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Alexander McDonald (newspaper Editor)
Alexander McDonald may refer to: * Alexander McDonald (Royal Marines officer) (c. 1745–1821), early land owner in New South Wales * Alexander McDonald (sculptor) (1784–1860), Scottish granite sculptor * Alexander N. McDonald (1818–1885), businessman and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada * Alexander McDonald (Royal Navy assistant surgeon) (1819 – c. 1848), Assistant Surgeon of HMS Terror (1813) on Franklin's Lost Expedition * Alexander McDonald (American politician) (1832–1903), U.S. Senator from Arkansas * A. B. McDonald (Alexander Beith McDonald, 1847–1915), Scottish architect * Alexander McDonald (South Australian politician) (1849–1922), member of the South Australian House of Assembly * Alexander McDonald (1845–1920), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly * Alec McDonald (politician), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly * Alexander McDonald (Canadian politician) (1876–1945), Canadian politician in the Legislative Assembly of British Colum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McDonald (Royal Marines Officer)
Alexander McDonald (c. 1745 – 21 December 1821) was a Royal Marine The Corps of Royal Marines (RM), also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, are the UK's special operations capable commando force, amphibious light infantry and also one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy. The Corps of Royal Marine ... who came to Australia in the First Fleet. In 1792 he was granted land in present-day Ermington by Governor Arthur Phillip, thus making him among the first land owners in the colony. References External linksFamily Tree and some history* http://localhistory.kingston.vic.gov.au/htm/article/499.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:McDonald, Alexander 1740s births 1821 deaths Royal Marines officers History of New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McDonald (sculptor)
Alexander McDonald, M'Donald or MacDonald (1794–1860) was a Scottish sculptor specialising in granite. He was also an expert on Egyptian granite sculpture. As a company, they were responsible for a huge number of major public monuments, graves and drinking fountains, all executed in polished granite, a technique perfected by the company. The firm of Alexander McDonald & Co lasted from 1820 until 1941. Their most noteworthy works include the fountains in Trafalgar Square and the tomb of Albert and Queen Victoria. Alexander McDonald Sr. He was born in the parish of Rannoch in Perthshire in 1794, the son of a crofter. He adapted the machines and equipment developed by Stewart McGlashan to enable the sculpting of granite. This had not been done since the time of the ancient Egyptians due to the extreme difficulty of working granite with any degree of accuracy. He travelled to the British Museum in London to make careful studies of the granite sculptures from ancient Egypti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander N
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Aleksander and Aleksandr. Related names and diminutives include Iskandar, Alec, Alek, Alex, Alexandre, Aleks, Aleksa and Sander; feminine forms include Alexandra, Alexandria, and Sasha. Etymology The name ''Alexander'' originates from the (; 'defending men' or 'protector of men'). It is a compound of the verb (; 'to ward off, avert, defend') and the noun (, genitive: , ; meaning 'man'). It is an example of the widespread motif of Greek names expressing "battle-prowess", in this case the ability to withstand or push back an enemy battle line. The earliest attested form of the name, is the Mycenaean Greek feminine anthroponym , , (/ Alexandra/), written in the Linear B syllabic script. Alaksandu, alternatively called ''Alakasandu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McDonald (Royal Navy Assistant Surgeon)
Alexander McDonald (or M'Donald) (15 September 1817 – ) was a Scottish physician who served as assistant surgeon of HMS ''Terror'' on Franklin's lost expedition. Early life Alexander McDonald was born on 15 September 1817 in Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, Scotland, to Robert McDonald and Elizabeth Stiven. His father was a silver snuff-box maker, apprentice to Charles Stiven. McDonald attended The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and graduated in 1838. Career To pay for medical school, McDonald spent his summers serving as ship's surgeon for Captain William Penny in the whaling industry. In 1839, Penny brought an Inuk traveler, Eenoolooapik, back with him to Scotland, and McDonald was introduced to the man and served both as his tutor and as his doctor when he contracted a respiratory infection. The next year when they returned to the Arctic, Eenoolooapik guided them to the whale-rich Tenudiakbeek inlet, which Penny christened Hogarth's Sound (now known to be a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Terror (1813)
HMS ''Terror'' was a specialised warship and a newly developed bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813. She participated in several battles of the War of 1812, including the Battle of Baltimore with the bombardment of Fort McHenry. She was converted into a polar exploration ship two decades later, and participated in George Back's Arctic expedition of 1836–1837, the successful Ross expedition to the Antarctic of 1839 to 1843, and Sir John Franklin's ill-fated attempt to force the Northwest Passage in 1845, during which she was lost with all hands along with . On 12 September 2016, the Arctic Research Foundation announced that the wreck of ''Terror'' had been found in Nunavut's Terror Bay, off the southwest coast of King William Island. The wreck was discovered south of the location where the ship was reported abandoned, and some from the wreck of HMS ''Erebus'', discovered in 2014. Early history and military service HMS ''Terror'' was a bomb ship built over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklin's Lost Expedition
Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, and , and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine whether a better understanding could aid navigation. The expedition met with disaster after both ships and their crews, a total of 129 officers and men, became icebound in Victoria Strait near King William Island in what is today the Canadian territory of Nunavut. After being icebound for more than a year ''Erebus'' and ''Terror'' were abandoned in April 1848, by which point Franklin and nearly two dozen others had died. The survivors, now led by Franklin's second-in-command, Francis Crozier, and ''Erebus''s captain, James Fitzjames, set out for the Canadian mainland and disappeared, presumably having perished. Pressed by Franklin's wife, Jane, and others, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McDonald (American Politician)
Alexander McDonald (April 10, 1832 – December 13, 1903) was a Republican politician who represented Arkansas in the United States Senate during the Reconstruction years from 1868 to 1871. Biography McDonald was born near Lock Haven in Clinton County in north central Pennsylvania and attended Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport, and Lewisburg University, both in Pennsylvania. In 1857, he moved to Kansas, became involved in business, and served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Upon completion of his service in 1863, McDonald moved to the capital city of Little Rock to work in banking. He served as a member of the state's constitutional convention; upon readmission to the Union he was elected by the Arkansas General Assembly to the Senate in 1868, with service for three years. He was defeated for reelection in 1870. McDonald was later commissioned by U.S. President Chester A. Arthur to examine the conditions of portions of the Northern Pacific Railroad, a task h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McDonald (South Australian Politician)
Alexander McDonald (6 February 1849 – 10 April 1922) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member An electoral system or voting system is a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined. Electoral systems are used in politics to elect governments, while non-political elections ma ... seats of Noarlunga from 1887 to 1902 and Alexandra from 1902 to 1915. He represented the Australasian National League from 1893 to 1910 and the Liberal Union from 1910 until 1915. References 1849 births 1922 deaths Colony of South Australia people Members of the South Australian House of Assembly {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McDonald (1845–1920)
Alexander McDonald (1845 - 26 May 1920) was an Australian politician. He was a liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1902 to 1904, representing the electorate of Footscray. McDonald was born in Inverness, Scotland and migrated to Victoria with his family in 1854, settling in Footscray, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was a contractor by trade, working as a carpenter on the Williamstown railway line and Bendigo railway line then as a builder at Footscray. He was a City of Footscray councillor from 1893 until his death and was mayor in 1901-02 and 1911-12. McDonald was elected to the Legislative Assembly at a June 1902 by-election, defeating John Lemmon by 38 votes. The Footscray seat was abolished for the 1904 election, and McDonald instead unsuccessfully contested Flemington. McDonald died at his home in Albert Street, Footscray, in 1920 and was buried at the Footscray Cemetery. Upon his death, ''The Independent ''The Independent'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec McDonald (politician)
Alexander McDonald (12 June 1878 – 9 September 1956) was an Australian politician. He was born in Ararat to farmer Hugh McDonald and Annie Poison. He attended state school and became a grazier at Chrocan near Mount Ararat. In 1913 he married Jemima Bain, with whom he had a son; around 1950 he married Mary Cairns Forsyth. He served on Ararat Shire Council from 1924 to 1955, with two terms as president (1928–29, 1937–38). In 1935 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Country Party member for Stawell and Ararat. He served until 1945, when his seat was abolished and he was defeated contesting Ripon Ripon () is a cathedral city in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. The city is located at the confluence of two tributaries of the River Ure, the Laver and Skell. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the city .... McDonald moved to Ballarat in 1956, but died in Ararat that year. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McDonald (Canadian Politician)
Alexander McDonald (November 1, 1876 – November 20, 1945) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1933 to 1937 from the electoral district of The Islands The Islands was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared on the hustings in the 1890 British Columbia general election, 1890 provincial election and lasted until it was integrated into the new ..., a member of the Liberal party. References 1876 births 1945 deaths {{BritishColumbia-MLA-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Hugh McDonald
Alexander Hugh McDonald, FBA (15 May 1908 – 9 July 1979) was a New Zealand-born ancient historian and classicist whose career was spent in England and Australia. Early life and education Born on 15 May 1908 in New Zealand, McDonald was the son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister. He attended Auckland Grammar School and then Auckland University College, graduating with a first-class degree in Latin and Greek. In 1930, he went to England to study classics at Clare College, Cambridge. He secured a first in part 2 of the Tripos and won an exhibition and research award, enabling him to complete a PhD on the Roman historian Livy, which was awarded by the University of Cambridge in 1936. Academic career In 1934, McDonald was appointed to a lectureship in ancient history at Nottingham University College. He struck up friendships with F. W. Walbank (with whom he sometimes collaborated), Ulrich Kahrstedt, F. E. Adcock, Hugh Last and W. B. Anderson. Following the death of S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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