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John Gardiner (painter)
John Gardiner may refer to: *John Gardiner, Baron Gardiner of Kimble (born 1956), British peer *John Sylvester John Gardiner (1765–1830), Rector of Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts *John Gardiner (Australia) (1798–1878), banker and grazier *John Gardiner (basketball) (1943–2014), Australian Olympic basketball player *John Gardiner (businessman) (1936–2023), British businessman *John Gardiner (footballer, born 1911) (1911–1965), Scottish footballer, played for Great Britain in 1936 Olympics *John Gardiner (footballer, born 1958), Scottish footballer *John Gardiner (hurler) (born 1983), hurler with Cork GAA *Sir John Eliot Gardiner (born 1943), British conductor *John Reynolds Gardiner (1944–2006), American children's author *John Gardiner (Montreal politician), former politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada *John Stanley Gardiner (1872–1946), British zoologist *John Gardiner (died 1586) (1525–1586), MP for Penryn and Dorchester *John Gardiner (cricketer) (1810–?) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gardiner, Baron Gardiner Of Kimble
:''See also Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner'' John Gardiner, Baron Gardiner of Kimble (born 17 March 1956) is a British politician. He is a life peer, and has served as Senior Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords since May 2021. Early life, education and early career Educated at Uppingham School and Royal Holloway, University of London, he graduated with a BA in Modern History, Economic History and Politics in 1977. He served as private secretary to five successive Chairmen of the Conservative Party between 1989 and 1995, under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major. He has also worked as Director of Political Affairs for the Countryside Alliance, and served on the Quality of Life Commission Rural Affairs Group of the Conservative Party. House of Lords On 23 June 2010, Gardiner was raised to the peerage as Baron Gardiner of Kimble, of Kimble in the County of Buckinghamshire. In 2012, he was appointed a Lord-in-waiting, and served in the Lords as a government whip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gardiner (Montreal Politician)
John Gardiner is a former politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a member of the Montreal city council from 1974 to 1978 and again from 1982 to 1994 as a member of the Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM) and was a prominent figure in Jean Doré's municipal administration. Early life and career An anglophone Montrealer, Gardiner studied History at McGill University. He was a high-school teacher from 1967 to 1973 and a school commissioner from 1973 to 1977. He also co-ordinated Montreal's Milton Park project, in which capacity he organized six hundred units of non-profit housing. Opposition councillor Gardiner was a founding member of the Montreal Citizens' Movement and became one of its first elected councillors in the 1974 municipal election, defeating incumbent councillor Hyman Brock in the second Saint-Louis ward. He lost his seat to Civic Party candidate Joffre Laporte in 1978 but was returned over Laporte in a rematch four years later. Mayor Jean Drapeau's Civic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Gardiner (politician)
John Henry Gardiner (25 May 1907 – 8 April 1974) was an Australian politician, who served as a Member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, Mayor of Redfern and Chairman of the Sydney County Council. Early life and career He was born in Redfern, New South Wales, Redfern to businessman Edward Felix Gardiner. He was educated at Haberfield, New South Wales, Haberfield Public School and Fort Street High School before becoming a motor parts manufacturer. Around 1928 he married Dora Elizabeth Saunders, with whom he had three children. Political career In January 1932, Gardiner was first elected as a Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor Party candidate to a seat on Redfern Ward of the Municipality of Redfern, Redfern Municipal Council and soon rose to be mayor of the council in December 1934. Gardiner was appointed mayor by the Minister for Local Government, Eric Spooner, which was due to the deadlocked nature of the council, which was split equally between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Tupper
Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet, (July 2, 1821 – October 30, 1915) was a Canadian Father of Confederation who served as the sixth prime minister of Canada from May 1 to July 8, 1896. As the premier of Nova Scotia from 1864 to 1867, he led Nova Scotia into Confederation. He briefly served as the Canadian prime minister, from seven days after parliament had been dissolved, until he resigned on July 8, 1896 following his party's loss in the 1896 Canadian federal election. His 69-day tenure as prime minister is the shortest in Canadian history. Tupper was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia to the Rev. Charles Tupper and Miriam Lockhart. He was educated at Horton Academy, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, graduating MD in 1843. By the age of 22 he had handled 116 obstetric cases. He practiced medicine periodically throughout his political career (and served as the first president of the Canadian Medical Association). He entered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gardiner (painter)
John Gardiner may refer to: *John Gardiner, Baron Gardiner of Kimble (born 1956), British peer *John Sylvester John Gardiner (1765–1830), Rector of Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts *John Gardiner (Australia) (1798–1878), banker and grazier *John Gardiner (basketball) (1943–2014), Australian Olympic basketball player *John Gardiner (businessman) (1936–2023), British businessman *John Gardiner (footballer, born 1911) (1911–1965), Scottish footballer, played for Great Britain in 1936 Olympics *John Gardiner (footballer, born 1958), Scottish footballer *John Gardiner (hurler) (born 1983), hurler with Cork GAA *Sir John Eliot Gardiner (born 1943), British conductor *John Reynolds Gardiner (1944–2006), American children's author *John Gardiner (Montreal politician), former politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada *John Stanley Gardiner (1872–1946), British zoologist *John Gardiner (died 1586) (1525–1586), MP for Penryn and Dorchester *John Gardiner (cricketer) (1810–?) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rolfe Gardiner
John Rolfe Gardiner (born 1936) is an American author of several novels and short stories. Life and career He is best known for his novel ''Somewhere in France'' (1999), aside from which he has written four other novels and two short-story collections. Sixteen of his stories were published in ''The New Yorker''; others were published in ''The American Scholar'' and in other publications. His short story "The Voyage Out" was anthologized in ''The Best American Short Stories''. His work was awarded the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers Award and the O. Henry Award. Gardiner's stories often take place in his native Virginia, but also in various places in Europe, most prominently in France. Michael Kernan, '' |
John Gardiner (cricketer)
John Gardiner (born 1810) was an English cricketer who was associated with Surrey county cricket teams, Surrey and made his first-class cricket debut in 1828. References 1810 births Year of death unknown English cricketers English cricketers of 1826 to 1863 Surrey cricketers People from Godalming {{England-cricket-bio-1810s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gardiner (died 1586)
John Gardiner (c. 1525 – 1586) was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament, Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Penryn (UK Parliament constituency), Penryn in 1558 and for Dorchester (UK Parliament constituency), Dorchester in 1563. He spent time in Fleet Prison, the Fleet after a property dispute. His brother, William Gardiner (MP died 1558), William Gardiner, was an MP for Barnstaple (UK Parliament constituency), Barnstaple. References 1525 births 1586 deaths Inmates of Fleet Prison English MPs 1558 Members of the Parliament of England for Dorchester English MPs 1563–1567 {{1563-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stanley Gardiner
John Stanley Gardiner (1872–1946) was a British zoologist. Biography Stanley, as he was known, was the younger son of John Jephson Gardiner and Sarah McTier. He was born in Jordanstown (Belfast) in 1872 – two years after his brother Arthur. Jephson was a member of the Anglican clergy and, at the time of his marriage to Sarah in 1868, was chaplain to Lord Dufferin at Carrickfergus (near Belfast). Stanley's mother died five months after he was born and in 1874, he and Arthur were taken by their father to England. They initially lived in Marshfield, Wiltshire, with Jephson having the position of Curate there. In 1876, Jephson and his two sons moved to Wonersh, near Guildford, Surrey. There Arthur and Stanley were pupils at a boarding school at 108 High Street, Guildford. Stanley attended Marlborough College from January 1885 until July 1890. While there "his critical thinking was shaped by the science masters and where he was a great supporter of the school's Natural History S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Reynolds Gardiner
John Reynolds Gardiner (December 6, 1944 – March 4, 2006) was a writer best known for writing the book Stone Fox. Personal life Born in Los Angeles, California, he was a rebellious boy whose teachers believed he would never get anywhere in life. He earned his master's degree from University of California, Los Angeles. He was an engineer before working on his first and best-known children's book, ''Stone Fox'', which, at the time of his death in 2006, had sold four million copies. Always creative, in his younger years he ran Num Num Novelties, home to such originals as the aquarium tie. He lived in West Germany, El Salvador, Mexico, Italy, Ireland, and Idaho where he heard a local legend that inspired Stone Fox. He took a special class on screenplay and wrote Stone Fox as a movie, but a producer told him to publish it into a novel. Gardiner also edited children's stories for television. He lived out his final years with his wife, Gloria, in California and died of complication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sylvester John Gardiner
John Sylvester John Gardiner (1765–1830), aka John S. J. Gardiner, was an American Episcopal priest. He was Rector of Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts, president of Boston's Anthology Club, and active in the Boston Athenæum. Early life Gardiner was born in Haverfordwest, to Dr. John Sylvester Gardiner (1731–1793) and Margaret Harries (1740–1786). His father served as Attorney General for the British government in the West Indies, where he spent much of his youth. He was the grandson of Silvester Gardiner. He was in educated in Boston and England, where he was a pupil of the famous Dr. Samuel Parr. Following the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, he went back to England, only to permanently return to the United States in 1783. Career Gardiner was for 37 years the "best-known and most influential Episcopal" clergyman of Boston. Trained for the law, he turned to divinity and for 25 years was rector of Trinity Church, Boston. Despite this conservative b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eliot Gardiner
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (born 20 April 1943) is an English conductor, particularly known for his performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Life and career Born in Fontmell Magna, Dorset, son of Rolf Gardiner and Marabel Hodgkin, Gardiner's early musical experience came largely through singing with his family and in a local church choir. As a child he grew up with the celebrated Haussmann portrait of J. S. Bach, which had been lent to his parents for safe keeping during the Second World War. A self-taught musician who also played the violin, he began to study conducting at the age of 15. He was educated at Bryanston School, then studied history at King's College, Cambridge, where his tutor was the social anthropologist Edmund Leach."John Eliot Gardiner", in ''Contemporary Musicians'' (1999), Detroit: Gale While an undergraduate at Cambridge he launched his career as a conductor with a performance of Vespro della Beata Vergine by Monteverdi, in King's College Chapel on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
