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John Dunning (other)
John Dunning may refer to: * John Dunning (businessman) (born 1934), British businessman, founder of Westmorland Motorway Services * John Dunning (detective fiction author) (born 1942), American writer of detective fiction * John Dunning (true crime author) (1918–1990), true crime author * John Dunning (snooker player) (1927–2009), English professional snooker player * John Harry Dunning (1927–2009), British economist * John Dunning (film editor) (1916–1991), American film editor * John Dunning (film producer) (1927–2011), Canadian film producer * John R. Dunning (1907–1975), American physicist * Jack Dunning (John Angus Dunning, 1903–1971), New Zealand Test cricketer * John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton (1731–1783), English lawyer and politician * John Dunning (volleyball) John Dunning (born November 6, 1950) is an American volleyball coach who was the head women's coach at Stanford University (2001–2016) and the University of the Pacific (United States) (1985 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dunning (businessman)
John Carter Dunning (born 1934) is a British businessman and the founder of Westmorland Motorway Services, which runs motorway service stations in England, and is best known for Tebay Services. Dunning began his career in farming in 1956. The 900-acre Cumbrian hill farm was focused on sheep cattle. Dunning started Tebay Services on his family farm in 1972. He is married to Barbara. Their daughter Sarah left a City career to become actively involved in the business, and is chair and a co-owner of Westmorland. Their other daughter, Jane Lane, runs the farm. In the 1992 Birthday Honours he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established ..., "For public service in Cumbria." References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dunning, John Living peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dunning (detective Fiction Author)
John Dunning (born January 9, 1942) is an American writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. He is known for his reference books on old-time radio and his series of mysteries featuring Denver bookseller and ex-policeman Cliff Janeway. Life Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1942, Dunning moved to his father's hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, at the age of three. In 1964 he left his parents' home and moved to Denver, Colorado, where, after a time working as a stable hand at a horse racing track, he got a job at ''The Denver Post''. In 1970 he left the newspaper and took up writing novels, while pursuing a variety of jobs. Partly because of trouble with his publishers, in 1984 he stopped writing and opened a store specializing in second-hand and rare books called the Old Algonquin Bookstore. At the urging of fellow authors, he returned to the world of novels in 1992 with his first Cliff Janeway novel, ''Booked to Die''. In 1994 he closed the store and continued it as an i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dunning (true Crime Author)
John Dunning (1918 – March 1990) was a journalist and true crime author. Early life Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, his father disappeared and his mother Chrystal was left to bring him up alone. Needing to work, she gave him to the couple who had brought her up as an orphan. They were " dirt farmers" in Michigan and were in their 60s when they took her son. Dunning joined the U.S. Navy in San Diego at the age of 16, his foster parents having died. He served in the Asian and Pacific fleets and spent time in the merchant navy before settling in Shanghai, where he married a Chinese woman. There he became a lieutenant of police in the British sector of the city (at that time divided between the United States, France, Britain and Japan). When the Japanese invaded China and Shanghai, he remained in his post as a non-combatant until 1941, when the United States entered the war. He was then interned in the Lunghua prison camp where he became the representative of the pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dunning (snooker Player)
John Dunning (18 April 1927 – 11 September 2009) was an English professional snooker player from Morley, West Yorkshire. Career Dunning joined the Royal Navy aged 18, and served for two years. He later managed a newsagent's shop and was also a window cleaner. Having been Yorkshire amateur champion on eleven occasions, and the CIU Championship in 1963, 1966 and 1969, Dunning turned professional in 1971 at the age of 45. He played his first World Championship match in 1972, when he lost to John Pulman in the first round, after beating Pat Houlihan and Graham Miles in qualifying. He produced his best performance in 1974, when he reached the quarter-final, subsequently losing his match against Miles 13–15. Dunning's final appearance in the main stages of the event came in 1982. In 1977, he reached the quarter-finals of the inaugural UK Championship, losing 0–5 to Alex Higgins. Dunning reached the final of the International Masters in March 1984. The tournament, played on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Harry Dunning
John Harry Dunning (26 June 1927 – 29 January 2009) was a British economist and is widely recognised as the father of the field of international business. He researched the economics of international direct investment and the multinational enterprise from the 1950s until his death. In the 1980s, he published the eclectic paradigm or OLI-Model/Framework as further development on Internalization theory. OLI remains the predominant theoretical perspective to study international business activities, notably foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises. His first book, ''American Investment in British Manufacturing Industry'' (1958), is the first seminal work in the international business field. Biography John Dunning was born in Sandy, Bedfordshire on 26 June 1927. At the age of 15 he took a junior clerical position with S.E. Higgins & Co., a London insurance brokerage.Dunning (2008)''Seasons of a Scholar: Some Personal Reflections of an International Business Eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dunning (film Editor)
John D. Dunning (May 5, 1916 – February 25, 1991) was an American film editor who worked on several large-scale Hollywood movies from 1947 to 1970. He was an editor contracted to MGM Studios. While working with MGM, Dunning was picked by the famed director Frank Capra to collorabate with him on a World War II series of seven patriotic films for the American public, collectively called ''Why We Fight'', produced from 1942 to 1945. This early relation with Capra honed his skills with a talented director and brought him to the professional recognition in the film world. This recognition proved fruitful when the low-budget war film '' Battleground'' became a sleeper hit in 1949, earning critical praise and several Oscar nominations, including one for Best Film Editing. Dunning worked on the remake of ''Show Boat'' (1951); Joseph L. Mankiewicz's ''Julius Caesar'', an adaptation of Shakespeare's play (1953); and the Southern epic '' Raintree County'' (1957). In 1959 he won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dunning (film Producer)
John Dunning (April 27, 1927 – September 19, 2011) was a pioneering Canadian film producer from Montreal who co-founded the Canadian film production company Cinépix and produced early works by notable Canadian directors David Cronenberg and Ivan Reitman. Dunning launched Cinépix with partner André Link in Montreal in the early 1960s. Their biggest commercial success—and the first Canadian box office hit—came with Reitman's ''Meatballs'' (1979). Early life Dunning was born in the Greater Montreal district of Verdun, Quebec—and into the film business. Dunning's father Mickey toured Quebec screening newsreel footage and later owned several cinemas. By the age of 13, John was working the candy counter at his family's Century Theatre in adjacent Ville-Émard. Upon his father's death several years later, Dunning managed the cinema, beginning a lifelong career in film. Career Dunning launched Cinépix with partner André Link in Montreal in the early 1960s. Initially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John R
John R. (born John Richbourg, August 20, 1910 - February 15, 1986) was an American radio disc jockey who attained fame in the 1950s and 1960s for playing rhythm and blues music on Nashville radio station WLAC. He was also a notable record producer and artist manager. Richbourg was arguably the most popular and charismatic of the four announcers at WLAC who showcased popular African-American music in nightly programs from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. (The other three were Gene Nobles, Herman Grizzard, and Bill "Hoss" Allen.) Later rock music disc jockeys, such as Alan Freed and Wolfman Jack, mimicked Richbourg's practice of using speech that simulated African-American street language of the mid-twentieth century. Richbourg's highly stylized approach to on-air presentation of both music and advertising earned him popularity, but it also created identity confusion. Because Richbourg and fellow disc jockey Allen used African-American speech patterns, many listeners thought that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Dunning
John Angus Dunning (6 February 1903 – 24 June 1971) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in four Test matches between 1933 and 1937 and 60 first-class matches from 1923 to 1938. He later became a headmaster in Australia.Jack Dunning CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 August 2022. McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 47. Cardiff: . Academic and teaching career Jack Dunning was born at |
John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton
John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton (18 October 1731 – 18 August 1783), of Spitchwick the parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Devon, was an English lawyer and politician, born in Ashburton in Devon, who served as Solicitor-General from 1768. He was first noticed in English politics when he wrote a notice in 1762 defending the British East India Company merchants against their Dutch rivals. He was a member of parliament from 1768 onward. His career in the House of Commons is best known for his motion in 1780 that "''the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished''". He was created Baron Ashburton in 1782. Early life He was born at Ashburton in Devon on 18 October 1731. He was a younger son of John Dunning of Ashburton, attorney, by his wife Agnes Judsham, daughter of Henry Judsham, attorney, of Old Port in the parish of Modbury, Devon. After receiving education at Ashburton Grammar School, he was articled to his father, who had a legal pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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