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John Griffiths (other)
John Griffiths may refer to: Politicians and lawyers *John Griffiths (Welsh politician) (born 1956), Welsh Labour Party politician * John Griffiths (Conservative politician) (born 1953), British local government leader *John Griffiths (Liberal politician) (born 1934), British politician and author *John Calvert Griffiths (born 1931), former Attorney General of Hong Kong and lawyer * John L. Griffiths (1855–1914), Consul General of the United States to Britain *John Jones Griffiths (1839–1901), Welsh educationalist and politician Sportsmen * John Griffiths (cricketer, born 1863) (1863–?), cricketer * John Griffiths (cricketer, born 1931) (1931–1982), cricketer * Jack Griffiths (1909–1975), English footballer * John Griffiths (footballer, born 1876) (1876–1953), English football wing half (Grimsby Town) * John Griffiths (footballer, born 1951) (born 1951), English football midfielder (Aston Villa, Stockport County) Others * John Griffiths (Medal of Honor) (1835–?), Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Griffiths (Welsh Politician)
John Griffiths (born 19 December 1956) is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician and the former Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development in the Senedd. Griffiths has represented the constituency of Newport East since the Senedd (then as the National Assembly for Wales) was established in 1999. Education Griffiths studied law as a mature student at the University of Wales. Professional career Before his election to the Senedd, he was a practising solicitor (criminal law, personal injury and general civil litigation). Political career He is a former councillor on Gwent County Council and Newport CBC. He is a member of Labour's National Policy Forum, the Co-operative Party, Workers' Educational Association and Full Employment Forum. He is a committed republican, and a member of the ISTC trade union. Griffiths has been a member of the Senedd for Newport East since 1999. His political interests include economic development, social inclusion, education and Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Griffiths (academic)
John Griffiths (27 July 1806 – 14 August 1885) was an academic at the University of Oxford, where he was Warden of Wadham College and Keeper of the Archives. Life John Griffiths, the son of a clergyman and schoolteacher also called John Griffiths, was born on 27 July 1806 in Rochester, Kent. He was educated at the King's School, Rochester (his father's school) and at Winchester College, before joining the University of Oxford as a scholar of Wadham College in 1824. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1827, and was made a Fellow of Wadham in 1830, lecturing in classics and then in divinity. He was ordained as a priest in the Church of England in 1828, and became preacher at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall in 1854. He was one of the "Four Tutors" who protested in March 1841 against the Anglo-Catholic John Henry Newman's Tract 90, despite his dislike of controversy. He later explained that he disliked the anonymous basis on which the tract had been published, with an implicit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Griffiths (surgeon)
John Griffiths of Erryd (28 October 1754 – 17 September 1822) was a London medical practitioner and surgeon. His parents were the Reverend John Griffiths, B.A. from Oxford University, and Mary Denham. Career Dr Griffiths was appointed surgeon to Queen Charlotte's Household on 23 November 1792, which position he held until 1818, and was surgeon at St George's Hospital (1796 – 1822). Griffiths was among those who gave evidence to the 1802 ''Committee of the House of Commons on Dr JENNER'S Petition respecting his Discovery of Vaccine Inoculation'' against small pox, recently discovered by Edward Jenner. In his evidence, Griffiths indicated ''that he had inoculated upward to fifteen hundred persons, none of whom has had untoward symptoms, among them three of his own children, at various periods within three years.'' Marriage, family and death Griffiths married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir William Neville Hart M.P. and Elizabeth Aspinwall, on 4 June 1787 and had issue. Griff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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SS is an abbreviation for ''Schutzstaffel'', a paramilitary organisation in Nazi Germany. SS, Ss, or similar may also refer to: Places *Guangdong Experimental High School (''Sheng Shi'' or ''Saang Sat''), China *Province of Sassari, Italy (vehicle plate code) *South Sudan (ISO 3166-1 code SS) *SS postcode area, UK, around Southend-on-Sea *San Sebastián, Spanish city Arts, entertainment, and media *SS (band), an early Japanese hardcore punk band * ''SS'' (manga), a Japanese comic 2000-2003 *SS Entertainment, a Korean entertainment company *''S.S.'', for Sosthenes Smith, H. G. Wells pseudonym for story ''A Vision of the Past'' *SS, the production code for the 1968 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Wheel in Space'' *''Sesame Street'', American kids' TV show Language * Ss (digraph) used in Pinyin * ß or ss, a German-language ligature * switch-reference in linguistics *''Scilicet'', used as a section sign * (''in the strict sense'') in Latin *Swazi language (ISO 639-1 code "ss") Scienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John W
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 * Pope Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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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 * Pope Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Griffiths (musician)
John Griffiths (born 2 December 1952, Melbourne) is a musician and musicologist specialised in music for guitar and early plucked instruments, especially the vihuela and lute. He has researched aspects of the sixteenth-century Spanish vihuela, its history and its music. He has also had an international career as a solo lutenist, vihuelist, and guitarist, and as a member of the pioneer Australian early music group La Romanesca. After a thirty-year career at the University of Melbourne (1980–2011), he now works as a freelance scholar and performer. Career Griffiths graduated from Monash University in Melbourne (Australia) with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a PhD in 1984. From childhood he also studied guitar, initially with his father and then with Susan Ellis, Sadie Bishop and Sam Dunn during his school years. After completing his BA, he continued his performance studies in Germany with Siegfried Behrend and in Spain with José Luis Lopátegui. He also studied lute and vihuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Griffiths (mathematician)
John Griffiths (1837 – May 1916) was a Welsh mathematician and academic associated with Jesus College, Oxford, for nearly 60 years. Biography Griffiths was born in Llangyndeyrn near Kidwelly in Carmarthenshire, Wales, and educated at Cowbridge Grammar School. He matriculated at Jesus College in 1857 with a scholarship, and obtained a first-class degree in mathematics, winning the Junior and Senior Mathematical Scholarships. In 1863, he was elected as Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics at Jesus College. Griffiths held his fellowship until his death in May 1916, by which time he had become the longest-serving fellow. He also served as the college's bursar for a time. Griffiths was particularly interested in analytical geometry, publishing numerous papers in mathematical journals and two tracts on theorems connected with the geometry of the triangle. He was described in his obituary in The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Griffiths (curator)
John Griffiths (15 June 1952 – 9 April 2010) was a Welsh museum curator at the Science Museum in London, England.John Becklake, "Obituary: John Griffiths". ''Life after the Museum'', No 25, page 21, Autumn 2010. Griffiths spent his childhood in the village of Ystradgynlais near Swansea in Powys, south Wales. He studied for a doctorate in astrophysics at University College London, working on a variable star in Cassiopeia and in infrared astronomy, receiving his PhD in 1977. John Griffiths joined the London Science Museum in 1979. He was involved in several significant gallery projects and was a curator of space technology and modern production technology at the museum. In particular, he worked on the Space Exploration gallery that opened in 1986. From 1987 to 1991, he was Head of the Special Projects Group and during 1991 to 1995 he was responsible for the installation of a new collections management system as part of the LASSI consortium. In 1995, Griffiths co-organised a meet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Griffiths (artist)
John Griffiths (29 November 1837 – 1 December 1918) was a British artist who worked in India, noted for his Orientalist works. Life and career He was born in Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, on the 29 November 1837, son of Evan Griffiths and his wife Mary Evans of Machynlleth; on his father's death, his mother became housekeeper to Sir James Clark, physician to Queen Victoria. The boy was brought up by his uncle Richard Griffiths, of Neuadd Uchaf farm, Llanfair. Noting his artistic leanings, Sir James had him trained at what is now the Royal College of Art. He then worked at the South Kensington museum, now the V&A, and was engaged in decorating its buildings. He became a Professor of Art and moved to Bombay in 1865 as the principal of the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in Bombay. His chief associate and friend there, was John Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard Kipling (Griffiths was a godfather to Rudyard). It was under Griffiths's superintendence that much o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Griffiths (shipowner)
John Griffiths (1801-1881) was an Australian shipowner and builder. Early life His father, Johnathon, was born in England in 1773 and, in 1788, at the age of 15, was sentenced to seven years transportation to Australia. He arrived Sydney in June 1790 aboard the convict transport ''Scarborough''. In August that year he was transported to Norfolk Island. While there he met convict Eleanor McDonald. He returned to Port Jackson in 1795 and was joined the following year by Eleanor. The couple went on to have seven children, including John born in 1801. By 1806, Johnathon and Eleanor had 100 acres of land at Richmond. Johnathon senior was shipbuilding by 1804 and as John grew older he was apprenticed into the trade. Some of the ships they built were put to work in the sealing trade in Bass Strait. In 1822, Jonathan took John and another son to Launceston, Tasmania where they acquired land, began farming and built a house. They put their woodworking skills to good use, building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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