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Sam Watson (other)
Sam Watson or Samuel Watson may refer to: Arts *Samuel Watson (sculptor) (1662–1715), sculptor in wood and stone *Samuel Wagan Watson (born 1972), Aboriginal Australian poet *Sam Watson (political activist) (1952–2019), Aboriginal Australian novelist, filmmaker and political activist Sport *Sam Watson, 1966 Irish winner of Fitchburg Longsjo Classic bicycle race *Sam Watson (climber) (born 2006), American speed climber *Samuel Watson (cyclist) (born 2001), English cyclist *Sam Watson (equestrian) (born 1985), Irish equestrian Other people *Sam Watson (politician) (born 1978), US politician *Sam Watson (trade unionist) (1898–1967), English coalminers' leader *Samuel Watson (horologist) (fl. c. 1687–c. 1710), Sheriff of Coventry and manufacturer of the first stopwatch *Samuel C. Watson (1832–1892), U.S. druggist, doctor, and civic leader *Samuel E. Watson (died 1847), U.S. Marine Corps officer {{hndis, Watson, Sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Watson (sculptor)
Samuel Watson (1662–1715), an English sculptor in wood and stone, was a native of Heanor, Derbyshire. He was employed at Chatsworth House between 1690 or 1691 and 1711. Family and work Watson was born in Heanor, the son of a husbandman of Heanor, and his wife, Bridget, née Townsend. He was baptised there on 2 December 1662. Little is known of his early life. His grandson, White Watson, stated in a memoir that Samuel Watson "was a pupil of Mr. Charles Oakey, carver, in the parish of St Martin's in the Fields."A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660–1851Retrieved 19 July 2016./ref> Oakey was employed by the Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, 1st Duke of Beaufort on the remodelling of Badminton House in 1683. Watson is known to have worked at Burghley House and at Sudbury Hall. Also working at Badminton, Burghley and Sudbury was Grinling Gibbons, who had a great influence on Watson's work.Trevor Brighton, "Watson, Samuel (baptised 1662, died 1715)", ''Oxfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Wagan Watson
Samuel Wagan Watson is a contemporary Indigenous Australian poet. Early life and education Samuel Wagan Watson was born in Brisbane and is of Aboriginal ( Munanjali and Birri Gubba), Irish, German, and Dutch descent. His father is novelist and political activist Sam Watson (1952–2019). He grew up in the Mt Gravatt area of Brisbane, and as a child frequently accompanied his parents to protests. He enjoyed rock music, particularly Janis Joplin and the Doobie Brothers, and aspired to be a rock musician. Watson lived in the Sunshine Coast area for a while, and early jobs included as salesman, film technician, and law clerk for the 1987 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Watson moved back to Brisbane when he started writing as a career. Writing career Watson wrote short stories, but changed focus to poetry, inspired by one of several companies that reject his drafts noting that his writing contained good poetic elements. His first poems were in sonnet fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Watson (political Activist)
Samuel William Watson (16 November 1952 – 27 November 2019), also known as Sammy Watson Jnr, was an Aboriginal Australian activist from the 1970s, who in later life stood as a Socialist Alliance candidate. He is known for being a co-founder of the Australian Black Panther Party in 1971/2. Through work at the Brisbane Aboriginal Legal Service in the early 1990s, Watson was involved in implementing the findings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. From 2009 was deputy director at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland. He was also a writer and a filmmaker, and received honours for his 1990 novel ''The Kadaitcha Sung''. Early life Watson was born in 1952 in Brisbane, Queensland, the grandson of Sam Watson, who was of the Birri Gubba nation, while his grandmother was a Munaldjali woman. His grandfather worked in ring-barking camps and saved enough money to hire a lawyer to release him from the ''Aborigin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitchburg Longsjo Classic
Fitchburg Longsjo Classic, also known as the Longsjo Classic, was an annual road bicycle racing, bicycle stage race, race held in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States. The race began in 1960 as the Arthur M. Longsjo Jr Memorial Race, in honor of Art Longsjo. History The race was founded in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1960, as the Arthur M. Longsjo Jr. Memorial Bicycle Race., in memory of Fitchburg native and resident Art Longsjo. In 1956 Longsjo competed in the Winter Olympics as a speed skater and at the Summer Olympics as a cyclist, making him the first American to compete in Summer and Winter Olympic Games in one year. In 1958, Longsjo Perished in a car crash in Vermont, while driving home after winning the 180-mile long Quebec-Montreal Road Race. In 1960, local civic and business leaders in the city and Art Longsjo's widow Terry Longsjo organized the first race, with input from Longsjo's racing friend Guy Morin. In 1980, a new race organizing co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Watson (climber)
Samuel Watson (born February 27, 2006) is an American professional rock climber who specializes in competition speed climbing and represents the United States at IFSC Climbing World Cups. He holds the world record for the discipline at 4.64 seconds, accomplished at the 2025 IFSC Climbing World Cup in Bali, Indonesia. He won a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Career In 2021 Watson won a silver medal at the Youth B category of the IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships in Voronezh, Russia. In 2022 he won a gold medal at the Edinburgh, Scotland IFSC Climbing World Cup, in speed, and became the youngest climber to do so. Also in 2022, Watson won, a bronze medal at the Youth A category of the IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships in Dallas, Texas, and won first in the US National Speed Climbing Championship. In 2023, Watson set a US and Pan American speed climbing records at 5.02 seconds, at the 2023 IFSC Climbing World Cup in Seoul, Korea. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Watson (cyclist)
Samuel Watson (born 24 September 2001) is a British cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Major results Road ;2018 : 1st Stage 4 Junior Tour of Wales : 3rd Road race, National Junior Championships : 8th Paris–Roubaix Juniors ;2019 : 1st Guido Reybrouck Classic : 1st Rutland–Melton International CiCLE Classic Juniors : 1st Stage 3 Junior Tour of Wales : 2nd Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan ::1st Points classification : 3rd Overall Keizer der Juniores : 3rd Gent–Wevelgem Junioren : 6th Overall Saarland Trofeo ;2021 : 1st Stage 3 Kreiz Breizh Elites : 5th Time trial, National Under-23 Championships : 7th Overall L'Etoile d'Or : 7th Gran Premio della Liberazione ;2022 : 1st Road race, National Under-23 Championships : 1st Gent–Wevelgem Under-23 : 1st Ilkley, National Circuit Series : Grand Prix Jeseníky ::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 3 : 1st Stage 5 Tour Alsace : National Championships ::2nd Road race ::2nd Circuit race : 5th Tro-Bro Léo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Watson (equestrian)
Sam Watson (born 28 December 1985) is an Irish eventing rider. Representing Ireland, he has competed at three editions of World Equestrian Games (in 2010, 2014 and 2018). His best achievements came at the 2018 edition of the Games, held in Tryon, North Carolina, where he won a silver medal with an Irish team and placed 14th individually. Watson has also competed at numerous European Championships. His best result at the European stage is 4th place in team eventing in 2011. Meanwhile, his best individual result is 12th place from 2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes .... His father John Watson is a multiple World and European Championships medalist in eventing, as well as a Seoul 1988 Olympian. References External links * * * * 1985 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Watson (politician)
Samuel Lawrence Watson (born September 19, 1978) is an American politician from Georgia serving as a Republican member of the Georgia Senate, representing the 11th district. Watson was previously a member of the Georgia House of Representatives The Georgia House of Representatives is the lower house of the Georgia General Assembly (the state legislature) of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. There are currently 180 elected members. Republican Party (United States), Repu ... from 2013 to 2022. He resigned his house seat to run in a 2023 special election to replace retired senator Dean Burke. References Republican Party members of the Georgia House of Representatives People from Moultrie, Georgia Living people 1978 births 21st-century members of the Georgia General Assembly {{GeorgiaUS-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Watson (trade Unionist)
Samuel Watson CBE (11 March 1898 – 7 May 1967) was Agent of the Durham Miners' Association and member of the British Labour Party’s National Executive Committee. Watson was born on 11 March 1898 in the village of Boldon Colliery, in County Durham. After an elementary education, at the age of 14 he became an underground coalminer at Boldon Colliery. By the age of 20 he had become secretary of the Boldon Miner's Lodge, continuing to work down the pit until 1936, when he became an agent of the Durham Miners' Association. In 1947 he became General Secretary of the recently reorganised National Union of Mineworkers (Durham Area). He was active in the Labour Party, was for 22 years a member of its National Executive Committee, and served as its chairman for the year 1949–1950. He declined the possibility of seeking political office in London, however, preferring to remain in Durham. He was a member of committees of the National Coal Board and undertook many other charitable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Watson (horologist)
Samuel Watson (fl. c.1635-c.1710), was a horologist (clock and watch maker) who invented the 5 minute repeater, and made the first stopwatch. He made a clock for King Charles II and was an associate of Isaac Newton. Inventions In 1695 Samuel Watson made the Physicians Pulse watch which was the first watch with a lever that stopped the second hand. In 1710 Samuel Watson invented the 5 minute repeater. Royal connection One of his astronomical clocks can be seen in the library of Windsor Castle. The original case for that clock may be at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum. In 1686 he was sheriff of Coventry, before moving to Long Acre Long Acre is a street in the City of Westminster in central London. It runs from St Martin's Lane, at its western end, to Drury Lane in the east. The street was completed in the early 17th century and was once known for its Coach_(carriage), co ..., London in 1690/91. References English watchmakers (people) 1710 deaths Year of birth u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel C
Samuel is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is Veneration, venerated as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition to his role in the Bible, Samuel is mentioned in Jewish rabbinic literature, rabbinical literature, in the Christian New Testament, and in the second chapter of the Quran (although the text does not mention him by name). He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of ''Antiquities of the Jews'', written by the Jewish scholar Josephus in the first century. He is first called "the Seer" in Books of Samuel, 1 Samuel 9:9. Biblical account Family Samuel's mother was Hannah (biblical figure), Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah lived at Ramathaim-Zophim, Ramathaim in the district of Zuph. His genealogy is also found in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
