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Glen (surname)
Glen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Abigail Glen (born 2001), English cricketer * Alec Glen, Scottish footballer * Alex Glen (1878–1916), Scottish footballer * Archie Glen (1929–1998), Scottish international football player * Cornell Glen (born 1980), Trinidadian international football (soccer) player *Davie Glen (1881–1917), Scottish footballer *Gary Glen (born 1990), Scottish football player *Georgie Glen, Scottish actress * Iain Glen (born 1961), Scottish actor *James Allison Glen (1877–1950), Canadian politician *John Glen (director) (born 1932), English film director and editor *John Glen (mayor) (1809–1895), mayor of Atlanta * John Glen (politician) (born 1974), UK Conservative politician * Marla Glen (born 1960), American jazz singer * Robert Glen (born 1875), Scottish international football player *Sandy Glen (1912–2004), Scottish explorer * William Glen (geologist) (born 1932), American geologist and historian *William Glen (poet) (1789 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abigail Glen
Abigail Alice Glen (born 2 April 2001) is an English cricketer who currently plays for Yorkshire and Northern Diamonds. An all-rounder, she plays as a right-arm medium bowler and right-handed batter. Early life Glen was born on 2 April 2001 in Leeds. Domestic career Glen made her county debut in 2018, for Yorkshire against Somerset in the County Championship. She took 5 wickets in that season's Twenty20 Cup. She played six matches for the side in 2019, but did not play in 2021. In 2022, she played for both North Representative XI and Yorkshire in the Twenty20 Cup. She took five wickets in the competition, and made her maiden half-century, scoring 52 * for Yorkshire against Derbyshire. Glen was named in the Northern Diamonds squad for the 2022 season. She made her debut for the side on 14 May 2022, against Lightning in the Charlotte Edwards Cup. Overall, she played four matches for the side in 2022, all in the Charlotte Edwards Cup, scoring 39 runs and taking 2 wickets. In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Glen (mayor)
John Glen (1809–1895) was born in Laurens, South Carolina, and moved to Decatur, Georgia, in 1826, where he worked as a clerk in the Superior Court of DeKalb County. He moved to Atlanta in 1850 to work for the Georgia Railroad, which he did for 41 years. He acted as mayor of that city, taking over when Allison Nelson suddenly resigned in 1855. After the American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ..., he moved to Kirkwood, which was nearer to his in-laws' properties. He married Eliza Shumate in the 1830s, and they had 10 children. References *http://www.julen.net/family/files/lucinda_shumate_cone_underwood.html Mayors of Atlanta 1809 births 1895 deaths People from Laurens, South Carolina 19th-century American politicians {{GeorgiaUS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen (other)
A glen is a valley, typically one that is long, deep, and often glacially U-shaped, usually in Scotland. Glen may also refer to: People * Glen (given name) * Glen (surname) Places * River Glen (other); covering "Glen (river)", "River Glen" and "Glen River" Canada *Glen Island, Nunavut India *Glen, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh Ireland * Glen, Ballyloughloe, a townland in Ballyloughloe civil parish, barony of Clonlonan, County Westmeath * Glen, County Donegal * Glen, Rathgarve, a townland in Rathgarve civil parish, barony of Fore, County Westmeath Northern Ireland * Glen, County Fermanagh, a townland *Glens of Antrim, also "The Glens" Scotland *The Glen, Scottish Borders, aka Glen House, ancestral home of Baron Glenconner and the Tennant family United States *Forest Glen, Chicago, Illinois *Glen, Mississippi *Glen, Montana *Glen, Nebraska *Glen, New Hampshire *Glen, New York *The Glen, a nickname for Watkins Glen International race circuit Vehicles *NBR Glen Class, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Glen (poet)
William Glen (14 November 1789December 1826), Scottish poet, born in Glasgow, was for some years in the West Indies The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greater A .... He died in poverty. He wrote several poems, but the only one which has survived is his Jacobite ballad, '' Wae's me for Prince Charlie''. Notes 1789 births 1826 deaths Writers from Glasgow Scottish poets {{Scotland-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Glen (geologist)
William Glen (born 1932) is an American geologist and historian of science. He is a former editor-at-large at Stanford University Press, former visiting scientist/historian at the U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, and is currently visiting scholar at Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ... in California. Selected bibliography *William Glen, 1970, ''Exercises in Physical Geology'', W.C. Brown Publishing Co., 154 pp. *William Glen, 1975, ''Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics'' Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., Columbus, Ohio, 188 pp. *William Glen, 1985, ''Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics''. Second Edition, Published by Geo-Resources Associates, San Mateo, Ca., 200 pp. *William Glen, 1982, ''The Road to Jaramillo: Critical Years of the Revo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy Glen
Sir Alexander Richard Glen KBE DSC (18 April 1912 – 6 March 2004) was a Scottish explorer of the Arctic, and wartime intelligence officer. He later invested in the shipping industry, employed Tom Gullick who was a pioneer of package holidays, and became chairman of the British Tourist Authority. He was appointed CBE in 1964 and KBE in 1967. Early life Born in Glasgow, Glen was the son of a Glasgow shipowner and educated at Fettes College and read Geography at Balliol College, Oxford. He married Nina Gladys Nixon, daughter of Brinsley Hampton Nixon, in Chelsea in 1937; they had one son - Adrian Martin de Courcy Gleen (1939-1983). Arctic exploration Glen first travelled to the Arctic as crew on a fishing boat owned by a Cambridge law don, and spent two months surveying in the mountains. The next year, he led his own 16-man Oxford University summer expedition which included Hugh Lygon who also invited Evelyn Waugh(who nearly drowned when a glacier thawed), and in the winter spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Glen
Robert Glen (born 16 January 1875) was a Scottish footballer, who played for Renton, Sheffield Wednesday, Rangers, Hibernian and Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the .... References ;Sources * External links *London Hearts profile 1875 births Year of death missing Scottish footballers [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marla Glen
Marla Glen (born January 3, 1960) is an American singer from Chicago, Illinois, United States, who has been based in Germany since 1998. Life Marla, daughter of Dell Glen ( American-Jamaican) and Cortez Glen (Mexican-American), grew up on the South Side of Chicago. Glen's father was a blues guitarist, her grandmother a gospel singer. Her mother was friends with the blues guitarist B.B. King. Marla's mother Dell graduated from the University of Chicago and went on to become a successful banker who worked for Merrill Lynch. Glen's father, an American patriot who joined the military at a young age, became an engineer based in Frankfurt, Germany. Like many other children in Chicago's historic Bronzeville neighborhood (also known as the Black Metropolis), who received gifts and inspiration from folks like Muddy Waters and B.B. King, Marla was given a toy harmonica as a child, and her musical talent became immediately apparent. She was only 11 years old when she wrote her first song, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Glen (politician)
John Philip Glen (born 1 April 1974) is a British politician and former management consultant serving as Chief Secretary to the Treasury since October 2022 and Member of Parliament (MP) for Salisbury in Wiltshire since 2010. Glen is a member of the Conservative Party. Formerly Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts, Heritage and Tourism at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Glen served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury from January 2018 to July 2022. Early life and career Glen was born in Bath on 1 April 1974, and was brought up in a family horticultural business in rural Wiltshire. He was privately educated at King Edward's School, Bath, where he was head boy, and Mansfield College, Oxford, where he read modern history and was elected president of Mansfield College JCR. He was the first person in his family to go to university. After graduating from Oxford, Glen worked for two Conservative ministers in 1996–1997. He helped with the unsuccess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Glen (director)
John Glen (born 15 May 1932) is a retired English film director and editor. He is best known for his work on the ''James Bond'' series, firstly by editing a number of earlier James Bond films and then later moving on to direct a further five Bond films in the franchise. Life and career Glen had his start in the film-making industry as a messenger boy in 1945. By the late 1940s, he was working in the visual and sound editorial departments of Shepperton Studios Shepperton Studios is a film studio located in Shepperton, Surrey, England, with a history dating back to 1931. It is now part of the Pinewood Studios Group. During its early existence, the studio was branded as Sound City (not to be confused w ... for films produced by Alexander Korda, such as ''The Third Man'' (1949) and ''The Wooden Horse'' (1950). Moving up the ranks, Glen made his picture editorial debut on a documentary series titled ''Chemistry for Six Forms'' in 1961, and his directorial debut on the TV serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Glen
Alec Glen was a Scottish amateur football left half who played in the Scottish League for Ayr United, Queen's Park and Dundee. He was capped by Scotland at amateur An amateur () is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income. Amateurs and their pursuits are also described as popular, informal, autodidacticism, self-taught, user-generated, do it yourself, DI ... level. References Scottish footballers Scottish Football League players Queen's Park F.C. players Association football wing halves Scotland amateur international footballers Year of birth missing Place of birth missing Dundee F.C. players Ayr United F.C. players Kello Rovers F.C. players {{Scotland-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Allison Glen
James Allison Glen, (December 18, 1877 – June 28, 1950) was a Canadian parliamentarian and Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada from 1940 to 1945. Early life Born in Renton, Scotland, Glen graduated in law from the University of Glasgow before immigrating to Canada in 1911 where he settled in Winnipeg. He later moved to Russell, Manitoba, where he practised law and was elected to the school board. Politics A supporter of the Progressive Party in Manitoba, Glen had been the chief organizer for party leader Thomas Crerar in the 1917 federal election when Crerar was a Liberal-Unionist candidate, and the 1921 election in which the Progressives made their debut. Glen was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1926 election as a Liberal-Progressive at a time when Manitoba Progressives, including the Manitoba Progressive Party provincial government, had decided to align with the Liberals in order to increase their influence. He lost his seat in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |