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Alexander Watson (shipwright)
Alexander Watson may refer to: *Alexander Watson (cricketer, born 1844) (1844–1920), English cricketer *Alexander Watson (cricketer, born 1945), English cricketer *Alexander Watson (diplomat) (born 1939), American ambassador and diplomat *Alexander Watson (historian) (born 1979), British historian, writer, and professor *Alexander Watson Hutton (1853–1936), Scottish teacher and sportsman *Alexander Wayne Watson (born 1969), American serial killer See also *Alex Watson (other) {{hndis, Watson, Alexander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Watson (cricketer, Born 1844)
Alexander Watson (4 November 1844 – 26 October 1920) was a Scottish first-class cricketer who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club. He was one Lancashire's first long-serving professionals, and in his prime formed part of a strong bowling attack with A. G. Steel, Dick Barlow and John Crossland that lifted Lancashire to success in the 1881 and 1882 seasons when they won 22 and lost only one of 29 inter-county matches.Wynne-Thomas, Peter; ''The Rigby A–Z of Cricket Records''; p. 54 Career Watson learned his cricket in his native Scotland for the Drumpelier and Edinburgh Clubs as a fast bowler, but attracted no attention until he moved to Rusholme in 1869 where he was discovered by Lancashire as a slow bowler in the contemporary round-arm style; however, Watson had an unusually deceptive flight for his time and could vary his stock off-break with a ball that turned the other way to great effect. Moreover, Watson was an exceptionally accurate bowler and his short stature a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Watson (cricketer, Born 1945)
Alexander Garth MacLaren Watson (born 27 February 1945) is an English former cricketer Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki .... He was a left-handed Batsman (cricket), batsman who bowled right-arm Fast bowling, fast-medium. Watson made his First-class cricket, first-class debut for Oxford University Cricket Club, Oxford University against Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Gloucestershire in 1965 and made in total 41 first-class appearances for the university, his final match coming in The University Match (cricket), the 1968 University Match against Cambridge University Cricket Club, Cambridge University. He won cricket Blue (university sport), Blues in 1965, 1966, and 1968. He scored 666 runs for the university at a batting average (cricket), batting average of 13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Watson (diplomat)
Alexander Fletcher Watson (born August 8, 1939) is a retired American ambassador and diplomat. Biography Watson was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard College, earning an A.B. in government in 1961, and joined the Foreign Service in 1962. He served as Vice Consul/Third Secretary at the American embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and in 1964 became Vice Consul at the embassy in Madrid, Spain. He left Spain in 1966 to become an intelligence analyst at the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He continued to serve as an intelligence analyst until 1968, when he began attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating with his master's degree a year later. From 1969 to 1972, Watson again worked overseas, this time in Brazil. He served his first six months in the country as a Political Officer at the embassy in Brasilia and then as Consul and Principal Officer in the Amerixcan Consulate in Salvador da Bahia until July 1973 when he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Watson (historian)
Alexander James Watson (born 12 July 1979) is a British historian. He is the author of three books, which focus on East-Central Europe, Germany and Britain during World War I. His most recent book, ''The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl'' was praised by ''The Times'' newspaper as a "masterpiece". His previous book, ''Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918'', won numerous awards. Currently Watson is Professor of History at Goldsmiths, University of London. Education In 2000, Watson received his Bachelor of Arts (Honours Degree, hons) degree in Modern history from Exeter College, Oxford. He began his doctorate, doctoral degree in 2001 at Balliol College, Oxford, and completed in 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he was a Clare Hall, Cambridge Research Fellow. For three years, starting in 2008, Watson was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge. In 2010, he was a College Research Associate at St. John's College, Cambridge. Watson was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Watson Hutton
Alexander Watson Hutton (10 June 1853 – 9 March 1936) was a Scottish teacher and sportsman who is considered "The Father of Argentine football". In 1893 he founded the "Argentine Association Football League" (current Argentine Football Association). He also founded the Buenos Aires English High School and football club Alumni, which was the most successful Argentine team with 22 titles won until its dissolution in 1911.''Alumni, Cuna de Campeones y Escuela de Hidalguía'' by Ernesto Escobar Bavio, Editorial Difusión - Buenos Aires (Published 1953)''Historia del Fútbol Amateur en la Argentina'' by Jorge Iwanczuk. Publisher: Autores Editores (1992) – Biography Watson Hutton was born in the Gorbals, in Glasgow, in 1853. He was educated at Daniel Stewart's School (now Stewart's Melville College) in Edinburgh and following this he graduated from Edinburgh University and emigrated to Argentina in 1882. He worked at St Andrew's Scots School for two years. He was a keen spor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Wayne Watson
Alexander Wayne Watson Jr. (born September 24, 1969) is an American serial killer. Initially convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1994 murder of a woman in Forestville, Maryland, Watson's DNA was later matched to three additional killings in Anne Arundel County committed years before. For these crimes, he pleaded guilty and received four additional life imprisonment terms. Murders The first murder occurred on October 8, 1986, when 34-year-old mother of two Boontem Anderson was killed in her Gambrills home. On that day, she was on sick leave from her job at Fort Meade, with her nude body being found by her fiancé's 11-year-old son in the bathtub. She had been sexually assaulted, stabbed and strangled to death. Watson, a minor at the time, lived only a couple of miles away, and was acquainted with the family via their son, with whom he worked at a fast-food restaurant. On May 23, 1988, 37-year-old Mary Elaine Shereika was out on an early morning jog before goin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
