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John Hales may refer to: *John Hales (theologian) (1584–1656), English theologian * John Hales (bishop of Exeter) from 1455 to 1456 *John Hales (bishop of Coventry and Lichfield) (died 1490) from 1459 to 1490 * John Hales (died 1540), MP for Canterbury * John Hales (died 1572) (c. 1516–1572), English writer and politician *John Hales (died 1608), at whose house some of the Marprelate tracts were printed * John Hales (died 1639) (1603–1639), English courtier and politician *John Hales (MP for New Shoreham) (1648–1723), English politician *John Hales (trade unionist) (1839–fl. 1882), English trade unionist and radical activist *John Wesley Hales (1836–1914), British scholar *John Hales (archdeacon of Newark) (1870–1952), British Anglican priest * John Hales (cricketer) (1833–1915), English cricketer and civil servant *John Playford Hales (1893–1918), World War I flying ace A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hales (theologian)
John Hales (19 April 1584 – 19 May 1656) was an English cleric, theologian and writer. An eminent if modest and critic, his posthumous works earned him the title of the "Ever-memorable". Early life He was born in St. James' parish, Bath, on 19 April 1584. His father, John Hales, had an estate at Highchurch, near Bath, and was steward to the Horner family. After passing through the Bath grammar school, Hales went on 16 April 1597 as a scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and graduated B.A. on 9 July 1603. He came to the notice of Sir Henry Savile, and was elected as a fellow of Merton College in 1605. He took orders; shone as a preacher, though not for his voice; and graduated M. A. on 20 June 1609. At Merton he distinguished himself as lecturer in Greek; he is said by Clarendon to have been largely responsible for Savile's edition of Chrysostom (1610–13). In 1612 he became public lecturer on Greek to the university. Next year he delivered (29 March) a funeral oration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hales (bishop Of Coventry And Lichfield)
John Hales (c. 1400-1490) (''alias'' Hals, Halse, etc.) was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1459-1490). He was one of the '' Worthies of Devon'' of the biographer John Prince (d.1723). Origins Hales was the second son of John Hals (fl.1423) of Kenedon in the parish of Sherford, Devon (a Justice of the Common Pleas and in 1423 a Justice of the King's Bench) by his first wife, a daughter of the Mewye (''alias'' Mewy) family of Whitchurch near Tavistock, Devon. His great-uncle was Richard Hals (d.1418), a Canon of Exeter Cathedral in Devon, and Treasurer of Exeter Cathedral in 1400, who in 1414 was sent as Ambassador to Brittany. Bishop Hals appointed his kinsman Edmund Hals as Archdeacon of Salop from an unknown date until 1485 and as Archdeacon of Derby from 1485, probably until his death. The mansion house of the Hals' at Kenedon, originally quadrangular in form, is today represented by a small 16th c. farmhouse known as ''Keynedon'', about 1 mile south of the village of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hales (died 1540)
John Hales (by 1470 1540), of The Dungeon in the parish of St. Mary Bredin, Canterbury, Kent, was an administrator, politician and judge who was appointed a Baron of the Exchequer in 1522. Origins He was born before 1470, a son of John Hales, of Tenterden in Kent. His mother's name is not recorded. His grandfather was Henry Hales, of Hales Place at Halden in Tenterden, who married Juliana Capell, a daughter of Richard Capell of Lenden in Tenterden. His great-uncle Thomas Hales was the father of the judge Sir Christopher Hales, Master of the Rolls. Career Probably admitted to legal studies at Gray's Inn about 1490, by 1501 he had been appointed steward of the Priory of Christ Church at Canterbury. In 1503 he was made a justice of the peace for Kent, and in 1504 was appointed counsel to the corporation of Rye, and was also elected bailiff of his home town of Tenterden. From 1508, he was appointed to various royal commissions in his native Kent, in Middlesex and Sussex, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hales (died 1572)
John Hales (c.1516 – 26 or 28 December 1572) was a writer, administrator, and member of parliament during the Tudor period. Family John Hales was the son of Thomas Hales of Hales Place, Halden, Kent, and of 'the daughter of Trefoy of the county of Cornwall'. He had four brothers and a sister: *John Hales, who died without issue. *Christopher Hales, of Coventry, who married Mary Lucy, the daughter of William Lucy, esquire, and Anne Fermor, and sister of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, Warwickshire. *Bartholomew Hales (died 1599), esquire, of Snitterfield, Warwickshire, who married Mary Harper, the daughter of George Harper (died 12 December 1558) by his first wife, Lucy Peckham (d. 31 July 1552), daughter of Thomas Peckham. *Stephen Hales (d. 27 March 1574), esquire, of Newland and Exhall, Warwickshire, freeman of the Merchant Taylors' Company in 1552, Warden in 1557, 1564 and 1565, and one of the four founders of the Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Merchant Taylors' S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hales (died 1608)
John Hales (died 1 January 1608) was the owner of the Whitefriars in Coventry at which two of the Marprelate tracts were printed on a secret press. He was the nephew and heir of John Hales, Clerk of the Hanaper, and the nephew of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote. Family John Hales was the son of Christopher Hales of Coventry and Mary Lucy, the daughter of William Lucy, esquire, and Anne Fermor, and sister of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, Warwickshire. Career Little is known of Hales's early life. In 1589, at the request of his great-uncle Sir Richard Knightley of Fawsley, he allowed the press on which the Marprelate tracts were being printed secretly to be brought to his house at the Whitefriars in Coventry by Knightley's servant Stephen Gyfford. The first of the tracts, Martin Marprelate's ''Epistle'', had been printed at the home of Elizabeth Hussey in East Molesey. The second tract, ''The Epitome'', had been printed at Sir Richard Knightley's house at Fawsley. At the tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hales (died 1639)
Sir John Hales (1603 – 1639) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629. Hales was the son of Charles Hales of Newland of Coventry, Warwickshire. He was a student of Gray's Inn in 1600 and matriculated at University College, Oxford on 13 February 1601, aged 16. He was knighted on 17 July 1617 and was a gentleman pensioner to King James. In 1628, he was elected Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ... for Queenborough and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. Hales died at the age of about 36. He was of Tunstall, Kent. References 1603 births 1639 deaths English MPs 1628–1629 Members of Gray's Inn Alumni of University College, Oxford [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hales (MP For New Shoreham)
John Hales (2 March 1648 – 8 October 1723) was an English people, English :English politicians, politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons from 1679 to 1685. Hales was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for New Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency), New Shoreham in 1679 and held the seat to 1685. Hales died in October 1723, aged 75. His brother Sir Edward Hales, 3rd Baronet, Edward Hales was on the British Admiralty, Admiralty commission, and his cousin Edward Hales (MP for Hythe), Edward Hales was MP for Hythe. See also *Politics of England References 1648 births 1723 deaths People from Shoreham-by-Sea Place of birth missing English MPs 1679 English MPs 1680–1681 English MPs 1681 {{17thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hales (trade Unionist)
John Hales (1839 – fl.1882) was a British trade unionist and radical activist who served as secretary of the International Workingmen's Association. Born in Ireland,Bernard Cook, "Hales, John", in: Hales came to prominence as the leader of the small Elastic Web Weavers of London union. He championed the right of women to join the union, something so opposed by a minority that they falsely accused him of embezzlement. He was suspended while an investigation took place, but was cleared. In 1866, he became an early member of the International Workingmen's Association's (IWMA) General Council, and he persuaded his union to affiliate to the association later the same year.Henry Collins and Chimen Abramsky, ''Karl Marx and the British Labour Movement'', pp.73, 85 Also interested in land reform, he proposed that it work with supporters of Bronterre O'Brien to create a Labour League to act as the British section of the international. Karl Marx spoke against the proposal, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wesley Hales
John Wesley Hales (Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, 5 October 1836 - London, 19 May 1914), was a British scholar and man of letters. Life John Wesley Hales was educated at Louth grammar school, Glasgow High School, Durham School, Glasgow University and Christ's College, Cambridge, which elected him to a fellowship. He was for some time an assistant master at Marlborough College under George Granville Bradley, as well as examiner at King's College London, and the universities of Wales, New Zealand and Cambridge, and from 1889-93 Clark lecturer on English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge. Until 1903, when he retired, he was professor of English literature at King's College London. In May 1901 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He married Henrietta Trafford, daughter of judge Richard Leigh Trafford and Eliza Frances Tarleton, in 1867. Works Hales published 109 works in 300 publications in 5 languages.http://orlabs.oclc.org/ident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hales (archdeacon Of Newark)
John Percy Hales (b Birstwith 7 October 1870; d Southwell 6 September 1952) was a British Anglican priest, most notably Archdeacon of Newark from 1936 to 1946. Picken was educated at Winchester and Jesus College, Cambridge. He was Rector of Cotgrave from 1897 to 1924; and then of Gedling from 1924 to 1937. He was also Chaplain to 8th Sherwood Foresters The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for just under 90 years, from 1881 to 1970. In 1970, the regiment was amalgamated with the Worcestershire Regiment to ... from 1913 to 1922 when he became Senior Chaplain to the 46th North Midland Division.‘HALES, Ven. John Percy’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, Nov 2016 References 1870 births 1952 deaths Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge Archdeacons of Newark People educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hales (cricketer)
John Hales (16 September 1833 – 25 January 1915) was an English first-class cricketer and civil servant. The son of the Reverend John Dixon, Hales was born at Charmouth in September 1833. He attended Rugby School, before progressing to Trinity College, Cambridge. While attending Trinity College, Hales made his debut in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against Cambridge Town Club at Fenner's in 1855. He played first-class cricket for the university from 1855–1859, making eight appearances. Hales had an unspectacular record for the university in first-class matches, scoring 67 run across 14 innings, averaging just 4.78, with a highest score of 19. Despite this, he still gained a cricket blue. After graduating from the university with a Masters in 1861, Hales entered into employment as a clerk in the Colonial Office. He later made a final appearance in first-class cricket, when he played for the Surrey Club against the Marylebone Cricket Club at The Oval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
