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James Weir (1856-1906)
James, Jim or Jimmy Weir may refer to: Sportspeople * James Weir (footballer) (born 1995), English football player for MTK Budapest * Jerry Weir (1851–1889), Scottish footballer (Queen's Park and Scotland) *Jim Weir (born 1969), Scottish footballer (Hamilton Academical, Heart of Midlothian, St. Johnstone) * Jim Weir (basketball), American college basketball player * Jimmy Weir (footballer, born 1864) (1864–?), Scottish footballer (Dumbarton, Gateshead, Sunderland Albion) *Jimmy Weir (footballer, born 1887) (1887–1959), Scottish footballer (Celtic, Middlesbrough) *Jimmy Weir (footballer, born 1939), Scottish footballer (Fulham, York City, Mansfield Town, Luton Town, Tranmere Rovers) Politicians *James Weir (politician) (1863–1949), Canadian politician, Alberta MLA (1917–1921) *James Galloway Weir (1839–1911), Scottish businessman and Liberal Party politician * Jim Weir (diplomat) (1922–2012), New Zealand diplomat Others * James Weir (architect) (1845–1905), Wesleyan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Weir (footballer)
James Michael Weir (born 4 August 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Born in Preston, Lancashire, he began his career as a youth player with Preston North End and then joined the Manchester United academy. He only made one appearance for Manchester United before leaving for Hull City in 2016, but also failed to break into the first team there, and spent the second half of the 2016–17 season on loan to Wigan Athletic. After returning, his appearances for Hull were sporadic, and he left for Bolton Wanderers in 2019. After less than six months with Bolton, he was released and soon after signed for Slovak club FK Pohronie. He played there for 18 months before moving to Hungary to play for MTK Budapest, before being released a year later. Club career Manchester United Born in Preston, Lancashire, Weir began his career with local club Preston North End before joining the Manchester United academy in 2008. While progressing at the club's academy, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Weir
James Biggar "Jerry" Weir (21 October 1851 – 22 December 1887) Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Via Ancestry. Retrieved 13 August 2022 was a Scottish , who played for Queen's Park and Scotland
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Jim Weir
James McIntosh Weir (born 15 June 1969) is a Scottish professional football player and coach. Weir played in the senior Scottish leagues for Hamilton Academical, Hearts and St. Johnstone. He has also worked as manager of Montrose, Arbroath, Brechin City, Elgin City and Forfar Athletic. Playing career After starting in youth football with his hometown boys club, Motherwell Orbiston, Weir signed professionally with Hamilton Accies in 1987. He spent six years at Douglas Park, making close to 200 league appearances for the club, before joining Premier League Hearts, then under the guidance of Sandy Clark. Weir's stay at Tynecastle was brief and he moved to St. Johnstone within a year, signed by Paul Sturrock in a swap deal that saw Colin Miller move in the other direction. He ruptured his Achilles tendon during the final game of the 1997/98 season, which ruled him out of most of the following season. He returned to the starting line-up, as a right-back, on 4 April 1999, agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Weir (basketball)
James Weir was an American college basketball player. He was a starting forward for the Wyoming Cowboys' 1943 National Championship team and was an All-American. Weir, a 6'6 forward from Green River, Wyoming, played for the Cowboys from 1940 to 1943, then returned to the Cowboys for the 1945–46 season after a stint in the United States Army during World War II. During Weir's junior season, he averaged 10.1 points per game, third on the team behind stars Kenny Sailors and Milo Komenich. The Cowboys won the NCAA championship, then beat National Invitation Tournament champion St. John's in a match-up of champions of the two major college tournaments. Weir received some All-America attention following the season. After the close of his collegiate career, Weir became head football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Weir (footballer, Born 1864)
James Weir, known as Jimmy Weir, was a Scottish footballer. He is known to have played in the Scottish Cup for Dumbarton in 1888 before moving to England to sign for Gateshead, soon switching to Sunderland Albion Sunderland Albion Football Club was an English association football club based in Sunderland, England, formed in 1888 and disbanded in 1892. The club was reformed in 2020 but has as of 2023 ceased operations again. Summary Sunderland Albion .... He later returned to Scotland with Dunblane. ScottishLeague.net, 4 March 2014 References Year of birth missing[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Weir (footballer, Born 1887)
James Weir (23 August 1887 – 1959) was a Scottish footballer who played as a left back for Ayr and Celtic in Scotland and Middlesbrough in England. Having been brought to reigning Scottish Football League title holders Celtic to replace the veteran Willie Orr, he helped the club to win three further championships in succession from 1907–08 to 1908–10, adding a Scottish Cup winner's medal in 1908 (he also played in the 1909 final in which the trophy was withdrawn after supporters rioted following a drawn replay at Hampden Park) and wins in the Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup (1907–08) and the Glasgow Cup (1909–10). However, Joe Dodds then became the first-choice left back. After moving to Middlesbrough in 1910, Weir joined up with a former colleague at Celtic Park, Donald McLeod, and was a regular for ''Boro'' in his first three seasons then had a more limited role in two subsequent campaigns leading up to the suspension of regular competitions with the escalation o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Weir (footballer, Born 1939)
James Weir (born 12 April 1939 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish former footballer. Career Weir joined Fulham from Clydebank Juniors in July 1957. After making three league appearances for Fulham, he joined York City in June 1960. He was York's top scorer in the 1961–62 season, after scoring 29 goals. After making 95 appearances and scoring 39 goals for York, he joined Mansfield Town in September 1962. He made 18 league appearances and scored three goals for Mansfield before joining Luton Town in August 1963. He joined Tranmere Rovers Tranmere Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. The team compete in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1884 as Belmont Football Club, they adop ... in July 1964, after making 12 appearances and scoring one goals for Luton. He made 13 appearances and scored three goals for Tranmere. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Weir, Jimmy 1939 births Liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Weir (politician)
James Weir (August 5, 1863 – April 8, 1949) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He was born in Elginfield, Canada West. Political history Weir was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1917 Alberta general election. He defeated incumbent MLA John Glendenning in a hotly contested three-way race that separated first from third place by 31 votes. Weir was elected as an Independent and affiliated with the Non-Partisan League The Nonpartisan League (NPL) was a left-wing political party founded in 1915 in North Dakota by Arthur C. Townley, a former organizer for the Socialist Party of America. On behalf of small farmers and merchants, the Nonpartisan League advocat .... Weir only served a single term in the assembly did not run again after dissolution in 1921. References External links * 1863 births 1949 deaths Independent Alberta MLAs {{Alberta-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galloway Weir
James Galloway Weir (6 July 1839 – 18 May 1911) was a Scottish businessman and Liberal Party politician. Biography Born in Scotland, he was the son of a builder, James Ross Weir. He was a pupil at Dollar Academy before moving with his family to London as a young man. He worked as a travelling salesman for a haberdashery company before he went into business on his own account in 1863 importing sewing machines. He retired from business in about 1879/80 to pursue politics full-time. Weir's brother, John Weir became the secretary of the Fife and Kinross Miners' Association. He unsuccessfully contested the Falkirk Burghs constituency in 1885, when he got a derisory vote. He was elected for Ross and Cromarty as one of five Crofters' Party MPs in 1892, transferring his allegiance to the mainstream Liberal Party in 1895. holding the seat until his death. He was also elected to the London County Council in 1892 to represent Islington East as a member of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Weir (diplomat)
James Harrison Weir (8 June 1922 – 19 November 2012) was a New Zealand professional diplomat. Weir was born in Christchurch. He graduated in history from the University of Canterbury with a thesis on the function and development of the press in New Zealand. After this, he joined the New Zealand Diplomatic Service in 1947, where he was one of “Mac’s Team”, the original group recruited by Alister McIntosh to establish a New Zealand presence overseas. He established a presence in overlooked regions; Southeast Asia, North Africa and the Middle East. He was posted or cross-accredited to or spent substantial time in Cairo, Kuala Lumpur, Malta, New York, Ottawa, Rangoon, Riyadh, Singapore, and Washington D.C. On the trade front, he was involved with wrangling in Brussels and other capitals over continued access to European markets for dairy and meat products. His most notable appointment was as ambassador to Moscow from 1977 to 1980, until he was expelled as a tit-for-tat whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Weir (architect)
James Weir (5 March 1845, in St Pancras – 27 August 1905, in London) was a British Wesleyan Methodist architect who designed mainly for the Wesleyan Methodist Church in London and the south east of England. Initially articled to the eminent architect George Devey from 1859 till 1864, he remained as an assistant of Devey for a further five years and then became an assistant to Richard Norman Shaw. He set up in independent practice in 1873, was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1874, and a Fellow in 1882. After living initially in the St Pancras area of London, he moved to the London suburb of Clapham where he remained for the rest of his life. At the start of his independent career in 1873, Weir, aged 28, obtained a commission through a limited competition to design a new Wesleyan Church at Clapham to accommodate 1,050. Following this successful project he went on to design a further 28 chapels in London and South East England. Of his chapels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James George Weir
Air Commodore James George Weir, (23 May 1887 – 7 November 1973) was an early Scottish aviator and airman. He was a successful industrialist who financed Juan de la Cierva's development of the autogiro. Biography Weir was born in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1887 the son of James Weir of G. & J. Weir Ltd. and younger brother of William Douglas Weir. Both were involved in the family engineering firm. Weir was commissioned on 24 February 1906 as an officer in the 3rd (Renfrewshire) Volunteer Battalion, Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders). On 1 April 1908 he transferred to the 3rd Highland (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. On 27 June 1911 Weir was found guilty of striking and knocking down on 13 April 1911 a former fiancé of his sister after he had broken off their engagement. Weir was awarded the 24th Royal Aero Club aviators certificate after flying a Bleriot Monoplane at Hendon on 8 November 1910. In 1914 he was transferred to the Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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