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Auld
Auld is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Alex Auld (born 1981), Canadian hockey player * Andrew Auld (1799–1873), Scottish ship's carpenter in Hawaii * Andy Auld (1900–1977), Scottish-American soccer player * Bertie Auld (1938–2021), Scottish football player and manager * Cathy Auld, Canadian curler * Doug Auld (born 1962), American editor and publisher of ''Sprint Car & Midget Magazine'' * Eric Auld (1931–2013), Scottish painter * F. H. Auld (1881–1961), Canadian agricultural scientist and Saskatchewan's Deputy Minister of Agriculture * Georgie Auld (1919–1990), Canadian-American jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader * James Auld (other), multiple people * John Auld (other), multiple people * Patrick Auld, Australian winemaker, father of W. P. Auld * Robin Auld (born 1937), judge in the English Court of Appeal * Robin Auld (musician) (born 1959), South African singer-songwriter, guitarist, poet and writer * W. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Auld
William Patrick Auld (27 May 1840 – 2 September 1912), usually known as W.P. Auld, Pat or Patrick, was an Adelaide, South Australian vigneron and wine merchant born in Stalybridge (near Manchester, England). He took part in John McDouall Stuart's sixth expedition (Dec 1861 – Dec 1862) which successfully crossed Australia from south to north.Expedition Six The South Australian Great Northern Exploring Expedition, December 1861 to December 1862, John McDouall Stuart's Companions, John McDouall Stuart Society He was also a member of 's 1864 expedition to select a capital for the |
Alex Auld
Alexander James Auld (born January 7, 1981) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. Auld played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers, Phoenix Coyotes, Boston Bruins, Ottawa Senators, Dallas Stars, New York Rangers and the Montreal Canadiens. He has also appeared internationally for Team Canada on three occasions: the 2001 World Junior Championships, the 2004 Spengler Cup, and the 2006 World Championships. Playing career Minor Auld played most of his minor hockey in his hometown of Thunder Bay, Ontario, with the Thunder Bay Kings program. He was a minor hockey teammate of future NHLers Taylor Pyatt, Patrick Sharp, Jason Jaspers and Aaron MacKenzie. Their Kings team won Gold in the All Ontario Bantam AAA championships in 1997 played in North Bay, Ontario. Junior Auld started junior career with the North Bay Centennials of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) at the tail end of the 1997–98 season, appearing in six games wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertie Auld
Robert Auld (23 March 1938 – 14 November 2021) was a Scottish football player and manager. He was a member of Celtic's Lisbon Lions, who won the 1967 European Cup Final. As a player, he made more than 200 appearances in the Scottish League for Celtic, Dumbarton and Hibernian, and more than 100 in the Football League in England with Birmingham City. He also earned three caps for Scotland early in his career. He spent six years as manager at Partick Thistle, and was appointed to the club's hall of fame. He also managed Hibernian, Hamilton Academical and Dumbarton. Early life and club career Auld was born in Maryhill, Glasgow, the eldest of eight children, and at the age of 15 joined local club Maryhill Harp. Rejecting offers from Clyde and Partick Thistle, he first joined Celtic in March 1955, making his debut in a League Cup game against Airdrieonians and scoring his first goal for the club in a 6-1 win over East Fife in the same competition four days later. He was conve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Auld
Andrew Auld (April 30, 1900December 6, 1977) was a Scottish-American soccer player who spent most of his professional career in the American Soccer League as a midfielder and forward. He earned five caps with the United States national team, three coming in the 1930 FIFA World Cup. He was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1986. Early career Auld began his organized soccer career with Scottish club Stevenston F.C. in 1911, when he was eleven years old. He stayed with the club until he entered the military. His service continued through World War I and Auld was not discharged until 1919. When he left the military, he joined Ardeer Thistle in 1919. He remained with the club for three years, until he moved to Glasgow club Parkhead F.C. in 1921. In 1923, he immigrated to the United States to live in Gillespie, Illinois. Life in the U.S. did not suit Auld and he decided to return to Scotland; however, he stopped en route to visit his sister who lived in Niagara F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Auld
William Auld (6 November 1924 – 11 September 2006) was a British poet, author, translator and magazine editor who wrote chiefly in Esperanto. Life Auld was born at Erith in Kent, and then moved to Glasgow with his parents, attending Allan Glen's School. After wartime service in the Royal Armed Forces, he studied English literature at Glasgow University, and then qualified as a teacher. In 1960, he was appointed to a secondary school in Alloa and he remained there for the rest of his life. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999, 2004, and 2006, making him the first person nominated for works in Esperanto. His masterpiece, ''La infana raso'' (''The Infant Race''), is a long poem that, in Auld's words, explores "the role of the human race in time and in the cosmos," and is partly based on ''The Cantos'' by Ezra Pound. Auld began to learn Esperanto in 1937 but only became active in the propagation of the language in 1947, and from then on wrote many works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Auld
Douglas "Doug" Frank Auld (born June 25, 1962) is editor and publisher of ''Sprint Car & Midget Magazine''. Background Auld was born in Mahopac, New York. His father, Jack Auld, was a retired dirt modified racer, and he attended his first racing event as a toddler. The Auld family were fixtures at weekly racetracks in the Northeast. Radio Auld began his radio career creating and hosting ''Short Track USA'', which aired on radio stations in central Florida. The show, dubbed "The Fastest Hour On Radio", covered short-track racing, and featured a combination of national and local racers, but even the NASCAR racers that were frequent on-air guests only discussed their short-track backgrounds, and not their current NASCAR careers. Upon accepting the position of Editor of ''Open Wheel Magazine'', Auld turned the show over to a local racetrack announcer so that it would continue to give coverage to the numerous local racetracks. Journalist Auld started his racing journalist car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Auld (musician)
Robin Morton Auld is a South African singer-songwriter, guitarist, poet and writer. He has released twenty albums to date, along with a novel and poetry collection. Early life Auld was born in Lusaka, Zambia in 1959, to Scots parents. His father was in the Crown Service as a magistrate and his mother was a nursing sister. After three years on the Zambian copper belt they moved to Sesheke on the Zambezi River, near Livingstone. On his parents' divorce he moved with his mother and brother to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1970. They settled in the False Bay area and he attended both primary and high schools in Fish Hoek. Career Auld learned to play the guitar by listening to Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Ry Cooder and Neil Young. He was also influenced by the African guitar styles of mbaqanga and maskandi after seeing Philip Tabane and Malombo at his first concert experience. He started out playing as a sideman guitarist in several seminal South African bands, most notably the ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Auld
Georgie Auld (May 19, 1919 – January 8, 1990) was a jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader. Early years Auld was born John Altwerger in Toronto, Canada, and moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1929. Before the family left Canada, Auld's parents gave him a saxophone, which he taught himself to play. Career Auld worked with Bunny Berigan, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Erroll Garner, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Porcino, Billy Eckstine, Tiny Kahn, and Frank Rosolino. Primarily a swing saxophonist, he was a member of big bands and led big bands, including Georgie Auld and His Orchestra and Georgie Auld and His Hollywood All Stars. He played rock and roll while working for Alan Freed in 1959. In 1949, Auld played Carl in ''The Rat Race'' in the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Broadway. In 1952, he had a small part in the film '' The Marrying Kind''. In 1977 he played a bandleader in the motion picture ''New York, New York'', starring Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro and also acted as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Auld
Catherine "Cathy" Auld (born December 3, 1971) is a Canadian curler from Toronto. She currently skips her own team out of Thornhill, Ontario. Career Auld was a longtime member of the Alison Goring rink. Auld played third for the team until 2006 when she was promoted to last rock thrower when Goring moved to throwing lead rocks. The team found success together with this lineup modification. At the 2007 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, they finished the round robin with a 7-2 record. This was enough to secure a playoff spot and they faced Sherry Middaugh in the 3-4 game. However, they lost the game. The team qualified for the 2008 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they completed the round robin with a 6-3 record. They made it to the playoffs, winning the 3-4 game over Janet McGhee and took on Middaugh in the semifinal, again suffering a loss. The team's success was capped at the 2009 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they finished the round robin with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Auld
Eric Auld FRSA (1931 – 24 December 2013) was a Scottish painter. Biography Auld was widely known in the north-east of Scotland. His works were famous for the evocative scenes of Aberdeen and its surrounding landscapes. Auld graduated from the Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen. He was a Burgess of the Guild of the City of Aberdeen and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2013, an exhibition displaying Auld's work, which were created during the six decades of his career, was held at the Aberdeen University. The exhibition, entitled "Eric Auld: A Portrayal of Aberdeen City and Shire", was a selection of Auld's paintings depicting sites of Aberdeen, including Old Aberdeen Old Aberdeen is part of the city of Aberdeen in Scotland. Old Aberdeen was originally a separate burgh, which was erected into a burgh of barony on 26 December 1489. It was incorporated into adjacent Aberdeen by Act of Parliament in 1891. It ret ... and the countryside surrounding it. There were also paint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Auld
Sir Robin Ernest Auld, (born 19 July 1937) is a former Lord Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Early life and career Born in Staines to Adelaide ( Mackie) and Ernest Auld, a toolmaker who later became a publican, Robin Auld failed the eleven-plus exam and went to Brooklands College, a technical college. Later he won a State Scholarship to study for a law degree at King's College London; he worked as a long distance lorry driver, baker's assistant and navvy on roadworks in the vacations, gaining an HGV lorry driver's licence and a qualification in bread baking. He graduated with first-class honours in Law in 1958. He had intended to be a country solicitor, but when faced with a premium of 400 guineas to train with a law firm decided for an academic career instead, and was awarded a PhD in Law from King's College in 1963. He won a scholarship to train for the bar, and was called to the bar in Gray's Inn in 1959, placed first in order of meri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Auld
Andrew Auld (September 8, 1799October 26, 1873) was a native of Linlithgow, Scotland. He was the best friend of Captain Alexander Adams, who commanded Kamehameha I's navy. He was a ship's carpenter and wheelwright. He arrived in the Hawaiian Islands in 1816. He was a close friend of Adams for 40 years and is buried next to Adams in Nuuanu at the Oahu Cemetery. Their joint tombstone contains the following couplet in the Scots dialect: "Twa croanies frae the land of heather / Are sleepin' here in death th'gether." His son William Auld was an aide to King Kalākaua. He married Mary Adams, the daughter of Captain Alexander Adams, in 1859. He was also a member of the Hui Aloha Aina and was one of three delegates who took a large petition protesting Hawaii's annexation to America to Washington D.C. Auld was also a successful businessman in Honolulu Honolulu (; ) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an unincorporated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
