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Robert Macfarlane (writer), Robert Macfarlane
Robert MacFarlane or McFarlane may refer to: General * Robert Macfarlan (schoolmaster) (1734–1804), Scottish writer, journalist and translator * Sir Robert Henry MacFarlane (1771–1843), British Army officer during the Napoleonic Wars * Robert MacFarlane, Lord Ormidale (1802–1880), Scottish advocate and law lord * Robert MacFarlane (Canadian politician) (1835–1872), Canadian politician * Robert Stetson Macfarlane (1899–1982), American businessman * Robert Macfarlane (New Zealand politician) (1900–1982), New Zealand politician * Robert Gwyn Macfarlane (1907–1987), British hematologist * Robert McFarlane (1937-2022), American politician * Robert McFarlane (photographer) (born 1942), Australian photographer * Robert Macfarlane (writer) (born 1976), British travel writer Sports * Robert McFarlane (cricketer) (born 1955), Australian cricketer * Rab Macfarlane (1875–1943), Scottish footballer * Bob McFarlane (footballer, died 1898) Robert McFarlane (c. 1866 – Octobe ... [...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] |
Robert Henry MacFarlane
General Sir Robert Henry MacFarlane, KCB, GCH (19 April 1771 – 6 June 1843) was a British Army officer during the Napoleonic Wars. Biography He was born in Calcutta, the son of Captain Robert MacFarlane, 9th of Gartartan. He joined the British Army as an Ensign on 26 May 1780 and was promoted Lieutenant on 22 May 1793, Captain on 25 September 1793, Major on 12 November 1794, Lieutenant-Colonel on 19 September 1794, Colonel on 1 January 1800, Major-General on 25 April 1808, Lieutenant-General on 4 June 1813 and General 22 July 1830. MacFarlane was "a gallant and highly distinguished officer", who accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807. He served subsequently in Sicily as second-in-command under Lord William Bentinck. In 1823 he was made Colonel of the 89th Regiment of Foot, transferring in 1837 to be Colonel of the 32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot, a position he held until his death. Family On 10 February 1815, at Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert MacFarlane, Lord Ormidale
The Hon. Robert MacFarlane, Lord Ormidale FRSE (30 July 1802 – 3 November 1880) was a Scottish law lord and a Senator of the College of Justice. In 1868 he brought about a reform in the Court of Session ending technicalities in pleading, to try to focus upon justice in its broadest sense. Life He was born in Glen Douglas near Luss in Dunbartonshire on 30 July 1802, the son of Anne Campbell (1771–1827) and Parlane MacFarlane (1771–1827). He was christened in Luss on 25 August 1802. He studied law at the University of Glasgow (1816–1819) and the University of Edinburgh (1819–1821), and was apprenticed to James Greig WS at 9 Abercromby Place in Edinburgh. He was created a Writer to the Signet (WS) in 1827. After spending some years in Jamaica he returned to Scotland and was created an advocate in 1838. Successful in civil cases he was created Sheriff of Renfrewshire in 1853. In 1862 he was created a Lord of Session and given the title Lord Ormidale. In 1863 he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert MacFarlane (Canadian Politician)
Robert MacFarlane (March 23, 1835 – June 1, 1872) was a lawyer and Liberal member of the House of Commons of Canada representing Perth South from 1867 to 1872. He was born in Pakenham in Upper Canada in 1835, the son of William MacFarlane and Isabella Dickson, was educated in Toronto and was called to the Upper Canada bar in 1857. MacFarlane practised law in Stratford, Ontario. He married Mary Elizabeth Wood in 1870. In 1862, he ran unsuccessfully against Thomas Mayne Daly in a by-election in Perth County; in 1863, he defeated Daly and represented Perth in the 8th Parliament of the Province of Canada. When the county was split into two parts after Confederation, he was elected federally in the south riding. He died in Ottawa Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stetson Macfarlane
Robert Stetson Macfarlane (January 15, 1899 – March 9, 1982) was president of Northern Pacific Railway 1951–1966. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 15, 1899, the son of Walker K. and Blanche (Stetson) Macfarlane. He married Vivian Clemans on February 21, 1925; together they had Anne (Mrs. Raymond W. Jones Jr.), Mary (Mrs. Benjamin G. Griggs Jr.), Robert Jr., and Vivian (Sra. J. J. Martinez). He served in the U.S. Navy from 1917 to 1919, leaving there as a lieutenant (junior grade). Macfarlane was educated at Brown University and the University of Washington where he graduated magna cum laude with an L.L.B. degree in 1922. He worked at the law firm of Chadwick, McMicken, Ramsey, and Rupp from 1919 until his graduation in 1922, at which time he became chief deputy prosecuting attorney for King County, Washington, a position he held until 1925. The next five years were spent with the law firm of Schwellenbach, Merrick, and Macfarlane. In 1930 Macfarlane be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Macfarlane (New Zealand Politician)
Sir Robert Mafeking Macfarlane (né Haynes, 17 May 1900 – 2 December 1981) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. He was a Member of Parliament, served as Speaker of the House of Representatives and was a Mayor of Christchurch. Early life Macfarlane was born in Christchurch on 17 May 1900, the son of Emma Rose King Haynes. Born during the Second Boer War, his mother gave him the middle name Mafeking from a town in South Africa that was under siege at the time of his birth. In 1904, he took the surname Macfarlane after his mother married Hugh Macfarlane, a labourer. He married Louisa Jacobs in 1932 with whom he had two daughters. Local body politics Macfarlane was on the Christchurch City Council (1927–1929, 1936–1941, 1947–1959, and 1961–1981), and was Mayor of Christchurch twice, from 1938 to 1941 and from 1950 to 1958. He was at various times a member of the Lyttelton Harbour Board. Member of Parliament Macfarlane entered Parliament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Gwyn Macfarlane
Robert Gwyn Macfarlane (26 June 1907 – 26 March 1987) was an English hematologist. Life Born in Worthing, Sussex, Gwyn Macfarlane left Cheltenham College in 1924 and a year later entered the Medical School of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. In 1936 he married Hilary Carson MD and over the next 11 years had five children, a girl followed by four boys. Hilary practised as a GP, whilst always offering Gwyn great academic support. She died in 2010 aged 100 years. During Macfarlane's clinical years he was exposed to the sufferings of haemophiliacs and this subject became the core for his lifelong study into the processes of blood clotting. He examined the venom of many different snakes and isolated the poison of the Russell's viper to have the strongest blood coagulant powerssee video He found that when a compound that included venom at dilutions of 1 in 100,000 was applied to a wound, bleeding diminished. This medicine was later marketed as ''Stypven'' by Burroughs W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert McFarlane
Robert Carl "Bud" McFarlane (July 12, 1937 – May 12, 2022) was an American Marine Corps officer who served as National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1983 to 1985. Within the Reagan administration, McFarlane was a leading architect of the Strategic Defense Initiative, a project intended to defend the US from Soviet ballistic missile attacks. He resigned as National Security Adviser in late 1985 because of disagreements with other administration figures but remained involved in negotiations with Iran and with Hezbollah. McFarlane was a central figure in the Iran–Contra affair, an operation in which the Reagan administration funneled weapons to Iran and diverted the profits to illegally fund right-wing rebels in Nicaragua. When the scheme came to light, administration officials implemented a plan to insulate Reagan and senior officials by focusing blame on McFarlane. He ultimately pleaded guilty to four misdemeanor counts and admitted that he had hidden infor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert McFarlane (photographer)
Robert McFarlane (born 1942) is an Australian photographer and photographic critic. Early life Born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1942, he was given a Kodak Box Brownie at the age of 9 by his parents, Bill and Poppy McFarlane. Five years later, while at Brighton High School (today known as Brighton Secondary School) in Adelaide's southern suburbs, he used a recently purchased Durst medium format rangefinder camera to capture an image of a teacher striking a pupil at the school assembly. Though talented in English and History, McFarlane was an undistinguished student and left school at 16, finding work as a trainee electric welder. He was deeply influenced by the traveling documentary photography exhibition The Family of Man, which reached Adelaide in 1959. Career Encouraged by his employers during a brief stint as a copy boy in an advertising agency, he began to work more seriously as a photojournalist, gaining a commission from ''Walkabout'' to photograph Professor John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Macfarlane (writer)
Robert Macfarlane (born 15 August 1976) is a British writer and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is best known for his books on landscape, nature, place, people and language, which include ''The Old Ways'' (2012), ''Landmarks'' (2015), ''The Lost Words'' (2017) and '' Underland'' (2019). In 2017 he received The E. M. Forster Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is married to professor of modern Chinese history and literature Julia Lovell. Early life and education Macfarlane was born in Halam, Nottinghamshire, and attended Nottingham High School. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He began a PhD at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 2000, and in 2001 was elected a Fellow of the college. Family His father John Macfarlane is a respiratory physician who co-authored the CURB-65 score of pneumonia in 2003. His brother James is also a consultant physician in respiratory medicine. He is married to Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert McFarlane (cricketer)
Robert McFarlane (born 7 February 1955) is an Australian 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. He played two first-class matches for Western Australia in 1981/82. References External links * 1955 births Living people Australian cricketers Western Australia cricketers Cricketers from Perth, Western Australia {{Australia-cricket-bio-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rab Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane (14 May 1876 – 27 July 1943) was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Morton, Third Lanark, Everton, East Stirlingshire, Bristol St George's, Grimsby Town, Celtic, Middlesbrough, Aberdeen, Motherwell and Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the .... The Scottish Referee,17 February 1905. Scan via London Hearts Supporters Club Career statistics Club International References ;Sources * External links< ...
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