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John Stuart (other)
John Stuart may refer to: Politics and military *John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713–1792), Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 to 1763 *John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute (1744–1814), British nobleman and politician *John Stuart (loyalist) (1718–1779), British Superintendent of Indian Affairs in southern colonies during American Revolution *John Ferdinand Smyth Stuart (1745–1814), Scottish physician, soldier, and author *John Stuart (judge) (1793–1876), British Conservative MP 1846–1852, judge from 1852 * John Stuart, Count of Maida (1759–1815), British soldier, lieutenant-general during the Napoleonic Wars *John Stuart (British Army officer, born 1811) (1811–1889), British general * Sir John Stuart, 4th Baronet (c. 1752–1821), Scottish MP for Kincardineshire *John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart (1767–1794), Scottish Tory politician * John Stuart, 12th Earl of Moray (1797–1867), Scottish soldier and politician *John T. Stuart (1807–1885), U.S. Representative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stuart, 3rd Earl Of Bute
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, (; 25 May 1713 – 10 March 1792), styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1713 and 1723, was a British nobleman who served as the 7th Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 to 1763 under George III. He was arguably the last important royal favourite in British politics. He was the first prime minister from Scotland following the Acts of Union in 1707. He was also elected as the first president of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland when it was founded in 1780. Biography Early life and rise to prominence He was born in Parliament Close, nearby to St Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh on 25 May 1713, the son of James Stuart, 2nd Earl of Bute, and his wife, Lady Anne Campbell. He attended Eton College from 1724 to 1730. He went on to study civil law at the Universities of Groningen (1730–1732) and Leiden (1732–1734) in the Netherlands, graduating from the latter with a degree in civil law. A close relative of the Clan Campbell ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John James Stuart Of Allanbank
Sir John James Stuart or Steuart, 5th Baronet of Allanbank, FRSE (1779–1849) was a 19th-century Scottish landowner and artist. Life He was born in Rome in 1779 the eldest son of Sir John Steuart, 4th Baronet of Allanbank, great grandson of Sir Robert Steuart, 1st Baronet, and his wife, Frances Coutts. In 1817, on the death of his father, he inherited his estates and became 5th Baronet of Allanbank. In 1823 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being fellow amateur artist James Skene of Rubislaw. He died at his Edinburgh townhouse, 20 Maitland Street on 29 January 1849. He is buried nearby, against the north wall in the centre of one of the lower terraces of the churchyard of St John's, Edinburgh. Family He married twice. Firstly to Catherine Monro, daughter of Alexander Monro, tertius. He secondly married Elizabeth Catherine Woodcock (d.1828), daughter of Elborough Woodcock. He had no children by either marriage and the baronetcy ended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stuart (weightlifter)
John Stuart (born January 24, 1920) is a Canadian male former weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ..., who competed in the lightweight class and represented Canada at international competitions. He won the silver medal at the 1947 World Weightlifting Championships in the 67.5 kg category. References 1920 births Possibly living people Canadian male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Canada Weightlifters at the 1948 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada Weightlifters at the 1950 British Empire Games World Weightlifting Championships medalists Date of birth missing 20th-century Canadian people 21st-century Canadian people {{Canada-weightlifting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Trevor Stuart
(John) Trevor Stuart FRS (born 29 January 1929) is a mathematician and senior research investigator at Imperial College London working in theoretical fluid mechanics, hydrodynamic stability of fluid flows and nonlinear partial differential equations. Education Stuart was educated Gateway Grammar School, Leicester and Imperial College of Science and Technology, London where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1949 and a PhD in 1953. Career Stuart joined the Aeronautics Division of the National Research Laboratory, returning to join the staff of Imperial College after a few years. He was appointed professor of theoretical fluid mechanics in 1966 and was head of the Department of Mathematics from 1974 to 1979 and 1983 to 1986. He was Dean of the Royal College of Science from 1990 to 1993. He is currently emeritus professor at Imperial. Research Stuart is known for his work on nonlinear waves in the onset of turbulence in fluids. He also extended the work of Lord Rayle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Stuart (author)
John Spencer Innes Stuart, known as Johnny Stuart (20 May 1940 – 12 July 2003), was a Scottish author, art collector and expert on Russian icons and Russian art who was also known for his interest in the British motorcycling rocker movement and even published a book on the subject. Stuart founded the Russian department at Sotheby's London auction house in 1976, developed it to its leading position in the market and was considered a leading expert in Russian art outside of Russia. Born to a farmer in Aberdeen in 1940, Stuart was educated at Eton College, where he studied with Wilfrid Blunt (brother of Anthony Blunt) converted to Russian Orthodoxy at the age of 18 and studied Slavonic Studies at St John's College, Cambridge. He then travelled to the Soviet Union in the late 1960s, where his friend and expert on Russian avant-garde, author of ''The Great Experiment: Russian Art 1863-1922'' Camilla Gray introduced him to Russian artistic circles in Moscow and Leningrad. While in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Stuart
John Davis Stuart (April 27, 1901 – May 13, 1970), nicknamed "Stud," was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals from to after pitching at Ohio State University. He coached Marshall University Marshall University is a public research university in Huntington, West Virginia. It was founded in 1837 and is named after John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States. The university is currently composed of nine colleges: ... basketball and baseball, winning four straight West Virginia Athletic Conference titles for the Herd from 1928–31, and had 11 players named to the All-West Virginia team and one, Johnny Watson, who signed with the Detroit Tigers in 1930. He was 67-21-1 at Marshall baseball. He was 46-29 as the Marshall basketball coach (1927–31), losing the WVIAC title to Glenville State late in his best season, 12-3 in 1929-30. He was an assistant coach for Marshall football from 1927–31, helping the Herd to win WVIAC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Leighton Stuart
John Leighton Stuart (; June 24, 1876 – September 19, 1962) was a missionary educator, the first President of Yenching University and later United States ambassador to China. He was a towering figure in U.S.-Chinese relations in the first half of the 20th century, a man TIME magazine called "perhaps the most respected American in China." According to one Chinese historian, "there was no other American of his ilk in the 20th century, one who was as deeply involved in Chinese politics, culture, and education and had such an incredible influence in China." Early life John Leighton Stuart was born in Hangzhou, China, on June 24, 1876, of Presbyterian missionary parents from the United States. His father was a third-generation Presbyterian minister from a distinguished family in Virginia and Kentucky (cousins included J.E.B. Stuart, John Todd Stuart and Mary Todd). They arrived in China in 1868, one of the first three Presbyterian ministers sent to China from the U.S. and the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stuart (abolitionist)
Ottobah Cugoano, also known as John Stuart (c. 1757 – after 1791), was an Abolitionism in the United Kingdom, abolitionist, Political activism, political activist, and Natural and legal rights, natural rights Philosophy, philosopher from West Africa who was active in Kingdom of Great Britain, Britain in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Captured in the Gold Coast (region), Gold Coast and sold into slavery at the age of 13, he was shipped to Grenada in the West Indies. In 1772, he was purchased by a merchant who took him to England, where he learnt to read and write, and was freed. Later working for artists Richard Cosway, Richard and Maria Cosway, he became acquainted with several British political and cultural figures. He joined the Sons of Africa, a group of African abolitionists in Britain. Early life He was born Quobna Ottobah Cugoano in 1757 in Ajumako, Agimaque (Ajumako) in the Gold Coast (region), Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana).Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Gates, Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stuart (actor)
John Stuart (born John Alfred Louden Croall; 18 July 1898 – 17 October 1979), was a Scottish actor, and a very popular leading man in British silent films in the 1920s. He appeared in three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Biography The Gary Cooper pub in Dunstable stands as a tribute to one of the Hollywood greats, but if fate had taken a different direction the pub could have been called The John Stuart. Cooper and Stuart were contemporaries in 1912 at Dunstable Grammar School – now Ashton Middle School – in High Street North. Both went into acting, but while Cooper went on to win two Oscars for Sergeant York and High Noon, Stuart stayed in Britain and is virtually forgotten. Yet his career spanned 59 years, during which he made more than 160 films and 60 TV dramas and serials, and appeared in about 150 plays. His films started with silent movies and ended in 1978 with a bit part in the blockbuster Superman. His career could have been even more stellar but for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stuart 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 John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stuart (CEO)
John Stuart (1877–1969) was the chief executive officer of the Quaker Oats Company from 1922 to 1953. Biography John Stuart was born in Chicago in 1877, the son of Robert Stuart and his wife Margaret Shearer. He was educated at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. As a teenager, he would work in his father's mill in Cedar Rapids, Iowa sweeping floors. After high school, he was educated at Princeton University, graduating in 1900. He won the first TransMississippi Amateur golf tournament at the Kansas City Country Club in 1901. In 1899, Stuart's father and his business partner Henry Parsons Crowell had used a proxy fight to gain control of the American Cereal Company from Ferdinand Schumacher. In 1901, they renamed the company the Quaker Oats Company, to take advantage of the brand previously built up by Crowell's Quaker Mill Company. In 1907, at age 30, Stuart was named a director of the Quaker Oats Company and soon became thoroughly acquainted with the busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerr Stuart
Kerr, Stuart and Company Ltd was a locomotive manufacturer in Stoke-on-Trent, England. History It was founded in 1881 by James Kerr as "James Kerr & Company", and became "Kerr, Stuart & Company" from 1883 when John Stuart was taken on as a partner. The business started in Glasgow, Scotland, but during this time they were only acting as agents ordering locomotives from established manufacturers, among them Falcon, John Fowler & Co. and Hartley, Arnoux and Fanning. They bought the last-named company in 1892 and moved into the California Works in Stoke to begin building all their own locomotives. Hartley, Arnoux and Fanning had also been building railway and tramway plant. This side of their business was sold to Dick, Kerr and Co. in Preston. Notable Kerr, Stuart employees * R. J. Mitchell, Premium Apprentice, later to design the Supermarine Spitfire aircraft. * L. T. C. Rolt, Premium Apprentice, later to be an author and canal/railway preservation pioneer. * T. C. B. Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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