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John Horrocks (basketball)
John Horrocks may refer to: * John Horrocks (politician) (1768–1804), British cotton manufacturer and Member of Parliament * John Horrocks (fisherman) John Horrocks (29 June 1816 – 13 June 1881) was the founder and innovator of modern European fly fishing. Horrocks was born in Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council are ... (1816–1881), Edinburgh-born founder of modern fly fishing in Europe * John Ainsworth Horrocks (1818–1846), South Australian explorer * John Horrocks (died 2001), a member of English band Poloroid {{hndis, Horrocks, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Horrocks (politician)
John Horrocks (27 March 1768 – 1 March 1804) was an English cotton manufacturer and Member of Parliament for Preston. Early life He was born in Bradshaw, Lancashire, the son of John Horrocks, owner of a stone quarry, and his wife Jane Booth, the younger of two surviving sons in a family of 18 children. His father, a Quaker, was a manufacturer of stone printing tables for textiles in Edgworth. David Hunt in his 1992 ''History of Preston'' comments that many details of his early life are confused. While still young Horrocks worked in Edgworth for Thomas Thomasson, in the cotton trade, who sent him to school in central Manchester but died in 1782. Business career The Lancashire cotton industry was then in its infancy. Horrocks, impressed with its potential, set up spinning-frames in a corner of his father's premises. For a time he combined cotton-spinning on a small scale with stone-working, but eventually concentrated on cotton. About 1791 he moved to Preston, where he began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Horrocks (fisherman)
John Horrocks (29 June 1816 – 13 June 1881) was the founder and innovator of modern European fly fishing. Horrocks was born in Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian .... He was the grandson of John Horrocks. In 1835 he fly-fished for the first time in the Ilm and other German rivers. In 1842 he moved to Weimar, later writing the standard work on fly fishing, entitled ''The art of fly fishing for trout and grayling in Germany and Austria''. It was first published in 1874 and describes the state of fishing as a sport in England, the decline of fisheries due to over-fishing and the inadequacy of the existing fishing laws - it also calls for the abolition of medieval customs and outdated fishing methods and the introduction of laws to protect fish stocks. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ainsworth Horrocks
John Ainsworth Horrocks (22 March 1818 – 23 September 1846) was an English pastoralist and explorer who was one of the first European settlers in the Clare Valley of South Australia where, in 1840, he established the village of Penwortham. Biography Horrocks was born on Easter Sunday, 22 March 1818, at Penwortham Lodge, near Preston, Lancashire. His father, Peter Horrocks, was an investor/shareholder in the Secondary Towns Association, which aspired to develop secondary towns in the new colony of South Australia. John Ainsworth Horrocks, aged 21, and his brother Eustace, aged 16, arrived at Adelaide in March 1839. Impatient to settle on their own land, the brothers set up camp on 16 January 1840 at present Penwortham, a village which they founded and named. He returned to England in 1842 after his father's death, and returned to Australia in 1844 to attend to financial problems. Fatal expedition On 29 July 1846 he commenced an exploratory expedition into the far north-west ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
