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John West (historian)
John West may refer to: People Arts and sciences * John West (Australian poet) (died 2009), Australian poet and author *John West (horticulturist) (1856–1926), Australian journalist and horticulturist *John West (mathematician) (1756–1817), Scottish mathematician *John West (musician) (born 1964), hard rock singer, solo artist and member of Artension and Royal Hunt * John West (singer) (born 1983), pop soul singer, solo artist * John West (theatre) (1924–2008), Australian theatre historian and radio broadcaster *John West (writer) (1809–1873), Australian congregational minister, author and newspaper editor *John Anthony West (1932–2018), American author and Egyptologist * John B. West (born 1928), Australian-American respiratory physiologist * John G. West, American political scientist and Intelligent Design advocate Politics *John West, 1st Earl De La Warr (1693–1766), British soldier, courtier and politician *John West, 2nd Earl De La Warr (1729–1777), British poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John West (Australian Poet)
John West was an Australian poet and the author of numerous books of poetry published in Australia between 1994 and his death in 2009. He died just before his ''Selected Poems'' was finalised for publication. Several hundred of his individual poems were published in his lifetime, mostly in Australia but also in the UK. He was raised in the Mallee town of Merbein, Victoria, and worked as an aged care nurse in Melbourne. His work is known for its conversational approach and compassionate social realism Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structure .... His books include ''Stuttering Towards Love'' (Walleah Press 2000); ''All I Ever Wanted was a Window'' (Pardalote Press 2002); ''Couchworld'' (Picaro Press 2006); and ''Walking Amongst Women'' (Picaro Press 2006). References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John West (colonel)
Colonel John West, Jr. of West Point, Virginia (1632–1691) was a planter, commander of the New Kent Militia in the Colony of Virginia, and represented the county in the House of Burgesses, as would his sons. Early and family life John West was born on June 6, 1632 at Bellfield Plantation, York River, Virginia. He was the child of Captain John West, Virginia Governor and his wife Anne Percy, daughter of George Percy and Anne Floyd. His father received an extra land grant because John was the first child of English parents born in the York River area. Career West farmed using enslaved labor. In 1659, West's father died, the last of the four sons of Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr who came to Virginia. In recognition of the family's contributions to the colonial enterprise, the Virginia Assembly passed the following Act: John West also served in the militia from 1652 to 1673, ending with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He supported Governor Berkeley during Bacon's Rebel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John West (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir John West (28 July 1774 – 18 April 1862) was a Royal Navy officer. West saw action as a junior officer in the first-rate HMS ''Royal George'', the flagship of Admiral Sir Alexander Hood in the Channel Squadron, when he took part in the Glorious First of June and then in the Battle of Groix during the French Revolutionary Wars. As commanding officer of the third-rate HMS ''Excellent'', West served off the coast of Catalonia and landed with a naval brigade with orders to help defend Rosas which was under attack from some 5,000 French troops in an action during the Napoleonic Wars. He took 250 of his ship's men and rescued a group migueletes (Catalan mercenaries) who were at risk of losing their lives, but not before having his own horse shot out from under him. As a senior officer, West went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. Early career Born the son of Lieutenant Colonel Temple West and Jane West (née Drake), West joined the Royal Navy in J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John West (priest)
John West was an Irish Anglican priest. He was Deans of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin in the Church of Ireland from 1864 to 1889. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained in 1830 and began his ordained ministry career as curate at Monkstown, County Dublin. He was the Incumbent (ecclesiastical), incumbent at St Ann's Dublin, and then archdeacon of Dublin, the city before his appointment to the eanery, a post he held for 25 years. He died on 5 July 1890. His son Charles Dickinson West became an engineer and naval architect. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John West (missionary)
John West (November 1778–21 December 1845) was the first Anglican priest in Western Canada and a teacher, reformer and author. A missionary of the Church Missionary Society and a chaplain for the Hudson's Bay Company, the chapel he founded in Winnipeg became St John's Cathedral. Among his converts was Henry Budd, the first Native American ordained an Anglican priest. Early career West was born in Farnham in Surrey in 1778, the son of George West, an Anglican clergyman, and Ann (''née'' Knowles). West became a deacon on 13 December 1804 and was ordained a priest on 21 September 1806. On 2 October 1807 he married Harriet Atkinson (1789-1839) in Wethersfield in Essex, and they had 12 children. He graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford with an MA on 8 June 1809. After his ordination West was appointed to various appointments in Essex where a mentor was the Rev. Henry Budd and in 1818 at the Church of St Michael the Archangel in Aldershot in Hampshire but West did not rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John West (pirate)
John West (active 1713-1714) was a minor pirate in the Caribbean, best known for his association with Benjamin Hornigold. History Little is known of John West's life. In 1713 he led one of several small pirate bands attacking the Spanish from their bases in the Bahamas. Hornigold, West, Daniel Stillwell, and John Cockram used canoes and open periauger boats and crews of two dozen men to raid off Cuba and Florida. After several months of raiding they sailed back to Nassau with over £13,000 in loot; West's included slaves from a Cuban plantation. Stilwell was imprisoned but freed by Hornigold while Cockram married and became a trader and supplier to the pirates. West's fate is not known; amid late 1714 rumors of Spanish retaliation, he may have fled to Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John West (captain)
John West (1809–1888) was a Scottish inventor and businessman who emigrated to Canada, California and later Oregon where he operated a cannery and exported tuna to Great Britain. The Pelling Stanley and Company in the UK imported his tuna and paid for the rights to use his name, which led to the establishment of the use of "John West" as a brand name. Biography Born in 1809, John West immigrated to Quebec, Canada where he married and started a family while apprenticing as a millwright. In 1849, he left his family and job to search for gold in California. A year later, with little gold to show for his efforts, he arrived in Astoria, Oregon and went to work using his knowledge as a millwright.Aalberg & Aalberg, 2005 In 1853, West and his wife Margaret took up a Donation Land Claim along the lower Columbia River upon which he soon began construction of a water-powered sawmill. West built a steam-powered sawmill in the early 1860s, and by 1868, he was exporting lumber to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank West (baseball)
John Franklin West (1873–1932) was a Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ... pitcher who pitched in one game for the Boston Beaneaters in . He threw three innings of relief, giving up three runs on five hits and two walks, striking out one batter. Sources {{DEFAULTSORT:West, Frank Major League Baseball pitchers Boston Beaneaters players Lebanon Pretzel Eaters players Johnstown Pirates players Johnstown Terrors players York White Roses players Brockton Shoemakers players Altoona Mad Turtles players Lancaster Chicks players Lancaster Maroons players Allentown Peanuts players Baseball players from Johnstown, Pennsylvania 1873 births 1932 deaths 19th-century baseball players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John West (footballer)
John West was an Irish soccer player who played for Bohemians during the 1910s. Born in 1888 in Ulverston to an Irish father and an English mother, the West family relocated to Dublin where John Snr. worked for the Ordnance Survey Ireland, in due course his son John joined him there while also beginning his football career. He was top scorer for Bohs during the 1912/13 season. His goalscoring record for that season showed a total of 23 goals from 31 games in all competitions. This places him in the top 20 goalscoring seasons of all time for Bohemians. This was all achieved without payment as Bohs were strictly amateur during these times. He later had spells at Belfast United and Cardiff City Cardiff City Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd) is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1899 as R ... and was coach at Drumcondra during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John West (cricketer, Born 1844)
John West (16 October 1844 – 27 January 1890) was an English first-class cricketer, who played thirty eight games for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1868 and 1876, thirteen games for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1869 and 1883, plus one for the "Left Handed" against the "Right Handed". He was on the MCC groundstaff for twenty years. Born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, West was a left arm fast round arm bowler and left-handed batsman. His best bowling, 7 for 42 for the MCC came against Hampshire, and he also recorded a spell of 5 wickets for 3 runs against Surrey. In all, he took five wickets in an innings on five occasions, and 75 wickets in all at an average of 14.62. A confirmed tail ender, he scored 605 runs at 8.52, with a best of 41 in the Roses Match against Lancashire. After retiring from the game, he became a first-class umpire, standing in at least sixty five matches. He umpired in a Test match on 5 July 1886, when England played at Old Tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John C
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] |
John Beattie West
John Beattie West (1790 – 27 December 1841) was an Irish Conservative politician and barrister. West was first elected Conservative MP for in 1836 after the result of the 1835 general election was overturned on petition. He held the seat until the next year, when he was defeated at that year's general election. He regained the seat in 1841, but died later that year. He married in 1819 Elizabeth Felicia Burton, only daughter of Mr Justice Charles Burton and Anna Andrews, with whom he had seven children: ** Anna Felicia (b. 1822), who married Sir Croker Barrington, 4th Baronet in 1845. ** Charlotte Beatty (b. 1824), who married Sir Henry Vansittart Stonhouse, 15th Baronet in 1851. ** Maria Alphonsine, who married her cousin (on her mother's side), the Australian judge and statesman Sir William Westbrooke Burton Sir William Westbrooke Burton (31 January 1794 – 6 August 1888) was a judge and President of the Legislative Council, New South Wales, Australia. Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
