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Bill Currie (businessman)
William Curry or Currie may refer to: Politics *William Currie (British politician) (1756–1829), British MP for Gatton, 1790, and Winchelsea, 1796 *William Currie (Canadian politician) (1862–1934), manufacturer and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada * Bill Curry (politician) (born 1951), American politician, Comptroller of the State of Connecticut, 1990–1994 Sports *Bill Currie (baseball) (1928–2013), American baseball player *Bill Curry (English footballer) (1935–1990), English football forward active in the 1950s and 1960s *Bill Currie (footballer) (born 1940s), Scottish footballer *Bill Curry (born 1942), American college football coach Other * William D. Curry (1926–2013), United States Air Force officer *William Curry (designer) also credited as Bill Curry (1927–1971), American designer *William Curry (oceanographer), American oceanographer * Billy Currie (born 1950), British musician and songwriter, keyboard player with Ultravox *William Curry, a charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Currie (British Politician)
William Currie, (26 February 1756 – 3 June 1829), was an English land owner, distiller, banker and Member of Parliament for Gatton and Winchelsea. On his father's death in 1781, he inherited his father's 75% interest in the distilling partnership his father had started with Nathaniel Byles. He also became a partner in the family banking firm, replacing his father, but seems to have taken no active part, leaving the responsibilities to his brother Isaac. In 1792, Currie was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. He is chiefly remembered for the restoration of the village of East Horsley and its manor house, East Horsley Towers. Family He was the eldest son of William Currie (1721–1781) and Magdalen Lefevre (a great aunt of Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley), and was baptised at the Church of St. Dunstan's in Stepney on 4 March 1756. Currie married Percy Gore on 23 June 1794, the daughter of a banking partner, by whom he had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Currie (Canadian Politician)
William Currie (September 21, 1862 – May 30, 1934) was a manufacturer and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Restigouche County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1908 to 1912 and from 1917 to 1920 as a Liberal member. He was born in Upper Charlo, New Brunswick Charlo ( ; 2016 population: 1,310) is a former Canadian incorporated village in Restigouche County, New Brunswick. History Situated on the south shore of Chaleur Bay, the community was first settled by Acadians in 1799 (except for the Thompson ..., the son of Ronald Currie and Margaret McCurdy. In 1890, he married Marie Murray. He was named speaker for the provincial assembly in 1917 but resigned that post. He lived in Campbellton. Currie was a member of the Masonic Lodge. He died May 30, 1934 of heart disease. References * ''Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1920'', EJ Chambers 1862 births 1934 deaths New Brunswick Liberal Association MLAs Speakers of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Curry (politician)
William Edward Curry Jr. (born December 17, 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American lawyer and politician who has been a two-time Democratic nominee for Governor of Connecticut and a White House advisor in the administration of Bill Clinton. Education and early political life Curry was educated at St. Justin's School in Hartford and Northwest Catholic High School in West Hartford. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and a J.D. degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law. In 1978, at the age of 26, he was elected state senator from a district that included Farmington, Connecticut. Curry served two terms and then faced fellow state senator Nancy Johnson, a moderate Republican from New Britain in 1982 for the open seat formerly held by Toby Moffett in what was then the Sixth Congressional District. Johnson defeated Curry. During the ensuing eight years, Curry practiced law and worked in public policy positions in Washington, D.C. He wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Currie (baseball)
William Cleveland Currie (November 29, 1926 – October 30, 2013) was an American professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher whose ten-year minor league career was punctuated by a three-game stint in Major League Baseball with the Washington Senators. From 1950 to 1959, the , Currie compiled a 92–72 win–loss record in minor league baseball, playing for at least six Major League organizations. His brief trial with Washington in April 1955, however, was marked by his rude treatment by the New York Yankees in his MLB debut at Yankee Stadium. Currie entered the game (the Senators' second of the year) in the fifth inning as his team's third pitcher of the day with New York already leading 7–0. He loaded the bases on two walks and a hit batsman and gave up a two-run single to Whitey Ford in his first inning. Then, in his next frame, he gave up back-to-back home runs to Yogi Berra and Bill Skowron as the Yanks added on four more runs. Currie gave up fiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Curry (English Footballer)
William Morton Curry (12 October 1935 – 20 August 1990) was an English professional footballer who scored 184 goals from 393 appearances in the Football League playing as a centre forward for Newcastle United, Brighton & Hove Albion, Derby County, Mansfield Town and Chesterfield. He played once, and scored, for England's under-23 team. He was Brighton's top scorer in the 1959–60 season with 26 goals in all competitions, and Mansfield's top scorer in both 1965–66 and 1966–67. He went on to manage Boston Town to the Midland League title in the 1974–75 season, and spent nine years as manager of Sutton Town. Curry was born in Longbenton, Northumberland, in 1935, and died in Mansfield Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market tow ..., Nottinghamshire, in 1990 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Currie (footballer)
Bill Currie was a Scottish amateur footballer who played as a centre half. Career Currie played non-league football for Rutherglen Glencairn and Dagenham. He also made 136 appearances in the Scottish Football League for Albion Rovers and Queen's Park. Currie was also a member of the British national side which failed to qualify for the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. .... References 1940s births Living people Scottish men's footballers Rutherglen Glencairn F.C. players Albion Rovers F.C. players Queen's Park F.C. players Dagenham F.C. players Scottish Football League players Scotland men's amateur international footballers Men's association football central defenders {{Scotland-footy-defender-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Curry
William Alexander Curry (born October 21, 1942) is a retired American football coach and former player. Most recently, Curry was the head coach at Georgia State University, which began competing in college football in 2010. Previously, Curry served as the head football coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology (1980–1986), the University of Alabama (1987–1989), and the University of Kentucky (1990–1996). Between coaching jobs at Kentucky and Georgia State, Curry was a football analyst for ESPN. He played football at Georgia Tech (1962–1964) and then played for ten seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with four teams: the Green Bay Packers (1965–1966), the Baltimore Colts (1967–1972), the Houston Oilers (1973), and the Los Angeles Rams (1974). Early life and playing career Curry was born in College Park, Georgia. A 1965 graduate from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in industrial management, Curry starred at center for the Georgia Tech Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William D
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Curry (designer)
William Edwin Curry (March 4, 1927 – April 28, 1971) or Bill Curry was an American designer associated with the mid-century modern school of design.Susan Peterson and Bernard Kester, "Letter from Los Angeles", ''Craft Horizons'', Vol. 32, pg. 59 A graduate of the Los Angeles Art Center, Curry began his career as an art director for the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, a precursor of the later TRW Inc. In 1962, Curry founded the home furnishings company Design Line, Inc. in El Segundo, California.Barbara jean Neal, "They Lit Up a Dull Industry", ''Los Angeles Times'', July 19, 1970; pg. N36 Many of Curry's creations were showcased at the Pasadena Art Museum and, after being labeled the "best lamps of the year" by ''Industrial Design'' magazine, his iconic "Stemlites" were selected by the U.S. Department of Commerce for display in exhibitions in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Iraq as examples of quality American design. By 1969, Curry's reputation had developed to the point that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Curry (oceanographer)
William B. Curry is an American oceanographer who is the president and CEO of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Studies (BIOS). He is known for studying historical climate and ocean circulation. Curry holds a Bachelor of Science in geology from the University of Delaware (1974) and a PhD in geology from Brown University (1980). BIOS President and chief executive officer St. George's, Bermuda Bill Curry joined BIOS in 2012 as president and Director. Prior to joining BIOS he was a Senior Scientist in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Director of the WHOI Ocean and Climate Change Institute (OCCI). Curry has twice served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences – from 1988 to 1990 and again from 2011 to 2012. From 1995 to 1999, he was the Chair of the WHOI Department of Geology and Geophysics and he served as the OCCI Director from 2001 to 2005, and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Currie
William Lee Currie (born 1 April 1950 ) is a British multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter from , . He is best known as the keyboard and strings player with new wave band , who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1980s. Biography Currie was bor ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Resort (TV Series)
''Last Resort'' is an American military drama television series that aired on ABC from September 27, 2012, to January 24, 2013. The series was created by Shawn Ryan and Karl Gajdusek, and produced by Sony Pictures Television. On November 16, 2012, ABC announced that the series would not be picked up for another season, and the show finished with its original 13 episodes. Plot When the crew of the U.S. Navy ''Ohio''-class ballistic missile submarine, the USS ''Colorado'' (SSBN-753), pick up a U.S. Navy SEAL team off Pakistan's coast, the ''Colorado'' receives an order to launch nuclear ballistic missiles at Pakistan. ''Colorado''s Commanding Officer, Captain Marcus Chaplin ( Andre Braugher), asks for confirmation of the firing order because the orders were received through a legacy Cold War secondary communication channel, only to be used in the event that Washington, D.C. has already been destroyed. After confirming Washington's continued existence and refusing to fire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |