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Hannay (other)
Hannay may refer to: * Clan Hannay, a Lowland Scottish clan ** Hannay baronets, including a list of people who have held the title * Richard Hannay, a fictional character in novels, films, television and on the stage ** ''Hannay'' (TV series), British television series about Richard Hannay People with the surname * Alastair Hannay (born 1932), British philosopher and academic * Barbara Hannay, Australian romance novelist * David Hannay (historian) (1853–1934), English naval historian * David Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick (born 1935), British diplomat * David Hannay (producer) (1939-2014), Australian film producer * James Hannay (writer) (1827–1873), Scottish novelist, journalist and diplomat * James Ballantyne Hannay (1855–1931), Scottish chemist * Josh Hannay (born 1980), Australian rugby league footballer * Nathan Hannay (born 1984), English rugby player * Robert Kerr Hannay (1867-1940), Scottish historian * Sir Samuel Hannay, 3rd Baronet (died 1790), of the Han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet. , the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 8.5 million movies, videos and TV shows, 894 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4.4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 241 thousand concerts, and over 734 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hannay (writer)
James Hannay FRSE (17 February 1827 – 9 January 1873), was a Scottish novelist, journalist and diplomat. Early life Hannay was born at Dumfries, Scotland, on 17 February 1827. His father, David Hannay (1794–1864), a member of the Speculative Society at Edinburgh University, 1813–14, and author of ''Ned Allen, or the Past Age,'' 1849, was engaged in business in Dumfries. The family had some reason for believing that they were descended from the Hannays of Sorble. In James Hannay, the belief was sufficiently strong to influence his studies, inclining him to study heraldry and family history. Naval career Hannay entered the Royal Navy on 2 March 1840, on board , and served in her during the blockade of Alexandria in the Syrian war, and had therefore no share in the operations of Sir Charles Napier's squadron at Acre. From ''Cambridge'' he passed in succession to the sloop in 1842, the corvette in 1843, and in 1844. His tastes and his impatience both of routine work and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hannay
William Mowatt Hannay (3 August 1848 – 25 March 1922) was a railways administrator in New Zealand from 1876 to 1908. He was born in Scotland (Castle Douglas near Glasgow) in 1848. He may have worked for a railway company in Glasgow (obituary) or migrated to America where he lived in Brooklyn, New York for some years (Cassells). He moved to New Zealand in 1875, and from 1 May 1876 was employed by the New Zealand Government Railways The New Zealand Railways Department, NZR or NZGR (New Zealand Government Railways) and often known as the "Railways", was a government department charged with owning and maintaining New Zealand's railway infrastructure and operating the railway ...; in Dunedin as a goods clerk on a salary of £150 p.a. (per annum). He advanced from 1 August 1877 to Chief Clerk in the Dunedin goods manager's office (£250 p.a.) then to Chief Clerk in the Christchurch goods managers office (£275 p.a.) then assistant traffic manager (£350 p.a.) then five months lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hannay
Thomas Hannay (10 June 1887 - 31 January 1970) was an Anglican bishop. Biography Hannay was educated at the University of Liverpool and Queens' College, Cambridge and ordained in 1910. He began his career with a curacy in Holmfirth after which he with the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa in Nyasaland. In 1927 he came to the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield and was its Principal from 1933 to 1941. He became Bishop of Argyll and The Isles in 1942, and in 1952 Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church; retiring from both posts in 1962.''Primus Of Episcopal Church To Retire'' The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ... Monday, 19 February 1962; pg. 6; Issue 55319; col B References 1887 births Alumni of the University of Liverpool ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Samuel Hannay, 3rd Baronet
Sir Samuel Hannay, 3rd Baronet (c. 1732 – 11 December 1790) was an English politician who served as Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ... for Camelford between 5 July 1784 and 11 December 1790. He was bound apprentice to Alexander Johnson, citizen and salter 22 December 1746 and made free 21 February 1754, so the commonly given birth date of c. 1742 cannot be correct. He is buried in St Marylebone Parish Church, London. References 1730s births 1790 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia People from the City of London British MPs 1784–1790 British MPs 1790–1796 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies in Cornwall {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kerr Hannay
Robert Kerr Hannay (31 December 1867, Glasgow – 19 March 1940, Edinburgh) was a Scottish historian. He served as Historiographer Royal for Scotland and Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh. He collected and calendared the letters of both James IV and James V, and wrote ''The Early History of the Scottish Signet''. Life He was born in Glasgow on 31 December 1867. He was the eldest of seven children of Elizabeth McDowall of Alloa, and Thomas Hannay (1841–1916). His father owned the estate of Rusco, but in 1878 had sold it to settle debts, theafter becoming an agent for the iron-masters William Whitwell & Co. The family thereafter lived at 16 Woodside Terrace in Glasgow. He was educated at the Albany Academy in Glasgow. He then went first to the University of Glasgow and the University of Oxford graduating with an MA from the latter in 1891. He began lecturing in Ancient History at the University of Dundee in 1894. In 1901 he transferred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Hannay
Nathan Hannay (born 5 October 1984) is an English rugby union player from Halifax, West Yorkshire who currently plays for the Devon side, Honiton RFC. Early life Hannay had his bachelor degree from Honiton Community College. Career Hannay first started playing rugby for Honiton Rugby Club before moving to Sidmouth Rugby Club in 2008. He made his debut for Sidmouth against Plymouth Albion. In 2010 during Sidmouth's South West One season, he moved to National League 1 side Launceston RUFC. Later in the year after advice from Dyson Wilson, Hannay moved to Jersey. In 2011, Hannay was suspended for two weeks after being sent off during Jersey's game against Cambridge R.U.F.C. for head-butting an opposition player. He was suspended by Jersey for two weeks before the Rugby Football Union also suspended him for two weeks. In 2012 after rejecting advances to sign him from Aviva Premiership side Exeter Chiefs, Hannay was appointed as captain of Jersey taking over from Graham Bell. On 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Hannay
Josh Hannay (born 11 January 1980) is an Australian professional rugby league coach who is an assistant coach of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the NRL and a former professional rugby league footballer who played as a in the 1990s and 2000s. A Queensland State of Origin representative, Hannay spent nine seasons with the North Queensland Cowboys and was the club's highest point scorer until 2011. He later had stints with the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and Celtic Crusaders, before moving into coaching. In 2020, he served as the interim head coach of the Cowboys in the National Rugby League. Background Born and raised in Moranbah, Queensland, Hannay played his junior rugby league for the Moranbah Miners before being signed by the North Queensland Cowboys at 15. In Townsville, he attended Townsville Grammar School. Playing career North Queensland Cowboys In Round 15 of the 1996 ARL season, Cowboys' head coach Graham Lowe named Hannay to make his first grade debut against the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Ballantyne Hannay
James Ballantyne Hannay FRSE(1855–1931) was a Scottish chemist who believed he had synthesized diamond in 1880. However, modern testing showed that the surviving samples from his experiments were natural diamond, not synthetic. While his techniques were conducive to diamond formation, modern diamond production – not achieved until the 1950s – requires capabilities not available in Hannay's time. Hannay was also known for making precision instruments. Life James Ballantyne Hannay was born at 22 Monteith Row in Glasgow on New Year's Day, 1855. His father was Alexander Hannay, tool-maker, who owned property in Helensburgh and who was the proprietor of the Prince of Wales Theatre, later rebuilt as the Grand Theatre, in Cowcaddens, Glasgow. James Hannay became a chemist and was a prolific innovator. He published several scientific papers and took out over 70 patents in Britain, Europe and the USA. He also formed his own patents company in Glasgow. His most controversial scienti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hannay (producer)
David Hannay (23 June 1939 – 31 March 2014) was a New Zealand Australian film producer. He worked with Greater Union and was an independent producer from 1977. Biography Hannay was born in Wellington and attended Scots College. His first job in the industry was as an extras casting assistant for film ''Summer of the Seventeenth Doll''. Hannay produced his first feature film The Set in 1968 and then moved to television and became head of production for Gemini Productions from 1970–73 and 1975–76. In 1974 he was general manager for The Movie Company, a production subsidiary of Greater Union. From 1977 he was an independent producer and was involved in almost 50 film projects including cult classics Stone (1974) and The Man From Hong Kong (1975), Human Rights Australia Film Award winner Mapantsula (1998), Naomi Watts' first feature film Gross Misconduct (1993) and family film Hildegarde (2001) which starred Richard E. Grant and Tom Long. Hannay was passionate about encou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clan Hannay
Clan Hannay is a Lowland Scottish clan.Way, George and Squire, Romily. ''Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia''. (Foreword by The Rt Hon. The Earl of Elgin KT, Convenor, The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs). Published in 1994. Pages 162 - 163. History Origins of the clan The Hannays are from the ancient princedom of Galloway. The name appears to have originally been spelt ''Ahannay'' but its origin is uncertain. It could derive from the Scottish Gaelic Ultimately Irish Gaelic ''O'Hannaidh'' or ''Ap Shenaeigh''. Wars of Scottish Independence In 1296 Gilbert de Hannethe appears on the Ragman Rolls submitting to Edward I of England. This could be the same Gilbert who acquired the lands of Sorbie. The Hannays were suspicious of Robert the Bruce's ambitions and instead supported the claim of John Balliol. Balliol was descended from the Celts, Celtic Princes of Galloway through his mother, Lady Devorgilla. 15th & 16th centuries In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hannay, Baron Hannay Of Chiswick
David Hugh Alexander Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick (born 28 September 1935) is a British diplomat. Biography Hannay was born in London and educated at Craigflower Preparatory School, Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He entered the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1959, and was initially posted to positions in Tehran and Kabul. Starting in 1965 and continuing into the early 1970s, he was a representative of the British government in discussions which led to the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community in 1973. He held various positions at the Foreign Office in London during the 1970s and 1980s. He was a minister at the British Embassy in Washington, DC, in 1984–1985, and was then promoted to ambassador and permanent representative to the European Economic Community from 1985 to 1990. After that posting he spent the next five years as ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations. Hannay took on specialised roles such as U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
