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John Ash (printer)
John Ash may refer to: * John Ash (physician) (1723–1798), British physician * John Ash (divine) (c. 1724–1779), lexicographer and minister * John Ash (Canadian politician) (1821–1886), Member of the Legislative Assembly for Comox riding in British Columbia, Canada * John Ash (ornithologist) (1925–2014), British ornithologist * John Ash (writer) (1948–2019), poet, writer and travel writer * John Ash (MP for Totnes) (fl. 1420–1439), English politician See also *John Ashe (other) *Ash (other) *Ash (name) {{hndis, Ash, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ash (physician)
John Ash (1723 – 18 June 1798), was an English people, English physician and founder of Birmingham General Hospital. Biography Ash was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, the son of a brewer, and was educated at Trinity College, Oxford; was B.A. in 1743, M. A. in 1746, M.B. in 1750, and M.D. in 1754. He settled at Birmingham, and soon acquired a large practice. Birmingham General Hospital was founded chiefly through his influence, and he was its first physician. While actively engaged in practice he became affected with temporary psychosis, mental derangement, for which it is said he found a cure in the study of mathematics and botany. He was admitted a candidate of the Royal College of Physicians on 22 December 1786, and in the following year resigned his office in Birmingham and removed to London. He became fellow of the College of Physicians on 22 December 1787, and afterwards practised with success in London. He filled the offices of censor of the college in 1789 and 1793; was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ash (divine)
John Ash (c. 1724–1779) was an English Baptist minister at Pershore, Worcestershire, and author of an English dictionary and grammar books. Life Ash was born in Dorset about 1724. He studied for the ministry at Bristol, under Bernard Foskett, became pastor at Loughwood Meeting House, a Baptist chapel near the village of Dalwood in Dorset, and while there contributed to periodicals. He settled in the ministry at Pershore in 1746, as the result of a compromise between different parties in the congregation. He obtained a degree of LL.D. from a Scottish university in 1774, and died at Pershore in March or April 1779, aged 55. Works Ash is best known as a lexicographer, author of: *'' New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language'', 2 vols. 1775, 2nd edition 1795. Ash's ''New and Complete Dictionary'' was noteworthy for the number of obsolete and provincial words contained in it. It incorporated most of Nathan Bailey's collection of canting words. This dictionary was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ash (Canadian Politician)
John Ash (c. 1821 – April 17, 1886) was a Canadian physician and politician. Early life John Ash was born c. 1821 in Ormskirk, United Kingdom to father William Ash. He attended Guy's Hospital in Southwark, London, where he met John Sebastian Helmcken, a future key player in the joining of British Columbia to the Canadian Confederation. In 1845 Ash became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. From 1849 to 1860, he practised medicine Coxwold, before emigrating to Canada in 1862, arriving in Victoria, British Columbia. On approximately July 31, 1863, Ash's wife Dorothy Agar gave birth to a daughter, Annie Freer, in the Esquimalt home of John Sebastian Helmcken.John Ash - Dictionary of Canadian Biography (accessed 2010-01-09). Political ...
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John Ash (ornithologist)
John Sidney Ash (1925 – 2014) was an English ornithologist. He had a strong interest in the avifauna from the Horn of Africa, in particular Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 30. Career Ash was born in Gosforth, Northumberland on 26 May 1925 as son of Sidney and Kathleen Ash né Denley. In 1945, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the Newcastle wing of the University of Durham. He received the D.I.C. at the Imperial College London in 1948 and promoted there to Ph.D. in 1952. He was co-author of two fieldguides, ''The Birds of Somalia'' (with John E. Miskell) in 1998, and ''Birds of Ethiopia and Eritrea'' (with John Atkins) in 2009. Ash discovered several new bird taxa, including the Ankober serin (''Serinus ankoberensis''), ''Turdoides squamulata carolinae'' (a subspecies of the scaly babbler) which he named for his daughter Caroli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ash (writer)
John Ash (29 June 1948 – 3 December 2019) was an expatriate British poet and writer. His lifelong interest in Byzantium (especially its architecture) was a major theme which ran through his poetry, fiction and travel writing, along with family, friends and the three major cities he has lived in. As well as his books (largely published by Carcanet), his work has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Village Voice'', ''The Washington Post'' and ''Paris Review''. Life John Ash was born in Manchester, England in 1948, the son of schoolteachers. With a brief break to attend the University of Birmingham (B.A. 1969) and to take a post-graduation year in Cyprus, he remained in the city of his birth until 1985. In the notes to his first book, a sequence titled ''Casino'', Ash remarked that it had grown "out of several years of research for another project – a prose work which was to have been called "The Mauve Book: In Praise of Decadence". He also noted that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ash (MP For Totnes)
John Ash ( fl. 1420–1439) was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Totnes in 1420 and for Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, historic county in South East England, southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the Ceremonial counties of ... in 1433 and 1439. References Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Totnes English MPs 1420 English MPs 1433 English MPs 1439 {{15thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ashe (other)
John Ashe may refer to: * John Ashe (minister) (1671–1735), English dissenting minister *John Ashe (of Freshford) (1597–1658), MP for Westbury * John Ashe (priest) (born 1953), Church of England priest and Archdeacon of Lynn *John Ashe (general) (c. 1720–1781), American Revolutionary War figure *John Baptista Ashe (delegate) (1748–1802), North Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress *John Baptista Ashe (representative) (1810–1857), U.S. Congressman from Tennessee *John William Ashe (1954–2016), President of the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly See also *John Ayshe John Ayshe (floruit, fl. 1589–1608) of Wells, Somerset, was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament, Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Wells (UK Parliament constituency), Wells in 1589. He was Mayor of Wells in 1598 and ..., MP for Wells * John Ash (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ashe, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ash (other)
Ash is the solid remains of fire. Ash may also refer to: Trees and shrubs * ''Fraxinus'', the ash trees, a genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family * Mountain ash, a name used for several trees, none of immediate relation * ''Zanthoxylum'' (Prickly ash), genus of about 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs in the citrus or rue family, Rutaceae Geography England * Ash, now generally known as Salway Ash, in the parish of Netherbury, Dorset * Ash (near Stourpaine), Dorset * Ash (near Taunton), Somerset * Ash, Braunton, a historic estate listed in the Domesday Book * Ash, Derbyshire * Ash, Devon * Ash, Dover, Kent * Ash, Musbury, a historic estate * Ash, Oxfordshire * Ash, Sevenoaks, Kent * Ash, South Somerset * Ash, Surrey United States * Ash, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Ash, North Carolina, Brunswick County * Ash, Oregon, Douglas County * Ash, Texas, an unincorporated community * Ash, West Virginia, an unincorporated communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |