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Mowat Family
Mowat is a surname of Scottish origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Alex Mowat (1935–1995), Scottish paediatric hepatologist * Angus Mowat (1892–1977), Canadian librarian, novelist, father of Farley Mowat * C. L. Mowat (1911–1970), British-born American historian * Claire Mowat (born 1933), Canadian writer of children's fiction, environmentalist * Farley Mowat (1921–2014), Canadian novelist, environmentalist, husband of Claire Mowat * Henry Mowat (1734–1798), Royal Navy officer * Jack Mowat (1908-1995), Scottish football referee * John Bower Mowat (1825–1900), Canadian Presbyterian minister, Queen's University professor * John McDonald Mowat (1872–1916), Canadian politician, lawyer, World War I officer * John Mowat (1791–1860), Scottish-born soldier; Canadian merchant, politician and educator * Oliver Mowat (1820–1903), Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario 1872–1896 * Vicki Mowat, Canadian provincial politician in Saskatchewan See also *Mowat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet. , the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 8.5 million movies, videos and TV shows, 894 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4.4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 241 thousand concerts, and over 734 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Mowat
Alexander Parker Mowat (5 April 1935 – 11 November 1995) was a Scottish paediatric hepatologist. He established the paediatric hepatology unit at King's College Hospital, London, which became a referral centre for children across Britain with liver diseases. Biography Mowat was born in 1935 in Cullen, Moray, and was educated at Aberdeen Medical School, qualifying in 1958. After serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Far East, he returned to Aberdeen to take up a research post in the Rowett Institute's enzymology department. He also completed a two-year fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where he studied hepatology (liver medicine). On his return from New York, Mowat became a paediatric registrar at Aberdeen Medical School. Mowat was appointed a consultant paediatrician and paediatric hepatologist to King's College Hospital in London in 1970. At the time, paediatric hepatology was a nascent specialty in medicine, and at King's Mowat esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angus McGill Mowat
Angus McGill Mowat, B.A., M.A., (November 19, 1892 – September 21, 1977) was a Canadian librarian who initiated and contributed to the continuing improvement of the library systems in Saskatoon and Ontario, from the 1920s through to the 1960s. During his post World War I career he held a number of positions as chief librarian at Trenton, Belleville, Windsor, and Saskatoon, before being appointed in 1937 as Chief Librarian and Inspector of Public Libraries for the province of Ontario. He remained head of the provincial library office – a part of the Ministry of Education – until his retirement in 1960. He was a dynamic and positive force for library progress in Ontario, especially his advocacy for county and regional library service in rural and northern parts of the province. Throughout his career he encouraged better quality collections for adults and children, professional staffing and library training, the necessity for improved finances, more efficient management by tru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Mowat
Claire Angel Mowat (born 5 February 1933) is a Canadian writer and environmentalist. Personal life Born on February 5, 1933, Mowat (née Wheeler) was raised and educated in Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from Havergal College and the Ontario College of Art & Design as a Graphic designer and was married to the late author Farley Mowat. The couple divided their time between Ontario, and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Career Mowat began writing memoirs in the 1960s, leading in 1983 to her first book ''The Outport People'', about the five years she and husband Farley spent at the start of their marriage in the outport Newfoundland community of Burgeo. riginally published 2005-10-15 Her second book ''Pomp and Circumstances'' (1989) arose from witnessing protocol behind the scenes at the Governor General's residence Rideau Hall in Ottawa. A 2005 memoir ''Travels with Farley'', describes the couple's life in the Magdalen Islands, following the still-birth of their only child. She has als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farley Mowat
Farley McGill Mowat, (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) was a Canadian writer and environmentalist. His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books. He achieved fame with the publication of his books on the Canadian north, such as ''People of the Deer'' (1952) and '' Never Cry Wolf'' (1963). The latter, an account of his experiences with wolves in the Arctic, was made into a film of the same name released in 1983. For his body of work as a writer he won the annual Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature in 1970."Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People" ''Awards''. Writers Trust of Canada (writerstrust.com). Retrieved 2015-08-20. With linked guidelines and list of winners. Mowat's advocacy for [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Mowat
Henry Mowat (1734–1798) was an officer of the Royal Navy commanding ships in northern New England during the American Revolutionary War. He was the son of Captain Patrick Mowat of the post ship HMS ''Dolphin''. He was born in Scotland and went to sea at the age of 18. Career After six years as an able seaman and midshipman Mowat was commissioned a Lieutenant aboard HMS ''Baltimore'' in 1758. In 1764, Lieutenant Mowat was given command of the recently purchased 16-gunGoold's gun count includes swivel guns, but not the mortars of the bomb sloop ''Spitfire''. Half (or fewer) of this count were carriage-mounted cannon. Other references indicate ''Canceaux'' carried 8 cannon, and ''Halifax'' carried 6. sloop HMS ''Canceaux''. ''Canceaux'', with Mowat in command, conducted a hydrographic survey of the coast of North America from the estuary of the Saint Lawrence River to Boston. While so engaged, Mowat was ordered to Portsmouth, New Hampshire in December, 1774, to protect mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Mowat
John Alexander Mowat, (1 April 1908 – 12 March 1995) was a Scottish football referee who also operated for FIFA. Career Often listed on reports as 'J. A. Mowat, Burnside', he became a referee in his 30s having taken charge of matches while serving with the Royal Air Force ( RAFVR) during World War II; he was awarded the MBE for his military service in the 1946 Birthday Honours. After becoming a 'grade one' official, his appointments included seven Scottish Cup finals (1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1958 and 1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...) and five in the Scottish League Cup (1951 Scottish League Cup Final, 1951, 1952 Scottish League Cup Final, 1952, 1954 Scottish League Cup Final, 1954, 1956 Scottish League Cup Final, 1956 and 1957 Scottish League Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bower Mowat
John Bower Mowat M.A., D.D. (June 8, 1825 – July 15, 1900) was a Presbyterian minister and university professor in Ontario, Canada. John Bower Mowat (known as Professor John), the son of John Mowat and Helen Levack, was born in Kingston, Upper Canada and was educated in Brockville, at Queen's College and at the University of Edinburgh. In 1848, he was appointed catechist to John Machar. Mowat was ordained at Niagara in 1850. He was married twice: first to Janet, the daughter of Reverend Robert McGill, in 1855 and then to Emma, the daughter of John McDonald in 1861. Mowat served as pastor of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Niagara from 1850 to 1857. In that year, he was named professor of oriental languages, biblical criticism and church history at Queen's. He served as acting registrar in 1881. His brother Oliver served as premier of Ontario. His son Robert McGill Mowat was the father of Angus McGill Mowat and the grandfather of Farley Mowat. His son John McDona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McDonald Mowat
John McDonald Mowat (February 17, 1872 – October 7, 1916) was a lawyer and politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as mayor of Kingston from 1906 to 1907. Known as Major John, the son of John Bower Mowat and Emma McDonald, he was called to the Ontario bar in 1898. Mowat practised law in Kingston and later in Vancouver, British Columbia. He ran unsuccessfully for the Kingston seat in the Canadian House of Commons in 1911, losing to William Folger Nickle. He went overseas as a Major with a Vancouver regiment during World War I and was killed in action at the age of 44. His nephew Angus McGill Mowat also served in World War I, and his great-nephew is Canadian author Farley Mowat. His name is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. References 1872 births 1916 deaths Mayors of Kingston, Ontario John M John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mowat (college Administrator)
John Oliver Mowat (May 12, 1791 – February 4, 1860) was a Scottish-born soldier, merchant, politician and educator. Known as Sargent John, the son of Oliver Mowat and Janet Bower, he was born in Mey, and joined the British Army at the age of 16. He joined in the 3rd Regiment of Foot, served in the Peninsular War and came to Canada in 1814 to take part in the War of 1812. He remained in Canada when the 3rd Foot returned to England, first trying farming near Kingston and later becoming a merchant in Kingston selling dry goods and groceries. In 1819, Mowat married Helen Levack. He served as a director of the Commercial Bank of the Midland District, of the Kingston Building Society, of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of the Midland District, of the Kingston Waterworks and of the Kingston Gas Light Company. Mowat was elected a councillor for the township in 1836 and also served as a justice of the peace and as a member of the local board of health. He became an alderman in 1846 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Mowat
Sir Oliver Mowat (July 22, 1820 – April 19, 1903) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and Ontario Liberal Party leader. He served for nearly 24 years as the third premier of Ontario. He was the eighth lieutenant governor of Ontario and one of the Fathers of Confederation. He is best known for defending successfully the constitutional rights of the provinces in the face of the centralizing tendency of the national government as represented by his longtime Conservative adversary, John A. Macdonald. This longevity and power was due to his maneuvering to build a political base around Liberals, Catholics, trade unions, and anti-French-Canadian sentiment. Early years Mowat was born in Kingston, Upper Canada (now Ontario), to John Mowat and Helen Levack, Scottish Presbyterians who both emigrated from Caithness, Scotland. As a youth, he had taken up arms with the loyalists during the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, which suggested a conservative inclination in politics. But he instea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicki Mowat
Vicki Mowat is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in a by-election on September 7, 2017. She represents the electoral district of Saskatoon Fairview as a member of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party. A former executive assistant to the associate dean of Aboriginal affairs at the University of Saskatchewan A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, ..., she was also the party's candidate in the same district in the 2016 provincial election. Vicki Mowat is a retired member of the Canadian Armed Forces, after serving in the Cadet Instructors Cadre – the branch of the Canadian Armed Forces that administers and trains the Cadet Program of Canada. Vicki Mowat served for several years at the Vernon Cadet Training Center, achievi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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