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Ian Thomson (other)
Ian Thomson may refer to: *Ian Thomson (Fiji) (1920–2008), British colonial administrator in Fiji and Administrator of the British Virgin Islands *Ian Thomson (cricketer) (1929–2021), English cricketer who played five Test matches *Ian Thomson (Australian rules footballer) (born 1949), former VFL and WAFL player *Ian Thomson (rugby league) (born 1956), Australian rugby league footballer and administrator *Ian Thomson (rugby union) (1930–2014), Scottish rugby union player *Ian Thomson (writer) (born 1961), English author *Ian Thomson (umpire) (born 1963), Australian-born cricket umpire who represents Hong Kong *Ian Thomson, the New South Wales Government Architect from 1978 to 1988 See also *Iain Thomson (born 1968), American philosopher *Ian White-Thomson (1904–1997), Anglican clergyman *Ian Comrie-Thomson, rugby union player who represented Australia *Ian Thompson (other) {{hndis, Thomson, Ian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Thomson (Fiji)
Sir John Sutherland Thomson (8 January 1920 – 13 March 2008), known throughout his life as Ian Thomson and with his knighthood as Sir Ian Thomson, was a British colonial administrator who served in Fiji for 40 years and was also Administrator of the British Virgin Islands. Biography Thomson was born in Glasgow; soon after he was born his family realised that Glasgow was full of John Thomsons and started calling him Ian. He was educated at the High School of Glasgow and the University of Glasgow. In 1939 he joined the Black Watch but was able to finish his studies at Glagow University, graduating with a degree in economics in 1940. He had already applied to join the Colonial Service, did so in 1941 and was sent to Fiji, then a British colony, as aide-de-camp to the Governor, Harry Luke, Sir Harry Luke. He was commissioned in the Fiji Military Forces and saw action in the Solomon Islands campaign. He was appointed a military "in recognition of gallant and distinguished services ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Thomson (cricketer)
Norman Ian Thomson (23 January 1929 – 1 August 2021) was an English cricketer who played in five Tests for England in 1964 and 1965. Thomson was only weeks away from his 36th birthday when he was selected for Test duties, a recognition of his performances in county cricket. Life and career Born 23 January 1929 in Walsall, Staffordshire, Thomson grew up in Essex. After he finished his National Service, his family moved to Sussex, where he joined the county team, playing his first match in 1952. A medium-fast right-arm swing and seam bowler of accuracy and consistency, and a lower-order batsman, he soon became a regular member of the team. He took more than 100 wickets in every season from 1953 to 1964. The later part of Thomson's career coincided with the first one-day competition. He picked up the man of the match award in the 1964 Gillette Cup final, when Sussex beat Warwickshire. He was picked for the 1964–65 Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) tour to South Africa, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Thomson (Australian Rules Footballer)
Ian Peter Thomson (born 6 September 1949) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He also played for East Perth and East Fremantle in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). Thomson, a key position player, started his career at East Perth in 1967. He represented Western Australia in an interstate match against Victoria at Subiaco Oval on 17 July 1971. Before the beginning of the 1973 VFL season, Thomson was in talks to join Fitzroy, but was signed by South Melbourne. He played 20 games in his first year, as a centre half-back. In 1974 he appeared in all 22 rounds and took a club high 120 marks. Used up forward for much of the year, Thomson also kicked 24 goals. He broke an ankle bone in a 1975 pre-season practice match, which kept him out of the side until round five, then towards the end of the season suffered a knee injury, which restricted him to 13 games that season. The next year he played 19 gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Thomson (rugby League)
Ian Thomson (born 12 July 1955) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative front row forward, he played club football for Manly-Warringah, with whom he won the 1978 NSWRFL Premiership, as well as Balmain. Playing career Thomson came from a footballing family: his father Jim and brother Gary were both Balmain players. His uncle, Allan Thomson was an Australian international. Ian played President's Cup for Balmain in 1974. He then spent two seasons with Quanbeyan under coach Don Furner, earning representative honours with Country Firsts in 1976. He returned to Sydney, signing with Manly-Warringah for the 1977 NSWRFL season. The following year he represented New South Wales and was first selected to play for Australia in the first test against New Zealand. The 1978 NSWRFL season's Grand Final was to be played by the Manly-Warringah and Cronulla-Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Thomson (rugby Union)
Ian Thomson (13 April 1930 – 22 November 2014) was a Scotland international rugby union footballer, who played as a Full Back. Rugby career Amateur career Thomson played for Heriot's. He also played rugby for the Army. Provincial career Thomson played for Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the 1950-51 season's Inter-City match and the 1951-52 season's Inter-City match. Edinburgh District lost both matches. International career He was capped for 7 times between 1951 and 1953, all 7 caps in Five Nations matches. He made his international debut against Wales playing in front of a then record crowd of 80 000 at Murrayfield Stadium Murrayfield Stadium (known as BT Murrayfield Stadium for sponsorship reasons, or popularly as Murrayfield) is a Rugby stadium located in the Murrayfield area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It has a seating capacity of 67,144 making it the largest sta .... He battled for the Scotland fullback shirt with Glasgow University's Neil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Thomson (writer)
Ian Thomson (born 1961) is an English author, best known for his biography ''Primo Levi'' (2002), and reportage, ''The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica'' (2009) Biography Ian Thomson was born in London in 1961. His parents moved to New York City that same year, where his father worked for a Wall Street bank. (His mother, a Baltic émigrée, came to England in 1947 at the age of 17.) Thomson was educated at Dulwich College, then at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read English. He is the godson of the British painter Carel Weight. In the 1980s he taught English literature and English as a foreign language in Rome, then became a translator, journalist and writer, contributing to the ''Sunday Times Magazine'', ''The Independent'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Observer'', ''The Spectator'' and ''Times Literary Supplement''. He was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University College London. Currently he is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Non-Fiction at the University of East An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Thomson (umpire)
Ian Thomson (born 15 January 1963) is an Australian cricket umpire. Thomson serves as a member of the ICC Associate and Affiliate Panel of Umpires representing Hong Kong. He stood in his first One Day International (ODI) match on 8 November 2016, between Hong Kong and Papua New Guinea. See also * List of One Day International cricket umpires This is a list of cricket umpires who have officiated at least one men's One Day International (ODI) match. As of October 2022, 418 umpires have officiated in an ODI match. The first ODI match took place on 5 January 1971 between Australia and ... References External links * 1963 births Living people Australian cricket umpires Hong Kong cricket umpires Hong Kong One Day International cricket umpires Sportspeople from Sydney {{Australia-cricket-bio-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Government Architect
The New South Wales Government Architect, an appointed officer of the Government of New South Wales, serves as the General Manager of the Government Architect's Office (GAO), a multi-disciplinary consultancy operating on commercial principles providing architecture, design, and engineering services, that is an agency of the government within NSW Public Works. Historically, the government architect was in charge of the government's public building projects across the state of New South Wales, Australia. Since the 1990s, when the consultancy service began operating on commercial principles, the Government Architect has reported separately in a second capacity, as an advisor to the government, and serves on various committees and boards in relation to heritage protection, architecture, and design. The first officer in the role, then styled Colonial Architect, was Francis Greenway, appointed in 1816. Colonial architects Francis Greenway (1816–1822) Francis Greenway was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Thomson
Iain D. Thomson (born 1968) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico (UNM). He is a well-known expert on Martin Heidegger. Education and career Thomson studied as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked with Hubert Dreyfus, and then earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. As a visiting graduate student at UC Irvine, he also studied with Jacques Derrida. He is known for his expertise on Heidegger's philosophy, philosophy of education, philosophy of technology, philosophy of art, philosophy of literature and environmental philosophy. Thomson received a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship and UNM College of Arts and Sciences' Gunter Starkey Teaching Award in 2003. He is featured in Tao Ruspoli's film ''Being in the World''. His articles on Heidegger have been published in such journals as ''Inquiry'', ''Journal of the History of Philosophy'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian White-Thomson
Ian Hugh White-Thomson (18 December 1904 – 11 January 1997) was an Anglican priest and Dean of Canterbury from 1963 to 1976. The son of a former Bishop of Ely, White-Thomson was educated at Harrow School, where he was a Monitor and in the Football XI, and Brasenose. He was ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1930 and began his career as a Curate at St Mary's, Ashford, Kent. After this he was Rector of St Martin and St Paul, Canterbury then Chaplain to three successive Archbishops of Canterbury. He was a governor of his old school from 1947 to 1962 and archdeacon of Northumberland from 1955 to 1963. In 1971 was made an honorary doctor of civil law by the University of Kent; and in 1976 a |
Ian Comrie-Thomson
Ian Ritchie Comrie-Thomson (c. 1903 – c. 1982) was a rugby union player who represented Australia. Comrie-Thomson, a prop A prop, formally known as (theatrical) property, is an object used on stage or screen by actors during a performance or screen production. In practical terms, a prop is considered to be anything movable or portable on a stage or a set, distinc ..., claimed a total of 5 international rugby caps for Australia. References Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players Year of death missing Year of birth uncertain Rugby union props Place of birth missing {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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