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Tweedie Brook, New Brunswick
Tweedie is a surname of Scottish origin. The name is a habitational name from Tweedie, located in the parish of Stonehouse, south of Glasgow. The origin and meaning of the name is unknown. Retrieved on 2012-07-13 Notable people with the surname include: * (1794–1884), Scottish physician and writer * (born 1975), South African cricketer * Charles Tweedie (1868-1925), Scottish mathematic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lemuel John Tweedie
Lemuel John Tweedie (November 30, 1849 – July 15, 1917) was a Canadian politician. His law partner in Chatham, New Brunswick for a time was Richard Bedford Bennett, later Prime Minister of Canada; and for a time Max Aitken was his office boy. A former supporter of the federal Conservatives, he joined the Liberal Cabinet of New Brunswick Premier Andrew George Blair serving as Surveyor-General and Provincial Secretary in successive Liberal governments. Tweedie became the tenth premier of New Brunswick in 1900 and led the party to a large majority government in the 1903 election. Tweedie's government allowed women to be admitted to the practice of law in 1906 and supported the development of hydroelectric power at Grand Falls. He also created a Workers' Compensation board and successfully lobbied the federal government to increase subsidies to the province including payment for railway expansion. He led the government for seven years before becoming the 12th Lieutenant Govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Menzies Tweedie
William Menzies Tweedie (1826–1878) was a Scottish portrait-painter. Life He was born in Glasgow, the son of David Tweedie, a lieutenant in the Royal Marines. He was himself intended for the navy, but was allowed to study art. He entered the Edinburgh Academy at the age of sixteen, and remained there for four years, gaining a prize for the best copy of William Etty's picture ''The Combat''. In 1846 Tweedie came to London and became a student at the Royal Academy. He then studied for three years in Paris under Thomas Couture. From 1856 till 1859 he resided in Rodney Street, Liverpool. He settled in London in 1859, and resided at first in Baker Street; after 1862 he was at 44 Piccadilly. Tweedie died on 19 March 1878. Works In 1843 Tweedie exhibited a portrait in oils at the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1847 his ''Summer'' appeared at the Royal Academy. He did not exhibit there again till 1856, when he sent a portrait of Austen Henry Layard. He exhibited four pictures, studies a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William King Tweedie
William King Tweedie (1803–1863) was an historian, biographer and a minister of the Free Church of Scotland Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh. Life He was born in Ayr on 8 May 1803, the eldest son of John Tweedie and Janet King. His parents moved to Buenos Aires in South America while William was young and he was left in the care of an aunt in Maybole. He never saw his parents again, and was effectively abandoned. He studied Divinity at Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews University. He was licensed to preach as a minister of the Church of Scotland by the Presbytery of Arbroath in 1828. He was ordained as minister of the Scots Church at London Wall in 1832. In 1836 he was translated to Aberdeen South Parish and in March 1842 to the Tolbooth Church on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh in place of Rev Thomas Randall Davidson, but as first minister of the recently completed masterpiece by James Gillespie Graham and Pugin. He left the established church in the Disruption of 1843 and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tweedie
William Tweedie CSI (1836–1914) was a soldier, diplomat and author, who served in India, Abyssinia and Turkish Arabia. The son of Reverend and author William King Tweedie, he is also known as the author of a book on the Arabian Horse. Early life He was born in Scotland on 31 October 1836, the eldest of five children of William King Tweedie and Margaret Tweedie (née Bell). Tweedie's younger brother, John, served in the Indian Civil Service, progressing to Postmaster General of Bengal. After graduating from St Andrews College, Edinburgh as a Doctor of Divinity, Tweedie joined the army of the East India Company at the age of 21. Military and diplomatic service After enlisting as a Cadet, Tweedie was promoted to Ensign shortly after arrival in India. The Indian Mutiny had begun soon after Tweedie's arrival, and he soon saw action, being severely wounded in the shoulder in the action at Benares on 4 June 1858. Upon recovery, Tweedie volunteered for service with the 78th Hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Tweedie
Thomas Mitchell March Tweedie (March 4, 1871 – October 4, 1944) was a Canadian politician, lawyer and Chief Justice in Alberta, Canada. Early life Thomas Mitchell March Tweedie was born in River John, Nova Scotia, on March 4, 1871, to James Tweedie a Methodist Minister, and his wife Rachael Susannah. He graduated from Mount Allison University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1902 and subsequently entered Harvard University, where he earned a law degree in 1905. He was admitted to the bar in Nova Scotia in 1905, and then moved to Alberta where he would be one of the last individuals admitted to the bar in the Northwest Territories on July 10, 1907. Settling in Calgary he would begin to practice law with future MLA Alexander McGillivray, and was named King's Counsel on March 19, 1913. Provincial career Tweedie was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in a 1911 by-election and served the Calgary seat that had been previously vacated by Richard Bennett. In this ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Tweedie
Stephen C. Tweedie is a Scottish software developer who is known for his work on the Linux kernel, in particular his work on filesystems. After becoming involved with the development of the ext2 filesystem working on performance issues, he led the development of the ext3 filesystem which involved adding a journaling layer ( JBD) to the ext2 filesystem. For his work on the journaling layer, he has been described by fellow Linux developer Andrew Morton as "a true artisan". Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1969, Tweedie studied computer science at Churchill College, Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh, where he did his thesis on ''Contention and Achieved Performance in Multicomputer Wormhole Routing Networks''. After contributing to the Linux kernel in his spare time since the early nineties and working on VMS filesystem support for DEC for two years, Tweedie was employed by Linux distributor Red Hat where he continues to work on the Linux kernel. Tweedie has published a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Tweedie
Scott may refer to: Places Canada * Scott, Quebec, municipality in the Nouvelle-Beauce regional municipality in Quebec * Scott, Saskatchewan, a town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake No. 380 * Rural Municipality of Scott No. 98, Saskatchewan United States * Scott, Arkansas * Scott, Georgia * Scott, Indiana * Scott, Louisiana * Scott, Missouri * Scott, New York * Scott, Ohio * Scott, Wisconsin (other) (several places) * Fort Scott, Kansas * Great Scott Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota * Scott Air Force Base, Illinois * Scott City, Kansas * Scott City, Missouri * Scott County (other) (various states) * Scott Mountain, a mountain in Oregon * Scott River, in California * Scott Township (other) (several places) Elsewhere * 876 Scott, minor planet orbiting the Sun * Scott (crater), a lunar impact crater near the south pole of the Moon *Scott Conservation Park, a protected area in South Australia People * Scott (surname), including a li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Tweedie
Adair was an American rock band from St. Louis, Missouri. The members of the band had performed together in St. Louis for eight years performing under the moniker of Disturbing the Peace before formally changing their name to Adair in 2001. The final five-member band consisted of local St. Louisans; Rob Tweedie as frontman, both Josh Goldenhersh and Patrick Baum on guitar and vocals, Matt Tuttle on drums, and Jeff Meyer on bass guitar. After recording their premiere EP '' The Permanent Bruise'', the band moved to California. After touring with other bands (including Hawthorne Heights, Glasseater, Calico System, and A Wilhelm Scream) and independently selling over 7,000 copies of ''The Permanent Bruise'', Adair signed with Warcon Enterprises in 2006. While performing in 2006's Taste of Chaos tour, the band released their only full album, '' The Destruction of Everything is the Beginning of Something New'', that February. The band spent Summer 2006 on that year's Warped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Tweedie
Richard Lewis Tweedie (22 August 1947 – 7 June 2001) was an Australian statistician. Education After having completed his undergraduate studies and a Master of Arts at the Australian National University, Tweedie moved to Cambridge University, where he obtained his doctorate under the supervision of David George Kendall in 1972. Additionally, in 1986 he was awarded a Doctor of Science degree from the ANU for his major contributions to the theory of Markov chains on a measurable state space. Career Tweedie joined the company Siromath in 1981 as general manager, and became its managing director in 1983. He taught at Bond University as Foundation Dean and Foundation Professor of Information Sciences from 1987 to 1992, after which he joined the faculty of Colorado State University (CSU). He was chair of CSU's Department of Statistics from 1992 to 1997, and left CSU to join the faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1999. When he died in 2001 of a heart attack, he was the chai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Tweedie
Penelope "Penny" Anne Tweedie (30 April 1940 – 14 January 2011) was an English photojournalist who is noted for her work with the Aboriginal peoples in Arnhem Land in the late 1970s. Born into a farming family she went to the Guildford School of Art in spite of her parents’ opposition. Tweedie's first job came with ''Queen'' in 1961 after it asked her college to send their best performing student to them. She left two years later to go freelance and set herself assignments in which she covered various newsworthy stories. She and others travelled to East Bengal during the 1971 East Pakistan crisis but were arrested by the Indian Army after they were mistaken for spies. Tweedie was embroiled in controversy when she refused to photograph prisoners accused to being collaborators when she noticed they were to be bayoneted to death for the assembled foreign media. She was asked by the BBC to photograph the filming of a programme called ''Explorers: The Story of Burke and Wills'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Tweedie
Michael Willmer Forbes Tweedie (2 September 1907 – 25 March 1993) was a naturalist and archaeologist working in South East Asia, who was Director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore. Biography Tweedie was the son of Maurice Carmichael Tweedie, who was Deputy Inspector-General in the Imperial Indian Police Service, and his wife Mildred Clarke. He read Natural Science at Cambridge University, specializing in zoology and geology, followed by a short spell working as an oil geologist in Venezuela. He became assistant curator of the Raffles Museum (now the National University of Singapore's Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum) in 1932 until the Japanese occupation in 1941. At the outbreak of war in 1939, he joined the volunteer Royal Air Force and in 1941 joined the Royal Air Force as a camouflage officer, drawing on his knowledge of camouflage in nature. After Singapore fell, he was evacuated to Java, where his knowledge of Malay, learned from the local staff in Singapo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
