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MacFarquhar
MacFarquhar () is a surname, and may refer to: * Colin Macfarquhar (1744/5–1793), Scottish bookseller and printer * Larissa MacFarquhar (born 1968), American writer * Neil MacFarquhar (born 1960), American journalist * Roderick MacFarquhar (1930–2019), British journalist and China specialist See also * Farquhar Farquhar is a surname of Scotland, Scottish origin, derived from the Scottish Gaelic ''fearchar'', from ''fear'' ("man") and ''car'' ("beloved"). Farquharson is a further derivation of the name, meaning "son of Farquhar". The name originated as a g ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Macfarquhar Surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roderick MacFarquhar
Roderick "Rod" Lemonde MacFarquhar (2 December 1930 – 10 February 2019) was a British China scholar, politician, and journalist. MacFarquhar had a varied career. He was founding editor of ''China Quarterly'' in 1959. He served as a Member of Parliament in the 1970s, then joined the BBC .In the 1980s, he became a professor at Harvard University, where he served several terms as director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He was best known for his studies of Maoist China, the three-volume ''The Origins of the Cultural Revolution'' and ''Mao's Last Revolution''. Family and early life MacFarquhar was born in Lahore, British India (now Pakistan). His father was Sir Alexander MacFarquhar, a member of the Indian Civil Service and later a senior diplomat at the United Nations. His mother was Berenice (née Whitburn). He was educated at the Aitchison College in Lahore and Fettes College, an independent school in Edinburgh. Academic and journalistic career After spending part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larissa MacFarquhar
Larissa MacFarquhar is an American writer known for her profiles in ''The New Yorker''. She is the daughter of the sinologist Roderick MacFarquhar. She was born in London and moved to the United States at the age of 16. MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at ''The New Yorker'' since 1998 and has written profiles on Barack Obama, Derek Parfit, Hilary Mantel, Robert Gottlieb, Richard Posner, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chelsea Manning and Aaron Swartz, among others. Her 2015 book ''Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help'' explores the motivations of people who take altruism to extremes. She is married to the writer Philip Gourevitch. Selected bibliography Books * Essays and reporting * * * * * * Online version is titled "The mind-expanding ideas of Andy Clark". References External links Larissa MacFarquharProfile on TEDMED TEDMED is an annual conference focusing on health and medicine, with a year-round web-based community. TEDM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil MacFarquhar
Neil Graham MacFarquhar is an American writer who is a national correspondent for ''The New York Times''. Early life and education MacFarquhar grew up in the 1960s in Brega, a fenced-off expatriate oil compound in Libya. MacFarquhar went to elementary school in Libya. He graduated from Deerfield Academy and then Stanford University in international relations in 1982. Career After graduation, he returned to the Middle East, became fluent in Arabic, and covered the region for the Associated Press and then as ''The New York Times'' bureau chief in Cairo. From June 2008 to the summer of 2013, MacFarquhar was the ''Times''s United Nations bureau chief. From November 2006 to May 2008, he was a national correspondent for the paper, based in San Francisco. He was the Middle East correspondent, based in Cairo, from 2001 until 2006.Advertising supplement (unnamed, but part of the "These times demand the Times" advertising campaign, as noted on the back page of the supplement), in which ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farquhar
Farquhar is a surname of Scotland, Scottish origin, derived from the Scottish Gaelic ''fearchar'', from ''fear'' ("man") and ''car'' ("beloved"). Farquharson is a further derivation of the name, meaning "son of Farquhar". The name originated as a given name, but had become established as a surname by the 14th century.David Dobson, ''The Scottish Surnames of Colonial America'' (2003), p. 41. The name's pronunciation depends on the person, family, and place. In Scotland it can be (). In various English-speaking countries it has often been , , , or . Notable people with the surname include: United Kingdom and Ireland *Fearchar, Earl of Ross, Farquhar MacTaggart, First Earl of Ross *Anthony Farquhar (born 1940), Roman Catholic Auxiliary bishop *Farquhar baronets, British aristocrats *Gary Farquhar (born 1971), Scottish footballer *George Farquhar (1678–1707), Irish dramatist *George Farquhar (priest) (died 1927), Dean of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane *Helen Farquhar (1859– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Macfarquhar
Colin Macfarquhar (1744 or 1745? – 2 April 1793 or May 1793, Edinburgh?, Scotland) was a Scottish bookseller and printer who is most known for co-founding ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' with Andrew Bell, first published in December 1768. The dates of his birth and death remain uncertain, even to Britannica itself. Biography Macfarquhar was born in Edinburgh to his father James Macfarquhar who was a wigmaker and his mother Margaret. His formal education ended when he was apprenticed to a printing firm and achieved the status of a master printer in 1767. On 13 December 1767 Macfarquhar married Jane whose father, James Scruton, was an accountant in Glasgow. Macfarquhar and Jane had one son and four daughters. Macfarquhar opened a printing shop in Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |