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George Ross (other)
George Ross may refer to: Politics * George Ross (American politician) (1730–1779), signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence * George Ross (Pennsylvania candidate), candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in 1884 and 1888 and U.S. Senate in 1893 * George Ross (Pennsylvania statesman) (1746–1801), Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania, 1788–1790 * George William Ross (1841–1914), Canadian educator and politician * George A. Ross (1854–1888), lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada * George Henry Ross (1878–1956), politician and barrister from Alberta, Canada * George T. Ross (1949–2020), member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives * George Ross (farmer) (1829–1876), New Zealand farmer and provincial politician Sports * George Ross (footballer, born 1869) (1869–1928), footballer who played for Bury in two FA Cup finals * George Ross (gymnast) (1877–1945), British gymnast and Olympic medalist * George Ross (baseball) (1892–1935), Majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ross (American Politician)
George Ross Jr (May 10, 1730 – July 14, 1779) was a Founding Father of the United States who signed the Continental Association and the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania. He was also the uncle of the man who married Betsy Griscom in 1773, more famous under her married name, Betsy Ross. In 1952, Ross, George Washington, and Robert Morris appeared on a three-cent stamp commemorating Betsy Ross. Early life and family Ross was born on May 10, 1730, in New Castle, Delaware. He was educated at home and later studied law at his brother those days, before being admitted to the bar in Philadelphia. His father was Rev. George Aeneas, the 5th Laird Balblair Ross (1679–1754), who had 2 wives and 16 children, and was an Anglican clergyman who had emigrated from Scotland. Their paternal line goes back to Farquhar Ó Beólláin (1173–1251) whom King Alexander II of Scotland named 1st Earl of Ross in 1226 after great wins in battle. George's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ross (baseball)
George Sidney Ross (June 27, 1892 – April 22, 1935) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. Ross appeared for the New York Giants in one game during the season, in relief. In that appearance, Ross pitched in 2.1 innings, and gave up two hits, with two strikeouts. He batted and threw left-handed. Ross was born in San Rafael, California, and died in Amityville, New York Amityville () is a Political subdivisions of New York State#Village, village near the Babylon (town), New York, Town of Babylon in Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County, on the South Shore (Long Island), South Shore of Long Island, in New Yo .... External links 1892 births 1935 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers New York Giants (NL) players Baseball players from California Sportspeople from San Rafael, California Portland Beavers players People from Amityville, New York {{US-baseball-pitcher-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Campbell Ross
George Campbell Ross C.B., C.B.E. (9 August 1900 – 30 July 1993) was an Engineer and a Rear Admiral in Britain's Royal Navy. He was also the son of Sir Archibald Ross OBE (1867 - March 19, 1931), a pioneering marine engineer. Service biography World War I He served on HMS Warspite, HM Submarine P59 and HMS Vendetta during World War I. Interwar Engineering Courses at RN College, Greenwich, and RN Engineering College, Keyham 1919–1921; HMS Hawkins, Flagship of China Station 1921–1924. Lecturer in Marine Engineering, RN Engineering College 1924–1927; HMS Effingham, Flagship of East Indies Station 1927–1929; HM Dockyard, Chatham 1929–1931; HMS Rodney (29), Atlantic Fleet 1931–1933; Invergordon Mutiny 1931; Assistant Naval Attache, British Embassy, Tokyo 1933–1936; Liaison Officer to Japanese Flagship Asigara, Coronation Review 1937; introduced Oerlikon 20 mm cannon to the RN 1937; HMS Manchester, East Indies Station 1937–1939. World War II Engineer-in-Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Berkeley Ross
George Berkeley Ross (January 24, 1918 – September 1, 2006) was an early pioneer of information technology in the American petroleum industry who spearheaded the digitization of the exploration for petroleum. Biography Early life at Humble In 1936, Ross started his career working as a mail boy for Humble Oil in Midland, Texas, the epicenter of the oil boom. Ross married Virginia Louise Elkin of the well-established Midland family in 1941. Fifty years later after serving on the team that had developed the software to computerize the geological exploration for oil, Ross ended his long and successful career as a senior analyst for exploration systems in computer geology at Exxon. Ross’s mathematical aptitude took him up the corporate ladder. After short stints as a gas station attendant in Odessa and the mailroom in Midland, he was tapped for the assignment of Field Lab Assistant plotting well logs in the Geologic Lease and Scouting Department, a post that permitted him to wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Allen Ross
George Allen Ross (October 24, 1878 – January 21, 1946) was a Canadian architect, for many years senior partner in the important Montreal firm of Ross and Macdonald. Life Born in Montreal on October 24, 1878, Ross was educated at the High School of Montreal, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After returning from Paris, Ross was apprenticed to Brown, MacVicar, & Heriot in Montreal and later become a draftsman for the Grand Trunk Railway. He also worked for Parker & Thomas in Boston and Carrere & Hastings in New York City, then in 1907 went into partnership in Montreal with David MacFarlane as Ross and MacFarlane. When MacFarlane withdrew from the firm in 1912, Ross established a new partnership with Robert Henry Macdonald called Ross and Macdonald. He died at his home in Montreal on January 21, 1946. Honours *Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada *Associate of the Royal Institute of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ross, 13th Lord Ross
George Ross, 13th Lord Ross of Halkhead (8 April 1681 – 17 June 1754), was a Scottish nobleman. Origins Ross was the eldest son and heir of William Ross, 12th Lord Ross, who died in 1738, by Agnes, daughter and heiress of Sir John Wilkie of Fouldean. The Rosses of Halkhead, or Hawkhead, in Renfrewshire, were a Lowland family, not apparently related to the Earls of Ross or the Highland family of Ross of Balnagown.Sir James Balfour Paul, ''The Scots Peerage'', Volume VII Career Ross was appointed a Commissioner of Supply for Renfrewshire on 19 June 1702, and for Edinburgh and Renfrewshire on 5 August 1704. He was elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University in 1727 and 1728 and was appointed Governor of Edinburgh Castle in June 1739. He was appointed a Commissioner of Customs and Salt on 13 February 1744, 29 October 1746 and 20 July 1751. On the death of his son Charles in 1745, he succeeded to the estate of Balnagown. He himself died at Ross House, Edinburgh, on 17 June 1754. Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ross, 11th Lord Ross
George Ross, 11th Lord Ross of Halkhead (died April 1682), was a Scottish nobleman and soldier. Origins Ross was the son and heir of William Ross, 10th Lord Ross, who died in 1656, by Margaret, daughter of Sir James Forrester of Torwoodhead. The Rosses of Halkhead, or Hawkhead, in Renfrewshire, were a Lowland family, not apparently related to the Earls of Ross or the Highland family of Ross of Balnagown. Sir James Balfour Paul, ''The Scots Peerage'', Volume VII Career Ross was present at the first Parliament of Charles II, which passed the Rescissory Act 1661 (banning Presbyterianism), and thereafter attended Parliament regularly. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Ayrshire and Renfrewshire on 9 October 1663, a Commissioner for the Collection of the Excise on 23 January 1667 and a Commissioner of Militia for Ayrshire and Renfrewshire on 3 September 1668. In 1674, together with the Marquess of Douglas and the Earl of Erroll, Ross raised three troops of horse, which were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ross (footballer, Born 1943)
George Ross (15 April 1943 – 7 May 2016) was a Scottish footballer who played as a full-back in the Football League during the 1960s and 1970s, most notably with Preston North End. Surprisingly, Ross never started his senior professional football career with any of the three Highland Football League Clubs in Inverness at that time, and went south to Preston as a schoolboy. He started with Preston as a junior and after making his debut for them in the early 1960s, he went on to play 386 league games for them. This included a place in the 1964 FA Cup Final team. In the early 1970s, he left to join Southport and played 31 league games for them in Football League Division Four The Football League Fourth Division was the fourth-highest division in the English football league system from the 1958–59 season until the creation of the Premier League prior to the 1992–93 season. Whilst the division disappeared in name .... In April 2009, he was honoured with a Lifetime Achie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ross (Australian Footballer)
George Edward Ross (2 May 1901 – 1 January 1989) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). Notes External links * * 1901 births 1989 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Richmond Football Club players {{AFL-bio-1901-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ross (gymnast)
George James Ross (1 December 1877 – 27 August 1945) was a British gymnast who competed in the 1908 and 1912 Olympic Games. As a member of the British team in 1908, he finished eighth in the team A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson (academic), Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interde ... competition. He was part of the British team which won the bronze medal in the gymnastics men's team, in the European system event in 1912. References External links * 1877 births 1945 deaths British male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1908 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Great Britain Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics 20th-century British people {{UK-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ross (Pennsylvania Candidate)
George Ross may refer to: Politics * George Ross (American politician) (1730–1779), signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence * George Ross (Pennsylvania candidate), candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in 1884 and 1888 and U.S. Senate in 1893 * George Ross (Pennsylvania statesman) (1746–1801), Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania, 1788–1790 * George William Ross (1841–1914), Canadian educator and politician * George A. Ross (1854–1888), lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada * George Henry Ross (1878–1956), politician and barrister from Alberta, Canada * George T. Ross (1949–2020), member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives * George Ross (farmer) (1829–1876), New Zealand farmer and provincial politician Sports * George Ross (footballer, born 1869) (1869–1928), footballer who played for Bury in two FA Cup finals * George Ross (gymnast) (1877–1945), British gymnast and Olympic medalist * George Ross (baseball) (1892–1935), Major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ross (footballer, Born 1869)
George Ross (29 November 1869 - 1929) was a footballer who played in England in the 1890s and 1900s. He played for Bury and won two FA Cup finals with them. In 1900 he was a member of the Bury team that defeated Southampton 4–0. In 1903 he was the Bury captain and made a significant contribution to their victory, scoring the first goal in their record 6–0 win over Derby County. He was also in the Bury team that won the 1899 Lancashire Senior Cup The Lancashire County Football Association Cup (commonly known as the Lancashire Senior Cup) is a football knockout tournament involving teams from Lancashire, England. It is a County Cup competition of the Lancashire County Football Association .... References 1869 births 1928 deaths Association football wing halves English Football League players Bury F.C. players English footballers FA Cup Final players {{england-footy-midfielder-1860s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
