George Pirie (other)
George Pirie may refer to: * George Pirie (publisher) (1799–1870), Canadian newspaper publisher * Sir George Pirie (artist) (1863–1946), Scottish artist * George Alexander Pirie (1864–1929), Scottish radiologist * Sir George Pirie (RAF officer) (1896–1980), British air marshal * George Pirie (politician), Canadian politician, elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 2022 * George Pirie (mathematician) George Pirie (19 July 1843 – 21 August 1904) was a Scottish mathematician, mathematical scientist, and Reverend in the Church of Scotland. He was an expert in the field of dynamics and the approximation of . Early life and education Pirie w ...

George Pirie (publisher)
George Pirie (1799–1870) was a Canadian newspaper publisher. He emigrated to Canada from Aberdeen, Scotland. His father, also George Pirie, was a prominent Aberdeen merchant and ship owner. His mother was Katherine (Catherine) Mitchell Pirie, a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Mitchell, of the parish of Tarves, Aberdeenshire. He was educated in Scotland and in London, where he was apprenticed to his relative, Sir John Pirie, at one time the Lord Mayor of London. Pirie and his first wife, Mary Robieson, and their children, arrived in Canada in 1838. They settled in a Scottish settlement named Bon Accord after the town motto of Aberdeen. This settlement was located in Upper Nichol Township near present-day Elora. The transition to Canadian pioneer life was much more difficult than had been anticipated during the planning stages in Scotland. Pirie's wife died a few years later and was one of the earliest burials from the settlement. The Piries, formerly residents of downtow ...
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George Pirie (artist)
Sir George Pirie PRSA (5 December 1863 – 17 February 1946) was a Scottish artist who was associated with the Glasgow Boys in the 1880s, though he was not in much sympathy with the theories of these artists. He was born in Campbeltown, Argyllshire, on 5 December 1863. His father was John Pirie, a physician and surgeon, and his mother was Jane Harvey. As a child the family moved to Glasgow, where his father was a popular and well-known physician. He educated at Glasgow Academy and graduated M.A. at Glasgow University in 1882. He studied at Glasgow School of Art, the Slade School, and the Académie Julian in Paris under Gustave Boulanger, Jules Lefebvre, and Emmanuel Frémiet the sculptor. He painted animals and birds, as well as some landscapes. In the early 1890s he was in Texas for a period, drawing horses and ranching scenes. He exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy as well as in Scotland and the provinces. He served as President of the Royal Scottish Academy ...
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George Alexander Pirie
George Alexander Pirie (1863 – 27 October 1929) was a Scottish medical doctor and pioneering researcher in the use of X-rays in clinical medicine. Early life George Alexander Pirie was born in Dundee where his father, Dr George Clark Pirie, was a physician at the Dundee Royal Infirmary from 1862 to 1881. The family lived at 43 South Tay Street in Dundee. Pirie graduated with an MA from the University of St. Andrews, and then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MB ChM with first-class honours in 1886 and an MD in 1890. Career In 1887 he started work at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary as a resident under Scottish physician Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, before moving to Dundee. Pirie worked at the Dundee Royal Infirmary from 1896 to 1925, and was an early pioneer in the application of X-rays to clinical medicine. He began experimenting with radiology, radiography, and X-rays in 1896, soon after the Wilhelm Röntgen had first demonstrated X-rays an ...
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George Pirie (RAF Officer)
Air Chief Marshal Sir George Clark Pirie, (28 July 1896 – 21 January 1980) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and the immediate post-war years. During the First World War, Pirie served as an infantry officer before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps where he took up duties as an observer officer. RAF career Educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews, Pirie volunteered for service with the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) just after the outbreak of the First World War. He was gazetted as a second lieutenant on 19 September 1914. In March 1916 Pirie began training to be an observer with No. 2 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. He became Officer Commanding No. 6 Squadron on the Western Front in 1918. Pirie was still serving with 6 Squadron when it moved to the Middle East and served with the squadron when he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) for services in Mesopotamia. The citation for his DF ...
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George Pirie (politician)
George Pirie is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2022 Ontario general election, 2022 provincial election. He represents the riding of Timmins (provincial electoral district), Timmins as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. He defeated Gilles Bisson who was first elected in 1990 Ontario general election, 1990, taking the seat from the Ontario New Democratic Party for the first time in 32 years. He was elected Mayor of Timmins in 2018. References

Living people Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs 21st-century Canadian politicians Mayors of Timmins Year of birth missing (living people) {{ProgressiveConservative-Ontario-MPP-stub ...
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