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William McLean (Quebec Politician)
William McLean may refer to: *Bill McLean (1918–1996), Australian soldier and rugby player *William B. McLean (1914–1976), U.S. Navy physicist and ordnance expert *William Campbell McLean (1854–1944), justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi *USNS William McLean, USNS ''William McLean'', a 2011 U.S. Navy ship named for the physicist *William McLean (civil servant) (1877–1967), Scottish Unionist Party MP for Glasgow Tradeston *William McLean (bobsleigh) (1918–1963), British bobsledder who competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz *William McLean (Ohio politician) (1794–1839), U.S. Representative from Ohio *William P. McLean (1836–1925), U.S. Representative from Texas *William McLean (New Zealand politician) (1845–1914), New Zealand politician *Billy McLean (umpire) (1835–1927), English professional baseball umpire See also *William MacLean (other) *Willie McLean (other) *Will McLean (1919–1990), American folk singer and songwriter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill McLean
William Malcolm McLean (28 February 1918 – 9 December 1996) was an Australian soldier and a state and national representative rugby union player who captained the Wallabies in five Test matches immediately after World War II. Pre-war rugby Like their father, Doug McLean, Sr., Bill's older brother Doug, Jr. had represented for Australia in both rugby codes before Bill left school. Bill too was a promising sportsman – goalkeeper in the 1938 Queensland Water Polo Team and rowing in Surf Boat crews winning the Queensland state championship in 1938. He pursued a rugby career and in 1938 played with the GPS club in Brisbane and made his representative debut with state selection the following year. From there he was selected for the ill-fated 1939 Wallaby tour to England captained by Vay Wilson. The team docked at Southampton on the day when England declared war and after a couple of weeks spent filling sandbags to start the war effort, the squad set sail for Australia hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William B
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 the name should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Campbell McLean
William Campbell McLean (June 10, 1854 – December 14, 1944) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from October 11, 1911 to May 10, 1912. Leslie SouthwickMississippi Supreme Court Elections: A Historical Perspective 1916-1996 18 Miss. C. L. Rev. 115 (1997-1998). He succeeded W. D. Anderson. McLean was appointed to the seat form Grenada County, Mississippi Grenada County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi between Memphis and Jackson, Mississippi. As reported by the 2019 United States Census Bureau, the population was 20,758. Its county seat is Grenada. The county was named for th ..., and retired from the court the following year. References 1854 births 1944 deaths Justices of the Mississippi Supreme Court 20th-century American judges {{Mississippi-state-judge-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USNS William McLean
USNS ''William McLean'' (T-AKE 12) is a of the United States Navy, named in honor of William McLean, a United States Navy physicist, who conceived and developed the heat-seeking Sidewinder missile. The contract to build ''William McLean'' was awarded to National Steel and Shipbuilding Company on 12 December 2008. ''William McLean'' was launched on 16 April 2011, sponsored by Dr. McLean's niece, Margaret Taylor. The ship was delivered to the Military Sealift Command (MSC) on 28 September 2011. Ship's badge USNS ''William McLean'' has a shield "Per fess nebuly enhanced, two piles reversed in chief point issuant from dexter and sinister base, Azure and Argent, all counterchanged, in base a compass rose Gules bearing a globe Celeste with grid lines of the second; a bordure of steel Proper." Her crest is "From a wreath Argent and Azure two steel anchors erect Proper, superimposed by a seahorse rampant of the second gorged with a collar Gules charged with the Roman n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William McLean (civil Servant)
Sir William Hannah McLean KBE (1877–1967) was a British civil servant in the Colonial Office The Colonial Office was a government department of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, first created to deal with the colonial affairs of British North America but required also to oversee the increasing number of col .... McLean was the first urban planner, responsible for the layout of Khartoum, Alexandria, where he was city engineer and of Jerusalem, where he prepared the master plan, in 1918. He divided Jerusalem into four zones: (1) the Old City, in which a ‘‘medieval aspect’’ was to be preserved through the prohibition of all new construction; (2) a zone of non-construction around the Old City, where undesirable buildings would be cleared and the area left to its natural state; (3) an area to the north and east of the Old City, where buildings could be erected only with special approval; and (4) an area to the north and west of the Old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William McLean (bobsleigh)
William John McLean (9 July 1918, Katanning, Western Australia – 9 November 1963, Halton Camp, Wendover, Buckinghamshire) was a British bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s. He finished seventh in the four-man event at the 1948 Winter Olympics The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (german: V. Olympische Winterspiele; french: Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; it, V Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz ... in St. Moritz. ReferencesBritish Olympic Association profile 1918 births [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William McLean (Ohio Politician)
William McLean (August 10, 1794 – October 12, 1839) was a Attorney at law (United States), lawyer, legislator and businessperson, businessman. He served three terms in the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives from 1823 to 1829. Biography William McLean was born in Mason County, Kentucky and moved in 1799 with his parents Fergus and Sophia (Blackford) McLean and his older brother John McLean (who would become a Congressman from Ohio's 1st congressional district, Ohio and a Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Supreme Court) to a farm in Warren County, Ohio. There he attended the common schools, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1814. He commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio and then was a lawyer at Lebanon, Ohio. He removed from Lebanon to Piqua, Ohio about 1820 and was the first regular professional lawyer who settled in the village. He was receiver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William P
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 the name should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William McLean (New Zealand Politician)
William McLean (1845 – 25 August 1914) was a 19th-century Liberal Party Member of Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand. Early life McLean was born in Grantown, Scotland, in 1845, the youngest son of John McLean, a shoemaker. He was adopted by a parish priest at an early age. Aged 13, he moved to Rochdale to work as a cotton spinner. His employer suspended operations in 1863 in the Lancashire Cotton Famine caused by the American Civil War, and McLean emigrated to New Zealand for the Otago Gold Rush. Life in New Zealand He arrived in Dunedin on the ''Dauntless'' and went to the gold fields in Central Otago. He was successful and could open a store in the Bread and Water gully. When word of the West Coast Gold Rush arrived, he went to Hokitika at once. He broke his arm digging at Lake Kaniere and had to go to Christchurch for medical treatment, as there were no doctors on the West Coast yet. He returned to the West Coast, and then back to Central Otago, before settling in Reefton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy McLean (umpire)
William H. McLean (December 3, 1835 – February 3, 1927) was an English professional baseball umpire born in Preston, Lancashire. He umpired games in both the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, National Association from 1872 until 1875, then the National League (baseball), National League when the Association folded. In total, he was an umpire for 435 games during his 14-season career that lasted from 1872 until 1890. McLean was the umpire in the first official National League (baseball), National League game, played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia on April 22, 1876. August 20, 1874, McLean alleged that some of the Philadelphia Whites had fixed a game with the Chicago White Stockings (1870–89), Chicago White Stockings. John Radcliffe (baseball), John Radcliffe of Philadelphia had offered him $175 in exchange for favoring Chicago, and had implicated teammates Bill Craver, Candy Cummings, Nat Hicks, and Denny Mack, the manager (baseball), ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William MacLean (other) , Scottish artist and professor of art
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William MacLean may refer to: * William Q. MacLean Jr., American politician in Massachusetts * William N. MacLean, Canadian politician * William Ross MacLean, soda water manufacturer and political figure in British Columbia * William Findlay Maclean, Canadian politician * Billy Joe MacLean (William Joseph MacLean), Canadian politician See also * William McLean (other) * Will Maclean Will Maclean MBE is a Scottish artist and professor of art. Born in Inverness in 1941, he was a midshipman on at Anglesey in Wales (Blue Funnel Line, 1957–59) before attending Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen (1961–65) and then the British Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie McLean (other)
Willie McLean may refer to: * Willie McLean (soccer, born 1904) (1904–1977), Scottish-born American international soccer player * Willie McLean (footballer, born 1935) Willie McLean (born 2 April 1935) is a Scottish former association footballer and manager. He managed two of the clubs he had played for, Queen of the South and Raith Rovers. Brothers Willie is the elder brother of Jim McLean and Tommy McLean ... (born 1935), Scottish football player and manager * Willie McLean (rugby league) (born 1973), New Zealand rugby league player See also * William McLean (other) {{hndis, Maclean, Willie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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