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Alexander Shaw (director)
Alexander Shaw may refer to: * Alexander Shaw (surgeon) (1804–1890), Scottish surgeon * Alexander Shaw (Canadian politician) (1833–1911), Canadian lawyer and politician * Alexander Croft Shaw (1846–1902), Canadian Anglican missionary to Japan * Alexander Preston Shaw (1879–1966), African-American clergyman * Alexander William Shaw (1847–1923), Irish bacon manufacturer and golf enthusiast * Alexander Shaw, 2nd Baron Craigmyle Alexander Shaw, 2nd Baron Craigmyle (28 February 1883 – 29 September 1944) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician. Life Shaw was a lawyer by profession, having studied at Trinity College, Oxford (where he was President of the Oxford Union ... (1883–1944), MP for Kilmarnock, 1915–1923 * Alexander Shaw (cricketer) (1907–1945), English cricketer * Alexander Shaw (British Army officer) (1737–1811), soldier and Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man * Alex Shaw (rugby union) (born 1987), rugby player * Alex Shaw (basketball) (1907–2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Shaw (surgeon)
Alexander Shaw (6 February 1804 – 18 January 1890) was a Scottish surgeon. Life Born in Ayr, he was the sixth son of Charles Shaw, clerk of the county of Ayr, and Barbara Wright his wife, daughter of a collector of customs at Greenock. His elder brothers were John Shaw, Sir Charles Shaw and Patrick Shaw. One sister, Marion, married Sir Charles Bell, and another sister became the wife of George Joseph Bell. He was educated at Edinburgh high school and the University of Glasgow, where he matriculated in 1819 and graduated M.A. 11 April 1822. Shaw was connected with the Middlesex Hospital for more than half a century. He entered there as a pupil in 1822; was made assistant surgeon in 1836, and surgeon in 1842. On his retirement in 1872 he was appointed consulting surgeon. He joined the medical school of the hospital at its first formation, and at the time of his death was the sole survivor of the original members of the staff. To obtain an M.D. degree, he was admitted as a pensi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Shaw (Canadian Politician)
Alexander Shaw (January 13, 1833 – April 21, 1911) was a Canadian lawyer and political figure. He represented Bruce South in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal-Conservative member from 1878 to 1882. He was born in Ramsay Township, Upper Canada in 1833, the son of John Shaw. He was educated in Perth and studied law there. In 1853, he moved to Bruce County and settled at Kincardine. Shaw married Anna Robertson. He later moved to Walkerton and became solicitor for the county in 1867. He also served as mayor of Walkerton. Shaw defeated Edward Blake in Bruce South in the general election of 1878; he ran unsuccessfully against Rupert Mearse Wells Rupert Mearse Wells (November 28, 1835 – May 11, 1902) was speaker of the Legislature of Ontario in 1874 to 1879 and served as Liberal MLA for Bruce South from 1872 to 1882. He represented Bruce East in the House of Commons of Canada fr ... in the riding of Bruce East in 1882. His brother William McNairn Shaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Croft Shaw
Alexander Croft Shaw M.A. (26 June 1846 – 13 March 1902) was a minister of the Anglican Church of Canada. He is remembered as Archdeacon Shaw, minister to the British Legation in Tokyo and a leading figure in the early years of the Anglican Church in Japan. Background and early life Born in Toronto, Canada on June 26, 1846, the eldest son of Major Alex Shaw and his wife Grace McQueen, Alexander Croft Shaw was a descendant of a noted Scottish family of professional soldiers. Educated at Trinity University, now a constituent college of the University of Toronto, Shaw graduated with a First-class B.A. in Theology in 1867 and received his master's degree two years later. Following a brief period as a parish priest in Canada, Shaw travelled to London and served under the Rev. Edward Lewes Cutts, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Haverstock Hill. On December 20, 1872, Shaw attended a meeting at the Royal Albert Hall in memory of murdered missionary Bishop John Coleridge Patteson. Bishop S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Preston Shaw
Alexander Preston Shaw (April 8, 1879 – March 7, 1996) was notable as an African-American pastor, editor, and bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Church. He was elected and consecrated to the episcopacy in 1936. Shaw held the distinction of being the first African-American bishop of the Methodist Church (at the age of 71) to preside full-time over a predominantly white Annual Conference: the Southern California- Arizona Conference (in 1950, coincidentally the 100th annual meeting of this body), which met that year at the University of Redlands. Birth and family Alexander was born 18 April 1879 in Abbeville in northern Mississippi. He was the eighth of eleven children of the Reverend Duncan Preston and Maria (née Petty) Shaw. Alexander's parents were ex-slaves; his father also an ordained minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was Alexander's elder brother, J. Beverly F. Shaw. Alexander married Lottye Blanche Simon March 29, 1911. They ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander William Shaw
Sir Alexander William Shaw (27 October 1847 – 1923) was an Irish bacon manufacturer, one of the founding members of Limerick Boat Club and the founder of Limerick and Lahinch golf clubs. He was born in County Limerick, the second son of John Shaw of Willowbank, bacon merchant. The family firm (W. J. Shaw and Sons, Musgrave Street) was already thriving when he took it over, but under his astute management it grew to become one of the largest bacon curing businesses in Europe, and Shaw became one of the most prominent businessmen in the city.RIA Dictionary of Irish Biography, 2009 He was the President of the Limerick Chamber from 1899 to 1906. Golf Shaw was a keen sportsman and took part in rowing, rugby, athletics and hurling, but golf became his main interest. During the course of his business trips he often travelled to Scotland, where he became a passionate fan of the game. In 1891 he chaired a meeting in Limerick to discuss forming a golf club for the county. Land at Balli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Shaw, 2nd Baron Craigmyle
Alexander Shaw, 2nd Baron Craigmyle (28 February 1883 – 29 September 1944) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician. Life Shaw was a lawyer by profession, having studied at Trinity College, Oxford (where he was President of the Oxford Union in 1905) and being called to the bar in 1908.''The Times'' 30 September 1944, page 6: Obituary, Lord Craigmyle. In 1913, he married Lady Margaret Cargill Mackay, who gave him one son and three daughters. During the First World War he served in the Royal Marine Artillery and was involved in the Battle of the Somme. Outside Parliament, he was a director of the Bank of England and Chairman of P & O. The son of the Law Lord Thomas Shaw, 1st Baron Craigmyle, he succeeded to the peerage on his father's death in 1937. Upon his own death in 1944, aged 61, he was succeeded by his only son Thomas Donald Mackay Shaw (1923–1998). Parliamentary career He was elected unopposed as the member of parliament (MP) for the Kilmarnock Burghs at a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Shaw (cricketer)
Alexander Armstrong Shaw (7 September 1907 – 19 July 1945) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. He was born in Shardlow and died in New Delhi. Shaw's first-class debut was playing for Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ... against Cambridge University. In Shaw's first innings in the field, he caught three batsmen and stumped three others. Shaw's second and final first-class match was eight years later, playing for Bengal. Shaw scored just a single run in the two innings in which he batted. External linksAlexander Shawat CricketArchive 1907 births 1945 deaths English cricketers Sussex cricketers Bengal cricketers People from Shardlow Cricketers from Derbyshire Indian Army personnel killed in World War II W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Shaw (British Army Officer)
Alexander Shaw (1737 – 30 May 1811) was a soldier and administrator who served as the third Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. Career Shaw was commissioned into the 60th Regiment of Foot in 1756. He served in North America during the Seven Years' War as aide-de-camp to General Augustine Prévost and was severely wounded at the capture of Quebec in 1759. Shaw rose to the rank of colonel and returned to his home at Tordarroch House near Pitlochry at the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783. From 1790 he acted as Lieutenant Governor and Deputy to the Governor of the Isle of Man: Shaw retired in 1804. He was the 15th Chief of Clan Shaw and 10th Chief of Clan Shaw of Tordarroch Clan Shaw is a Highland Scottish clan and is a member of the Chattan Confederation.Way, George and Squire, Romily. (1994). ''Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia''. (Foreword by The Rt Hon. The Earl of Elgin KT, Convenor, The Standing Cou .... Family He married firstly Charlotte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Shaw (rugby Union)
Alex Shaw (born in Ajax, Kent, England) is a rugby union player for Doncaster Knights in the RFU Championship. He previously played for Sale Sharks Sale Sharks is a professional rugby union club from Greater Manchester, England. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby. Originally founded in 1861 as Sale Football Club, now a distinct amateur club, they adopted the n ... in the Premiership and Nottingham in the RFU Championship. He plays in the back-row. Alex is now working in as a scout leader in Cheshire and in 2018 starred in the independent screen play ‘Men in tight spaces’. External linksSale Sharks profile 1987 births Living people English rugby union players Sale Sharks players Nottingham R.F.C. players Rugby union players from Kent {{English-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Shaw (basketball)
Alex Shaw (July 8, 1907 – November 29, 2009) was a college men's basketball coach. He was the head coach of the Williams College Ephs from 1950 to 1973. He coached Williams to a 312–171 record, making three NCAA tournament appearances, one Division I appearance (1955) and two Division II appearances (1959 and 1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...). Shaw also served as an assistant football coach at Williams. He played his college basketball at Michigan. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Shaw, Alex 1907 births 2009 deaths American men's basketball coaches American men centenarians Michigan Wolverines men's basketball players Williams Ephs football coaches Williams Ephs men's basketball coaches American men's basketball players Basketball coaches from Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
