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James Maxwell (governor)
James Maxwell may refer to: Arts and entertainment *James Maxwell (actor) (1929–1995), American-British actor and theatre director * Jim Maxwell (commentator) (born 1950), Australian sports commentator *Jimmy Maxwell (bandleader) (born 1953), musician and bandleader *Jimmy Maxwell (trumpeter) (1917–2002), American trumpeter *James Maxwell (1838–1893), architect, one of the founders of Maxwell and Tuke Science and medicine *James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), Scottish physicist and proponent of Maxwell's equations * James Maxwell (colonial administrator) (1869–1932), British physician and colonial administrator *James Laidlaw Maxwell Jr (1876–1951), English Presbyterian medical missionary to China, son of James Laidlaw Maxwell Sport * James Maxwell (cricketer) (1883–1967), English cricket * James Maxwell (footballer, born 1887) (1887–1917), Scottish footballer * James Maxwell (footballer, born 1900) (1900–1964), Scottish footballer *Bud Maxwell (James Morton Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Maxwell (actor)
James Maxwell (23 March 1929 – 18 August 1995) was an American-British actor, theatre director and writer, particularly associated with the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. Early life He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, but spent most of his career in the United Kingdom and died in London. He came to Britain at the age of 20 to train at the Old Vic theatre school. While there he met fellow students Casper Wrede and Richard Negri (co-founders of the Royal Exchange 25 years later). Work in the theatre After seasons at the Bristol Old Vic and the Piccolo Theatre in Manchester he started to collaborate with the directors Michael Elliott and Casper Wrede, initially with the 59 Theatre Company. He translated Georg Büchner's '' Danton's Death'' (original title: ''Dantons Tod'') for the opening production at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. Elliott and Wrede went on to run the Old Vic company and Maxwell joined them to act in several of the productions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Maxwell (footballer, Born 2001)
James Maxwell (born 9 December 2001) is a Scottish footballer, who plays as a left-back for EFL League Two club Doncaster Rovers. Career Maxwell was with Ayr United and Falkirk's youth academies before signing as a pro youth for Rangers. Maxwell signed on loan with Scottish Championship club Queen of the South for the 2020-21 season. Maxwell had 32 appearances and scored 5 goals for the Dumfries club. During July 2021, Maxwell signed on loan with Scottish Championship club Ayr United for the 2021-22 season. On 7 July 2022, Maxwell confirmed that he had left Rangers. On 21 July 2022, Maxwell moved south of the border for the first time in his career when he joined EFL League Two club Doncaster Rovers Doncaster Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The team compete in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club play their home games at .... Career statistics ;N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Francis Maxwell
James Francis Maxwell was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was the mayor of the City of Brisbane and a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Toowong. Early life James Francis Maxwell was born in 1862 in County Armagh, Ireland, the son of Samuel Maxwell and his wife Matilda (née Stoops). On 23 July 1890 he married Alice Annie Letitia Davies at St Peter's Church at West End, Brisbane, the daughter of John Davies, the engineer and manager at the South Brisbane Gas Company who designed the (now heritage-listed) West End Gasworks. Politics Maxwell was a member of the Toombul Shire Council and its chairman in 1904 and 1905. Maxwell was the mayor of the City of Brisbane from 1920 to 1921. Maxwell was elected to Queensland Legislative Assembly on the 9 October 1920, for Toowong as a member of the National Party. He was re-elected on 15 May 1923 as a member for the Queensland United Party and then re-elected on 8 May 1926 as a member of Country and Progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Shaw Maxwell
James Shaw Maxwell (1855–1928), known as Shaw Maxwell, was a Scottish socialist activist. Born in Glasgow, as the son of Janet Maxwell, née Shaw, and the fruiterer and merchant James Taylor Maxwell, James Shaw Maxwell served his apprenticeship as a printer and lithographer. He worked as a lithographer and journalist, and joined the Liberal Party. He left the Liberals in 1880 in opposition to their local opposition to Irish nationalism, and became a leading supporter of Henry George and an activist in the Scottish Land Restoration League.BAILIE JAMES SHAW MAXWELL Who's Who in Glasgow 1909, Glasgow Digital Library Maxwell stood unsuccessfully for |
James Laidlaw Maxwell
James Laidlaw Maxwell Senior (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ''Má Ngá-kok''; ; born 18 March 1836 in Scotland – March 1921) was the first Presbyterian missionary to Formosa ( Qing-era Taiwan). He served with the English Presbyterian Mission. Maxwell studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, completing his degree in 1858 with the thesis ''The Chemistry and Physiology of the Spleen''. He worked in London at Brompton Hospital and at the Birmingham General Hospital. He was an elder in the Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Birmingham before being sent to Taiwan by the Presbyterian Church of England (now within the United Reformed Church) in 1864. He donated a small printing press to the church which was later used to print the '' Taiwan Church News''. On 16 June 1865, at the urging of missionaries H. L. Mackenzie and Carstairs Douglas, he established the first Presbyterian church in Taiwan, this date now celebrated by the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan as its anniversary. First his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Maxwell (scholar)
James Maxwell (c.1581 – in or after 1635) was a Scottish scholar, known as an author on mythology and prophecy. Most of his works are lost. He advocated for the view that the House of Stuart would found the Last World Empire of prophetic tradition. Life He was the only son of William Maxwell of Little Airds, and grandson of William Maxwell of Kirkconnell, Kirkcudbrightshire, man-at-arms to James V of Scotland, and also in the service of his queen, Mary of Guise, and of his daughter, Mary Queen of Scots. He was educated at Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.A. 29 July 1600. In his Edinburgh time he was a follower of John Napier. He then went abroad. Maxwell lived in London for a period, and renounced Calvinism in 1607, adopting a conservative religious viewpoint. He spent time in the Tower of London from the middle of 1620 to February 1621, after publishing a pamphlet against the claim of the Elector Palatine to Bohemia. This slant towards the House of Habsburg, at the ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Maxwell (poet)
James Maxwell (9 May 1720 – 1800) was a Scottish poet and essayist, known as the "Poet in Paisley". Life Maxwell was born in Auchenback, Renfrewshire, on 9 May 1720. Most of the details of his life come from his autobiographical poem of 1795. Aged 20 he went to England with a hardware pack; he was not successful, and was a weaver for twenty years, and later a tradesman's clerk and a school usher. He returned to Scotland and for a period was a schoolmaster. Eventually Maxwell settled in Paisley, Renfrewshire in 1782. The following year he was destitute and worked breaking stones for highways; afterwards he sold pamphlets and his own publications, eventually selling only his own works. In 1787 the town council of Paisley gave him a pension; he died in the spring of 1800. He usually designating himself "Poet in Paisley"; sometimes on the title-page he added to his name the letters S.D.P.: "Student of Divine Poetry". James Cuthbert Hadden wrote "He rarely rises above doggerel" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Maxwell (British Marines Officer)
James Maxwell (died 1792) was an officer in the British Marines and member of Australia's First Fleet which established a penal colony in New South Wales in 1788. A long-serving Marine officer prior to joining the Fleet, Maxwell arrived in the colony and served there for some 6 months but was incapacitated by a combination of dysentery and a disease of the optic nerves. He was invalided back to England in July 1788 and died in Stonehouse, Plymouth in 1792. Military service Maxwell joined the Plymouth Company of the British Marines and was commissioned 2nd lieutenant of the 36th Company on 16 February 1776. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant of 94th (Plymouth) two years later, on 11 April 1778 (per Adm 192/3 p12).Moore 1987, p. 298 Voyage to Australia The NSW Marines were established in late 1786 to preserve "subordination and regularity" in the proposed penal colony in Botany Bay, Australia In March 1787 Marine 1st Lieut Jas Maxwell was disembarked from HMS Rose as a late repla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Maxwell, 9th Baron Farnham
The Rt Hon. James Pierce Maxwell, 9th Baron Farnham (1813 – 26 October 1896), was an Irish peer, Nova Scotia baronet and Member of Parliament. He was known as The Hon. James Pierce Maxwell between September 1838 and June 1884. He was the son of The Rev. The 6th Baron Farnham and Lady Anne Butler. He became a Member of Parliament for County Cavan on 17 February 1843. As a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 97th Foot, he was severely wounded during the Crimean War. On his brother's death, he succeeded on 4 June 1884 as The 9th Baron Farnham, and later the next year, on 4 December 1885, he succeeded his distant cousin as 12th Baronet of Calderwood. Lord Farnham died unmarried and was succeeded by his nephew, Somerset Henry Maxwell The Rt Hon. Somerset Henry Maxwell, 10th Baron Farnham (7 March 1849 – 22 November 1900), was an Irish Representative peer and a Nova Scotia baronet. Biography He was the son of Richard Thomas Maxwell, and grandson of The 6th Baron Farnham .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Maxwell (footballer)
Jimmy Maxwell (1889 – 1 July 1916) was an Irish footballer who played as a forward. Club career Maxwell was part of the Linfield side who won a treble in 1901–02, claiming Irish League, Irish Cup and City Cup winners medals, before moving to Glentoran in 1904, scoring on his return to his old club in a 2–2 draw. After a single season with Glentoran, he moved on to Belfast Celtic, where he played in the 1906 Irish Cup Final 2–0 defeat to Shelbourne. International career Maxwell made his Ireland debut against Wales during the 1901-02 British Home Championship, and went on to make 7 international appearances, scoring one goal against Wales in 1906. Death Maxwell died age 27 on 1 July 1916 whilst serving with the Royal Irish Rifles regiment of the British Army during the Battle of the Somme. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Maxwell (American Football)
James Maxwell (born August 8, 1981) is a former American football linebacker. He was signed by the NFL New York Giants as an undrafted free agent in 2004. He played college football at Gardner–Webb. Maxwell has also played for the San Francisco 49ers, Miami Dolphins, and Cincinnati Bengals. Early years Maxwell attended Johnsonville High School in Johnsonville, South Carolina where he was a letterman in football. Maxwell graduated from Johnsonville in 1999 as a salutatorian. College career Maxwell started all 42 games in which he played during his four-year collegiate career at Gardner–Webb from 2000 to 2003. He finished his career with 306 tackles, 10 sacks, four interceptions, 11 fumble recoveries and eight forced fumbles. He was a first-team All- Big South Conference selection as a senior in 2003 when he tallied 116 tackles, three sacks and an interception. He graduated with a degree in business administration. Professional career New York Giants Maxwell went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bud Maxwell
James Morton "Bud" Maxwell (15 January 1913 – 22 April 1990) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre forward for Kilmarnock and Preston North End. Club career Born in Kilmarnock, James Morton Maxwell's father of the same name was also a footballer prior to his death in World War I, at which time his son was four years old. 'Bud' became known for his skills at school and was selected for Scotland at that level, thereafter becoming an apprentice at hometown club Kilmarnock, also working at a shoe manufacturer. Maxwell quickly emerged as a prolific goalscorer (displacing Peerie Cunningham whose record was also strong) and becoming Kilmarnock's second highest goalscorer of their history in just four seasons, with 103 goals in 126 League games plus 19 goals in 21 Scottish Cup games. Aged 18, he played in the 1932 Scottish Cup Final against Rangers. The first game was drawn, with Maxwell scoring the only goal for ''Killie''. He also played in the replay, which Kilma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
