John Abernethy
John Abernethy may refer to: *John Abernethy (bishop), Scottish bishop, died 1639 *John Abernethy (judge) (born 1947), Australian judge *John Abernethy (minister) (1680–1740), Presbyterian minister in Ireland *John Abernethy (surgeon) (1764–1831), English surgeon and grandson of the above, and originator of the Abernethy biscuit *Jack Abernathy (1876–1941), United States Marshall See also *Abernethy (surname) Abernethy is a surname whose origins link to a Scottish clan that descends from Orm de Abernethy, a grandson of Gille Míchéil, Earl of Fife that presumably settled at Abernethy, Perth and Kinross. The name is of non-Gaelic Pictish origin, from ...

John Abernethy (bishop)
John Abernethy (c.1570–1639) was a Scottish clergyman who served as Protestant Bishop of Caithness. Life Abernethy was born around 1570, the son of Jean Straiton and her husband Thomas Abernethy of Glencorse south of Edinburgh. He was one of the first group of students at Edinburgh University under Principal Robert Rollock and graduated MA in 1587.''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae''; vol. 2; by Hew Scott In 1588 he was made "reader" of Jedburgh church (housed in Jedburgh Abbey and became minister in 1593. In 1606 he opposed Episcopacy and became Constant Moderator of the Presbytery of Jedburgh. Despite this, in December 1616, through the influence of James Law, Archbishop of Glasgow, he was appointed Bishop of Caithness. This title was largely nominal, and he continued his parochial duties in Jedburgh. This promotion was preceded by the award of Doctor of Divinity from Edinburgh University and appointment to the Court of the High Commission. He was deprived of his position as Bis ...
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John Abernethy (judge)
John Birley Abernethy (born 1947 in Wagga Wagga, Australia) is a former Coroner's Court of New South Wales, State Coroner of New South Wales. Early life and education John Birley Abernethy was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales in 1947.Phillip William Hughes. (2007.''Opening Doors to the Future: Stories of Prominent Australians and the Influence of Teachers'' Australian Council for Educational Research. His father, Robert Neil Abernethy, was a bank officer; and his mother was a registered nurse. He has a younger sister, Myra who suffered from an illness which resulted in the family's relocating from rural New South Wales to Epping, New South Wales, Epping, a northern suburb of Sydney. Abernethy attended Epping Public School and Epping Boys' High School. He completed the Leaving Certificate with strong results, allowing him to matriculate to university. In his final year of high school, he was elected a prefect of the school. Abernethy earned a Graduate Diploma in Law, Distan ...
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John Abernethy (minister)
John Abernethy (19 October 1680 – 1 December 1740) was an Irish Presbyterian minister and church leader, the grandfather of the surgeon John Abernethy. Life He was born at Coleraine, County Londonderry, where his father John was a Presbyterian minister. John Abernethy Senior accompanied Patrick Adair on a deputation from the general committee of Ulster presbyterians, who presented a congratulatory address to William III in London 1689, and obtained from the king a letter (9 November 1689) recommending their case to Duke Schomberg. In his thirteenth year John Abernethy Junior entered the University of Glasgow, and on concluding his course there went on to Edinburgh, where he soon moved in the most cultured circles. Returning home, he was licensed to preach from his Presbytery before he was twenty-one. In 1701 he was called to accept charge of an important congregation in Antrim; after an interval of two years, mostly spent in further study in Dublin, he was ordain ...
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John Abernethy (surgeon)
John Abernethy FRS (3 April 1764 – 20 April 1831) was an English surgeon. He is popularly remembered today for having given his name to the Abernethy biscuit, a coarse-meal baked good meant to aid digestion. Life He was a grandson of John Abernethy. He was born in Coleman Street in the City of London on 3 April 1764, where his father was a merchant. Educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, he was apprenticed in 1779 to Sir Charles Blicke (1745–1815), a surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He attended the anatomical lectures of Sir William Blizard (1743–1835) at the London Hospital, and was employed to assist as ''demonstrator''; he also attended Percivall Pott's surgical lectures at St Bartholomew's Hospital, as well as the lectures of John Hunter. On Pott's resignation of the office of surgeon of St Bartholomew's, Sir Charles Blicke, who was assistant-surgeon, succeeded him, and Abernethy was elected assistant-surgeon in 1787. In this capacity he began ...
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Jack Abernathy
John Reeves "Catch-'em-alive Jack" Abernathy (January 11, 1876 - January 8, 1941) was an American cowboy, U.S. marshal, and western legend from Bosque County, Texas. Early life He was born on January 11, 1876, to Martin Van Buren Abernathy and Kittie Williams in Bosque County, Texas. In 1882 his family moved to Nolan County, Texas, and entered the cattle business. In 1887 at age 11 he worked as a cowboy for the A-K-X Ranch and helped drive a large herd of cattle 500 miles to market at Englewood, Kansas. Career To support his family, Abernathy traveled the country catching wolves and sold them to zoos, circuses, and traveling shows. His traveling show caught the attention of President Theodore Roosevelt, who invited Abernathy to go on a wolf hunt with him and some of his colleagues on a ranch in Oklahoma. By the end of the wolf hunt, Abernathy and Roosevelt were good friends. Abernathy spent his time catching wolves until he was the age of twenty eight when his friend Preside ...
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