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Alan Woods (other)
Alan Woods may refer to: * Alan Woods (footballer) (1937–2021), English football player * Alan Woods (gambler) (1945–2008), Australian professional gambler who bet on blackjack and horse races * Alan Woods (political theorist) (born 1944), Trotskyist political theorist * Alan Woods (priest) (born 1942), retired Anglican dean * Alan Woods (public servant) (1930–1990), senior Australian public servant * Alan Woods (soccer) (born 1978), American soccer (football) defender * Alan Woods (The Bill), Alan Woods (''The Bill''), a character in the British police television series The Bill See also * Al Woods (other) * Alan Wood (other) * Allan Woods (1906–1968), Australian rugby league player * Allan Wood (born 1943), Australian swimmer {{DEFAULTSORT:Woods, Alan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Woods (footballer)
Alan Edward Woods (15 February 1937 – 28 September 2021) was an English Association football, footballer who played as a wing half. Woods was Cap (sport), capped by the England national under-18 football team, England national youth team in 1955 while a Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur player. He died in September 2021. His son Neil Woods and grandson Michael Woods (footballer), Michael Woods are also active in football. References External links * 1937 births 2021 deaths People from Dinnington, South Yorkshire Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham English men's footballers England men's youth international footballers Men's association football midfielders Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players Swansea City A.F.C. players York City F.C. players Boston United F.C. players English Football League players Footballers from South Yorkshire {{England-footy-midfielder-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Woods (gambler)
Alan Woods (1945 – 26 January 2008) was an Australian and Hong Kong professional gambler and mathematician considered among the biggest gamblers in the world. Woods focused on blackjack and betting on horse racing. He has worked with Bill Benter and Zeljko Ranogajec during his career and "pioneered quantitative gambling by betting on Hong Kong horse races". His estimated net worth at the time of his death was AU$670 million. Early life Woods was raised in Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia. His parents ran a newsagency, followed by a cordial factory and a hotel. Woods was not exposed to gambling in his youth and played solo whist with his family. He studied mathematics at the University of New England, in Armidale but dropped out his final year before graduating. There Woods began playing poker machines and described himself as a losing player. He stopped due to a relocation to Sydney where poker machines were not available. He also worked for a time as an insurance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Woods (political Theorist)
Alan Woods (born 23 October 1944) is a British Trotskyism, Trotskyist political theorist and author. He is one of the Leadership, leading members of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) as well as of its British affiliate group Socialist Appeal (UK, 1992), Socialist Appeal. He is political editor of the IMT's ''In Defence of Marxism'' website. Woods was a leading supporter within the Militant tendency within the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party and its parent group the Committee for a Workers' International until the early 1990s. A series of disagreements on tactics and theory led to Woods and Ted Grant leaving the CWI, to found the Committee for a Marxist International (soon renamed International Marxist Tendency) in 1992. They continued with the policy of entryism into the Labour Party. Woods has expressed particularly vocal support for the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, and repeatedly met with the Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, leading to speculation that he was a clo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Woods (priest)
Alan Geoffrey Woods (born 18 July 1942) is a retired Anglican priest. Woods was educated at Bristol Cathedral Choir School. After qualifying as an accountant he worked for the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company until 1967. Following study at Salisbury Theological College he was ordained in 1970. He was a curate at St Francis Church Ashton Gate and then the youth chaplain for the Archdeaconry of Swindon and the warden of Legge House Residential Youth Centre until 1976. After this he was priest in charge of Neston and then Team Vicar of Greater Corsham, during which time he also became a chaplain to the Territororial Army. In 1983 he became the vicar of Charminster and Stinsford and in 1985 the Rural Dean of Dorchester.In 1990 he became Vicar of Calne and Blackland, Rural Dean of Calne and Chaplain to St Mary's School, Calne.In 1992 he was made an honorary canon of Salisbury Cathedral. From 1996 he was the Anglican chaplain of Malta and Gozo and Chancellor of St Paul's Cathed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Woods (public Servant)
Alan John Woods (30 March 1930 – 13 January 1990) was a senior Australian public servant. Life and career Woods was born in Woonona, New South Wales on 30 March 1930 to parents Oswald and Gladys May Woods. After attending St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill on a scholarship, he obtained a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney in 1955 while working as an executive trainee for Dunlop Rubber Australia Ltd. Woods began his Commonwealth Public Sector career at the Commonwealth Public Service Board in Sydney in 1955. He moved to Canberra in 1957, taking a research officer post in the Department of Territories. In December 1977, Woods was appointed Secretary of the Department of National Development (later abolished and replaced by the Department of National Development and Energy, and then the Department of Resources and Energy). Woods was appointed Secretary of the Department of Defence in 1986, but was replaced in a reshuffle of department heads in mid-198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Woods (soccer)
Alan Woods (born October 12, 1978) is a retired American soccer defender who played a season in Major League Soccer and six in the USL First Division. He is currently the coach of the Oglethorpe University women's team. Player Youth Woods attended Paint Branch High School where he was a 1995 All Met Honorable Mention soccer player. In 1996, he began his collegiate career at the University of Notre Dame where he was named to the Big East All-Rookie team and second team All Great Lakes Region. He transferred to Clemson in 1998 where he was first team All ACC and first team All South. In March 1998, Woods was called up to the United States men's national under-23 soccer team camp for its match against Canada. Professional The Colorado Rapids selected Woods in the first round (tenth overall) of the 2000 MLS SuperDraft, but waived him after the first game of the regular season in which he played five minutes. He then signed with the Charleston Battery of the USL A-League where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Woods (The Bill)
''The Bill'' is a long-running British television police procedural television series, named after a slang term for the police. The characters are all police officers or civilian staff at the fictional Sun Hill police station in London. Senior officers The following actors appeared as senior officers in ''The Bill''. Simon Rouse, as Jack Meadows, appeared in 884 episodes, including the series finale "Respect". He is the longest serving actor to portray a character in a senior role. Andrew Lancel, as Neil Manson, and Alex Walkinshaw, as "Smithy", also appeared in the series finale. The character of D.I. Roy Galloway appeared in the pilot episode, "Woodentop", played by Robert Pugh. This character would go on to be portrayed by John Salthouse from 1984 onwards. Notable senior officers * Peter Ellis played Chief Superintendent Charles Brownlow from the start of the series in 1984 to 2000, when the character tendered his resignation in light of the Don Beech scandal. He was emphat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Woods (other) (born 1958), American basketball player
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Al Woods may refer to: *Sir Albert Woods (1816–1904), English officer of arms *Albert H. Woods (1870–1951), American theatrical producer *Alvis Woods (born 1953), American baseball player *Al Woods (American football) (born 1987), American football player See also * Alan Woods (other) * Alex Woods (other) *Al Wood Martin Alphonzo Wood (born June 2, 1958) is an American former professional basketball player who played in six National Basketball Association (NBA) seasons for four teams: the Atlanta Hawks, San Diego Clippers, Seattle SuperSonics and Dallas Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wood (other)
Alan Wood may refer to: * Alan Wood (Australian politician) (1927–2005), Victorian state politician * Alan Wood (engineer) (born 1947), British engineer and executive * Allen Wood (footballer) (1941–2018), sometimes listed as Alan, Welsh football player * Alan Wood (footballer, born 1900) (1900–?), English footballer * Alan Wood (footballer, born 1954), English football player * Alan Wood (military officer) (1922–2013), American naval officer * Alan Wood Jr. (1834–1902), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania * Alan Muir Wood (1921–2009), British civil engineer * Alan Thorpe Richard Wood (born 1954), British public servant See also * Allan Singleton-Wood (born 1933), British musician and publisher who performed under the stage name Allan Wood * Allan Wood (1943–2022), Australian swimmer * Allen Wood (other) * Al Wood Martin Alphonzo Wood (born June 2, 1958) is an American former professional basketball player who played in six National Basketball Assoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Woods
Allan Jack 'Stumpy' Woods (1906–1968) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s. Career Allan Woods was born in Manly, New South Wales on 20 July 1906. He is remembered as a second row forward who played with the St George Dragons The St. George Dragons is an Australian rugby league football club from St George District in Sydney, New South Wales that played in the top level New South Wales competition and Australian Rugby League competitions from the 1921 until th ... for three seasons between 1930 and 1933, which included his appearance in the 1933 Grand Final. He retired from rugby league after that match. War service Stumpy Woods was also a veteran of World War II, enlisting in 1941 and joining the 28 Australian Works Company, and attained the rank of Sergeant. Allan 'Stumpy' Woods died on 4 April 1968, aged 61.Sydney Morning Herald: Death Notice 06/04/1968 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Woods, Allan St. George Dragons players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
