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John Davidson (dramatist)
John Davidson may refer to: Arts and entertainment *John Davidson (poet) (1857–1909), Scottish poet and playwright *John Davidson (actor) (1886–1968), American actor *John Davidson (entertainer) (born 1941), American television actor and game show host Military *John Davidson (Royal Navy officer) (c. 1818–1881), English naval surgeon * John Wynn Davidson (1825–1881), U.S. Army major general * John F. Davidson (1908–1989), U.S. Navy admiral Politics and law * John Davidson (Lower Canada politician) (died 1838), Canadian merchant, civil servant and politician * John S. Davidson (1846–1894), American politician, member of the Georgia State Senate *John Andrew Davidson (1852–1903), Canadian politician *John Davidson (British Army officer) (1876–1954), British major general and politician *J. C. C. Davidson (1889–1970), British politician *John James Davidson (1898–1976), British MP, 1935–1945 *John Davidson (Illinois politician) (1924–2012), American politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Davidson (poet)
John Davidson (11 April 1857 – 23 March 1909) was a Scottish poet, playwright and novelist, best known for his ballads. He also did translations from French and German. In 1909, financial difficulties, as well as physical and mental health problems, led to his suicide. Life and works Scotland He was born at Barrhead, East Renfrewshire as the son of Alexander Davidson, an Evangelical Union minister and Helen ''née'' Crocket of Elgin. His family removed to Greenock in 1862 where he was educated at Highlanders' Academy there and entered the chemical laboratory of Walker's Sugarhouse refinery in his 13th year, returning after one year to school as a pupil teacher. Davidson also briefly worked in the Public Analysts' Office, from 1870–71. In these employments he developed an interest in science which became an important characteristic of his poetry. In 1872 he returned for four years to the Highlanders' Academy as a pupil-teacher, and, after a year at University of Edinburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Davidson (priest)
John Cheyne Davidson was a Canadian Anglican priest in the 20th Century. Davidson was educated at Trinity College, Toronto and ordained in 1885. After a curacy in Teddington he went out to Colborne Parish, New Brunswick After that he worked in the Peterborough area from 1888 until"Report of the Superintendent of Insurance, for the year ended 31st December, 1903." p97: Ottawa, S.E.Dawson, 1903 1932: as curate, incumbent and Archdeacon An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that o ... from 1920. References Archdeacons of Peterborough, ON Trinity College (Canada) alumni 19th-century Canadian Anglican priests 20th-century Canadian Anglican priests {{Canada-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Davidson (Tourette Syndrome Campaigner)
John Davidson MBE (born 1971 or 1972) is a Scottish campaigner for Tourette syndrome, who lives in Galashiels. At age 16, Davidson was the subject of the BBC TV documentary ''John's Not Mad'' (1989) about the manifestations of Tourette syndrome with which he lived, and a number of follow-up BBC documentaries throughout his life. He is a "nationally known ambassador for the condition", who gives talks and workshops for school pupils, teachers and police, and has organised an annual two-day residential Tourette camp for young people. In 2019 he was awarded an MBE in recognition of "his efforts to increase understanding of the condition and helping families deal with it across the country." Biography Davidson's condition encompasses a range of symptoms: Tourette syndrome tics including coprolalia, echolalia, sudden and violent body movements; as well as a severe form of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). At age 16 a BBC TV documentary was made about him, '' John's Not Mad'' (1989 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Davidson (chemical Engineer)
John Frank Davidson FRS FREng FIChemE (7 February 1926 - 25 December 2019) was a British chemical engineer and former Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He is regarded as the founding father of the subject of Fluidization in Chemical Engineering. Early life John Frank Davidson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, the industrial centre of the county of Northumberland. His school years (1937–1944) fell on severe days of World War II. In 1944, he entered the University of Cambridge, with which all his further life has been associated. After receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1947, Davidson joined Rolls-Royce in Derby, where he served two and a half years in the Mechanical Development Department. Having returned in 1950 to Cambridge, he became a graduate student in the Engineering Department (1950–1952). At the end of 1952, he passed to the recently founded Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Cambridge. In that per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ogilvie Davidson
John Ogilvie "Skook" Davidson , MM & two bars (July 29, 1892 - 1972) was a soldier, land surveyor, packer, guide and rancher in far northern British Columbia, Canada. Known as "Skook" or "Skookum" Davidson because of his stature (big and strong), he is the namesake of Mount Skook Davidson and the Liard River landing Skooks Landing was so-named because it was where he would arrange to have supplies dropped for his Diamond J Ranch, which lay up the Kechika River 150 miles from there. He moved to Vancouver in 1972 following a fire at the ranch. The location is near Fireside, British Columbia and near it is an old construction camp used by crews building the Alaska Highway [Baidu] |
John Davidson (botanist)
John Davidson (1878 – 1970) was a notable Scottish-Canadian botanist. Biography He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. He worked at the University of Aberdeen from 1893 to 1911. He later moved to Canada in the hopes of securing a professorship at the soon to be established University of British Columbia (UBC). Instead, he was appointed the first Provincial Botanist of British Columbia. Davidson established a herbarium on West Pender Street, Vancouver, and a botanical garden near New Westminster, at Coquitlam (at thColony FarmanEssondalefarming and mental hospital complex, which later became Riverview Hospital in the 1950s). This collection was moved to the UBC in 1916 where it became the UBC Botanical Garden. This move is often described as having involved the transfer of 25,000 plants, though this figure is an exaggeration. Even if Davidson and his staff transferred two thousand plants, the feat would still have been extraordinary. As a UBC faculty member in Botany from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ewen Davidson
John Ewen Davidson (2 March 1841 in London – 2 September 1923 in Oxford) was a colonist sugar planter, slave owner, murderer, and miller in Queensland. Life and career John Ewen Davidson was born as the son of a Scottish merchant. He was educated Harrow School and Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1862. He was also a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club in London and played one first class cricket match in 1864. After a trip to the West Indies and British Guiana he came to Australia in 1865. There he met pioneer Queensland sugar planter Captain Claudius Whish and visited his farm at Caboolture, where he was shown, how to grow sugar in the climatic conditions of Queensland.Glen Hall:Pioneer Shire Chairmen: John Ewen Davidson, 1880–1883, 1896–1899./ref> Bellenden Plains A year later, he began as a sugar planter at Bellenden Plains on the Murray River north of Cardwell in Far North Queensland. According to his own diary entries, Davidson was inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Davidson (traveller)
John Davidson (1797–1836) was an English traveller in Africa. Early life He was son of a tailor and army clothier in Cork Street, London, and originally from Kelso, and was born on 23 December 1797. He went to school at a private academy near London, and when sixteen years old at his own request was apprenticed to Savory & Moore, the chemists and druggists, in which he later purchased a partnership. He became a pupil at St George's Hospital, and entered the University of Edinburgh with the intention of becoming a doctor. His health failing, however, he went to Naples in the autumn of 1827. From Naples he went through Styria and Carniola to Vienna, made an excursion through Poland and Russia, and returned home by way of Hamburg. Traveller Davidson went to Egypt at the end of 1829, visited the Pyramids, and passed overland to Cosseir, where he embarked for India on his way to China and Persia. An attack of cholera, however, drove him back to Cosseir. He made an excursion thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Davidson (antiquarian)
John Davidson of Stewartfield and Haltree FRSE WS (c.1725-1797) was a Scottish antiquary, author/publisher and co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He served as Deputy Keeper to the Signet. He was a friend of Lord Hailes, David Herd, William Tytler, George Paton and Callander of Craigforth, early figures in the Scottish Enlightenment.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: John Davidson d.1797 He was much admired by Bishop Thomas Percy, who described as a man of learning and very excellent critic. Life He was born in 1724/5 the son of Elizabeth Brown, sister of Rev William Brown of Edinburgh and her husband, James Davidson of Haltree, an Edinburgh bookseller. He trained as a lawyer at the University of Edinburgh and was then apprenticed to George Balfour WS. He then worked as a Crown Agent, and agent for many wealthy Scottish landowners and noblemen, specialising in land transactions. In 1758 he is noted as Joint Treasurer of the Society for the Propagation of Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Davidson (cricketer, Born 1964)
John Edward Davidson (born 23 October 1964) is a Welsh people, Welsh former cricketer. Davidson was born at Aberystwyth in October 1964. He later studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. While studying at Cambridge, he made his debut in first-class cricket for Cambridge University Cricket Club, Cambridge University against Surrey County Cricket Club, Surrey at Fenner's in 1985. He played first-class cricket for Cambridge until 1987, making fourteen appearances. Playing as a right-arm Fast bowling, fast-medium bowler, he took 38 wickets at an bowling average, average of 36.97 and best figures of 5 for 35. One of two five wicket hauls he took, these figures came against Hampshire County Cricket Club, Hampshire in 1986. As a Batting_order_(cricket)#Lower_order_or_tail, lower order batsman, he scored 139 runs at a batting average (cricket), batting average of 12.63, with best a high score of 41 not out. He also made a first-class appearance for a combined Oxford and Cambridge Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Davidson (rugby League)
John Davidson is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played for Balmain and Cronulla-Sutherland in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition. His brother Jamie Davidson also played for Balmain between 1983 and 1987. Background Davidson was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and played his junior rugby league for Birchgrove Scorpions. Playing career Davidson made his first grade debut for Balmain in Round 6 1980 against Penrith at Leichhardt Oval. In 1981, Davidson played 10 games as Balmain finished last on the table claiming the wooden spoon. It was only the 4th time in the club's history where they had finished last. By 1983, Balmain coach Frank Stanton had assembled a strong team and the club reached the finals but were defeated in the semi-final by St George Saint George (Greek language, Greek: Γεώργιος (Geórgios), Latin language, Latin: Georgius, Arabic language, Arabic: القديس ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Davidson (ice Hockey)
John Arthur Davidson (born February 27, 1953) is a Canadian-American professional ice hockey executive and former player, who serves as President of Hockey Operations and alternate governor for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). As a goaltender, he played in the NHL for the St. Louis Blues and New York Rangers. He is also well known as a long-time hockey broadcaster, and was honored by the Hockey Hall of Fame with the 2009 Foster Hewitt Memorial Award for his contributions to broadcasting. Playing career Growing up in western Canada, he played his junior hockey in Calgary, Alberta. He was drafted fifth overall in the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft, and became the first goalie in NHL history to jump directly from major junior to the NHL. St. Louis Blues Davidson stepped right into the NHL and split duties with veteran Wayne Stephenson during his rookie year and posted slightly better numbers. Just before the start of Davidson's second season in the league, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
