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John Lees (writer)
John Lees may refer to: *Sir John Lees, 1st Baronet (1737–1811), Secretary of Irish Post Office and Black Rod in Ireland *John Lees (artist) (born 1943), American contemporary artist *John Lees (bodybuilder) (born 1930), English bodybuilder *John Lees (inventor), English textile machinery inventor *John Lees (politician) (c. 1740–1807), Canadian politician *John Frederick Lees (1809–1867), British member of parliament for Oldham *John Lees (footballer), English footballer for Derby County *John Lees (gymnast) (born 1931), Australian Olympic gymnast *John Lees (walker), English record-breaking walker and journalist *John Lees (musician), English musician who founded the rock band Barclay James Harvest See also *Jack Lees (1884–1940), MP for Derbyshire, England *John Lees-Jones John Lees-Jones (25 September 1887 – 13 January 1966) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was first elected to Parliament October 27, at the 1931 general election as Member of Parliam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Lees, 1st Baronet
Sir John Lees, 1st Baronet (c. 1737– 3 September 1811) was Secretary of the Irish Post Office and Black Rod in Ireland. Family John Lees was born about 1737, probably at Cumnock in Ayrshire, the son of Adam Lees and his wife Agnes Goldie. He had married Mary, the eldest daughter of Robert Cathcart of Glandusk and together they had six sons Harcourt Lees (born 1 October 1777), 2nd Baronet, John Cathcart, barrister-at-law, Townsend (born 3 August 1779), Edward Smith Lees (born 30 March 1783), joint secretary, with his father, in the Irish Post Office and later, in Scotland, as secretary to the Postmaster General for Scotland, William Eden (born 5 August 1784), Thomas Orde (born 3 Jun 1788) and a daughter, Charlotte though Bayley Butler mentions two daughters and observes that Lees son's are named after people connected to his life. Lees' wife, Mary, died suddenly in November 1805 and he died on 3 November 1811. ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' wrote that Lees was worth £250,000 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lees (artist)
John Lees (born February 3, 1943) is an American contemporary expressionist artist who works primarily in painting. Lees received the 2005 Francis J. Greenburger Award and has also received the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symonds Art Purchase Award in 2010, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant in 1993 and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in 1989. His paintings are included in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Fogg Art Museum, The New Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Arkansas Art Center, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Tucson Museum of Art. Lees also served as an art professor for 40 years at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (1988–2011), the School of Visual Arts (1987–2005), Sarah Lawrence College (2000–2003), State University of New York at New Paltz (1996–2000), and Mt. San Antonio Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lees (bodybuilder)
John Lees (17 January 1930 – 14 November 2021) was an English bodybuilder and later a professional wrestler who won Mr. Universe in 1957. Early life and career Lees was born in the Castle Hall district of Stalybridge in Greater Manchester, to John and Elsie Lees. At age 14, Lees left St Peter's RC School and began working for his father’s building firm. He attended night school during which he studied joinery and bricklaying."John Lees" at GetBig.com. Retrieved March 21, 2023 While in his early teens, Lees began bodybuilding. His early method of training entailed lifting bags of cement in each hand during work. He also trained with the East Cheshire Harriers athletic club. Lees continued his interest in health and fitness during his |
John Lees (inventor)
John Lees of Turf Lane, Royton, Lancashire was an English inventor who made a substantial improvement to machinery for carding cotton. He improved the carding machine in 1772 by adding a feeder to it in the form of a perpetually revolving cloth on which cotton wool was spread to convey the wool to the cylinder. On 25 June 1785, he proved this in the course of the trial concerning the validity of Richard Arkwright's second patent (dated 1775) for his cotton-spinning water frame. He was one of the carding mill owners sued by Arkwright in 1781, having built a cotton mill at Fowleach at Greenacres Moor, in Oldham Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, wh .... He began by working a horsemill-powered cotton mill in 1776-78 but "raised himself from the extremest drudgery of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lees (politician)
John Lees (ca 1740 – March 4, 1807) was a businessman, judge and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in Scotland around 1740 and came to the town of Quebec with his family around 1761. With Alexander Dawson, he formed a company in 1773 that was involved in importing goods and supplying the British Army; they also speculated in land. In 1774, he signed a petition requesting a legislative assembly for the province. Lees served in the militia during the siege of the town by the American army during the American Revolution. In 1787, his company acquired the lease for the Saint-Maurice ironworks at Trois-Rivières. In 1792, Lees was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Trois-Rivières; he was reelected in 1796, 1800 and 1804. He was also an honorary member of the Executive Committee from 1794 to 1804, becoming an active member in 1804 and serving until his death. He was named storekeeper general for the Department of Indian Affairs at Lachine and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Frederick Lees
John Frederick Lees (1809 – 1867) was a British landowner and Liberal Conservative politician who represented Oldham in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as a Member of Parliament from 1835 to 1837. Biography Lees was the grandson of a cotton manufacturer, a local mill-owner, mine-owner, and landowner: the Lord of the manor of Oldham and an Oxford graduate, but was dismissed as "a gentleman... qualified neither by age nor ability to fulfill the duties of a member of the imperial parliament" by the ''Manchester Times.'' ''Hansard'' reports him to have made no speeches in Parliament during his term. Politics Thanks to internal squabbles (principally over the desired relationship between the state and the Anglican church) amongst the Radicals of Oldham,the divisions between Oldham Radicals are explored at length in ; pages 31-59 cover the period 1832-7 he was elected as a 'Liberal Conservative' at a by-election caused by the death of William Cobbett, narrowly defea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lees (footballer)
John Lees was an English footballer who played for Derby County. Playing career Inside-right was another position where Derby County appeared to have a problem in the 1888-1889 Football league campaign. By the end of the season they had tried eight different players and the most any played in that position (in the Football League) was four. In the first eight League matches played by Derby County the club had already tried three players at inside-right, the latest having been William Chatterton. After the 6-2 thrashing at Everton Chatterton was out of favour and so John Lees was selected to make his debut on 3 November 1888 at Dudley Road, Wolverhampton, then home of high-flying Wolverhampton Wanderers. The match was played in poor weather conditions and attendance was low. Wolves pressed Derby but it took Wolves 30 minutes to score the first goal. They added another before half-time to lead 2–0. The second half was closer fought. Wolves went 3-0 up but John Lees scored to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lees (gymnast)
Asa John Lawrey Lees (1931 – 8 January 2008) was an Australian gymnast. He competed in eight events at the 1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, whi .... References 1931 births 2008 deaths Australian male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Australia Gymnasts at the 1956 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing {{Australia-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lees (walker)
John Lees is a retired sports journalist who holds the record for completing the fastest coast-to-coast walk across the United States. Starting at Los Angeles City Hall on 11 April 1972, he walked for 53 days, 12 hours and 15 minutes to New York City Hall, finishing on 3 June 1972. Lees became the sports reporter and cricket commentator for various BBC radio stations in the south east of England, including BBC Sussex, BBC Surrey and BBC Southern Counties Radio, where he was often referred to as "the gentleman of sport". He retired from BBC radio in September 2017. He made a return visit to New York City Hall to mark the 30th anniversary of his amazing feat of endurance. This nostalgic event was covered by BBC Southern Counties Radio BBC Southern Counties Radio was a BBC Local Radio service for the English counties of Surrey and Sussex. The station also covered a large part of north-east Hampshire. It was the first BBC local radio station to introduce an all-speech format ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lees (musician)
Barclay James Harvest are an English progressive rock band. They were founded in Oldham, in September 1966 by bassist/vocalist Les Holroyd (b. 1948), guitarist/vocalist John Lees (b. 1947), drummer/percussionist Mel Pritchard (1948–2004), and keyboardist/vocalist Stuart "Woolly" Wolstenholme (1947–2010). History After signing with EMI's Parlophone label in the UK for one single in early 1968, they moved to the more progressively inclined Harvest label. The name for the band, according to The International Barclay James Harvest Fan Club, signifies nothing specifically. Having exhausted other possibilities, each of the band members wrote single words on pieces of paper which were drawn out of a hat one by one. All were rejected until only three were left: James, a man who used to sing with the band, Harvest because they were living in a farmhouse, and Barclay after Barclays bank, because they aspired to make money. These were then rearranged to get the best-sounding name - " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barclay James Harvest
Barclay James Harvest are an English progressive rock band. They were founded in Oldham, in September 1966 by bassist/vocalist Les Holroyd (b. 1948), guitarist/vocalist John Lees (b. 1947), drummer/percussionist Mel Pritchard (1948–2004), and keyboardist/vocalist Stuart "Woolly" Wolstenholme (1947–2010). History After signing with EMI's Parlophone label in the UK for one single in early 1968, they moved to the more progressively inclined Harvest label. The name for the band, according to The International Barclay James Harvest Fan Club, signifies nothing specifically. Having exhausted other possibilities, each of the band members wrote single words on pieces of paper which were drawn out of a hat one by one. All were rejected until only three were left: James, a man who used to sing with the band, Harvest because they were living in a farmhouse, and Barclay after Barclays bank, because they aspired to make money. These were then rearranged to get the best-sounding name - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Lees
Jack Lees (1884 – 11 August 1940) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Belper in Derbyshire from 1929 to 1931. Born in West Rainton in County Durham, Lees became a coal miner and joined the Northumberland Miners' Association, eventually becoming a full-time union official. He contested Belper unsuccessfully at the 1924 general election, losing by over 4,000 votes to the sitting Conservative Party MP Herbert Wragg. At the 1929 election he took the seat with a majority of 2,955, but at the 1931 general election Wragg retook the seat with a majority of nearly 8,000. He stood again at Belper in the 1935 general election but was again defeated. Lees did not stand for Parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ... again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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