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John Johnston (UK Politician)
John Johnston may refer to: Entertainment * John Johnston (poet) (c. 1570–1611), Scottish poet and academic * John S. Johnston (c. 1839–1899), American maritime photographer * Johnnie Johnston (1915–1996), American actor and singer * John Dennis Johnston (born 1945), American actor Politics * John W. Johnston (mayor) (1774–1854), St. Louis, Missouri, US * John Johnston (Indian agent) (1775–1861), US * John Johnston (Nova Scotia politician) (1790–1836) * John Johnston (New Zealand politician) (1809–1887) * John W. Johnston (1818–1889), senator from Virginia, US * John Johnston (Australian politician) (1823–1872) * John R. Johnston (died 1863), mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, US * John Kenneth Johnston (1865–1945), Canadian politician * John Frederick Johnston (1876–1948), Canadian politician * John B. Johnston (1882–1960), U.S. Representative * John Stewart Johnston (1905/6–?), Northern Irish politician * John Baines Johnston (1918–2005), British di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Johnston (poet)
John Johnston (c.1570–1611) was a Scottish poet. Life He was born not later than 1570. He styled himself ''Aberdonensis'', i.e. "from Aberdeen". After studying at King's College, Aberdeen, he spent eight years at continental universities, sending home in 1587 from the University of Helmstadt a manuscript copy of George Buchanan's ''Sphæra'', along with two of his own epigrams. At the University of RostockSee entry oJohn Johnstonin Rostock Matrikelportal he formed a lasting friendship with Justus Lipsius. The influence of Andrew Melville may have helped Johnston to obtain the professorship of divinity at the University of St Andrews, about 1593. His career became closely linked with Melville's. In 1598, when the general assembly of the Scottish church was sitting at Dundee, both were ordered from the town together, because of their opposition to church representation in parliament. In 1603 they jointly appealed with success to Philippe de Mornay against a decision of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Johnston (football Full-back)
John Johnston was a professional footballer who played as a full-back for Sunderland and Motherwell Motherwell ( sco, Mitherwall, gd, Tobar na Màthar) is a town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, south east of Glasgow. It has a population of around 32,120. Historically in the parish of Dalziel and part of Lanarks .... References Men's association football fullbacks Dalziel Rovers F.C. players Cambuslang Rangers F.C. players Sunderland A.F.C. players Motherwell F.C. players English Football League players Scottish Junior Football Association players Scottish Football League players Scottish men's footballers {{Scotland-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lawson Johnston
John Lawson Johnston (1839– 24 November 1900) was a Scottish entrepreneur and the creator of Bovril. He was born in 29 Main Street, Roslin, Midlothian. A memorial plaque is on the property and can be seen above the door. The plaque was put there by the Roslin Heritage Society. Life and "Bovril" Johnston studied in Edinburgh at some point and came into contact with Lyon Playfair, a professor of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. Through him, John developed an interest in food science and preserving. Regardless of what his intentions had originally been as a choice of profession, Johnston's uncle John was a butcher and his nephew decided to pursue this as a trade and apprenticed with him.The City of Edinburgh Council Archives Eventually, he took over his butcher shop in Edinburgh and became well established. While working as a butcher in Edinburgh, he decided to use the large quantity of beef trimmings produced in the butchery process to make his own ''glace de viande'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Taylor Johnston
John Taylor Johnston (April 8, 1820 – March 24, 1893) was an American businessman and patron of the arts. He served as President of the Central Railroad of New Jersey and was one of the founders of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Early life Johnston was born on April 8, 1820 in New York City. He was the eldest child of John Johnston (merchant), John Johnston and Margaret (née Taylor) Howard Johnston, a widow of Rhesa Howard Jr. who was the nephew of William Few, Signer of the U.S. Constitution from Georgia whose brother-in-law was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. His younger brother was James Boorman Johnston, who commissioned the Tenth Street Studio Building at 51 10th Street (Manhattan), West 10th Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenue (Manhattan), Sixth Avenues. His sister, Margaret Taylor Johnston, was married to John Bard (philanthropist), John Bard (a grandson of Dr. Samuel Bard (physician), Samuel Bard) and together were founders of Bard Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Johnston (farmer)
John Johnston (11 April 1791, Knocknalling, near Dalry, Galloway – 24 November 1880) was a Scottish-American farmer. He is credited with the first public introduction of agricultural drainage in the United States. He did so in 1838. John Johnston was born in Scotland and emigrated to the United States in 1821. His farmhouse in upper Geneva, New York Geneva is a City (New York), city in Ontario County, New York, Ontario and Seneca County, New York, Seneca counties in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It is at the northern end of Seneca Lake (New York), Seneca Lake; all land port ... is now a museum of his life and drainage tiles. External links The Geneva Historical Society, which now owns and administrates his farmhouse as a museumArticle on the subject, which is also given out in printed form during toursLocal tourist board site on the museum 1791 births 1880 deaths People from Dumfries and Galloway People from Geneva, New York Farmers from New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Johnston (merchant)
John Johnston (January 22, 1781 – April 20, 1851) was a Scottish-American bookkeeper and merchant who was a co-founder of New York University. Early life Johnston was born on January 22, 1781, at Barnboard Mill in the Parish of Balmaghie, Gallowayshire, Scotland. He was a son of John Johnston and Dorothea (née Proudfoot) Johnston, who married in 1780. After his mother's death in June 1794, his father remarried to Margaret Rae in 1795. Johnston, an only child of his parents' marriage, became the elder brother to ten half-siblings, including brothers William, Robert, Samuel, and sisters Agnes and Margaret, as well as uncle to John Taylor Sherman. His paternal grandparents were William Johnston and Janet (née McCreedy) Johnston and he was educated in the neighboring village of Laurieston, and also at Boreland. Career In 1804, at twenty-two years old, he came to New York and became a bookkeeper in Robert Lenox's counting house. After nine years with Lenox and Maitland, Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Johnston (fur Trader)
John Johnston (1762–1828) was a wealthy and successful British fur trader for the North West Company at Sault Ste. Marie when it was still Canadian territory before the War of 1812. He was a prominent citizen and leader in the Michigan Territory of the United States, although he never became a US citizen. He married ''Ozhaguscodaywayquay'' (Woman of the Green Glade), daughter of ''Waubojeeg'' (White Fisher), a prominent Ojibwe war chief and civil leader from what is now northern Wisconsin. The Johnstons were leaders in both the Euro-American and Ojibwa communities. Johnston's life was markedly disrupted by the War of 1812, as afterward the U.S. prohibited trading by Canadians in its territory. Early life fur trade Johnston was born in Belfast, Ireland to an upper-class Scots-Irish family.Robert Dale Parker, ''Jane J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Johnson (architect, Born 1732)
John Johnson (22 April 1732 – 17 August 1814) was an English architect and surveyor to the county of Essex. He is best known for designing the Shire Hall, Chelmsford. Life Johnson was born in Leicester. He moved to London before his thirtieth birthday and in the late 1760s was engaged by William Berners in speculative building of Berners' estate in Marylebone. For most of the rest of his life he lived in one of the houses that he had built in Berners Street. In 1782 he succeeded William Hillyer as Surveyor to the County of Essex, a position that he held for thirty years, retiring at the age of 80. In 1785 he became a partner with Sir Herbert Mackworth and others in Dorsett and Co, a bank in Bond Street, but Mackworth left before 1792, the bank failed in 1797 and was wound up in 1803. After this, Johnson moved from Berners Street to Camden Town, and on his retirement in 1812 returned to Leicester, where he died. He was buried in St Martin's Church (now Leicester Cathed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Johnston (chemist)
John Johnston (October 13, 1881 – September 12, 1950) was a Scottish born chemist. A native of Perth, Scotland, Johnston was born on October 13, 1881. He earned a bachelor's of science degree in 1903 and a doctor of science in 1908. From 1903 to 1905, Johnston's studies at St. Andrews University were funded by the Carnegie Scholarship. He began working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907, leaving the next year for a position at the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution for Science. In 1916, Johnston became head of research for the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company, subsequently moving to the U.S. Bureau of Mines in 1917, and the National Research Council in 1918. He taught at Yale University starting in 1919. From 1920, Johnston served as the school's first Sterling Professor. He resigned the position in 1927, returning to industry as head of research for the U.S. Steel Corporation. Johnston retired from U.S. Steel in 1946. He was a me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Johnston, 3rd Baronet
Sir John Johnston, 3rd Baronet of Caskieben (c. 1648 – 23 December 1690) was a Scottish soldier who was executed for his part in the abduction of Mary Wharton. Biography Johnston was born about 1648, the only son of Sir George Johnston, 2nd Baronet by his wife, a daughter of Sir William Leslie, 3rd Baronet of Wardes. In 1660 his father had sold the family estate of Caskieben in Aberdeenshire to Sir John Keith, who renamed it Keith Hall. Johnston was a captain in the army, and served under King William III in Flanders and in Ireland, where he was present at the Battle of the Boyne. In November 1690 Johnston aided his friend Captain James Campbell in the abduction and forced marriage of thirteen-year-old heiress Mary Wharton. Though Campbell escaped, for his part in the affair Johnston was hanged at Tyburn on 23 December 1690, aged forty-two. He was unmarried, and was succeeded by his cousin John Johnston of Newplace, a merchant at Aberdeen.Alexander Johnston, ''Genealogical Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Johnston (footballer)
John Johnston (born 2 May 1947) is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder in both Northern Ireland and England. Career Born in Belfast, Johnston began his career in his native Northern Ireland with Glentoran, before making the move to England to play in the Football League with Blackpool, for whom he made 26 League appearances. He made his debut for Stan Mortensen's men midway through the 1968–69 season, in a single-goal defeat at Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the most dens ... on 14 December. He made a further seven appearances before the end of the season, scoring once — a penalty in a 2–1 victory at Crystal Palace F.C., Crystal Palace on 25 January. He also made two starts during the club's run to the fifth round of the Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Johnston (cricketer)
John Johnston (15 February 1953 – 2 June 2008) was an English cricketer. Johnston was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast. He was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Career Johnston made his debut for Durham against Cumberland in the 1976 Minor Counties Championship. He played Minor counties cricket for Durham from 1976 to 1990, making 78 Minor Counties Championship appearances and 12 MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances. He made his List A debut against Northamptonshire in the 1977 Gillette Cup. He made 7 further List A appearances, the last of which came against Middlesex in the 1989 NatWest Trophy. In his 8 List A matches for Durham, he took 7 wickets at an average of 39.57, with best figures of 2/31. He died in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham on 2 June 2008. References External linksJohnny Johnstonat ESPNcricinfo ESPN cricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
