James Mercer (ice Hockey)
James Mercer may refer to: * James Mercer (jurist) (1736–1793), American jurist, Virginia delegate to Continental Congress * James Mercer (Australian politician) (1842–1925), New South Wales politician * James Mercer (mathematician) (1883–1932), English mathematician * James Mercer (musician) (born 1970), American guitarist and musician * Bert Mercer (James Cuthbert Mercer, 1886–1944), New Zealand aviator * James Mercer (diplomat), former Ghanaian ambassador to Israel and chairman of Ghana Airways See also * Jimmie Mercer James Arthur Mercer (August 12, 1871 – December 10, 1914) was a lawman and pioneer in Arizona Territory in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He was badly wounded by a suspected cattle rustler near the town of Pantano on December ...

James Mercer (jurist)
James Mercer (February 26, 1736 – October 31, 1793), was an Virginia lawyer, military officer, planter, jurist and politician. Early and family life Mercer was born in Stafford County, Virginia at his family's Marlborough plantation on February 26, 1736. His mother, the former Catherine Mason, was the youngest daughter of George Mason II, a prominent planter and his second wife Elizabeth Waugh, daughter of Rev. John Waugh (1630-1706). His father John Mercer had emigrated from Ireland and become a prominent lawyer, planter and land speculator. He married twice, although most of his children died before reaching legal age. James' mother Catherine bore ten children before her death in 1750 (when James was 14) and his stepmother Ann Roy (daughter of Dr. Mungo Roy of Essex County) bore nine children and survived her husband by two years. Thus James Mercer was born into the First Families of Virginia and received a private education suitable to his class, as well as access to his fa ...
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James Mercer (Australian Politician)
James Ballantine Mercer (1842 – 4 November 1925) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was born in Glasgow to tobacco spinner William Mercer and Grace Dixon. He left school at a young age to work as a woodcarver's apprentice in Sheffield, and then worked as a lay reader for the Church of England. Around 1867 he married Rachel Fearnley, with whom he had four children. He emigrated to Queensland in 1883 and moved to Sydney in 1885, working as a caretaker at the Seaman's Institute at Circular Quay. Around 1907 he married Mary Ann Burley in Melbourne. An active Labor Party member, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1907 as the member for Rozelle Rozelle is a suburb in the inner west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 4 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Inner West Council. Location Rozelle si .... Around 1915 he married his third wife, Margaret ...
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James Mercer (mathematician)
James Mercer FRS (15 January 1883 – 21 February 1932) was a mathematician, born in Bootle, close to Liverpool, England. He was educated at University of Manchester, and then University of Cambridge. He became a Fellow, saw active service at the Battle of Jutland in World War I and, after decades of ill health, died in London. He proved Mercer's theorem, which states that positive-definite kernels can be expressed as a dot product in a high-dimensional space. This theorem is the basis of the kernel trick In machine learning, kernel machines are a class of algorithms for pattern analysis, whose best known member is the support-vector machine (SVM). The general task of pattern analysis is to find and study general types of relations (for example ... ( applied by Aizerman), which allows linear algorithms to be easily converted into non-linear algorithms. References 1883 births 1932 deaths 19th-century British mathematicians 20th-century British mathematicians Mathe ...
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James Mercer (musician)
James Russell Mercer (born December 26, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and musician. He is the founder, vocalist, lead singer-songwriter, and sole remaining original member of the indie rock group The Shins. In 2009, Mercer and producer Danger Mouse formed the side project Broken Bells, for which they released a self-titled album in March 2010, followed by '' After the Disco'' in 2014, and then Into the Blue in 2022. Mercer also has acted, appearing in Matt McCormick's feature film ''Some Days Are Better Than Others'', which premiered in 2010. Early life Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Mercer was raised Roman Catholic but he became an atheist at age 10. His father was in the United States Air Force. Because of his father's deployments he attended high school in both England and Germany; he lived in England from 1985 to 1990. According to Mercer: "You know, my dad was a musician. He would ... he sang in country western acts in nightclubs and things. And so, I gre ...
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Bert Mercer
James Cuthbert Mercer (16 September 1886 – 30 June 1944) was a pioneer New Zealand aviator, establishing the country's first commercial airline, Air Travel (NZ) Ltd, in 1934 based around services operating between Hokitika and settlements in South Westland. Early life Mercer was born in Dunedin and when he left school, he worked as a bicycle and car mechanic. Mercer learned to fly while working as a mechanic at the Sockburn airport in Christchurch and became the Canterbury Aero Club's first instructor when it formed in 1928. Career In 1934 Mercer set up Air Travel (NZ) Ltd, which became the first licensed airline to commence services in New Zealand with its inaugural flight on 18 December from Hokitika. Very shortly after the airline began delivering mail. When the service began operating in 1934 along the West Coast, Mercer used a de Havilland Fox Moth. Death and legacy Mercer died in an aircrash in 1944 when the company's de Havilland Dragon ZK-AHT, piloted by Colin Lewis, c ...
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James Mercer (diplomat)
James Mercer (17 January 1916 – 17 September 1985) was a Ghanaian diplomat who was Ambassador to Israel during the 1960s. He was also a prominent lawyer and businessman, becoming the founding chairman of the now-defunct Ghana Airways. Early life Mercer was born in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana on 17 January 1916. His twin brother was Thomas Mends Kodwo-Mercer (1916–2003), and both attended Adisadel College, Cape Coast, as did many of his siblings, children and grandchildren, a long-standing tradition of his family. Career Mercer was a prominent lawyer, working during the government of Kwame Nkrumah and beyond. Mercer was a barrister-at-law at the Sekondi Bar, Chairman of the Ghana/Ivory Coast Border Commission and first chairman of the now-defunct Ghana Airways. *From 24 May 1962 to 1963 he was ambassador to Peking. *From 1 July 1964 to 24 February 1966 he was ambassador to Tel Aviv ( Ghana–Israel relations). Personal life and death James Mercer was the father of Andrew E ...
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