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John Ashton (1711–1759)
John Ashton may refer to: Entertainment * John Ashton (composer) (1830–1896), Welsh musician * Will Ashton (John William Ashton, 1881–1963), British-Australian artist and art director * John Rowland Ashton (1917–2008), English author * John Ashton (actor) (born 1948), American actor * John Ashton (musician) (born 1957), British musician, songwriter and record producer * John Ashton (music publisher), merchant and music publisher in Boston, Massachusetts Other * John Aston (preacher) (or Ashton; ), British cleric * John Ashton (Jacobite) (died 1691), British conspirator * John Ashton (architect) (1860–1953), American architect * John Ashton (bishop) (1866–1964), Australian Anglican bishop * John Ashton (public health director) (born 1947), British professor of public health * John Ashton (diplomat) (born 1956), British Special Representative for Climate Change * John G. Ashton (born 1935), politician in Alberta, Canada * Jon Ashton (born 1982), English footballer See al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ashton (composer)
John Ashton (1830 – 25 December 1896) was a Welsh musician from Montgomeryshire Montgomeryshire, also known as ''Maldwyn'' ( cy, Sir Drefaldwyn meaning "the Shire of Baldwin's town"), is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales, historic counties and a former administrative county of Wales. It is named after its county tow ..., who had worked as a policeman and shoemaker. He wrote a number of songs and hymns, including ''Trefeglwys'', written in 1857. Ashton's songs were published in ''Miwsig y Miloedd'', ''Caniadau y Cysegr a'r Teulu,'' ''Llyfr Tonau Cynulleidfaol'', and ''Cerddor yr Ysgol Sabothol.'' He died in New Zealand, having emigrated there in 1874. References 1830 births 1896 deaths Welsh composers Welsh male composers Welsh emigrants to New Zealand British emigrants to New Zealand 19th-century British male musicians {{UK-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Ashton
Sir John William Ashton, OBE, ROI (20 September 1881 – 1 September 1963) was a prolific Australian Impressionist artist and director of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1937 to 1943. Early life Ashton was born in Clifton, York, England, the only son of artist James Ashton, and his wife Mary Elizabeth Ashton (died 18 September 1945). His father emigrated to Australia, arriving at Adelaide, South Australia in January 1884 and founding a school of painting in "unpretentious but commodious" premises on The Parade, Norwood in 1885. His wife and son arrived at a later date, but generally given as in 1884. Ashton attended Prince Alfred College, where his father was art teacher, from 1889 to 1897. Neither academically nor athletically inclined. On leaving school, he received further training from his father; fellow students included W. C. Quin, Hans Heysen, and Hayley Leaver. He left for London in 1900, where he studied at the Olsson- Talmage studios, then i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rowland Ashton
John R. Ashton MBE (1917–2008) was an English writer, lecturer, local historian and educationist active in Sweden. He was the former chairman of the British Factory. He resided in Gothenburg, Sweden, with his Swedish wife Torborg. Biography John Rowland Ashton was born in Manchester, England, in 1917. In his early life he studied law in London. He was employed by the Gothenburg Education Authority as English language teaching consultant in 1952, a post he held until 1982. During this time he co-authored several English language teaching series, published in Sweden and Norway. He also edited English texts for older students in Sweden, Germany and Holland. In 1957 he pioneered an English language teaching series on local television which he wrote and presented. He has also been active in the social life of the British community in Gothenburg being the vice-chairman of the English school (1960–1979) and a member of the English Church (St. Andrew’s) Council (1974–1998). He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ashton (actor)
John David Ashton (born February 22, 1948) is an American actor, known for his roles in ''Beverly Hills Cop'', ''Beverly Hills Cop II'', '' Some Kind of Wonderful'' and ''Midnight Run''. Life and career Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Ashton attended Defiance College in Ohio and is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Theatre. He attended Enfield High School in Enfield, Connecticut. Ashton has made numerous appearances in both television and feature films. He played Willie Joe Garr on several episodes of ''Dallas''. He appeared in an episode of ''Columbo'', "Negative Reaction", and in episode 5 of ''Police Squad!'', "Rendezvous at Big Gulch (Terror in the Neighborhood)". His early film credits included roles in ''An Eye for an Eye'' (1973), ''Breaking Away'' (1979), '' Borderline'' (1980), ''Honky Tonk Freeway'' (1981), in (1985)episode of the twilight zone (the chameleon ) '' Last Resort'' (1986) and ''King Kong Lives'' (1986). Ashton also star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ashton (musician)
John Geza Ashton (born 30 November 1957) is an English musician, songwriter, composer, and record producer, with a career spanning more than 40 years. He is best known as the guitarist of the Psychedelic Furs. Early life John Geza Ashton was born on 30 November 1957 in Whips Cross Hospital, Forest Gate, London, and lived in North Kilworth in south Leicestershire. Career Ashton came to prominence in the early 1980s as the guitarist of the Psychedelic Furs. The band is an English post-punk group formed in 1977 by Richard and Tim Butler, Duncan Kilburn and Roger Morris. Their debut studio album was a hit in the UK and Europe, and they had added John Ashton on guitar and Vince Ely on drums. Their second studio album ''Talk Talk Talk'' (1981) placed them on the US charts. Before the release of '' Forever Now'' in late 1982, Morris and Kilburn left the band, and Ashton and the Butler brothers went on to release ''Mirror Moves'' (1984) and other subsequent albums. The Psychedelic Furs w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ashton (music Publisher)
John Ashton was a merchant and music publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. He owned a "music & umbrella store" at no.197 Washington Street which sold "all the new and fashionable music"American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1 ca.1819-1844. He manufactured and sold musical instruments; tuned pianos; and published and sold sheet music "of marches, waltzes, rondos, variations, quadrilles, gallopades, dances, &c. ... arranged for the band, orchestra, piano forte, guitar, flute, violin, organ &c." Among the composers represented in Ashton's stock: Comer, Joseph Haydn, Knight, Paddon, Russell, Shaw, Webb, Charles Zeuner Grave in Paris ( Cimetière de Montmartre). Charles Zeuner (20 September 1795 Eisleben, Saxony - 7 November 1857 Philadelphia) was an American organist and composer originally active in Germany, then in Boston and Philadelphia in the United States. .... The firm "John Ashton & Co." was dissolved on January 1, 1844 with notice that the business wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Aston (preacher)
John Aston or Ashton ( fl. 1382), was one of John Wycliffe's earliest followers. Life Aston is described as M.A. and 'scholar' (or, once, 'bachelor') in theology at Oxford, and, according to Anthony à Wood, was a member of Merton College. He appears first to have been engaged as one of Wycliffe's band of itinerant priests, and by the year 1382 had become conspicuous for his advocacy of his master's views, particularly of those relating to the sacrament of the Lord's supper. Knighton (col. 2658, sq.) describes the zeal with which he carried on his mission as a preacher of the new doctrine, and the ''Fasciculi Zizaniorum'' (p. 274) makes the rebel John Ball, in his confession, name Aston in company with Nicholas Hereford and Lawrence Bedeman as the leaders of Wycliffe's party. In 1382 these three men, together with Philip Repyngdon, were singled out among the Oxford Wycliffites as the subjects of a prosecution at the hands of Archbishop William Courtney, who first issued, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ashton (Jacobite)
John Ashton (died 1691) was an English courtier and Jacobite conspirator. Life Ashton was clerk of the closet to Mary of Modena, the wife of James II, and, after the revolution of 1688, showed himself ardently devoted to the interests of his exiled master and mistress. He appears to have held a commission of captain or major in the army, and to have been an intimate friend of Dr. Thomas Cartwright, who was bishop of Chester from 1686 to 1689, and a zealous supporter of the Stuart dynasty. By religion Ashton was a Protestant, and late in 1690 he attended a meeting of Protestant Jacobites, at which it was resolved to invite Louis XIV of France to forcibly restore James II. Viscount Preston undertook to visit St. Germains with the papers requisite to obtain support for the conspiracy, and Ashton promised to arrange the journey and bear him company. He and a young friend, Major Elliott, hired a boat at London to convey themselves and Lord Preston to France, but the owner, whose s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ashton (architect)
John Ashton (1861-1953) was an English-born American architect from Lawrence, Massachusetts. Life John Ashton was born September 15, 1861, in England.Gravestone, Bellevue Cemetery, Lawrence He immigrated to the United States in 1875, where he settled in Lawrence. He worked as a mechanic with Joseph James through at least 1889,"LAW.110" ''mhc-macris.net''. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n.d. about the time be appears to have begun to study architecture."LAW.764" ''mhc-macris.net''. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n.d. In 1892 he enrolled in a special course in architecture in the |
John Ashton (bishop)
John William Ashton (24 November 1866 – 20 March 1964) was the second Bishop of Grafton. Early life Ashton was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, in 1866, the son of George Ashton and his wife Fanny (née Winter). Career Ashton was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield and University College, Oxford, following which he was ordained deacon in 1892 and priest in 1893. He began his ordained ministry as a curate at All Saints' Church, Northampton (1892-1895), and then at St Dionysius' Church, Market Harborough (1895-1896). In 1896 he emigrated to Australia where he was Rector of St Andrew's, South Brisbane (1896-1900), Christ Church, Bundaberg (1900-1903), briefly as a curate back in England at St Peter's Church, Huddersfield (1903-1904) and Organising Secretary of the Church of England Sunday School Institute (1904-1905), and a second incumbency at St Andrew's, South Brisbane (1906-1911) and then Vicar of All Saints', East St Kilda (1911-1921) before his ordination to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ashton (public Health Director)
John Ashton CBE (born 27 May 1947 in Liverpool, England) is a British doctor and academic. Ashton previously held positions at the University of Southampton, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Liverpool School of Medicine and as Regional Director of Public Health for North-West England for 13 years. He was one of the initiators of the World Health Organization's Healthy Cities Project from 1986 to 1988 during which time it went from being a European project to a global movement and a pioneer of three public health initiatives. Although a member of the Labour Party, Ashton has criticised both Labour Party and Conservative Party health reforms from an anti-Market perspective. In February 2012, the Government response to his criticism of the Health and Social Care Bill 2011 which he says "will totally dismantle the NHS" was raised in Parliament. In January 2011, he was appointed a trustee of the National Museums Liverpool, and, in N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ashton (diplomat)
John Ashton, CBE (born 7 November 1956) was the Special Representative for Climate Change at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) from 2006 to June 2012, Director for Strategic Partnerships aLEAD International and is the founder and CEO of Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G). Education John Ashton was born in London on 7 November 1956, and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle, and at Cambridge University, where he read Natural Sciences specialising in theoretical physics. On graduation in 1977, he spent a year as a research astronomer at the new Cavendish Laboratory. Diplomatic career John Ashton joined HM Diplomatic Service in 1978 and spent two years at the FCO in London. In 1980, he was sent to Hong Kong as a Language Student. From 1981 to 1984, he was posted as Third Secretary later Second Secretary to the British Embassy in Beijing, where he served as science officer. He was China desk officer at the FCO from 1984 to 1986. As First Secretary, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
