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John K. Wright
John, Johnny, or Johnnie Wright may refer to: Arts and entertainment Literature *John Wright (poet) (1805–1843), Scottish poet *John Clifton Wright (born 1948), American sailor and author *John C. Wright (author) (born 1961), American science fiction and fantasy writer Performing arts *Johnnie Wright (1914–2011), American country musician, singer, songwriter *Johnny Wright (guitarist) (1930–1988), American blues musician *John Wright (pianist) (1934–2017), American jazz pianist *John Robert Wright (born 1942), American actor, commonly known as Bobby Wright *Johnny Wright (music manager) (born 1960), American music act manager *John Wright (musician) (born 1962), Canadian drummer *John Wright (film editor) (died 2023), American film editor Visual arts *John Michael Wright (1617–1694), Scottish painter * John Masey Wright (1777–1866), English watercolour-painter * John William Wright (1802–1848), English painter * John Christie Wright (1889–1917), Scottish-born Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wright (poet)
John Wright (1805–1844), was a Scots poet. Biography Wright born on 1 September 1805, at the farmhouse of Auchencloigh in the parish of Sorn, Ayrshire, was the fourth child of James Wright of Galston in the same county, a coal-driver, by his wife, Grizzle Taylor (died December 1842) of Mauchline. While he was still a child his parents removed to Galston, where he received a few months' schooling and learned to read, but not to write. He gave evidence of powers of memory by reciting the whole of the 119th Psalm in the Sabbath school to the discomfort of his audience. From the age of seven he assisted his father in driving coals, and at thirteen he was apprenticed to George Brown, a Galston weaver, a man of cultivated mind, who assisted his education and placed books at his disposal. While still a youth Wright composed fifteen hundred lines of a tragedy entitled "Mahomet, or the Hegira", which he was forced to retain in his memory until he learned to write at the age of seventeen. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wright (businessman)
John Wright was an emigrant English pioneer, colonial period businessman who established Wright's Ferry (and eventually the town eponymously named for it). The resulting increase in settlement triggered nine years of armed conflict during the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute known as Cresap's War. The animal powered ferry was the very first means of crossing the broad unfriendly Susquehanna River in a region known as Conejohela Valley nearly halfway between what became Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and York County, Pennsylvania. Wright was a Quaker who first came to the area in 1724 to explore the land and preach to the local Native Americans. In 1730, he was granted a patent to operate a ferry across the river and subsequently established the ferry with Robert Barber and Samuel Blunston. He also built a ferry house and a tavern on the eastern shore of the Susquehanna, north of Locust Street, on Front Street in Wright's Ferry, as the town was then known. The two-story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Wright (diplomat)
Sir John Oliver Wright (6 March 1922 – 1 September 2009) was a British diplomat. He was British Ambassador to West Germany from 1975 to 1981 and British Ambassador to the United States from 1982 to 1986. Early life Wright was born on 6 March 1921 in Hammersmith, London, England. He was the younger son of Arthur Wright, a catering manager and hotelier, and his wife, Ethel Louisa Hicks, (née Shearod). The family moved from London to the West Midlands when Wright was very young. He was educated at Solihull School, then an all-boys independent school in Solihull, West Midlands. He won a scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge. There, he studied modern languages and specialised in German and French. Following graduation, he joined the military for service during World War II. His studies were interrupted by World War II. He served in the Royal Naval Reserve (1941–45) and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Following his service he took and passed the Foreign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cecil-Wright
Air Commodore John Allan Cecil Cecil-Wright AFC (28 August 1886 – 14 July 1982), born John Allan Cecil Wright, was a British Royal Air Force officer and Conservative Party politician. Early life and military service Born in Knowle, Warwickshire, he was educated at Winchester School. In 1905 he was granted a commission in the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Three years later, when the Territorial Force was created, he helped form a company of the Army Service Corps. Following the outbreak of war, he accompanied his unit to France in 1915. In 1916 he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916. He rose to become squadron leader of 605 (County of Warwick) Bomber Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, from 1926 to 1936. He was awarded the Air Force Cross (AFC) in the 1931 New Year Honours. Industry and local government in Birmingham Cecil Wright was an industrialist, and became chairman of Warne, Wright & Rowlands Limited, screw, nut and bolt manufactu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wright (Ipswich MP)
John Wright (9 April 1615 – 29 November 1683) was an M.P. for Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line ..., between 9 November 1670 and 16 March 1685. He served with William Blois, Gilbert Lindfield and Sir John Barker, respectively. He was originally from East London. References Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Ipswich 1615 births 1683 deaths English MPs 1661–1679 English MPs 1679 English MPs 1680–1681 English MPs 1681 {{17thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wright (Tasmanian Politician)
John Forsyth Wright (29 June 1892 – 16 January 1947) was an Australian politician. Born at Castra, Tasmania, he was the elder brother of Roy Douglas Wright and Senator Reginald Wright, both of whom were knighted. He was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Nationalist Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: Th ... member for Darwin in 1940, in a recount following the resignation of Frank Edwards. Defeated in 1941, he died in 1947 at Ulverstone. References 1892 births 1947 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Nationalist-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Arthur Wright
John Arthur Wright (25 November 1841 – 24 February 1920) was an Australian company manager, magistrate, Member of Upper House, public service head, rail/tramways engineer, railways commissioner and railways contractor. Wright was born in Dover, Kent, England and died in Albany, Western Australia Albany ( ; nys, Kinjarling) is a port city in the Great Southern region in the Australian state of Western Australia, southeast of Perth, the state capital. The city centre is at the northern edge of Princess Royal Harbour, which is a .... See also References Businesspeople from Western Australia Resident magistrates of Western Australia Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council Australian engineers Australian Anglicans English emigrants to colonial Australia 1841 births 1920 deaths {{Australia-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John James Wright
John James Wright (20 February 1821 – 22 October 1904) was an Australian flour miller, local government councillor, local government head, member of the Parliament of New South Wales, orangeman and store/shopkeeper. Early life Wright was born in Ballina in County Mayo, Ireland, the son of John Wright. Legislative Assembly Wright contested the Legislative Assembly seat of Queanbeyan at the 1874–75 election, winning with 455 votes (53.3%). He did not stand for re-election in 1877, and was unsuccessful in attempts to regain the seat in 1882, and 1885. He did not hold ministerial office. Wright died in Queanbeyan on . References Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian Anglicans Australian people of Irish descent Australian flour millers and merchants 1821 births 1904 deaths 19th-century Australian politicians 19th-century Australian businesspeople {{Australia-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wright (British Army Officer)
Brigadier John Wright (10 October 1940 – 4 May 2016) was a British Army officer and polo administrator. Wright was born in Peshawar, British India (now Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...), the son of Thomas Wright, a colonel in the British Army, serving in India. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, John 1940 births 2016 deaths Royal Tank Regiment officers 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers officers Commanders of the Order of the British Empire British Army brigadiers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John M
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 Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gibson Wright
John Gibson Wright (1837 – November 2, 1890) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War. Wright was born in New York in 1837.Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, ''Civil War High Commands.'' Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . p. 583. He was a builder before the Civil War. Wright started his military service as a private in the New York Militia on April 26, 1861. He was mustered out of the volunteers on June 3, 1861. He re-enlisted and was appointed captain of Company A of the 51st New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment on October 8, 1861. He was promoted to major on March 14, 1863. During the war Wright served as an Assistant Adjutant General, Assistant Inspector General, and Provost Marshal for the regiment. As Assistant Engineer on Major General Ambrose Burnside's staff Wright superintended the building of the earthworks of the Ninth Corps at Petersburg, Virginia. Wright was captured at the Battle of Peebles's Farm (also known as the Battle of Popla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wesley Wright
John Wesley Wright ( – 27/28 November 1805), was a Royal Navy commander and captain. Life Early life From a Lancashire family, he was born at Cork, Ireland on 14 June 1769, the son of James Wright. While still very young he went with his father and the family to Minorca, where he learnt music and French, in both of which he excelled. It may be presumed that he also learnt Spanish. Early career Early in 1781 he was entered on board the with (Sir) Roger Curtis, and was for the next two years at Gibraltar during the siege. In 1783, when the ''Brilliant'' was paid off, Wright was sent to a school at Wandsworth, where he remained for two years. He was then employed for some time in a merchant's office in the city, and—apparently in 1788—was sent 'on an important commission' to St. Petersburg. He remained in Russia for the next five years, visiting Moscow and other places, and acquiring a thorough knowledge of the Russian language.Laughton (1900), p. 114 Naval career He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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