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John Weir (born 8 February 1959 in Tarrytown, New York) is an American writer. [1] He is the author of two novels, The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket (HarperCollins, 1989), which won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction at the 2nd Lambda Literary Awards in 1990, and for which he received an NEA Fellowship in Fiction in 1991; and What I Did Wrong (Viking, 2006); [1] and the ...
John Garvin Weir [1] (/ ˈ w ɪər /; born July 2, 1984) [2] is an American television commentator and retired figure skater.He is a two-time Olympian (2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics), the 2008 World bronze medalist, a two-time Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, the 2001 World Junior Champion, and a three-time U.S. National champion (2004–2006).
John Alexander Weir was born in Ardoch, North Dakota on 13 December 1894 to the Reverend Richard and Margaret Moir Weir. He had three brothers and two sisters. Due to his father being called to new congregations the family traveled from Ardock to Hensall, Ontario when John was two years old, then to Petrolia, Ontario in 1898, and finally to Regina, Saskatchewan in 1901 where John attended the ...
John Weir may refer to: John Alexander Weir (1894–1942), Canadian lawyer and professor; John Angus Weir (1930–2007), fourth president of Wilfrid Laurier University; John Ferguson Weir (1841–1926), American painter and sculptor; John Jenner Weir (1822–1894), English amateur entomologist, ornithologist and British civil servant; John Weir ...
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook, OStJ, FLS, FZS, FRGS, , FIBiol (born 20 June 1933), styled Lord Medway until 1978, is a British zoologist, biologist, naturalist, and peer. [1] Since 1956, he has been active in the fields of ornithology , mammalogy , and zooarchaeology , and has influenced research and education in Southeast Asia ...
John Angus Weir (October 29, 1930 – August 28, 2007) was the fourth president of Wilfrid Laurier University, serving from 1982 until his retirement in 1992. Weir was born to J. Angus and Mary in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, on October 29, 1930. He was usually called "Jack". He has a brother named Robert.
In 1844 the Medway valley railway line gave it an alternative transport link for passengers and cargo. The tithe survey of 1839 [10] provides a snapshot in time of the village and its economic activity at least as far as agriculture goes. Arable farming covered 26% of the parish and woods, mainly coppiced sweet chestnut, covered 20%.
Obituary, The Times 19-4-1971; Dr Margery Blackie, Obituary to Sir John Weir, Brit Homeo Jnl 60, 1971, pp. 103–4; Dr Frank Bodman, Obituary to Sir John Weir, Brit Homeo Jnl 60:1, 1971, pp. 224–8; Anonymous, Obituary to Dr Douglas Gibson, Brit. Homeo. Jnl 66, 1977, p. 225; Weir's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography