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Macfarlan (other)
Macfarlan may refer to: Places: * Macfarlan, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in West Virginia People: * George Macfarlan (1837/38–1868), British-born New Zealand politician * Ian Macfarlan (1881–1964), Australian politician * James Macfarlan (1832–1862), Scottish poet * Robert Macfarlan (Australian judge) (born 1949), Australian judge * Robert Macfarlan (schoolmaster) (1734–1804), Scottish writer * Dandridge MacFarlan Cole (1921–1965), American aerospace engineer * Robert MacFarlan Cole III (1889–1986), American chemical engineer Other uses: * Macfarlan Ministry, government of Victoria, Australia, led by Ian Macfarlan * MacFarlan Smith, Scottish pharmaceutical research company See also * McFarlan * MacFarlane (other) * McFarlane (other) McFarlane may refer to: Business * McFarlane Toys, a toy manufacturer People *McFarlane (surname) See also *'' McFarlane's Evil Prophecy'', a 2004 video game *McFarlan (other) McF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macfarlan, West Virginia
Macfarlan (also MacFarlan) is an unincorporated community in southwestern Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States. It lies along West Virginia Route 47 southwest of the town of Harrisville, the county seat of Ritchie County. Its elevation is 653 feet (199 m). It has a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ... with the ZIP code 26148. The community was named after a pioneer named by Macfarlan whose party was attacked by Indians near the town site. The community is the inspiration for the 1897 piano solo by Wirt W. Cain, ''Macfarlan Waltz''."McFarlan Matters" ''Ritchie Gazette'' June 22, 1899 References Unincorporated communities in Ritchie County, West Virginia Unincorporated communities in West Virginia {{RitchieCountyWV-geo-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Macfarlan
George Macfarlan (1837/1838 – 9 October 1868) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament representing the Lyttelton electorate. Professional career Macfarlan was the only son of the Rev. George Macfarlan of Gainford, County Durham. He was educated at Shrewsbury School before attending Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a "very high degree", passing his final exams in 1860 as fourteenth wrangler. He moved to London to qualify as a lawyer, and was called to the bar by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in June 1863. Macfarlan came out to Canterbury, New Zealand in January 1864. He was in partnership with William Sefton Moorhouse, prior to Moorhouse being elected Superintendent for the Canterbury Provincial Council in May 1866 for the second time, with their office located in Cathedral Square. After that, he was a solicitor with Macfarlan and Nottidge, also located in the central town square. He was an occasional contributor to the ''Lyttelton Times''. Politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Macfarlan
Ian Macfarlan (born John Robert Macfarlan; 21 November 1881 – 19 March 1964) was the Deputy Leader of the Australian Liberal Party in the Australian state of Victoria during 1945. He was briefly commissioned as the 35th Premier of Victoria by the Governor and formed a government which brought about the end of the Dunstan Ministry. MacFarlan was the Member for Brighton from 1928 until 1945 and was Attorney-General and Solicitor-General on 3 occasions, from 26 November 1928 until 11 December 1929 in the government of William McPherson, from 25 July 1934 until 1 April 1935 in the government of Stanley Argyle and from 8 September 1943 until 20 November 1945 in the government of Albert Dunstan. MacFarlan was a member for the Nationalist Party, which later became the United Australia Party (UAP) in 1931. He became unsatisfied with UAP's strategic inflexibility and left the UAP in 1937 to serve as a liberal independent. In 1943, he was persuaded to rejoin the party as dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Macfarlan
James Macfarlan (9 April 1832 – 6 November 1862) was a Scottish poet. He published a few volumes of poetry in his lifetime, while living usually as a pedlar. Life Macfarlan was born in Glasgow on 9 April 1832, son of Andrew Macfarlan, a weaver turned pedlar from County Tyrone, and his wife Margaret Marshall. He received some education in Kilmarnock and Glasgow, but was mainly self-taught. Inspired by a stray volume of Lord Byron when about twelve years old, he borrowed books from public libraries in various towns visited in the wanderings of the family, and by the age of twenty he had read widely.''James Macfarlan: A Memoir by Colin Rae-Brown'' gerald-massey.org.uk In 1853, having collected pieces he had written, he walked to and from London and secured the publication of a volume of poetry by subscription. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Macfarlan (Australian Judge)
Robert Bruce Scott Macfarlan (born 22 November 1949) is a judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the highest court in the state of New South Wales, Australia, which forms part of the Australian court hierarchy. Education Macfarlan is the son of Bruce Panton Macfarlan (1910-1978) and Barbara, daughter of H. R. Hamilton Scott. His father was a lecturer in law at the University of Sydney and a barrister, subsequently appointed a puisne judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, then judge in Admiralty and judge in Commercial Causes. Macfarlan's paternal grandfather, Alfred Ingram Macfarlan (1861-1929), was nephew of the timber merchant and philanthropist John Goodlet, and held a senior position in the family business, Goodlet & Smith, as company secretary. Macfarlan was educated at Cranbrook School. He subsequently graduated in Arts and Law (with first class honours) from the University of Sydney.Who's Who in Australia 2009, ed. Leanne Sullivan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Macfarlan (schoolmaster)
Robert Macfarlan (also Macfarlane) (1734–1804) was a Scottish schoolmaster, notable as a writer, journalist and translator. Life Macfarlan was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he proceeded M.A. He settled in London, and for some years kept a successful school at Walthamstow, Essex. It was at Shern Lodge, also called Shernhall House, and he ran it from about 1770 to about 1795, when he left Walthamstow. His pupils included Robert Plumer Ward. At one time Macfarlane was editor of the ''Morning Chronicle'' and '' London Packet''. He reported, from memory, some of the major speeches in parliament during Lord North's administration, in particular from those delivered in the debates on the American War of Independence. In 1792 he was employed by the Highland Society of Scotland as a teacher of Scottish Gaelic. On the evening of 8 August 1804, during the election, Macfarlan was killed by an accidental fall under a carriage, at Hammersmith. Works Marfarlan was engaged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dandridge MacFarlan Cole
Dandridge MacFarlan Cole (February 19, 1921 – October 29, 1965) was an American aerospace engineer, futurist, lecturer, and author. Biography Parents, education, and military service Cole was born February 19, 1921 in Sandusky, Ohio to Robert MacFarlan Cole III and Wertha Pendleton Cole, the daughter of bishop William Frederic Pendleton. In 1928 the family moved to Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, where his mother had been raised. He spent the balance of his childhood there, residing elsewhere only during his college and wartime years. He attended the Academy of the New Church Secondary Schools from 1935 to 1939 and entered Princeton University in the fall of 1939. In his application to Princeton, he mentions, as one of the things attracting him to the University, what Henry Norris Russell, then director or the Princeton Observatory, had written about interplanetary travel. While at Princeton, he reported in a letter home, he did student work for Albert Einstein. In addition to hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert MacFarlan Cole III
Robert MacFarlan Cole (December 26, 1889 – January 18, 1986) was an American chemical engineer, inventor, and author. He helped develop many chemicals, including freon and its use as a refrigerant and an aerosol repellent, a substance to counteract poisonous gas in World War I, synthetic rubber and pyrethrin insecticides in World War II, and ethylene oxide as a hospital germicide.... Biography His education included studies at the Armour Institute (now part of Illinois Institute of Technology), the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate in chemistry. He married, on October 26, 1918, Wertha Pendleton, the daughter of William Frederic Pendleton, the founding bishop of the General Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian Faith). Their children included: William P. Cole, Dandridge M. Cole, Aubrey Cole Odhner, and the Rev. Robert H. P. Cole. He became the founder and first president of Hord Color Products in Sandusky, Ohio in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacFarlan Smith
MacFarlan Smith is a pharmaceutical research company based in Edinburgh, Scotland, founded in 1815. It is part of the Fine Chemical and Catalysts division of Johnson Matthey. Background J.F. Macfarlan J.F. Macfarlan Ltd was founded in 1780 as an apothecary supplier. In 1815 John Fletcher Macfarlan, licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, became the owner of the family business, and acquired an apothecary's shop in Edinburgh. He immediately began to manufacture laudanum, a medicine based on opium. In 1830 Macfarlan began a partnership with his former apprentice David Rennie Brown, and so incorporated the business as J.F. Macfarlan and Co Ltd. In 1832 the company began manufacture of morphine acetate (the medicinal version of heroin) and hydrochloride, which led to the development and manufacture of the anaesthetics ether and chloroform. This allowed the company to develop sterile dressings for Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister under contract. After acquiring the Abbeyhill chemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McFarlan
McFarlan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alex McFarlan (1869–1939), American baseball player *Dan McFarlan (1873–1924), American baseball player *Duncan McFarlan (died 1816), American politician See also *McFarlan, North Carolina, city in North Carolina, United States *McFarlan Automobile McFarlan was a luxury American automobile manufactured in Connersville, Indiana, from 1909 to 1928, by the McFarlan Carriage Company and the McFarlan Motor Car Company. History McFarlan Carriage Company was founded in 1856 by English-born John B. ..., American automobile * Macfarlan * MacFarlane * McFarlane {{surname, McFarlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacFarlane (other)
MacFarlane may refer to: * MacFarlane (surname), a surname * Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist * MacFarlane Lang, a biscuit firm which merged with McVitie & Price to form United Biscuits * Macfarlane Group, a packaging and label company headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland *Macfarlane, Queensland, a locality in the Blackall-Tambo Region, Australia See also * Clan MacFarlane, a Highland Scottish clan * McFarlane (surname) * Alexander Macfarlane (other) * McFarlane (other) McFarlane may refer to: Business * McFarlane Toys, a toy manufacturer People *McFarlane (surname) See also *'' McFarlane's Evil Prophecy'', a 2004 video game *McFarlan (other) McFarlan is a surname. Notable people with the surnam ... * MacFarlan {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |