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Orkneyjar - Dr John Rae - Orkney's greatest unsung hero John Rae was born at the Hall of Clestrain in Orphir on September 30, 1813, the sixth of a family of nine - and fourth son - of John Rae senior, the factor of Sir William Honeyman's Orkney estate. Rae abandoned the search for Franklin in 1854 after he learned the expedition had ended in disaster and that the last survivors had been forced to resort to cannibalism. Upon the publication of Rae's report, the establishment condemned the contents and John Rae's integrity was immediately called into question. www.orkneyjar.com /history/historicalfigures/johnrae/index.html   (1760 words)

MSN Encarta - John Rae Rae, John (1813-1893), Scottish explorer and surveyor in the Arctic. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551575/John_Rae.html   (76 words)

NZFPM - Flight Lieutenant John Donald Rae Jack Rae was born in Auckland on 15 January 1919 and prior to entry into the RNZAF in September 1940 worked as a clerk. After a month Rae rejoined his unit and by the time he was posted back to the United Kingdom in August 1942 he had increased his personal tally by four enemy aircraft destroyed and another shared, four more probably destroyed and four others damaged. Rae flew a Spitfire off the American aircraft carrier USS Wasp on 20 April 1942 to join 249 Squadron at Takali in Malta. www.nzfpm.co.nz /aces/rae.htm   (488 words)

JOHN RAE John Rae was born at Footdee, a suburb of Aberdeen, Scotland, June 1, 1796. According to the "Dictionary of American Biography", young Rae studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and, though he was afterwards known as Dr. Rae, he did not take his medical degree because he was "discouraged from presenting his inaugural dissertation which embodied a revolutionary view of physiology". In December, 1837, Dr. Rae joined the Hamilton Volunteers and went to Toronto and to the Niagara frontier to fight in the rebellion against the British government in Canada. hml.org /mmhc/mdindex/rae.html   (779 words)

The Hall of Clestrain - Orkney Boat Museum - Dr John Rae Born on the 30th of September 1813, at the Hall of Clestrain, Orphir, in Orkney, John Rae was the fourth son of John Rae (Senior) and Margaret Campbell Rae. John Rae continued to set out on expeditions - in 1860 he was employed to carry out the land part of a survey for a projected telegraph line from Great Britain to North America via the Faeroes, Iceland and Greenland. Rae adapted well to the harsh conditions of the region by adopting their survival methods and he became an expert canoeist, hunted and fished, and learned how to live off the land - he also became an expert in snowshoeing. www.spacemonkeylab.com /clestrain/history/john_rae.php   (960 words)

John RAE and Margaret O'NEIL According to the 1901 census, John was born on 8 June 1858 in Germany and was Lutheran. John married Lucie CHARETTE on 7 Sept. 1914 in Masson, Quebec (5). iii) Roseanne Victoria RAE was born on 17 Oct. 1889 and was baptised on 31 Oct. 1889 in Thurso, Quebec (3). www.bytown.net /rae.htm   (1716 words)

Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, Rae eventually received credit and a reward for discovering the fate of Franklin but he was denied a knighthood, a honour bestowed on many lesser men in the history of Arctic exploration. Rae traveled north along the coast of Boothia and discovered that King William Land was an island and that the strait separating it from the mainland – now known as Rae Strait – was the last piece in the Northwest Passage puzzle which Europeans had been trying to solve since the 17th century. Rae prepared himself by snowshoeing 700 miles back to Moose Factory and in the two years that followed he learned to use a sextant and the art of surveying. www.ric.edu /rpotter/fatal_passage.html   (1793 words)

John Rae -- Arctic Explorer and HA Member Rae was born on 30 September 1813 near Stromness, on the windswept Orkney Islands in the north of Scotland. Rae was the author of a Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847 (London, 1850). In 1848 he accompanied Sir John Richardson on a search for the lost Sir John Franklin expedition; and in 1851 searched the western, southern and eastern shores of Victoria and Wollaston islands, charted some 630 miles of unknown territory, and found pieces of wood that were probably parts of Sir John Franklin's vessels. nebula.on.ca /hamiltonassoc/jr_intro.htm   (477 words)

Gauntlet Buzz - McGoogan leaves John Rae a mystery Rae discovered the last link of the Northwest Passage but was swept aside in the history books due to the smear campaign of Franklin's widow. Instead it's the story of John Rae, a Scottish Hudson's Bay Company officer who explored and lived in the harsh wilderness with more successes than most. Gauntlet Buzz - McGoogan leaves John Rae a mystery www.ucalgary.ca /~gauntlet/eg/eg2/20010531/buzz/buzz04.html   (507 words)

Rae, John --  Encyclopædia Britannica Rae was educated in classics, mathematics, and medicine at the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, and he distinguished himself as an inventor and natural scientist as well as an economist. John Herschel discovered 525 star clusters and nebulae not recorded by his father, and he made the first telescopic survey of the southern heavens. The end of the Napoleonic Wars had left the British navy relatively unemployed, and the British government, spurred by the enthusiasm of Sir John Barrow, second secretary to the admiralty, was persuaded to equip a whole series of large naval expeditions for the discovery of the Northwest Passage. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9062440?tocId=9062440   (637 words)

Family History : the "PersonPage" for John Rae John Rae was born on 28 Jun 1801. Family History : the "PersonPage" for John Rae homepage.ntlworld.com /phil.bowden/PP/I2369.htm   (16 words)

Fatal Passage: The True Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot John Rae was a departure from the usual explorer of the Victorian age. It was easier for the outraged British to claim that Rae was a liar or a fool and that the Inuit had either murdered the Franklin crews or selfishly hogged all the caribou to themselves and declined to help the starving explorers. Rae, an outdoorsman and naturalist, was commissioned to explore the shores of the vast Arctic waters, searching for the last, elusive connection that would allow sailing ships to navigate from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. 909060.onlinesportdiscount.com /3436373937302d312d30373836373039393336.html   (2246 words)

John Rae Photography, weddings, public relations, sporting events, aerial photography, industrial and commercial photography, special events. John Rae Photography is a much sought-after professional organisation, which has built a distinct reputation for quality, professionalism, enthusiasm and creative excellence on assignments, at home and abroad. By focusing on what is important to clients, as well as adopting the traditional philosophy that the 'customer is king', John Rae and his colleagues work hard, not only to deliver what is wanted in terms of quality, timing and value for money, but also to go that one stage further and exceed clients' expectations. John Rae Photography, weddings, public relations, sporting events, aerial photography, industrial and commercial photography, special events. www.johnraephotography.co.uk   (133 words)

JOHN RAE - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN RAE JOHN RAE - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN RAE Dr Rae attributed much to his success in Arctic travel to his adoption of the methods of the Eskimo, a people whom he had studied very closely. He died at his house in London and was buried in the Orkney Islands. www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RA/RAE_JOHN.htm   (306 words)

Press Release: Sister Genevieve by John Rae John Rae, who knew Sister Genevieve since 1987, is an acclaimed novelist and historian, and was the distinguished headmaster of Westminster School from 1970 to 1986. On the surface, John Rae and Sister Genevieve seemed to have little in common other than the fact that they were both involved in the education of young people. The more Rae learned about the impact "the Troubles" had on St. Louise's-the fathers and brothers killed or imprisoned, the senior girls who joined the IRA, the violence of the streets where the girls lived-the more he began to appreciate what a remarkable person Sister Genevieve was. www.twbookmark.com /jrun/books/62/0446528242/press_release.html   (974 words)

John Rae emigrated from Britain to Canada in the nineteenth century John Rae emigrated from Britain to Canada in the nineteenth century Notice that Rae tells us that private incentives to innovate depend ultimately on the fertility and appropriability of research.   In Chapter 1 of his book “New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy”  (1834) he reaches the following conclusions about the role of government in improving productivity and adding to the “Wealth of Nations” (NB: What Rae calls “art” we would now call “technology”): www.chass.utoronto.ca /~melino/202/Rae.html   (254 words)

Library of Economics and Liberty: Biographies in Brief John Milton, English poet, historian, and essayist, preferred poetry but later in life was drawn to publish pamphlets and works defending religious and civil liberty, freedom of the press, and practical reforms. John Elliot Cairnes, Irish economist, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Oxford, was a follower of Ricardo and Mill. John Bates Clark, American economist, was the first to develop marginal productivity theory, using it to explore the distribution of income between returns to labor and capital in a market economy. www.econlib.org /library/briefbios.html   (3890 words)

Artist Showcase - Phil Bancroft John Rae is an accomplished jazz drummer who has been studying traditional fiddle for almost ten years, and with this new group, presents a new collection of compositions that incorporate his knowledge of traditional and jazz music. John Rae's Celtic Feet are six musicians who have loyalty to tradition mixed with a passion to experiment and improvise creating a new sound to accompany a new millennium. John Rae is the drummer with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and one of the founding members of the Scottish Composer's Jazz Ensemble. www.cabermusic.com /asjr.htm   (398 words)

John Rae Rae was also a member of the Natural history society of that city and of the other distinguished societies.Rae later retired at London.Before Rae died,he left some instructions where he wanted to be buried, he wanted to be buried in St..Magnus’s Cathedral,Orkney.John Rae died in London in 1893. John Rae went to school from when he was 15 years old, till he was 21 years of age (1829-1835). Rae also found out that Wollaston Lands is actually an island.He had about 3 trips altogether 1848-1851, 1851 and 1853-1854 tying to find Sir John Franklin and his crew. www.k12.nf.ca /perlwin/John%20Rae.html   (483 words)

Manitoba Pageant: Dr. John Rae At one time in this expedition, Rae was within one hundred and fifty miles of the two ships, Erebus and Terror, of the Franklin expedition which were beset by the ice, but he did not know of their desperate plight. With Commander Pullen, R.N., Rae made another unsuccessful attempt in 1850, but in 1853, in still another trip to the Arctic, he met Eskimos who gave an account of seeing men of the Franklin expedition "four winters past," and later he found thirty-five bodies. Richardson and Rae failed to find any trace of the Franklin party. www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/pageant/04/rae_j.shtml   (936 words)

Interview Ken McGoogan Rae returned to Victorian England with news of what had happened to the Franklin expedition: how it ended in disaster and degenerated into cannibalism. Rae wrote that, "From the mutilated state of many of the corpses and the contents of the kettles, it is evident that our wretched countrymen had been driven to the last resource -- cannibalism -- as a means of prolonging existence." Leading those who vilified the returning adventurer was the unfortunate Sir John's widow, Lady Jane Franklin, who wanted her late husband remembered as a hero: and certainly not be tainted by the brush of cannibalism. www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/mcgoogan.html   (3913 words)

John Rae RAE, John, explorer, born in Clestrain House, in the Orkney islands, 30 September, 1813. Rae studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1829 till 1833, when he was graduated, entered the service of the Hudson bay company as surgeon, and lived at Moose fort from 1835 till 1845, making many explorations in British America. In 1848 he accompanied Sir John Richardson in a search for Sir John Franklin along the coast from Mackenzie river to Coppermine river, and in 1850 was placed in charge of a similar expedition by the Hudson bay company. www.famousamericans.net /johnrae   (722 words)

MUHC - Biography - John Rae John Rae is presently Executive Vice-President, Office of the Chairman of the Executive Committee of Power Corporation of Canada, where he has worked as an executive since 1971. Rae graduated with an Honours B.A. in Political Studies and Economics from Queen's University in 1967. Since that time, Rae has served as National Campaign Chairman for the Leadership Campaign of the Right Hon. www.muhcfoundation.com /home/bio_j_rae.html   (171 words)

The Daily Mail (London, England) : He was the man who found a way through the ice, and discovered the fate of another who failed. Yet for revealing the ghastly truth, John Rae was... @ HighBeam Research John Rae picked up the powder horn, the items of ship's cutlery and the officer's cap, his face inscrutable. Yet for revealing the ghastly truth, John Rae was... Yet for revealing the ghastly truth, John Rae was...' with a FREE Trial for instant access » static.highbeam.com /t/thedailymaillondonengland/may222004/hewasthemanwhofoundawaythroughtheiceanddiscoveredt/index.html   (355 words)

Critical Praise: John Rae "Rae shows real insight into the spiritual motivation which Genevieve drew from her religious life….He developed also an unusual understanding of the armed conflict which raged over west Belfast." www.twbookmark.com /authors/79/2653/critical_praise.html   (57 words)

ManyOne – Management: John Rae-Grant John was a key driver of the management team which transformed Microsoft’s C++ business from a distant second place to undisputed market leader. John’s final position at Microsoft was as Business Unit Manager of the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), where he directed MSDN’s emerging use of the Web, doubling revenues in one year. In 1999, John co-founded one of Canada& first and most prominent Internet incubators: As the CTO for NRG, John was the primary evaluator and strategist for technology-based investments. manyone.com /about/management/john-rae-grant.html   (266 words)

John Angus Rae Blain A footballer of some note, John was signed for the Scottish senior club Falkirk FC but has now elected to try for a career as a professional cricketer. An opening bowler who has yet to show his full prowess with the bat for Scotland, John had a particularly successful series of games during the 1996 European Championship until he was injured in the last game of the tournament. Scotland's John Blain on cricket north of Hadrian's Wall (2 April 1999) www.cricinfo.com /link_to_database/NATIONAL/ICC_MEMBERS/SCOT/PLAYERS/BLAIN_JAR_30004968   (198 words)

johnraebiog The drummer with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and one of the founding members of the Scottish Composer's Jazz Ensemble, he is the leader and composer for the John Rae Collective, John Rae's Celtic Feet and the Power Of Scotland Big- Band and a prominent member of the Brian Kellock Trio. John recorded his first album at the age of sixteen with the acclaimed saxophonist Tommy Smith and has subsequently recorded with many artists. As a composer John contributes music for television, radio, commissions for large and small ensembles and his very unique group the Celtic Composers Collective. www.sol.co.uk /t/thetunesmith/johnbiog.htm   (328 words)

Canadian Economics Association - John Rae Prize The Prize has been named after John Rae, born in Scotland in 1796, who did most of his work in Canada and was a genuine precursor of endogenous growth theory. The CEA offers the Rae Prize every two years. The Prize is intended to recognize research excellence in the recent past and is not a life-time award. economics.ca /raeprize   (206 words)

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