|
John Fleming (academic)
John Fleming may refer to: Politics *John Fleming (14th-century MP) for Rochester *John Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming (c. 1465–1524), Scottish nobleman *John Fleming, 5th Lord Fleming ((1529–1572), Lord Chamberlain of Scotland, 1565–1572 *John Fleming (Southampton MP) (1743–1802), Tory politician in England * John Fleming (Gatton and Saltash MP) (1747–1829), British surgeon, naturalist, and politician *John Willis Fleming (1781–1844), MP for Hampshire and South Hampshire *John Fleming (Devonport MP), 19th-century politician *John Fleming (Canadian politician) (1819–1877), Ontario businessman and political figure * John M. Fleming (1832–1900), American politician and newspaper editor *John Fleming (Scottish politician) (1847–1925),Liberal MP for Aberdeen South *John Fleming (American politician) (born 1951), Republican U.S. representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district *John Fleming, 1st Earl of Wigtown (1567–1619), Scottish aristocrat and diplomat Spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fleming (14th-century MP)
John Fleming (), of Rochester, Kent, was an English politician. Early life Nothing is known of Fleming's family or education. Career Fleming was a Member of Parliament for Rochester (UK Parliament constituency), the constituency of Rochester, Kent in 1373 and 1386. References 14th-century births Year of death missing English MPs 1373 People from Rochester, Kent English MPs 1386 {{14thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fleming (rugby Union)
John Kingsley Fleming (born 2 May 1953) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. A lock, Fleming represented Wellington and Waikato at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks ( mi, Ōpango), represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport. The team won the Rugby World Cup in 1987 ..., from 1978 to 1980. He played 35 matches for the All Blacks including five internationals. References 1953 births Living people Rugby union players from Auckland People educated at Auckland Grammar School New Zealand rugby union players New Zealand international rugby union players Wellington rugby union players Waikato rugby union players Rugby union locks New Zealand rugby union coaches {{NewZealand-rugbyunion-bio-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John V
John V may refer to: * Patriarch John V of Alexandria or John the Merciful (died by 620), Patriarch of Alexandria from 606 to 616 * John V of Constantinople, Patriarch from 669 to 675 * Pope John V (685–686), Pope from 685 to his death in 686 * John V of Jerusalem, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem in 706–735 * John V the Historian or Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi, Catholicos of Armenia from 897 to 925 * John V of Gaeta (1010–1040) * John V of Naples (died 1042), Duke from 1036 to 1042 * John V, Count of Soissons, (1281–1304) * John V, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel (1302–1317) * John V Palaiologos (1332–1391), Byzantine Emperor from 1341 * John V, Count of Sponheim-Starkenburg (1359–1437), German nobleman * John V, Lord of Arkel (1362–1428) * John V, Duke of Brittany (1389–1442), Count of Montfort * John V, Duke of Mecklenburg (1418–1443) * John V, Count of Hoya (died 1466), nicknamed ''the Pugnacious'' or ''the Wild'' * John V, Count of Armagnac (1420–1473 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ambrose Fleming
Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist who invented the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, designed the radio transmitter with which the first transatlantic radio transmission was made, and also established the right-hand rule used in physics. He was the eldest of seven children of James Fleming DD (died 1879), a Congregational minister, and his wife Mary Ann, at Lancaster, Lancashire, and baptised on 11 February 1850. A devout Christian, he once preached at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London on evidence for the resurrection. In 1932, he and Douglas Dewar and Bernard Acworth helped establish the Evolution Protest Movement. Fleming bequeathed much of his estate to Christian charities, especially those for the poor. He was a noted photographer, painted watercolours, and enjoyed climbing the Alps. Early years Ambrose Fleming was born in Lancaster and educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Adam Fleming
John Adam Fleming, (January 28, 1877 – July 29, 1956) was an American geophysicist interested in the magnetosphere and the atmospheric electricity. Fleming worked first at the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey with his superior Louis Agricola Bauer, who founded the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He steadily advanced in the hierarchy of the institute and became its director in 1935. In 1925, Fleming served as President of the Philosophical Society of Washington. Fleming was elected into the National Academy of Sciences in 1940. John Adam Fleming Medal Since 1960 the American Geophysical Union The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of Earth, atmospheric, ocean, hydrologic, space, and planetary scientists and enthusiasts that according to their website includes 130,000 people (not members). AGU's act ... rewards notable scientists in the field of research about the magnetosphere and atmospher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fleming (DJ)
John Fleming (or John "00" Fleming; born 1 April 1969) is an English trance producer and DJ from Worthing, West Sussex. He has had releases on record labels such as Ministry of Sound, Deconstruction Records, Logic Records, and 3 Beat Music. He also owns and runJoof Recordings He has performed at many clubs including Cream, Gatecrasher, Ministry of Sound, and Godskitchen. In his early 20s, Fleming battled lung cancer. Fleming was originally involved in goa music, but changed over to harder trance music before shifting to psychedelic trance. He traces his influences back to early 1980s acts such as Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, and current acts like Astral Projection, Airwave, Trifonic. ''JOOF Radio'' (formerly ''Global Trance Grooves'') is his monthly mix broadcast on Digitally Imported. JOOF Recordings After many releases, remixes and compilations, Fleming formed the trance label, JOOF Recordings in 1998. The label's first release was a collaboration between Fleming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fleming (dean Of Ross)
John Robert William Fleming was Dean of Ross from 1978 to 1968. Fleming was born in 1907 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin; and ordained in 1918. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1980–82 p 892: London, OUP, 1983 After a curacies in Multyfarnham and Old Leighlin he was Head Master of Bishop Foy's School, Waterford from 1944 to 1952. He held incumbencies at Aghold (1952–56), Chilvers Coton (1956–59) and Castlemartyr Castlemartyr (, formerly anglicised as ''Ballymarter'' or ''Ballymartyr'') is a village in County Cork, Ireland. It is located 25 minutes east of Cork city, 10 km (6 mi) east of Midleton, 16 km (10 mi) west of Youghal and 6& ... (1959–78). He was also Chancellor of Cork Cathedral. References Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Deans of Ross, Ireland 1907 births 20th-century Irish Anglican priests Year of death missing Place of birth missing {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fleming (Australian Priest)
John Irving Fleming is an Australian priest and bioethicist. He was the founding president of Campion College. Fleming was originally an Anglican priest but later became a Roman Catholic priest. He is currently suspended from public ministry and is living in retirement in South Australia. Early career and background The son of an Anglican priest, Fleming graduated with a B.A. from the University of Adelaide, a Licentiate in Theology from the Australian College of Theology and a PhD in philosophy and bioethics from Griffith University. His PhD thesis was titled "Human rights and natural law : an analysis of the consensus gentium and its implications for bioethics". Career Fleming was a high-profile Anglo-Catholic priest in the Anglican Church of Australia's Adelaide diocese. He was ordained in 1970. He became a Roman Catholic in 1987. Although married with three children, he was given a papal dispensation permitting his ordination in the Catholic Church in 1995. As an Anglica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fleming (painter)
John Fleming (1792-1845) was a Scottish landscape painter who lived and worked in Greenock. He is best known for the series of views he painted for Swan's ''Lakes of Scotland,'' published at Glasgow in 1834. Life Fleming was born in about 1792 and apprenticed to a house painter at the age of fourteen. He is thought to have had some contact with the portrait painter James Saxon before spending some time in London, where he worked as a housepainter and took the opportunity to the study paintings in galleries there. As a landscapist, Fleming specialised in small paintings of Scottish scenery, which became widely known through a series of collaborations with the Glasgow engraver and publisher Joseph Swan. He first worked with Swan in 1828 on a publication entitled ''Select Views of Glasgow and its environs'', to which the Glasgow artist John Knox also contributed. Fleming and Swan followed this with ''Select Views on the Clyde'' (1830) and ''Select Views of the Lakes of Scotl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fleming (New York Judge)
John Fleming (June 1, 1842 – April 19, 1918) was an Irish-American lawyer and judge. Life Fleming was born on June 1, 1842 in County Monaghan, Ireland, the son of William Fleming and Mary O'Neill. His parents died when he was five, after which he was raised and educated by his maternal uncle James O'Neill. In 1856, he immigrated to America and settled in Jamaica, Queens, New York with his four sisters. He attended public school for two years, after which he became a clerk for Watson & Mears. He briefly attended Rev. Matthew Hunting's private school. At the encouragement of Judge Armstrong, he began to study law in the office of Armstrong & Fosdick until the American Civil War interrupted his studies. In August 1862, Fleming enlisted as a private in Company A. of the 165th New York Infantry Regiment. In September 1862, he was promoted to corporal. In November 1862, he was promoted to sergeant. In November 1863, he was promoted to first sergeant. He was honorably discharged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fleming (naturalist)
John Fleming FRSE FRS FSA (10 January 1785 – 18 November 1857) was a Scottish Free Church minister, naturalist, zoologist and geologist. He named and described a number of species of molluscs. During his life he tried to reconcile theology with science. Fleming Fjord in Greenland was named after him. Life He was born on Kirkroads Farm near Bathgate in Linlithgowshire, the son of Alexander Fleming and his wife Catherine Nimmo. After studying divinity at the University of Edinburgh he graduated in 1805. He was licensed to preach by the Church of Scotland and ordained as minister of Bressay in the Shetland Islands in 1808. In 1810 he translated to the parish of Flisk in Fife and in 1832 translated to Clackmannan. In 1808, he participated in founding the Wernerian Society, a learned society devoted to the study of natural history. John Fleming became a Member of the Royal Society of London on 25 February 1813 (he was not granted Fellowship). In 1814, he was awarded an hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fleming (judge)
John Fleming (November 1697–1756) was a judge in Cumberland County, Virginia who served in the Virginia House of Burgesses for more than a decade, working with John Robinson and Peyton Randolph. In 1764, he worked with Patrick Henry Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736June 6, 1799) was an American attorney, planter, politician and orator known for declaring to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): " Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first a ..., George Johnston and Robert Munford on the Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions. His son William Fleming later held his seat in the House of Burgesses, representing Cumberland County. During the John Chiswell scandal, John Fleming was the judge who ordered John Chiswell to be jailed. References *Mayer, Henry. ''A Son of Thunder, Patrick Henry and the American Republic''. New York: Franklin Watts, 1986. People of Virginia in the American Revolution House of Burgesses members 1697 births 1766 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
