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George Simpson (meteorologist), Sir George Simpson
George Simpson may refer to: * Sir George Simpson (HBC administrator) (1792–1860), Scottish explorer and governor of Rupert's Land * George Buchan Simpson (1820–1892), Scottish art collector, connoisseur and patron of Scottish painters * George Bowen Simpson (1838–1915), politician and judge in New South Wales, Australia * George Simpson (Canadian politician) (1858–1906), politician in Prince Edward Island, Canada * George Simpson (Western Australian politician) (1856–1906), member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia * George Simpson (Queensland politician) (1849–1919), member of the Parliament of Queensland * George W. Simpson (1870–1951), New York politician and judge * George Simpson (footballer, born 1876) (1876–1955), English football player for Doncaster Rovers and Chesterfield * George Simpson (footballer, born 1883) (1883–?), English footballer for Sheffield Wednesday and West Bromwich Albion * George Simpson (footballer, born 1933) (1933â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Simpson (HBC Administrator)
Sir George Simpson ( – 7 September 1860) was a Scottish explorer and colonial governor of the Hudson's Bay Company during the period of its greatest power. From 1820 to 1860, he was in practice, if not in law, the British viceroy for the whole of Rupert's Land, an enormous territory of 3.9 millions square kilometers in northern North America. His efficient administration of the west was a precondition for the confederation of western and eastern Canada. He was noted for his grasp of administrative detail and his physical stamina in traveling through the wilderness. Excepting voyageurs and their Siberian equivalents, few men have spent as much time traveling in the wilderness. Simpson was the first person known to have circumnavigated the world by land. Early life Born at Dingwall, Ross-Shire, Scotland, as the illegitimate son of George Simpson, Writer to the Signet, he was raised by two aunts and his paternal grandmother, Isobel Simpson (1731–1821), daughter of George M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Simpson (meteorologist)
Sir George Clarke Simpson KCB CBE FRS H FRSE (2 September 1878 – 1 January 1965) was a British meteorologist. He was President of the Royal Meteorological Society 1940/41. Life George Clarke Simpson was born in Derby, England, the son of Arthur Simpson (the proprietor of a department store in East Street) and his wife, Alice Lambton Clarke. He was educated at Derby School. He then studied Science at Owens College in Manchester graduating BSc in 1900 and then doing postgraduate studies at the University of Göttingen. In 1902 he visited Lapland to investigate atmospheric electricity. In 1905 he became the first person to lecture in meteorology at a British university when he was appointed lecturer at the University of Manchester. In 1906, he joined the Indian Meteorological Service as an Imperial Meteorologist at their headquarters in Simla and inspected many of the meteorological stations in India and Burma. In 1910, he and his colleague Charles Wright were the meteorolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Simpson, Baron Simpson Of Dunkeld
George Simpson, Baron Simpson of Dunkeld (born Dundee, 2 July 1942) is a British businessman and former Labour - and later unaffiliated - member of the House of Lords. In the late 1980s and early 1990s Simpson gained a reputation for turning around struggling companies. However, as CEO of Marconi plc he presided over one of the largest collapses in British corporate history. Career Simpson joined The Rover Group from its subsidiary Leyland-DAF in 1988 and took over as managing director in January 1989. Simpson reorganised the company, replacing the three boards of Austin Rover, Land Rover and the Rover Group with one single board. By this time Rover had been privatised and sold to British Aerospace (BAe) and by early 1990 Simpson had been appointed to the BAe board. In September 1991 Simpson also assumed the role of Rover chairman when the previous chairman, Sir Graham Day, was appointed as BAe's interim chairman. Day promoted Simpson to deputy chief executive of British Ae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gaylord Simpson
George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 – October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist. Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the Modern synthesis (20th century), modern synthesis, contributing ''Tempo and Mode in Evolution'' (1944), ''The Meaning of Evolution'' (1949) and ''The Major Features of Evolution'' (1953). He was an expert on extinct mammals and their intercontinental migrations. Simpson was extraordinarily knowledgeable about Mesozoic fossil mammals and fossil mammals of North and South America. He anticipated such concepts as punctuated equilibrium (in ''Tempo and Mode'') and dispelled the myth that the evolution of the horse was a linear process culminating in the modern ''Equus caballus''. He coined the word ''wikt:hypodigm, hypodigm'' in 1940, and published extensively on the Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy of fossil and extant mammals. Simpson was influentially, and incorrectly, opposed to Alf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Simpson (sprinter)
George Sidney Simpson (September 21, 1908 – December 2, 1961) was an American sprinter. He competed at the 1932 Olympics and won a silver medal in the 200 m, placing fourth in the 100 m event. Simpson was the first to run 100 yards in 9.4 seconds, but because he used starting blocks, the record was never ratified. He won the in both NCAA The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ... and AAU in 1930. He was also fourth in the 100 meters at the 1932 Olympics. In 1929 he unofficially equaled the 200 meters World Record 20.6 seconds. Simpson attended Ohio State and won a national title in 1929. Competition record References 1908 births 1961 deaths Ohio State University alumni Ohio State Buckeyes men's track and field athletes Athletes (track and field) at the 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Simpson (Royal Navy Officer)
Rear Admiral George Walter Gillow Simpson Order of the Bath, CB, Order of the British Empire, CBE (6 June 1901 – 2 March 1972) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commodore Submarine Service, Flag Officer Submarines. Naval career Educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne and the Britannia Royal Naval College, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Simpson was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1917. He became commanding officer of the submarine HMS L27 in 1935 and of the submarine HMS Porpoise (N14), HMS ''Porpoise'' in August 1938. He became commander of the 10th Submarine Flotilla, based at Malta in January 1941, during the World War II, Second World War, in which role his mission was to prevent enemy supplies reaching North Africa. He went on to be Commodore Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches, Western Approaches in April 1943. Simpson became Royal New Zealand Navy, Chief of the New Zealand Navy Staff in 1948, Flag Officer Germany in 1951 and Commodore Submarine Service, Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Goodman Simpson
Captain (later Squadron Leader) George Goodman Simpson (14 September 1896 – April 1990) was an Australian-born flying ace credited with eight confirmed victories while flying for the Royal Naval Air Service during World War I. He would serve his country again during World War II. Early life George Goodman Simpson was born in Saint Kilda, Victoria, Australia, on the outskirts of Melbourne on 14 September 1896,''Above the Trenches'', p. 339. to Minna Alice Lazarus and George Green Simpson. By 1901, the Simpson family, which included elder brother Rolfe, was living at Swaynes Hall, Saint Mary's Church National School, in Saffron Walden, England. In 1916, George Goodman Simpson lived in Regent's Park. In later life Simpson would claim to be native to London, England. He joined the Artists Rifles as a private soldier before World War I. World War I Simpson joined the Royal Naval Air Service on 8 August 1915. After pilot's training, he was awarded his pilot's certificate at Chingfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Simpson (botanist)
George Simpson (1880–1952) was a New Zealand naturalist and botanist. He was born in Dunedin, the son of a master builder. He, too, became a builder and valuer, working as Crown Valuer from about 1943 until early 1950. However, he, together with John Scott Simpson, became interested in collecting and growing New Zealand native plants and by 1925 both were well known within the New Zealand botanical community. In 1930 he was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society, In 1945, he published his monograph on ''Carmichaelia''. In 1949 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, FRSNZ. Names published (List incomplete: 74 names published) * '' Myosotis ramificata'' G.Simpson, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. N. Z. lxxix. 426 (1952). * '' Myosotis tenuis'' G.Simpson & J.S.Thomson, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. N. Z. lxxiii. 161 (1943). * '' Wahlenbergia laxa'' G.Simpson, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. N. Z. lxxix. 430 (1952). * '' Wahlenbergia ramosa'' G.Simpson, Trans. & Proc. Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Simpson (footballer, Born 1933)
George Leonard Simpson (3 December 1933 – 23 February 2012) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Gillingham and Mansfield Town Mansfield Town Football Club is a professional association football, football club based in the town of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The team competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. Nicknamed 'The Stags', they .... References 1933 births 2012 deaths People from Shirebrook Footballers from Derbyshire English men's footballers Men's association football inside forwards English Football League players Hereford United F.C. players Mansfield Town F.C. players Gillingham F.C. players Oxford United F.C. players {{England-footy-forward-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Buchan Simpson
George B. Simpson (10 October 1820 – 1 July 1892) was a Scottish art collector, connoisseur and patron of Scottish painters. He financed his interests through his wealth acquired as a linen manufacturer and jute merchant in Dundee. He is "Dundee’s Forgotten Maecenas" according to a recent academic paper. Life George Buchan Simpson was born in Dundee on 10 October 1820. His father was Robert Simpson, a shipmaster and later a flax merchant, and his mother was Janet Buchan. He was educated at Mr. Gilbert’s School in Meadow Entry, Dundee. He married Margaret Maria Shaw on 10 June 1856 at Fettercairn in Kincardineshire. They had two sons and four daughters - Robert John, Jessie, Catherine, Florence, Eleanor and Kenneth. He died in Edinburgh on 1 July 1892. Business career Simpson trained in linen manufacturing with Messrs. Alexander Easson and Charles Clark at the Dens Works in Dundee. By the mid-1850s he had gone into partnership with William Ritchie (c.1818-1902) and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Simpson (footballer, Born 1883)
George Simpson (1883 - unknown) was an English professional footballer, who played for The Wednesday and West Bromwich Albion. With Wednesday he won the Football League championship in 1903–04 and the FA Cup in 1907 Events January * January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February * February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco. ..., scoring the winning goal in the final. The FA Cup (archived version, 2008) References 1883 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Simpson (footballer, Born 1876)
George Robert Simpson (1876−1955) was an English footballer who played as a full back with Sheffield United, Doncaster Rovers Doncaster Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The team compete in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club play their home games at ... and Chesterfield. After playing for Sheffield United, Simpson moved to Doncaster in October 1900 as Rovers began preparations to improve their side in readiness for applying for entry into the Football League, although he was still registered with Sheffield until the following October. Doncaster had been admitted to the Football League Second Division for the 1901–02 in English football, 1901−02 season at the very last minute as New Brighton Tower F.C., New Brighton Tower had folded and resigned from the League, so many players had to have their registrations updated. Simpson's transfer fee, set by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
