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John Jennings (governor)
John Jennings may refer to: Politicians * John Jenyns (1660–1717), MP * John Jennings (Burton MP) (1903–1990), British Conservative Party politician * John Jennings (American politician) (1880–1956), U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1939–1951 * John Jennings (Australian politician) (1878–1968), federal member for South Sydney and then Watson in the 1930s * Jack Jennings (politician) (John Joseph Jennings, 1923–1995), member for the electoral district of Ross Smith, 1970–1977 * John Jennings (St Albans MP) (died 1642), English Member of Parliament Musicians * John Jennings (musician) (1953–2015), American guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and producer * John Jennings, bassist for British band The Ruts Military * John Jennings (Royal Navy officer) (1664–1743), British admiral and politician * John Jennings, British soldier who played a major part in the Battle of Carrickfergus Others * John Edward Jennings (1906–1973), American historical novelist * John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jenyns
John Jenyns (c. 1660 – 1717), of Hayes, Hillingdon, Hayes and Bedford Row, London, Bedford Row, St Andrew Holborn, Middlesex, was an English Tory politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons from 1710 to 1717. Jenyns was the eldest son of Roger Jenyns of Hayes and his wife Sarah Latch, daughter of Joseph Latch. He was admitted at Middle Temple in 1681. He married Jane Clitherow, the daughter of James Clitherow of Boston House by licence dated 16 February 1682. In 1687 he was admitted to Inner Temple. He succeeded his father to the manor of Hayes in 1693. Jenyns was elected a conservator of the Fen Corporation at the age of 25. He succeeded his father as Surveyor General of the Fens in 1693, a post he then held for 20 years. He acquired an estate at Donnington, Isle of Ely, but in 1702 he was still serving on the bench and in the lieutenancy for Middlesex. He was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for the year 1708 to 1709. At the 1710 B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jennings (businessman)
Sir John Southwood Jennings (born 30 March 1937) is a British geologist who was Chancellor of Loughborough University, having previously been chairman of Shell Transport and Trading from 1993 to 1997, and a director until 2001. He was born in Oldbury, Worcestershire, the son of George Southwood Jennings and Irene Beatrice Bartlett. He was educated at Oldbury Grammar School and Birmingham University. Sir John is Sloan Fellow of the London Business School and has honorary doctorates from Birmingham and Edinburgh Universities, having previously gained a BSc in Geology in 1958 and a PhD three years later. He joined Shell in 1968 and advanced through the ranks to become Managing Director of the Royal Dutch Shell Group from 1987 to 1997 and Chairman of the Shell Transport and Trading Company plc from 1993 to 1997, when he was knighted. Sir John was a Director of the company between 1987 and 2001. Sir John succeeded Sir Denis Rooke Sir Denis Eric Rooke (2 April 1924 – 2 Sept ... [...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] |
Midgley John Jennings
Midgley John Jennings M.A. (8 June 1806 – 11 May 1857) a minister of the Church of England remembered for his work as a Christian missionary in India. Founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel's Mission to Delhi. Killed in Delhi along with family and other members of the mission at the outbreak of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Background and early life Born in Stevenage, England on 8 June 1806, son of Midgley Jennings. Educated at Christ's College, Cambridge graduating with a B.A. in 1829 and received his master's degree in 1832. Ordained deacon at Lincoln in December 1830 and ordained priest in February 1831. Missionary Work in India Chaplain with the East India Company from 1832. Served variously at Cawnpore and other locations prior to a posting to Delhi in 1851. In Delhi as well as serving as chaplain to expatriate Europeans he focused on educational initiatives benefitting local students. Murdered on 11 May 1857 at the start of the uprising against East In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Greenville 200
The ''1970 Greenville 200'' was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on June 27, 1970, at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in Greenville, South Carolina. Race report Seven thousand racing fans were in attendance to see Bobby Isaac defeat Bobby Allison by ½ of a lap. Bobby Allison had to borrow his son Davey's car because he wrecked his car during the previous week. The pole position was earned by the eventual race winner with a qualifying speed of while the average speed of the race was . It took one hour and thirty-three seconds for the race to reach its conclusion. All twenty-nine competitors were born in the United States of America with no foreign-born drivers, unlike today. Five notable crew chiefs were recorded as participating in the event; including Lee Gordon, Dale Inman and Harry Hyde. Carburetors were still in wide use in both passenger automobiles and with the NASCAR vehicles during the early 1970s; requiring plenty of physically-intensive labor from the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jennings (racing Driver)
John Jennings may refer to: Politicians * John Jenyns (1660–1717), MP * John Jennings (Burton MP) (1903–1990), British Conservative Party politician * John Jennings (American politician) (1880–1956), U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1939–1951 * John Jennings (Australian politician) (1878–1968), federal member for South Sydney and then Watson in the 1930s * Jack Jennings (politician) (John Joseph Jennings, 1923–1995), member for the electoral district of Ross Smith, 1970–1977 * John Jennings (St Albans MP) (died 1642), English Member of Parliament Musicians * John Jennings (musician) (1953–2015), American guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and producer * John Jennings, bassist for British band The Ruts Military * John Jennings (Royal Navy officer) (1664–1743), British admiral and politician * John Jennings, British soldier who played a major part in the Battle of Carrickfergus Others * John Edward Jennings (1906–1973), American historical novelist * John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Percival Jennings
John Percival Jennings (9 May 1923 – 16 December 2003) was a Senior Horticultural Adviser for the South Australian Department of Agriculture. Early life, education and career Jennings was born on 9 May 1923, in Renmark, South Australia, the youngest child of Mary Milne Paterson and John Patrick Jennings. He attended Renmark West Primary School for six years (1928 – 1933) and then completed grade 7 at Renmark Town Primary School before going to Renmark High School, where he won a scholarship to attend Roseworthy Agricultural College. He graduated with a Diploma in Agriculture in 1944. Shortly after graduating, Jennings was appointed the first Assistant Manager of the Berri Experimental Orchard on 14 February 1945. In 1948 he was appointed the first Officer in Charge of the Viticultural Research Station at Nuriootpa. In early 1957, just as the great 1956 Murray River flood was receding, the family moved to Waikerie when Jennings was appointed Horticultural Adviser. His di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jennings (priest)
John Jennings (1798 – 26 March 1883) was Archdeacon of Westminster from 1868 until his death in 1883. ''Alumni Cantabrigienses'' previously identified the John Jennings educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge as "doubtless" the Rector of St John's and Archdeacon of Westminster, but now states that this is a mistaken identity: Archdeacon Jennings was educated at Trinity College Dublin, graduating B.A. 1820, M.A. 1832. After a curacy at West Meon, Hampshire, Jennings moved to St John's, Smith Square as a curate to Canon H. H. Edwards, succeeding Edwards as rector on Edwards' resignation in 1832. He became a canon of Westminster Abbey in 1837, Rural dean In the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion as well as some Lutheran denominations, a rural dean is a member of clergy who presides over a "rural deanery" (often referred to as a deanery); "ruridecanal" is the corresponding adjective. ... of St Margaret and St John, Archdeacon of Westminster in 1868, and Sub-Dean. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jennings (tutor)
John Jennings (c. 1687 – 1723) was an English Nonconformist minister and tutor of an early dissenting academy at Kibworth, Leicestershire, the original institution that became Daventry Academy. Jennings through his teaching and pedagogic writings was a major influence on the Dissenting educational tradition. Life Jennings’s father, John Jennings (1634–1701), a native of Oswestry, Shropshire, was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and was ejected from the rectory of Hartley Wespall, Hampshire after the Act of Uniformity 1662. The elder John Jennings was afterwards a private chaplain at Langton, near Kibworth, and founder of the independent congregation at Kibworth, where he purchased a small estate. A younger son, David Jennings, became known as tutor of the Coward Trust academy in Wellclose Square. Jennings was educated at Timothy Jollie's academy at Attercliffe, and succeeded his father as independent minister at Kibworth, where from 1715 he conducted a nonconformist acade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jennings (physician)
Dr. John Jennings (fl. 18th-century) was an Irish physician. Jennings was a member of the Mac Jonin family of Ironpool, Kilconly, Tuam, and a cousin of Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine. He died young from a fever he contracted while attending a patient in the neighbourhood of Tuam. His death occasioned a lament A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret, or mourning. Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner in which participants lament about somethin ... titled ''Doctúir Jennings'', composed by Patrick Greaney. Extracts from the lament ''A Dhochtúir Jennings, céad fároir cráidhte! Is tú fuair bás uainn i dtús do shaoghail: Dá siubhalainn Connacht agus Oileán Phádraic Samhail mo mhaighistir ní bhfuighinn i dtír'' ''Nuair a bhreathnuighim síos ar Pholl an Iarrain, Cé an cás dom bliadhain acht arís go deó, Ins an áit a h'oileadh an leannaibh uasal. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jennings (footballer)
John Jennings (27 August 1902 – 14 April 1997) was an English professional footballer who played as a right half. Career Born in Platt Bridge, Jennings had worked as a railway fireman before beginning his footballing career with Wigan Borough.Hayes, p. 99 He joined First Division side Cardiff City in 1925, making his debut in a 3–2 defeat to Birmingham City on 10 October 1925. However, due to competition from several established players including Billy Hardy and Harry Wake, he made just one further appearance during the 1925–26 season in a 0–0 draw with Arsenal on 31 February 1926. The following season, Jennings did not make an appearance until the final three months of the season, being handed a chance at full back following an injury to Tom Watson, but impressed enough to eventually displace Watson from the side. He became a permanent fixture in the first team at Ninian Park, featuring in every league match that the club played for nearly two years between February 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jennings (clergyman)
John Jennings (1814–1876) was a Scottish-born Presbyterian clergyman from Canada notable for promoting the cause of education in Upper Canada The Province of Upper Canada (french: link=no, province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the ....C. Glenn Lucas (n.d.Jennings, John Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, www.biographi.ca References Canadian Presbyterian ministers 1814 births 1876 deaths {{Canada-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |