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Selkirk (surname)
Selkirk is a Scottish surname. The name is a habitational name, derived from Selkirk, located on the Scottish Borders. The place name is derived from the Middle English elements ''sale'', ''sele'', meaning "hall", "manor"; and ''kirk'', meaning "church". The Scottish Gaelic form of the surname is ''Sailcirc'' (masculine), and ''Shailcirc'' (feminine). List of people with the surname *Alexander Selkirk (1676–1721), a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway when he was marooned on an uninhabited island; he is supposed to be inspiration for Daniel Defoe's ''Robinson Crusoe'' (1719) *Andrew Selkirk (born ?), British archaeologist and magazine editor *Elisabeth Selkirk (born 1945), American theoretical linguist *George Selkirk (1908–1987), Canadian baseball player * J. B. Selkirk (''James Brown Selkirk''; 1832–1904), Scottish poet and essayist *Jamie Selkirk (born 1947), New Zealand film editor and producer * John Selkirk (1782–1843), British songwriter * Neil Selk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Surname
Scottish surnames are surnames currently found in Scotland, or surnames that have a historical connection with the country. History The earliest surnames found in Scotland occur during the reign of David I, King of Scots (1124–53). These were Anglo-Norman names which had become hereditary in England before arriving in Scotland (for example, the contemporary surnames ''de Brus'', ''de Umfraville'', and ''Ridel''). During the reigns of kings David I, Malcolm IV and William the Lion, some inhabitants of Scottish towns were English and Flemish settlers, who bore English and continental personal names, with trade names and sometimes nicknames. One of the earliest sources for surnames in Scotland is the Ragman Roll. This document records the deeds of homage pledged by Scots nobles to Edward I, King of England in 1296. The surnames recorded within are for the most part very similar to those found in England at around the same date, consisting of local, patronymic and occupational name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Selkirk
Elisabeth O. Selkirk (born 1945) is a theoretical linguist specializing in phonological theory and the syntax-phonology interface. She is currently a professor emerita in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Selkirk received her PhD in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, under the supervision of Morris Halle. She served as Head of the Linguistics Department at UMass for a term beginning in 1998. Selkirk's influential work has focused on organizing phonological units (i.e. constituents in the prosodic hierarchy) into prosodic structure, as well as how phonology interacts with other parts of the grammar, including morphology and syntax. Honors and distinctions She was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics. Founded in New York City in 1924, the LSA works to promote the scientific study of language. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Selkirk
Russell Selkirk (October 20, 1905 – September 25, 1993) was an American politician who served in the New York State Assembly The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits. The Assem ... from the Schoharie district from 1959 to 1965. References 1905 births 1993 deaths Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly 20th-century American legislators {{NewYork-NYAssembly-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Selkirk
Rebecca Joy Selkirk (born 1993), is a South African chess player and Woman Candidate Master. Career Selkirk earned the title of Woman Candidate Master in 2019. She represented South Africa in the 2018 Chess Olympiad on board four, and the 2022 Chess Olympiad, also on board four, scoring 4/9. Selkirk qualified to represent South Africa in the 2021 Online Olympiad. However, she declined her invitation, citing a lack of transparency and incompetent handling of the qualification process. Streaming and blogging In late January 2020, Selkirk partnered up with South African Woman's Chess Champion, Woman International Master Jesse February, to start the HashtagChess channel on the streaming platform Twitch, which has amassed over 14,500 followers as of July 2022. On 1 October 2021, Jesse February announced that she would be leaving HashtagChess to stream on her personal twitch account (Jesse_Feb), leaving Selkirk the sole owner of the HashtagChess channel. The split was amicable, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Margaret Selkirk
Patricia Margaret Selkirk, (née Connell; born 1942) is an Australian plant biologist and ecologist. Her career has focused on Antarctic and subantarctic terrestrial ecosystems and she is recognized as being a pioneering female Australian Antarctic scientist. Life and career Patricia Margaret Connell was born in Newcastle, and educated at Narrabeen Girls' High School and The Women's College, The University of Sydney (BSc Hons, PhD). Her father, William Fraser (Bill) Connell (OBE) had been educated at the University of Melbourne, the University of London and the University of Illinois. He held the Chair in Education at the University of Sydney for many years focusing on educational research and teaching. Her mother Margaret Lloyd Peck, studied at the University of Melbourne and the Associated Teachers Training Institute, then taught secondary school maths and science. Selkirk has two younger sisters, Raewyn Connell and Helen Connell. She is married to Antarctic biologist, hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Selkirk
Neil Selkirk (born June 25, 1947) is a British-born American photographer known for his portraiture. Photography career Selkirk was born in London, England, in 1947. “An accomplished portrait photographer and masterful documentarian,” he studied Photography at the London College of Printing and graduated in 1968. He won a British Arts Council award to photograph New York and therefore moved to New York City in 1970. There, he worked as an assistant for photographer Hiro at the studio of Richard Avedon. The following year, he studied with photographer Diane Arbus in her master class. His photographs quickly drew assignments from major magazines including ''Esquire'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''Interview'', ''Vanity Fair'', ''The New Yorker'', and the premier issues of ''Wired'', ''Paper'', ''Colors'' , and ''Spy''. By the 1990s, Selkirk was known as a portraitist with a distinctive style. In August 1993, the photographs from his limited edition portfolio were fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Selkirk
John Selkirk (1782 – 1843) was a Tyneside songwriter of the 18th and 19th century. His best known works are those about Bob Cranky and the Swalwell Hopping. Early life John Selkirk was born in 1782 in Gateshead (just o’er the blue stane o' the brig), The son of George Selkirk, a local barber who had a shop in The Close, Newcastle. John joined Messrs Strake and Boyd of The Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne as a clerk. His songs turn up on "The Northern Minstrel or Gateshead Songster 1806-07". He has been described as "The Otway of the local muse". Later life He did at one stage move to London in attempt to find success as a merchant but this eluded him, and he returned to his native Tyneside in 1830, a failure and destitute. His final years were lived in poverty and misery. He sadly fell into the River Tyne at or near Sandgate and drowned when aged 60/61. The report of the inquest in the Newcastle Chronicle 18 November 1843 stated ""....on the body of John Selkirk aged 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Selkirk
James William Arthur "Jamie" Selkirk is a film editor and producer who has worked primarily in New Zealand. He is particularly noted for his work on ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy, which he co-produced with Peter Jackson. He received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the last film of the trilogy, ''The Return of the King'' (2003). Life He began his work in the entertainment industry with the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation. He moved to editorial as a trainee editor and began cutting newsreels, current affairs, documentaries, and dramas."The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy Production Notes" webpage of the Houghton-Mifflin company archived at Webcite fro [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Selkirk
George Alexander Selkirk (January 4, 1908 – January 19, 1987) was a Canadian outfielder and front office executive in Major League Baseball. In 1935, Selkirk succeeded Babe Ruth as the right fielder of the New York Yankees—and also inherited Ruth's fabled No. 3 uniform (which was not retired until 1948, the year of Ruth's death). Over the next eight seasons, Selkirk batted over .300 five times, twice drove home more than 100 RBIs, played in five World Championships (1936, 1937, 1938, 1939 and 1941), and made the American League All-Star team in 1936 and 1939. George Selkirk was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983, its initial year, and was later inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2005. Biography A native of Huntsville, Ontario, Selkirk batted left-handed and threw right-handed, standing tall and weighing (13 stone). His family moved to Rochester, New York, where Selkirk attended Rochester Technical School. His professional career b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Selkirk
Andrew Selkirk, FSA is Editor-in-chief of Current Publishing, and former Vice-President of the Royal Archaeological Institute. Early life and education Selkirk attended his very first dig aged 13 years old. He did his National Service in the Intelligence Corps, where he learnt Russian. He then read Classics at Oxford, where he became President of the Oxford University Archaeological Society. Publishing He then became a Chartered Accountant, serving articles with Smith and Williamson and while editing the student magazine ''Contra'', Selkirk found he had a penchant for magazine publishing. Coupling this with his passion for archaeology, he founded ''Current Archaeology'' in 1967. The publication now has a readership over 14,000. In 1998, he co-founded Current Publishing with his son Robert, as the home of his flagship magazine, and the platform for ''Current World Archaeology'' (which launched in 2003) ''Military Times'' (in 2010) and was joined by ''Minerva Magazine'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selkirk, Scottish Borders
Selkirk is a town and historic royal burgh in the Scottish Borders council district of southeastern Scotland. It lies on the Ettrick Water, a tributary of the River Tweed. The people of the town are known as Souters, which means cobblers (shoe makers and menders). At the time of the 2011 census, Selkirk's population was 5,784. History Selkirk was formerly the county town of Selkirkshire. Selkirk is one of the oldest Royal Burghs in Scotland and is the site of the earliest settlements in what is now the Scottish Borders. The town's name means "church by the hall" from the Old English ''sele'' ("hall" or "manor") and ''cirice'' ("church"). Selkirk was the site of the first Borders abbey, a community of Tironensian monks who moved to Kelso Abbey during the reign of King David I. In 1113, King David I granted Selkirk large amounts of land. William Wallace was declared guardian of Scotland in the town at the Kirk o' the Forest in 1297. Selkirk sent a contingent of 80 men to fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Selkirk
Alexander Selkirk (167613 December 1721) was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway (1704–1709) after being marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean. He survived that ordeal but died from tropical illness years later while serving as a Lieutenant aboard off West Africa. Selkirk was an unruly youth and joined buccaneering voyages to the South Pacific during the War of the Spanish Succession. One such expedition was on ''Cinque Ports'', captained by Thomas Stradling under the overall command of William Dampier. Stradling's ship stopped to resupply at the uninhabited Juan Fernández Islands, west of South America, and Selkirk judged correctly that the craft was unseaworthy and asked to be left there. Selkirk's suspicions were soon justified, as ''Cinque Ports'' foundered near Malpelo Island 400 km (250 mi) from the coast of what is now Colombia. By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
