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John Austen (other)
John Austen may refer to: * John Austen (illustrator) (1886–1948), English book illustrator * John Austen (died 1572), MP for Guildford * Sir John Austen, 2nd Baronet (c. 1640–1699), MP for Rye 1667–1679 and 1689– (Austen Baronets of Bexley, Kent) * Sir John Austen, 1st Baronet (died 1742), MP for Middlesex 1701–1702, 1709–1710 and 1722–1727 (Austen Baronets of Derehams, Middlesex) See also * John Austin (other) {{hndis, Austen, John ...
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John Austen (illustrator)
John Archibald Austen (Dover, (Kent), 5 January 1886 – Hythe, Kent, 27 October 1948) was a British book illustrator. He moved to London in 1906 where he studied art. His early works, including a fine Hamlet, were Beardsleyesque in style, but after 1925 he was influenced by the Art Deco movement. Books which he illustrated in this manner include Daphnis and Chloe and As You Like it. His work for ''Radio Times'' includes the cover of the Easter 1934 edition. Austen used several techniques in his illustrations, including wood-engraving and scraperboard, and changed styles to suit the text he was illustrating. He was also involved in advertising, producing adverts, several posters & numerous dustwrapper designs. He was a friend of Alan Odle and Harry Clarke and exhibited with them at the St George's Gallery in 1925. The novelist Dorothy Richardson Dorothy Miller Richardson (17 May 1873 – 17 June 1957) was a British author and journalist. Author of ''Pilgrimage'', a seq ...
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John Austen (died 1572)
John Austen (died 1572) was an English politician. Family Austen married Joan Snelling and they had at least two sons including the MP, George Austen. Career He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Guildford Guildford () is a town in west Surrey, around southwest of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The name "Guildf ... in 1563. He was Mayor of Guildford in 1566. References Year of birth missing 1572 deaths Politicians from Guildford English MPs 1563–1567 {{1563-England-MP-stub ...
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Sir John Austen, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Austen, 2nd Baronet (c. 16401699) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1667 and 1699. Austen was the son of Sir Robert Austen, 1st Baronet of Hall Place, Bexley and his wife Anne Muns, daughter of Thomas Muns, of Otteridge in Bersted, Kent, and of London. He was admitted to Gray's Inn on 23 Oct. 1657. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father on 30 October 1666. He had acquired the estate of Stagenhoe, Hertfordshire though his marriage as well as inheriting Hall Place, Bexley. In 1667, he was elected Member of Parliament for Rye in a by-election to the Cavalier Parliament. He was elected MP for Rye again in 1689, 1690, 1695 and 1698. He was one of the Commissioners of the Customs from 1697 to 1698. He had two brothers, Robert Austen of Tenterden, Kent and Edward Austen of Middle Temple, London. Austen died in Red Lion Square, London at the age of about 58. Austen married by licence dated 6 Dece ...
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Sir John Austen, 1st Baronet
Sir John Austen, 1st Baronet (after 1673 – 22 March 1742), of Derehams, South Mimms, and Highgate, Middlesex. was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1701 and 1727. Austen was the son of Thomas Austen, of South Mimms and Hoxton, by Arabella Forset, the daughter and heir of Edward Forset, of Ashford and Tyburn. His parents were married on 13 October 1673.Cokayne, George Edward (1906) Complete Baronetage'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 21 He inherited the Manor of Tyburn, or Marylebone, from his mother's family and sold it in 1710 to John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. Austen was Member of Parliament for Middlesex from 1701 to 1702. He was returned again at the 1708 British general election and sat to 1710. He was created a baronet in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 16 November 1714. He stood for Middlesex at the 1715 British general election, but was defeated. However, he was returned as MP for Middlesex ...
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