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Alan Wood (other)
Alan Wood may refer to: * Alan Wood (Australian politician) (1927–2005), Victorian state politician * Alan Wood (engineer) (born 1947), British engineer and executive * Allen Wood (footballer) (1941–2018), sometimes listed as Alan, Welsh football player * Alan Wood (footballer, born 1900) (1900–?), English footballer * Alan Wood (footballer, born 1954), English football player * Alan Wood (military officer) (1922–2013), American naval officer * Alan Wood Jr. (1834–1902), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania * Alan Muir Wood (1921–2009), British civil engineer * Alan Thorpe Richard Wood (born 1954), British public servant See also * Allan Singleton-Wood (born 1933), British musician and publisher who performed under the stage name Allan Wood * Allan Wood (1943–2022), Australian swimmer * Allen Wood (other) * Al Wood Martin Alphonzo Wood (born June 2, 1958) is an American former professional basketball player who played in six National Basketball Associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wood (Australian Politician)
Alan Raymond Wood (18 June 1927 – 3 October 2005) was an Australian politician. He was born at Swan Hill to real estate agent Henry Raymond Wood and Irene Elizabeth Faulkner. During World War II he served in the AIF, and on his return worked with the family real estate business. On 26 February 1954 he married (Dorothy) Joyce Wilkinson, with whom he had six children. From 1959 to 1974 he was a Swan Hill councillor, serving as the town's first mayor from 1964 to 1965. In 1973 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Swan Hill. In 1979 he was appointed Minister of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, moving to Public Works Public works are a broad category of infrastructure projects, financed and constructed by the government, for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community. They include public buildings ( municipal buildings, sc ... and Property Services in December 1980. He resigned from parliament in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wood (engineer)
Alan John Wood, CBE, FREng (born March 20, 1947), was brought up in Sheffield, where he was educated at King Edward VII School. In 1965 he won an open scholarship to Manchester University and graduated in 1968 with a first class honours degree in mechanical engineering. He began his career as an engineering management trainee with Unilever on Merseyside. During his five years with this company, he spent periods in the soap & detergents and chemical businesses, but his major experience was with Van den Bergh & Jurgens, where he held project management and plant management positions before returning to university to take a second degree. He studied in the United States at Harvard University, where he was awarded a master's degree in business administration in 1975. Following his return to the UK, he took over responsibility for the manufacturing operations of Crittall Construction, a supplier of bespoke curtain wall projects for prestige office developments, and then becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Wood (footballer)
Allen Wood (13 January 1941 – 30 March 2018) is a Welsh former professional footballer. A central defender, he played for Lovell's Athletic, Bristol Rovers, Merthyr Tydfil Merthyr Tydfil (; cy, Merthyr Tudful ) is the main town in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales, administered by Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. It is about north of Cardiff. Often called just Merthyr, it is said to be named after Tydf ... and Newport County. References 1941 births 2018 deaths Welsh men's footballers Lovell's Athletic F.C. players Bristol Rovers F.C. players Merthyr Tydfil F.C. players Newport County A.F.C. players English Football League players Men's association football defenders Wales men's amateur international footballers Welsh football managers Footballers from Newport, Wales {{Wales-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wood (footballer, Born 1900)
Alan Esplin Wood (1900 – after 1924) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Coventry City Coventry City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Coventry, West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. The team currently compete in the EFL Championship, Championship, the second tier of the English footbal ... and Crystal Palace. References 1900 births English men's footballers Men's association football midfielders English Football League players Crystal Palace F.C. players Coventry City F.C. players Willenhall F.C. players Year of death missing Footballers from Walsall {{England-footy-midfielder-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wood (footballer, Born 1954)
Alan Ernest Wood (born 1 December 1954) is an English former professional footballer who played for Charlton Athletic and Dover Dover () is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maidstone ... as a central defender. References 1954 births Living people English men's footballers Men's association football defenders Footballers from Gravesend, Kent Charlton Athletic F.C. players Dover F.C. players English Football League players {{England-footy-defender-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wood (military Officer)
Alan Stevenson Wood (May 3, 1922 – April 18, 2013) was an American retired naval officer and veteran of World War II. Wood, who was U.S. Naval Communications officer at the Battle of Iwo Jima in February 1945, supplied the American flag being raised in the historic '' Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima'' photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. Biography Early life Wood was born in Pasadena, California, on May 3, 1922. He was a descendant of one of the first pioneer families who had settled area which is now modern-day Sierra Madre, California. Wood received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley. World War II and Iwo Jima Alan Wood had discovered a 37-square-foot American flag at a naval depot in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, months before deploying to the western Pacific Theater. He took the flag with him when he left Hawaii. Wood was a twenty-two-year-old naval communications officer for a landing ship, the Navy vessel LST-779, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wood Jr
Alan may refer to: People * Alan (surname), an English and Turkish surname * Alan (given name), an English given name **List of people with given name Alan ''Following are people commonly referred to solely by "Alan" or by a homonymous name.'' *Alan (Chinese singer) (born 1987), female Chinese singer of Tibetan ethnicity, active in both China and Japan *Alan (Mexican singer) (born 1973), Mexican singer and actor * Alan (wrestler) (born 1975), a.k.a. Gato Eveready, who wrestles in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración *Alan (footballer, born 1979) (Alan Osório da Costa Silva), Brazilian footballer *Alan (footballer, born 1998) (Alan Cardoso de Andrade), Brazilian footballer *Alan I, King of Brittany (died 907), "the Great" *Alan II, Duke of Brittany (c. 900–952) * Alan III, Duke of Brittany(997–1040) *Alan IV, Duke of Brittany (c. 1063–1119), a.k.a. Alan Fergant ("the Younger" in Breton language) *Alan of Tewkesbury, 12th century abbott *Alan of Lynn (c. 1348–1423), 15th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Muir Wood
Sir Alan Marshall Muir Wood (8 August 1921 – 1 February 2009) was a British civil engineer. Education Muir Wood was born on 8 August 1921 at Hampstead in London. Educated at Abbotsholme School, he later studied mechanical sciences at Peterhouse, Cambridge, from 1940 and graduated with a Master of Arts degree. Career Due to the Second World War Muir Wood joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) as a commissioned officer on 5 October 1942. He reached the rank of Probationary Temporary Sub-Lieutenant (Engineers) in the RNVR before transferring as Temporary Sub-Lieutenant (Engineers) to the Royal Navy on 5 June 1944. Muir Wood was promoted to Temporary Lieutenant (Engineers) on 1 August 1945, with seniority of 5 April 1945. After leaving the navy in 1946 Muir Wood worked for the Southern Railway where he helped to design bridges and the remediation of landslips at Folkestone Warren, Kent. He then spent a period with the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive where he d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Thorpe Richard Wood
Sir Alan Thorpe Richard Wood (born 4 April 1954) is a British public servant who served from 2006 to 2015 as the corporate director for Children and Young People's Services in the London Borough of Hackney. Career Born in Stepney, Wood read social sciences at the University of York and then trained as a teacher at University of Birmingham, working as a history teacher from 1977. From 1982 until 1990 he was a Labour local councillor for the London Borough of Camden for the Kilburn ward. After 13 years as a teacher, Wood moved to work for the London Borough of Southwark's education department in 1990 as their head of pupil support and special educational needs. In 1997 he was promoted to deputy director of education, and in 2000 further still to director of education. After one year, in 2001 Wood moved to London Borough of Hackney as their director of education for another year. Wood was made the chief executive of The Learning Trust when it was created in 2002,. This no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Singleton-Wood
Allan Singleton-Wood (born February 13, 1933) is a Canadian former professional pianist and music director of the BBC Welsh Dance Orchestra, the featured orchestra on the BBC national television series "Swing High." In 1965, he started a second career in publishing, eventually becoming publisher of a number of Canadian national newspapers and magazines, including the ''Financial Post'', ''Canadian Business'', and ''Small Business''. Early years Singleton-Wood was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales. He attended St. Julian's High School, where he graduated with a London University Matriculation. He studied law at London University but discontinued an LLB degree to become a professional musician."Famed British Pianist Returns with a New Album," Toronto Star, Aug. 19, 1998. Music career Singleton-Wood, who used the stage name Allan Wood, was a professional pianist, bandleader, and composer when, in 1960, he was named music director of the BBC Welsh Dance Orchestra, broadcasting on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Wood
Allan Frederick Wood (16 May 1943 – 10 October 2022) was an Australian freestyle swimmer, who won bronze medals in the 400-metre and 1500-metre freestyle events at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He spent his entire career in the shadow of fellow Australian distance freestyle swimmers Murray Rose and Bob Windle who won Olympic gold medals. Early life and career Coming from Wollongong, Wood made his debut at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where he was a member of the 4×200-metre freestyle relay team, swimming in the heats. Although the team of John Devitt, John Konrads, David Dickson, and Rose proceeded to claim bronze in the final, Wood was not awarded a medal, as heat swimmers were not entitled to one until 1984. Wood had been expected to do well at the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia, as he was the Australian 880-yard freestyle champion. However, a last-minute public appeal brought Rose back from the United States, where he was studying a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Wood (other)
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Allen Wood may refer to: * Allen K. Wood (1898–1977), American assistant director and production manager * Allen W. Wood (born 1942), American philosopher * Allen Wood (footballer) (1941–2018), Welsh footballer See also *Allenwood (other) *Allan Wood (1943–2022), Australian freestyle swimmer *Alan Wood (other) Alan Wood may refer to: * Alan Wood (Australian politician) (1927–2005), Victorian state politician * Alan Wood (engineer) (born 1947), British engineer and executive * Allen Wood (footballer) (1941–2018), sometimes listed as Alan, Welsh footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |