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James Williamson (author)
James Williamson may refer to: Born before 1900 * James Williamson (priest), Church of England, Archdeacon of Lewes (1723 to 1736) * James Williamson (New South Wales politician) (1811–1881), pastoralist and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, and later, Assembly * James Williamson (New Zealand politician) (1814–1888), New Zealand politician * James Alexander Williamson (1829–1902), Union general in the American Civil War * James Williamson (Victorian politician) (1831–1914), member of the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia) * James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton (1842–1930), British businessman and Liberal Party politician * J. C. Williamson (James Cassius Williamson, 1845–1913), American actor and later theatrical manager in Australia * James Williamson (film pioneer) (1855–1933), Scottish film-pioneer * James Williamson (historian) (1886–1964), English historian of maritime exploration * James DeLong Williamson (1849–1935), American ministe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Williamson (priest)
The Archdeacon of Hastings is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Chichester. The Diocese of Chichester almost exactly covers the counties of East and West Sussex and the City of Brighton and Hove, stretching for nearly a hundred miles (160 km) along the south coast of England. History The two original archdeaconries of Chichester diocese, Chichester and Lewes, were created in the 12th century – at around the time when archdeacons were first appointed across England. The third archdeaconry, Hastings, was created (from that of Lewes) on 28 June 1912. The archdeaconries were then reorganised under Eric Kemp (Bishop of Chichester) on 28 June 1975: the Hastings archdeaconry was dissolved and her territory returned to Lewes archdeaconry, which was renamed "Lewes & Hastings"; and a new archdeaconry of Horsham was created. On 12 May 2014, it was announced that the diocese is to take forward proposals to create a fourth archdeaconry (presently re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Williamson (New South Wales Politician)
James Williamson (1811 – 8 March 1881) was a pastoralist and politician in colonial Australia, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, and later, the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Williamson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and arrived in Sydney around 1837. Williamson was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council as member for District of Port Phillip on 1 September 1848, a position he held until 31 January 1849. Williamson was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as member for Electoral district of Gloucester and Macquarie Gloucester and Macquarie was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales in the first and second Parliaments (1856-1859), named after Gloucester and Macquarie counties on the Mid North Coast. I ... on 10 February 1858, holding the seat until 11 April 1859. Williamson died in Burwood, New South Wales, on 8 March 1881. References {{DEF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Williamson (New Zealand Politician)
James Williamson (1814 – 22 March 1888) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament, merchant and land speculator in the Auckland Region, New Zealand. Biography Williamson was born in Belfast, Ireland, probably in 1814. His parents were Ann Gardiner and Thomas Williamson, who owned ships and was a linen merchant. James Williamson started going to sea at a young age on his father's ships. He went to the Bay of Islands in 1840 and settled in Russell, New Zealand. He represented the Auckland West electorate from 1862 to 1867, when he resigned. He was then appointed to the Legislative Council in 1870 and remained a member until his death in 1888. He was a successful businessman and was a co-founder of the New Zealand Insurance Company (1859), the Bank of New Zealand (1861), and the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (1865). In 1877 he built the Pah Homestead The Pah Homestead is a historic home located in the suburb of Hillsborough in Auckland, New Zealand. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Alexander Williamson
''This article refers to the US Union General. For the English Historian, see James Williamson (historian)'' James A. Williamson (February 8, 1829 – September 7, 1902) was a politician and lawyer who served in the Union army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of brigadier general. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou. Biography Williamson was born in Columbia, Kentucky in 1829. When he was fifteen years old his family moved to Iowa, where he worked as a farmer, before studying law and being admitted to the bar. In the years prior to the Civil War he served as the chairman of the Iowa State Democratic Committee. When the Civil War began Williamson volunteered in the 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Serving as a first lieutenant he fought at the battle of Pea Ridge where he was wounded on the first day of fighting there. On March 4, 1862 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and then on July 21, 1862 to colonel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Williamson (Victorian Politician)
James Williamson (1831 – 19 September 1914) was a banker and politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), a member of the Victorian Legislative Council. Williamson was born in Bombie, near Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. Williamson commenced employment with the Bank of Scotland around 1850. He arrived in Victoria in 1851 and had pastoral experience with his uncle, T. McGill. Williamson joined the Union Bank of Australia in 1852, becoming manager of the Ballarat branch and later an inspector. He retired and went to England 1878, returning to Victoria in 1882. He had mining and pastoral interests. Williamson was one of the owners of the Mount Egerton, Victoria, Mount Egerton mine. In December 1882, Williamson was sworn in as member for Nelson Province (Australia), Nelson Province in the Victorian Legislative Council. He held the seat until August 1888. Williamson died at his residence "Helenslea", in Brighton, Victoria, on 19 September 1914. His wife and a family of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton
James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton, (31 December 1842 – 27 May 1930) was a British businessman, philanthropist and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. His family's business in Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster produced oilcloth and linoleum, which was exported around the world. After serving as a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Lancaster (UK Parliament constituency), Lancaster, he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Ashton in 1895. Unproven accusations that he had purchased his title, however, haunted him and led to his eventual withdrawal from public life. Early life Williamson was born the third of four surviving children to Alderman James Williamson and Eleanor (''née'' Miller) of Parkfield, Lancashire. His father, who was List of mayors of Lancaster, mayor of Lancaster, had established a successful coated fabrics business in the town in the 1840s. James was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School and worked all his life in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Williamson (film Pioneer)
James A. Williamson (8 November 1855 – 18 August 1933) was a Scottish photographer and a key member of the loose association of early film pioneers dubbed the Brighton School by French film historian Georges Sadoul. He is best known for ''The Big Swallow'' (1901), a trick film with innovative use of extreme close-up, as well as '' Fire!'' and ''Stop Thief!'' (both 1901), dramas with continuity established across multiple shots. Biography Early life and career Williamson was born in Pathhead near Kirkcaldy, Fife, and raised in Edinburgh, where he trained to be a master chemist. He moved to London in 1868, where he was an apprentice to a pharmacist and to Eastry, Kent in 1877, where he bought his own pharmacy and got married. He was also a keen amateur photographer who sold photographic apparatus and chemical supplies in his shop and became an agent for Kodak. In 1886, he moved his chemist's and photographic business to 144 Church Road, Hove, where he took up residence with h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Williamson (historian)
James Alexander Williamson (1886 – 31 December 1964) was a prominent English writer on maritime history and expert on the John Cabot voyages. He also wrote many other books on explorers, exploration and discovery. James Williamson wrote of James Cook: ''the greatest explorer of his age and the greatest maritime explorer of his country in any age.'' Early life and education The son of James Ireland Williamson, he was educated at Watford Grammar School and the University of London, where he earned his B.A. in 1906, his M.A. in 1909 and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1924 with a thesis on "The Caribbee Islands under the proprietary patents". He married Ruth Chappele. Professional career In 1910, he became an assistant master in history at Westminster City School, a post he held until 1937. His teaching career was interrupted in 1914–1919 by service in the British Army. In 1926, the University of London selected him as the first recipient of the Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History.The T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James DeLong Williamson
Rev. James DeLong Williamson (March 12, 1849 – September 17, 1935) was an American minister and the seventh President of Western Reserve University, now Case Western Reserve University. Williamson married Edith Day Ely on August 4, 1875, and together had four children. In 1909, he was the founding pastor of the Church of the Covenant. Williamson served as acting president (1912-1915) and executive vice president (1915-1921, 1924-1927) while as Society for Savings Bank. In between, he was acting president of Western Reserve University, now Case Western Reserve University, from 1921 to 1923. Williamson remained a trustee of Western Reserve University from 1905 until his death on September 17, 1935. He is buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Cleveland, OH Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Williamson (mathematician)
James Williamson FRSE (1725–1795) was a Scottish minister and mathematician, and joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Life He was born in Dumfriesshire in 1725 the son of James Williamson of Tynron. He studied Mathematics at Glasgow University under Robert Simson. His theological training is unclear but he was licensed to preach by the Church of Scotland in 1752. He was ordained at Wamphray church in 1755 and translated to Closeburn in 1757. In 1761 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Glasgow University in succession to his mentor Prof Simson. In 1783 he was one of the founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He retired in 1789 and appointed Prof James Millar as his successor. He died in his college house in Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an esti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Williamson (musician)
James Robert Williamson (born October 29, 1949) is an American guitarist, songwriter, record producer and electronics engineer. He was a member of the iconic proto-punk rock band The Stooges, notably on the influential album ''Raw Power'' and in the reformed Stooges from 2009 to 2016. Between his stints in music, Williamson worked in Silicon Valley developing computer chips. Most recently he has continued as a solo artist. Early years Williamson was born in Castroville, Texas in 1949. His father died while he was young and he moved to San Antonio, Texas around the age of five. He began playing guitar in the 7th grade, while his family were living in Lawton, Oklahoma: When Williamson was in the ninth grade in Detroit, he formed his first rock band, The Chosen Few, with schoolmate Scott Richardson. They performed cover versions of Rolling Stones songs and others. Ron Asheton would go on to become the bassist in one of The Chosen Few's later line-ups. Despite this connection, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Allen Williamson
James Allen Williamson (born May 27, 1951) is an American attorney and Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Williamson served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1980 to 1986 and in the Oklahoma Senate from 1996 to 2008. From 1998 to 2002 he served as Assistant Republican Floor Leader, and then as Floor Leader from 2003 to 2004. He is currently serving on President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate Brian Bingman's leadership staff as senior policy advisor and legal counsel.Pro Tem Bingman names Williamson as policy advisor, legal counsel Capitolbeatok.com, November 19, 2013. (accessed May 31, 2013) Early life and career Williamson was born May 27, 1 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
