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John Jolliffe (surgeon)
John Jolliffe may refer to: *John Jolliffe (merchant) (1613–1680), Member of Parliament for Heytesbury, Governor of the Levant and Muscovy Companies *John Jolliffe (of Petersfield) (c. 1697–1771), lawyer and Member of Parliament for Petersfield *John Jolliffe (surgeon), ship's surgeon on HMS ''Pandora'', for whom Mount Jolliffe, near Drury Inlet in British Columbia was named *John Jolliffe (librarian) (1929–1985), Bodley's Librarian from 1982 to 1985 *Hon. John Hedworth Jolliffe (b. 1935), British writer, son of William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton William George Hervey Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton (2 December 1898 – 14 November 1967), was a British peer and soldier. Hylton was the son of Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton, and Lady Alice Adeliza Hervey. He achieved the rank of Lieut ... See also * Jolliffe * {{hndis, Jolliffe, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jolliffe (merchant)
John Jolliffe (29 August 1613 – 2 January 1680) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679. Jolliffe was a merchant of the City of London and a member of the Worshipful Company of Skinners. He was one of the court assistants from 1650 to 59 and a member of the committee of the East India Company for 1657 and 1658. He was elected alderman for Bishopsgate ward on 23 September 1658. He was treasurer of the Levant Company from 1659 to 1661. In 1660, Jolliffe was elected Member of Parliament for Heytesbury in the Convention Parliament. In 1660 he was again a member of the committee of the East India Company and retained the position until his death. He was Master of the Skinners Company in 1661 and was one of the court assistants from 1661 to 1662. He was re-elected MP for Heytesbury in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament and sat until 1679. He was Auditor from 1662 to 1664 and Deputy-Governor of the Levant Company from 1662 to 1671. In 166 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jolliffe (of Petersfield)
John Jolliffe (bapt. 31 July 1696''England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975'' – 31 January 1771) was an English politician. He established his family's political control of the pocket borough of borough of Petersfield in Hampshire, and sat for the town in the House of Commons for a total of 30 years. Early life and family Jolliffe was the third son of Benjamin Jolliffe of Cofton Hall, Worcestershire. His mother, Mary, was a daughter of the London merchant John Jolliffe, and a sister of Sir William Jolliffe. He was educated at Westminster School and at University College, Oxford then at the Middle Temple and the Inner Temple. In March 1731 he married Catherine Michell, daughter and heir of Robert Michell, a Member of Parliament (MP) for Petersfield. Catherine died in June 1731, and in 1744 Jolliffe married Mary, daughter and co-heir of Samuel Holden (a former MP for East Looe). They had 3 sons and 1 daughter: * William (1745–1802), who was MP for Petersfiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drury Inlet
Drury inlet is an inlet in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, extending west from Wells Passage to the northwest of North Broughton Island, northwest of the town of Port Hardy. Branching off to the northeast from the north side of the head of the inlet is Actaeon Sound. Compton Point is the headland on the south side of the entrance, at , opposite North Broughton Island, which is the most northwesterly of the Broughton Archipelago, which is situated to the north of the mouth of Knight Inlet. Compton Point is the tip of a peninsula of the mainland, on the outside of which is located Blunden Harbour, some distance to the west from the south entrance of Wells Passage and is itself at the entry to another series of inlets (Belize Inlet, Seymour Inlet and others). Among the features on the inlet's shoreline, Bughouse Bay at was named for "a deranged settler who once lived in a cabin on the shore of the bay". Bughouse Lake is immedia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, forests, lakes, mountains, inland deserts and grassy plains, and borders the province of Alberta to the east and the Yukon and Northwest Territories to the north. With an estimated population of 5.3million as of 2022, it is Canada's third-most populous province. The capital of British Columbia is Victoria and its largest city is Vancouver. Vancouver is the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada; the 2021 census recorded 2.6million people in Metro Vancouver. The first known human inhabitants of the area settled in British Columbia at least 10,000 years ago. Such groups include the Coast Salish, Tsilhqotʼin, and Haida peoples, among many others. One of the earliest British settlements in the area was Fort Victoria, established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jolliffe (librarian)
John William Jolliffe (15 July 1929 – 30 March 1985) was a British librarian and academic who was Bodley's Librarian (head of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford) from 1982 until his death. Life Jolliffe was born in Hastings in 1929. His parents were William Jolliffe and Gwendolen Gadd. Jolliffe was educated at Hastings Grammar School before studying French at University College London. Jolliffe married Beryl Bailey, with whom he would go on to have three daughters. He was appointed Assistant Keeper in the Department of Printed Books at the British Museum in 1955, moving to Oxford to become Keeper of Catalogues at the Bodleian Library in 1970. He was a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford from 1971 onwards. He became Bodley's Librarian in 1982 at a time of budget cuts, having earlier been Acting Librarian. His publications included various articles on his specialist area of 16th-century French literature. He was also an early leader in the use of computers for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton
William George Hervey Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton (2 December 1898 – 14 November 1967), was a British peer and soldier. Hylton was the son of Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton, and Lady Alice Adeliza Hervey. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Somerset from 1949 to 1964. Lord Hylton married Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith, daughter of Katharine and Raymond Asquith, eldest son of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, in 1931. He died in November 1967, aged 68. He was succeeded in his titles by his elder son Raymond. The writer (of eg. ''Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters'') John Hedworth Jolliffe is his younger son; his daughter Mary is the wife of John Paget Chancellor, son of Christopher Chancellor of Reuters. Mary and John Chancellor are the parents of the actress Anna Chancellor and the financial historian Edward Chancellor. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hylton, William George Jolli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
