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John Brookes (other)
John Brookes may refer to: * John Brookes (East India Company), 17th century commander of first British vessel to come within sight of the Australian continent * Sir John Brookes, 1st Baronet (died 1691), English MP * John Henry Brookes (1891–1975), last principal of Oxford City Technical School * John Brookes (footballer, born 1927) (1927–2018), English football midfielder * John Brookes (footballer, born 1945), English football forward * John Brookes (landscape designer) (1933–2018), British garden and landscape designer See also *John Brooks (other) John Brooks may refer to: Association football/soccer * John Brookes (footballer, born 1945), English footballer * John Brooks (footballer, born 1927) (1927–2018), English footballer * Johnny Brooks (1931–2016), former English footballer *John ... * John Brooke (other) * Jon Brooks (other) {{hndis, Brookes, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brookes (East India Company)
John Brooke (also Broock, Brookes, Brooks) was a seaman of the British East India Company and commander of the first British crew to sight the Australian continent. East India Company Brooke joined the East India Company and, in July or August 1621, he was appointed master of the ''Tryal''. Wrecks Brooke was assigned the task of making the first British East India Company voyage across the Indian Ocean while keeping no further north than the 35th parallel, to take advantage of the " Roaring Forties", then to turn sharply north making for Bantam, west Java (then Batavia). Sailing the ''Tryal'' along the 39 degree parallel, he miscalculated and overshot by some 1,000 kilometres, coming upon the west coast of the Australian continent on 5 May 1622 at 22 degrees, in the vicinity of North West Cape. Attempting a northward track thereafter along the coast, at about 11 pm on 25 May 1622, the Tryal twice struck what was later to become known as Ritchie's Reef and, after discovery of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Brookes, 1st Baronet
Sir John Brookes, 1st Baronet, FRS (baptised 9 June 1636 – 18 November 1691) was an English MP for Boroughbridge. He was alternatively known as Sir John Brooke. He was baptised on 9 June 1636 at St Martin, Coney Street, York, the only son of James Brookes, a merchant of York who was Lord Mayor of York in 1651. John was educated at York School and Gray's Inn, London before entering Christ's College, Cambridge in 1652. In 1662 he was elected as an original Fellow of the Royal Society but subsequently expelled in 1685. He became a Justice of the Peace (JP) for York and later for the North Riding of Yorkshire. He was created a Baronet on 13 June 1676. In 1679 and again in 1681 he was elected Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire as a member of the militant Country Party faction. He died in 1691 and was buried at St Martin's church in Coney Street, York. He had married Mary, the daughter of the regicide Sir Hardress Waller of Kilfinny, co. Limerick an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry Brookes
John Henry Brookes OBE (31 January 1891 – 29 September 1975) was an English craftsman, artist and educator associated with the predecessor institutions of Oxford Brookes University, which is named in his honour. Biography Brookes was born in Northampton, England. His father was head of the Boot and Shoe Department of Leicester College of Technology. Brookes trained in silversmithing at the Chipping Campden Guild of Handicrafts. He was an accomplished artist but became both an inspirational teacher and accomplished administrator. In 1922, he was appointed as a part-time teacher of sculpture in the Oxford City School of Arts and Craft. In 1934, the technical and art schools were merged as the Schools of Technology Art and Commerce. John Henry Brookes was the first principal. There were ten full-time staff and 1,284 students. By 1946, the schools were in 19 sites around the city and John Henry Brookes had of necessity become an accomplished cyclist. With the spread of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brookes (footballer, Born 1927)
John Brooks (8 March 1927 – 9 July 2018) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke City. Life and career Brooks was born in Stoke-on-Trent and played in the youth ranks at Stoke City Stoke City Football Club is a professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, which competes in the . Founded as Stoke Ramblers in 1863, it changed its name to Stoke in 1878 and then to Stoke City in 1925 after Stoke .... He made two appearances in the first team during the 1950–51 season but failed to make it as a professional footballer and entered amateur football with Eccleshall Town. He died in Stoke-on-Trent in July 2018 at the age of 91. Career statistics References 1927 births 2018 deaths Men's association football midfielders English Football League players English men's footballers Stoke City F.C. players Footballers from Stoke-on-Trent {{England-footy-midfielder-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brookes (footballer, Born 1945)
John Vincent Brookes (born 18 October 1943) is an English former footballer who played as a forward. Career Brookes began his career with Sheffield United, before joining Sheffield Wednesday in 1964. After not making a league appearance for the club, he joined Southport in 1965, making 14 appearances in the Football League and scoring 5 goals. He made one appearance for York City in 1966, before signing for Sligo Rovers by manager Shay Keogh in late 1966. He went on to enjoy a successful career in Ireland with Rovers, while also having brief stints in the United States with the Boston Shamrock Rovers in 1967 and the Cleveland Stokers of the North American Soccer League The North American Soccer League may refer to: *North American Soccer League (1968–1984), a former Division I league *North American Soccer League (2011–2017) The North American Soccer League (NASL) was a professional men's soccer league b ... in 1968. He spent the 1970–71 season with Stockport C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brookes (landscape Designer)
John Andrew Brookes, MBE (11 October 1933 – 16 March 2018) was a garden and landscape designer. He started designing gardens and landscapes in the late 1950s and designed thousands of gardens. He also taught and lectured about horticulture, landscape and interior design. Beginning as a Modernist and working with Dame Sylvia Crowe, Brenda Colvin, Geoffrey Jellicoe and other notable architects and landscape architects, Brookes came of age in the dawn of garden and landscape design for the middle classes in Britain and in the heyday of 1960s London. Brookes was influenced by painters such as Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson, and brought abstract and modernist principles to garden design. He espoused the concept that a garden's design should be based first and foremost on the needs of its occupants, taking it out of the realm of the grand garden traditions which were labour-intensive, expensive, and high maintenance. He is the author of over two dozen books, including ''Room Outsid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brooks (other)
John Brooks may refer to: Association football/soccer * John Brookes (footballer, born 1945), English footballer * John Brooks (footballer, born 1927) (1927–2018), English footballer * Johnny Brooks (1931–2016), former English footballer *John Brooks (footballer, born 1956), retired English soccer forward * John Brooks (soccer, born 1993), German-American soccer player * John Brooks (referee) (born 1990), English association football referee Other sportspeople * John Brooks (racing driver) (born 1959), American race car driver * John Brooks (rugby union) (born 1977), Harlequins rugby union player * John Brooks (athlete) (1910–1990), American long jumper Politicians * John Brooks (governor) (1752–1825), 11th Governor of Massachusetts * John Brooks (mayor) (1785–1869), 9th mayor of Columbus, Ohio * John Brooks (New York politician) (born 1949), Member of the New York Senate from the 8th District * John Brooks, Baron Brooks of Tremorfa (1927–2016), Welsh politician an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brooke (other)
John Brooke may refer to: Politicians * John Brooke, 1st Baron Cobham (1575–1660), English politician and Royalist * Sir John Brookes, 1st Baronet (c. 1635–1691), MP for Boroughbridge, also known as Sir John Brooke * John Brooke (1755–1802), Warwickshire politician * John Henry Brooke (1826–1902), Australian politician and journalist * John R. Brooke (1838–1926), Civil War Union officer and governor of Cuba * John Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough (1922–1987), Northern Ireland politician * John Brooke alias Cobham (1535–1594), MP for Queenborough * John Brooke Johnson Brooke, soldier and heir to the Raj of the Kingdom of Sarawak Others * John Brooke (translator) (died 1582), English translator of religious works * John Brooke (East India Company), 17th century commander of first British vessel to sight Australian mainland * John Charles Brooke (1748–1794), English antiquarian, Somerset Herald * John Mercer Brooke (1826–1906), inventor, sailor, Confederate ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |