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Alexander Mackay (writer)
Alexander McKay or MacKay may refer to: People * Alexander McKay (boxer) (1804–1830), Scottish heavyweight bare-knuckle fighter * Alexander McKay (politician) (1843–1912), mayor of Hamilton, Ontario, 1886–1887 * Alexander Mackay (British Army officer) (1717–1789), British general and Member of Parliament * Alexander MacKay (politician) (1818–?), merchant and politician in Nova Scotia, Canada * Alexander Gordon McKay (1924–2007), Canadian academic who specialized in Vergilian studies * Alexander Murdoch Mackay (1849–1890), Presbyterian missionary to Uganda * Alexander MacKay (fur trader) (1770–1811), business associate of fur trader Duncan Cameron * Alexander Grant MacKay (1860–1920), Canadian teacher, lawyer and provincial level politician * Alexander Mackay (magistrate) (1833–1909), New Zealand farmer, explorer, linguist, magistrate and land court judge * Alexander McLellan Mackay (1834–1905), businessman and politician in Newfoundland * Alexander McKay ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McKay (boxer)
Alexander McKay (1804 – 3 June 1830) was a Scottish heavyweight bare-knuckle fighter. He fought in just five prize fights, these are: # Loss to Simon Byrne after 47 mins, in 5 rounds on 3 May 1827 # Win over Peter Curran after 18 mins – in 1828 # Win over Paul Spencer after 25 rounds on 16 October 1828 £40 # Win over Paul Spencer after 30 mins in 34 rounds on 17 February 1829 # Loss to Simon Byrne after 53 mins in 47 rounds on 2 June 1830 McKay died of a brain haemorrhage 30 hours after his second fight against Byrne. The news of his death was greeted in his native Scotland by rioting in which several died. He is buried in churchyard in the village of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire. The following epitaph is engraved on his tombstone. :::"''Strong and athletic was my frame'' :::''Far from my native home I came'' :::''And bravely fought with Simon Byrne'' :::''Alas, but never to return.'' :::''Stranger take warning from my fate'' :::''Lest you should rue your case too late' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McKay (politician)
Alexander McKay (April 19, 1843 – April 21, 1912) was mayor of Hamilton, Ontario from 1886 to 1887. Born in Hamilton, Canada West, McKay was the son of William McKay and Jane Reid, both natives of Ireland. He was educated there and entered business as a hotel manager and then a grain merchant The grain trade refers to the local and international trade in cereals and other food grains such as wheat, barley, maize, and rice. Grain is an important trade item because it is easily stored and transported with limited spoilage, unlike other .... In 1871, McKay married Catherine Marshall. After he retired from politics, McKay became a customs inspector. References * ''The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1891''JA Gemmill 1843 births 1912 deaths Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs Mayors of Hamilton, Ontario Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario {{Ontario-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Mackay (British Army Officer)
General Alexander Mackay (1717 – 31 May 1789) was a Scottish soldier in the British Army, and a politician. The son of George Mackay, 3rd Lord Reay, he was the younger brother of George Mackay of Skibo (''c.''1715–1782). Military career Mackay was commissioned in the British Army in 1737, as an ensign in the 25th Foot. He was promoted to lieutenant in the 47th Foot in 1740 and to captain in Lord Loudon's Regiment in 1745. During the Jacobite rising of 1745, he was captured by Jacobite forces at the Battle of Prestonpans. Serving with his regiment in Flanders from 1747 until 1748, he received promotion to the rank of major in George Howard's Regiment of Foot on 17 February 1749, replacing Cyrus Trapaud, who was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the same regiment. Mackay became a lieutenant-colonel in Hedworth Lambton's Regiment of Foot on 18 December 1755. Mackay served out much of the Seven Years' War in Ireland, where he raised his own regiment in 1762. In the summe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander MacKay (politician)
Alexander MacKay (April 3, 1818 – February 16, 1882) was a merchant, farmer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Pictou County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1862 to 1867 and from 1872 to 1882 as a Conservative member. He was born in West River, Nova Scotia, the son of John MacKay, a Scottish immigrant. He was educated at Pictou. MacKay first worked as a stone-cutter and builder. He was named a justice of the peace in 1853. MacKay supported Confederation and was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1867. He was elected again in an 1872 by-election held after James McDonald was elected to the House of Commons. MacKay was an elder of the Church of Scotland. In 1851, he married Margaret Mackay. MacKay was elected to the council for Pictou County in 1879. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Gordon McKay
Alexander Gordon "Sandy" McKay, (December 24, 1924 – August 31, 2007) was a Canadian academic who specialized in Vergilian studies. Born in Toronto, Ontario, McKay graduated from Upper Canada College in 1942. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1946 from the University of Toronto, a Master of Arts degree in 1947 from Yale University, a A.M. degree in 1948 from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in 1950 from Princeton. He started his academic career as an instructor at Princeton University from 1947 to 1949. He then taught at Wells College (1949-1950), the University of Pennsylvania (1950-1951), the University of Manitoba (1951-1952), Mount Allison University (1952-1953), Waterloo College (1953-1955), and again at the University of Manitoba (1955-1957). He started teaching at McMaster University in 1957. He was appointed an associate professor in 1959, a full professor in 1961, and retired as a Professor Emeritus in 1990. He was chair of Classics from 1962 to 1968 and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Murdoch Mackay
Alexander Murdoch Mackay (13 October 1849 – 4 February 1890) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Uganda known as Mackay of Uganda. Life Mackay was born on 13 October 1849 in Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, the son of Rev Alexander Mackay LLD (1813-1895) and his first wife, Margaret Lillie (1825-1865).Ewing, William ''Annals of the Free Church'' He studied at the Free Church Training School for Teachers at Edinburgh, then at the University of Edinburgh, and finally in Berlin. He displayed a great aptitude for mechanics, and spent several years as a drafter, draughtsman in Germany. Mackay decided to become a missionary after Henry Morton Stanley was told by Mutesa I of Buganda that Uganda wanted missionaries. He joined the Church Missionary Society in 1876. Mackay reached Zanzibar on 30 March 1876, followed by Uganda in November 1878. He taught various skills to the Ugandan people, including carpentry and farming. He was named ''Muzungu wa Kazi'' by the Ugandans. The name mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander MacKay (fur Trader)
Alexander MacKay ( 1770 – 15 June 1811) (also spelled McKay in some records) was a Canadian fur trader and explorer who worked for the North West Company and the Pacific Fur Company. He co-founded Fort Astoria near the mouth of the Columbia River on the Pacific coast. Early life MacKay was probably born in the Mohawk Valley area of central New York, where his father Donald MacKay had brought the family after the Seven Years' War. Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War, the family departed the area and first lived in the Trois Rivières area of Lower Canada. They settled in the Glengarry region of Upper Canada about 1792. Alexander MacKay married Marguerite Waddens or Wadin ''Descendants of Alexander McKay'' http://museum.bmi.net/Picnic%20People%20M.Z/mckay,%20WC.htm Retrieved: 5 September 2015 and had one son, Thomas McKay, and three daughters: Annie Nancy McKay, Catherine McKay and Marie Wadin McKay. His natural son Alexander Ross MacKay was born by another woman. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Grant MacKay
Alexander Grant MacKay (March 7, 1860 – April 25, 1920) was a Canadian teacher, lawyer and provincial level politician. He served prominent posts in two provincial legislatures as Leader of the Opposition in Ontario and as a Cabinet Minister in Alberta. Early life Alexander Grant MacKay was born in Sydenham, Ontario, in Grey County on March 7, 1860, to parents Hugh MacKay and Katherine McInnis. He attended post secondary studies at the Owen Sound College and the University of Toronto obtaining a Master of Business degree. After university he became the principal of Port Rowan High School. In 1891 he joined the Ontario bar and served as a criminal lawyer until 1894, when he became Crown Attorney for Grey County. He served that role until 1912. MacKay began his political career on the municipal level with his election to the Owen Sound Board of Education in 1894. He served in that role until he entered Ontario provincial politics in 1902. Ontario politics MacKay ran and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Mackay (magistrate)
Alexander Mackay (11 May 1833 – 18 November 1909) was a New Zealand farmer, explorer, linguist, magistrate and land court judge. He was born in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland on 11 May 1833. James Mackay Sr was his uncle and James Mackay Jr was his cousin. He married Hannah Sarah Gibbs at Collingwood, a daughter of William Gibbs. Mackay died at Feilding Feilding ( mi, Aorangi) is a town in the Manawatū District of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on State Highway 54, 20 kilometres north of Palmerston North. The town is the seat of the Manawatū District Council. Feilding has ... on 18 November 1909, and was buried at Feilding Cemetery. References 1833 births 1909 deaths 19th-century New Zealand farmers Linguists from New Zealand District Court of New Zealand judges Civil servants from Edinburgh Scottish emigrants to New Zealand Māori Land Court judges Burials at Feilding Cemetery Colony of New Zealand judges {{NewZealand- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McLellan Mackay
Alexander McLellan Mackay (1834 – November 24, 1905) was a businessman and politician in Newfoundland. He represented Burgeo from 1878 to 1885 as a Liberal and Port de Grave from 1900 to 1905 as a Conservative in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly. He was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia. He taught school for a short time and then worked as a telegraph operator in Halifax, Hamilton and New York City. In 1805, Mackay married Elizabeth O'Neill. He came to Newfoundland in 1857 as superintendent for the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company (later the Anglo-American Telegraph Company). Mackay served in the province's Executive Council as a minister without portfolio from 1882 to 1885. In 1885, he founded the St. John's Electric Light Company, the first and established the first public telephone system in Newfoundland in St. John's. He was named to the Legislative Council of Newfoundland in 1885 and served until 1896, when he was forced to resign after be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McKay (geologist)
Alexander McKay (11 April 1841 – 8 July 1917) was a New Zealand geologist. He was born in Carsphairn, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland on 11 April 1841. McKay reached New Zealand in 1863 where he spent a number of years prospected for gold. A meeting with Julius von Haast saw a change of direction in which McKay, largely self-taught, undertook geological mapping and fossil collecting expeditions throughout the islands. In 1872 James Hector appointed him to the Geological Survey of New Zealand.Cherry Lewis, Simon J. Knell (2009) "The Making of the Geological Society of London"pp350 Geological Society of London. Retrieved February 2015 During his geological work McKay took numerous photographs. He invented a telephoto lens and also techniques for taking images of geological collections and fossils. McKay's greatest achievement was to free New Zealand sciences from the strictures of European-based thinking, developing new theories, of worldwide importance, on block faulting in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
