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John Braithwaite (other)
John Braithwaite may refer to: *John Braithwaite (engineer) (1797–1870), English engineer who invented the first steam fire engine *John Braithwaite (criminologist) (born 1951), criminologist at the Australian National University *John Braithwaite (sport shooter) (1925–2015), known as Bob Braithwaite, British trap shooter *John Braithwaite (writer) (born 1633), English Quaker *John Braithwaite (author) (1700–1768), English author *John Braithwaite the elder (1760–1818), British engineer * John Braithwaite (soldier) (1885–1916), New Zealand journalist, soldier and convicted mutineer *Sir John Braithwaite, 1st Baronet (1739–1803), Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army See also *John Braithwaite Wallis (1877–1961), Canadian entomologist *Braithwaite (surname) Braithwaite, Brathwaite, or Brathwait is an English surname of Old Norse origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881, Retrieved 25 January 2014 the relative frequency of the surname Braithwaite was highest in W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Braithwaite (engineer)
John Braithwaite, the younger (19 March 1797 – 25 September 1870), was an English engineer who invented the first steam fire engine. He also co-designed the first locomotive claimed to have covered a mile in less than a minute. Early life Braithwaite was third son of John Braithwaite the elder. He was born at 1 Bath Place, New Road, London, on 19 March 1797, and, after being educated at Mr. Lord's school at Tooting in Surrey, attended in his father's manufactory, where he made himself master of practical engineering, and became a skilled draughtsman. In June 1818 his father died, leaving the business to his sons Francis and John. Francis died in 1823, and John Braithwaite carried on the business alone. He added to the business the making of high-pressure steam-engines. In 1817 he reported before the House of Commons upon the Norwich steamboat explosion, and in 1820 he ventilated the House of Lords by means of air-pumps. In 1822 he made the donkey engine, and in 1823 cast t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Braithwaite (criminologist)
John Braithwaite (born 30 July 1951, Ipswich) is a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University (ANU). Braithwaite is the recipient of a number of international awards and prizes for his work, including an honorary doctorate at KU Leuven (2008),John Braithwaite, Honorary Doctorate, http://www.law.kuleuven.be/linc/english/honorarydoctoratebraithwaite.html the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award with Peter Drahos for Ideas Improving World Order (2004), and the Prix Emile Durkheim, International Society of Criminology, for lifetime contributions to criminology (2005). His writings on regulatory capitalism have influenced regulatory scholars in other countries, such as Canadian political scientists G. Bruce Doern, Michael J. Prince and Richard Shultz. Career As a criminologist, he is particularly interested in the role of restorative justice, shame management and reintegration in crime prevention. His book ''Crime, Shame and Reintegration'' (1989) demonstrated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Braithwaite (sport Shooter)
John Robert (Bob) Braithwaite MBE (28 September 1925 – 26 February 2015) was a British trap shooter who represented his country at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ..., winning a gold medal at the latter. Biography Born at Arnside, Cumbria, and educated at the Friends School Lancaster and the University of Edinburgh, Braithwaite qualified as a Veterinary Surgeon in 1947. Already a notable game shot, in 1956 he began competing in trap shooting events and within a short time he had become one of the country's leading target shooters. In 1964 he gained a place in the British Shooting Team for the Tokyo Olympic Games where he was placed 7th in the Trap Event. Qualifying again for the 1968 Games in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Braithwaite (writer)
John Braithwaite (fl. 1660) was an English Quaker. Early life Braithwaite was probably born in 1633, as there is an entry in the Cartmel registers of the baptism on 24 March 1633 of John, son of James Braithwaite of Newton. Career George Fox records in his ' Journal' that, being at Newton-in-Cartmel in 1652, where he attempted to preach to the people after service, he spoke to a youth whom he noticed in the chapel taking notes. The young man was John Braithwaite, who afterwards became his earnest follower. He published three tracts in support of Fox's doctrines: * ''A serious Meditation upon the dealings of God with England and the State thereof in General'' (not dated) * ''The Ministers of England which are called the Ministers of the Gospel weighed in the Balance of Equity, &c.,'' (1660) * ''To all those that observe Days, Months, Times, and Years, &c.,'' (1660) In 1658 he, or one of his name, travelled many miles to visit a friend confined in Ilchester gaol, but was "un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Braithwaite (author)
John Braithwaite (1696–1740), was an English author. Career Braithwaite (also spelt Brathwaite and other variants) was the author of ''The History of the Revolution in the Empire of Morocco upon the Death of the late Emperor Muley Ishmael'', published in 1729 and translated into Dutch in 1729, German in 1730, and French in 1731. In his preface Braithwaite describes himself as being in the service of the African Company, and as having, when very young, served in the fleet in Anne's reign, and then having been a lieutenant in the Welsh fusiliers, ensign in the Royal Guards, and secretary to his kinsman Christian Cole, the British resident at Venice, with whom he travelled through Europe. Braithwaite married Christian's niece Silvia, whose father was a merchant in Amsterdam. He also states that he was in the Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent expeditions, and was present at the siege of Gibraltar (1727). Thence he crossed to Morocco and joined the British consul-general, John Russe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Braithwaite The Elder
John Braithwaite the elder (1760–1818), was a British engineer, and salvor. John Braithwaite the younger was his son. Life Braithwaite is best known as the constructor of one of the earliest successful forms of diving bell. In 1783 he descended in one of his own construction into the wreck of the Royal George, which had gone down off Spithead in the August of the previous year, and recovered her sheet anchor and many of her guns. In the same year, and by the same means, he recovered a number of guns sunk in the Spanish flotilla off Gibraltar. In 1788, again he made a descent to the wreck of the Hartwell, an East Indiaman, lost off Boa Vista, one of the Cape Verde islands, and recovered dollars to the value of £38,000, 7,000 pigs of lead, and 360 boxes of tin. In 1806, he raised from the Abergavenny, an East Indiaman, lost off Portland, £75,000 worth of dollars, a quantity of tin, and other property to the value of £30,000, and successfully blew up the wreck with gun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Braithwaite (soldier)
John Braithwaite (3 January 1885 – 29 October 1916) was a New Zealander who served in the First World War with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Supposedly a journalist before the war, in 1916 he was convicted of mutiny and executed by firing squad. He was posthumously pardoned in September 2000 through the passage of the Pardon for Soldiers of the Great War Act 2000. Early life John Braithwaite was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 3 January 1885, as Cecil James Braithwaite, one of 16 children to bookseller Joseph Braithwaite and his wife Mary Ann. After completing his schooling, he worked alongside his father, who would rise to become the mayor of Dunedin in 1905/06. Braithwaite later claimed to have become a journalist who lived in Sydney, Australia, for a time from 1911. However, over the period from 1911 to 1915 he appeared in court in New Zealand for a number of criminal offences, including theft of jewelry and a bicycle. He also appears to have spent time on Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Braithwaite, 1st Baronet
Major-General Sir John Braithwaite, 1st Baronet (3 February 1739 – 16 August 1803) was Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army. Background He was born in South Carolina, the only son of Colonel John Braithwaite (1696–1740), author, soldier and diplomat, and his wife Silvia Cole (1714–1799), daughter of William Cole of Amsterdam. He was only a year old when his father, returning home, was killed when the ship he was travelling on was attacked by a Spanish privateer, "the Biscaya", off the Scilly Isles: he was reported to have been murdered in cold blood after the ship surrendered. His mother remarried Reverend Thomas Winstanley. Military career Educated at Westminster School, Braithwaite was commissioned as an ensign in the 53rd Regiment of Foot on 6 November 1765. Promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 22 October 1772, he seized the Maharaja of Vizianagram's fort during a local dispute on 28 August 1777. He was then given command of a brigade which included one battalion of Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Braithwaite Wallis
John Braithwaite Wallis (1877–1961) was a Canadian entomologist, a graduate of the University of Manitoba. The J.B. Wallis Museum of Entomology at the university was named in his honour. He was also a coleopterologist, having described many beetle species including Haliplus leechi ''Haliplus leechi'' is a species of Haliplus ''Haliplus'' is a genus of crawling water beetles in the family Haliplidae. There are at least 180 described species in ''Haliplus''. They are found worldwide, except for Antarctica, living among .... Sources * 1877 births 1961 deaths Canadian entomologists University of Manitoba alumni {{entomologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
