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Alexander Scott (other)
Alexander Scott may refer to: Entertainment *Alexander Scott (16th-century poet) (c. 1520–1582/83), Scottish poet *Alexander Scott (20th-century poet) (1920–1989), Scottish poet, playwright and campaigning scholar *Alexander Scott (painter) (1872–1925), British painter *Alexander "Scotty" Scott, spy played by Bill Cosby in the television series ''I Spy (1965 TV series), I Spy'' Religion *Alexander John Scott (1768–1840), British chaplain and friend of Horatio Nelson *Alexander John Scott (principal) (1805–1866), Scottish dissident theologian, and first principal of Owens College, Manchester Science *Alexander Scott (chemist) (1853–1947), Director of Scientific Research at the British Museum *Alexander Scott (geologist) (1890–1951), Scottish geologist *Alexander Walker Scott (1800–1883), Australian entomologist Other *Alexander Scott (architect) (1920-2005), British architect *Alexander Scott (Medal of Honor) (1844–1923), American soldier *Alexander Ritchie Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Scott (16th-century Poet)
Alexander Scott (Scots: Sanderris Scott: 1520?1582/1583) was a Scottish Court poet. He is believed to have spent most of his time in or near Edinburgh. Thirty-six short poems are attributed to him, including '' Ane New Yeir Gift to Quene Mary'', '' The Rondel of Love'', and a satire, '' Justing at the Drum''. His poems are included in the Bannatyne Manuscript (1568) complied by George Bannatyne. According to an older view, "he has great variety of metre, and is graceful and musical, but his satirical pieces are often extremely coarse". According to the modern viewpoint of the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', "Because of its range, explicitness, and open-endedness, Scott's work has been described as ethically incoherent, but recent revisions of such essentialist readings have restored his multilayered texts as attractively complex poems, an appealing alternative to contemporary English poetry as anthologized in Tottel's Miscellany ''Songes and Sonettes'', usually ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Scott (20th-century Poet)
Alexander Scott (1920–1989) was a Scottish poet, playwright and scholar born in Aberdeen. He wrote poetry in both Scots and Scottish English as well as plays, literary reviews and critical studies of literature. As a writer, scholar, dramatist, broadcaster, critic and editor, he showed a life-long commitment to Scottish literary culture. He was latterly a tutor and reader of Scottish literature at the University of Glasgow, where he was instrumental in establishing Scotland's first Department of Scottish Literature in the academic year 1971–72. In 1972, Scott was one of the founders of the Lallans Society (later the Scots Language Society). He was a member of its committee from the outset and served as Preses from 1974 to 1977 and from 1979 to 1983. He also served as president of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies from 1976 to 1979. In 1985 he succeeded Robert McLellan as Honorary Preses.Purves, David, ''Obituary: Alexander Scott'', in ''Lallans'' Nummer 33, Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Scott (painter)
Alexander Scott (1854–1925) was a British landscape painter, the son oThomas Dewell Scott a noted portraitist for ''The Illustrated London News''.Severson, 2002, p. 103 He was in Hawaii by 1906, and stayed until 1908. Scott’s 1910 portrait of William Goodell (1829–1894) hangs in the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia.''Transactions & Studies of College of Physicians of Philadelphia'', 4 Ser., V. 18, No. 2 Scott spent a number of years living in Darjeeling, India. With oil on canvas, Scott painted a wide range of subjects throughout his travels. Some of these subjects included portraits, the Himalayas, the Taj Mahal, the Sanchi Tope, etc. The Fine Art Society, London, exhibited Alexander Scott's painting and sketches of India and Kashmir in 1889, and also posthumously in 1932. Scott was married to a woman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, which is where he made his home for many years. Scott was also an avid collector of ancient artifacts, which he obtained from locatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Spy (1965 TV Series)
''I Spy'' is an American secret-agent adventure television series that ran for three seasons on NBC from September 15, 1965, to April 15, 1968, and teamed US intelligence agents Kelly Robinson (Robert Culp) and Alexander "Scotty" Scott (Bill Cosby), traveling undercover as international "tennis bums". Robinson poses as an amateur with Scott as his trainer, playing against wealthy opponents in return for food and lodging. Their work involved chasing villains, spies, and beautiful women. The creative forces behind the show were writers David Friedkin and Morton Fine and cinematographer Fouad Said. Together they formed Triple F Productions under the aegis of Desilu Productions where the show was produced. Fine and Friedkin (who previously wrote scripts for radio's ''Broadway Is My Beat'' and ''Crime Classics'' under producer-director Elliott Lewis) were co-producers and head writers, and wrote the scripts for 16 episodes, one of which Friedkin directed. Friedkin also dabbled in ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander John Scott
The Reverend Doctor Alexander John Scott (1768–1840) was an Anglican chaplain who served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He served as Horatio Nelson's personal chaplain at the Battle of Trafalgar, and had previously served as his private secretary. Scott was a close friend of Nelson, and was with him as he died aboard the . Early life Scott was born on 23 July 1768, the son of Jane Comyn and Robert Scott, a lieutenant in the navy. He had two sisters. He was the nephew of Alexander Scott, a naval captain. Scott's father died in 1770, leading Scott to live with his uncle for the majority of his childhood. He was educated at Charterhouse, and after gaining a scholarship, he attended St John's College, Cambridge, graduating from there in 1792. He was ordained in 1793 and joined the navy that year as a chaplain. He was initially assigned to , which was part of the Mediterranean fleet under Admiral Samuel Hood. During his education he h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander John Scott (principal)
Alexander John Scott (1805–1866) was a Scottish dissident theologian, who became the first principal of Owens College in Manchester. Early life The son of Rev Dr John Scott DD (died 1836), minister of the Middle Parish, Greenock, by his wife Susanna Fisher, daughter of Alexander Fisher of Dychmount, he was born on 26 March 1805. He was educated at the local grammar school and at the University of Glasgow, which he entered at the age of fourteen, remaining there until he was twenty-one. Having graduated M.A. in 1824, then studying Medicine for three years at Edinburgh University, tutoring in Edinburgh during the same period.''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae''; vol. 7; by Hew Scott In 1807 he was licensed by the presbytery of Paisley to preach as a minister of the Church of Scotland. Minister His first sermon after he was licensed was preached in the Row Church for the Rev. John McLeod Campbell, who heard him ‘with very peculiar delight.’ In the following year (1828) he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Scott (chemist)
Dr Alexander Scott FRS FRSE PCS (28 December 1853–10 March 1947) was a 19th/20th century Scottish chemist who served as Director of Scientific Research at the British Museum. He was President of the Chemical Society from 1915 to 1917. He determined the atomic weights of several elements: potassium (1879), sodium (1879), manganese (1881), carbon -re-evaluation (1897), tellurium (1902), nitrogen (1905). Life He was born in Selkirk in southern Scotland on 28 December 1853 the eldest of eight children of Alexander Scott, Rector of Selkirk Academy. From 1868 he studied science at the University of Edinburgh under Fleeming Jenkin, James Dewar and Alexander Crum Brown. He assisted James Dewar in lectures at the Dick Vet College from 1872 to 1875, and graduated with a BSc in 1876. He then took further degrees at the University of Cambridge gaining a BA in 1879 and an MA in 1882. He ended his studies in 1884 with a doctorate (DSc) back at the University of Edinburgh. He then imme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Scott (geologist)
Dr Alexander Scott FRSE FGS (1890–1951) was a 20th-century Scottish geologist. He was an expert on clays needed for the ceramic industry. Life He was born in Glasgow on 4 July 1890. He studied Science at Glasgow University graduating MA in 1910 and BSc in 1911. Continuing as a postgraduate he gained his doctorate (DSc) in 1916. In 1914 he began lecturing in Petrology at Oxford University, but this was only for one academic year. In 1916 he appears as the Physical Chemist in charge of the Radiometric Laboratory at Glasgow University. In 1918 he became Assistant Principal at the Central School of Science at Stoke-on-Trent. Here he was advisor to companies such as Royal Doulton, Spode, Wedgwood and Minton. In 1919 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Horne, Ben Peach, Sir John Smith Flett and Thomas James Jehu Thomas John Jehu (19 February 1871 – 18 July 1943) was a British physician and geologist. The Jehu-Campbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Walker Scott
Alexander Walker Scott (10 November 1800 – 1 November 1883) was an Australian entomologist mainly interested in butterflies. Scott was the son of Dr Helenus and Augusta Maria Scott. He was born in Bombay, India and was educated at Bath Grammar School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, receiving a BA in 1822 and an MA in 1825. Scott was elected to the new Legislative Assembly, representing Northumberland and Hunter from 1856 to 1859, Northumberland 1858 to 1859 and Lower Hunter from 1860 to 1861. He supported the secret ballot and franchise extension. In 1861 he was nominated to the Legislative Council for life, but he took no part in it and resigned in 1866. A failed entrepreneur, he later became a prominent figure in the commercial establishment of the Newcastle region. He lived at Ash Island on the Hunter River with his wife, formerly Harriet Calcott, a seamstress, and his two daughters Harriet (1830–1907) and Helena Scott (1832–1910), both born in Sydney. At Ash Island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Scott (architect)
Alexander Scott (25 August 1920 – 12 January 2005) was a British architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca .... References 1920 births 2005 deaths 20th-century British architects Olympic competitors in art competitions Place of birth missing {{UK-architect-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
