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John Bruce (Northern Rhodesian Politician)
John Bruce may refer to: * Sir John Bruce, 2nd Baronet (before 1671–1711), Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland; MP * John Bruce (historiographer) (1745–1826), Scottish politician, East India Company historiographer and Secretary to the Board of Control * John Bruce (minister) (1794–1880), senior Scottish minister of both the Church of Scotland and Free Church of Scotland * John Bruce (antiquary) (1802–1869), English founder of the Camden Society * John Bruce (British Army officer) (1808–1870), acting Governor of Western Australia * John Bruce (judge) (1832–1901), U.S. federal judge * John Bruce (Canada) (1837–1893), first president of the Métis provisional government * John Bruce (surgeon) (1905–1975), Scottish surgeon * John Bruce (decorator), one of the designers on The Learning Channel's show ''While You Were Out'' * John Asamoah Bruce, Ghanaian air force officer * John Collingwood Bruce (1805–1892), English nonconformist minister and historian * J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Bruce, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Bruce, 2nd Baronet (before 1671 – 19 March 1711) was the son of William Bruce, the famous architect, and a member of parliament. John married Christian Leslie, widow of the Marquess of Montrose and daughter of the Duke of Rothes. In 1702, he succeeded his father as a member of the Parliament of Scotland after William was expelled for his Jacobite sympathies, and was one of the Scottish representatives to the 1st Parliament of Great Britain. John inherited the baronetcy on his father's death in 1710. Following his own death shortly after, the baronetcy became extinct, and the Kinross estate passed to his sister Anne Bruce, who married Sir Thomas Hope, 4th Baronet Hope of Craighall. External links BRUCE, John (d. 1711), of Kinross House, Kinross.at The History of Parliament The History of Parliament is a project to write a complete history of the United Kingdom Parliament and its predecessors, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of England. The history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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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] |
John Bruce Glasier
John Bruce Glasier (25 March 1859 – 4 June 1920) was a Scottish socialist politician, associated mainly with the Independent Labour Party. He was opposed to the First World War. Biography Glasier was born in Glasgow as John Bruce, but grew up near Newton Ayr. After the death of his father in 1870, he returned to Glasgow and followed his mother in adding the additional name of "Glasier", thereafter using Bruce as his middle name. He became involved with the Irish Land League's activities in Scotland, and in 1884 was a founder member of the Scottish Land Restoration League, while also joining the Social Democratic Federation (SDF). He joined the Socialist League split from the SDF, becoming the secretary of its Glasgow branch until 1889. In 1893, he joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP). In that year he married Katherine St John Conway. Glasier soon became one of the four main ILP leaders, and the editor of ''ILP News'', succeeding Keir Hardie as chairman of the party i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bruce-Gardyne
John Bruce-Gardyne, Baron Bruce-Gardyne (12 April 1930 – 15 April 1990), was a British Conservative Party politician. Son of Captain Evan Bruce-Gardyne, DSO, RN, 13th Laird of Middleton, and a member of a Scottish landholding family who have been based in the county of Angus since at least 1008 AD, he was born in Chertsey, Surrey. Bruce-Gardyne was educated at Twyford School, Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and then served for six years in Foreign Service before becoming a journalist. He was a council member of the Bow Group. At the 1964 general election, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for South Angus where the family seats of Gardyne Castle, Finavon Castle and Middleton all stood. He held the seat until the October 1974 general election, when he lost to Andrew Welsh of the Scottish National Party. Bruce-Gardyne was later elected as the MP for Knutsford at a by-election in 1979, but was effectively forced out of the House of Commons when the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gregory Bruce
John Gregory Bruce (February 16, 1897 – December 4, 1985) was a judge of the United States Tax Court from 1952 to 1967. Born in Edinburgh, Indiana, Bruce attended schools in Indiana and Pineville, Kentucky, and served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1921.''Official Congressional Directory'' (1979), p. 749. He received an A.B. from Transylvania University in 1921, followed by an LL.B. (cum laude) from the University of Kentucky in 1924, where he was editor-in-chief of the Kentucky Law Journal."J. Gregory Bruce", ''The Danville Advocate-Messenger'' (December 5, 1985), p. 2. Bruce gained admission to the bar in Kentucky in 1923. He was an attorney for the Fordson Coal Company (a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company) in Pineville, Kentucky and Detroit, Michigan, from 1924 to 1931, and was thereafter in private practice in Pineville until 1934. He served as an attorney in the United States Department of Justice from 1934 to 1936, and was chief of the Trial Division of the Bureau o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Leck Bruce
John Leck Bruce (16 October 1850 – 29 November 1921) was a Scottish-born architect, sanitary engineer and teacher. He was born in Glasgow to Robert Bruce (clerk), and his wife Jane (née Leck). Bruce began practising professionally at 21 years old (1871/72), and in 1874/75 he took David Sturrock into partnership under "Bruce & Sturrock", as well as working as a consulting engineer for Glasgow Corporation. He was one of the architects contributing to the development of the Turkish baths at the Arlington Baths Club Glasgow and presented a paper to the Philosophical Society of Glasgow on the heating of Turkish baths in 1879. In 1877 he married Charlotte Florence Cochran in Birkenhead, England. They had five children: Robert (1878–unknown), Charles John (1880–1961), Gerald Whitney (1882–1917), Cecile Blanche Ritchie (1891–1959) and Maida Charlotte Jean (1895–1943). In 1887 he migrated to Australia and settled in Sydney, New South Wales. In 1889 he became a foreman of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Munro Bruce
John Munro Bruce (10 October 1840 – 4 May 1901) was an Australian businessman. He was born in Ireland to Scottish parents and arrived in the colony of Victoria at the age of 18. He became the managing director and eventual majority shareholder in Paterson, Laing & Bruce, one of Melbourne's leading softgoods firms. He also held a number of civic positions, including as the founding club captain of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club. His son Stanley Bruce became prime minister of Australia. Early life Bruce was born in Brooklawn, County Leitrim, Ireland, the son of Mary (née Munro, Monro or Monroe) and George Williamson Bruce. His family was Scottish, originating in East Ayrshire. After his father's early death, Bruce was sent to Scotland to attend Madras College in St Andrews. He rejoined his mother in Newry in 1853 and was apprenticed to Henry Hawkins & Co., a linen firm. He was largely self-educated, as was his brother William Duff Bruce who became a civil engineer in Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mitchell Bruce
John Mitchell Bruce (1846–1929) was a British physician, pathologist, and physiologist. Biography After education at Aberdeen Grammar School, J. Mitchell Bruce matriculated at the University of Aberdeen, where he graduated MA in 1866. He studied medicine at the Middlesex Hospital, graduating MB (Lond.) in 1870. He undertook postgraduate study in pathology at Vienna and at London's Brown Animal Sanatory Institution under John Burdon-Sanderson and Edward Emanuel Klein. Bruce briefly held a junior appointment at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary before he was appointed in 1871 lecturer in physiology at Charing Cross Hospital. There he became in 1873 assistant physician, in 1882 full physician, and in 1904 consulting physician upon his retirement. He relinquished his physiological lectureship in 1877, taught materia medica from 1877 to 1890, and medicine from 1890 to 1901. Bruce was dean of the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School from 1883 to 1890. He was physician to Royal Brompt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Edward Bruce
John Edward Bruce, also known as Bruce Grit or J. E. Bruce-Grit (February 22, 1856 – August 7, 1924), was an American journalist, historian, writer, orator, civil rights activist and Pan-African nationalist. He was born a slave in Maryland; as an adult, he founded numerous newspapers along the East Coast, as well as co-founding (with Arthur Alfonso Schomburg) the Negro Society for Historical Research in New York. Early life and education Bruce was born in 1856 in Piscataway, Maryland, to enslaved parents Robert and Martha Allen (Clark) Bruce. When he was three years old, his father was sold to a slaveholder in Georgia and Bruce never saw or heard from him again. He and his mother fled to Washington, D.C. and later to Connecticut, where Bruce enrolled in an integrated school and received his first formal education. Traveling back to Washington later, he received a private education and attended Howard University for a three-month course. After that, he never pursued formal e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Collingwood Bruce
The Reverend John Collingwood Bruce, FSA (1805–5 April 1892) was an English nonconformist minister and schoolmaster, known as a historian of Tyneside and author. He co-operated with John Stokoe in compiling the major song collection '' Northumbrian Minstrelsy'' published in 1882 Early life The eldest son of John Bruce of Newcastle, he was educated at the Percy Street Academy, a well-known school in Newcastle kept by his father, and afterwards at Mill Hill School, Middlesex. He entered Glasgow University in 1821, graduated M.A. in 1826, and became hon. LL.D. in 1853. In early life, Bruce studied for the Presbyterian ministry, but never sought a call from any congregation. In 1831, he began to assist in the management of his father's school, of which he became sole proprietor in 1834, when his father died. He retired from the school, after a successful career, in 1863. Historical interests Bruce's main interest was in the history of Britain, in particular North East En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bruce (historiographer)
John Bruce of Grangehill and Falkland FRS FRSE (1744–1826) was a Scottish academic, politician and historiographer to the East India Company. Life He was born in Fife in 1744 or 1745, the son of Andrew Bruce (1710–1761) and Jean Squyre (1724–1794). While he had himself declared heir male of the family of Bruce of Earlshall, Bruce inherited from his father Andrew Bruce, a shipmaster, only the property of Grangehill, near Kinghorn, Fifeshire. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he was then appointed assistant professor of logic to John Stevenson, and professor of moral philosophy. Tutor to Robert Saunders Dundas, the son of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Bruce was rewarded by a share, with Sir James Hunter Blair, 1st Baronet of the reversion of the patent of king's printer and stationer for Scotland; and was appointed keeper of the state paper office, secretary for the Latin language to the Privy Council, and official historiographer to the East I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Asamoah Bruce
Air Marshal John Asamoah Bruce was a Ghanaian air force personnel and served in the Ghana Air Force The Ghana Air Force (GHF) is the aerial warfare organizational military branch of the Ghanaian Armed Forces (GAF). The GHF, along with the Ghanaian army (GA) and Ghanaian navy (GN), make up the Ghanaian Armed Forces (GAF), which are controlled .... He was the Chief of Air Staff of the Ghana Air Force from June 1992 to March 2001. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bruce, John Asamoah Ghanaian military personnel Chiefs of Air Staff (Ghana) Ghana Air Force personnel Bruce family of Ghana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
