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John Brockman (Australian Settler)
John Brockman may refer to: * John Brockman (soldier) (1734–1801), colonel from North Carolina in the American Revolutionary War * John Brockman (literary agent) (born 1941), American author and literary agent See also * Jon Brockman (born 1987), American basketball player {{DEFAULTSORT:Brockman, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brockman (soldier)
John Brockman, Jr. (May 8, 1735 – January 31, 1801) provided sundries and cash for North Carolina militia during the American Revolutionary War. Early years Brockman was born on May 8, 1735, in King and Queen County, Virginia, King and Queen County, Province of Virginia, to John and Mary (Collins) Brockman, who later moved to Orange County, Virginia. His mother was the daughter of Captain Joseph Collins and Susannah Robertson. John Jr. was the grandson of Samuel Brockman and the great-grandson of Henry Brockman (colonist), Henry Brockman who was a primary founder of the brockman, English Brockman family in the United States. John Brockman, Jr., was orphaned when his father died; the court appointed a guardian, Kelly Jennings (second husband of Mary Collins), for Brockman's younger siblings, but excluded John as he was over the age of 14., ASIN: B0007G5G0Q, Re: Thomas Parks who married Annie, Col. John Brockman, II's daughter John Brockman, Jr., married Amelia Martin, the daug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brockman (literary Agent)
John Brockman (born February 16, 1941) is an American literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature. He established the Edge Foundation, an organization that brings together leading edge thinkers across a broad range of scientific and technical fields. Brockman was born to immigrants of Polish-Jewish descent in a poor Irish Catholic enclave of Boston, Massachusetts. Expanding on C.P. Snow's "two cultures", he introduced the "third culture" consisting of "those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are." He led a scientific salon for 20 years, asking an annual question to a host of renowned scientists and publishing their answers in book form, which he decided to symbolically close down in 2018. He is an editor of Edge.org. Association with Jeffrey Epstein In an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |