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MacInnes
MacInnes is a surname. The name is derived from the Gaelic ''mac Aonghais''. Notable people with the surname include: *Alan MacInnes, Canadian judge *Alexander Stewart MacInnes (fl. first half of the 20th century), Scottish clergyman *Angus MacInnes (born 1947), Canadian actor *Campbell MacInnes (1901–1977), Anglican bishop *Catriona MacInnes, Scottish film-maker * Colin MacInnes (1914–1976), English novelist and journalist *Donald MacInnes (1824–1900), Canadian businessman and politician *Duncan MacInnes (1897–1970), Anglican bishop *Duncan A. MacInnes (1885-1965), American chemist *Duncan Sayre MacInnes (1860–1918), Canadian soldier and engineer *Gordon MacInnes, American politician * Hamish MacInnes (1930–2020), Scottish mountaineer * Helen MacInnes (1907–1985), Scottish-American author *Iain MacInnes, Scottish folk musician * John MacInnes (ice hockey) (1925–1983), Canadian ice hockey player and coach * Maggie MacInnes (born 1963), Scottish folk singer * Martin Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clan MacInnes
Clan MacInnes is a Scottish clan originally from the Scottish Highlands, western highlands of Scotland. The origin of clan (MacInnes, McInnes, or in Gaelic: Mhic Aonghais or MacAonghais) is Morvern and Ardgour, Argylshire, with its clan name coming into existence in the 13th century. The clan's chief and his heirs were assassinated in the 14th century meaning that the clan no longer has a clan chief. Clan MacInnes is not associated - in any way - with the Clan Innes which hails from Moray (see "Related Names" below). The clan has two mottos and crests (one of which is disputed), that were both devised in the mid-19th century along with the clan's tartans, when a great revival of all things Scottish was underway. In 2004 a new motto and crest was matriculated by Lord Lyon and granted to the International Association of Clan MacInnes members for their use. The International Association of Clan MacInnes does not represent international members of the clan and is an American or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamish MacInnes
Hamish MacInnes (7 July 1930 – 22 November 2020) was a Scottish mountaineer, explorer, mountain search and rescuer, and author. He has been described as the "father of modern mountain rescue in Scotland". He is credited with inventing the first all-metal ice-axe and an eponymous lightweight foldable alloy stretcher called ''MacInnes stretcher'', widely used in mountain and helicopter rescue. He was a mountain safety advisor to a number of major films, including ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail,'' ''The Eiger Sanction'' and '' The Mission.'' His 1972 ''International Mountain Rescue Handbook'' is considered a manual in the mountain search and rescue discipline. Early life MacInnes was born in Gatehouse of Fleet, in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Galloway, Scotland, on 7 July 1930. His father's surname was McInnes, but Hamish, (according to his obituary in ''The Times'') "later adopted the more distinctive Scottish spelling of the family name". He was the y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen MacInnes
Helen Clark MacInnes (October 7, 1907 – September 30, 1985) was a Scottish-American writer of espionage novels. Life She and her husband emigrated to the United States in 1937, when he took an academic position at Columbia University in New York, while retaining his role in the British MI6, for foreign espionage. MacInnes published her first novel during World War II, and her early novels are all based in that setting. Later she wrote more about characters within the context of the Cold War. Early life Helen Clark MacInnes was born on October 7, 1907 in Glasgow to Donald MacInnes and Jessica McDiarmid, and had a traditional Scots Presbyterian upbringing. MacInnes graduated from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1928 with an MA in French and German. MacInnes continued her studies at University College, London, where she received a diploma in librarianship in 1931.''Encyclopedia Mysteriosa'', by William L. DeAndrea; p. 221; published 1994 by Prentice-Hall While working as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin MacInnes
Colin MacInnes (20 August 1914 – 22 April 1976) was an English novelist and journalist. Early life MacInnes was born in London, the son of singer James Campbell McInnes and novelist Angela Mackail, who was the granddaughter of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones and also related to Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin. MacInnes's parents divorced and his mother remarried. The family relocated to Australia in 1920, MacInnes returning in 1931. For much of his childhood, he was known as Colin Thirkell, the surname of his mother's second husband; later he used his father's name McInnes, afterwards changing it to MacInnes. He worked in Brussels from 1930 until 1935, then studied painting in London at the London Polytechnic school and the School of Drawing and Painting in Euston Road. Towards the end of his life, he stayed at the home of Martin Green, his publisher, and Green's wife Fiona, in Fitzrovia, where MacInnes spent time, regarding their small family as his ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom MacInnes
Thomas Robert Edward MacInnes (né McInnes) (October 29, 1867 – February 11, 1951) was a Canadian poet and writer whose writings ranged from "vigorous, slangy recollections of the Yukon gold rush" (''Lonesome Bar,'' 1909) to "a translation of and commentary on Lao-tzu’s philosophy" (''The Teaching of the Old Boy,'' 1927).Tom MacInnes " ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', Britannica.com, Web, May 25, 2011. His narrative verse was highly popular in his lifetime. Life He was born Thomas Robert Edward McInnes in Dresden, Ontario. He moved to New Westminster with his family in 1874, and grew up there. His father, , served ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Sayre MacInnes
Brigadier-General Duncan Sayre MacInnes (21 February 1860 – 23 May 1918) was a Canadian soldier and engineer who served in South Africa before, during and after the Second Boer War. Before and during World War I, MacInnes played a key role in the establishment and development of the Royal Flying Corps. He was accidentally killed while visiting the front on 23 May 1918. Education Duncan Sayre MacInnes entered the Royal Military College of Canada at Kingston, Ontario in 1887, cadet # 236. He graduated with distinction in 1891 and was awarded the sword of honour. He was later awarded the Governor-General gold medal.Richard Preston 'Canada's RMC: A History of the Royal Military College' (Toronto, University of Toronto Press) Family His father was Senator Donald MacInnes from Hamilton, Ontario, and his mother was the fourth daughter of Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto. Duncan Sayre MacInnes married May Millicent Wolferstan Thomas, the daughter of a prominent Montreal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles MacInnes
Miles MacInnes (21 February 1830 – 28 September 1909) was a British landowner, railway director and Liberal Party politician. Life MacInnes was the son of General John MacInnes and his wife Ann Sophia Reynolds. His father left Scotland to seek his fortune in the East as an officer of the East India Company and retired to Fern Lodge, Hampstead after a successful military career. Miles was educated at Rugby School and at Balliol College, Oxford. Because he was related to George Head Head's wife he was given a job at Head's bank in Carlisle when he was 23. He worked at that bank until 1864 when the bank was merged with another and became a trader in corn in London. He was a Director of the London and North Western Railway and J.P. for Cumberland and Middlesex. In 1876 MacInnes acquired Rickerby Park at Carlisle. He had been adopted as heir to George Head Head and his wife who were childless. MacInnes was left £160,000 and the estate on the understanding that he would use H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon MacInnes
Gordon A. MacInnes (born December 4, 1941) is an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who has served twice in the state Legislature. MacInnes was elected to the state Assembly in 1973 in a heavily Republican Morris County district, as part of the Watergate-driven Democratic landslide of that year. He was defeated in his re-election bid in 1975. In 1993, he won election to the state Senate in a major upset over incumbent Senate Majority Leader John H. Dorsey, again in a heavily Republican district. He again failed to win re-election in 1997, losing to Republican Anthony Bucco, who continued to hold that Senate seat until his death in 2019. MacInnes also served as Assistant Commissioner in the New Jersey Department of Education from 2002 to 2007. He serves as a member of the Board of Governors of Rutgers University. He also is a former executive director of the New Jersey Network. MacInnes is the president of New Jersey Policy Perspective, a left-leaning, nonpr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John MacInnes (ice Hockey)
John James MacInnes (July 1, 1925 – March 6, 1983) was a Canadians, Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender and National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA hockey head coach. He was born in Toronto, Ontario. Playing career MacInnes was a goalie at the University of Michigan, helping the Michigan Wolverines, Wolverines to a pair of league titles and a third-place finish at the 1950 NCAA championship. MacInnes also played for farm teams of the Boston Bruins and the Detroit Red Wings before becoming director of the Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ann Arbor Amateur Hockey League. He held that position until leaving to become head coach at Michigan Technological University. Coaching career MacInnes was the head coach of the Michigan Tech Huskies from the 1956-57 season through 1981-82. His teams won three NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship, NCAA championships and seven Western Collegiate Hockey Association titles during his 26 seasons as head coach. He was named NCAA Coach of the Ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rennie MacInnes
The Rt Rev Rennie MacInnes (23 July 1870 – 24 December 1931) was a bishop in the Anglican Church in the first third of the twentieth century. Biography MacInnes was educated at Windlesham House School, Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1897. After a curacy at St Matthew's, Bayswater, he spent the rest of his career in the Middle East eventually becoming Bishop of Jerusalem. Family His father was the MP Miles MacInnes and his grandfather was the noted general John MacInnes. His son Angus Campbell MacInnes followed him into Holy Orders, eventually becoming Bishop of Bedford before translation to his former See Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i .... References Further reading ''Notes for Travellers by road and rail in Palestine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen MacInnes
Kathleen MacInnes, or Caitlin NicAonghais in Scottish Gaelic, (born 30 December 1969) is a Scottish singer, television presenter and actress, who performs primarily in Scottish Gaelic. She is a native of South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, and lives in Glasgow with her partner and three sons. In 2010, she appeared on the soundtrack to the Ridley Scott film ''Robin Hood''. Retrieved 11 August 2010. Discography Solo albums * ''Òg-Mhadainn Shamhraidh (Summer Dawn)'' (2006) * ''Cille Bhrìde (Kilbride)'' (2012)Collaborations and guest appearances * Iain MacDonald & Iain MacFarlane – ''The First Harvest'' (2002) * |
Duncan MacInnes
Duncan MacInnes (1897 – 9 August 1970) was a Scottish Anglican bishop in the 20th century. Biography MacInnes was educated at Edinburgh Theological College and ordained in 1927. He began his ordained ministry with a curacy at St Columba's Clydebank, after which he was curate in charge of Knightswood. He was a chaplain to the British Armed Forces during World War II and then Dean of Argyll and The Isles. "Who was Who" 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 In 1953 he became the Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness, a post he held until his death in 1970. The eleven bells of Inverness Cathedral Inverness Cathedral (Scottish Gaelic: Cathair-Eaglais Inbhir Nis), also known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew (1866–69), is a cathedral of the Scottish Episcopal Church situated in the city of Inverness in Scotland close to the banks of ... were restored as a memorial to Bishop Macinnes. References 20th-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops Members of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
