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Aiton (surname)
Aiton is a surname of Scottish origin. Notable people with the surname include: *George Aiton, Major League Baseball player * John Aiton, Scottish religious writer *Paul Aiton, Papua New Guinean rugby league player *William Aiton (1731–1793), Scottish botanist for whom the standard author abbreviation "Aiton" is used when citing a botanical name *William Townsend Aiton (1766–1849), Scottish botanist; William Aiton's son *William Aiton (sheriff) William Aiton (9 January 1760 – 8 July 1847) was a Scottish law agent, agriculturalist and sheriff-substitute of the county of Lanark. He was an authority on all matters bearing on Scottish husbandry. He was born at Silverwood, Kilmarnock, in ..., Scottish law agent See also * Ayton (surname) * Aytoun, several biographies References {{surname Surnames of Scottish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet. , the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 8.5 million movies, videos and TV shows, 894 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4.4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 241 thousand concerts, and over 734 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Aiton
George Wilson Aiton (December 29, 1890 – August 16, 1976) was a Major League Baseball player. Aiton played for the St. Louis Browns in the 1912 season. He only played in ten games for the Browns, having four hits in seventeen at-bats. He played minor league baseball for the Clay Center Cubs of the Central Kansas League Aiton was born in Kingman, Kansas and died in North Hollywood, California North Hollywood is a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, located in the San Fernando Valley. The neighborhood contains the NoHo Arts District, the El Portal Theatre, several art galleries, and the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences. The North H .... External links St. Louis Browns players 1890 births 1976 deaths Baseball players from Kansas People from Kingman, Kansas Clay Center Cubs players Manhattan Elks players Salina Insurgents players {{US-baseball-outfielder-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Aiton
John Aiton D.D. (June 1797 – 1863) was a Scottish religious writer. He was the youngest son of William Aiton, a sheriff-substitute of Lanarkshire, and was born at Strathaven Strathaven (; from gd, Strath Aibhne ) is a historic market town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland and is the largest settlement in Avondale. It is south of Hamilton. The Powmillon Burn runs through the town centre, and joins the Avon Water to the ..., June 1797. He published, in 1824, ‘A Refutation of Mr. Robert Owen's Objections to Christianity.’ For this pamphlet he was presented by the then Lord Douglas to the benefice of Dolphinton, South Lanarkshire. His other works are: 1. ‘The Life and Times of Alexander Henderson,’ Edin. 1836. 2. ‘Clerical Economics,’ Edin. 1842. 3. ‘Eight Weeks in Germany,’ Edin. 1842. 4. ‘The Lands of the Messiah, Mahomet, and the Pope,’ Edin. 1852. 5. ‘The Drying-up of the Euphrates,’ London, 1853. 6. ‘St. Paul and his localities in their past and presen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Aiton
Paul Aiton (born 1985) is a Papua New Guinean former professional rugby league footballer who is the current assistant coach of both the PNG Hunters in the Queensland Cup and the PNG Kumuls. A Papua New Guinea international representative , Aiton played for the Penrith Panthers and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the NRL, and the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, Leeds Rhinos and the Catalans Dragons in the Super League. Early life Born in Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea to a Papua New Guinean mother, Anne, and an Australian father, John, Aiton moved to Caboolture, Queensland, Australia with his family at a young age. He played his junior rugby league for the Caboolture Snakes and attended Morayfield State Primary School before joining the Wests Panthers in Brisbane, where he was signed by the Penrith Panthers in 2003. Playing career Penrith Panthers After playing for Penrith's second-tier team, the St Mary's Cougars, in the NSWRL Premier League, Aiton was called upon to make hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Aiton
William Aiton (17312 February 1793) was a Scotland, Scottish botanist. Aiton was born near Hamilton, Scotland, Hamilton. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Philip Miller, then superintendent of the Chelsea Physic Garden. In 1759 he was appointed director of the newly established Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, botanical garden at Kew, where he remained until his death. He effected many improvements at the gardens, and in 1789 he published ''Hortus Kewensis'', a catalogue of the plants cultivated there. He is buried at nearby St. Anne's Church, Kew. A second and enlarged edition of the ''Hortus'' was brought out in 1810–1813 by his eldest son, William Townsend Aiton. Aiton is commemorated in the Specific epithet (botany), specific epithet ''aitonis''. In 1789, he classified the Sampaguita plant to the ''Jasmine, Jasminium'' genus and also named it as ''Arabian Jasmine'' because it was believed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Townsend Aiton
William Townsend Aiton FRHS FLS (2 February 1766 – 9 October 1849) was an English botanist. He was born at Kew on 2 February 1766, the eldest son of William Aiton. He brought out a second and enlarged edition of the ''Hortus Kewensis'' in 1810–1813, a catalogue of the plants at Kew Gardens, the first edition of which was written by his father William Aiton. Aiton succeeded his father as director at Kew Gardens in 1793 and was commissioned by George IV to lay out the gardens at the Royal Brighton Pavilion and at Buckingham Palace Garden. Aiton was one of the founders and an active fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society. He retired in 1841 but remained living at Kew, although passing much of his time with his brother at Kensington where he died on 9 October 1849. He is buried at Kew. References Further reading * Pagmenta, Frank (2009) ''The Aitons: Gardeners to their Majesties''. Richmond Local History Society Richmond is a town in south-west London,The London Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Aiton (sheriff)
William Aiton (9 January 1760 – 8 July 1847) was a Scottish law agent, agriculturalist and sheriff-substitute of the county of Lanark. He was an authority on all matters bearing on Scottish husbandry. He was born at Silverwood, Kilmarnock, in 1760, a neighbourhood which he left in 1785 to go to Strathaven, Lanarkshire Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark ( gd, Siorrachd Lannraig; sco, Lanrikshire), is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration county in the central Lowlands of Scotland. Lanarkshire is the most populous county in Scotlan ..., where he practised for many years as a law agent. He next went to Hamilton, where he held office as one of the sheriff-substitutes of the county from 1816 up to 1822. He died in 1847. At no period did his income exceed a hundred a year, and yet out of this, with a family of twelve children, he educated four sons for liberal professions, often sending them his last guinea when they were students at college. Works Ait ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayton (surname)
Ayton is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charles John Ayton (1846–1922), New Zealand miner and diarist * David Ayton Sr. (1857–1931), Scottish golfer * Deandre Ayton (born 1998), Bahamian basketball player * Fanny Ayton (1806–1899), English opera singer * Frank Ayton (1873–1936), English electrical engineer * John Ayton (born c. 1963), British businessman * Laurie Ayton Sr. (1884–1962), Scottish golfer * Laurie Ayton Jr. (1914–1989), Scottish golfer * Philip Ayton (born 1947), English squash player * Richard Ayton (1786–1823), English dramatist and writer * Robert Ayton (1915–1985), British artist and illustrator * Sarah Ayton (born 1980), English sailor * William Alexander Ayton (1816–1909), British Anglican clergyman See also * Aiton (surname) Aiton is a surname of Scottish origin. Notable people with the surname include: *George Aiton, Major League Baseball player * John Aiton, Scottish religious writer *Paul Aiton, Papua N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aytoun
Aytoun is a surname of Scottish origin. Notable people with the surname include: *Andrew Aytoun (died 1547), Scottish soldier and engineer * George Aytoun (born 1880), Scottish footballer *Robert Aytoun (1570–1638), Scottish poet *Roger Aytoun (died 1810), British soldier *Roger Sinclair Aytoun (1823–1904), Scottish politician *William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865), Scottish poet, humorist, and writer See also *Aiton (surname) *Ayton (surname) Ayton is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charles John Ayton (1846–1922), New Zealand miner and diarist * David Ayton Sr. (1857–1931), Scottish golfer * Deandre Ayton (born 1998), Bahamian basketball player * Fann ... References {{surname, Aytoun Surnames of Scottish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
