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John Waterhouse (director)
John Waterhouse may refer to: * Rev. John Waterhouse, general superintendent of the Wesleyan Missions in Australia and Polynesia, father of George Waterhouse * John Waterhouse (astronomer) (1806–1879), of Halifax, inventor in 1858 of photographic equipment known as "Waterhouse stops" * John Waterhouse (headmaster) (1852–1940), Australian educator, grandson of Rev. John Waterhouse, son of Jabez Waterhouse * John Waterhouse (violinist) (1877–1970), Canadian violinist, conductor, and music educator * John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), British Pre-Raphaelite painter * John H. Waterhouse (1870–1948), American businessman and mayor of North Adams, Massachusetts * John Waterhouse, curator of Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, in the 1960s See also * Jonathan Waterhouse (born 1965), English cricketer * John Waterhouse Daniel John Waterhouse Daniel (January 27, 1845 – January 11, 1933) was a Canadian physician and Conservative politician. Daniel enlisted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Waterhouse (politician)
George Marsden Waterhouse (6 April 1824 – 6 August 1906) was a Premier of South Australia from 8 October 1861 until 3 July 1863 and the seventh premier of New Zealand from 11 October 1872 to 3 March 1873. Early life George Waterhouse's father, Rev John Waterhouse, was general superintendent of the Wesleyan Missions in Australia and Polynesia. Australia Waterhouse was aged 15 when his family migrated in 1839, initially to Hobart. Four years later he moved to Adelaide and set up business as a merchant. He was first elected to parliament in the electoral district of East Torrens in the colony of South Australia in August 1851. He resigned 3 years later, was elected again in 1857 but resigned again soon after. He supported economic development of the colony through free trade and was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council again in 1860, where he advocated uniform tariffs for Australia. He was chief secretary in the First Reynolds Ministry from May 1860 to Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Waterhouse (astronomer)
John Waterhouse (3 August 1806 – 13 February 1879) was a British astronomer and meteorologist who invented Waterhouse stops. ] He was born at Well Head House in Halifax, Yorkshire the eldest son of John and Grace Elizabeth (née Rawson) Waterhouse. Well Head had extensive gardens with greenhouses and a staff of 6 gardeners. They cultivated exotic ferns, including a Leptopteris, todea superba which Waterhouse had imported from New Zealand in 1860 and which is now at Kew Gardens. At the house, he built an observatory and meteorological station. Louis John Crossley studied at his laboratory. In 1834 he was President of the Halifax Mechanics' Institute. In the same year he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 1839 he travelled around the world for health reasons. Over a period of 8 years (1866–1873), he made detailed observations of the weather and of the night skies from Well Head, which he published in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Waterhouse (headmaster)
John Waterhouse (3 March 1852 – 19 March 1940) was an Australian principal who was headmaster of two of New South Wales first public boys high schools. Early life Waterhouse was born in Campbell Town, Tasmania, the second son of the Wesleyan minister Jabez Bunting Waterhouse. With his father's ministry taking the family around Australia, his early education was varied. Waterhouse started school in a small country town in South Australia before attending St Peter's College, Adelaide in 1860. When the family moved to Maitland, New South Wales he attended Dr Frazer's Grammar School for a short period before being enrolled as a boarding student at Newington College in 1865. At Newington he later became a pupil-teacher, before graduating MA from the University of Sydney in 1876. In July 1880 when Newington moved from Silverwater to Stanmore Waterhouse was the one assistant master supporting President Joseph Horner Fletcher and Headmaster Joseph Coates. The John Waterhouse Society ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Waterhouse (violinist)
John Fereday Preston Waterhouse (28 October 1877 - 22 May 1970) was a Canadian violinist, conductor, and music educator. Biography Born in Bilston, West Midlands, he was educated at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) where he was a pupil of Émile Sauret (violin), Ebenezer Prout (counterpoint), and Stewart Macpherson (harmony). He was later named a Fellow of the RAM in 1947. He began his career in England working as a concert violinist, orchestral player, and conductor. During this time he married his wife Cecilia who was a pianist that had been trained by a pupil of Clara Schumann. Their son William Waterhouse also became a notable violinist and pedagogue. Sometime around the year 1910, Waterhouse left England for the United States to join the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. He left that post in 1914 to move to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He lived in Winnipeg for the rest of his life, spending more than five decades teaching and performing in that city. He was responsible for int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Waterhouse
John William Waterhouse (6 April 184910 February 1917) was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter. His artworks were known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend. Born in Rome to English parents who were both painters, Waterhouse later moved to London, where he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Art. He soon began exhibiting at their annual summer exhibitions, focusing on the creation of large canvas works depicting scenes from the daily life and mythology of ancient Greece. Many of his paintings are based on authors such as Homer, Ovid, Shakespeare, Tennyson, or Keats. Waterhouse's work is displayed in many major art museums and galleries, and the Royal Academy of Art organised a major retrospective of his work in 2009. Biography Early life Waterhouse was born in the city of Rome to English painters William and Isabella Water ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John H
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 Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monash University Museum Of Art
The Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), formerly the Monash University Gallery, is a contemporary art museum on Monash University's Caulfield campus on Dandenong Road, Melbourne, Australia. History The Museum grew out of a number of earlier initiatives at Monash University, starting in 1961 when the inaugural Vice Chancellor Louis Matheson created a fund for the purchase of artworks by then living Australian artists. The establishment of the museum reflected a desire by the university's founders to create the modern Australian university, and to enrich the cultural life of students, staff and visitors. In the late 1960s John Waterhouse and Patrick McCaughey (then a teaching fellow at Monash and art critic at ''The Age'') were appointed as curators, and in 1975, McCaughey created the Monash University Gallery on the seventh floor of the Menzies Building of the main campus and set up an artist-in-residence program. In the same year, Grazia Gunn was appointed as the first f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Waterhouse
Jonathan Arthur Waterhouse (born 11 April 1965) is a former English cricketer. Waterhouse was a right-handed batsman. He was born in Leek, Staffordshire. Waterhouse made his debut for Staffordshire in the 1985 Minor Counties Championship against Northumberland. Waterhouse played Minor counties cricket for Staffordshire from 1985 to 1997, which included 52 Minor Counties Championship matches and 4 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. In 1988, he made his List A debut against Surrey in the NatWest Trophy. He played 2 further List A matches for Staffordshire, against Hampshire in the 1993 NatWest Trophy and Derbyshire in the 1996 NatWest Trophy The 1996 NatWest Trophy was the 16th NatWest Trophy. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 25 June and 7 September 1996. The tournament was won by Lancashire County Cricket Club who defeated Essex Co .... In his 3 matches, he scored 76 runs at an average of 25.33. He made a single ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
