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John Daniel (other)
John Daniel may refer to: Animals * John Daniel (gorilla) (1917–1922) * John Daniel II (gorilla) (1920–1926) People * John Daniel (priest) (1745–1823), English Roman Catholic priest * John Daniel (printer) (1755–1823), Welsh printer * John Daniel (ship's captain), 17th-century English sea captain * John A. Daniel (?–2011), American magician * John Edward Daniel (1902–1962), Welsh theologian and chairman of the Welsh political party Plaid Cymru * John Moncure Daniel (1825–1865), Virginia newspaper editor * John Reeves Jones Daniel (1802–1868), U.S. Representative from North Carolina * John W. Daniel (1842–1910), U.S. Senator from Virginia * John Waterhouse Daniel (1845–1933), Canadian physician and Conservative politician * John Daniel, a master founder at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry * John Danyel or Daniel (1560s–1620s), musician from Somerset, England See also * John Daniell (other) * John Daniels (other) * Jack Daniel (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Daniel (gorilla)
John Daniel (1917–1922) was a lowland gorilla who was raised among humans in Uley, England. John Daniel was born in Gabon. After his mother was shot and killed by soldiers, John Daniel was brought over to England and ended up living with Major Rupert Penny. Unable to look after him full-time however, Penny then passed John Daniel over to his aunt, Alyce Cunningham, who lived in the village of Uley in Gloucestershire. He resided with her in the village from 1918 until 1921. John Daniel learned to use a toilet, make his bed, and drink tea and cider from cups. He was a playmate to the village children and was allowed to drink cider at the local pub. He also occasionally resided on Sloane Street in London when Cunningham traveled to her home there and would attend dinner parties. He rode in Cunningham's convertible. When he became too large to manage at , Alyce Cunningham sold him in 1921 for £1,100 to an American person who misled her to believe the gorilla would be retired to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Daniel II (gorilla)
John Daniel II (–1926), originally called Sultan, was a Western gorilla who was captured at age three in August 1923 in the French Congo. John Daniel II then passed into the possession of an Englishwoman named Alyce Cunningham to be a successor to John Daniel I. According to a 1924 press release, John Daniel II was from the same "gorilla village" as John Daniel I. John Daniel II reportedly did not like men as a consequence of their involvement in his capture and as such needed a female chaperone at all times. He liked bacon and eggs for breakfast, and took tea at 4 p.m. John Daniel and Cunningham came to the United States from the UK in early 1924 on the . John Daniel II lived with Cunningham at the McAlpin Hotel in New York and "even answered the door when visitors called." They toured together that summer with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus. Per a poster held in the Ringling Museum circusiana collection he was advertised as a "Genuine Gorilla from the Wild ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Daniel (priest)
John Daniel (born 1745; died in Paris, 3 October 1823) was an English Roman Catholic priest, and the last effective head of the English College, Douai. Life John Daniel was born in 1745, the son of Edward Daniel of Durton, Lancashire, and great-nephew of the Rev. Hugh Tootell, better known as Dodd the historian. He was educated first at Dame Alice's School, Fernyhalgh, and then at Douai, where he was ordained priest and made professor of philosophy (1778) and afterwards of theology. When the president, Edward Kitchen, alarmed by the French Revolution, resigned his office in 1792, Daniel was appointed president. When war was declared between England and France, the superiors and students of most of the British establishments took flight and succeeded in reaching England. The members of the English College, with Rev. Daniel, remained in the hope of saving the college. About 9:00 on the night of 12 October 1793, a band of revolutionary soldiers surrounded and took possession of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Daniel (printer)
John Daniel (1755? - 1823) was a Welsh printer. He is known to have been from the Carmarthenshire area, where his father was a farmer. Following an apprenticeship with John Ross of Carmarthen he moved to London to work for King's Printers. In 1784 however, he returned to Carmarthen where he set up a very successful business in King Street. In March 1810 he began the printing of the earlier issues of 'The Carmarthen Journal'. He is also thought, in 1797, to have been the first printer in Wales to print music in staff notation, when he produced 'Cyfaill mewn Llogell', by John Williams (1750? - 1807). Ifano Jones in his publication, 'History of Printing and Printers in Wales' refers to him as the best printer before the era of William Rees (of Llandovery), and William Spurrell (of Carmarthen Carmarthen (, RP: ; cy, Caerfyrddin , "Merlin's fort" or "Sea-town fort") is the county town of Carmarthenshire and a community in Wales, lying on the River Towy. north of its estuary in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Daniel (ship's Captain)
John Daniel was an English sea captain who, in the ship ''New London'', charted part of the coast of Western Australia in 1681. Daniel and the ''New London'' are believed to have been the second group of English mariners to sight the mainland of Australia, after the ''Tryall'' was wrecked in 1620 (and preceding William Dampier's ''Roebuck'', in 1688). A surviving copy of Daniel's chart indicates that the "Dangerous Rocks" he sighted was the Wallabi Group; the northernmost islands in the Houtman Abrolhos. A printed copy of Daniel's journal of the voyage has also survived, including a brief description of the islands. :With the wind S.W. by W. steering by compass N.E. by E. at 10 a.m. the water was discoloured. A man at the foretop saw a breach rise ahead of us. We put our helm hard a starboard...and weathered the N.W. end of it about half a mile...The breach that we first saw happened to be the northernmost of all, there being several and by our computation heyare 20 miles in lengt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John A
Sir John Alexander Macdonald (January 10 or 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 to 1891. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career that spanned almost half a century. Macdonald was born in Scotland; when he was a boy his family immigrated to Kingston in the Province of Upper Canada (today in eastern Ontario). As a lawyer, he was involved in several high-profile cases and quickly became prominent in Kingston, which elected him in 1844 to the legislature of the Province of Canada. By 1857, he had become premier under the colony's unstable political system. In 1864, when no party proved capable of governing for long, Macdonald agreed to a proposal from his political rival, George Brown, that the parties unite in a Great Coalition to seek federation and political reform. Macdonald was the leading figure in the subsequent discussions and conferences, which resulted in the Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Edward Daniel
John Edward Daniel (1902–1962) was a Welsh theologian and college lecturer who became chairman of the Welsh political party Plaid Cymru. Life Daniel was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, on 26 June 1902 and was educated at the Friars School, Bangor. He then won a scholarship to the University of Oxford, matriculating as a member of Jesus College, Oxford, in 1919. He obtained a first-class degree in '' literae humaniores'' in 1923 and a further first-class degree in divinity in 1925. He was then appointed to a fellowship at the Bala-Bangor Theological College, and became a professor on 28 July 1926, following the death of Thomas Rees. He taught Christian doctrine and the philosophy of religion and was regarded as one of the most able theologians of his generation. However, his publications were few: ' (1933) and some journal articles. Although he was never ordained, he was an able preacher. He was a prominent Welsh nationalist and member of Plaid Cymru. He contributed to its newspaper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Moncure Daniel
John Moncure Daniel (October 24, 1825 – March 30, 1865) was the US minister to the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1854-1861. However, he is best known for his role as the executive editor of the ''Richmond Examiner'', one of the chief newspapers of the Confederate States of America. Editorials written by Daniel and his editorial board have served as source materials for historians of the American Civil War. Early life Daniel was born in Stafford County, Virginia on October 24, 1825. He was the son of physician Dr. John M. Daniel and Eliza Mitchell Daniel. The young John discovered a talent for journalism and moved south within his native state to Richmond, Virginia. In 1847, he became one of the first writers for a weekly paper, the ''Richmond Examiner''. Soon, he became a leading writer for the paper. Then, as its editor, he became a patron of Edgar Allan Poe and published several of Poe's poems. Diplomat Daniel, as an editor aligned with the Democratic Party, was appointed in 1853 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Reeves Jones Daniel
John Reeves Jones Daniel (January 13, 1802 – June 22, 1868) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina. Daniel was born near Halifax, North Carolina and was instructed privately at home. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1821. After studying law, he was admitted to the North Carolina bar in 1823 and practiced law in Halifax. He was elected to the State house of commons, serving from 1832–34. Daniel was elected attorney general of North Carolina in 1834. The popular politician was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh United States Congress and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1841 – March 4, 1853), where he served as Chairman of the Committee on Claims (Twenty-ninth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses). Daniel was not a candidate for renomination in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress. He retired from politics and resumed the practice of law in Halifax. He moved to Louisiana in 1860 and settled near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John W
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 Waterhouse Daniel
John Waterhouse Daniel (January 27, 1845 – January 11, 1933) was a Canadian physician and Conservative politician. Daniel enlisted in the American Civil War and served as a surgeon with the 47th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry a Union Regiment from October 1863 to December 1864. Daniel served as an assistant surgeon in the United States Army from 1865 to 1871. After a three-year term as an Alderman in Saint John, New Brunswick, he was elected Mayor, a post he held from 1900 to 1902. Elected to the House of Commons four times, Daniel represented Saint John federally from 1904 to 1911. Less than a month after his final election in 1911, Daniel resigned, triggering a by-election which John Douglas Hazen won by acclamation. In 1912 Daniel was appointed to the Senate of Canada The Senate of Canada (french: region=CA, Sénat du Canada) is the upper house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Crown and the House of Commons, they comprise the bicameral l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitechapel Bell Foundry
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry was a business in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. At the time of the closure of its Whitechapel premises, it was the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain. The bell foundry primarily made church bells and their fittings and accessories, although it also provided single tolling bells, carillon bells and handbells. The foundry was notable for being the original manufacturer of the Liberty Bell, a famous symbol of American independence, and for re-casting Big Ben, which rings from the north clock tower (the Elizabeth Tower) at the Houses of Parliament in London. The Whitechapel premises are a Grade II* listed building. The foundry closed on 12 June 2017, after nearly 450 years of bell-making and 250 years at its Whitechapel site, with the final bell cast given to the Museum of London along with other artefacts used in the manufacturing process, and the building has been sold. Following the sale of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, the bell pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
