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James Davidson
James Davidson may refer to: Politicians *James Davidson (Canadian politician) (1856–1913), mayor of Ottawa in 1901 *James Davidson (Kentucky politician) (died 1860), Kentucky pioneer and politician *James Davidson (Oregon politician), member of the Oregon Territorial Legislature, 1851 *James Davidson (British politician) (1927–2017), Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom *James O. Davidson (1854–1922), governor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin, 1906–1911 *James H. Davidson (1858–1918), U.S. representative from Wisconsin *James J. Davidson (1861–1897), American politician and businessman *James Ironside Davidson (1818–1902), Scottish-born farmer and political figure in Ontario, Canada Sportspeople *James Davidson (American football) (born 1990), American football player *James Davidson (rugby union) (1868–1945), English rugby union international * James Davidson (tennis) (born 1973), British tennis player Others *James Davidson (historian) (born 1964), profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Davidson (Canadian Politician)
James Davidson (November 1, 1856 – October 6, 1913) was mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1901.Dave Mullington "Chain of Office: Biographic Sketches of Ottawa's Mayors (1847-1948)" (Renfrew, Ontario: General Store Publishing House, 2005) He was born in Ottawa in 1856. With his brothers, he worked in the timber trade and manufactured doors. He served as alderman from 1898 to 1907; he became mayor when W.D. Morris was forced to resign. Davidson was replaced by Fred Cook two months later. He died in Ottawa of a heart attack in 1913 and was buried in the Beechwood Cemetery Beechwood Cemetery, located in the former city of Vanier in Ottawa, Ontario, is the National Cemetery of Canada. It is the final resting place for over 82,000 Canadians from all walks of life, such as important politicians like Governor Genera .... References *''Chain of Office: Biographical Sketches of the Early Mayors of Ottawa (1847-1948)'', Dave Mullington () 1856 births 1913 deaths 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Davidson (ornithologist)
James Davidson FZS (28 March 1849 – 25 June 1925) was a Scottish naturalist in colonial India. He studied birds and many aspects of Indian natural history during his career in the Indian Civil Service, mostly posted in the Bombay Presidency and central India. Davidson was born at Maryhill near Glasgow to William James Davidson and Harriet, daughter of Mark Sprot. His early education was at St Andrews in the private school of Mr Douglas before he went to study followed by studies at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities. He qualified in the Indian Civil Services in 1872 and served in the Bombay Presidency until 1897. For his work during the famine years around 1876–78, he received a special award from the government. He retired to Edinburgh, Scotland. During his service in India, he wrote extensively about the birds of the regions of present-day Uttara Kannada, Satara and Belgaum, corresponding with Allan Octavian Hume, to whom he gave his bird collection. His method includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Davidson (other)
Jim Davidson (born 1953) is an English comedian. Jim Davidson may also refer to: * Jim Davidson (actor) (born 1963), American actor * Jim Davidson (American football), American football player in 1964 Ohio State Buckeyes football team * Jim Davidson (author), Australian author and former editor of ''Meanjin'' * Jim Davidson (rugby union, born 1931) (born 1931), former Scotland rugby union international * Jim Davidson (rugby union, born 1942) (1942–2007), Ireland rugby union player and manager * James Hutchinson Davidson (1902–1982), Australian bandleader commonly known as Jim Davidson See also * James Davidson (other) * Jimmy Davidson (other) {{hndis, Davidson, Jim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Davidson Geddes
James Davidson Geddes (c. 1844 – March 30, 1895) was a Canadian accountant, rancher and politician who served a term in the Northwest Territories Legislature. Early life Geddes, originally from the United States, lived in Galt, Ontario and worked as an accountant for the Merchants Bank. He married his wife, Eliza Fanning at the Trinity Church in Galt on June 12, 1866. He moved out west in 1882 to the District of Alberta in the Northwest Territories. His ranch was established on land where the Ghost River intersects the Bow River The Bow River is a river in Alberta, Canada. It begins within the Canadian Rocky Mountains and winds through the Alberta foothills onto the prairies, where it meets the Oldman River, the two then forming the South Saskatchewan River. These w ... and in 1885 he had 200 head of cattle. The land is now part of Ghost Reservoir Provincial Park. Political career Geddes ran for public office to a seat on the North-West Legislative Council in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hutchinson Davidson
James Hutchinson Davidson (1902-1982), was an Australian bandleader and jazz musician who worked for the BBC in England from 1947 to 1963. Career James Davidson grew up in Birchgrove, New South Wales and began playing brass instruments in 1917 with the Compulsory Military Training Band. He played drums and cornet and began to perform as part of cinema pit ensembles and dance bands. During the 1930s Davidson led the Jim Davidson Dance Band which performed nationally on ABC Radio. Columbia Records released hundreds of records of his performances, and between 1937 and 1939 his ABC band made three interstate tours. Davidson joined the Australian Imperial Force in 1943 and formed the Army Entertainment Group which led variety shows troops in the Middle East and the South-West Pacific areas during World War II. Jim Gussey took over as conductor of the ABC Dance Band. After the war, Davidson applied unsuccessfully for the position of Director of Light Entertainment at the ABC. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Davidson (priest)
The Ven. James Davidson was Archdeacon of Bermuda from 1909 until 1924. He was educated at Durham University and ordained deacon in 1887 and priest in 1888. After a curacy in Bedlington he was Rector of Pembroke then Devonshire (both in Bermuda). During World War I he was a Chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a Minister (Christianity), minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a laity, lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secularity, secular institution (such as a hosp ... to the Forces. He died on 5 December 1933. References Alumni of Durham University 19th-century Anglican priests 20th-century Anglican priests Archdeacons of Bermuda British military chaplains Year of birth missing 1933 deaths {{Bermuda-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Davidson (Scottish Architect)
James Davidson, JP FRIBA (1848 – April 1923) was a Scottish architect. He also served as a Provost of Coatbridge and a President of Airdrie Savings Bank. Early life and education Davidson was born in 1848 in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, the son of a weaver. He was educated at Airdrie Academy and initially trained as a joiner. As a teenager he moved to Glasgow and attended classes at the Athenaeum in Ingram Street. Career In 1905 and 1906, Davidson designed the King's Theatre, Edinburgh, in collaboration with J. D. Swanston. Davidson was responsible for designing the exterior and Swanston designed the interior. Davidson designed many schools for the Old Monklands School Board between 1892 and 1914. These included Calderbank Public School (1892), Bargeddie Primary School (1894), Greenhill Primary School (1902), Gartsherrie Primary School (1906) and Langloan Primary School (1914). On 10 November 1909, Davidson was elected Provost of Coatbridge. He continued in this role un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Davidson (biochemist)
James Norman Davidson CBE PRSE FRS (5 March 1911 – 11 September 1972) was a British biochemist, pioneer molecular biologist and textbook author. The Davidson Building at the University of Glasgow is named for him. Life He was the only child of Wilhelmina Ibberson Foote and James Davidson FRSE FSA (1873-1956) a lawyer, Treasurer of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and originally from Aberdeenshire. He was born in Edinburgh on 5 March 1911 and lived in the family home of 30 Bruntsfield Gardens in the south of the city. He was educated locally, at George Watson's College, where he was dux.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Norman Davidson He then studied Medicine and Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh graduating with a BSc in 1934, MB ChB in 1937, MD in 1939 and a DSc in 1945. The topic of his DSc thesis was biochemical investigations on cellular proliferation. In 1937/38 he studied under Otto Heinrich Warburg in Berlin-Dahlem. He return ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wood Davidson
James Wood Davidson (March 9, 1829 – June 27, 1905) was a United States author. Biography James Wood Davidson was born in Newberry District, South Carolina on March 9, 1829. He graduated from South Carolina College, Columbia, in 1852, studied languages under private tutors, from 1854 to 1859 was professor of Greek in Mount Zion College, Winnsboro, South Carolina, and in 1859 became principal of Carolina High School, Columbia. From 1862 to 1863, he was adjutant of infantry in Jackson's corps of Lee's army. He left Columbia in 1871, and lived two years in Washington, D.C., and eleven years in New York City, where he was literary editor of the '' Evening Post'' in 1873, and American correspondent of the ''London Standard'' from 1873 to 1878. In 1884, he moved to Figulus in Dade County, Florida, where he continued his literary work, and engaged in fruit culture. In 1885, he was a member of the Florida constitutional convention. After 1887, he was employed in the Treasury Depart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wightman Davidson
James Wightman Davidson (1 October 1915 – 8 April 1973) was a New Zealand historian and constitutional adviser. Professor of Pacific History at the Australian National University from 1950 to 1973,Donald DenoonDavidson, James Wightman (Jim) (1915–1973) ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Vol. 13, 1993. Davidson was the "founding father of modern Pacific Islands historiography as well as constitutional adviser to a succession of Island territories in the throes of decolonisation".Doug MunroOn Being a Participant Biographer: The Search for J.W. Davidson ch. 13 of Brij V. Lal and Vicki Luker, eds., ''Telling Pacific Lives: Prisms of Process'', ANU Press, 2008. Life Davidson was born in Wellington, New Zealand on 1 October 1915. He was educated at Waitaki Boys' High School and Victoria University College before studying as a doctoral student at St John's College, Cambridge. He gained his PhD in 1942 with a thesis on ''European penetration of the South Pacific, 1779-1842''. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James W
James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Thomas the Tank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Davidson (antiquarian)
James Davidson (1793–1864) was an English antiquary and bibliographer. Life The eldest son of James Davidson of Tower Hill, London, a stationer and deputy-lieutenant of the Tower of London, and Ann his wife, only daughter of William Sawyer of Ipswich, he was born at Tower Hill on 15 August 1793. When not quite thirty years old he bought the estate of Secktor, near Axminster in Devon. He enlarged the small cottage, and lived there for the rest of his life. Davidson died at Secktor House, Axminster, on 29 February 1864, and was buried in the town cemetery. Works Davidson's major work of local history was ''Bibliotheca Devoniensis; a Catalogue of the Printed Books relating to the County of Devon'' (1852, supplement 1862). It was based on wide research in libraries. ''Notes on the Antiquities of Devonshire'' (1861) went up to the Norman conquest. On the Axe Valley, he wrote: * ''The British and Roman Remains in the vicinity of Axminster'', 1833; * ''History of Axminster Church'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |