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MacCormick V
MacCormick is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur MacCormick (1864–1948), Australian banker and cricketer *Bill MacCormick (born 1951), English bassist and vocalist * Cara Duff-MacCormick, Canadian actress best known for her work in American theatre * Charles MacCormick (1862–1945), New Zealand lawyer, judge and cricketer *Donald MacCormick (1939–2009), Scottish broadcast journalist * Evan MacCormick (1882–1918), New Zealand cricketer and barrister * Iain MacCormick (born 1939), Scottish National Party (SNP) politician *John MacCormick (1904–1961), lawyer and advocate of Home Rule in Scotland *Neil MacCormick (1941–2009), legal philosopher and Scottish politician * Niall MacCormick, television director for the BBC See also *MacCormick v Lord Advocate (1953 SC 396), Scottish legal action in which John MacCormick (Rector of the University of Glasgow) and Ian Hamilton (then part of the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association) contested t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur MacCormick
Arthur Deloitte MacCormick (1864 – 14 January 1948) was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class match in New Zealand for Otago in the 1888–89 season. MacCormick was born at Balmain in Sydney, Australia in 1864. He was one of 11 children.Mrs E. A. MacCormick, ''Auckland Star'', volume XLIX, issue 271, 27 July 1926, p. 5.Available onlineat Papers Past. Retrieved 1 June 2023.) His father, John MacCormick, was a barrister who worked in Auckland, but both Arthur and his older brother Charles were born in Australia. The family moved to Auckland in 1865.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 83. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. and Arthur was educated at Auckland Grammar School and Auckland University College.The intercolonial match, ''New Zealand Herald'', volume XXIII, issue 7813, 6 December 1888, p. 6.Available onlineat Papers Past. Retrieved 1 June 2023.) MacCormick worked for the Colonial Bank of Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill MacCormick
William MacCormick (born 15 April 1951) is an English bassist and vocalist. He is also a politician and author. Early life He is the second son of Ewen and Olwen MacCormick who married in 1946 after serving together in the RAF. His older brother, Ian MacCormick (also known as the music journalist and writer Ian MacDonald) was born in 1948. After attending primary schools in Brixton they were both awarded free places at Dulwich College. There MacCormick met Phil Targett-Adams (now better known as Phil Manzanera) and they developed an interest in playing music. In 1966 MacCormick's mother worked with Honor Wyatt, the mother of drummer Robert Wyatt, and MacCormick saw his band Soft Machine play their first gig in August 1966 at Coombe Springs in Kingston and, thereafter, became a regular visitor at Honor Wyatt's house in Dalmore Road, West Dulwich, where the band lived and rehearsed. In 1968 Manzanera and MacCormick formed a band at Dulwich College with a floating membership except ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cara Duff-MacCormick
Cara Duff-MacCormick (born December 12, 1944) is a Canadian actress, predominantly in the theatre. Early life and education Born in Woodstock, Ontario, Duff-MacCormick studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. Career Duff-MacCormick made her professional debut Off-Broadway in December 1969 at the Cherry Lane Theatre as Faith Detweiler in Harold J. Chapler's ''Love Your Crooked Neighbor''. She made her Broadway debut as Shelly in Michael Weller's ''Moonchildren'' in 1972, a role she had performed the year before at the Arena Stage in 1971. For this performance the actress won a Theatre World Award and garnered a Tony Award nomination. The following year she returned to Broadway to portray Clare in Tennessee Williams's play '' Out Cry'' at the Lyceum Theatre and played Nina in Anton Chekhov's ''The Seagull'' at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1975, she won an Obie Award for her performance in '' Craig's Wife''. In 1976, Duf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles MacCormick
Charles Edward MacCormick (29 January 1862 – 30 July 1945) was an Australian-born lawyer, judge and cricketer. He played five first-class matches in New Zealand for Auckland between the 1884–85 and 1893–94 seasons. Charles MacCormick was born at Balmain in Sydney, Australia in 1862, one of 11 children.Mrs E. A. MacCormick, ''Auckland Star'', volume XLIX, issue 271, 27 July 1926, p. 5.Available onlineat Papers Past. Retrieved 1 June 2023.) He was the son of Charles MacCormick, a barrister who worked at the Supreme Court of New South Wales. The family moved to Auckland in New Zealand in 1865 and MacCormick was educated at Auckland Grammar School and Auckland University College.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 83. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. MacCormick trained as a lawyer and was clerk to Thomas DuFaur before becoming a partner in the firm in around 1900. The firm specialist in Māori land law, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald MacCormick
Donald MacCormick (16 April 1939 – 12 July 2009)Veteran BBC newsman dies aged 70 '''', 12 July 2009. was a Scottish broadcast . Early life MacCormick's father was a teacher who died when Donald was six. As a result, he became close to the family of his uncle |
Evan MacCormick
Evan MacCormick (15 March 1882 – 13 November 1918) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played thirteen first-class matches for Auckland between 1900 and 1914. MacCormick was educated at Auckland Grammar School and became a barrister and solicitor, a partner in an Auckland law firm. His highest first-class score was 77, the highest score in the match, when Auckland lost narrowly to the touring MCC in 1906-07. He was the outstanding batsman of the Auckland Cricket Association competition in 1914–15, scoring 809 runs at an average of 101.12, with four centuries. MacCormick died in November 1918 after contracting influenza and then pneumonia Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli. Symptoms typically include some combination of productive or dry cough, chest pain, fever, and difficulty breathing. The severity .... References External links * 1882 births 1918 deaths People educated at Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain MacCormick
Iain Somerled MacDonald MacCormick (28 September 1939 – 19 September 2014) was a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. Early life MacCormick was born in Glasgow. He was educated at the High School of Glasgow and Glasgow University. He worked as a computer salesman, before leaving Glasgow in 1965 to become a teacher at Oban High School. Political career MacCormick belonged to a family steeped in nationalist politics: his father John MacCormick was one of the founders of the SNP, while his brother Neil was, from 1999 to 2004, one of Scotland's Members of the European Parliament, again for the Nationalists. He stood as the SNP candidate for Member of Parliament for Argyll in 1970. On his second attempt, MacCormick was elected Member of Parliament for Argyll at the February 1974 general election, gaining the seat from the Conservatives. He was re-elected in October 1974. At the 1979 general election he was defeated by the Conservative John MacKay. He was then elected to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John MacCormick
John MacDonald MacCormick (20 November 1904 – 13 October 1961) was a Scottish lawyer, Scottish nationalist politician and advocate of Home Rule in Scotland. Early life MacCormick was born in Pollokshields, Glasgow, in 1904. His father was Donald MacCormick, a sea captain who was from the Isle of Mull. His mother was the first district nurse in the Western Isles. MacCormick was educated at Woodside School, and studied law at the University of Glasgow (1923–1928). He became involved in politics while at university, and joined the Glasgow University Labour Club and the Independent Labour Party in 1923. Richard J. Finlay, 'MacCormick, John MacDonald (1904–1961)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press In September 1927 MacCormick left the ILP and formed the |
Neil MacCormick
Sir Donald Neil MacCormick (27 May 1941 – 5 April 2009) was a Scottish legal philosopher and politician. He was Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh from 1972 until 2008. He was a Member of the European Parliament 1999–2004, member of the Convention on the Future of Europe, and officer of the Scottish National Party. Life and academic career MacCormick was born in Glasgow on 27 May 1941, the son of one of the SNP's founders, John MacCormick. He was educated at the High School of Glasgow. He graduated MA in philosophy and English literature at the University of Glasgow, before benefiting from a Snell Exhibition and taking the BA in jurisprudence at Balliol College, Oxford. At Oxford, MacCormick came under the influence of Professor H. L. A. Hart, and developed an interest in legal philosophy. In 1982 he was awarded the research degree of LLD by the University of Edinburgh. MacCormick was a lecturer in jurisprud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niall MacCormick
Niall MacCormick is a Scottish film and television director. His credits include the feature-length comedy-drama ''The Long Walk to Finchley'', ''Firewall'' (the second feature-length episode of '' Wallander''), and ''The Song of Lunch'' (starring Alan Rickman Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (21 February 1946 – 14 January 2016) was an English actor and director. Known for his deep, languid voice, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and became a member of the Royal Shakespe ... and Emma Thompson). All of these were created for BBC Television. He directed '' The Game'' in 2013 and won a BAFTA in 2014 for the Channel 4 film "Complicit". In 2019 he directed the acclaimed BBC mini-series “The Victim”. References British television directors Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-tv-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacCormick V Lord Advocate
''MacCormick v Lord Advocate'' 1953 SC 396 was a Scottish constitutional law case and Scottish legal action on whether Queen Elizabeth II was entitled to use the numeral "II" as her regnal number in Scotland, as there had never been an earlier Elizabeth reigning in Scotland. Facts John MacCormick (the Rector of the University of Glasgow) and Ian Hamilton (then part of the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association) contested the right of Queen Elizabeth II to style herself 'Elizabeth II' within Scotland. They claimed it was a breach of the Act of Union 1707 between England and Scotland, since Elizabeth I had been Queen of England but not of Scotland. The action was brought against the Crown, which was represented by the Lord Advocate, who is the most senior law officer in Scotland. Judgment The petition first came before Lord Guthrie, sitting as Lord Ordinary in the Outer House (the court of first instance in the Court of Session). He dismissed it; this was appealed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacCormick Fjord
MacCormick Fjord ( kl, Iterlassuaq) is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the southwest, the fjord opens into the Murchison Sound of the Baffin Bay.GoogleEarth History In 1891 a spot in the southern shore near the mouth of the fjord was chosen as a place for the recovery of Robert Peary during his Second Greenland Expedition. A house was built and the site was named "Red Cliff". Geography MacCormick Fjord, together with Robertson Fjord close to the west, is one of the two main indentations of the northern side of the Murchison Sound. It runs in a roughly NE/SW direction east of Cape Robertson, with its mouth north of Cape Cleveland, beyond the western end of the Inglefield Gulf. Piulip Nunaa is the peninsula that separates this fjord from Bowdoin Fjord to the east and MacCormick Fjord forms the peninsula's western coastline. Most of the fjord's shores are beach.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 89 The Sun Glacier discharges from the Greenlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
