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John Mather (sailor)
John Mather may refer to: * John Mather (artist) (1848–1916), Australian landscape painter * John Mather (academic) (fl. 1715-1748), English academic administrator at the University of Oxford * John Mather (businessman) (1827–1907), Canadian pioneer in milling * John Mather (cricketer) (1821–1870), Australian cricketer * John B. Mather (c.1845–1892), Canadian businessman and politician * John C. Mather (born 1946), American Nobel Prize–winning astrophysicist and cosmologist * John C. Mather (New York politician) (1813–1882), American politician * John N. Mather (1942–2017), American mathematician * John Perkins Cushing Mather (1816–1891), American politician * John T. Mather (1854–1928), American industrialist and philanthropist * John Baxter Mather (1853–1940), Scottish-born journalist, newspaper proprietor, painter and art critic in South Australia See also * John Mathers (CSI), a fictional character in the TV series ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' {{hn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mather (artist)
John Mather (1848 – 18 February 1916) was a Scottish-Australian plein-air painter and etcher.Judy Blyth, Mather, John (1848? - 1916), '' Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 10, MUP, 1986, pp 438-439. Retrieved 2010-04-01 Early life Mather was born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, son of John Mather, a surveyor, and his wife Margaret, ''née'' Allan. Mather worked as a house decorator. Mather studied art at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and migrated to Australia in 1878. He was married in 1882 to Miss Jessie Pines Best, a daughter of Captain James Best, a pilot of Hobson's Bay. Together they had one daughter and three sons, Margaret Playfair, John Allan, Louis Melville (died in infancy), and Leslie Frank Strand (died in 1919). Career In 1880, Mather was partly responsible for the decoration of the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne. He was appointed to the board of trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
