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William Mackenzie (trader)
William Mackenzie, McKenzie, Mckenzie or MacKenzie may refer to: Artists, musicians, writers and entertainers * William Lyon Mackenzie (1795–1861), Scottish-born journalist & rebel in Upper Canada; grandfather of Canadian prime minister William Lyon MacKenzie King ** ''William Lyon Mackenzie'' (fireboat) * William Mackay Mackenzie (1871–1952), Scottish historian, archaeologist and writer * Will Mackenzie (born 1938), American television director and actor * Billy Mackenzie (William MacArthur MacKenzie, 1957–1997), Scottish singer Politicians and noblemen * Bill McKenzie, Baron McKenzie of Luton (1946-2021), English politician * William Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree (1860–1942), British barrister, public servant and politician * William Mackenzie, 5th Earl of Seaforth (died 1740), Scottish nobleman * William Albany McKenzie (1928–1991), mayor of Fremantle, Western Australia, and Administrator of Christmas Island * William Alexander McKenzie (1874–1966), builder and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lyon Mackenzie
William Lyon Mackenzie (March12, 1795 August28, 1861) was a Scottish Canadian-American journalist and politician. He founded newspapers critical of the Family Compact, a term used to identify elite members of Upper Canada. He represented York County in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada and aligned with Reformers. He led the rebels in the Upper Canada Rebellion; after its defeat, he unsuccessfully rallied American support for an invasion of Upper Canada as part of the Patriot War. Although popular for criticising government officials, he failed to implement most of his policy objectives. He is one of the most recognizable Reformers of the early 19th century. Raised in Dundee, Scotland, Mackenzie emigrated to York, Upper Canada, in 1820. He published his first newspaper, the ''Colonial Advocate'' in 1824, and was elected a York County representative to the Legislative Assembly in 1827. York became the city of Toronto in 1834 and Mackenzie was elected its first mayor; h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill McKenzie (rugby League)
Bill McKenzie was a New Zealand rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand. Playing career McKenzie played in the Canterbury Rugby League competition and represented Canterbury.Coffey, John. ''Canterbury XIII'', Christchurch, 1987 In 1947 he was first selected for the New Zealand national rugby league team, however he did not make his test debut until 1949 against Australia. He had earlier in the tour played against Australia for the South Island. In 1950 he moved north and represented both Auckland and the North Island. He also played for the Ngaruawahia club in the Waikato Rugby League competition. ''nzrl.co.nz'', October 2011 In 1952 he returned home, joining the newly formed Marist club in the |
William Gregor MacKenzie
William Gregor MacKenzie ALS VMH (1904–1995) was a gardener and horticultural curator born in Scotland, where his father was head gardener at Ballimore, near Loch Fyne in Argyllshire. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Aged 24, MacKenzie became a student at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. At the Botanic Garden, he was promoted to the position of Assistant Curator in charge of the Alpine and Herbaceous Department. Scottish Rock Garden Club In 1933, he co-founded the Scottish Rock Garden Club and in 1994 he was made their honorary life president. Chelsea Physic Garden MacKenzie accepted the prestigious post of curator at the Chelsea Physic Garden in 1946, where he remained until his retirement in 1973. Edward Augustus Bowles chaired the panel that selected MacKenzie as curator, where he initially restored the garden from wartime neglect and then reinvigorated it as a centre for horticulture Awards In 1961, Bill MacKenzie was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour by the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Douglas Mackenzie
William Douglas Mackenzie, D.D., LL.D. (July 16, 1859 – 1936) was an American Congregational theologian, born at Fauresmith, Orange River Colony, South Africa, educated in Edinburgh at Watson's College School (1875) and at the Congregational Theological Hall (1880–82). He studied at Göttingen, then emigrated to the United States whereat he served as professor of systematic theology at Chicago Theological Seminary at Hartford from 1895 to 1903, president of the Hartford Seminary after 1904, and served as President Emeritus of the Hartford Seminary Foundation from 1930–?. Mackenzie was also a member of the Hartford Civitan Club. He was author of: * ''The Ethics of Gambling'' (1893, new edition, 1911) * ''The Revelation of Christ'' (1896) * ''Christianity and the Progress of Man'' (1897) * ''South Africa: Its History, Heroes, and Wars'' (1899) * A biography of his father, ''John Mackenzie, South African Missionary and Statesman'' (1902) * ''The Final F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Colin Mackenzie
Sir William Colin Mackenzie PRSA FRSE (9 March 1877 – 29 June 1938), usually known as Colin Mackenzie, was an Australian anatomist, benefactor, museum administrator and director. He was best known for creating Healesville Sanctuary. Early life Mackenzie was the youngest son of John Mackenzie, a draper, and Anne, née McKay, both of Scottish origin. He was born at Kilmore, Victoria and was educated at the local state school, continuing his education at Scotch College, Melbourne after obtaining a scholarship. He qualified for matriculation with honours in Greek at the end of 1893, and beginning his course at the University of Melbourne soon afterwards, graduated MB, with first class honours in surgery, obstetric medicine and diseases of women and children in 1899. He later took out a BS degree in 1902. Medical career Mackenzie had a year's hospital practice at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, for two years was senior resident medical officer at the Royal Children's Hospital, and wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mackenzie (doctor)
Sir William Leslie Mackenzie MD FRSE (30 May 1862 – 28 February 1935) was a Scottish doctor renowned in the field of public health, best known for his efforts to systematise rural healthcare and his contributions to the study of child and maternal health. Early life William Leslie Mackenzie was born into a small farming community called Shadwick Mains, in Rossshire, Scotland, to James Mackenzie and his wife, Margaret McKenzie."SIR W. LESLIE MACKENZIE, M.D. LL.D.Aberd., F.R.C.P.Ed." ''British Medical Journal''. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 09 Mar. 1935. Web. 18 Apr. 2017. He attended his local one-room school until the age of fourteen, serving as a pupil-teacher for his last three years there. He then attended grammar school in Aberdeen. Mackenzie remained there until age sixteen and then taught for a time at a private girls’ school.1 ''Leslie Mackenzie''. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2017. He graduated from Aberdeen University with an MA in classics and philosophy (wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mackenzie (railway Entrepreneur)
Sir William Mackenzie (October 17, 1849 – December 5, 1923) was a Canadian railway contractor and entrepreneur. Born near Peterborough, Canada West (now Ontario), Mackenzie became a teacher and politician before entering business as the owner of a sawmill and gristmill in Kirkfield, Ontario. He entered the railway business as a contractor under civil engineer James Ross, working on projects in Ontario, British Columbia, Maine, and the North-West Territories (present-day Saskatchewan and Alberta) between 1874 and 1891. In partnership with his mentor James Ross, Mackenzie became owner of the Toronto Street Railway (precursor to the Toronto Transit Commission) in 1891 and in 1899, helped found the precursor to Brazilian Traction, for which he was the first chairman. In 1895, together with Donald Mann, Mackenzie began to purchase or build rail lines in the Canadian prairies, which would form the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR), a company that would stretch from Vancouver Isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Islands
The Gilbert Islands ( gil, Tungaru;Reilly Ridgell. ''Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia.'' 3rd. Ed. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1995. p. 95. formerly Kingsmill or King's-Mill IslandsVery often, this name applied only to the southern islands of the archipelago, the northern half being designated as the Scarborough Islands. ''Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary''. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam Webster, 1997. p. 594) are a chain of sixteen atolls and coral islands in the Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Papua New Guinea and Hawaii. They constitute the main part of the nation of Kiribati (the name of which is a rendering of “Gilberts” in the phonology of the indigenous Gilbertese). Geography The atolls and islands of the Gilbert Islands are arranged in an approximate north-to-south line. The northernmost island in the group, Makin, it is approximately from southernmost, Arorae, as the crow flies. Geographically, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arorae
Arorae (spelling variants: Arorai, Arurai; also known as Hope Island or Hurd Island“Captain Patterson, commanding the brig ''Elizabeth'', called it Hope Island: “Hope Island, in 2° 43′ S and 176° 56′ 25″ E, was the first discovery, this being obviously Arorae. As there was apparently another Hope Island in the North Pacific, the name was changed by Purdy in 1816 to Hurd Island, in honour of Captain Hurd, Hydrographer to the Admiralty. The two names caused a certain amount of confusion as to whether there were two islands in this position, but eventually the whalers came to know Arorae as Hope and the name has stuck ever since.” Henry Evans Maude.) is an atoll in Kiribati located near the equator. Arorae is the southernmost island in the Gilbert Islands group. It has a population of just over a thousand inhabitants on 9.5 square kilometres. Geography Arorae is the southernmost atoll in the Gilbert Islands, 600 km south from South Tarawa. The atoll's area is . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mackenzie (trader)
William Mackenzie, McKenzie, Mckenzie or MacKenzie may refer to: Artists, musicians, writers and entertainers * William Lyon Mackenzie (1795–1861), Scottish-born journalist & rebel in Upper Canada; grandfather of Canadian prime minister William Lyon MacKenzie King ** ''William Lyon Mackenzie'' (fireboat) * William Mackay Mackenzie (1871–1952), Scottish historian, archaeologist and writer * Will Mackenzie (born 1938), American television director and actor * Billy Mackenzie (William MacArthur MacKenzie, 1957–1997), Scottish singer Politicians and noblemen * Bill McKenzie, Baron McKenzie of Luton (1946-2021), English politician * William Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree (1860–1942), British barrister, public servant and politician * William Mackenzie, 5th Earl of Seaforth (died 1740), Scottish nobleman * William Albany McKenzie (1928–1991), mayor of Fremantle, Western Australia, and Administrator of Christmas Island * William Alexander McKenzie (1874–1966), builder and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mackenzie (ophthalmologist)
William Mackenzie (April 1791 – July 1868) was a Scottish ophthalmologist. He wrote ''Practical Treatise of the Diseases of the Eye'', one of the first British textbooks of ophthalmology. Life Mackenzie was born in Queen Street, Glasgow, and studied medicine at the University of Glasgow and the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. From 1840 to 1848 he studied in London and in Europe. He obtained his medical doctorate under Georg Joseph Beer at the University of Vienna, and returned to Britain in 1848. In 1849, Mackenzie settled in Glasgow and began practice as a physician. In 1849, Mackenzie also assumed the anatomy chair at Anderson's College Medical School. With George Monteath, the chief oculist of Glasgow, he founded the Glasgow Eye Infirmary in 1850. Mackenzie was appointed Waltonian lecturer and lecturer on diseases of the eye at the University of Glasgow in 1852, and wrote ''Practical Treatise of the Diseases of the Eye'', which became a standard text after its first editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mackenzie (contractor)
William Mackenzie (20 March 1794 – 29 October 1851) was an Anglo-Scottish civil engineer and civil engineering contractor who was one of the leading European contractors in the 1840s.Chrimes, Mike 'Mackenzie, William (1794-1851)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 200 accessed 24 November 2007. Early life Mackenzie was born near Nelson, Lancashire, England, the eldest of the 11 children of Alexander Mackenzie, a Scottish contractor, and Mary née Roberts. He started his career as an apprentice weaver but changed to civil engineering, becoming a pupil of a lock carpenter on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in 1811. He continued his training on a dry dock at Troon harbour, on Craigellachie Bridge and as an agent on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal. Career In 1822 he became an agent for the completion of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal. Soon after this he was appointed resident engineer for Thomas Telford's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
