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James Wood (musician), James Wood
James or Jim Wood may refer to: Politics and government * James Wood (governor) (1741–1813), Governor of Virginia and officer in the American Revolutionary War * James Wood (New York politician) (1820–1892), New York politician and Union Army general * James Wood (Irish politician) (1865–1936), Member of Parliament for East Down, 1902–1906 * Jim Wood (California politician) (born 1960), member of the California State Assembly * Jim Wood (Arkansas politician) (fl. late 20th century), State Auditor of Arkansas * Sebastian Wood (James Sebastian Lamin Wood, born 1961), British Ambassador to Germany Sport * James Wood (footballer) (1893–?), professional footballer, who played for South Shields, Huddersfield Town and Blackpool * Jamie Wood (born 1978), footballer * Jimmy Wood (1842–1927), American baseball player and manager * Jim Wood (American football) (born 1936), American gridiron football player and coach * James Wood (South African cricketer) (born 1985), Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wood (governor)
James Wood (January 28, 1741June 16, 1813) was an officer of the U.S. Continental Army during the American Revolution and the 11th Governor of Virginia. Early life Born in Winchester Frederick County, Virginia. on January 28, 1741, Wood was the son of an immigrant of the same name who performed surveys for Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron and helped found the town. He was educated privately and became active like his father in the local parish, Christ Episcopal Church in Winchester. Career In February 1760 he was appointed Deputy Clerk of the County Court. From 1766 to 1775 he served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. He married Jane Moncure and they had no children. Wood was commissioned a captain of Virginia troops by the Governor, Lord Dunmore, in 1774. He took part in the Battle of Point Pleasant during Dunmore's War, and afterwards negotiated the Treaty of Fort Pitt with the Shawnee Indians. American Revolutionary War service In 1776 Wood was appoin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wood (minister)
James Wood (1672–1759) was a Presbyterian minister of the first Atherton and Chowbent Chapels in Atherton, Greater Manchester, England. During the Jacobite rising, he was given the title "the General" for leading a force of men that routed the Highlanders. Biography James Wood was born in Atherton, the son of James Wood (1639–1694) the nonconformist minister of Atherton Chapel and his wife Anne Townley. His father was imprisoned in 1670 for defying the law and preaching in the homes of sympathisers after Atherton Chapel had been closed by the Act of Uniformity 1662. In addition, the act affected his grandfather, also James Wood (d. 1667), a powerful orator and reformer who was ejected from the perpetual curacy of Ashton in Makerfield, forbidden from preaching in his church and deprived of his living. James was educated by the Reverend Richard Frankland at Rathmell Academy. He assisted his father and succeeded him at Atherton Chapel in 1695. James was described by a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Thomas the Tank En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Edward Wood
James Edward Wood (born James Godwin; December 9, 1947 – February 1, 2004) was an American murderer, serial rapist and self-confessed serial killer. A violent sex offender with an extensive criminal record, Wood was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1993 murder of 11-year-old Jeralee Underwood in Pocatello, Idaho; following his arrest, he was investigated for several murders committed while living in Louisiana, none of which were definitively linked to him. He died at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in 2004. Early life James Edward Wood was born James Godwin on December 9, 1947, in Pensacola, Florida. At the time of his birth, Godwin's father Sherman, an alcoholic, was imprisoned in Fort Leavenworth, prompting his mother, Hazel Johnson, to leave the state with the two boys and move to Idaho. His childhood was apparently normal until 1955, when the 8-year-old witnessed the tragic death of his mother, who perished in a fire while saving two other workers at a potato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wood, Lord Irwin
Earl of Halifax is a title that has been created four times in British history—once in the Peerage of England, twice in the Peerage of Great Britain, and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The name of the peerage refers to Halifax, West Yorkshire. The first and fourth creations were elevations for the holders of the first and second creations of the title Viscount Halifax. The holder of the first creation was later granted the title Marquess of Halifax. The second and third creations were for closely related male members of the Montagu family, landed gentry since the Norman Conquest, and spanned most of the years 1689–1771. The fourth creation was in 1944 for Lord Halifax, the former viceroy of India (who was the 3rd Viscount Halifax before his elevation to the earldom). He was a prominent 1930s minister, to whom the office of prime minister was offered on the resignation of Chamberlain, which he declined in favour of Churchill. History of the title 1679 creation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wood (encyclopaedist)
James Wood (12 October 1820 – 17 March 1901) was a Scottish writer, editor, and Free Church minister.Stirling 1902, pp.vii–viii Life Born in Leith, Wood studied at the University of Edinburgh and was ordained as a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, following the Disruption of 1843. His admiration for Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin may have contributed to his failure to secure the ministry of a congregation. Instead, he earned a living as a writer and editor and spent most of his life in Edinburgh. Wood is described by P. J. E. Wilson as " that most conscientious of pedants". In his anonymous ''The Strait Gate'' (1881), Wood says of himself that he should not be classed with the High churchmen, the Evangelicals, or the Broad churchmen. He had "no faith whatsoever" in the first group, "no true conception" of the second, and "a measure of sympathy" with the third, but added "…yet there are drawbacks which make it impossible for me to hail their movement with any wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wood (critic)
James Douglas Graham Wood (born 1 November 1965) is an English literary critic, essayist and novelist. Wood was ''The Guardian''s chief literary critic between 1992 and 1995. He was a senior editor at ''The New Republic'' between 1995 and 2007. , he is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University and a staff writer at ''The New Yorker'' magazine. Early life and education James Wood was born in Durham, England, to Dennis William Wood (born 1928), a Dagenham-born minister and professor of zoology at Durham University, and Sheila Graham Wood, née Lillia, a schoolteacher from Scotland. Wood was raised in Durham in an evangelical wing of the Church of England, an environment he describes as austere and serious. He was educated at Durham Chorister School and Eton College, both on music scholarships. He read English Literature at Jesus College, Cambridge, where in 1988 he graduated with a First. Career Writing After Cambridge, Wood "holed up in London in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wood (musician)
James Wood (born 27 May 1953 in Barton-on-Sea, England) is a British conductor, composer of contemporary classical music and former percussionist. Wood studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris from 1971 to 1972 before going on to study music at Cambridge University, where he was organ scholar of Sidney Sussex College from 1972 until 1975. After graduating from Cambridge he went on to study percussion and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, London, from 1975 until 1976. After a further year studying percussion privately with Nicholas Cole, Wood embarked on a triple career as percussionist, composer and conductor. Career In 1977 he was appointed conductor of the Schola Cantorum of Oxford, a post which he held until 1981, and immediately following this he founded the New London Chamber Choir, of which he was principal conductor for twenty-six years until moving to Germany in 2007. New London Chamber Choir (NLCC) During his time with NLCC he pioneered a large amount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wood (Royal Navy Officer)
James or Jim Wood may refer to: Politics and government * James Wood (governor) (1741–1813), Governor of Virginia and officer in the American Revolutionary War * James Wood (New York politician) (1820–1892), New York politician and Union Army general * James Wood (Irish politician) (1865–1936), Member of Parliament for East Down, 1902–1906 * Jim Wood (California politician) (born 1960), member of the California State Assembly * Jim Wood (Arkansas politician) (fl. late 20th century), State Auditor of Arkansas * Sebastian Wood (James Sebastian Lamin Wood, born 1961), British Ambassador to Germany Sport * James Wood (footballer) (1893–?), professional footballer, who played for South Shields, Huddersfield Town and Blackpool * Jamie Wood (born 1978), footballer * Jimmy Wood (1842–1927), American baseball player and manager * Jim Wood (American football) (born 1936), American gridiron football player and coach * James Wood (South African cricketer) (born 1985), So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir James Wood, 2nd Baronet
Sir James Wood, 2nd Baronet (died 1738) was a Scottish officer of the Dutch States Army and later the British Army. He was the son of Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet, of Bonyngtoun in Forfarshire, by his wife Anne, daughter of James Ogilvy, 2nd Earl of Airlie. He was commissioned into the army of the States-General of the Netherlands on 31 December 1688, and served for many years, including as Governor of Dendermonde and later as a major in Strathnaver's regiment. He reached the rank of brigadier general in 1704. In recognition of his Dutch military reputation Wood was also made brigadier general in the British service, and on 9 March 1727 was appointed colonel of the Royal North British Fusiliers. He was promoted to major general on 27 October 1735. Wood succeeded to the baronetcy in January 1693 and was served heir to his father 10 August 1704. On 22 February 1731 he married Anne, daughter of Edward Jones, the Master of the Royal Vineyard in St James's Park. They had no sons, so on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Thomas the Tank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Athol Wood
Sir James Athol Wood CB (1756 – July 1829), was an officer of the Royal Navy. After serving on merchant ships for the East India Company from a young age, he entered the Royal Navy in 1774. Wood served in the navy for almost his whole life, and took part in several of the wars fought by Kingdom of Great Britain throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth century. During his career he was involved in several personal conflicts and feuds, which resulted in him being the subject of two courts-martial. Biography Early life and the American Revolutionary War Born in 1756, James Athol Wood was the third son of Alexander Wood (died 1778) of Burncroft, Perthshire. He was younger brother of Sir Mark Wood, 1st Baronet, and of Major-General Sir George Wood. First going to sea, for the East India Company, in 1772, he entered the navy in September 1774, as able seaman on board the sloop ''Hunter'' on the coast of Ireland and afterwards on the North America station. In July 1776, as master's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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