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Leslie Wilson (other)
Leslie Wilson may refer to: * Leslie Wilson (cricketer) (1859–1944), played for Kent *Sir Leslie Wilson (politician) (1876–1955), British politician, Royal Marines officer, and colonial governor * Leslie Wilson (cyclist) (1926–2006), British cyclist * Leslie Blackett Wilson (born 1930), British computer scientist, chair of computing science at the University of Stirling *Leslie Wilson (author), author of novels and short stories *Leslie Alan Wilson (born 1941/42), Australian billionaire *Leslie Wilson-Westcott Leslie Wilson-Westcott, also known as Leslie Wilson (born September 1, 1979 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler from Pinawa, Manitoba. Career Wilson-Westcott won her first provincial women's championship in 2010 playing second on Team ... (born 1979), Canadian curler See also * Les Wilson (other) {{hndis, Wilson, Leslie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Wilson (cricketer)
Leslie Wilson (16 March 1859 – 15 April 1944) was an English stockbroker and cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club between 1883 and 1897. Wilson played in over 100 first-class matches for Kent and scored over 3,000 runs for the county.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 595–597.Available onlineat the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.) Early life Wilson was born at Canonbury in London in 1859, the third son of stockbroker Alexander Wilson and his wife Caroline (''née'' Pitman).Carlaw, ''op. cit.'', p. 594.Steed HE (ed) (1911) ''The Register of Tonbridge School'', p. 158. London: Rivingtons.Available onlineat the Internet Archive. Retrieved 2023-10-14.) The family moved from Islington to Beckenham in Kent in 1873 and Wilson, like two of his brothers, was educated at Tonbridge School. He opened the batting for Tonbridge in 1876, his final year at school, and play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Wilson (politician)
Sir Leslie Orme Wilson, (1 August 1876 – 29 September 1955) was a Royal Marines officer, Conservative politician, and colonial governor. He served as Governor of Bombay from 1923 to 1926 and as Governor of Queensland from 1932 to 1946. Personal life Wilson was the son of Henry Wilson, a stockbroker, and his wife Ada Alexandrina (née Orme), and was educated at St Michael's School, Westgate, and St Paul's School, London. Wilson married Winifred May, daughter of Charles Smith, of Sydney, Australia, in 1909. They lived at the Manor House at Waltham St Lawrence in Berkshire. They had three children, two sons and a daughter: * Peter Leslie Orme, born 4 June 1910 in London, farmer and grazier, died 6 July 1980 aged 70 years in Queensland and buried in Caloundra cemetery; * David Orme, who was killed on 30 November 1941 in North Africa during the Second World War; * Marjorie Orme. On his retirement as Governor of Queensland, Wilson and his wife Winifred returned to live in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Wilson (cyclist)
Leslie Wilson (3 January 1926 – 20 January 2006) was a British cyclist. He competed in the men's tandem event at the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin .... References 1926 births 2006 deaths English male cyclists Olympic cyclists for Great Britain Cyclists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Cyclists from Leeds {{UK-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Blackett Wilson
Leslie Blackett Wilson (born 1930) was chair of Computing Science at the University of Stirling, appointed on August, 1979. Szwarcfiter, Jayme Luiz; Wilson, Leslie Blackett"The cycle cover problem" University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Computing Laboratory, Report Series, no. 131, 1979. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the Computing Laboratory of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He joined the Computing Laboratory in 1964. Before that, since 1951, he was a Senior Scientific Officer at the Naval Construction Research Establishment at Dunfermline. He has written four books in computer science and combinatorics. His book ''Comparative Programming Languages'' was regarded among the major textbooks on programming languages and has received positive reviews since its first edition. This book was translated into French in its second edition. As a researcher, he is best known for his contributions to extensions of the stable marriage problem. He was the doct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Wilson (author)
Leslie Wilson is an England-born author of novels and short stories for adults and children. She was born in 1952 in Nottingham to a German mother and an English father. She studied German at Durham University ( St Aidan's College), graduating in 1974 with a 2:1 degree. Her mixed-heritage upbringing in England in the years following the Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ... is a major influence on her writing. Leslie Wilson has lived in England, Germany and Hong Kong and now lives in Berkshire with a husband and a dog. She has two daughters and a grandson. Awards and nominations Saving Rafael was nominated for the Carnegie Medal, and shortlisted for the Lancashire Book of the Year Award and the Southern Schools Book Award. Last Train for Kummersdor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Alan Wilson
Leslie Alan Wilson (born 1941/42), an Australian billionaire, is the executive chairman of Reece Group, Australia's biggest bathroom and plumbing supplies chain. Wilson was educated at Camberwell Grammar School, Melbourne, matriculating in 1959. Wilson was CEO of Reece from 1970 to 2007, and has been executive chairman since 2001. His son Peter is the CEO. Net worth , ''The Australian Financial Review'' assessed the net worth of the Wilson family as 6.51 billion on the ''Financial Review'' 2023 Rich List. The Wilson family had earlier appeared in the ''BRW Rich Families List'' that was published annually between 2008 and 2015. Meanwhile, ''Forbes Asia ''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also rep ...'' assessed Wilson's net worth as 1.6 billion in 2017; revised to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Wilson-Westcott
Leslie Wilson-Westcott, also known as Leslie Wilson (born September 1, 1979 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler from Pinawa, Manitoba. Career Wilson-Westcott won her first provincial women's championship in 2010 playing second on Team Jill Thurston. The team represented Manitoba at the 2010 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, where they finished the round robin with a 7-4 record, and lost in the tiebreaker match. Wilson-Westcott joined the Cathy Overton-Clapham rink at second for the next season. With her new team Wilson-Westcott won the 2011 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts, her second provincial title in a row. At the 2011 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Overton-Clapham led the team to a 4-7 record. Wilson-Westcott took the next season off, just playing as the team's alternate. Wilson-Westcott joined the Colleen Kilgallen rink for two seasons, and then moved to the Kristy McDonald team in 2014. The team played in the 2015 Canada Cup of Curling, going 1-5. When McD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
