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Andrew Don Wauchope
Andrew Ramsay "Bunny" Don-Wauchope (29 April 1861 – 16 January 1948) was a Scottish international rugby union back who played club rugby for Cambridge and Fettesian-Lorettonian. Don Wauchope played an important role within the early growth of Scottish rugby and after retiring from international rugby he became a referee and was the President of the Scottish Rugby Union. He was considered Scotland's outstanding half-back of the early 1880sGriffiths (1987), 2:5. and is credited as being one of the pioneers of modern half-back play. Born into the Don-Wauchope Baronetcy, Don-Wauchope was an all-round sportsman, representing his school and then university in rugby and athletics. He was a prolific try scorer, scoring six tries in his international career, though as a try was not worth any points at the time his scoring record remains blank. Don-Wauchope was also a keen cricketer, he went on to represent Scotland, playing in the very first encounter between Scotland and Ireland in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridgeton, Glasgow
Bridgeton ( sco, Brigtoun, gd, Baile na Drochaid) is a district to the east of Glasgow city centre. Historically part of Lanarkshire, it is bounded by Glasgow Green Glasgow Green is a park in the east end of Glasgow, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde. Established in the 15th century, it is the oldest park in the city. It connects to the south via the St Andrew's Suspension Bridge. History I ... to the west, Dalmarnock to the east and south, Calton to the north-west at Abercromby Street/London Road and Broad street to the north-east. History It started as a small weaving village in 1705, when the third John Walkinshaw marked out a portion of his Goosefauld estate for rent. However, not much interest was shown until 1776 when Rutherglen Bridge was built over the River Clyde and the area became known as ''Bridge Town'' (or ''Brig Toun'' in Scots). The area was incorporated into the city of Glasgow officially in 1846. A major employer was carpet manufacture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don-Wauchope Baronets
The Don, later Don-Wauchope Baronetcy, of Newton, is a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It was created on 7 June 1667 for Alexander Don. The sixth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire The seventh Baronet was an actor. On his early death in 1862 the title passed to his kinsman John Wauchope, the eighth Baronet, who resumed the surname of Don in addition to that of Wauchope. He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Wauchope, great-great-grandson of Patrick Don (husband of Anne, sister of Andrew Wauchope), third son of the first Baronet. The "ch" in Wauchope is pronounced as in "Loch"; commented upon as a "puzzle in pronunciation" in the case of Andrew Wauchope during his 1892 political campaign against William Ewart Gladstone, when it was reported that he was "spoken of as ''Walk-up'', ''Walk-hope'', ''Wok-up'', ''Watch-up'', and ''Woochop'' ... the proper pronunciation appears to be ''Woke-up''."The Phonetic Journal, 3 September, 1892, vol. 51, Sir Isaac Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Grant-Asher
Sir Augustus Gordon Grant-Asher (18 December 1861 – 15 June 1930)Godwin, p30 was a Scotland international rugby union player. He also represented Scotland as a cricket player.Bath, p104 Rugby Union career Amateur career Grant-Asher went to Loretto School, and went up to Brasenose College, Oxford after that. He played for Oxford University RFC, as well as the Fettesian-Lorettonian Club, and Edinburgh Wanderers. Provincial career He was capped by Edinburgh District for the inter-city match in 1885 while with Edinburgh Wanderers. He was capped by East of Scotland District for their match against West of Scotland District. This was at the end of January 1886; and he was now with Fettesian-Lorettonians. International career One of the earliest Scottish players, he was capped 7 times for between 1882 and 1886. He played at half back. R.J. Phillips, the first historian of Scottish rugby said: :''"no one has arisen to bear comparison with A.R. Don Wauchope at quarter o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1884 Home Nations Championship
The 1884 Home Nations Championship was the second series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 5 January and 12 April 1884. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. England won the championship for the second consecutive season and in beating the other three nations won the Triple Crown for the second time. This Championship was most notable for a dispute arising from the game between England and Scotland, when the winning English try was disputed by the Scottish. The teams disagreed with the interpretation of a knock-on law from which England's Richard Kingsley scored and Scotland were told to accept the decision, and their request for adjudication was denied by England. The bitter feelings caused by this situation resulted in the creation of the International Rugby Board in 1886, to create an accepted body of rules that all members would agree to. Table Results Scoring system The matches for this season w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Try (rugby)
A try is a way of scoring points in rugby union and rugby league football. A try is scored by grounding the ball in the opposition's in-goal area (on or behind the goal line). Rugby union and league differ slightly in defining "grounding the ball" and the "in-goal" area. In rugby union a try is worth 5 points, in rugby league a try is worth 4 points. The term "try" comes from "try at goal", signifying that grounding the ball originally only gave the attacking team the opportunity to try to score with a kick at goal. A try is analogous to a touchdown in American and Canadian football, with the major difference being that a try requires the ball be simultaneously touching the ground and an attacking player, whereas a touchdown merely requires that the ball enter the end zone while in the possession of a player. In both codes of rugby, the term ''touch down'' formally refers only to grounding the ball by the defensive team in their in-goal. A Try is scored in wheelchair rugby fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1880-81 Home Nations Rugby Union Matches
Year 188 (CLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the Roman Empire as the Year of the Consulship of Fuscianus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 941 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 188 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Publius Helvius Pertinax becomes pro-consul of Africa from 188 to 189. Japan * Queen Himiko (or Shingi Waō) begins her reign in Japan (until 248). Births * April 4 – Caracalla (or Antoninus), Roman emperor (d. 217) * Lu Ji (or Gongji), Chinese official and politician (d. 219) * Sun Shao, Chinese general of the Eastern Wu state (d. 241) Deaths * March 17 – Julian, pope and patriarch of Alexandria * Fa Zhen (or Gaoqing), Chinese scholar (b. AD 100) * Lucius Antistius Burrus, Roman politician (executed) * Ma Xiang, Chine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers. It was launched in November 2011. History The British Library Newspapers section was based in Colindale in north London, until 2013, and is now divided between the St Pancras and Boston Spa sites. The library has an almost complete collection of British and Irish newspapers since 1840. This is partly because of the legal deposit legislation of 1869, which required newspapers to supply a copy of each edition of a newspaper to the library. London editions of national daily and Sunday newspapers are complete back to 1801. In total, the collection consists of 660,000 bound volumes and 370,000 reels of microfilm containing tens of millions of newspapers with 52,000 titles on 45 km of shelves. After the closure of Colindale in November 2013, access to the 750 million original printed pages was maintained via an automated and climate-controlled storage facilit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Of Scotland District (rugby Union)
West of Scotland District is a select provincial amateur rugby union team that draws its players from the West of Scotland. Founded in 1876, the West of Scotland District team - and its corresponding East of Scotland District team - was created, thus halving Scotland's representative rugby union area in two. This was meant as an impetus to include players from beyond the original Glasgow District and Edinburgh District catchment areas. The West of Scotland District versus the East of Scotland District became the de facto trial match for the Scotland international team. It survives today, but only for age-grade. History Formation To include other players when selecting the international team, the East v West District match was introduced by the Scottish Rugby Union in the 1875-76 season. The match was first played on 28 February 1876. On the advent of the East v West match, the Inter-City match between Glasgow District and Edinburgh District - previously a twice annu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Of Scotland F
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος hesperos 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin occidens 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב maarav 'west' from עֶרֶב erev 'evening'. Navigation To go west using a compass for navigation (in a place where magnetic north is the same dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loretto School
Loretto School, founded in 1827, is an independent boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 0 to 18. The campus occupies in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. History The school was founded by the Reverend Thomas Langhorne in 1827. Langhorne came from Crosby Ravensworth in Westmorland. He named the school for Loretto House, his then home, which was itself named for a medieval chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Loreto which had formerly stood on the site of the school. The school was later taken over by his son, also Thomas Langhorne. The last link with the Langhorne family was Thomas' son John, who was a master at Loretto from 1890 to 1897, and later headmaster at John Watson's Institution. Loretto was later under the headmastership of Dr. Hely Hutchinson Almond from 1862 to 1903. In the 1950s the school increased the accommodation in science laboratories, established arts as a part of the curriculum and introduced the chapel service as part of the daily school life. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Briac-sur-Mer
Saint-Briac-sur-Mer (, literally ''Saint-Briac on Sea''; ; Gallo: ''Saent-Beriac''), is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine Department in Brittany in northwestern France. Population Inhabitants of Saint-Briac-sur-Mer are called ''briacins'' in French. Climate St Briac lies on the Gulf Stream which means it enjoys a warm climate, several degrees warmer than the surrounding areas. The village has fine examples of tropical palms and plants, along the streets, making strolls very enjoyable. Leisure Saint Briac has two campsites, seven beaches, four tennis courts, one soccer field, a yacht club, one mini golf, one 18 hole golf course, and more than 5 restaurants. History The name Saint Briac comes from the name of Saint Briag, an Irishman. Briag arrived from Ireland with Saint Tugdual in around 548. On 4 and 5 September 1758, a British fleet of 113 ships under the command of Admiral Richard Howe, landed east of the Garde Guerin, in Saint Briac. With a force of more than 12,000 me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Salmond (general)
William Salmond may refer to: * Sir William Salmond (British Army officer) (1840–1932), British Army general * Sir Geoffrey Salmond Air Chief Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond, (19 August 1878 – 27 April 1933) was a senior commander in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Remaining in the Royal Air Force after the war, he held senior appointments in ... (William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond, 1878–1933), British commander in the Royal Flying Corps during WWI * William Salmond (Presbyterian minister) (1835–1917), New Zealand Presbyterian minister, university professor and writer See also * William Salmon (other) {{hndis, Salmond, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
