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George Davidson (rugby League)
George Davidson may refer to: * George Davidson of Pettens (c. 1593–1663), Scottish landowner, merchant and philanthropist * George Davidson (athlete) (1898–1948), New Zealand track and field athlete * George Davidson (attorney) (born 1942), American attorney * George Davidson (basketball) (1925–2017), American basketball coach and player * George Davidson (cricketer) (1866–1899), Derbyshire cricketer * George Davidson (footballer) (1872–1945), Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne * George Davidson (geographer) (1825–1911), English-American geographer * George Davidson (minister) (1855–1936), Presbyterian minister in South Australia * George Davidson (politician) (1850–1935), Northwest Territories MLA * George Forrester Davidson (1909–1995), Canadian civil servant * George Ramsay Davidson (1801–1890), Scottish minister * GeorgeNotFound (George Henry Davidson, born 1995), English internet personality See also * George Davidson Grant (1870â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Davidson Of Pettens
George Davidson of Pettens (c. 1593–1663) was a 17th-century Scottish landowner, merchant and philanthropist. Life Little is known of his early life but he is thought to be descended from the Davidsons of Cairnbrogie. He was a burgess in Aberdeen from 1650. He owned the Pettens estate near Balmedie, north of Aberdeen. He appears to have been a rich merchant in Aberdeen. Having no wife or family he spent much of his money on the city. His works included: *A new bridge on the River Don in Old Aberdeen. *Rebuilding the bridge at Insch *Rebuilding the churchyard walls at St Clements Church in the Footdee Footdee (Scots: Fittie) is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland known locally by its Scots language name of Fittie. It is an old fishing village at the east end of Aberdeen Harbour. The name is actually folk etymology. Far from being "Foot of the De ... district *Chapel of Ease in the Newhills district *A fund to aid the ministers of St Clements and St Nicholas He died in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Davidson (athlete)
George Davidson (8 October 1898 – 25 September 1948) was a New Zealand sprinter and rugby league player. He competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and finished fifth in the 200 metres competition. He also participated in the 100 metres event where he was eliminated in the quarter-finals. His Olympic participation was hindered due to the time it took to travel from NZ to Belgium for the games. American athletic coach Ike Kelly said of Davidson that if he was able to coach him for 6 months, he would have turned him into a world champion. Davidson's brothers Bill and Ben both represented New Zealand at rugby league, and George himself played for the City and Maritime clubs in the Auckland Rugby League competition and represented Auckland between 1919 and 1922.Coffey, John and Bernie Wood ''Auckland, 100 years of rugby league, 1909-2009'', 2009. , p.84. George Davidson played for Maritime but after returning from the Antwerp Olympics he requested a transfer to join his brothers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Davidson (attorney)
George Allan Davidson (born April 6, 1942) is an attorney and the former head of the Litigation Department of the New York law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed, having taking the position of Of Counsel upon retirement. He currently serves as an arbitrator in domestic and international cases. Davidson is also the former President of the Legal Aid Society, a position he held from 1987 to 1989. Davidson was also a Director of the Legal Aid Society from 1978 to 1992 and a member of its President's Council from 1990 to 2006. A respected litigator, Davidson has been involved in many landmark cases, including his 2000 victory before the Supreme Court in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, where Davidson represented the Boy Scouts of America. Davidson graduated from Brown University in 1964 and graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University School of Law in 1967. After graduating from law school, from 1967 to 1968, Davidson served as a law clerk to the Hon. Paul R. Hays of the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Davidson (basketball)
George E. Davidson (October 17, 1925 – March 5, 2017) was an American basketball coach and professional player. He played college basketball for the Lafayette Leopards from 1948 to 1951. After a brief professional career, Davidson returned to serve as head coach of Lafayette from 1955 to 1967. Playing career Davidson served as the captain of the Leopards basketball team during his senior season. He set team records in single-season scoring with 473 points and a single-game performance with 34 points. Davidson's points were ranked 13th highest in the nation. Davidson was selected in the 1951 NBA draft by the Rochester Royals but chose to sign with the Reading Merchants of the Eastern Professional Basketball League (EPBL). He split the 1951–52 season in the EPBL with the Merchants and the Lancaster Rockets. Davidson averaged 9.7 points per game in 17 games played. Coaching career Davidson began his coaching career at the Pennsylvania Military Preparatory School and Germanto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Davidson (cricketer)
George Arthur Davidson (29 June 1866 – 8 February 1899) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1886 and 1898 and for Marylebone Cricket Club between 1888 and 1898. A useful all-rounder, he scored over 5500 runs and took 621 wickets in his first-class career. Davidson was born in Brimington, Derbyshire, the son of Josh Davidson, a coal miner and his wife Elizabeth. His father played one game annually for Derbyshire from 1871 to 1875. Davidson's first-class career began for Derbyshire in the 1886 season playing in the first match of the season against Marylebone Cricket Club, a game where he played in the lower order. He played regularly for the rest of the season. In the 1887 season he topped the batting and bowling figures for the club, scoring the first two half-centuries of his career and taking three five wicket overs. Derbyshire lost first-class status in 1888 and Davidson's few first-class appearances in the subsequent six years were ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Davidson (footballer)
George Davidson (13 June 1872 – 25 August 1945) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). * At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for ''The Argus'' ("Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition:Backs: Maurie Collins (Essendon), Bill Proudfoot (Collingwood), Peter Burns (Geelong); Halfbacks: Pat Hickey (Fitzroy), George Davidson (South Melbourne), Alf Wood (Melbourne); Centres: Fred Leach (Collingwood), Firth McCallum (Geelong), Harry Wright (Essendon); Wings: Charlie Pannam (Collingwood), Eddie Drohan (Fitzroy), Herb Howson (South Melbourne); Forwards: Bill Jackson (Essendon), Eddy James (Geelong), Charlie Colgan (South Melbourne); Ruck: Mick Pleass (South Melbourne), Frank Hailwood (Collingwood), Joe McShane (Geelong); Rovers: Dick Condon (Collingwood), Bill McSpeerin (Fitzroy), Teddy Rankin Edwin Walt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Davidson (geographer)
George Davidson (May 9, 1825 – December 1, 1911) was a geodesist, astronomer, geographer, surveyor and engineer in the United States. Biography Born on May 9, 1825, in England, he went to the U.S. in 1832 with his parents, who settled in Pennsylvania. He graduated at the Central High School in Philadelphia in 1845, standing first in his class. While a student, he had shown interest in scientific work, and had assisted Alexander D. Bache in his observations of the magnetic elements at Girard College. Upon his graduation in 1845, he began his career as clerk to Bache who was superintendent of the United States Coast Survey. From 1846 to 1850, Davidson was occupied in geodetic field work, and in astronomy, serving in the different states on the east coast of the United States. In 1850, he went to California under the auspices of the Coast Survey, and was for several years engaged in the determination of the latitude and longitude of prominent capes, bays, etc., and of the magneti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Davidson (minister)
George Davidson (1855 – 15 July 1936) was a Presbyterian minister in Adelaide, South Australia from 1898 to 1928. History The Rev. Dr Davidson was born at Dundee, Scotland in 1855, the son of George Davidson, a mechanical engineer, and was educated at Dundee's West End Academy. After four years' employment at the office of a local jute factory, he enrolled at St Andrew's University in Fife, graduating MA in 1879, and prepared for the ministry at the Theological Hall of the United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. He would receive his Doctorate of Divinity in 1910. His first posting was to the Allars United Presbyterian Church, Hawick, where he remained for 13 years. Davidson answered a call from the Flinders Street, Adelaide church (founded 1865) in 1897 to succeed Rev. James Lyall, and with his wife and two sons arrived in Adelaide by the liner ''Ormuz'' on 28 February 1898. and served there from 1898 to 1928. These were the two pastorates of his 44 years' ministerial career. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Davidson (politician)
George Senze Davidson (born: c. 1850 Ohio - died: 1935) was a hotel owner, farmer and politician from the Northwest Territories, Canada. He came to Perth County in Canada West with his parents in 1852. From 1870 to 1876, Davidson was printer and publisher of the ''Listowel Banner''. He then moved to Palmerston, where he was a general merchant and served as town mayor, resigning in 1883 to move to the Northwest.'The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1891'' JA Gemmill Davidson was first elected to the in the |
George Forrester Davidson
George Forrester Davidson, (April 18, 1909 – July 22, 1995) was a Canadian civil servant and president of the CBC. Born in Bass River, Nova Scotia, he graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1928 and earned a Ph.D. in classical studies from Harvard University in 1932. He was appointed Superintendent of Welfare in British Columbia and became Director of Welfare in 1939. Despite his lack of training, Davidson learned on the job from B.C.'s first professional social worker, Laura Holland, and Dr. Harry Cassidy. He took over from Cassidy as B.C.'s Director of Welfare in 1939 and soon thereafter became director of the Canadian Welfare Council. He served as Deputy Minister for National Health and Welfare from 1944 to 1960, helping to administer the new Family Allowance program, then later worked in Citizenship and Immigration, as Secretary to the Treasury Board. He was president of the CBC from 1968 until 1972. In 1972 he held the most senior post ever by a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ramsay Davidson
George Ramsay Davidson (1801–1890) was a Scottish minister in the 19th century who was senior minister of the influential Lady Glenorchy's Church and Lady Glenorchy's Free Church. Life He was born in Brechin in 1801 the son of David Davidson. He was educated at Brechin Grammar School and then studied at St Andrews University, graduating MA in 1820. He was licensed to preach as a Church of Scotland minister by the Presbytery of St Andrews in 1823 but initially failed to find a patron. He was ordained as minister of Drumblade in Aberdeenshire in May 1828. In July 1842 he replaced Thomas Liddell at Lady Glenorchy's Church in central Edinburgh. Given Glenorchy's long tradition of Nonconformism and distancing from the established church, it was inevitable in the Disruption of 1843 that Davidson and the bulk of his congregation left to join the Free Church of Scotland. As they waited for their new church to be built at Greenside Place they met at the school halls of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GeorgeNotFound
George Davidson (born 1 November 1996), better known online as GeorgeNotFound, is an English internet personality, YouTuber, and Twitch streamer. He gained substantial popularity in 2020 and 2021 through uploading ''Minecraft'' content. Alongside content creator and frequent collaborator Dream, Davidson founded the Dream SMP, a ''Minecraft'' role-playing server consisting of multiple storylines and characters. As of October 2022, Davidson's five YouTube channels have collectively reached over 15.5 million subscribers and over 742.1 million views. Career YouTube Davidson first started YouTube in 2013 under the name GeorgeeeHDPlays before uploading frequently in 2019, later rebranding himself under his current branding GeorgeNotFound. As of October 2022, his main YouTube channel has 10.5 million subscribers. Davidson's content mainly consists of him playing the video game ''Minecraft'', with such content as gameplay videos and challenges. He regularly participates in ''Minecraf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
