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John Curtis (English Politician)
John Curtis may refer to: Politics *John Curtis (burgess) (fl. 1659–1660), North American colonial British planter and politician *John Curtis (Irish politician) (died 1775), Irish politician *John Curtis (English politician) (c. 1751–1813), English Member of Parliament for Wells, 1782–1784 and Steyning, 1791–1794 *John A. Curtis (1834–1913), member of the Virginia House of Delegates *John E. Curtis (1915–1999), American politician from the state of Alaska *John Curtis (Utah politician) (born 1960), member of the U.S. House of Representatives and former Mayor of Provo, Utah Sports *John Curtis (cricketer) (1887–1972), English cricketer *John Curtis (baseball) (born 1948), American Major League Baseball pitcher, 1970–1984 *John Curtis (footballer, born 1954), English former professional football player *John Curtis (sailor) (born 1967), Canadian Olympic sailor *John Curtis (footballer, born 1978), English professional football player Religion *John Curtis (bishop) ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Curtis (burgess)
John Curtis or Curtys () was a North American Colonial British planter and politician who served one term in the House of Burgesses. Early and family life Thomas Curtis sailed from England to the Jamestown, Virginia, Jamestown colony. He lived in what had become Elizabeth City County, Virginia, Elizabeth City County, and speculated in real estate throughout what had become the Virginia colony. He had several children by his second wife, Averilla, including John. Career John Curtis served as a third burgess representing Lancaster County, Virginia, Lancaster County in the 1659-1660 Virginia General Assembly session, alongside major landowners and legislative veterans John Carter, Sr., John Carter and Henry Corbin (colonist), Henry Corbyn (or Corbin). Neither Thomas nor John Curtis (or Curtys) show in the few surviving early tax records for Lancaster County, except for the year 1668, when John Curtys who lived on the south side of the Rappahannock River (which the next year became Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Curtis (bishop)
John Barry Curtis is a retired Anglican bishop in Canada. Born on 19 June 1933, he was educated at Trinity College, Toronto and ordained after a period of study at Chichester Theological College in 1959. Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 He began his ordained ministry as a curate in Pembroke, Ontario. After this he held incumbencies in Kanata, Ontario, Buckingham, Quebec, Westboro, Ottawa and Elbow Park, Calgary. He became Bishop of Calgary and Metropolitan of Rupert's Land Rupert's Land (french: Terre de Rupert), or Prince Rupert's Land (french: Terre du Prince Rupert, link=no), was a territory in British North America which comprised the Hudson Bay drainage basin; this was further extended from Rupert's Land t ... in 1994, retiring from both posts in 1999. References 1933 births Alumni of Chichester Theological College Trinity College (Canada) alumni Anglican bishops of Calgary 20th-century Anglican Church of Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Curtice
Sir John Kevin Curtice (born 10 December 1953) is a British political scientist who is currently professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde and senior research fellow at the National Centre for Social Research. He is particularly interested in electoral behaviour and researching political and social attitudes. He took a keen interest in the debate about Scottish independence. Early life Curtice was born on 10 December 1953. He grew up in St Austell and was educated at Truro School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read politics, philosophy and economics, and later transferred to Nuffield College as a postgraduate. Commitments and positions He serves as president of the British Polling Council, vice-chair of the Economic and Social Data Service's Advisory Committee and is a member of the editorial board of the '' Journal of Elections'', the Executive Committee of the British Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, and the Policy Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolemaster
''Rolemaster'' (originally ''Role Master'') is a tabletop role-playing game published by Iron Crown Enterprises since 1980. Editions ''Rolemaster'' has a total of four editions. First edition (RM1): 1980–1982 This edition includes the original versions of ''Arms Law'', '' Claw Law'', '' Spell Law'', ''Character Law'' and '' Campaign Law''. These were available initially as individual books, and later as combined volumes and in boxed sets. Second edition (RM2): 1984–1994 In 1984, an initial boxed set was issued containing both expanded and revised rules. The box included ''Spell Law'', a combined ''Arms Law & Claw Law'', ''Character Law'', as well as the Vog Mur campaign module for the Loremaster setting. Shortly after the first box, a new boxed set was released, containing all of the previous contents as well as ''The Cloudlords of Tanara'', a detailed setting and adventure supplement. The supplement introduced ICE's original Loremaster setting, which would later dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Curtis (games Designer)
John Curtis may refer to: Politics *John Curtis (burgess) (fl. 1659–1660), North American colonial British planter and politician *John Curtis (Irish politician) (died 1775), Irish politician *John Curtis (English politician) (c. 1751–1813), English Member of Parliament for Wells, 1782–1784 and Steyning, 1791–1794 * John A. Curtis (1834–1913), member of the Virginia House of Delegates * John E. Curtis (1915–1999), American politician from the state of Alaska *John Curtis (Utah politician) (born 1960), member of the U.S. House of Representatives and former Mayor of Provo, Utah Sports *John Curtis (cricketer) (1887–1972), English cricketer *John Curtis (baseball) (born 1948), American Major League Baseball pitcher, 1970–1984 * John Curtis (footballer, born 1954), English former professional football player * John Curtis (sailor) (born 1967), Canadian Olympic sailor *John Curtis (footballer, born 1978), English professional football player Religion *John Curtis (bisho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Thomas Curtis
John Thomas Curtis (September 20, 1913 – June 7, 1961) was an American botanist and plant ecologist. He is particularly known for his lasting contribution to the development of numerical methods in ecology. Together with J. Roger Bray, he developed the method of polar ordination (now known as Bray-Curtis ordination) with its inherent distance measure, the Bray-Curtis dissimilarity. Curtis completed his Ph.D. in botany at the University of Wisconsin in 1937. He remained affiliated with that university for the remainder of his career, except through 1942–1945, when he served as research director of the Société Haïtiano-Américaine de Développement Agricole. Both in 1942 and in 1956, he was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships. In 1951 he was made full professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin. The collective efforts of Curtis and the thirty-nine Ph.D. students that he managed to supervise during his relatively short career, resulted in the work ‘’’The Vegetati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John C
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 Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Green Curtis
John Green Curtis (October 29, 1844 – September 21, 1913) was an American physiologist who spent most of his career at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Curtis was one of the founding members of the American Physiological Society, and hosted its first meeting in his Columbia laboratory space. Early life and education Curtis was born on October 29, 1844, in New York City, New York. He attended Harvard College and received his bachelor's degree in 1866 and his master's degree in 1869. He received his M.D. in 1870 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, then a loose affiliate of Columbia University not integrated fully into the school until 1891. He received the honorary LL.D. degree in 1904. Academic career Curtis began his career in clinical practice even before he had formally received his MD with a junior appointment at Bellevue Hospital. He remained there for several years, eventually reaching the rank of attending surgeon in 1876 and serving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John B
John Bryn Williams (born 1977), known as John B, is an English disc jockey and electronic music producer. He is widely recognised for his eccentric clothing and wild hair and his production of several cutting edge drum and bass tracks. John B ranked number 76 in ''DJ Magazine''s 2010 Top 100 DJs annual poll, announced on 27 October 2010. Career Williams was born on 12 July 1977 in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He started producing music around the age of 14, and now is the head of drum and bass record label Beta Recordings, together with its more specialist drum and bass sub-labels Nu Electro, Tangent, and Chihuahua. He also has releases on Formation Records, Metalheadz and Planet Mu. Williams was ranked 92nd drum and bass DJ on the 2009 ''DJ Magazine'' top 100. Style While his trademark sound has evolved through the years, it generally involves female vocals and trance-like synths (a style which has been dubbed "trance and bass", "trancestep" and "futurestep" by listeners). His m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Curtis (entomologist)
John Curtis (3 September 1791 – 6 October 1862) was an English entomologist and illustrator. Biography Curtis was born in Norwich to Frances and Charles Morgan Curtis. Charles Morgan died before his son had reached the age of 4 years. His mother, Frances, had a passion for flowers and was a professional flower grower. She encouraged her son to study natural history with a young local naturalist, Richard Walker (1791–1870). At the age of 16 John became an apprentice at a local lawyer's office in Norwich but devoted his spare time to studying and drawing insects and, with insect collecting becoming a growing craze, he found he could make a living selling the specimens he found. At this time he became a friend of Simon Wilkin (1790–1862) a wealthy landowner in Norfolk, eventually leaving his job to live with Wilkin at Cossey Hall where the extensive natural history library and specimen collection afforded him the opportunity to study his emerging over-riding passion, entomo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Curtis (painter)
John Curtis () was an English landscape painter. Career John Curtis was a pupil of William Marlow at Twickenham. In 1790 he exhibited at the Royal Academy ''A View of Netley Abbey'', and was an occasional exhibitor in the following years. In 1797 he departed from his usual style, exhibiting a picture of the '' Indefatigable'' and ''Amazon'' frigates under Sir Edward Pellew engaging ''Les Droits de l'Homme'', a French seventy-four. Nothing is known of his subsequent career. Some of his views were engraved.Cust 1888, pp. 346–347. References Sources * Cust, L. H.; Lambert, R. J. (2004)"Curtis, John (fl. 1790–1797), landscape painter" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 September 2022. * Graves, Algernon (1884). '' A Dictionary of Artists Who Have Exhibited Works in the Principal London Exhibitions of Oil Paintings From 1760 to 1880''. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 59. * Oliver, Valerie Cassel, ed. (2011)"Curtis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Curtis (bishop)
John Curtis (15 March 1880 – 11 July 1962) was an Irish missionary of the Anglican Church. He was born in Dublin on 15 March 1880, educated at Trinity College, Dublin ( Trinity Master of Arts ) and ordained in 1904. He was a curate at Christ Church, Leeson Park in his home city after which he joined the Dublin University Mission to Fukien; he married Eda Bryan-Brown, a fellow missionary who was also a doctor. He was a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces in 1917-18 serving in Salonika He was Bishop of Chekiang, China, from 1929 to 1949, during which period the Nationalist, Communist and Japanese armies fought over the country. On his return to England he was made Vicar of Wilden, Stourport, and retired in 1957. The Bishop and his wife had two children. He died on 11 July 1962 and his widow on 18 January 1964.''The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
