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Margaret Wilson (other)
Margaret Wilson (born 1947) is a New Zealand politician. Margaret Wilson may also refer to: *Margaret Wilson (Scottish martyr) (1667–1685), one of the ''Solway Martyrs'' * Margaret Bayne Wilson (1795-1835), Scottish missionary to India *Margaret Oliphant Wilson (1828–1897), birth name of Scottish novelist and historical writer Margaret Oliphant *Margaret Wilson (novelist) (1882–1973), American novelist *Margaret Woodrow Wilson (1886–1944), First Lady of the United States, daughter of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson *Margaret Wilson (tennis) (fl.1930s), Australian former tennis player *Margaret Bush Wilson (1919–2009), American activist * Margaret Dauler Wilson (1939–1998), American philosopher and professor of philosophy *Margaret Wilson (cricketer) (born 1946), Australian cricket player *Margaret Wilson (judge) (born 1953), justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland *Margaret Nales Wilson (born 1989), British-Filipino model, actress and beauty queen *Margaret Wilson (Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Wilson
Margaret Anne Wilson (born 20 May 1947) is a New Zealand lawyer, academic and former Labour Party politician. She served as Attorney-General from 1999 to 2005 and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2005 to 2008, during the Fifth Labour Government. Early life and career Born in Gisborne, Wilson was raised in Morrinsville where her parents Bill and Patricia (Paddy) ran a small store. She was the eldest of four children. As a seven-year-old, she spent several months living in Auckland with her great-aunt and great-uncle after her father had a nervous breakdown. Wilson's family were Catholic and Labour-voting; Bill's father's cousin was the Labor Party Premier of New South Wales, Bob Heffron. Wilson returned to Auckland to receive secondary education at St Dominic's College, and completed her final year as the only female student at Morrinsville College. She had a leg amputated due to cancer at the age of 16, which cut short her plans to be a physical education ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Wilson (Scottish Martyr)
Margaret Wilson (c. 1667 – 11 May 1685) was a young Scottish Covenanter from Wigtown in Scotland who was executed by drowning for refusing to swear an oath declaring James VII of Scotland (James II of England, James II of England) as head of Church of Scotland, the church. She died along with Margaret McLachlan. The two Margarets were known as the Wigtown Martyrs. Wilson became the more famous of the two because of her youth. As a teenager, her faith unto death became celebrated as part of the martyrology of presbyterianism, Presbyterian churches. Background and arrest The Covenanter movement to maintain the reforms of the Scottish Reformation came to the fore with signing of the National Covenant of 1638 in opposition to royal control of the church, promoting Presbyterianism as a form of church government instead of an Episcopal polity governed by bishops appointed by the Crown. The dispute led to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the overthrow of the monarchy. With the Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Bayne Wilson
Margaret Bayne Wilson (1795-1835) was a Scottish missionary, linguist and educator in India. The wife of fellow Church of Scotland missionary John Wilson, she established several schools in India, including the first girls' boarding school in western India, now called St. Columba High School. Life Margaret Bayne was born on 5 November 1795 in Greenock Greenock (; sco, Greenock; gd, Grianaig, ) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council areas of Scotland, council area in Scotland, United Kingdom and a former burgh of barony, burgh within the Counties of Scotland, historic .... Her sisters Anna and Hay Bayne would later continue her educational work in India after her death. In 1828 she married John Wilson, and in 1829 they sailed to India together. She established several schools in India, training teachers for them. She died on 19 April 1835 in India. Her husband published a memoir of her in 1840, including extracts from her letters and journals.John Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (born Margaret Oliphant Wilson; 4 April 1828 – 20 June 1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works cover "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural". Life Margaret was born at Wallyford, near Musselburgh, East Lothian, as the only daughter and youngest surviving child of Margaret Oliphant (c. 1789 – 17 September 1854) and Francis W. Wilson (c. 1788–1858), a clerk. She spent her childhood at Lasswade, Glasgow and Liverpool. A street, Oliphant Gardens in Wallyford, is named after her. As a girl, she continually experimented with writing. She had her first novel published, ''Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland'', in 1849. This dealt with the relatively successful Scottish Free Church movement, with which her parents sympathised. Next came ''Caleb Field'' in 1851, the year she met the publisher William Blackwood in Edinburgh and was invited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Wilson (novelist)
Margaret Wilhelmina Wilson (January 16, 1882 – October 6, 1973) was an American novelist. She was awarded the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for ''The Able McLaughlins''. Early years and education Born in Traer, Iowa, Wilson grew up on a farmElizabeth A. Brennan and Elizabeth C. Clarage, eds., ''Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners'' (Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1999), 482-3 and attended the University of Chicago, earning degrees in 1903 and 1904. Career After completing her education, she became a missionary in the service of the United Presbyterian Church of North America. While assigned to the Punjab region of India, she worked at a girls' school and at a hospital. She returned to the U.S. in 1910 because of illness and resigned from her position as a missionary in 1916. She spent the year 1912-13 at the divinity school of the University of Chicago. Then she taught for five years at West Pullman High School. Throughout these years she cared for her invalid father and published her shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Woodrow Wilson
Margaret Woodrow Wilson (April 16, 1886 – February 12, 1944) was the eldest child of President Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Louise Axson. Her two siblings were Jessie and Eleanor. After her mother's death in 1914, Margaret served her father as the White House social hostess, the title later known as first lady. Her father remarried in 1915. Biography Margaret Woodrow Wilson was born in Gainesville, Georgia on April 16, 1886. While Wilson's parents were living in the North where her father was teaching at the time of her birth, both of her parents strongly identified with the South. Consequently, Ellen Wilson did not want her children born as Yankees and arranged to stay with family in Gainesville for the births of her first two daughters. Margaret attended local schools, with some associated with the colleges where her father taught. In his will, Wilson's father had bequeathed her an annuity of $2,500 annually (worth $ today) as long as that amount did not exceed one-third of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Wilson (tennis)
Margaret Wilson is an Australian former tennis player who was active in the 1930s. Wilson won the mixed doubles title at the 1938 Australian Championships. Partnering with John Bromwich they defeated Nancye Wynne Bolton and Colin Long in the final in straight sets. The next year, 1939, they again reached the final but were defeated in three sets by compatriot husband and wife team Nell Hall Hopman and Harry Hopman Henry Christian Hopman Order of the British Empire, CBE (12 August 1906 – 27 December 1985) was an Australian tennis player and coach. Early life Harry Hopman was born on 12 August 1906 in Glebe, New South Wales, Glebe, Sydney as the third c .... Grand Slam finals Doubles (1 title, 1 runner-up) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Margaret Possibly living people Australian female tennis players Australian Championships (tennis) champions Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Grand Slam (tennis) champions in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Bush Wilson
Margaret Bush Wilson (January 30, 1919 – August 11, 2009) was an American lawyer and Activism, activist. Wilson broke many barriers as an African-American woman throughout her professional career. Biography Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she successfully managed the St. Louis law firm for more than 40 years. Wilson completed her undergraduate degree at Talladega College. She graduated with honors in 1940, after studying in India for six months, as a recipient of the Juliette Derricotte Memorial Fund for Undergraduate Study in India, which had been established by Sue Bailey Thurman. Wilson was one of two women in the second class of the Lincoln University of Missouri School of Law. She was the second African-American woman that passed the bar and licensed to practice in Missouri in 1943. In 1946, Wilson's father, James T. Bush, a real estate broker, was instrumental in helping the J. D. Shelley family buy a home. The family was later ordered out of the home when the Missouri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Dauler Wilson
Margaret Dauler Wilson (29 January 1939 – 27 August 1998) was an American philosopher and a professor of philosophy at Princeton University between 1970 and 1998. Biography Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wilson earned a BA from Vassar College in 1960 and received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University five years later. While at Harvard she was a student of Burton Dreben. Wilson was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Harvard in 1960–61 and then studied at Oxford University in 1963–64. Wilson spent the early years of her career as an assistant professor of philosophy at Columbia University (1965–1967), and went on to teach at the Rockefeller Institute between 1967 and 1970. In 1970, Wilson became the first female member of faculty in the philosophy department at Princeton when she was appointed as an associate professor of philosophy. Wilson was promoted to full professor in 1975, and in 1998 was finally named Stuart Professor of Philosophy. During her tenure at Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Wilson (cricketer)
Margaret Wilson (born 25 June 1946) is an Australian former cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...er. Wilson played one Test match for the Australia women's national cricket team. References 1946 births Living people Australia women Test cricketers Cricketers from Sydney {{Australia-cricket-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Wilson (judge)
Margaret Wilson (born 24 February 1953) is a former judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland in the Trial Division. She was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1992 and served on the court from 1998 until 2014. She is also a graduate of the University of Queensland school of law. In 2014 she was appointed a judge of the Solomon Islands Court of Appeal. See also *List of judges of the Supreme Court of Queensland Judges who have served on the Supreme Court of Queensland, , include: * Chief Justice of Queensland * Judges of the Court of Appeal * Judges Notes References See also * Judiciary of Australia {{Judges of the Supreme Court of Queens ... References Judges of the Supreme Court of Queensland Australian judges on the courts of the Solomon Islands 20th-century Australian judges 21st-century Australian judges Australian women judges Living people 1953 births People from Brisbane 20th-century women judges 21st-century women judges Australian King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Nales Wilson
Margaret Nales Wilson, known as Maggie Wilson (born March 15, 1989), is a Filipino-British beauty queen, TV personality, actress, model and entrepreneur. Early life Wilson was born in Bacolod City and raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. One of the two children to Robert and Sonia Wilson, she is of Scottish, Irish, Filipino, and Chinese descent. Wilson attended Al Hekma International School and later SoFA Design Institute, School of Interior Design. She was an accomplished competitive swimmer and show jumper before moving to Manila, Philippines in 2004. Career Wilson's first TV appearance was for GMA Network 7's ''Kakabakaba Adventure'' (2003) where she was a regular cast member until the show ended in 2004. Between 2003 and 2011, Wilson appeared and starred in several TV series and soap operas. With supporting roles in '' All Together Now'' (2004), ''Encantadia'' (2005), ''Darna'' (2005), ''Asian Treasures'' (2007) and ''Joaquin Bordado'' (2008). As part of the main cast in ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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