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Souter
Souter (, ) is a Scottish surname derived from the Scots language term for a shoemaker, and may refer to: * A nickname for any native inhabitant of the Royal Burgh of Selkirk, in the Scottish Borders * Alexander Souter (1873–1949), Scottish biblical scholar * Brian Souter (born 1954), Scottish businessman * Camille Souter (1929–2023), Irish painter * David Souter (born 1939), former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States * David Henry Souter (1862–1935), Australian artist and journalist * John Bulloch Souter (1890–1972), a Scottish painter and sculptor * Tom Souter (1921–?), Scottish footballer See also * Souter Lighthouse Souter Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in the village of Whitburn, Tyne and Wear, England. (It was generally known as Souter Point Lighthouse when in service). Souter Point was the first lighthouse in the world to be actually designed and bu ... * Soutar * Suter {{surname Scottish surnames Surnames of Lowland Scot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Souter
David Hackett Souter ( ; born September 17, 1939) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1990 until his retirement in 2009. Appointed by President George H. W. Bush to fill the seat that had been vacated by William J. Brennan Jr., Souter sat on both the Rehnquist and the Roberts courts. Souter grew up in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and attended Harvard College, Magdalen College, Oxford, and Harvard Law School. After briefly working in private practice, he moved to public service. He served as a prosecutor (1966–1968) in the New Hampshire Attorney General's office (1968–1976), as the attorney general of New Hampshire (1976–1978), as an associate justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire (1978–1983), as an associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court (1983–1990), and briefly as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1990). Souter was nominated to the Supreme Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Souter
Sir Brian Souter (born 5 May 1954) is a Scottish businessman. With his sister, Ann Gloag, he founded the Stagecoach Group of bus and rail operators. He also founded the bus and coach operator Megabus, the train operating company South West Trains, his investments company Souter Holdings Ltd, and the Souter Charitable Trust. Souter has been politically active in Scotland, and supported the Scottish National Party financially. In 2000, when the Scottish Executive proposed to repeal Section 2A of the Local Government Act, which prevented local authorities from "promoting homosexuality", Souter started the Keep the Clause campaign to oppose their plans, spending £1 million of his own money to organise a private referendum across Scotland. This campaign and other controversial statements have led opponents to accuse him of homophobia. In 2011, he was knighted for services to transport and the voluntary sector. The honour was criticised by Scottish Labour Party politicians and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Souter Lighthouse
Souter Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in the village of Whitburn, Tyne and Wear, England. (It was generally known as Souter Point Lighthouse when in service). Souter Point was the first lighthouse in the world to be actually designed and built specifically to use alternating electric current, the most advanced lighthouse technology of its day. The light was generated by a carbon arc lamp: first lit on 11 January 1871, it was described at the time as 'without doubt one of the most powerful lights in the world'. After being decommissioned by Trinity House (the national lighthouse authority) in 1988, Souter Lighthouse was acquired by the National Trust, who now manage it as a visitor attraction with holiday lets. Location The lighthouse is located on Lizard Point, but takes its name from Souter Point, which is located a mile to the south. This was the intended site for the lighthouse, but it was felt that Lizard Point offered better visibility, as the cliffs there are high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Souter
Camille Souter (born Betty Pamela Holmes, 1929) is an Irish abstract and landscape artist. She lives and works on Achill Island and has been an elected member of Aosdána since 1981. Early life Souter was born Betty Pamela Holmes in Northampton, England, in 1929 but she was raised in Ireland. Souter received a general education at Glengara Park School in Dun Laoghaire. She originally trained as a nurse at Guy's Hospital in London. Souter began painting, after attending art classes as part of occupational therapy whilst she recovered from tuberculosis on the Isle of Wight. Although largely self-taught, Souter took up sculpture in 1950 as her convalescence continued in Dublin. She was trained there by Yann Renard-Goulet. Souter returned to London and completed her nursing studies in 1952, before abandoning the profession in favour of painting. In 1953 she began to explore the medium of paint after visiting Italy. Early patrons of her work included Basil Goulding, Gordon Lambert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Souter
Alexander Souter (14 August 1873 – 17 January 1949) was a Scottish biblical scholar and university professor Biography Souter was born in Perth, and studied at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Cambridge. He subsequently became a Latin assistant at Aberdeen. While at Cambridge he studied under J. E. B. Mayor, whom Souter would credit with influence on his later scholarship. In 1903 he was appointed professor of New Testament Greek and Exegesis at Mansfield College, Oxford. In 1911 he moved back to the University of Aberdeen, succeeding William Ramsay as Regius Professor of Humanity, in which position he remained until his retirement in 1937. Upon his retirement, Souter moved back to Oxford, where he became editor-in-chief of the proposed ''Oxford Latin Dictionary''. The outbreak of World War II prevented its completion within his lifetime, but Souter did publish a smaller work borne of this endeavour, ''Glossary of Later Latin, A.D. 150–600''. Souter marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Henry Souter
David Henry Souter (30 March 1862 – 22 September 1935) was an Australian artist and journalist. A stocky and humorous man, Souter wrote short stories, verse, light articles and plays, with a capable and ready pen. He did a fair amount of painting in watercolor, but his reputation rests on his black-and-white work, which, considering the mass of it, was very even in quality. He also illustrated volumes written by Ethel Turner and other Australian authors. Biography Souter was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of David Henry Souter, an engineer, and his wife Ann Smith, ''née'' Grant. He did an apprenticeship under a house painter and sign maker when he was 12. Souter studied art at the local branch of the South Kensington school, studying drawing, contributed to a local journal from 1880, ''Bon Accord'', and in 1881 relocated to Natal, where he engaged in journalism. Souter married Jessie Swanson (died 1932) on 17 February 1886 and, together moved in 1886 to Melbourne, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bulloch Souter
John "Jack" Bulloch Souter (4 June 1890 – 10 May 1972), also known as J.B. Souter, was a Scottish painter, sculptor, and illustrator, best known for his Jazz Age-themed work '' The Breakdown''. Biography Born in Aberdeen in northeast Scotland, he was a skilled pupil at Ferryhill School, then Gray's School of Art, and then the Allan Fraser School in Arbroath. He won the Byrne Travelling Scholarship awarded by the Scottish Education Department which enabled him to comfortably tour the European continent. During this continental tour, he was purportedly much impressed by Diego Velázquez, Johannes Vermeer, and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. Following the outbreak of World War I, Souter served in the Gordon Highlanders and the Royal Army Medical Corps. Upon returning to civilian life, he married Christian Grace Reid and relocated to London. During the post-war period, he garnered a reputation as a talented portraitist, and his many subjects included such personalities as Glad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Souter
Thomas Hoggan Souter (born 26 March 1912) was a Scottish amateur footballer who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park and Rangers as an outside forward. He was capped by Scotland at amateur An amateur () is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income. Amateurs and their pursuits are also described as popular, informal, autodidacticism, self-taught, user-generated, do it yourself, DI ... level. References 1912 births Year of death missing Scottish footballers Queen's Park F.C. players Scottish Football League players Scotland amateur international footballers Association football outside forwards Footballers from Perth and Kinross Rangers F.C. players {{Scotland-footy-forward-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scots Language
Scots ( endonym: ''Scots''; gd, Albais, ) is an Anglic language variety in the West Germanic language family, spoken in Scotland and parts of Ulster in the north of Ireland (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots). Most commonly spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, Northern Isles and northern Ulster, it is sometimes called Lowland Scots or Broad Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Goidelic Celtic language that was historically restricted to most of the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides and Galloway after the 16th century. Modern Scots is a sister language of Modern English, as the two diverged independently from the same source: Early Middle English (1150–1300). Scots is recognised as an indigenous language of Scotland, a regional or minority language of Europe, as well as a vulnerable language by UNESCO. In the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 Scottish Census, over 1.5 million people in Scotland reported being able to speak Scots. As there are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoemaker
Shoemaking is the process of making footwear. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or cobblers (also known as '' cordwainers''). In the 18th century, dozens or even hundreds of masters, journeymen and apprentices (both men and women) would work together in a shop, dividing up the work into individual tasks. A customer could come into a shop, be individually measured, and return to pick up their new shoes in as little as a day. Everyone needed shoes, and the median price for a pair was about one day’s wages for an average journeyman. The shoemaking trade flourished in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries but began to be affected by industrialization in the later nineteenth century. Traditional handicraft shoemaking has now been largely superseded in volume of shoes produced by industrial mass production of footwear, but not necessarily in quality, attention to detail, or craftsmanship. Today, most shoes are made on a volum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selkirk, Scottish Borders
Selkirk is a town and historic royal burgh in the Scottish Borders council district of southeastern Scotland. It lies on the Ettrick Water, a tributary of the River Tweed. The people of the town are known as Souters, which means cobblers (shoe makers and menders). At the time of the 2011 census, Selkirk's population was 5,784. History Selkirk was formerly the county town of Selkirkshire. Selkirk is one of the oldest Royal Burghs in Scotland and is the site of the earliest settlements in what is now the Scottish Borders. The town's name means "church by the hall" from the Old English ''sele'' ("hall" or "manor") and ''cirice'' ("church"). Selkirk was the site of the first Borders abbey, a community of Tironensian monks who moved to Kelso Abbey during the reign of King David I. In 1113, King David I granted Selkirk large amounts of land. William Wallace was declared guardian of Scotland in the town at the Kirk o' the Forest in 1297. Selkirk sent a contingent of 80 men to fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soutar
Soutar is a surname. It has Scottish origins. Notable people with the surname include: *Alan Soutar (born 1978), darts player *Sir Charles Soutar (1920–2016), RAF air marshal and doctor *Derek Soutar (born 1981), footballer *Fabian Soutar, rugby player *Farren Soutar (1870–1962), actor and singer *John Soutar, (1881–1951) British architect * Robert Soutar (1830–1908), actor, comedian, stage manager, writer and theatre director * Tom Soutar (1893–1981), professional athlete and Australian rules footballer *William Soutar (1898–1943), poet See also *Souter Souter (, ) is a Scottish surname derived from the Scots language term for a shoemaker, and may refer to: * A nickname for any native inhabitant of the Royal Burgh of Selkirk, in the Scottish Borders * Alexander Souter (1873–1949), Scottish bib ... * Souttar References {{surname, Soutar Surnames of Scottish origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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