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John Dickinson (other)
Peple named John Dickinson ''(The list is sorted by year of birth)'' * John Dickinson (1732–1808), Founding Father of the United States active in Delaware and Pennsylvania. *John Dean Dickinson (1767–1841), lawyer and U.S. Representative from New York *John Dickinson (inventor) (1782–1869), founder of the paper mills at Apsley and Nash Mills in Hertfordshire, England * John Dickinson (judge) (1806–1882), judge and politician in colonial New South Wales * John Dickinson (writer) (1815–1876), English writer on India * John Dickinson (magistrate) (1848/9–1933), chief magistrate of the Metropolitan Police Courts until 1920 *John Dickinson (bishop) (1901–1993), Assistant English Bishop of Melanesia * John Dickinson (physician) (1927–2015), British physician and clinical researcher * John Dickinson (rugby league) (1934–2021), rugby league footballer of the 1950s for England, and St Helens RLFC * John Dickinson (author) (born 1962), English author of young adult novels S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dickinson
John Dickinson (November 13 Julian_calendar">/nowiki>Julian_calendar_November_2.html" ;"title="Julian_calendar.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Julian calendar">/nowiki>Julian calendar November 2">Julian_calendar.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Julian calendar">/nowiki>Julian calendar November 2 1732Various sources indicate a birth date of November 8, 12 or 13, but his most recent biographer, Flower, offers November 2 without dispute. – February 14, 1808), a Founding Father of the United States, was an attorney and politician from Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware. Dickinson was known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his twelve ''Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania'', published individually in 1767 and 1768, and he also wrote "The Liberty Song" in 1768. As a member of the First Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association, Dickinson drafted most of the 1774 Petition to the King, and then, as a member of the Second Continental Congres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dean Dickinson
John Dean Dickinson (June 28, 1767 – January 28, 1841) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Biography Dickinson was born in Middletown in the Connecticut Colony. He completed preparatory studies and graduated from Yale College in 1785, and in 1790 he moved to Lansingburgh, New York. He was admitted to the bar in April 1791, and commenced the practice of law in Lansingburgh. Dickinson moved to Troy, New York, and served as president of the Farmers' Bank of Troy, New York, from the bank's foundation in 1801 until his death in 1841. Dickinson was a director and founder of the Rensselaer & Saratoga Insurance Co. in 1814. He served as a member of the New York State Assembly from November 1816 to April 1817, and was the first president of the Troy Lyceum of Natural History in 1818. Dickinson was elected as a Federalist to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses from March 4, 1819 to March 3, 1823. He was one of the original trustees of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dickinson (inventor)
John Dickinson (29 March 1782 – 11 January 1869) invented a continuous mechanised papermaking process. He established in 1809 the English paper and stationery producer Longman & Dickinson, which later evolved into John Dickinson Stationery Limited. Early life Dickinson was the eldest son of Captain Thomas Dickinson RN and his wife Frances born de Brissac. Thomas Dickinson was the superintendent of the Ordnance Transports at Woolwich and Frances Dickinson was the daughter of a French silk-weaver in Spitalfields. At the age of fifteen, Dickinson started a seven-year apprenticeship as a stationer with Messrs Harrison and Richardson in London. He was admitted to the Livery of the Stationers' Company in 1804 and began to trade, in stationery, in the City of London. Inventor Dickinson demonstrated his resourceful nature by inventing a new kind of paper for cannon cartridges. This type of paper did not smoulder after the cannon had fired, which had been the cause of constant a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dickinson (judge)
Sir John Nodes Dickinson (1806 – 16 March 1882) was a judge and politician in colonial New South Wales. Dickinson was the son of Nodes Dickinson, F.R.C.S., of London, Staff-Surgeon to Her Majesty's Forces, and was born on the island of Grenada, West Indies. He was educated at Caius College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in 1829, and graduated M.A. in 1832. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1840. Dickinson married, early in 1844, Helen, daughter of Captain Henry Jauncey. In June 1844 Dickinson went to Sydney, in the ''Garland Grove'', with the appointment of Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. An 1851 portrait by Marshall Claxton of Dickinson with his wife and infant daughter hangs in the Art Gallery of NSW. Dickinson acted as chief justice of New South Wales from 15 February 1860 to 17 February 1861 during the absence of Sir Alfred Stephen. On 22 May 1856, Dickinson was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, a position ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dickinson (writer)
John Dickinson (1815–1876) was an English writer on India. Early life The son of the papermaker John Dickinson of Nash Mills, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, he was born on 28 December 1815 and educated at Eton College. He declined to take part in his father's business. Dickinson travelled in Europe and began to write on behalf of liberal causes. India Reform Society Taking up Indian reform, Dickinson had support from his uncle, General Thomas Dickinson, of the Bombay Engineers, and his cousin, Sebastian Stewart Dickinson. A public works commission was appointed by Lord Dalhousie in 1852 to inquire into the deficiencies of administration pointed out by Dickinson and his friends. On 12 March 1853, a meeting was held in Dickinson's rooms, and a society was formed under the name of the India Reform Society. Initially involved, besides Dickinson, were two Members of Parliament, John Blackett and Henry Danby Seymour. John Bright came onto the committee, and his contacts gave the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dickinson (magistrate)
Sir John Dickinson (17 November 1848 – 29 October 1933) was a British barrister who was chief magistrate of the Metropolitan Police Courts from 1913 until 1920. On his retirement he was replaced by Sir Chartres Biron."New Metropolitan Chief Magistrate", ''The Times'', 22 April 1920, p. 16."Obituary Sir Chartres Biron", '' The Times'', 29 January 1940, p. 9. He was the fourth son of Joseph Dickinson M.D. of Liverpool, educated at Cheltenham School. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1867, graduating LL.B. in 1870 and LL.M. in 1874. He entered the Inner Temple in 1868 and was called to the bar The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to ... in 1871. A Metropolitan Police Magistrate at Thames Police Court from 1890, he became Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Magis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dickinson (bishop)
John Hubert Dickinson (18 April 190131 May 1993)Blain, Michael. ''Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific — ordained before 1932'' (2019) pp. 423–7 (Accessed aProject Canterbury 26 June 2019) was a British Anglican bishop who served as Assistant Bishop of Melanesia from 1931 to 1937. Family and education Dickinson was born in Longhoughton, Northumberland (UK), the only son of Harry G. Dickinson, priest, and his second wife Edina C. V. Johnson; he was baptised on 23 June 1901 at Longhoughton by his father, and educated at Jesus College, Oxford before training for ordination at Ripon College Cuddesdon, Cuddesdon College. In 1937, he married Frances Victoria (daughter of C. F. Thorp, a priest; she died 1991) and they had two daughters. Early ministry Dickinson was made deacon in 1925 and ordained priest in 1926, both at York by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of York. He served as curate of St John's Middlesbrough from 1925 to 1929 and became a Society for the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dickinson (physician)
Professor Christopher John Dickinson DM, FRCP, ARCO (1927-2015), known as John, was a British physician and clinical researcher. Dickinson was born on 1 February 1927. He underwent medical training at Oxford University and at University College Hospital, London. He worked at University College Hospital from 1964, and became Professor of Medicine (in 1974) and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, retiring in 1982. He was subsequently Emeritus Visiting Professor at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine. He was a member of the Medical Research Council and Chairman of the British Medical Research Society. He was also Secretary of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, an Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary University of London, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), and an Associate of the Royal College of Organists The Royal College of Organists (RCO) is a charity and membership organisation based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dickinson (rugby League)
John Dickinson (10 April 1934 – 7 August 2021), also known by the nickname of "Todder", was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s, and coached in the 1960s. He played at representative level for England, and at club level for St. Helens, Leigh and Rochdale Hornets, as a , or , and coached at club level for the Pilkington Recs ARLFC. Playing career International honours John 'Todder' Dickinson won a cap for England while at St. Helens in 1956 against France. County Cup Final appearances John 'Todder' Dickinson played in St. Helens' 3–10 defeat by Oldham in the 1956 Lancashire Cup Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ... Final during the 1956–57 season at Central Park, Wigan on Saturday 20 October 1956. Personal life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dickinson (author)
John Geoffrey Hyett Dickinson (born June 1962) is an English author of young adult novels. His first novel, ''The Cup of the World'', was published in 2004. His novel ''The Lightstep'', written for adults, was published in 2008. Dickinson lives in Painswick, Gloucestershire. Biography Dickinson is the eldest son of author Peter Dickinson and Mary Rose Barnard. He was educated at St Paul's School (London) and Trinity College, Oxford, where he achieved a First in History. From 1985 to 1998, Dickinson worked at the Ministry of Defence (MOD). During this time he was seconded to the Cabinet Office (1993–1995) and to the UK Delegation to NATO where he worked on the Membership Action Plans of the states that joined NATO in 2004. Dickinson left the MOD on a sabbatical in 2002 to become a full-time writer. He wrote two unpublished novels before the third, ''The Cup of the World'', was published in 2004 by David Fickling Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dickenson (other)
John Dickenson may refer to: *John Dickenson (author) (c. 1570–1636), English author * John Dickenson (Canadian politician) (1847–1932) * John Calhoun Dickenson (1815–1890), Virginia planter and politician *John W. Dickenson John Wallace Dickenson (born 22 January 1934) is an Australian inventor, who developed some liquid flow measuring devices and designed a successful hang glider configuration, for which he was awarded with the ''Gold Air Medal'', the highest ... (1934–2023), Australian inventor See also * John Dickinson (other) {{hndis, Dickenson, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Dickinson (other)
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Jonathan Dickinson was a Quaker merchant, author and mayor of Philadelphia. Jonathan Dickinson may also refer to: *Jonathan Dickinson (New Jersey minister) (1688–1747), minister and a co-founder and first president of the College of New Jersey * Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant (1746–1793), grandson of Jonathan Dickinson, American lawyer and politician *Jonathan Dickinson State Park, a Florida State Park and historic site named for the Quaker merchant See also *John Dickinson (other) Peple named John Dickinson ''(The list is sorted by year of birth)'' * John Dickinson (1732–1808), Founding Father of the United States active in Delaware and Pennsylvania. *John Dean Dickinson (1767–1841), lawyer and U.S. Representative from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
