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Donald Grant (other)
Donald Grant (1888–1970) was as Australian politician. Donald Grant can also refer to: Given and family name * Bud Grant (broadcaster) (B. Donald Grant, 1932–2011), American television executive * Donald M. Grant (1927–2009), American publisher *Donald Grant, English-language broadcaster for Nazi Germany * Donald Grant of Grant, 5th Baron Strathspey (1912–1992), of the Barons Strathspey *M. Donald Grant (1904–1988), American baseball club owner *Donald Grant (rugby union) (1892–1962), Scottish rugby union player * Donald Grant (politician), Western Cape Provincial Minister of Transport and Public Works *Donald Grant (surveyor), Australian surveyor Both given names * Donald Grant Creighton (1902–1979), Canadian historian *Donald Grant Devine (born 1944), Canadian politician, premier of Saskatchewan *Donald Duffy (Donald Grant Duffy, 1915–1995), Australian doctor *Donald Grant McLeod (born 1959), former field hockey player from New Zealand *Donald Grant Millard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Grant
Donald MacLennan Grant (26 February 1888 – 11 June 1970) was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World in Sydney, a member of the Sydney Twelve charged with conspiracy in 1916, and later a member of the Australian Labor Party who was elected to Sydney City Council, appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, and elected to the Australian Senate in 1943 where he served for sixteen years. Biography Born in Inverness, Scotland in 1888, Grant emigrated to Australia prior to the First World War. He joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and became known as one of their best public speakers, regularly drawing large crowds at The Domain, Sydney speaking against conscription, and for militant direct action against the war and capitalism. Tom Barker, the editor of the IWW newspaper ''Direct Action'', was arrested, convicted and sentenced to six months prison for publishing the famous anti-war poster, which said: To ARMS! Capitalists, Parsons, Politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Grant Creighton
Donald Grant Creighton (15 July 1902 – 19 December 1979) was a Canadian historian whose major works include ''The Commercial Empire of the St-Lawrence, 1760–1850'' (first published in 1937), a detailed study on the growth of the English merchant class in relation to the St Lawrence River in Canada. His biography of John A. Macdonald, published into two parts between 1952 and 1955, was considered by many Canadian historians as re-establishing biographies as a proper form of historical research in Canada. By the 1960s Creighton began to move towards a more general history of Canada. Creighton's later years were preoccupied with criticizing the then ruling Liberal Party of Canada under William Lyon Mackenzie King and his successor Louis St. Laurent. Creighton denounced the Liberal Party for undermining Canada's link with Great Britain and moving towards closer relations with the United States, a policy which he strongly disliked. Background Creighton was born on July 15, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Grant Nutter
Donald Grant Nutter (November 28, 1915January 25, 1962) was an American politician. A recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross in World War II, Nutter served in the Montana Senate and as the chair of the state Republican Party prior to being elected the 15th governor of Montana in 1960. After a year in office, he was killed in an airplane crash during a blizzard in January 1962. Biography Early life Donald Nutter was born November 28, 1915, in Lambert, Montana, the second of three sons born to Chesley E. Nutter and Anne Grant (Wood) Nutter. The family moved to Sidney in 1918. Nutter attended the North Dakota State School of Science in Wahpeton for two years before transferring to University of Montana in Missoula in 1935. He left school after his father became ill to return to Sidney, where he entered public service in 1937 as the deputy clerk of the Richland County District Court. He held that position for a year, then served for another year as the undersheriff of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Grant Mitchell
Donald Grant Mitchell (April 12, 1822December 15, 1908) was an American essayist and novelist who usually wrote under the pen name Ik Marvel. Biography Mitchell, the grandson of politician and jurist Stephen Mix Mitchell, was born in Norwich, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1841, where he was a member of Skull and Bones and studied law, but he soon took up literature. Throughout his life he showed a particular interest in agriculture and landscape gardening, which he followed at first in pursuit of health. He served as U.S. consul at Venice, Italy, from 1853 to 1854, and in 1855 he settled at his estate, called Edgewood, near New Haven, Connecticut. He was best known as the author, under the pseudonym "Ik Marvel", of the sentimental essays contained in the volumes '' Reveries of a Bachelor, or a Book of the Heart'' (first published in book form in 1850) and ''Dream Life, a Fable of the Seasons'' (1851). ''Reveries of a Bachelor'' examines the dream-like lives Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 T-39 Shootdown Incident
On 28 January 1964, an unarmed T-39 Sabreliner aircraft of the United States Air Force (USAF) was shot down while on a training mission over Erfurt, East Germany, by a MiG-19 jet fighter of the Soviet Air Force. The occupants of the aircraft were lieutenant colonel Gerald K. Hannaford, captain Donald Grant Millard and captain John F. Lorraine. All three died, becoming direct casualties of the Cold War in Europe. Background The Cold War developed between the Soviet bloc and the United States, Canada, and Western European nations. Tensions were highest between the United States and the Soviet Union in the regions bordering the Iron Curtain, notably West Germany and East Germany, and relations between the two superpowers were characterized by hostile attitudes, spying, and numerous incidents resulting in loss of life and equipment. One of the most famous of these is the 1960 U-2 incident when the Soviets shot down a Lockheed U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers over the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant McLeod
Donald Grant McLeod (born 9 April 1959 in Whangārei) is a former field hockey player from New Zealand. McLeod, the younger brother of Olympian gold medalist Neil McLeod, followed his brother's footsteps in attending the Olympics with his national team in 1984 and 1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ..., where they finished seventh and eighth respectively. References * External links * New Zealand male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for New Zealand Field hockey players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics 1959 births Living people Field hockey players from Whangārei {{NewZealand-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Duffy
Donald Grant Duffy (1 January 1915 – 16 January 1995) was an Australian medical doctor and surgeon. He served in the Australian Army in World War II and was a president of the Melbourne Football Club. Early life Duffy was born in Mourilyan in northern Queensland on 1 January 1915,"Duffy, Donald Grant" . WW2 Nominal Roll. Retrieved 11 August 2010. to Leontine Joseph Duffy and Bessie Rose Grant. Leontine was a manager of Australian Sugar. Donald was one of three children, all of whom ended up working in the field of medicine; his brother, Douglas, was a and his sister, Dorothy, was a |
Grant Devine
Donald Grant Devine, SOM (born July 5, 1944) was the 11th premier of Saskatchewan from May 8, 1982 to November 1, 1991. Early life Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, he received a BSc in Agriculture degree specializing in Agricultural Economics in 1967 from the University of Saskatchewan, an MSc specializing in Agricultural Economics in 1969 from the University of Alberta, an MBA from the University of Alberta in 1970, and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Ohio State University in 1976. A farmer, teacher and agricultural economist, Devine taught at the University of Saskatchewan in the 1970s before entering politics. Political career Entry into politics Although he was defeated in a Saskatoon seat in the 1978 Saskatchewan general election, he was elected leader of the provincial Progressive Conservative Party in 1979. He lost a 1980 by-election in Estevan in a three-way split in which each party received more than 27 percent of the vote. Premier of Saskatchewan, 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Grant (surveyor)
Donald Morrison Grant is a professional surveyor and the former Surveyor-General of New South Wales. Early life Grant was born in Bairnsdale, Victoria in 1934. He attended St Patrick's College, Ballarat, Victoria. Public Service Career Grant was appointed Chief Surveyor, Adelaide City Council in 1965. In 1980, he was appointed Assistant Surveyor-General in the South Australian Lands Department and was later promoted to Deputy Surveyor-General. In 1986, he was appointed Surveyor-General of New South Wales and remained in that position until he retired in 2000. Military service Grant is a graduate of the Officer Cadet School, Portsea, class June 1954. He was commissioned into the Royal Australian Engineers and served for eight years in the Regular Army. After leaving the Regular Army he continued service in the Army Reserve attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. His military service included overseas deployment to Papua New Guinea, Japan and South Vietnam. He was awarded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bud Grant (broadcaster)
B. Donald "Bud" Grant (February 7, 1932 – July 1, 2011) was an American television executive. He originally started his career at NBC in 1956, and stayed there until 1972, when he joined CBS, and known for resurrecting game shows on the daytime lineup after a four-year absence since 1968, such as ''The Price is Right''. He served as the President of CBS Entertainment from 1980 until 1987. He was credited with spearheading 1980s CBS shows such as ''Newhart'' and ''Murder, She Wrote''. Grant was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and earned a Bachelor of Science in business from Johns Hopkins University. He served from 1953 to 1955 in the U.S. Coast Guard. Grant left CBS in 1987 and founded his own production company, Bud Grant Productions, with an exclusive deal with CBS. He would later form Grant/Tribune Prods., which produced for Tribune Broadcasting and Walt Disney Studios. Grant died in Newport Beach, California Newport Beach is a coastal city in South Orange County, Californ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Grant (politician)
Donald Arthur Cardross Grant is a South African businessman and politician. He was the Western Cape Provincial Minister of Transport and Public Works from 2014 to 2019 and the Western Cape Provincial Minister of Education from 2009 to 2014. He was a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament from 2009 to 2019. Grant started his political career as a councillor at the Bitou Municipality. Grant is a member of the Democratic Alliance (DA). Biography Donald Grant obtained a Master of Business Administration at the University of Cape Town. He worked for several years in the private sector before he was elected a Bitou Local Municipality councillor. In April 2009, he was elected as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament for the Democratic Alliance. He was sworn in as a Member on 6 May 2009. Newly elected Premier Helen Zille announced that Grant would become the Provincial Minister of Education, succeeding Yousuf Gabru. He was inaugurated as Provincial Minister on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Grant (rugby Union)
Donald Grant (30 December 1892 – 8 December 1962) is a former Scotland national rugby union team, Scotland international rugby union player. Grant played as a Wing (rugby union), Wing. Rugby Union career Amateur career Grant played for London Scottish F.C., London Scottish. Provincial career Grant played for the English county team East Midlands Rugby Football Union, East Midlands. He played for the Whites Trial side against the Blues Trial side on 1910–11 Scottish Districts season, 21 January 1911, while still with London Scottish, scoring a try in the match in a 26-19 win for the Whites. International career Grant played 2 matches for Scotland national rugby union team, Scotland, both in the Five Nations tournament. He remains the youngest player to play on the Wing (rugby union), Wing for Scotland. His first start was at the age of 18 years and 36 days. His debut was against Wales national rugby union team, Wales on 4 February 1911 at Inverleith. Wales won the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
