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Muirhead (surname)
Muirhead is a surname of Scottish origin, and may refer to: * Aaron Muirhead (born 1990), Scottish footballer * Alexander Muirhead (1848–1920), Scottish scientist * Andy Muirhead (born 1975), Australian radio and television presenter * Anthony Muirhead (1890–1939), British politician and soldier * Arch Muirhead (1876–19??), Australian rules footballer * Ben Muirhead (born 1983), English footballer * Bill Muirhead (curler), Scottish curler * Billie-May Muirhead, Scottish curler * Bruce Muirhead, Canadian historian * Charlie Muirhead, British internet entrepreneur * Clara Winsome Muirhead (1916-1985), Scottish botanist * Corey Muirhead (born 1983), Canadian basketball player * David Muirhead (1918–1999), British diplomat * Desmond Muirhead (1923-2002), English-born American golf course designer * Doug Muirhead (born 1962), Canadian soccer player * Eve Muirhead (born 1990), Scottish curler * George Muirhead (other) * Gerald Muirhead (1931–2020), Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Muirhead
Aaron Muirhead (born 30 August 1990) is a Scottish people, Scottish professional association football, footballer who currently plays as a defender for Partick Thistle F.C., Partick Thistle in the Scottish Championship. Muirhead has previously played for Annan Athletic F.C., Annan Athletic, Partick Thistle F.C., Partick Thistle and Falkirk F.C., Falkirk, after progressing through Ayr United F.C., Ayr United's youth academy. Career Muirhead started his career with Ayr United F.C., Ayr United's youth academy, before signing for Annan Athletic F.C., Annan Athletic in November 2008, going on to play in 127 matches and scoring 15 goals.Aaron Muirhead ", ptfc.co.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2012 Muirhead signed for Partick Thistle F.C., Partick Thistle in May 2012. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Muirhead
Gerald Stanley Muirhead (April 8, 1931 – 23 May 2020) was a Canadian provincial politician. He was the Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for the constituency of Arm River, from 1978 until 1995. As representative of the Arm River riding, he was preceded by Donald Leonard Faris and followed by |
Robert Franklin Muirhead
Robert Franklin Muirhead (22 January 1860 – 16 January 1941), was a Scottish mathematician who discovered Muirhead's inequality. Early life and education Born at Shawlands, Glasgow, in January 1860, Robert Franklyn Muirhead received his early education from private tutors and the village school at Lochwinnoch. After attending the Hamilton Academy and Paisley Grammar school he entered the University of Glasgow, graduating BSc (1879) and MA (1881) gaining highest honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy and the Ferguson Scholarship. Winning the four year George A. Clark Scholarship from Glasgow, Muirhead then continued his studies at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where in 1886 he won the Smith’s Prize for his essay on Newton's laws of motion, following a year at the University of Göttingen. Career Also during his tenureship of the George A. Clark Scholarship, Muirhead conducted classes at the University of Glasgow for pass and honours men thereafter holding teac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbie Muirhead
Robbie Muirhead (born 8 March 1996) is a Scottish professional footballer, who plays as a forward for Greenock Morton. Muirhead began his career with Kilmarnock before joining Dundee United in February 2015. After a loan spell with Partick Thistle between September 2015 to January 2016, Muirhead was released by Dundee United in April 2016, before signing for Heart of Midlothian. In 2017, he moved to Milton Keynes Dons, then spent a season at Dunfermline Athletic. He has represented Scotland at all levels up to U19 level. Early life Born in Irvine, Scotland, Muirhead was known for playing football and golf locally, and was mentioned on several occasions in his local newspaper. Muirhead is also the first and still the only boy to win both the West of Scotland Cup and Scottish Cup when representing Annanhill Primary School during year 6 and year 7 when he was Captain of the schools team. Club career Kilmarnock Muirhead joined Kilmarnock academy before joining the first team. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Muirhead
Oliver Muirhead (born 29 May 1957) is an English character actor, known for often portraying pompous country gentlemen. In 1986, he also directed the musical pantomime '' A Christmas Held Captive''. In addition to acting, Muirhead has also lent his voice to various animated series such as '' P.J. Sparkles'' and '' Spider-Man: The Animated Series'' and the video games '' Zork: Grand Inquisitor'', ''Dead to Rights'', ''The Hobbit'' and ''Eragon''. He is known in the United States for his appearances in 1990s commercials for Tombstone Pizza. He also had a memorable cameo as a sarcastic jeweller in the ''Friends ''Friends'' is an American television sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons. With an ensemble cast starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa ...'' episode " The One with the Ring". In 1991, he starred in the soap opera '' Santa Barbara'' as Mr. Marx: he hired Gina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Muirhead
Dame Lorna Elizabeth Muirhead (née Fox) is a past President of the Royal College of Midwives and from 2006 until her retirement in 2017 she served as the Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside. In 1992 she became a member of the Council of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and, in 1997, was elected as President. She served two terms of office, until 2004. Throughout this time she continued to work as a clinical midwife. During her presidency she represented the RCM in, among other venues: * Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) * Joint RCM/RCOG committee * Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee (SNMAC) * Women's National Commission * Council of the International Confederation of Midwives * Specialist Register of the English National Board * Benevolent Fund Committee of the Royal College of Midwives Trust * Council of the Kings Fund * National Service Framework for Midwifery Other affiliations Muirhead was a midwifery adviser on Baby Lifel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lockhart Muirhead
Lockhart Muirhead (1765–1829) was a Scottish librarian, museum-keeper and academic. He was Regius Professor of Zoology at Glasgow University, from 1807. Life Muirhead travelled in Europe shortly before the French Revolution, and subsequently wrote on both French and Italian topics. He contributed to the ''Monthly Review'' and ''Edinburgh Review''. He was librarian of Glasgow University in the period 1795 to 1823. Muirhead became Keeper of the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. William Hunter had intended his collection to go to Glasgow, when he died in 1783. It was Muirhead who in 1807 went to London to see to the move of the temporary display, to Glasgow University. Family Muirhead married Anne Campbell. The biographer James Patrick Muirhead James Patrick Muirhead FRSE (26 July 1813 – 15 October 1898) was a Scottish advocate and author, best known as the biographer of James Watt. Life Born at The Grove, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, he was son of Lockhart Muirhead; George Muirhead wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry Muirhead
John Henry Muirhead (28 April 1855 – 24 May 1940) was a British philosopher best known for having initiated the Muirhead Library of Philosophy in 1890. He became the first person named to the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham in 1900. Biography Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Muirhead was educated at Gilbertfield House School, the Glasgow Academy (1866–70), and proceeded to Glasgow University, where he was deeply influenced by the Hegelianism of Edward Caird, the Professor of Moral Philosophy. He graduated MA in 1875. The same year he won a Snell exhibition at Balliol College, Oxford, to which he went up in Trinity Term 1875. His Library was originally published by Allen & Unwin and continued through to the 1970s. His Library is seen as a crucial landmark in the history of modern philosophy, publishing a number of prominent 20th century philosophers including Ernest Albee, Brand Blanshard, Francis Herbert Bradley, Axel Hagerstrom, Henri Bergson, Edmund Husserl, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Muirhead
John Muirhead (July 11, 1877 – 1954) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1922 to 1936. Muirhead was born in Clinton, Ontario and was educated at public schools. He worked as a farmer, and served as a school trustee and municipal assessor. In 1906, Muirhead married Lucy E. Dunfield. He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1922 provincial election as a candidate of the United Farmers of Manitoba (UFM), defeating Conservative incumbent Reuben Waugh by 137 votes in the Norfolk constituency. The UFM unexpectedly won a majority of seats in this election, and formed government as the Progressive Party. Muirhead served as a backbench supporter of John Bracken's government throughout his time in the legislature. He was returned in the 1927 election, defeating Waugh by thirty-four votes in a rematch from the 1922 contest. He defeated Waugh a third time in the 1932 election, by 236 votes. He was defe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Patrick Muirhead
James Patrick Muirhead FRSE (26 July 1813 – 15 October 1898) was a Scottish advocate and author, best known as the biographer of James Watt. Life Born at The Grove, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, he was son of Lockhart Muirhead; George Muirhead was his great-uncle. He was educated first at Glasgow College. Gaining on 3 February 1832 a Snell exhibition at Balliol College, Oxford, he matriculated there on 6 April 1832; spending his long vacations in alpine expeditions, and in the study of German rather than in working for honours, he took a third class in lit. hum. on graduating B.A. in 1835 (M.A. 1838). Admitted advocate at Edinburgh in 1838, Muirhead practised law in Edinburgh. He lived with his family at 26 Heriot Row in Edinburgh's New Town. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1841, his proposer being Sir John Robison. His wife found the climate of Edinburgh too cold, and in 1846 he gave up his career at the Scottish bar, and in 1847 settled at Haseley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Muirhead (cricketer)
James Matthew Muirhead (born 30 July 1993) is an Australian cricketer who has played for Victoria and the Perth Scorchers. Early career Muirhead began his professional cricket career playing for the Adelaide Strikers in the inaugural edition of the Big Bash League (BBL) in the 2011/12 summer. He was given a rookie contract to play domestic cricket for his home state of Victoria the following year. During the 2012/13 season, the South Australian cricket team approached Muirhead to recruit him without Victoria's permission or knowledge, a breach of Australian cricket legislation that incurred a 15,000 AUD fine for South Australia. International career Muirhead had an abrupt rise to Australia's national cricket team in the 2013/14 season. He began the season without any contract for the BBL (though he did get signed as an injury replacement to play for the Melbourne Stars midway through the season). He played several tour matches against the visiting English side durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Muirhead (judge)
James Henry Muirhead AC KStJ QC (24 April 1925 – 20 July 1999) was an Administrator of the Northern Territory and a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. Pre-Northern Territory Muirhead was born in Adelaide and was educated at St Peter's College and the University of Adelaide. After completing high school he enlisted in the Second Australian Imperial Forces for service in the Second World War. From 1943 - 1946 he served as an infantryman and signaller with the 57/60 Battalion in Bougainville and later with the 37/52 Battalion in Rabaul, New Britain. He obtained a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Adelaide and was admitted to the South Australian Bar in 1950. He practised as a barrister and solicitor in the firm of Thomson & Co until 1970 when he was appointed as a Judge of the Local and District Criminal Court of South Australia. He was appointed as a Queen's Counsel in 1967. Current Judge Dean Mildren was his Articled Clerk from 1966 - 1968. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
