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McKerrow
McKerrow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Amanda McKerrow (born 1964), American ballet dancer * Bob McKerrow (born 1948), New Zealand humanitarian and writer * Clarence McKerrow (1877–1959), Canadian lacrosse player *James McKerrow (1834–1919), New Zealand astronomer and surveyor * Ronald Brunlees McKerrow (1872–1940), British bibliographer and Shakespearean scholar * Shirley McKerrow (born 1933), Australian politician *William McKerrow (1803-1878), Scottish-born, Manchester-based Presbyterian minister, radical activist and newspaper co-founder * William Stuart McKerrow (1922–2004), British geologist and palaeontologist See also *Lake McKerrow, a lake of New Zealand * McKerrow, Ontario *Mount McKerrow Mount McKerrow () is a prominent mountain on the east side of Starshot Glacier, standing north of Thompson Mountain in the Surveyors Range, Antarctica. It was discovered by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960–61) and nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob McKerrow
Robert James "Bob" McKerrow (born 21 March 1948), a native of New Zealand, is a humanitarian, mountaineer, polar traveller, writer and poet. He currently works as Country Coordinator for the Swiss Red Cross in the Philippines working on the Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) operation. When the Indian Ocean tsunami struck on 26 December 2004, McKerrow worked in India, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia, coordinating Red Cross programmes for people affected by the tsunami for an eight-year period. He was Editor of the ''New Zealand Adventure Magazine'' in 1989 and 1990, and continues to write and contribute photographs to various magazines, websites, and blogs. He has published a number of his poems in the ''New Zealand Alpine Journal'' and '' North & South'' Magazine, and wrote a biography of mountaineer Ebenezer Teichelmann. Early life McKerrow was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 21 March 1948 and is registered as "Robert James McKerrow" in the Deaths, Births and Marriages office in Dune ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stuart McKerrow
William Stuart McKerrow (28 June 1922, Glasgow – 12 June 2004, Oxford) was a British geologist and palaeontologist, known as a leading expert on the Palaeozoic. Biography After primary school education at The Glasgow Academy, W. Stuart McKerrow became a boarding student at Derbyshire's Abbotsholme School, where he received his secondary school education. He matriculated in 1940 at the University of Glasgow and there in 1941 studied radio science. From 1942 to 1945 he served in the Royal Navy. He joined the Navy as a sub-lieutenant assigned to convey escort duties in the North Atlantic. He served as an expert in high-frequency direction-finding of enemy submarines. In an Atlantic gale, he repaired a faulty radio receiver. He was awarded the UK's Distinguished Service Cross in 1943 and was demobilised with the rank of lieutenant in November 1945. McKerrow returned to the University of Glasgow and graduated there in 1947 with a degree in geology. He was appointed a department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William McKerrow
William McKerrow (7 September 1803 – 4 June 1878) was a Scottish minister of the Presbyterian Church of England who had a particular interest in education. He lived for most of his life in Manchester, England, where he immersed himself in the radical politics prevalent there at the time. Early life William McKerrow was born on 7 September 1803. His parents were William and Elizabeth McKerrow, both of whom were very involved with the United Secession Church, which was a small sect formed from a schism of the wider Presbyterian church. He was schooled at Kilmarnock Academy and then attended the University of Glasgow between 1817 and 1823. In 1821, he had joined the Divinity Hall of the United Secession Church and in 1826 he was licensed to preach. A year later, in May, he moved to Manchester to take a position in the Lloyd Street Presbyterian chapel, with which he remained associated for the rest of his life. He was ordained on 7 September 1827. Church work McKerrow did muc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence McKerrow
Clarence Douglas "Clare" McKerrow (January 18, 1877 – October 20, 1959) was a Canadian athlete. McKerrow competed in lacrosse for Canada in the 1908 Summer Olympics. McKerrow also played ice hockey with the Montreal Hockey Club and won two Stanley Cup titles with the team; in 1895 as a player, and in 1902 as a trainer. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. Career As an ice hockey player an 18-year old McKerrow, weighing only 115 pounds at the time and considered too young and too light for senior hockey, sat on the Montreal Hockey Club bench for the entirety of the 1894–95 regular season. But when Billy Barlow was absent for the March 9, 1895 Stanley Cup challenge game against the Queen's University team of the OHA, McKerrow was called upon to play, scoring a goal while his team defended the Stanley Cup, and from there on he was a fixture on the team roster. In March 1902 McKerrow coached the Montreal Hokey Club, then dubbed the "Little Men of Iron" because of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda McKerrow
Amanda McKerrow (born 1964) is an American ballet dancer. She was a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre (ABT) where she currently teaches. In 1981 she became the first American to win a gold medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition when she was 17 years old."Amanda McKerrow Succeeded Where Other Americans Failed: She Disarmed the Soviets" ''People'', August 31, 1981 Vol. 16 No. 9. Early life and education McKerrow was born in , , the youngest chil ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Brunlees McKerrow
Ronald Brunlees McKerrow, FBA (12 December 1872 – 20 January 1940) was one of the leading bibliographers and Shakespeare scholars of the 20th century. Life R. B. McKerrow was born in Putney, son of Alexander McKerrow, a civil engineer, and Mary Jane Brunlees, daughter of Sir James Brunlees, a president of the Institution of Civil Engineers. His paternal grandfather was William McKerrow, a noted cleric in the Presbyterian Church. He died in Picket Piece (Wendover, Buckinghamshire) where he was buried.W. W. Greg, 'McKerrow, Ronald Brunlees (1872–1940)', rev. John V. Richardson Jr., ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 200accessed 14 Sept 2009/ref> He was educated at Harrow, at King's College, London, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He then taught English for three years in Tokyo (1897–1900), where he learnt Japanese. Following his return to London, he became a director of the publishing house Sidgwick and Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McKerrow
James McKerrow FRAS (7 July 1834 – 29 June 1919) was an astronomer, Surveyor-General of New Zealand, and Chief Commissioner of Railways in New Zealand. McKerrow was the son of Andrew McKerrow and Margaret (''née'' Steven) his wife, and was born at Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland. McKerrow emigrated to Dunedin, N.Z., in November 1859, and was District and Geodetical Surveyor of Otago from that year till 1873, Chief Surveyor of Otago from 1873 to 1877, Assistant Surveyor-General of New Zealand from January 1877 to October 1879, also Secretary of Crown Lands and Mines from February 1878 to January 1889. From October 1878 he held the latter office in conjunction with that of Surveyor-General of New Zealand, being appointed in January 1889 to the office of Chief Commissioner of New Zealand Railways. In 1861 to 1863 McKerrow made the reconnaissance survey of the Otago Lake districts, an area of eight thousand square miles. The reports of these surveys were read before the Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake McKerrow
Lake McKerrow / Whakatipu Waitai lies at the northern end of Fiordland, in the southwest of New Zealand's South Island. The lake runs from southeast to northwest, is in length, and covers . Lake McKerrow drains, and is drained by, the Hollyford River. It is one of two lakes (along with Lake Alabaster) found in the lower reaches of the Hollyford River system, and the Hollyford Track, one of New Zealand's most well-known and popular tramping tracks, follows its eastern shore for its full length. The lake is technically a fiord which has been cut off from the Tasman Sea by sediment. The sea is now three kilometres from the lake's northern end. The Alpine Fault goes through the lake. Researchers from GNS Science and University of Nevada, Reno The University of Nevada, Reno (Nevada, the University of Nevada, or UNR) is a public land-grant research university in Reno, Nevada. It is the state's flagship public university and primary land grant institution. It was founded on Octo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley McKerrow
Shirley Margaret McKerrow OAM (née Gardini; 18 September 1933 – 16 October 2023) was the first woman to serve as federal president of an Australian political party, as president of the National Party from 1981 to 1987. McKerrow was born to Dante Gardini and Margaret (Peggy), ''née'' Kelly. She attended Genazzano Convent in Kew and Ingergowrie Homecrafts Hostel in Hawthorn before studying at the University of Melbourne. In 1955 she married John Alexander McKerrow, with whom she had four children. She served on the central council of the Country Party from 1972 and was a junior vice-president from 1975 to 1976. In 1976 she became the first woman to serve as state president of an Australian party, becoming president of the Victorian branch of the renamed National Party and serving until 1980. In 1980, McKerrow unsuccessfully contested the preselection for the casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator James Webster. In 1981 McKerrow became federal president of the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
