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John Harding (playwright)
John Harding may refer to: People *John Harding (Leicester MP) British politician, represented Leicester (UK Parliament constituency) *John Harding (President of Magdalen) (died 1610), English churchman and academic *Sir John Harding (1809-1868), Queens Advocate * John Harding (Southern planter) (1777–1865), American Southern planter and thoroughbred breeder *John Harding (cricketer) (fl. 1809), English cricketer *John Harding (bishop) (1805–1874), bishop of Bombay * J. Eugene Harding (1877–1959), U.S. Representative from Ohio * John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1896–1989), British WWII General, Colonial Governor of Cyprus *John Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton (1928–2016), British army officer *John L. Harding (1780–1837), American mayor of Frederick, Maryland *Jack Harding (1898–1963), American coach of American football *J. P. Harding (1911–1998), British zoologist * John Harding (footballer) (1932–1994), Australian rules footballer * John Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Harding (Leicester MP)
John Harding may refer to: People *John Harding (Leicester MP) British politician, represented Leicester (UK Parliament constituency) *John Harding (President of Magdalen) (died 1610), English churchman and academic *Sir John Harding (1809-1868), Queens Advocate *John Harding (Southern planter) (1777–1865), American Southern planter and thoroughbred breeder *John Harding (cricketer) (fl. 1809), English cricketer *John Harding (bishop) (1805–1874), bishop of Bombay *J. Eugene Harding (1877–1959), U.S. Representative from Ohio *John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1896–1989), British WWII General, Colonial Governor of Cyprus *John Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton (1928–2016), British army officer *John L. Harding (1780–1837), American mayor of Frederick, Maryland *Jack Harding (1898–1963), American coach of American football *J. P. Harding (1911–1998), British zoologist *John Harding (footballer) (1932–1994), Australian rules footballer *John Harding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tisdale Harding
John Tisdale Harding (born c. 1945) is a long-time on-air personality and News Director for WRVA. Radio history Harding's career began at WEVA in Emporia, Virginia, when he was 14. He worked after school and on Weekends from 1959 through 1964. In 1967, he returned to WEVA to step up and run the station's first local news department. John graduated from American University in 1968. He served as Program Director for the School's AM station WAMU. He was an Intern/Trainee at NBC News while at AU. In 1968 he joined WRVA in Richmond as a Staff Reporter. He was named State Capitol Reporter in 1969, News Editor in 1970 and began anchoring the WRVA Morning News at 8 in 1972, an assignment he kept for the subsequent 21 years. He was named News Director at WRVA in 1977 and Operations Manager in 1987, positions he held until 1994 when he moved back to mornings to join Tim Timberlake upon the death of Alden Aaroe. Harding was the chief editorial writer for WRVA from 1981 through 1996. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hardyng
John Hardyng (or Harding; 1378–1465) was an English chronicler. He was born in Northern England. Biography As a boy Hardyng entered the service of Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur), with whom he was present at the Battle of Shrewsbury (1403). He then passed into the service of Sir Robert Umfraville, under whom he was constable of Warkworth Castle, Northumberland, and Kyme Castle, Lincolnshire. He was in Umfraville's retinue at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 and in the sea-fight before Harfleur in 1416. In 1424 Hardyng was at Rome, where at the instance of Cardinal Beaufort he consulted the chronicle of Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus. Upon the death of Umfraville in 1436, Hardyng retired to the Augustinian Priory at Kyme, where he wrote the two versions of his chronicle and where he probably lived till his death about 1465. Hardyng was a man of antiquarian knowledge, and under Henry V was employed to investigate the feudal relations of Scotland to the English crown. For this purpose he vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hardin (other)
John Hardin may refer to: * John Hardin (1753–1792), Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War * John J. Hardin (1810–1847), U.S. Representative from Illinois * John Wesley Hardin (1853–1895), outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West See also * John Hardin High School John Hardin High School is a school located in Radcliff, Kentucky, but served by the post office of neighboring Elizabethtown. Established in 2001, the school is named after the Revolutionary War officer and Native American fighter, John Hardin. ... named after the Continental Army officer * John Harding (other) {{hndis, Hardin, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wesley Harding (song)
"John Wesley Harding" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan that appears as the opening track on his 1967 album of the same name. Writing and recording Dylan told Jann Wenner in a 1969 ''Rolling Stone'' interview that the song "started out to be a long ballad. I was gonna write a ballad on ... like maybe one of those old cowboy ... you know, a real long ballad. But in the middle of the second verse, I got tired. I had a tune, and I didn't want to waste the tune; it was a nice little melody, so I just wrote a quick third verse, and I recorded that."Wenner, Jann. "Interview with Jann S. Wenner," ''Rolling Stone'', November 29, 1969, in Biographer Clinton Heylin states that Dylan has had a well-documented interest in outlaw cowboys, including Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and in the past Dylan has said that his favorite folk song was " John Hardy", whose real-life title character in 1893 murdered another man over a game of craps. John Wesley Hardin was another late-19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wesley Harding
''John Wesley Harding'' is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on December 27, 1967, by Columbia Records. Produced by Bob Johnston, the album marked Dylan's return to semi-acoustic instrumentation and folk-influenced songwriting after three albums of lyrically abstract, blues-indebted rock music. ''John Wesley Harding'' shares many stylistic threads with, and was recorded around the same time as, the prolific series of home recording sessions with The Band, partly released in 1975 as ''The Basement Tapes'', and released in complete form in 2014 as ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete''. ''John Wesley Harding'' was well received by critics and sold well, reaching on the U.S. charts and topping the UK charts. Less than three months after its release, ''John Wesley Harding'' was certified gold by the RIAA. "All Along the Watchtower" became one of his most popular songs after Jimi Hendrix's rendition was released in the au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Harding (Sha Ko Hen The Tha)
John Harding (''Sha ko hen tha'') (b.? , Mohawk nation, Mohawk) is a politician who was elected to the chiefs' council at Kanesatake (2001–2004), a Mohawk settlement in Quebec, Canada. During his period in office, he was part of organized opposition to Grand Chief James Gabriel (politician), James Gabriel in 2003–2004. In 2005, neither Harding nor Gabriel were re-elected as chiefs. Early life and education John Harding (Sha ko hen tha - Mohawk name) was born to a Mohawk mother and into her Turtle clan. In the matrilineal kinship system, inheritance and property are passed through the maternal line. Harding's father is not Mohawk. Harding grew up in his mother's Mohawk culture and identifies as a traditionalist. Career Harding worked as a policeman in the settlement, where the self-governing Mohawk have some jurisdiction over certain crimes. He is strongly supportive of the Mohawk tradition of the council chiefs setting consensus for direction of the people. In January 2004 Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Nations Australia Writers Network
The First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) is the peak advocacy body for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander writers, storytellers and poets in Australia. History The seeds for the organisation were sown at the Guwanyi Indigenous Writers Festival in March 2011, although the idea had been discussed much earlier, at a 1993 writers' workshop in Brisbane by Anita Heiss, Jared Thomas, and Kerry Reed-Gilbert. In 2012, a working party established to work towards the goal, comprising Thomas, Reed-Gilbert, Philip McLaren, Jackie Huggins, Sam Watson (political activist), Sam Watson Snr, Jim Everett (writer), Jim Everett (aka puralia meenamatta, Tasmanian writer, playwright, and poet), Alexis West (dancer, choreographer, performer, writer, filmmaker), John Harding (playwright), John Harding (playwright), Peter Minter (poet and editor), Marcus Waters (Kamilaroi screenwriter and academic, and Marie Munkara (Darwin-based writer of Rembarrnga and Tiwi people, Tiwi descent). First ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Harding (playwright)
John Harding may refer to: People *John Harding (Leicester MP) British politician, represented Leicester (UK Parliament constituency) *John Harding (President of Magdalen) (died 1610), English churchman and academic *Sir John Harding (1809-1868), Queens Advocate * John Harding (Southern planter) (1777–1865), American Southern planter and thoroughbred breeder *John Harding (cricketer) (fl. 1809), English cricketer *John Harding (bishop) (1805–1874), bishop of Bombay * J. Eugene Harding (1877–1959), U.S. Representative from Ohio * John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1896–1989), British WWII General, Colonial Governor of Cyprus *John Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton (1928–2016), British army officer *John L. Harding (1780–1837), American mayor of Frederick, Maryland *Jack Harding (1898–1963), American coach of American football *J. P. Harding (1911–1998), British zoologist * John Harding (footballer) (1932–1994), Australian rules footballer * John Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wesley Harding (singer)
Wesley Stace (born 22 October 1965) is an English folk/pop singer-songwriter and author, who has used the stage name John Wesley Harding. Under his legal name, he has written four novels. He is also an occasional university teacher and the curator of Wesley Stace's Cabinet of Wonders. Early life Stace was born in Hastings, East Sussex, England, the son of educators Christopher Stace and Molly Townson. His mother was also an opera singer and for many years was the director of the Hastings Musical Festival. His sister, Melanie Stace, is a performing artist. His given name, Wesley, comes from John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, who preached one of his last sermons near the town where Harding was born.As a child, he taught himself how to play guitar and eventually starting writing his own songs as a teenager, citing John Prine, Loudon Wainwright III, and Bob Dylan as influences. His education included the boarding school St. Andrews School (Pangbourne, Berkshire); Milbourne Lodg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Harding (author)
John Harding (1951- September 2017) was a British writer and novelist. Life and career Harding was born in Prickwillow, a village near Ely, Cambridgeshire, in 1951. He attended local schools before reading English Literature at St Catherine's College, Oxford. After university, he moved to London in 1974, where he worked for as a reporter for DC Thomson. After eventually becoming an editor for several popular magazines, Harding went freelance in 1985 to pursue his ambition of becoming a novelist. His first book novel, ''What We Did on Our Holiday'' was published in 2000. The book describes a man taking his father, who has advanced Parkinson's disease, on holiday to Malta. It was adapted for TV in 2006 starring Shane Ritchie and Roger Lloyd-Pack, and should not be confused with a later film of the same name. Harding would go on to publish four more novels, all of which received critical acclaim. Harding was married with two children, and lived in Richmond-upon-Thames The L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Harding (violinist)
John Harding honorary degree, Hon DMus (born 1950) is an internationally renowned violinist. He has travelled the world as a soloist, teacher, concertmaster, chamber musician, conductor and recording artist. Early life and education John Phillips Harding was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1951. He began his secondary schooling was at Newcastle Boys' High School and studied violin, piano, bassoon and theory at the Newcastle, New South Wales#Music, Newcastle Conservatorium of Music. In 1962 he moved to Sydney, where he completed his secondary schooling at the Conservatorium High School, Sydney Conservatorium of Music High School and studied violin with Robert Pikler. Career Harding was invited in 1972 to study conducting with David Zinman in the United States whilst continuing his violin studies with Joseph Silverstein. He was assistant concertmaster of the Rochester Philharmonic (1974–1976). He was awarded the Albert Spalding Prize for the most outstanding instrumentalis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
