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John Randall (Newfoundland Politician)
John Randall may refer to: * John Randall (Annapolis mayor) (1750–1826), mayor of Annapolis, Maryland and colonel in the American Revolution *Sir John Randall (physicist) (1905–1984), British physicist, developer of the cavity magnetron *John Randall, Baron Randall of Uxbridge (born 1955), British Conservative Party politician, former MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip *John A. Randall (1881–1968), President of the Rochester Institute of Technology * John Randall (organist) (1715–1799), Professor of Music, Cambridge University *John Ernest Randall (1924–2020), American ichthyologist, former director of the Oceanic Institute in Hawaii *John Herman Randall, Jr. (1899–1980), American philosopher, author and educator *John Witt Randall (1813–1892), American zoologist and poet *John Randall (politician) (died 1869), American politician *John Randall (Puritan) (1570–1622), English puritan divine * John Randall (public servant), President of the National Union of Students ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Randall (Annapolis Mayor)
John Randall (1750 – June 12, 1826) was an architect, American Revolutionary War soldier and officer, and was an early 19th-century mayor of Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He was also the Collector of the Port of Annapolis, which included responsibility for fortifying the harbor. Early life John Randall was born in 1750 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, now Richmond County, Virginia, to Thomas Randall and Jane (née Davis) Randall, daughter of a plantation owner. He was the youngest son of 14 children born to his parents. His father came to the colonies in the early 18th century and settled in what was then Westmoreland County, Virginia. Thomas was a large landowner, planter, Justice of the Peace for the Northern Neck of Virginia, and vestryman of North Farnham Parish. Randall was educated by William Buckland in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the 1760s. Buckland was a reputed architect and builder who "designed some of the most celebrated many of the most celebrated co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Randall (physicist)
Sir John Turton Randall, (23 March 1905 – 16 June 1984) was an English physicist and biophysicist, credited with radical improvement of the cavity magnetron, an essential component of centimetric wavelength radar, which was one of the keys to the Allied victory in the Second World War. It is also the key component of microwave ovens. Randall collaborated with Harry Boot, and they produced a valve that could spit out pulses of microwave radio energy on a wavelength of 10 cm. On the significance of their invention, Professor of military history at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, David Zimmerman, states: "The magnetron remains the essential radio tube for shortwave radio signals of all types. It not only changed the course of the war by allowing us to develop airborne radar systems, it remains the key piece of technology that lies at the heart of your microwave oven today. The cavity magnetron's invention changed the world." Randall also led the King's Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Randall, Baron Randall Of Uxbridge
Alexander John Randall, Baron Randall of Uxbridge (born 5 August 1955) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge from 1997 to 2010 and for Uxbridge and South Ruislip until 2015, before being awarded a life peerage in 2018. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Government Deputy Chief Whip from May 2010 and October 2013, as well as Environment Adviser to Theresa May from 2017 to 2019. Lord Randall is a trustee and Vice-Chair of the Human Trafficking Foundation and in February 2016 was appointed Special Envoy on modern slavery to the Mayor of London, alongside Anthony Steen. Early life Randall's family have lived in Uxbridge for many years. The family owned the major local department store Randalls of Uxbridge on Vine Street, which was founded by his great-grandfather Philip Randall in 1891, and closed in 2015. Born in Uxbridge, Randall was educated at Rutland House School, an independent school in Hillingdon in the west of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Sir John Alexander Macdonald (January 10 or 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 to 1891. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career that spanned almost half a century. Macdonald was born in Scotland; when he was a boy his family immigrated to Kingston in the Province of Upper Canada (today in eastern Ontario). As a lawyer, he was involved in several high-profile cases and quickly became prominent in Kingston, which elected him in 1844 to the legislature of the Province of Canada. By 1857, he had become premier under the colony's unstable political system. In 1864, when no party proved capable of governing for long, Macdonald agreed to a proposal from his political rival, George Brown, that the parties unite in a Great Coalition to seek federation and political reform. Macdonald was the leading figure in the subsequent discussions and conferences, which resulted in the Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Randall (organist)
John Randall (26 February 1716 – 18 March 1799) was an English organist and academic. Life John Randall was a chorister of the Chapel Royal under Bernard Gates. On 23 February 1732 at Gates's house, Randall acted and sang the part of Esther in a dramatic representation of Handel's oratorio ''Esther''. In 1744 he graduated Mus. Bac. at Cambridge. In the following year he was appointed organist to King's College Chapel. In 1755 Randall succeeded Maurice Greene as Professor of Music at Cambridge University. In 1756 he was awarded a Mus. Doc degree. Assisted by his pupil, William Crotch, who joined him in 1786, Randall retained his appointments until his death at Cambridge on 18 March 1799. His wife Grace predeceased him on 27 April 1792. He is buried at St Bene't's Church, Cambridge, where there is a memorial with the following inscription Works Randall set to music Thomas Gray's ''Ode for the Installation of the Duke of Grafton as Chancellor of the University'', 1768. He pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ernest Randall
John Ernest "Jack" Randall (May 22, 1924 – April 26, 2020) was an American ichthyologist and a leading authority on coral reef fishes. Randall described over 800 species and authored 11 books and over 900 scientific papers and popular articles. He spent most of his career working in Hawaii. He died in April 2020 at the age of 95. Career John Ernest Randall was born in Los Angeles, California in May 1924, to John and Mildred (McKibben) Randall. In high school he acquired a love of marine fish after a visit to the tide pools of Palos Verdes and, after serving stateside in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army during the post- D-Day years of WWII,John Randall bio, The Academy of Underwater Arts & Sciences. (http://www.auas-nogi.org/bio_randall_john.html) received his BA degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1950. In 1955 he earned his Ph.D in ichthyology from the University of Hawaii. After spending two years as a research associate at the Bishop Museum in Honol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Herman Randall, Jr
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 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Witt Randall
John Witt Randall (November 6, 1813 – January 25, 1892) was a minor poet and, for a brief time, a naturalist, but is best known for the collection of drawings and engravings that he bequeathed to Harvard University. Early life Randall was born in Boston, the son of Dr. John Randall (1774–1843), and his wife, Elizabeth Wells Randall (1783–1868). Dr. Randall was an eminent physician and dentist, with three degrees from Harvard College (A.B. 1802, M.B. 1806, M.D. 1811), and Elizabeth Randall was a granddaughter of the American Founding Father Samuel Adams. After they married in 1809, John and Elizabeth Randall lived at 5 Winter Street, a wood-framed house with a garden on the southeast corner of Winter Street at Winter Place (the home, from 1784 until his death in 1803, of Samuel Adams and, until her death in 1808, of his widow Elizabeth Adams). Around 1830, Adams' old house was replaced by Dr. Randall's new one, and the address changed to 20 Winter Street. The family lived t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Randall (politician)
John Randall (died May 8, 1869) was a state legislator who served in the Louisiana State Senate during the Reconstruction era. Biography Randall was a member of the 1868 Republican State Convention and was made a member of the ''State Central Committee'' representing Concordia Parish along with John S. Harris. He was unanimously nominated to stand to fill the senate seat left by John S. Harris who had resigned to move on to serve as a United States Senator for Louisiana. Randall, a Republican, was elected to serve in the Louisiana State Senate and was sworn in on September 15, 1868. Later the same week senator Blackman, a Democrat, called for John Randall to be removed and that the election be declared unconstitutional, null and void. He represented the district for the Concordia Parish and Avoyelles Parish. He served on the ''Committee on Enrolment and on the Committee on Unfinished Business''. He died at his home May 8, 1869 of a "congestive chill" and is buried at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Randall (Puritan)
John Randall (1570–1622), was an English puritan divine. Early life Randall was born in 1570 at Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England. At age 11, Randal was sent to St. Mary Hall (now part of Oriel College) in Oxford, where he matriculated on 27 Nov. 1581. Education Randall then attended Trinity College at the University of Oxford, and graduated with a BA degree on 9 February 1585. Randall was elected a fellow of Lincoln College at Oxford on 6 July 1587, and received his MA degree on 9 July 1589. Among his pupils at Lincoln was the puritan preacher Robert Bolton. When Queen Elizabeth I's visited Oxford University in August 1592, Randall ran the academical performance given in her honour. Afterwards, Randall studied divinity and was admitted B.D. on 28 June 1598. Career On 31 Jan. 1599, Randall was appointed rector of St. Andrew Hubbard church in Little Eastcheap, London. While at St. Andrew Hubbard, Randall gained a reputation as a staunch Puritan and an effec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Randall (public Servant)
John Randall, , is a former president of the National Union of Students, a position he held between 1973 and 1975. He was educated at Wallington County Grammar School and the University of York. From 1987 to 1997 he was director, professional standards and development of the Law Society of England and Wales. From 1997 to 2001 he was chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. Since 2001, he has worked as an independent consultant on higher education and professional training. He was chair of the Justice Sector Skills Council (Skills for Justice) for six years until 2010. From 2004 to 2015 he chaired the Police Negotiating Board. He retired in 2018. Awards He was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours The New Year Honours 2015 were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Randall (shipbuilder)
John Randall (1755–1802) was an English shipbuilder. Life The son of John Randall, shipbuilder of Rotherhithe, he had a liberal education, and on the death of his father, around 1776, continued the shipbuilding business under his own management. He also worked on mathematics, and naval construction. In addition to many ships which he built for the mercantile marine and for the East India Company, Randall built over 50 naval vessels. They included 74-gun ships and large frigates, among them being HMS ''Audacious'', HMS ''Ramillies'', and HMS ''Culloden'', noted in the French Revolutionary Wars. He took a prominent part in founding the Society of Naval Architects. On the Peace of Amiens, Randall lowered his rates of pay from the wartime level, and his men went out on strike. The Admiralty permitted him to take on workmen from the Deptford dockyard, and offered a military force to protect them, which was turned down. The Deptford men were prevented from working in his yard; an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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