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  Margaret Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margaret Wilson (20th May 1947 -), a New Zealand politician, currently serves as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives.
Margaret Wilson (centre), with Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright (left) and Prime Minister Helen Clark (right), 3 March 2005, on the occasion of her confirmation in office as Speaker of the New Zealand Parliament.
Wilson strongly promotes various social causes such as feminism and multiculturalism, and opponents often painted her as Labour's most "politically correct" minister.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Wilson   (410 words)

  
 Mrs. Margaret B. Wilson
Wilson was the son of William and Rebecca (Pierce) Wilson and while he was yet quite young his parents took up their residence in Illinois and later removed to Missouri.
Wilson has carried on the various interests in which they were mutually concerned with the same care skill business capacity and public sprit that distinguished their management prior to his death.
Wilson has a ranch of 2,000 acres of excellent land well improved and highly cultivated and on this ranch she maintains extensive herds of cattle and bands of horses keeping them in good condition and always sustaining the high standard of her brand.
www.angelfire.com /ne/PhyllisGenealogy/margaretwilson.html   (455 words)

  
 Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (April 4, 1828 - June 25, 1897), Scottish novelist and historical writer, daughter of Francis Wilson, was born at Wallyford, near Musselburgh, East Lothian.
This she followed up in 1851 with Caleb Field, and in the same year met Major William Blackwood in Edinburgh, and was invited by him to contribute to the famous Blackwood's Magazine.
In May 1852 she married her cousin, Frank Wilson Oliphant, at Birkenhead, and settled at Harrington Square, in London.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Oliphant_Oliphant   (722 words)

  
 Princeton - News - Margaret D. Wilson, Philosopher and Environmental Activist
She was Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Harvard in 1960-1961 and studied at Oxford University on a Marshall Fellowship in 1963-1964.
Wilson was signally honored by her profession: she held Guggenheim and ACLS fellowships (in 1977-1978 and 1982-1983, respectively), she was a Centennial Medalist of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1989, and she was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.
Wilson combined her love of conservation and wildlife preservation with travel to various parts of the world to visit environmentally sensitive areas.
www.princeton.edu /pr/news/98/q3/0901-wilson.htm   (746 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Margaret Oliphant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Margaret Oliphant was born in Wallyford, Midlothian, the only daughter and youngest child of Francis W. Wilson, an excise clerk, and his wife, Margaret Oliphant: the family moved to Liverpool in 1838.
Margaret received a literary education from her mother, whose pride in her daughter's talent was tempered by the conviction that it must not exempt her from the performance of a woman's domestic duties.
Margaret was sent to London to superintend the last stage of Willie's ministerial training and there she met her cousin and future husband, Frank Oliphant, a painter and stained glass window artist.
www.litdict.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3412   (651 words)

  
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The Farm tried to increase the scope of the lawsuit to claim that Margaret Wilson, the child’s mother, was responsible of the accident by failure to supervise the child.
Wilson and her child lived on the farm at the time of the accident.
Wilson, was not an owner of the horse, Penny, which caused plaintiff's injury, nor did she own the land on which the accident occurred.
tarlton.law.utexas.edu /dawson/cases/child/wilson.htm   (1847 words)

  
 Margarets
Though both bore the name of Margaret, one was an aged saint of 70 and the other a young girl of 18 when they were cruelly put to death for their faith.
Margaret MacLachlan was tied first to a stake pounded into the sandy soil far out in the firth where the waters of the incoming tide would cover her.
Margaret Wilson was tied to a similar stake closer into shore so that she could witness the death of her aged friend and fellow saint before the waters would bury her.
www.prca.org /books/portraits/margaret.htm   (1804 words)

  
 Margaret J   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Margaret J. Wilson, was born at Cape May, N. J., May 10, 1835, departed this life at her home in Clark county, Kansas, November 15, 1901, aged 66 years, 6 months and 5 days.
Wilson has been ailing for some time, but no immediate fears of death were expected, and Matt had gone to Great Bend and Charles was at Bucklin when the end came.
Wilson having been a member of the Presbyterian church for over thirty five years, the funeral services were conducted at the house by Rev. W.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ks/county/clark/obits/wilsonmargaretjobit.htm   (240 words)

  
 Motorcycle Hall of Fame: Margaret Wilson
Margaret Wilson is one of the first of a generation of female motorcyclists in post-World War II America who took up the sport and began changing the image of the motorcycling as an exclusive domain of men.
Margaret was awarded a Golden Life membership in the Motor Maids, Inc. club for her years of active participation and dedication to their cause.
Margaret and Mike both served on the Board of Directors of the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum and were among the Museum's principal benefactors.
www.motorcyclemuseum.org /halloffame/hofbiopage.asp?id=368   (531 words)

  
 AMA News -- AMA presents 'Bessie Stringfield Award' to Margaret Wilson
Margaret Wilson accepts the AMA Bessie Stringfield Award from AMA President Robert Rasor (left) with her husband, Mike, by her side.
Margaret's love of motorcycling began in 1946, when her husband, Mike, gave her a new Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Margaret and Mike currently both serve on the Board of Directors of the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum and are among the Museum's principal benefactors.
www.ama-cycle.org /news/2003/BessieAward.asp   (399 words)

  
 REARCH QUESTION
The second reason is that a will was discovered written by Margaret Wilson, naming herself as relict and widow of Isaac Wilson, dated 1830, and found in 1940 in the house of John Lemuel Wilson, son of Isaac Wilson, Jr., Margaret's son.
Isaac Wilson was undoubtedly married to Margaret McCrary, but she was not the daughter of Hugh McCrary, Sr.
Margaret, Hugh's daughter is at this time already married to George Thomason at the time of this land purchase.
home.att.net /~lamccrary/margaret.htm   (899 words)

  
 02: Margaret Wilson: The Martyr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Margaret Wilson, eighteen, and her sister, Agnes, not yet thirteen years old, were the daughters of Gilbert Wilson, tenant of Glenvernoch in the parish of Penninghame.
When the water was overflowing her fellow-martyr, some about Margaret Wilson asked her, what she thought of the other now struggling with the pangs of death.
When Margaret Wilson was at the stake, she sang the 25th Psalm from verse 7th, downward a good way, and read the 8th chapter to the Romans with a great deal of cheerfulness, and then prayed.
www.magichelix.com /core/human/fire/00.htm   (760 words)

  
 Auch 2000 - The Wilson Family
Elspeth was born September 29, 1789 in the parish of Kettle, Fifeshire, Scotland; to John Wilson and Elspeth Lawson.
Thomas Wilson was born on March 27, 1851, and was christened on April 5, 1851, in St. Athernase, Leuchars, Fifeshire, Scotland (Leuchars OPR).
Thomas Wilson Stationmaster and Elder in the United Free Church, was born March 27, 1851 in Leuchars Parish, Fifeshire, Scotland.
www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/Wilson.html   (2359 words)

  
 Margaret Uhler Wilson, First Lieutenant, United States Army   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Margaret Uhler Wilson, 80, a retired registered nurse who was an Army veteran of World War II, died of respiratory arrest March 1, 1998 at Alexandria Hospital.
Wilson, a native of Pennsylvania, graduated from Allentown General Hospital School of Nursing in 1939 and three years later received a commission in the Army Nurse Corps.
Wilson, an Army officer who later retired as a lieutenant colonel, on military assignments in the United States and abroad.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /muwilson.htm   (215 words)

  
 Ross Beattie's WILSON Lineage
Wilson was one of the many surnames made common in the northern Irish counties by emigrants from lowland Scotland, who settled around the fortified Plantation towns established by King James I of England and his successors.
Jeremiah Wilson was arraigned for that he did, on August 3rd, at Mount Victoria, steal one gelding, the property of Robert Vincent, one gelding, the property of William Reeves, and one mare, the property of Ernest Thomas Whalan.
Margaret was the daughter of THOMAS and JANE LOBBAN; her birth was registered in the Manning River district in the NSW mid-north coast in 1864, where the birth of her elder sister Mary Isabella Lobban had been registered in 1862.
www.geocities.com /heartland/park/2283/families/wilson.html   (10827 words)

  
 ABA Division for Public Education: Black History Month 2000, Profile 1: Margaret Bush Wilson
Having managed successfully a St. Louis firm, now Wilson and Associates for over 40 years, she is fond of pointing out that she was born before passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.
Wilson was persuaded to think about becoming a lawyer, her home state of Missouri did not allow fls to attend its state-supported law schools.
Wilson was counsel for the Real Estate Brokers Association which was formed at her father's initiative to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
www.abanet.org /publiced/mbw.html   (489 words)

  
 The Labour Party of New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Margaret Wilson first entered Parliament on the Labour Party list in 1999 and gained a Ministerial post immediately after her election.
Attorney-General Margaret Wilson today announced the retirement of Judge David Carruthers as Chief District Court Judge and the appointment of Judge Russell Johnson as his successor.
Margaret Wilson today announced the appointment of the Honourable Justice Anthony Penrose Randerson as Chief High Court Judge.
www.labour.org.nz /Our_mps_top/margaret_wilson/index.html   (224 words)

  
 UC Santa Cruz - Psychology - Directory - Faculty Member Details
Meg Wilson's research focuses on how sensorimotor information is used "off-line" to mentally simulate external events.
Wilson, M. and Emmorey, K.A "word length effect" for sign language: Further evidence on the role of language in structuring working memory.
Wilson, M. and Emmorey, K. A visuo-spatial "phonological loop" in working memory: Evidence from American Sign Language.
psych.ucsc.edu /directory/details.php?id=27   (189 words)

  
 Bradley Rymph: Genealogy: Samuel Wilson King / Margaret Taylor Gerrard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Samuel Wilson King had a restless spirit that typified many of the pioneers of his day.
Finally, Samuel and Margaret settled down, raising their family of six sons and four daughters on their prairie farm.
Margaret died of a heart attack in March 1892.
mysite.verizon.net /bbrymph/genkiger.htm   (295 words)

  
 Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828-1897): A Brief Biography
Passages in the Life of Margaret Maitland, her first published novel, appeared in 1849 and gained her some recognition as a weaver of provincial tales.
Though Oliphant never earned the reputation of Charles Dickens or George Eliot, she was reputed to be Queen Victoria's favorite novelist and left a literary and critical legacy that persists today.
Married in 1852 to her cousin Frank Oliphant, Margaret out-lived her husband, who passed away in 1859, as well as her seven children.
www.victorianweb.org /authors/oliphant/bio.html   (627 words)

  
 Wilson, Grace Margaret - Australian Women Biographical entry
Grace Wilson was mentioned in dispatches five times as well as being awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal on 2 May 1916 as well as the Florence Nightingale Medal.
Wilson was mentioned in dispatches five times, awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal and Royal Red Cross Medal as well as being appointed a Commander (Military) of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1919 for army nursing service.
From 1940 until 1941 Wilson was the matron-in-chief, Nursing Service with A.I.F. She then became executive officer with the Nursing Control Section, at the Manpower Directorate.
www.womenaustralia.info /biogs/IMP0159b.htm   (536 words)

  
 Scoop: Big News: Margaret Wilson Heaps Big Legislator
Property rights for de facto couples is a move in the right direction, but Margaret Wilson needs her head read by a man in a long white coat if she thinks this law is “fair and humane”.
You and I. Like the provisions for paid parental leave (another Margaret Wilson hash), the Holidays Act is just another step in the direction of ensure the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and politicians get everything in their favour.
Margaret Wilson is doing nothing for small businesses – and creates hell for married or de facto’s who form business partnerships before their personal relationship disintegrates.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0202/S00021.htm   (1464 words)

  
 Margaret Wilson, PhD
O’Dell, D.M., Gibson, C.G., Wilson, M.S., DeFord, S.M., and Hamm, R.J. (2000) Positive and negative modulation of the GABAA receptor and outcome after traumatic brain injury in rats.
Wilson, M.S., and Hamm, R.J. The effects of fluoxetine on the 5-HT1A receptor and recovery of cognitive function after traumatic brain injury in rats.
Baranova, A., Wilson, M.S., Gibson, C.J., Hamm, R.J. (2001) The effects of chronic nicotine exposure in adolescent rats on Morris water maze performance after fluid percussion injury.
www.safar.pitt.edu /content/education/trainee_bio/wilson.html   (718 words)

  
 TomFolio.com: by Margaret Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Mackey, Margaret Gilbert; Wilson, Amber Mildred; Estes, Genevieve Ellis, Illustrated by: Photographs Modern California: Its Geography, History, and Growth Publisher: California State Department of Education 1950.
Wilson, Margaret D. The Essential Descartes : A Comprehensive Selection form the Writings of the 17th Century Thinker Who Changed the Course of Western Thought Publisher: Mentor / New American Library 1969.
Wilson, Margaret G. The American Woman in Transition : the Urban Influence, 1870-1920 (6) (Contributions in Women's Studies) Publisher: Greenwood 1979.
www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Margaret_Wilson   (789 words)

  
 Margaret Jane Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Margaret was born on 12-Mar-1845 in Hamilton, ONT.
She died, at the age of 75, on 10-Dec-1920 in Toronto, ONT. Margaret had a husband named Edward Octavius Kennard, and three sons and three daughters, named Alfred, Charles, Walter, Annie, Gertrude and Margaret.
Click here to display the entire genealogy tree report of Wilson families, or search the family tree surname index of Wilson pedigrees or view the family tree report summary of Wilson heritage from "Descendants of James Kennard and Eden Blake (Blaber?)".
www.iserv.net /~wkennard/kennard/ontario/James1797/ind00147.htm   (299 words)

  
 Margaret Wilson shows her bias and ineptitude | Sir Humphrey's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Margaret Wilson shows her bias and ineptitude
I trust I have sufficiently addressed the issue of Wilson's competency, having mentioned her name in the response.
So according to Margaret 'i am so one-sided' Wilson if a Minister of the Crown said 'blue fish red fish' that addresses the question.
www.sirhumphreys.com /node/4630   (422 words)

  
 Margaret Sullivan Wilson Girault
Daughter: Mary Phillips Wilson (born Oct. 13, 1803).
Daughter: Katharine Ann Wilson (born Jan. 14, 1808).
Son: Gerret Voorheese Wilson (born Sept. 19, 1810).
users.snip.net /~sgirault/voorhees.htm   (637 words)

  
 Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant (Wilson) - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
OLIPHANT, MARGARET OLIPHANT (WILSON) [Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant (Wilson)] 1828-97, Scottish author.
She was widowed at the age of 31 and subsequently supported her own three children and her brother and his family.
The domestic drone: Margaret Oliphant and a political history of the novel.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-oliphntm1.html   (248 words)

  
 ASBA Member: Margaret Wilson
Margaret Wilson strives to show the personality of plants in her botanical illustrations.
She loves the most to illustrate the variety of wild flowers of the 40 acres of woods of her childhood home n Lewisburg, PA. Recently, Margaret has obtained her own 12 acres of forest in upstate New York.
Margaret gets her desire to paint detailed works of art from attending the medical illustration program of The Rochester Institute of Technology.
huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu /ASBA/ASBA-Participant/W/Wilson-Ma.html   (167 words)

  
 Wilson, Grace Margaret - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In the First World War she was principal matron of the 3rd Australian General Hospital in England, Lemnos, Abbassia and France.
She was awarded the Royal Red Cross in 1916 for her work in the Australian Army Nursing Service and was appointed as Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919 for her work in France.
In the Second World War Wilson was matron-in-chief of the nursing service with the Australian Imperial Forces.
www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/biogs/P004432b.htm   (264 words)

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