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John Christie (serial Killer), John Christie
John Christie may refer to: Sport * John Christie (footballer, born 1881) (1881–1934), Scottish footballer * John Christie (footballer, born 1929) (1929–2014), Scottish football goalkeeper who played for Southampton * Jack Christie (born 1926), Scottish international lawn bowler Others * John Christie (artist) (born 1945), British artist and film-maker * John Christie (headmaster) (1899–1980), headmaster of Repton School and Westminster School, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford * John Christie (industrialist) (1774–1858), industrialist born in Scotland * J. Walter Christie (1865–1944), American inventor * John Alexander Christie (1895–1967), British Victoria Cross recipient * John Christie (landowner) (1824–1902), Scottish industrialist, arboriculturalist and landowner * John Christie (mayor) (1883–1953), Scottish-born South African politician * John Christie (minister) (born 1947), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for 2010–2011 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Christie (footballer, Born 1881)
John Coubrough Christie (8 February 1881 – 21 November 1934) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a right-back and left half in the Football League for rivals Manchester United and Manchester City. He also played in the Southern League for Bradford Park Avenue, Croydon Common and Brentford. Personal life As of 1901, Christie was working as a railway porter. He served in the Royal Air Force during the First World War. Career statistics Honours Croydon Common * Southern League Second Division: 1908–09 Brentford Reserves *Great Western Suburban League The Great Western Suburban League was a football league that was primarily held in the Home counties, founded in 1904. History The Great Western Suburban League was founded in 1904, drawing its membership from the Home counties to the west of Lo ...: 1910–11 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Christie, John 1881 births 1934 deaths Footballers from Chorley Manchester United F.C. players Manchester City F. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Christie (footballer, Born 1929)
John Alexander Christie (26 September 1929 – 9 March 2014) was a football goalkeeper who played for Southampton F.C. for most of the 1950s. Playing career A product of the Scottish Highland Football League, Christie was born in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, and played as an amateur with Auchenblae and then transferred to the senior ranks with Highland Football League club Inverness Thistle. He left Inverness Thistle in May 1949 to join Ayr United in the Scottish Football League. He came to the notice of Southampton's manager Sid Cann whilst doing his National Service at Farnborough and in January 1951 he signed him for Southampton. He made his debut for the "Saints" at Swansea Town on 3 February 1951 replacing first choice keeper Hugh Kelly. In 1950–51 Southampton had problems with the goalkeeping position and in all used four different custodians (the others were Eddie Thomas and Len Stansbridge). Described by Holley & Chalk as "agile and brave" he spent most of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Christie
Jack Christie is a former Formula car racer and manager and adviser to drivers including Paul Tracy, Scott Goodyear, and Ron Fellows. He founded the Canadian Formula 2000 series in 1981 and the Rothmans Porsche Challenge in 1986. Canadian F2000 became the basis of all other F2000 series and Rothmans Porsche Challenge became the basis for the incredibly successful Porsche Supercup series around the world, although the Canadian series only lasted five years. He was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame The Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame (CMHF) is a hall of fame run by the Canadian Motorsport Heritage Foundation as a not-for-profit charitable institution that "honours and recognizes the achievements of individuals and institutions that have ma ... in 2008. References Sportspeople from the Regional Municipality of York Living people Racing drivers from Ontario Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-autoracing-bio-stub Canadian racing drivers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Christie (headmaster)
John Traill Christie (18 October 1899 – 8 September 1980) was headmaster of Repton School (1932–37) and Westminster School (1937–50), before becoming Principal of Jesus College, Oxford (1949–67). Christie married Lucie Catherine, only daughter of Thomas Philip Le Fanu; they had two daughters. The elder was Catherine (born 1935); the younger, Jane (born 1936) married Henry Galton Darwin. Author Roald Dahl attended Repton from 1929, where, according to '' Boy: Tales of Childhood'', a friend named Michael was viciously caned by headmaster Geoffrey Fisher, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury. However, according to Dahl's biographer Jeremy Treglown,Jeremy Treglown, ''Roald Dahl: A Biography'' (1994), Faber and Faber, page 21. Treglown's source note is as follows: "Several people who were at the top of Priory House at the time have discussed it with me, particularly B.L.L. Reuss and John Bradburn." the caning took place in May 1933, a year after Fisher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Christie (industrialist)
John Christie (1774–1858), was an early industrialist born in Scotland. He is chiefly remembered for his agricultural and industrial activities in South Wales during the early part of the nineteenth century. Christie amassed a fortune through the indigo trade with India and invested it in the purchase of much of Fforest Fawr in what is now the Brecon Beacons National Park in southern Powys. He constructed a network of tramroads between Sennybridge and the upper Swansea Valley, initially with a view to supplying the model farms which he had established with agricultural lime. Connections to coal mines further south were established and to sources of rottenstone and silica sand Sand casting, also known as sand molded casting, is a metal casting process characterized by using sand as the mold material. The term "sand casting" can also refer to an object produced via the sand casting process. Sand castings are produced i ... but these ventures bankrupted him by 1827-28.Hughes, S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Alexander Christie
John Alexander Christie VC (14 May 1895 – 10 September 1967) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Biography Christie was 22 years old, and a lance-corporal in the 1/11th (County of London) Battalion, (Finsbury Rifles), London Regiment, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 21 December/22 December 1917, at Fejja, Palestine, after a position had been captured, the enemy immediately made counter-attacks up the communication trenches. Lance-Corporal Christie, seeing what was happening, took a supply of bombs and went alone about 50 yards in the open along the communication trench and bombed the enemy. He continued to do this in spite of heavy opposition until a block had been established. On his way back he bombed more of the enemy who were moving up the trench ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Christie (landowner)
John Christie FRSE (1824-1902) was a Scottish industrialist, arboriculturalist and landowner. Early life He was born in Monklands (district), Old Monkland on 4 July 1824, the son of Isabella Robertson and Alexander Christie (1789-1859), a colliery-owner and ironfounder. He attended Grange School in Northumberland and then the University of Glasgow. Adult life On his father's death in 1859 he inherited vast lands in Ayrshire, Midlothian and Clackmannanshire, largely focussed upon coal-mining and iron-foundries. In 1865 he purchased a 524-acre estate lying between Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Dollar and Muckhart, and renamed it from Castleton to Cowden Castle. This estate provided a more rural environment than his other landholdings and focussed on farming, forestry and raising deer and pheasant. John married Alison Philp (b. about 1817), daughter of Alison Coldwells and William Philp, of Stobsmills, Midlothian (the home of her uncle John Coldwells) on 27 April 1859. Christie was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Christie (mayor)
John Christie born 26 August 1883 in Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland was leader of the South African Labour Party The South African Labour Party ( af, Suid-Afrikaanse Arbeidersparty), was a South African political party formed in March 1910 in the newly created Union of South Africa following discussions between trade unions, the Transvaal Independent La ... from 1946 to 1953. 1883 births 1953 deaths People from Clackmannanshire Scottish emigrants to South Africa White South African people South African people of Scottish descent Labour Party (South Africa) politicians Members of the House of Assembly (South Africa) Mayors of Johannesburg {{SouthAfrica-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Christie (minister)
John Cairns Christie (born 9 July 1947) is a minister of the Church of Scotland. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for 2010-2011. Early life and education Christie was born in Glasgow on 9 July 1947 and lived in Helensburgh as a child. He was educated at Hermitage Academy, Helensburgh (1959-1966), the University of Strathclyde, Paisley College and the University of Glasgow. His early career was as a scientific assistant at Royal Ordnance Factory Bishopton in the late 1960s,The Rev "John Cairns Christie nominated as Moderator of the Kirk" '''', 28 October 2009. Retrieved on 4 November 2009. then as a sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Christie (opera Manager)
John Christie (14 December 1882 – 4 July 1962) was an English landowner and theatrical producer. He was the founder of the Glyndebourne Opera House and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera at his home at Glyndebourne, near Lewes in Sussex in 1934. Born to a wealthy landed family in Eggesford, Devon, Christie was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, later spending seven years at Eton as a master. His grandfather was William Langham Christie. He served in the trenches in the First World War with the King's Royal Rifle Corps, despite partial blindness, was awarded the Military Cross, and reached the rank of captain. Having been given the Glyndebourne Estate for his own use he began to develop local enterprises there from 1920 onwards: in 1923, he acquired the famous organbuilding company of William Hill & Son & Norman & Beard Ltd., which had come into being around 1916 with the progressive merging of its two constituent firms. The firm remained in Christie own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Christie (serial Killer)
John Reginald Halliday Christie (8 April 1899 – 15 July 1953), known to his family and friends as Reg Christie, was an English serial killer and alleged necrophile active during the 1940s and early 1950s. Christie murdered at least eight people—including his wife, Ethel—by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. The bodies of three of Christie's victims were found in a wallpaper-covered kitchen alcove soon after he had moved out of Rillington Place during March 1953. The remains of two more victims were discovered in the garden, and his wife's body was found beneath the floorboards of the front room. Christie was arrested and convicted of his wife's murder, for which he was hanged. Two of Christie's victims were Beryl Evans and her baby daughter Geraldine, who, along with Beryl's husband Timothy Evans, were tenants at 10 Rillington Place during 1948–49. This case sparked huge controversy after Evans was charged with both murders, foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
