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John Penn may refer to: *Descendants of William Penn, 1st proprietor of Pennsylvania: **John Penn ("the American") (1700–1746), son of William Penn, 2nd proprietor of Pennsylvania, inherited 50% interest in Colony, died childless ** John Penn (governor) (1729–1795), son of Richard Penn, Sr. and grandson of William Penn, colonial governor of Pennsylvania, his 25% interest in the Colony was lost in the American Revolution ** John Penn (writer) (1760–1834), also called John Penn of Stoke, son of Thomas Penn and grandson of William Penn, 5th proprietor of Pennsylvania, his 75% interest in the Colony was lost in the American Revolution *John Penn (North Carolina politician) (1741–1788), Continental Congressman from North Carolina, signer of the Declaration of Independence *John Penn (engineer) (1805–1878), British marine engine engineer *John Penn (Conservative politician) (1848–1903), MP for Lewisham 1891–1903 * John Penn (architect) (1921–2007), British architect * Jac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Penn ("the American")
John Penn (January 28, 1700 – October 25, 1746) was an American-born merchant who was proprietor of the colonial Province of Pennsylvania, which became the U.S. state of Pennsylvania following American independence obtained in victory in the American Revolutionary War. John Penn was the eldest son of the colony's founder, William Penn (1644–1718) and his second wife, Hannah Callowhill Penn (1671–1726). He was born in the Slate Roof House in Philadelphia, and was the only one of Penn's children to be born in the present-day United States. As a result, he was referred to as "the American" by his family. Early life Penn was born in Philadelphia and raised by a cousin in Bristol, England, where he learned the trade of merchant, specializing in linen. As a result of his father's will and by his mother's appointment, he received half of the proprietorship of the Province of Pennsylvania. Province of Pennsylvania Border dispute with Maryland On May 12, 1732, as proprietors o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Penn (governor)
John Penn (14 July 1729 – 9 February 1795) was an English-born colonial administrator who served as the last royal governor of colonial Pennsylvania, serving in that office from 1763 to 1771 and from 1773 to 1776. Educated in Britain and Switzerland, he was also one of the Penn family proprietors of the Province of Pennsylvania from 1771 until 1776, holding a one-fourth share, when the creation of the independent Commonwealth of Pennsylvania during the American Revolution removed the Penn family from power. Held in exile in New Jersey after the British occupation of Philadelphia, Penn and his wife returned to Philadelphia in July 1778, following the British evacuation. After the American Revolutionary War, the unsold lands of the proprietorship were confiscated by the new state government, but it provided Penn and his cousin, John Penn, who held three-fourths of the proprietorship, with compensation. They both also appealed to British Parliament, which granted them addi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Penn (writer)
John Penn (22 February 1760 – 21 June 1834) was a British politician and writer who was the chief proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania from 1775 to 1776. He and his cousin, John Penn ("John Penn, the Governor") held unsold property, of , which the Pennsylvania legislature confiscated after the American Revolution. Penn lived in Philadelphia for five years after the Revolution, from 1783 to 1788, building a country house just outside the city. He returned to Great Britain in 1789 after receiving his three-fourths portion of £130,000, the compensation for the proprietorship by the Pennsylvania government. He and his cousin, John Penn, who remained a resident in US, received compensation from Parliament for their losses in the former colony. In 1798, he was appointed as High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and served as a Member of Parliament (1802–1805). He was appointed in 1805, as governor of the Isle of Portland. Also a writer, he published in a variety of genres. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Penn (North Carolina Politician)
John Penn (May 17, 1741 September 14, 1788) was an Founding Fathers of the United States, American Founding Father who served multiple terms in the Continental Congress, and who signed both the United States Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation as a delegate of North Carolina. Biography Penn was born near Port Royal, Virginia, Port Royal in Caroline County, Virginia, the son of Moses Penn and Catherine (Taylor) Penn. He attended at common school for two years as his father did not consider education to be important. At age 18, after his father's death, Penn privately Reading law, read law with his uncle, Edmund Pendleton. He became a lawyer in Colony of Virginia, Virginia in 1762.#goodrich1842, Goodrich, 1842, pp. 433–435#malone14, Hamilton, Malone (ed.), 1934, p. 431 On July 28, 1763, Penn married Susannah Lyne. The couple had three children. Their daughter, Lucy, married John Taylor of Caroline, a political leader from Virg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Penn (engineer)
John Penn (1805–1878) was an English marine engineer whose firm was pre-eminent in the middle of the 19th century due to his innovations in engine and propeller systems, which led his firm to be the major supplier to the Royal Navy as it made the transition from sail to steam power. He was also president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on two occasions. Early life John Penn was born in 1805 in Greenwich, the son of engineer and millwright John Penn (born in Taunton, Somerset, 1770; died 6 June 1843). The senior John Penn had in 1799 started an agricultural engineering business on the site at the junction of Blackheath and Lewisham Roads (close to modern-day Deptford Bridge). It grew in two decades to be one of the major engineering works in the London area. The focus of the firm was mainly in agriculture and more specifically mills for corn and flour. Although John Penn senior lived in Lewisham he stood as a reformist candidate for Greenwich in the December 1832 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Penn (Conservative Politician)
John Penn (30 March 1848 – 21 November 1903) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham (UK Parliament constituency), Lewisham from 1891 to 1903. John Penn was the eldest son of the marine engineer John Penn (engineer), John Penn. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Though he managed his father's firm, John Penn and Sons, he was not trained as an engineer.Andrew Lambert‘Penn, John (1805–1878)’ ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 11 Jan 2009 He was apparently "one of the best-known Parliamentary golfers, having a fine private course at Archerfield Estate and Links, Archerfield, North Berwick". References External links * 1848 births 1903 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Penn (architect)
John Penn (11 March 1921 – 14 February 2007) was a modernist British architect. He gained notability, and is best remembered, for the nine "temple-form" houses that he built in Suffolk between 1962 and 1969.In recent years these houses have been referred to as "Gold Dust". Early life and education Penn was educated at Eton, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge. He studied History at Cambridge, and his studies were interrupted when he served in the Second World War. During his time in the military, he won the Military Cross for bravery. Career He spent some time in the United States with Richard Neutra and his buildings were influenced by the Case Study Houses. His work includes a factory, and a pavilion for Trinity College, Cambridge, and several private houses in Suffolk Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Penn
Jack Penn (14 August 1909 – 27 November 1996), M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S.(E.), Mil. Dec. M.B.E., S.M., was a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, sculptor and author, who was also for a time a member of the President's Council in South Africa.Eberhard, Etaine. 1983. A biographical note. Introduction to a listing of the Penn Collection at the University of Cape Town. Early years Penn was born in Cape Town in 1909, the youngest of 7 children. After World War I, the family moved to Johannesburg, where he was educated at Parktown Boys' High School and the University of the Witwatersrand. Training Married in 1934 Diana Malkin, Penn and his wife went to the United Kingdom, where he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1935. He worked successively at the Orthopaedic Centre in Liverpool, at the then new British Postgraduate School in London, as acting Senior Surgeon at a County Council hospital in London, and as Resident Surgical Officer at the Royal Salop In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Garrett Penn
John Garrett Penn (March 19, 1932 – September 9, 2007) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Education and career Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Penn's father was a machinist. Penn attended the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1954. Initially, Penn was a chemistry major but chose to concentrate on law due to the civil rights movement. He then earned a Bachelor of Laws from Boston University School of Law in 1957. He served on the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1958 to 1961 and achieved the rank of first lieutenant. In 1961, Penn joined the tax division of the United States Department of Justice, becoming assistant chief of the division's general litigation section. He also served as a trial attorney from 1961 to 1965 and a reviewer from 1965 to 1968 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John S
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 ), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (died ), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ * 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 John (disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
