Captain William Mackintosh was an Irish-born British Army officer and Canadian surveyor and engineer.
Read more about Captain William Mackintosh: Parentage and Family, Education and Career, Death
Famous quotes containing the words captain, william and/or mackintosh:
“Do you know who’s sneaked into my stateroom at three o’clock this morning? Nobody, and that’s my complaint!”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Arthur Sheekman, Will Johnstone, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Monkey Business, a complaint shipboard stowaway Groucho makes to the ship’s captain (Ben Taggart)
“I often think it’s comical
How Nature always does contrive
That every boy and every gal,
That’s born into the world alive,
Is either a little Liberal,
Or else a little Conservative!”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.”
—James Mackintosh (1765–1832)