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William Ferguson (1891-1961)
William Ferguson may refer to: Arts * William Ferguson (tenor), operatic tenor, see '' The Tempest'' * William Gouw Ferguson, Scottish painter of still life * Will Ferguson (born 1964), Canadian writer Sportspeople * Bill Ferguson (American football) (born 1951), NFL linebacker * Bill Ferguson (cricket scorer) (1880–1957) * Willie Ferguson, Scottish footballer with Chelsea and Queen of the South * Willie Ferguson (footballer), Scottish footballer with Celtic, Burnley and Manchester City * William Ferguson (racing driver) (1940–2007), in Formula One competitions * Billy Ferguson (1938–1998), Northern Irish footballer Politicians Australia * William Ferguson (1891–1961), NSW, Australia politician (1953–1961) * William John Ferguson (1859–1935), NSW, Australia politician (1894–1904) Canada * Will Ferguson (Ontario politician) (1954–2011), Ontario, Canada politician * William Ferguson (Manitoba politician) (1862–1936), Canadian politician United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ferguson (tenor)
William Ferguson may refer to: Arts * William Ferguson (tenor), operatic tenor, see '' The Tempest'' * William Gouw Ferguson, Scottish painter of still life * Will Ferguson (born 1964), Canadian writer Sportspeople * Bill Ferguson (American football) (born 1951), NFL linebacker * Bill Ferguson (cricket scorer) (1880–1957) * Willie Ferguson, Scottish footballer with Chelsea and Queen of the South * Willie Ferguson (footballer), Scottish footballer with Celtic, Burnley and Manchester City * William Ferguson (racing driver) (1940–2007), in Formula One competitions * Billy Ferguson (1938–1998), Northern Irish footballer Politicians Australia * William Ferguson (1891–1961), NSW, Australia politician (1953–1961) * William John Ferguson (1859–1935), NSW, Australia politician (1894–1904) Canada * Will Ferguson (Ontario politician) (1954–2011), Ontario, Canada politician * William Ferguson (Manitoba politician) (1862–1936), Canadian politician United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Webb Ferguson
William Webb Ferguson (May 22, 1857 – March 30, 1910) was the first African-American man elected to the Michigan House of Representatives. Early life Ferguson was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Joseph and Martha Ferguson. His father, Joseph Ferguson, was a doctor. In 1876, Ferguson graduated with honors from Detroit High School as the first African-American child to attend public high school in Detroit. In 1883, he founded the Ferguson Printing Company. Personal life Ferguson married Emma Virginia Pelham who born in Petersburg, Virginia, on August 20, 1878. Together, they had three children, Mattie, who died at the age of two, and Meta and Norine, who lived into adulthood. State supreme court case After discrimination faced in a restaurant on August 15, 1889, Ferguson sued the restaurant manager, Edward G. Gies, in Wayne County Circuit Court. After losing this case, he appealed it to the Michigan Supreme Court in 1890 and won, the first case of racial discrimination in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fergusson (politician)
William John Fergusson was a solicitor and politician from New South Wales, Australia. He was a practicing solicitor in Sydney before entering politics, having been admitted in March 1876. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Glen Innes, at the 1880 election, serving until 1887. Fergusson supported William Clarke's attempts to form a third party, however these failed with no other parliamentarian joining them, and Fergusson sat with the opposition to the ministry of Patrick Jennings. Political parties emerged in New South Wales in 1887, divided on fiscal lines, and despite his previous opposition to Jennings, Fergusson stood as a candidate at the 1887 election for Wentworth, finishing a distant fourth. Very little is known of his biography, with his parliamentary biography bereft of the usual details. On 14 May 1881 he married Emily Maud Mary York. He was a partner in the legal firm Fergusson and Broad and by 1893 the partnership was in difficu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fergusson (physician)
Dr William Fergusson FRSE (1773–1846) was a Scottish inspector-general of military hospitals, and medical writer. Life He was born in Ayr 19 June 1773 into a prominent local family. From Ayr Academy he went to attend the medical classes at Edinburgh University, where he graduated MB, afterwards attending the London hospitals. In 1794 he became assistant-surgeon in the army, and served in Holland, the West Indies, the Baltic, the Iberian Peninsula, and in the expedition against Guadeloupe in 1815. Fergusson is widely quoted (though often misspelt) as a source of accounts of the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, where he was present (as Staff-Surgeon of the troops embarked) with Admiral Lord Nelson on the flagship Elephant, before being entrusted with the conveyance of the British wounded to Yarmouth. He received his doctorate (MD) from St Andrews University in 1812. Having retired from military service in 1817, he settled in practice at Edinburgh, being elected a Fellow of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Fergusson, 1st Baronet
Sir William Fergusson, 1st Baronet FRCS FRS FRSE (20 March 180810 February 1877) was a Scottish surgeon. Biography William Fergusson son of James Fergusson of Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, was born at Prestonpans, East Lothian on 20 March 1808, and was educated first at Lochmaben and afterwards at the high school and University of Edinburgh. At the age of fifteen he was placed by his own desire in a lawyer's office, but the work proved uncongenial, and at seventeen he exchanged law for medicine, in accordance with his father's original wishes. He became an assiduous pupil of Dr. Robert Knox the anatomist, who was much pleased with a piece of mechanism which Fergusson constructed, and appointed him at the age of twenty demonstrator to his class of four hundred pupils. In 1828 Fergusson became a licentiate, and in 1829 a fellow of the Edinburgh College of Surgeons. He continued zealous in anatomy, often spending from twelve to sixteen hours a day in the dissecting-room. Two of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William C
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ferguson (pioneer)
William Ferguson (c. 1809 – 3 December 1892) was a pioneer settler of South Australia, one of the last surviving emigrants on in 1836. History Ferguson was a farmer born in Hawick, Scotland, and emigrated in 1836 on what has been termed the "First Fleet of South Australia" on Governor Hindmarsh's flagship ''Buffalo''. His wife, who was pregnant when they embarked, gave birth to their first child on board the ''Buffalo'' in South Australian waters. Ferguson was present at the Proclamation ceremony by the Old Gum Tree on 28 December 1836, and helped thatch the roof of the original Government House. Ferguson purchased two "city acres" in a block stretching between Hindley and Currie Streets, the eastern boundary of which later became a thoroughfare, named Rosina Street after Mrs. Ferguson. He also purchased an acre on Rundle Street where Adelaide Arcade now stands, and another, on which the Primrose Brewery later stood. He also owned property at Magill (or Makgill as it was o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ferguson (Los Angeles Pioneer)
William Ferguson (1822–1910) was a pioneer American settler of Los Angeles, California, after it became a part of the United States in 1847. He was an extensive property owner and a member of the Common Council, the city's governing body. Ferguson was born in 1822, came West as a young man "and interested himself in mining," in which he prospered. He later established a livery business in the old Plaza, then became a large investor in the Los Angeles Water Company and finally "went into the real estate business." He was estimated to be a millionaire. In 1892–93 Ferguson was the complainant in an unsuccessful suit against the City of Los Angeles to halt the sale of bonds that financed the purchase of the private Los Angeles Water Company, eventually turning it into a municipal utility. He was on the first board of directors of the Union Bank of Savings in Los Angeles, in 1893. In March 1897 Ferguson announced he would give "$20 per month for the next five or six months, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ferguson (historian)
William Ferguson (19 February 1924 – 8 January 2021) was a Scottish academic and author who specialised in the history of Scotland. He studied history at Glasgow and Oxford, and spent most of his academic career at the University of Edinburgh. He retired from teaching in 1989, but continued his research and his writing, publishing ''The Identity of the Scottish Nation: An Historic Quest'' in 1998. He died on 8 January 2021, aged 96. Early life and education Ferguson was born in Muirkirk in on 19 February 1924. His father worked on the railway line between Muirkirk and Lanark, and in the 1930s gained a promotion that caused him to move to Glasgow. Ferguson had intended to study medicine, and in the Second World War was called up to work as a naval medic; after the war however, he decided to study history. He completed his first undergraduate degree at the University of Glasgow, and in 1950 he went enrolled at Balliol College, Oxford where he spent two years, before returnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ferguson (engineer)
William Ferguson (15 June 1852 – 20 June 1935) was a New Zealand civil engineering manager and consultant. He was born in London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ..., England, on 15 June 1852. References 1852 births 1935 deaths Engineers from London 19th-century New Zealand engineers 20th-century New Zealand engineers Moorhouse–Rhodes family {{NewZealand-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ferguson (botanist)
William Ferguson FRSE FLS DL FGS (1820–1887), was a botanist and entomologist. He specialised in algae and ferns. Career Ferguson entered the Ceylon civil service in 1839, arriving in the island in December of that year. Here he lived until his death on 31 July 1887. He occupied his leisure time in botanical and entomological studies, gaining an intimate knowledge of the flora and insect life of the island, and publishing from time to time the results of his observations and researches in '' The Ceylon Observer'' and the ''Tropical Agriculturist''. His work obtained recognition from Dr. Hooker and other eminent biologists (see Ceylon, Physical, Historical and Topographical). Also, in the scientific field of herpetology, Ferguson described two new species of reptiles, ''Aspidura guentheri'' and '' Cnemaspis scalpensis''. In 1874 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Dickson, David MacLagan, Thomas Brown and John MacGregor McCa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ferguson (Australian Aboriginal Leader)
William Ferguson (24 July 1882 – 4 January 1950) was an Aboriginal Australian leader. He was born at Darlington Point, Waddi, New South Wales, growing up near the Warengesda Mission near Cootamundra and, from 14 years after leaving school, worked with his father as a shearer, then labourer and mailman in the west of the State. His first political involvements were as an organiser of shearers for the Australian Workers' Union and then secretary of a local branch of the Australian Labor Party. From 1933 he lived at Dubbo with his wife, Margaret (née Gowans, also of Scot/Aboriginal heritage) and 12 children. While he had lived outside of the system of "protection" of Aboriginal people, he was well aware of the conditions under which other Aboriginal people lived. From 1936, when parliament amended the ''Aborigines Protection Act 1909'' to increase its powers to govern Aboriginal people's lives, he began speaking and lobbying for civil rights, that he later called "citi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
