Anne Oldfield was an English actress. She was born in London, to Anne Gourlaw and William Oldfield, a soldier.
Kenneth Giles was a British crime writer. Giles, who died in 1974, wrote books under his own name, as well as the pseudonyms Charles Drummond and Edmund McGirr.
Ernest Newburn McGirr, was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Progressive Conservative from 1949 to 1953.
Eamonn Joseph McGirr was a Northern Ireland-born entertainer in New York's Capital District area.
Afton Township is one of nineteen townships in DeKalb County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 861 and it contained 372 housing units.
Servant of God Augustus Tolton, baptized Augustine Tolton, was the first Roman Catholic priest in the United States publicly known to be black when he was ordained in 1886. A former slave who was baptized and reared Catholic, Tolton studied formally in Rome.
James "Jim" McGirr was the Labor Premier of New South Wales from 6 February 1947 to 3 April 1952.
Herbert Mendelson McGirr was a New Zealand cricketer who played in two Tests in 1930.
John Joseph Gregory "Greg" McGirr was an Australian politician who served in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1913 to 1925, representing the Labor Party. He served as the party's leader for little over a month in 1923, during an internal dispute. He had earlier served as deputy leader and as Minister for Public Health under James Dooley.
Rachel Trixie Anne Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes, AM, FRSA, JP is an Australian-born dentist and Conservative member of the British House of Lords. She is the only Australian woman to date who has been elevated to the peerage.
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1950 to 1953, as elected at the 1950 state election:
McGirr is an Irish Gaelic Surname. It may be derived from an epithet or may be a calque or Phono-semantic match to the Irish word gearr which translates as Short. According to the Irish Times Households in the 19th Century database, 'Gear' as a surname was found to be exclusive to Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Kilkenny and Offaly with the majority in Kerry. However 70% of McGirr households in the 19th Century were found in Tyrone and almost exclusively in Ulster. The name McGirr is certainly most common in Tyrone and is associated with the Cenél Fearadhaigh of Clogher barony.
The 1950 New South Wales state election was held on 17 June 1950. It was conducted in single member constituencies with compulsory preferential voting and was held on boundaries created at a 1949 redistribution. The election was for all of the 94 seats in the Legislative Assembly, which was an increase of 4 seats since the previous election.
Professor Dr. Edward McCombie McGirr was Muirhead professor of medicine at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, a former President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and Dean of Faculties at the University of Glasgow.
The McGirr ministry (1947) or First McGirr ministry was the 52nd ministry of the New South Wales Government, and was led by the 28th Premier, the Honourable Jim McGirr, MLA, of the Labor Party. The ministry was the first of three occasions when the Government was led by McGirr, as Premier.
The McGirr ministry (1947–1950) or Second McGirr ministry was the 53rd ministry of the New South Wales Government, and was led by the 28th Premier, the Honourable Jim McGirr, MLA, of the Labor Party. The ministry was the second of three consecutive occasions when the Government was led by McGirr, as Premier.
The McGirr ministry (1955–1957) or Third McGirr ministry was the 54th ministry of the New South Wales Government, and was led by the 28th Premier, the Honourable Jim McGirr, MLA, of the Labor Party. The ministry was the third and final of three consecutive occasions when the Government was led by McGirr, as Premier.
The Cahill ministry (1956–1959) or Third Cahill ministry was the 57th ministry of the New South Wales Government, and was led by the 29th Premier, the Honourable Joe Cahill, MLA, of the Labor Party. The ministry was the third of four consecutive occasions when the Government was led by Cahill, as Premier.
A by-election was held in the New South Wales state electoral district of Wagga Wagga on 8 September 2018. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Daryl Maguire, a Liberal-turned-independent. Maguire resigned from Parliament the previous month after admitting to a corruption inquiry that he sought payment over a property deal.
Joseph Gregory McGirr is an independent politician, and a physician and former associate dean of the University of Notre Dame Australia. He is the elected member for Wagga Wagga in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since the 2018 by-election. ABC News declared him the winner on 9 September, the day after the election, with the New South Wales Electoral Commission confirming it on 14 September. He came second to the Liberal candidate by only 28 votes after the Liberals' primary vote almost halved from 2015, and was elected on Labor preferences. He previously contested the seat in 2011 and received 30.6% of the first preference vote.
