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Speirs
People Speirs is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Annie Speirs (1889–1926), British freestyle swimmer *Fraser Speirs (21st century), Glasgow-based harmonica player *Fraser Speirs (21 century) a Scottish teacher with a like for Tom Bhin bags. * Gardner Speirs (born 1963), Scottish former footballer and manager *Jimmy Speirs (1886–1917), Scottish football player * Nicole Speirs (born 1983), domestic violence murder victim *Ronald Speirs (1920–2007), United States Army officer *Steve Speirs (born 1965), British actor *William Speirs Bruce (1867–1921), London-born Scottish polar scientist and oceanographer Business * Stewart Speirs Ltd 'sic'' the registered name from c. 1933 of the firm of Scottish plane-makers Stewart Spiers See also *Spears (other) *Speir *Spiers Spiers is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Spiers (1807–1869), English lexicographer *Bob Spiers (1945–2008), British television director * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Speirs
James Hamilton Speirs MM (22 March 1886 – 20 August 1917) was a Scottish footballer who represented his country on one occasion, scored the winning goal in the 1911 FA Cup Final, and received the Military Medal during the First World War. Born in Glasgow, he worked as a clerk while playing youth football for Annandale. He started his adult football career with local junior team Maryhill, where he played for less than a season, before he moved to Rangers in 1905. He spent three years with the club, but won only the Glasgow Merchants' Charity Cup, before he joined a third Glasgow side Clyde. After one season, he left Clyde and Scotland, and joined Bradford City for their second season in the First Division. His greatest success came in his second season with Bradford, when he was the club's captain and goalscorer in their FA Cup Final victory of 1911, in a team featuring eight Scottish-born players. He spent another two seasons with Bradford City, before he joined Leeds City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Speirs
Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Charles Speirs (20 April 1920 – 11 April 2007) was a United States Army officer who served in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. He was initially assigned as a platoon leader in B Company of the 1st Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Speirs was reassigned to D Company of the 2nd Battalion prior to the invasion of Normandy in June 1944 and later assigned as commander of E Company during an assault on Foy, Belgium after the siege of Bastogne was broken during the Battle of the Bulge. He finished the war in the European Theater as a captain. Speirs served in the Korean War, as a major commanding a rifle company and as a staff officer. He later became the American governor for Spandau Prison in Berlin. He retired as a Lieutenant colonel. In the award-winning television miniseries '' Band of Brothers'', he was portrayed by Matthew Settle. Early life Speirs was born in Edinburgh, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Speirs
Steve Speirs (born Steven Roberts, 22 February 1965) is a Welsh actor and writer who has appeared in films such as '' Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' and '' Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest''. Early life He was born as Steven Roberts in Troed-y-rhiw, a village now in the borough of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales and went to school at Afon Taf High School where he found a taste for drama. He joined the National Youth Theatre of Wales and studied drama at Loughborough University. He says he took his stage name, Speirs, from the surname of a lecturer at college. Career Since graduating from university, Speirs has played Sloan in ''Eragon'', Andy Fellows in '' Making Waves'' and with Ricky Gervais in '' Extras'', as well as playing Captain Tarpals in '' Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' and having a small role in '' Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest''. He appears in ''Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire'', a comedy fantasy seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gardner Speirs
Walter Gardner Speirs (born 14 April 1963) is a Scottish football manager and former player. Career Playing During his playing career, Speirs played for St Mirren, Kilmarnock (on loan), Dunfermline Athletic (on loan), Hartlepool United, Airdrieonians, Bathgate Thistle and East Stirlingshire. Managerial He was on the coaching staff at Clyde, and from 1996 to 1998 held the position of Manager. Subsequently, he joined the coaching staff at Aberdeen, eventually taking the role of assistant manager and in December 2002 was briefly named caretaker manager following the resignation of Ebbe Skovdahl. He worked as caretaker manager of Ross County in October 2005 until the end of the 2005–06 season. He became assistant manager of Partick Thistle in May 2007. He became manager at Queen's Park after taking over from Billy Stark in 2008. Speirs extended his contract at the end of the 2009–10 season for a further two years, subsequently signing another extension on 27 January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Speirs Bruce
William Speirs Bruce (1 August 1867 – 28 October 1921) was a British Natural history, naturalist, polar region, polar scientist and Oceanography, oceanographer who organized and led the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (SNAE, 1902–04) to the South Orkney Islands and the Weddell Sea. Among other achievements, the expedition established the first permanent weather station in Antarctica. Bruce later founded the Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory in Edinburgh, but his plans for a transcontinental Antarctic march via the South Pole were abandoned because of lack of public and financial support. In 1892 Bruce gave up his medical studies at the University of Edinburgh and joined the Dundee Whaling Expedition to Antarctica as a scientific assistant. This was followed by Arctic voyages to Novaya Zemlya, Spitsbergen and Jackson–Harmsworth Expedition, Franz Josef Land. In 1899 Bruce, by then Britain's most experienced polar scientist, applied for a post on Robert Falcon Scott' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Speirs
Annie Coupe Speirs (14 July 1889 – 26 October 1926), also known by her married name Annie Coombe, was a British competition swimmer who won a gold medal in the women's 4×100-metre freestyle relay at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. Individually, she finished fifth in the women's 100-metre freestyle event. See also * List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women) * World record progression 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay This article includes the world record progression for the 4×100 metres freestyle relay, and it shows the chronological history of world record times in that competitive swimming event. The 4×100 metres freestyle relay is a relay event in which ... References External links * * 1889 births 1926 deaths Sportspeople from Liverpool English female swimmers English Olympic medallists English female freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Great Britain Swimmers at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medallists for Great Brita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Speirs
Nicole Marie Speirs (November 3, 1983 – March 25, 2006) made headlines in the area of Tooele, Utah as a domestic violence murder victim. She was killed March 25, 2006 at age 22, by her then-boyfriend and father of her twins, Walter Smith. On the night of Nicole's death, Smith reported that he found her dead in her home, drowned in her bathtub, after returning from a trip to Idaho. The autopsy confirmed that drowning was the cause of death. Tooele is located approximately 18 miles west of Salt Lake City. The pair met during the summer of 2004, and went on relationship. Later Nicole gave a birth of a twin boy and girl. Smith, her 24-year-old boyfriend and a member of the United States Marines who had returned from Iraq, was not immediately known to have killed her until December 12, 2006, when he confessed to the killing. According to police, Smith walked into a Veteran's Administration hospital building and confessed eight months after the fact. Smith was since discharged fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fraser Speirs
Fraser Speirs is a Glasgow-based harmonica player. Originally trained as a medical illustrator, Speirs has been performing for over 30 years and is now an internationally known performer and teacher. He continues to perform with such musicians as Tam White, James Grant and Carol Kidd Carol Kidd MBE (born 19 October 1945) is a Scottish jazz singer. Kidd was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She came to prominence in the mid-1970s, as the vocalist in the band led by vibraphonist / saxophonist Jimmy Feighan. In 1990, she released he .... References External links Fraser Speirs' homepage Scottish folk musicians Living people Medical illustrators Year of birth missing (living people) {{Scotland-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Spiers
Stewart Spiers was a small but innovative firm of plane-makers in Scotland, founded first of all in Ayr in Ayrshire and continuing under the registered name of Stewart Speirs Ltd 'sic''in Paisley, Renfrewshire, from c. 1933 until its demise in the mid to late 1930s. Like the Glasgow firm of Alexander Mathieson & Sons, Spiers benefited hugely from the thriving industries on the Firth of Clyde in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Early years Stewart followed his father William Spiers into the cabinet-making trade in Ayr, and when his father died in 1844 he apparently took over the workshop in River Street. He was later to claim 1840 as the year his plane-making firm began. How Stewart came to be a plane-maker was, according to the ''Ayrshire Post'', purely by accident, however. He is said to have bought a rough casting in Edinburgh for 1/6, finished it at home and sold it to a local cabinet-maker for 18/-. This supposedly was the beginning of what soon became a success ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speir
To speir in Scots means to ask about something or enquire about something. As in "He cam in to speir aboot whether or nae we ettled tae gang tae the pairtie.' Speir may refer to: * Dona Speir (born 1964), American model * H. C. Speir (1895-1972), American record store owner * Rupert Speir (1910-1998), British Conservative Party politician See also *Spear (other) *Speer *Speirs (other) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spears (other)
Spears may refer to: * A plural of spear * Spears (surname), people with the surname Spears * ''Spears'' (album), a 1985 album by Tribal Tech *Spears, Kentucky * Kubota Spears, Japanese Top-League rugby team * Southern Spears, a South African rugby team * Spears Motorsports, a defunct NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team * ''Spear's Wealth Management Survey'', also known simply as ''Spear's'' See also * Spear (other) * Speers (other) Speers may refer to People * David Speers, Australian journalist Places * Speers, Pennsylvania * Speers, Saskatchewan * Speers Point, New South Wales * Speers, a town in Friesland Music * Speer Family, also known as the Speers Television ... * Spears House (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
