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John Goodwin (other)
John Goodwin may refer to: Politicians *John Goodwin (Parliamentarian) (1603–1674), Member of Parliament for Reigate *John B. Goodwin (1850–1921), Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1880s * John Noble Goodwin (1824–1887), 1st Governor of Arizona Territory and U.S. Representative from Maine * John Goodwin (British Army officer) (1871–1960), British Army officer and Governor of Queensland *John A. Goodwin (1824–1884), U.S. educator, journalist and politician Religion * John Goodwin (preacher) (1594–1665), English preacher and religious writer *John W. Goodwin (1869–1945), General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene Others * Jackie Goodwin (1920–1995), English footballer with Brentford *J. Cheever Goodwin (1850–1912), American musical theatre librettist, lyricist and producer *John B. L. Goodwin (1912–1994), American author and poet *John Goodwin (archeologist) (1900 - 1959), founder of the discipline of archaeology in South Africa * John Goodwin (au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Goodwin (Parliamentarian)
John Goodwin (1603 – 18 February 1674) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons at various time between 1641 and 1660. He supported the Roundheads, Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. Goodwin was the son of Edward Goodwin of Horne, Surrey and his wife Susan Wallop, daughter of Richard Wallop of Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire. He entered Inner Temple in 1622 and was called to the bar in 1630. In 1641, Goodwin was elected Member of Parliament for Haslemere (UK Parliament constituency), Haslemere in the Long Parliament. In 1643 he was commissioner for sequestration for Surrey, commissioner for levying of money for Leicestershire and Surrey, commissioner for assessment for Surrey, commissioner for accounts for Surrey and commissioner for defence. In 1645, he was commissioner for execution of ordinances, commissioner for new model ordinance and commissioner for defence. By 1646 he was a Justice of the Peace, J. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Goodwin (mason)
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, 19 of whom were executed by hanging (14 women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea, and at least five people died in jail. Arrests were made in numerous towns beyond Salem and Salem Village (known today as Danvers), notably Andover and Topsfield. The grand juries and trials for this capital crime were conducted by a Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 and by a Superior Court of Judicature in 1693, both held in Salem Town, where the hangings also took place. It was the deadliest witch hunt in the history of colonial North America. Only fourteen other women and two men had been executed in Massachusetts and Connecticut during the 17th century. The episode is one of Colonial America's most no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Godwin (other)
John Godwin may refer to: Politicians * John Godwin (died c. 1547), MP for Wells * John Godwin (by 1507 – 1556 or later), MP for Wells *John Venimore Godwin (1814–1898), photographer and mayor of Bradford, 1865–1866 Sportspeople *John Godwin (baseball) (1877–1956), American baseball player *John Godwin (rower) (1904–1973), British rowing coxswain Others *John Godwin (Royal Navy officer) (1919–1945), British Naval Reserve officer during World War II *John Godwin (architect) John Godwin may refer to: Politicians * John Godwin (died ?1547), MP for Wells * John Godwin (by 1507–56 or later), MP for Wells *John Venimore Godwin (1814–?), photographer and mayor of Bradford, 1865–1866 Sportspeople *John Godwin (baseb ... (1928–2023), Nigerian British architect See also * John Goodwin (other) {{human name disambiguation, Godwin, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Goodwin Tower
John Goodwin Tower (September 29, 1925 – April 5, 1991) was an American politician, serving as a Republican United States Senator from Texas from 1961 to 1985. He was the first Republican Senator elected from Texas since Reconstruction. Tower also led the Tower Commission, which investigated the Iran-Contra Affair, and was an unsuccessful nominee for U.S. Secretary of Defense in 1989. Born in Houston, Texas, he served in the Pacific Theater of World War II. After the war, he worked as a radio announcer and taught at Midwestern University (now Midwestern State University) in Wichita Falls. He switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in the early 1950s and worked on the 1956 presidential campaign of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Tower lost Texas's 1960 Senate election to Democratic Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, but performed relatively well compared to his Republican predecessors. With the Democratic victory in the 1960 presidential election, Johnson vacated his Sena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Goodwin Lyman
John Goodwin Lyman (September 29, 1886 – May 26, 1967) was an American-born Canadian modernist painter active largely in Montreal, Quebec. In the 1930s he did much to promote modern art in Canada, founding the Contemporary Art Society in 1939. Stylistically he opposed both the Group of Seven and the Canadian Group of Painters, painting in a more refined style influenced by the School of Paris. Biography Formative Years (1886–1913) Lyman was born in Biddeford, Maine. His parents were Americans who emigrated to Victoria, British Columbia. After attending the High School of Montreal and spending two years at McGill University, Lyman departed for Paris in the spring of 1907, where he studied art until the fall, when at his father's urging he returned to study architecture at the Royal College of Art. January of next year found him back in Paris, where he studied at Académie Julian under Jean-Paul Laurens. There he formed a friendship with fellow Canadian James Wilson Morri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Godwin
John Stuart Godwin (18 March 1904 – 22 June 1973), known as Jack Goodwin and later as Jack Stuart, was a British rowing coxswain and magician. Godwin was born in 1904 in Bromley, Kent. He rowed for Great Britain in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. He was affiliated with the Thames Rowing Club in Putney. He was coxswain for the men's eight. The Thames club won the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta in 1923, but only four members of that victorious crew, Ian Fairbairn, Godwin himself, Arthur Long, and Charles Rew, were present at the Paris Olympics. His team came in fourth in the Olympic competition. Godwin was again part of the Thames club team when they won the Grand Challenge Cup in 1927. Godwin became a professional magician in the 1930s under the stage name "Jack Stuart". He and his sister Phyllis created a stage show that included their "Live Marionettes". During their performance they used puppets that hung below their own chins and were controlled by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Thomas Hill Goodwin
John Thomas Hill Goodwin (28 October 1865 – 18 September 1950) was an Australian surveyor and public servant. He was the Commonwealth Surveyor-General from 1915 to 1925 and officer-in-charge of the Federal Capital Territory from 1916 to 1924. He was known for his contribution to the development of the national capital Canberra, initially as a public servant and later as a private citizen. Early life Goodwin was born on 28 October 1865 in Yelta, Victoria. He was the son of Letitia (née Pennefather) and Rev. Thomas Hill Goodwin. His father, an Anglican clergyman, was born in England and his mother in Ireland. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School. Career After leaving school Goodwin trained as a surveyor with the Victorian Department of Lands and Surveys. He was a surveyor in private practice from 1891 to 1907, outside of a period with the Western Australian government from 1896 to 1899. He also qualified as a civil engineer. Goodwin returned to the Victorian public serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernie Chiaravalle
Bernie Chiaravalle (born August 11, 1953) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is known for backing up Michael McDonald. Career Chiaravalle was born in Port Hueneme, California. He studied piano as a child and still plays it. According to Chiaravalle, "I shifted my focus when I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and that inspired me to want to be in a band." He then began to play the guitar. He is the singer and guitarist for singer Michael McDonald, and has also written songs with McDonald since the late 1980s. He has been recording and touring with McDonald since 1988. Chiaravalle's career with McDonald started out by meeting singer-songwriter David Pack from the group Ambrosia who later introduced him to McDonald. He and McDonald collaborated on several songs which are on McDonald's 2000 album ''Blue Obsession''. When the Doobie Brothers reunited with McDonald for a co-headlining tour with the Steve Miller Band in 1995, Chiaravalle filled in on guitar for the abs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Holland
Amy Celeste Boersma, known professionally as Amy Holland, is an American pop rock singer, songwriter, and composer. Holland's music career spans more than 30 years. She received a Grammy Award nomination for Best New Artist in 1981, following her eponymous debut album containing the single " How Do I Survive". Early life Amy Celeste Boersma was born in Palisades, New York, into a musical family. Her mother was country singer Esmereldy and her father was opera singer Harry Boersma. Holland is of Dutch descent and changed her name from Boersma to Holland (after her ancestors' origin country), because she thought it would make a better stage name. As a teenager, Holland moved to Los Angeles, California, in hope of making a career as a singer-songwriter. At the age of 15 she auditioned for the Beach Boys' Brother Records, but after the company folded, she signed with Capitol Records instead. Musical career Holland's eponymous debut studio album, produced by the Doobie Brothers' f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Magnin Goodwin
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Goodwin (theatre Publicist)
John Goodwin (4 May 1921 – 29 July 2018) was a British theatre publicist, writer and editor who played a crucial role in the development of subsidised theatre in post-war Britain; first with the Royal Shakespeare Company where in the 60s he led the media campaign against concerted attempts to close its flourishing London base; then with the Royal National Theatre where, as an associate director and member of its planning committee, he was a key figure in the administrative team which, in the '70s and '80s, shaped its historic first years on London's South Bank. He was the author of a number of books on the theatre including the best-selling ''A Short Guide to Shakspeare's Plays'' (Heinemann Education, 1979). He also edited and compiled the classic reference work ''British Theatre Design'' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990) and edited the internationally best-selling diaries of Sir Peter Hall (Hamish Hamilton, 1983). Theatre career In 1946 Goodwin became assistant to David Fairwea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Goodwin (sport Shooter)
John Goodwin may refer to: Politicians *John Goodwin (Parliamentarian) (1603–1674), Member of Parliament for Reigate *John B. Goodwin (1850–1921), Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1880s *John Noble Goodwin (1824–1887), 1st Governor of Arizona Territory and U.S. Representative from Maine *John Goodwin (British Army officer) (1871–1960), British Army officer and Governor of Queensland *John A. Goodwin (1824–1884), U.S. educator, journalist and politician Religion *John Goodwin (preacher) (1594–1665), English preacher and religious writer * John W. Goodwin (1869–1945), General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene Others * Jackie Goodwin (1920–1995), English footballer with Brentford *J. Cheever Goodwin (1850–1912), American musical theatre librettist, lyricist and producer *John B. L. Goodwin (1912–1994), American author and poet *John Goodwin (archeologist) (1900 - 1959), founder of the discipline of archaeology in South Africa * John Goodwin (aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
