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Craig (surname)
Craig is a surname, derived from the Scottish Gaelic ''creag''. The word ''craig'' (Anglicised to '' crag'') refers to a small, rocky hill in Scottish English. Notable people sharing this surname * Albert Craig (other) * Alfred M. Craig (1832–1911), American jurist *Alisa Craig, a pen name of Charlotte MacLeod (1922-2005) * Allan Craig (born 1904), Scottish footballer *Allen Craig (born 1984), American Major League baseballer *Angie Craig (born 1972), American politician *Amanda Craig (born 1959), British author * Ann Craig, English silversmith * Carl Craig (politician) (1878–1957), American politician *Caroline Craig (born 1975), Australian actress * Charles Craig (other) *Charles C. Craig (1865–1944), American jurist and legislator *Charles L. Craig (1872-1935), American New York City Comptroller * Charlotte Craig (born 1991), American Taekwondo practitioner *Daniel Craig (born 1968), English actor * Daniel F. Craig (1875-1929), American military o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as both Irish and Manx, developed out of Old Irish. It became a distinct spoken language sometime in the 13th century in the Middle Irish period, although a common literary language was shared by the Gaels of both Ireland and Scotland until well into the 17th century. Most of modern Scotland was once Gaelic-speaking, as evidenced especially by Gaelic-language place names. In the 2011 census of Scotland, 57,375 people (1.1% of the Scottish population aged over 3 years old) reported being able to speak Gaelic, 1,275 fewer than in 2001. The highest percentages of Gaelic speakers were in the Outer Hebrides. Nevertheless, there is a language revival, and the number of speakers of the language under age 20 did not decrease between the 2001 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City Comptroller
The Office of Comptroller of New York City, a position established in 1801, is the chief financial officer and chief auditor of the city agencies and their performance and spending. The comptroller also reviews all city contracts, handles the settlement of litigation claims (amounting to $975 million in 2019), issues municipal bonds, and manages the city's very large pension funds ($240 billion in assets under management as of 2020). The comptroller is elected citywide to a four-year term, and can hold office for two consecutive terms. As of 2021, the comptroller had a staff of 800 people, and a budget of over $100 million. If vacancies were to occur simultaneously in the offices of Mayor of New York City and New York City Public Advocate, the comptroller would become acting mayor. The current comptroller is Democrat Brad Lander. He was elected in 2021. Duties and staff The comptroller is responsible for auditing the performance and finances of city agencies, making recommen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon A
Gordon may refer to: People * Gordon (given name), a masculine given name, including list of persons and fictional characters * Gordon (surname), the surname * Gordon (slave), escaped to a Union Army camp during the U.S. Civil War * Clan Gordon, aka the House of Gordon, a Scottish clan Education * Gordon State College, a public college in Barnesville, Georgia * Gordon College (Massachusetts), a Christian college in Wenham, Massachusetts * Gordon College (Pakistan), a Christian college in Rawalpindi, Pakistan * Gordon College (Philippines), a public university in Subic, Zambales * Gordon College of Education, a public college in Haifa, Israel Places Australia *Gordon, Australian Capital Territory *Gordon, New South Wales * Gordon, South Australia *Gordon, Victoria *Gordon River, Tasmania *Gordon River (Western Australia) Canada *Gordon Parish, New Brunswick *Gordon/Barrie Island, municipality in Ontario *Gordon River (Chochocouane River), a river in Quebec Scotland *Gordon ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Craig (footballer)
Frederick Glover Craig (16 January 1891 – 30 August 1966) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, best remembered for his two spells with Plymouth Argyle, for whom he made over 430 appearances in the Southern League and the Football League. Craig made more appearances for the club than any other goalkeeper. Club career A goalkeeper, Craig began his career in Scottish junior football, before moving to England to join Southern League First Division club Plymouth Argyle in 1912. He made just four appearances during the 1912–13 season, in which Argyle won the Southern League First Division title. He succeeded Titch Horne as Argyle's first choice goalkeeper midway through 1914–15, but the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 led to the cessation of competitive football in England at the end of the season, for the duration of the conflict. Craig returned to Scotland to play competitive Scottish League football during the war and turn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Barrington Craig
Frank Barrington Craig (2 March 1902 – 4 February 1951), also known as Barry Craig, was a British painter of portraits and landscapes and also an art teacher. Biography Craig was born in Hampstead in north London into a family of artists. He was educated at Rugby School. His father was the artist Frank Craig and, in due course, his own son, Adam, would become a painter. Craig studied at the Slade School of Art between 1919 and 1924. His fellow students included Rodney Joseph Burn, Walter Thomas Monnington and Mary Potter. Craig moved to South Africa and worked as professor of painting at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town from 1926 to 1933. Upon returning to Britain, Craig taught at Saint Martin's School of Art in London until 1950. During the Second World War, Craig undertook camouflage work for the British Government. He also had one painting, on a camouflage subject, purchased by the War Artists Advisory Committee, WAAC, in June 1943 and he was subsequently c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Craig
Sir Ernest Craig, 1st Baronet (1859 – 9 April 1933) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Crewe division of Cheshire at a by-election in July 1912 after the death of his Liberal predecessor, Walter McLaren. Craig did not stand for re-election in 1918, when the seat was won a Coalition Liberal, and his next candidacy was at the 1924 general election, when he won the seat in a straight contest with the sitting Labour Party MP Edward Hemmerde. He stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1929 general election. In the King's Birthday Honours 1927, he was made a baronet on 1 July 1927, of Alsager in Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t .... Ernest Craig, before becoming a politician, along with man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth A
Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist Ships * HMS ''Elizabeth'', several ships * ''Elisabeth'' (schooner), several ships * ''Elizabeth'' (freighter), an American freighter that was wrecked off New York harbor in 1850; see Places Australia * City of Elizabeth ** Elizabeth, South Australia * Elizabeth Reef, a coral reef in the Tasman Sea United States * Elizabeth, Arkansas * Elizabeth, Colorado * Elizabeth, Georgia * Elizabeth, Illinois * Elizabeth, Indiana * Hopkinsville, Kentucky, originally known as Elizabeth * Elizabeth, Louisiana * Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts * Elizabeth, Minnesota * Elizabeth, New Jersey, largest city with the name in the U.S. * Elizabeth City, North Carolina * Elizabeth (Charlotte neighborhood), North Carolina * Elizabeth, Pennsylvania * Elizabeth Township, Pennsylvania (other) * Elizabeth, West Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Craig
Elizabeth Dorothy Craig (born 1967) is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the Labour Party. As a public health physician, she has become known for her research work on child poverty. Early life and family Craig was born in 1967 and received her secondary education at Spotswood College in New Plymouth. She left New Plymouth at the age of 18 to attend medical school in Auckland. She was married to David Craig for 27 years, with whom she has two children. In January 2020 she married Philip Melgren. Prior to the , she lived in Dunedin. For the 2014 election, the family split its time between Dunedin and Romahapa in The Catlins. In 2016, when her selection for the Invercargill electorate was confirmed, she started looking for a house in Invercargill and has lived there since. Public health career Craig is a public health doctor and child poverty advocate. In 2009, she won a $50,000 Dunedin School of Medicine's research development i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Craig (writer)
Elizabeth Josephine Craig, MBE, FRSA (16 February 1883 – 7 June 1980) was a Scottish journalist, home economist and a notable author on cookery. Early life and family Elizabeth Craig was born on 16 February 1883 in Addiewell, West Lothian to Catherine Anne Nicoll (died 3 March 1929) and Reverend John Mitchell Craig. Craig was one of eight children and her father was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. The family lived at the Manse in Memus, Kirriemuir, Scotland. She attended Forfar Academy and George Watson's Ladies' College in Edinburgh before returning to Forfar Academy as a teacher. Journalism Craig's writing career began in Dundee where she studied journalism. She first published a cookery feature in the ''Daily Express'' in 1920, following comments from the Daily Mail's then film editor who declared she was "the only woman in Fleet Street who could cook". Craig was a founding member of the International P.E.N., and at the request of the founder, Catharine Daws ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elijah Craig
Elijah Craig (November 15, 1738 – May 18, 1808) was an American Baptist Religious minister, preacher, who became an educator and capitalist entrepreneur in the area of Virginia that later became the state of Kentucky. He has sometimes, although rather dubiously,Cowdery, Charles K., "Who Invented Bourbon?" ''Malt Advocate Magazine'' (4th quarter 2002), pp. 72–75. been credited with the invention of bourbon whiskey. Early life and education Craig was born in Orange County, Virginia in 1738, the 5th child of Polly Hawkins and Taliaferro or Toliver Craig, Sr. Converted by Baptist David Thomas in 1764, Elijah Craig soon began holding meetings in his tobacco barn. In 1766, he convinced David Read to travel from North Carolina to baptize members of the new congregation, including himself. His older brother Lewis Craig (pioneer), Lewis and younger brother Joseph Craig also became Baptist preachers. In 1768 Lewis was imprisoned with John Waller (Baptist), John Waller, James Childs, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Gordon Craig
Edward Henry Gordon CraigSome sources give "Henry Edward Gordon Craig". (born Edward Godwin; 16 January 1872 – 29 July 1966), sometimes known as Gordon Craig, was an English modernist theatre practitioner; he worked as an actor, director and scenic designer, as well as developing an influential body of theoretical writings. Craig was the son of actress Dame Ellen Terry. The Gordon Craig Theatre, built in Stevenage (the town of his birth), was named in his honour in 1975. Life and family The illegitimate son of the architect Edward Godwin and the actress Ellen Terry, Craig was born Edward Godwin on 16 January 1872 in Railway Street, Stevenage, in Hertfordshire, England, and baptised at age 16 as Edward Henry Gordon. He attended Bradfield College in Berkshire from May 1886 to July 1887. He took the surname Craig by deed poll at age 21.Hamilton, James"Craig, (Edward Henry) Gordon (1872–1966)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; onlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Craig (author)
David Craig (real name Neil Glass) is a British author. He has been a management consultant and in his 2005 book ''Rip-Off!: the scandalous inside story of the management consulting money machine'' he criticised the greed and sharp practice of consultants. His next book ''Plundering the Public Sector: how New Labour are letting consultants run off with £70 billion of our money'' was co-authored by Richard Brooks and addressed consultancy in the public sector. In April 2008 he published ''Squandered: how Gordon Brown is wasting over one trillion pounds of our money''. He adopted a pseudonym, and created the publishing house "The Original Book Company", to publish ''Rip-off!'' after it was turned down by conventional publishers "for fear, he says, that it might upset the wrong people". After it sold 10,000 copies his next two books were published by commercial publisher Constable, but he kept the pseudonym to benefit from the first book's success. In June 2008 Craig announced t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
