James Davison

James Davison (born 28 August 1986 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian race driver driver who drives a Nissan GT-R at the Pirelli World Challenge.

His father Jon Davison was a Formula 5000 competitor and was the long-running promotor of racing events at Sandown Raceway. Davison's grandfather, Lex Davison, was a four-time winner of the Australian Grand Prix. He is a cousin of V8 Supercar drivers Alex and Will Davison. He also competed as a coxswain as part of Scotch College's championship-winning rowing crew in 2003.

Racing career

Open-wheel

Junior formula

In 2004 he joined the ranks of Formula Ford in his native Australia, running in both the Victorian and National Championships. At the end of 2004 he won a scholarship at the BMW Junior Scholarship Finals in Valencia. For 2005 Davison competed in the Formula BMW USA Junior Series, qualifying on the front row at the Canadian Formula 1 Grand Prix in Montreal, won at the US Grand Prix held at the world famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway, was second at the Denver street circuit and Mid-Ohio and third at Barber Motorsports Park and Road Atlanta. Based on these performances, Davison became part of the Confederation of Australian Motorsport Elite Driver program which included attendance at the Australian Institute of Sport and financial support from the Foundation. At the end of the season he qualified and finished tenth at the Formula BMW Final at Bahrain.

James Davison (disambiguation)

James Davison may refer to:

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James Davison (California politician)

James Davison (1827 – December 21, 1897) was the seventh President of the Chico Board of Trustees, the governing body of Chico, California from 1886 to 1888.

Early life and family

James Davison was born in Derry, Ireland in 1827. He came to America at the age of three years, with his father, who worked as a weaver in New Jersey. The family returned to Ireland due to his father's health, as well as the failure of a business in New York to which his father had been in consignment. He was thirteen at the time.

Aged 19, in 1846, James returned to America. He enlisted in Company G of the 2nd Ohio Infantry. He served under General Winfield Scott, in the Mexican–American War. After the war, the discovery of gold had become known, and he set out for California.

Life in California

Upon arrival, Davison engaged in mining for several years. He first mined near Nevada City and afterward on the Trinity River. A day's work gave him as much as $100, and over three years he saved $6,000.

James Davison Hunter

James Davison Hunter (born 1955) is an American sociologist who is the LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Baylor University. Hunter is a prominent figure in the sociology of religion and the sociology of culture, with much of his work dedicated to the study of evangelicalism and cultural change. He is also notable for popularizing the term culture war.

Education

Hunter received his B.A. from Gordon College in 1977, his M.A. from Rutgers University in 1979, and his Ph.D from Rutgers in 1981.

Career

Hunter began his career at Westmont College as Assistant Professor of Sociology during 1982-1983. He then moved to the University of Virginia, where he taught as Assistant Professor of Sociology from 1983 to 1989. He then became Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies from 1989-1994. He held the position of William R. Kennan Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies from 1994 until 2003, before becoming LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture, and Sociology Theory with appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Religious Studies. Since 1995 he has also served as Executive Director of the university's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture.

James Davison (poet/songwriter)

James Davison (lived c.1800) was a Tyneside attorney, poet and songwriter.

Details

Davison (who lived in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century) was a Tyneside songwriter, and, according to the information given by W & T Fordyce (publishers) in “The Tyne Songster” published in 1840, has the song "An Old And Curious Song (On The Late Mr R Clayton Being Made An Alderman)" attributed to his name.

The song is sung to the tune of "The Vicar And Moses". It is not written in Geordie dialect but definitely local to Newcastle). It was supposedly written after the resignation of Sir Matthew White-Ridley, a local magistrate, who resigned his office c1795 stating 'Clayton upstairs, Clayton downstairs will never do'

The song was first printed as a chapbook by Mrs Angus around 1795.

According to Fordyce, Davidson was an attorney and also penned the poem "Despair in Love, an imprecatory Prayer", which was also printed by Mrs Angus.

Nothing more appears to be known of this person, or their life.

James Davison (Wisconsin politician)

James Davison was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Biography

Davison was born on December 6, 1828 near what was then Belfast, Ireland. After residing in West Bend, Wisconsin, he moved to Dodge County, Wisconsin in 1868.

Assembly career

Davison was a member of the Assembly in 1879. He was a Democrat.

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