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John Brooks (1859 Steamboat) At Alexandria, Va
John Brooks may refer to: Association football/soccer * Johnny Brooks (1931–2016), former English footballer * John Brooks (referee) (born 1990), English association football referee *John Brooks (footballer, born 1956), retired English soccer forward *John Brooks (soccer, born 1993), German-American soccer player * John Brooks (footballer, born 1927) (1927–2018), English footballer * John Brookes (footballer, born 1945), English footballer 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 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Brooks
John Brooks (23 December 1931 – 7 June 2016) was an English professional footballer and manager who played for Reading, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea, Brentford, Crystal Palace in the Football League. Brooks won three England caps and scored two goals. Towards the end of his career he played in non-League football with Stevenage Town and Cambridge City and in North America with Cleveland Stokers. He later player-managed Knebworth. His son Shaun Brooks also had a career in professional football. Playing career Reading Brooks' career began as a youth at Coley Old Boys, Mount Pleasant, Castle Street Institute and he also represented Reading & Berkshire schoolboys. An inside forward, he began his senior club career at hometown Third Division South club Reading. Brooks joined the Royals in February 1949 as an amateur and signed a professional contract two months later. While with Reading, Brooks served his national service at Aldershot and represented the Army football team. He ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brooks (engraver)
John Brooks (fl. 1755) was an Irish engraver. Life Active initially in Dublin, around 1747 he settled in London, managing a business at Battersea for the enamelling of china in colours by a process which he had devised. The articles produced were ornamented with subjects chiefly from Homer and Ovid. After a period of success the business folded on the bankruptcy of its chief proprietor, Stephen Theodore Janssen, Lord Mayor of London for 1754-5. Brooks stayed in London as an engraver and enameller of china. Some of his pupils of Brooks worked as engravers in mezzotint, among them Michael Ford and James MacArdell. Works Brooks' first known work was executed in line-engraving at Dublin in 1730. The earliest engraved portrait of Peg Woffington is that by Brooks, dated June 1740. Between 1741 and 1746 Brooks produced at Dublin mezzotinto portraits and engravings. A catalogue of his works of Brooks was for the first time published by John Thomas Gilbert Sir John Thomas Gilbert, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brooks Close
John Brooks Close-Brooks (9 June 1850 – 20 March 1914) was an English banker and amateur rower who won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1870 and rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in 1871 and 1872. Career Close-Brooks was born as "Close" at Naples, Italy, the son of James Close. His father was an adviser to Ferdinand II of Naples and lived at Antibes. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a proficient rower. In 1870 he won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley and also came second in the Silver Goblets with his brother James Brooks Close. John Brooks Close rowed in the winning Cambridge crew in the 1871 Boat Race and came second in the Silver Goblets with his brother again. In the 1872 Boat Race, he was in the winning Cambridge crew again, with his brother James in bow. Close joined the banking firm established by his uncle John Cunliffes Brooks at Manchester and became a partner in 1888. He also became a director of the Lancash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brooks Wheelwright
John Brooks Wheelwright (sometimes Wheelright) (9 September 1897 – 13 September 1940) was an American poet from a Boston Brahmin background. He belonged to the poetic ''avant garde'' of the 1930s and was a Marxist, a founder-member of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party in the United States. He was bisexual. He died after being struck by an automobile at the intersection of Beacon St. and Massachusetts Avenue in the early morning hours of September 13, 1940. Wheelwright was descended from the 17th-century clergyman John Wheelwright on his father's side and the 18th-century Massachusetts governor John Brooks on his mother's side. He studied at Harvard University and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before practising as an architect in Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Brooks (other)
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Jack Brooks may refer to: * Jack Brooks (cricketer) (born 1984), English cricketer *Jack Brooks (footballer) (1904–1973), English footballer *Jack Brooks (lyricist) (1912–1971), British-American lyricist *Jack Brooks (American politician) (1922–2012), former Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee * Jack Brooks (Welsh politician) (1927–2016), Baron Brooks of Tremorfa *'' Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer'', Canadian monster movie See also * Jack Brooks Federal Building, government office building in Beaumont, Texas, U.S. * Jack Brooks Regional Airport, public airport in Port Arthur, Texas, U.S. * John Brooks (other) * Brooks (surname) Brooks is thought to have been derived from both the Swedish language, Swedish surname Bäckland, (''bäck'', "brook", "stream") and ''lund'' ("grove"); and in English language, English, Old Irish, Gaelic and Scots language, Scottish from "of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Brooks (other)
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Jon Brooks (born 1968) is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Jonathan or Jon Brooks may also refer to: *Jon Brooks (American football) (born 1957), American football linebacker *Jonathan Brooks (priest) (1774–1855), Archdeacon of Liverpool *Jon Brooks, British musician who performs as The Advisory Circle, Georges Vert, and King of Woolworths *Mandy Brooks (Jonathan Joseph Brooks, 1897–1962), American baseball player *Jonathan Brooks, director of Imagination Station Science Museum See also *Jonathan Brooks House, a historic house in Medford, Massachusetts *Jon Brookes (died 2013), English drummer of The Charlatans *John Brookes (other) *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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brooks House
The John Brooks House is an historic house at 12 Nelson Place in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built between 1847 and 1856 by John Brooks, a prominent local farmer and politician, it is one of a small number of 19th-century farmhouses still standing in the city. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, at which time it was still the hands of Brooks' descendants. Description and history The John Brooks House is located in a basically residential area in northern Worcester, on a large lot at the northwest corner of Nelson Place and Grove Street (Massachusetts Route 122A). It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a roughly T-shaped plan covered by gabled roofs. The south facade distinctively has three large gables which rise to nearly meet the main ridge line, with rake edges adorned by paired Italianate brackets. A single-story hip-roofed enclosed porch extends across part of this facade, with an entrance at the far right sheltered by an ornatel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Poulton
Ferdinand Poulton, S.J, (c. 1601 – June 5, 1641) was a Jesuit missionary in the newly founded Jesuit Mission of Maryland. He was born to a noble family in either 1601 or 1603 in Buckinghamshire, England, and was educated at the College of St. Omer in Artois, France. He entered the English College of Rome in 1619 for his higher education and joined the Society of Jesus in 1622. He was back at St. Omer's in 1633 and at Watten, Nord, in 1636. He completed his initiation into the Jesuit order on December 8, 1635. To help hide his identity from anti-Catholic authorities Poulton, like other Jesuits, used aliases including Father John Brooks (or Brock) and John Morgan, an alias that his uncle, who was also named Ferdinand Poulton, had previously used. Poulton first arrived in British North America in 1638. He joined other Jesuits including Andrew White, Thomas Copley, John Altham Gravenor, and Thomas Gervase at the colony they had begun in 1634 near St. Mary's City, Maryland. He was q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Langdon Brooks
John Langdon Brooks (1920-2000) was an American evolutionary biologist, ecologist and limnologist. Brooks was born in 1920, probably in Hamden, Connecticut, his father was John Alexander Brooks and his mother was Grace Evelyn Langdon, he had a sister Helen and a brother Richard. Brooks attended Yale University, where he studied under the guidance of G. Evelyn Hutchinson. He remained at Yale, at the Osborn Zoological Laboratory, until 1969 where he worked on the ecology and evolution of freshwater biota. During this period he co-authored an article with Stanley Dodson entitled ''Predation, Body Size and Composition of Plankton'' which was published in '' Science'' in October 1965. This article discussed the effect of an introduced predator, the alewife, on the planktonic fauna of lakes in New England and has been widely cited. He was the first editor of the journal ''Systematic Zoology'', his tenure lasting from 1952 to 1957. Brooks joined the National Science Foundation i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Graham Brooks
John Graham Brooks (July 19, 1846 – February 8, 1938) was an American sociologist, political reformer, and author. A former Unitarian minister, Brooks resigned from the ministry in 1891 and became an academic specialist in the field of labor relations. A prominent lecturer and public intellectual, Brooks rejected the doctrine of socialism, instead advocating for the regulation of predatory monopolies and the initiation of progressive social reform legislation to ameliorate the most glaring problems suffered by the working class. Brooks advanced his ideas as the author of several books which gained a broad readership among American intellectuals, including ''The Social Unrest'' (1903) and ''American Syndicalism'' (1913). Brooks' papers are housed today by Harvard University. Biography Early years John Graham Brooks was born in Acworth, New Hampshire on July 19, 1846. He was the son of Chapin Kidder Brooks, a merchant and New Hampshire state legislator, and the former Pameli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John J
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John E
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
