's reputation for a reliable and comfortable passenger service from London to York and beyond. Career Dundee Foundry Sturrock was born in 1816. His father, who was agent to the Bank of Scotland, was shocked when Sturrock, aged 15, took an apprenticeship at the Dundee Foundry. Here he was involved with the construction of a locomotive for the Dundee and Newtyle Railway and met Daniel Gooch, who was to become Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Western Railway. Great Western Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Blair Sturrock Blair David Sturrock (born 25 August 1981) is a former Scottish footballer who played as a forward. His previous clubs include Dundee United, Brechin City, Plymouth Argyle, Kidderminster Harriers, Rochdale, Swindon Town, AFC Bournemouth, Torquay United, Mansfield Town, Southend United. His father, Paul Sturrock, a former player who was a Scotland international was also the Manager of Southend United signing Blair and then ultimately releasing him. Career Dundee United Sturrock started off as a trainee for Dundee United before briefly going on loan to Brechin City in the 2000–01 season. Plymouth Argyle He then moved to Plymouth for three years and made 64 appearances for the club during the years 2001–2004, but mostly as a substitute. He scored two goals in his time at Plymouth. Kidderminster Harriers He then moved to Kidderminster Harriers in 2004 where he spent nine months, playing 22 games and scoring five goals. Rochdale Nine months after signing for Kidderminster h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	John Leng Sturrock John Leng Sturrock (23 August 1878 – 22 July 1943) was a Scottish newspaper publisher and Liberal politician. Family and education John Leng Sturrock was born in Newport-on-Tay, Fife. He was educated at the High School of Dundee and at University College, Dundee. In 1925 he married Winifred, the daughter of William Anning JP of Torquay. They had one son and a daughter.Who was Who, OUP 2007 Sturrock's grandfather was Sir John Leng, a journalist and newspaper proprietor, who was Member of Parliament for Dundee from 1899 to 1906. His great-uncle was Sir William Christopher Leng, who was also a newspaperman and active in Conservative politics in Sheffield. He owed his middle name to the Leng family connection and sometimes hyphenated his surname to Leng-Sturrock. His son was the writer John Sturrock. Career Sturrock followed the family trade and was himself originally a journalist but later entered the newspaper publishing business and became managing director of John Leng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Jock Sturrock Alexander Stuart "Jock" Sturrock MBE (14 May 1915 in Melbourne11 July 1997 in Noosa Heads) was a noted Australian yachtsman who won over four hundred international, national, state and club championship yachting races. Sports career Between 1929 and 1959 Jock won 21 Australian and 22 Victorian yachting championships. He won his first Victorian championship, in the 12 ft Cadet Dinghy "Aurcol", in 1929 when he was 14 years old. The first Australian yachting championship he won, in the 12-foot Cadet Dinghy "Monsoon", was in Perth in 1932 when he was 16 years old. At 18 he helped pioneer the introduction of the International Star class yacht into Australia and then won the first 8 Australian championships held for that Star class (between 1935 and 1947). He was also 6-time Australian 6 Metre class champion (1946, 1947, 1953, 1954, 1955 and 1956), 4-time Australian Dragon class champion (1951–52, 1952–53, 1953–54, and 1954–55), and 2-time Australian 5.5 Metre class ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	David Sturrock David Sturrock (22 February 1938 – 2022) was a Scottish footballer, who played as an inside forward in the Scottish Football League and the English Football League in the 1950s and 1960s. Sturrock began a five-year spell with local club Dundee United in the mid-1950s, joining English side Accrington Stanley for the 1960/61 season. He is reported as having made a total of 26 appearances for Accrington (scoring 7 goals), before moving to Southern League side Bedford Town Bedford Town Football Club is a football club based in the Borough of Bedford, England. The club are currently members of the and play at the Eyrie in Cardington, a village on the outskirts of Bedford. They are full members of the Football As .... Sturrock moved back to his hometown of Dundee following the end of his playing career. Dundee United announced in December 2022 that Sturrock had recently died. References 1938 births 2022 deaths Footballers from Dundee Scottish Football League play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Peter Sturrock (MP) Peter Sturrock (1820 – 7 March 1904) was a Scottish civil engineer, colliery owner and provost of Kilmarnock and a Conservative politician. Sturrock was the son of David Sturrock, of Struthers, near Kilmarnock and his wife Helen Woodbum. He was educated at Kilmarnock Academy and at Glasgow. Sturrock married Helen Hutchinson Guthrie in 1850. He was a civil engineer, a colliery owner, and a director of North British Canadian Investment Co., and Scottish Ontario Land Co. He was provost of Kilmarnock and a justice of the peace for Ayrshire He was one of the founders and president of the Kilmarnock Burns Club. He was elected at the 1885 general election as the Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house ... (MP) for Kilmarnock Burghs, with a majority of o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	John Sturrock (other) John Sturrock may refer to: Sir John Sturrock (colonial administrator) (1875–1937), British colonial official John Sturrock (politician) (1878–1943), British politician and journalist John Sturrock (rugby union) (1880–1940), Scottish rugby union player John Sturrock (rower) John Duncan "Jan" Sturrock OBE (20 March 1915 – 20 July 1974) was an English rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics, where he was a member of the British boat which won the silver medal in the coxless four eve ... (1915–1974), English rower * John Sturrock (writer) (1930–2017), English writer, editor, reviewer and translator {{hndis, name=Sturrock, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Kathron Sturrock Kathron Sturrock is a British pianist who studied with Cyril Smith, Joan Trimble, Alfred Brendel and Rostropovich, and worked with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. She is a professor at the Royal College of Music and has recorded for Hyperion, Chandos, Pickwick, Sain, Gamut, ASV, Naxos and Black Box Records. Sturrock is the artistic director of the Fibonacci Sequence. She is also the only pianist to have twice won the prize for the best accompanist at the Sofia International Opera Competition. She recorded a series of albums with the double bassist Duncan McTier. She has performed in most countries in Europe, North America, India and Australia, performs regularly in the London concert halls, and records frequently for BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It replaced the BBC Third Programme in 1967 and broadcasts classical music and opera, with jazz, world music, Radio drama, drama, High culture, culture and the arts .... Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ian Sturrock Ian Sturrock is a rescuer and restorer of orchards and apple trees, saving apple varieties from extinction. He discovered the last remaining Bardsey apple, and rescued the Diamond apple, as well as many other Welsh apples ''The Cambrian Journal'' (Vol. 111, 1858) contains a list of names for about 200 Welsh apples, the majority of which were from the Monmouth area. In 1999 a single apple tree was identified by Ian Sturrock on Bardsey Island (located at the end of t .... He was a finalist for a 2016 St David Award. References External links the Bardsey apple (afal enlli) Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-botanist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]