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Duncan MacDonald (rugby Union)
Duncan MacDonald may refer to: *Duncan MacDonald (politician) (1885–1977), Australian politician *Duncan Black MacDonald Duncan Black MacDonald (1863-1943) was an American Orientalist. He studied Semitic languages at Glasgow and then Berlin, before teaching at the Hartford Theological Seminary in the United States starting in 1893, founding the first school in the U.S ... (1863–1943), American Orientalist * Duncan MacDonald (athlete) (born 1949), American Olympic long-distance runner See also * Duncan McDonald (other) {{hndis, Macdonald, Duncan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan MacDonald (politician)
Duncan MacDonald (30 June 1885 – 28 September 1977) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Biography MacDonald was born at Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of Thomas Duncan MacDonald Snr and his wife Christina (née McLean). He was educated at the Glasgow Academy University of Edinburgh and after arriving in Queensland in 1908 took up a variety of bush related jobs. He became the manager of a sugar plantation and then an inspector with the Bureau of Sugar Experiment stations. In his youth, Macdonald was a noted boxer and played first-class rugby union. He was a member of the Queensland Club and a councilor and steward on the Royal National Association. On 4 June 1913 MacDonald married Mary Irene Enid Ward (died 1961)Family history research — [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Black MacDonald
Duncan Black MacDonald (1863-1943) was an American Orientalist. He studied Semitic languages at Glasgow and then Berlin, before teaching at the Hartford Theological Seminary in the United States starting in 1893, founding the first school in the U.S. devoted to Christian missionary work among the Muslims of the Middle East. Waardenburg, Jean-Jacques ''L'islam Dans Le Miroir De L'occident''. n FrenchParis: Mouton & Co, 1963. pp.132-135; section II, III.B.4; III.C.4. See also Bijlefeld, W. A. . "A Century of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Hartford Seminary." n English Muslim World 83/2 (1993: 103-17. His main scholarly interest was Muslim theology, which led him to the study of the ''One Thousand and One Nights'', as he believed that the ''Nights'' stories reflected the Muslim popular piety. MacDonald was the second Western scholar to investigate the manuscripts of the ''Nights'', after Hermann Zotenberg, and he began to publish his results in 1908. The Arabic MSS of ''Ali Baba'' he di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan MacDonald (athlete)
Duncan E. MacDonald (born January 15, 1949) is an American long-distance runner. He ran collegiately for Stanford University and competed in the men's 5000 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He was also a three-time winner of the Honolulu Marathon, in 1973, 1974 and 1980. In 2017, MacDonald was the boys and girls cross country coach at the Punahou School Punahou School (known as Oahu College until 1934) is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 3,700 students attend the school from kindergarten through twelfth grade, 12th grade. Protestant missionar ... in Honolulu. References External links * 1949 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics American male long-distance runners Olympic track and field athletes for the United States Stanford Cardinal men's track and field athletes Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American people {{US-longdistance-athletics-bio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |