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John Ellis (Benara)
John Ellis may refer to: Academics *John Ellis (scrivener) (1698–1791), English political writer *John Ellis (naturalist) (1710–1776), English botanical illustrator *John Ellis (physicist, born 1946), British theoretical physicist at CERN * John Millott Ellis (1831–1894), abolitionist and President of Oberlin College *R. John Ellis (born 1935), British biochemist *Sir John Ellis (physician) (1916–1998), Dean London Hospital Medical College 1968–1980 medical educationalist *John Ellis (media academic) (born 1952), British media theorist and TV producer * John Ellis (physicist, born 1963), British physicist at the University of Cambridge Business *Alfred John Ellis (1915–2020), Canadian banker *John Ellis (businessman) (1789–1862), Director of the Midland Railway in the UK and MP for Leicester 1848–1852 *John Devonshire Ellis (1824–1906), English steelmaker * John Prescott Ellis (born 1953), media consultant and first cousin of U.S. President George W. Bush *Dr. J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ellis (scrivener)
John Ellis (1698–1791) was an English scrivener and literary figure. Life He was the son of James and Susannah Ellis, born in the parish of St. Clement Danes, London, 22 March 1698. His father was unreliable, though a good swordsman; his mother, Susannah Philpot, was a strict dissenter. He was first sent to a day-school in Dogwell Court, Whitefriars, with a brother and two sisters, and later moved to another, not much superior, in Wine Office Court, Fleet Street. Here he learned the rudiments of grammar, and is said while at school to have translated a Latin poem of Payne Fisher entitled 'Marston Moore, sive de obsidione prœlioque Eboracensi carmen lib. 6,' 1660, which was published in 1750. Ellis began his business career as clerk or apprentice to John Taverner, a scrivener in Threadneedle Street. He improved his knowledge of Latin by listening to the assistance which his master gave in his school-exercises to his son, who was a pupil at Merchant Taylors' School. In busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ellis (Harwich MP)
John Ellis (1643–1738) was an English official and Member of Parliament. Life Born in or about 1643, he was the eldest son of John Ellis, author of ''Vindiciæ Catholicæ'', by his wife Susannah, daughter of William Welbore of Cambridge. He received his education at Westminster School, and was elected student of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1664. At college he met Humphrey Prideaux, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. Ellis did not take a degree, but obtained employment in the secretary of state's office. In March 1672 he was under Sir Joseph Williamson in the paper office, Whitehall. On the promotion of Williamson to be secretary of state in the autumn of 1674 Ellis lost his situation. He obtained, however, the appointment of secretary to Sir Leoline Jenkins, one of the envoys chosen to attend the conference at Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and set out 20 December 1675. He was employed in this capacity until September 1677. His doings during this period of his life were se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ellis (theologian)
John Ellis (1606?–1681) was an English clergyman, known as the author of ''Vindiciæ Catholicæ''. Life He was Fellow of St. Catharine Hall, Cambridge, university proctor, and chaplain to Archbishop George Abbot. At the outbreak of the First English Civil War he took sides with the parliament, and was appointed to preach the fast sermon on 22 February 1643. His next work ''Vindiciæ Catholicæ'' was widely discussed.‘Vindiciæ Catholicæ, or the Rights of Particular Churches rescued: and asserted against that meer … Notion of one Catholick, Visible, Governing Church: the foundation of the … Presbyterie: wherein … all the Arguments for it, produced by the Rev. Apollonius, M. Hudson, M. Noyes, the London Ministers, and others, are examined and dissolved,’ 4to, London, 1647, dedicated ‘to the Parliament of England and Assembly of Divines.’ Samuel Hudson replied with ‘A Vindication’ in 1650. By 1659, when holding a third portion of the rectory of Waddesdon, Buck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Ellis
Johnny Ellis (March 13, 1960 – February 9, 2022) was an American politician who served as a member of the Alaska Senate from 1992 to 2017. He was previously a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1986 through 1992. Early life and education Ellis was born in Springfield, Missouri, and moved to Anchorage, Alaska, in 1975. Ellis was an Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America), Eagle Scout. After graduating from Bartlett High School (Anchorage, Alaska) in 1978, he attended the University of Alaska Anchorage for one year before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Claremont McKenna College in 1982. Career Ellis served as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993. He was then elected to the Alaska Senate, representing the H district from 1993 to 2003. Ellis represented the L district from 2003 to 2013 and the I district from 2013 to 2017. From 2009 to 2011, Ellis served as majority leader of the Senate. Outside of politics, Ellis was a commissio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ellis Martineau
John Ellis Martineau (December 2, 1873 – March 6, 1937) was the 28th governor of Arkansas and was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. His term as Governor was marked by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, with Martineau serving as President of the Tri-State Flood Commission. Education and career Born on December 2, 1873, in Clay County, Missouri, to Sarah Hetty Lamb and Gregory Martineau, a farmer recently arrived from Quebec, Canada, Martineau received an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1896 from the Arkansas Industrial University (now the University of Arkansas) and a Bachelor of Laws in 1899 from the University of Arkansas School of Law. He entered private practice in Little Rock, Arkansas starting in 1899. He was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1903 to 1905. He was a Chancellor for the Arkansas Chancery Court for the First Chancery District from 1907 to 1927. Grant of habeas corpu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Willis Ellis
John Willis Ellis (November 23, 1820 – July 7, 1861) was the 35th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1859 to 1861. He was born in Rowan County, North Carolina. Ellis attended the University of North Carolina, studied law under Richmond Mumford Pearson, practiced law, and was elected to the North Carolina General Assembly from Rowan County. He served as a state superior court judge from 1848 to 1858. He was elected Governor in 1858 by a large majority over Duncan K. McRae, a Democrat supported by remnants of the Whig Party. Ellis was easily re-elected in 1860 over John Pool. As the American Civil War was beginning, President Abraham Lincoln requested troops from North Carolina to quell the rebellion. Ellis replied, "I can be no party to this wicked violation of the laws of the country and to this war upon the liberties of a free people. You can get no troops from North Carolina." During the start of the U.S. Civil War Governor John Willis Ellis ordered c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Ellis
John William Ellis (1853 – 6 August 1918) was a New Zealand businessman and mayor of Hamilton from 1917 to 1918. His progressive mother encouraged him to integrate with local Māori from an early age, which later facilitated his trading on the borders of the King Country and go on to gain rights to fell and mill timber. That led to formation of one of the largest timber companies, Ellis & Burnand, with its head office in Hamilton, where he became a councillor, then mayor. Early life and family John William was born to early feminist, Ellen Elizabeth Ellis (née Colebrook), and Oliver Sidney Ellis (a builder) in 1853 at Guildford. His two younger brothers died in their childhood. They emigrated to Auckland in 1859, where his mother encouraged her sons to learn Māori and play with Māori children, so that John became an interpreter, then a teacher. He and his mother returned to England in 1864. She left him at boarding school when she returned to Auckland in 1865. John re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Valentine Ellis
John Valentine Ellis (14 February 1835 – 10 July 1913) was a Canadian journalist and parliamentarian. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1887 general election as a Liberal Member of Parliament representing the New Brunswick electoral district of City of St. John. Although defeated in 1891, he was re-elected in the 1896 election. On 3 September 1900, he was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the recommendation of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. He represented the senatorial division of Saint John, New Brunswick Saint John is a seaport city of the Atlantic Ocean located on the Bay of Fundy in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. Saint John is the oldest incorporated city in Canada, established by royal charter on May 18, 1785, during the reign of Ki ... until his death in Saint John on 10 July 1913. References * * External links * 1835 births 1913 deaths Canadian senators from New Brunswick Journalists from New Brunswick Liberal P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ellis (Labour Politician)
John Ellis (22 October 1930 – 27 May 2019) was a British Labour Party politician. Ellis was educated at Rastrick Grammar School, Brighouse. He was a laboratory technician and was employed in the Meteorological Office. He served as a councillor on Easthampstead Rural District Council from 1962. Ellis contested Wokingham in 1964. He was Member of Parliament for Bristol North West from 1966 to 1970 (when he lost the seat), and then for Brigg and Scunthorpe from 1974 to 1979, when he lost to the Conservative Michael Brown by 486 votes (0.7%). Ivor Crewe, Director of the British Election Study, attributed his defeat to the intervention of a Democratic Labour Party candidate, who polled over 2,000 votes, and thus "splintered enough of the Labour vote" to allow the Conservatives narrowly win the seat. Ellis was an assistant government whip from 1974 to 1976. He also served as a member of the Commons Expenditure Committee. He died in Scunthorpe in May 2019 at the age of 88. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ellis (Australian Politician)
John McDonald Ellis (8 December 1872 – 2 July 1945) was an Australian politician. He was born in Bendigo to miner Thomas Ellis and Isabella McLean. He lived in Melbourne from around 1887, running a contracting firm with his brother. On 29 November 1899 he married Alice Rose Saunders, with whom he had three children. From 1926 to 1945 he served on Prahran City Council, and he was mayor from 1930 to 1932 and from 1944 to 1945. He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1932 as the United Australia Party member for Prahran. He served until his death in East Melbourne East Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Melbourne local government area. East Melbourne recorded a population of 4,896 at the 2021 ... in 1945. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ellis, John 1872 births 1945 deaths United Australia Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Liber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ellis (pastoralist)
John Ellis (c. 1803 – 22 March 1873) generally known as "Captain Ellis", was a pastoralist and businessman prominent in the early days of South Australia. He was a son of Sarah (?) and Thomas Ellis, an Oxford clergyman of the Church of England. Career He arrived in South Australia from England on the ''Buckinghamshire'' on 22 March 1839, listed as "Captain Ellis", though on what basis it is not known, and in company of his brother George Ellis. In July 1839 he and his longtime friend Captain William Allen purchased two thirds of "Milner Estate" near Port Gawler from George Milner Stephen, the misrepresentation of which transaction was to haunt Stephen in later years. In 1855 he purchased Allen's share. This area includes the land later known as Buckland Park, which he sold to Dr. J. H. Browne and Col. P. J. Browne in 1856. He took up the nearby Hummocks run in 1842,and Barabba, north-east of Mallala, South Australia, in August 1844. He bought land in New Zealand. Starting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ellis (Liberal Politician)
John Edward Ellis (15 October 1841 – 5 December 1910), was a British colliery owner and Liberal politician. Ellis was born in Leicester to a wealthy Quaker family, his grand-father (also named John Ellis) being chair of the Midland Railway Company. John was educated at a boarding school in Hereford, then in Kendal, following which he went to America with his father to study railway engineering. Returning to the UK, he worked as an engineer, then in 1861 organised the opening of Hucknall Colliery. In 1867, Ellis married Maria Rowntree, the sister of Joshua Rowntree. They had three sons: John, Arthur and Harold. Their twin daughters, Edith and Marian, were anti-war activists. In 1870, Ellis formed a Liberal Association in Hucknall, and was elected as the first president of the town's school board, serving until 1882. He was returned to Parliament for the newly created constituency of Rushcliffe in the 1885 general election. In Parliament, he was supporter of Irish Home Rule, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
