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John Gorham (settler)
John Gorham may refer to: * John Gorham (graphic designer), British graphic designer * John Gorham (military officer), New England Ranger * John Gorham (physician) John Gorham (24 February 1783, Boston, Massachusetts - 29 March 1829, Boston) was an American physician and educator. Biography He graduated from Harvard in 1801, with a B.A., and later received two medical degrees there ( M.B., 1804, after serv ..., American physician and educator * John Marshall Gorham, British motorboat racer {{hndis, Gorham, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gorham (graphic Designer)
John Gorham (May 31, 1937, in Uxbridge, Middlesex – June 7, 2001, in Guildford, Surrey) was a British graphic designer, who gained renown within the industry through a variety of successful projects including film posters, postage stamps and book covers. He was given the D&AD Design and Art Direction (D&AD), formerly known as British Design and Art Direction, is a British educational organisation that was created in 1962 to promote excellence in design and advertising. Its main offices are in Spitalfields in London. I ... President's Award in 1993 in recognition of a lifetime's contribution to British design. Among John Gorham's stamp designs were the British 1990 Christmas issue, the 1991 Wintertime set, two 1995 stamps celebrating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the 1990 issue to celebrate the 90th Birthday of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. A modified version of the Queen Mother set was issued as Commemoration after her death in 2002. Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gorham (military Officer)
John Gorham (Goreham, Gorum) (12 December 1709-December 1751) was a New England Ranger and was the first significant British military presence on the frontier of Nova Scotia and Acadia to remain in the region for a substantial period after the Conquest of Acadia (1710). He established the famous "Gorham's Rangers". He also commissioned two armed vessels: the Anson (Captain John Beare) and the Warren (70 tons, Captain Jonathan Davis), who patrolled off Nova Scotia. Gorham was first commissioned captain of a provincial auxiliary company in June 1744, and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the 7th Massachusetts provincial Infantry Regiment in February 1745. Two years later, in 1747, he was commissioned captain of an independent company in the British Army when his unit was adopted into the regular army. He is sometimes confused with his father, Shubael Gorham (born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, 2 September 1686; died at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, 20 February 1746), a provincial colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gorham (physician)
John Gorham (24 February 1783, Boston, Massachusetts - 29 March 1829, Boston) was an American physician and educator. Biography He graduated from Harvard in 1801, with a B.A., and later received two medical degrees there ( M.B., 1804, after serving for three years as an apprentice to John Warren, whose daughter Mary he married in 1808, and M.D., 1811). Between his medical degrees, he studied chemistry privately in London with Friedrich Accum, and then with Thomas Hope at the University of Edinburgh. He opened a medical practice in Boston in 1806, and maintained it throughout his academic career. In 1809 he was appointed adjunct professor of chemistry and materia medica in Harvard, and in 1816 was made professor of chemistry and mineralogy. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1810. Gorham resigned his academic position in 1827 to give more attention to his thriving medical practice. He was librarian (1814-1818), treasurer (1818-1823) and reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
