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John Cobb (New College)
John Cobb may refer to: People * John Cobb (Australian politician) (born 1950), Australian politician * John Cobb (cabinetmaker) (c. 1710–1778), English cabinetmaker * John Cobb (Manitoba politician) (1903–1959), Canadian politician * John Cobb (pioneer) (1814–1893), American pioneer settler in California * John Cobb (racing driver) (1899–1952), British racing driver and record holder * John B. Cobb (born 1925), American theologian * John Nathan Cobb (1868–1930), American fisheries researcher * John Cobbe (1859–1944), Irish-born New Zealand politician * John Cobb Cooper (1887–1967), American jurist, airline executive and presidential advisor * John Robert Cobb (1903–1967), American orthopedic surgeon * John Cobb (academic) John Cobb, DCL (19 August 1678, in Adderbury – 10 December 1725, in Oxford) was a college leader in the first quarter of the 18th Century. Dobson was educated at New College where he graduated BCL in 1705. He was Warden of New College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cobb (Australian Politician)
John Kenneth Cobb (born 11 February 1950) is a former Australian politician who served as a National Party of Australia, National Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 2001 representing the Division of Parkes, and the Division of Calare from 2007 to 2016 when he retired. Early life and education Cobb was born in Bathurst, New South Wales, Bathurst, son of Lee and Mary Cobb, and was raised on the family property near Mount Hope, New South Wales. Career Pre-political career From the 1980s until his candidacy for Federal Parliament, Cobb was active in, and spent three years as president of the New South Wales Farmers Association, a lobby group representing farmers and rural and regional communities. He also continued to farm the family property. Political career Cobb was elected to the House of Representatives from the Division of Parkes, a safe National Party of Australia, National Party seat, at the 2001 Australian federal election, 2001 federa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cobb (cabinetmaker)
John Cobb (c.1710–1778) was an English cabinetmaker and upholsterer. Biography It is believed that John Cobb was apprenticed in 1729 to Timothy Money (fl 1724–59), a Norwich upholsterer.>Artfact (see link below) In 1755 he married Sukey, a daughter of the cabinetmaker Giles Grendey, and is said to have acquired a ‘singularly haughty character’, strutting ‘in full dress of the most superb and costly kind...through his workshops giving orders to his men’, and on one occasion earning a rebuke from George III.J T Smith in his ''Nollekens'' recounts anecdotes of his pompous behaviour and comments on his tendency to elaborate costume. He worked with William Vile from 1750 until 1765 in premises at No, 72, the corner house of St Martin's Lane & Long Acre.The London Furniture Makers 1660–1840 by Sir Ambrose Heal, p 38 – Dover Publications () In the early 1750s, William Hallett, a leading cabinetmaker of the time, financially backed Vile and Cobb and formed a working syn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cobb (librettist)
John Cobb may refer to: People * John Cobb (Australian politician) (born 1950), Australian politician * John Cobb (cabinetmaker) (c. 1710–1778), English cabinetmaker * John Cobb (Manitoba politician) (1903–1959), Canadian politician * John Cobb (pioneer) (1814–1893), American pioneer settler in California * John Cobb (racing driver) (1899–1952), British racing driver and record holder * John B. Cobb (born 1925), American theologian * John Nathan Cobb John Nathan Cobb (February 20, 1868 – January 13, 1930) was an American author, naturalist, conservationist, canneryman, and educator. He attained a high position in academia without the benefit of a college education. In a career that bega ... (1868–1930), American fisheries researcher * John Cobbe (1859–1944), Irish-born New Zealand politician * John Cobb Cooper (1887–1967), American jurist, airline executive and presidential advisor * John Robert Cobb (1903–1967), American orthopedic surgeon * John Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cobb (Manitoba Politician)
John Gordon Cobb (January 18, 1903 – August 20, 1959) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1958 to 1959, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, Progressive Conservative Party. The son of William John Cobb and Mary Elizabeth Lloyd, he was born in Melita, Manitoba, was educated there and went on to attend agricultural college. He worked in banks for a number of years before being hired at a garage in Melita. In 1953, he opened his own garage with his brother in Melita, later adding a service station and restaurant. Cobb served on the town council and was mayor of Melita for six years. Cobb was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1958 Manitoba general election, 1958 provincial election, defeating Manitoba Liberal Party, Liberal-Progressive candidate John McRae (Manitoba politician), John McRae by forty votes in the rural, southwestern riding of Arthur (Manitoba riding), Arthur. He wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cobb (pioneer)
John Cobb (19 May 1814 – 13 November 1893) was an American pioneer. He was born in Kentucky, then moved frequently from farm to farm in Midwestern United States before taking his family across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains to California in 1850–1851. Here he continued to move frequently before finally settling in what is known as Cobb Valley in Lake County, California, the first European to settle in the region. His name survives in Cobb Mountain and the village of Cobb, California, both in Lake County, California. Early years (1814––1832) John Cobb was born on 19 May 1814 in Henry County, Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Madison in Jefferson County, Indiana. His father was a farmer. While he was a child the family lived in Indiana for six years before returning to Kentucky. When Cobb was 16 the family moved to Jefferson County, Indiana. Cobb left home when he was 18 and moved to Vigo County, Indiana in 1832, where he started a keelboat freighter service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cobb (racing Driver)
John Rhodes Cobb (2 December 1899 – 29 September 1952) was an early to mid 20th century English racing motorist. He was three times holder of the World Land Speed Record, in 1938, 1939 and 1947, set at Bonneville Speedway in Utah, US. He was awarded the Segrave Trophy in 1947. He was killed in 1952 whilst piloting a jet powered speedboat attempting to break the World Water Speed Record on Loch Ness water in Scotland. Early life Cobb was born in Esher, Surrey, on 2 December 1899, near the Brooklands motor racing track which he frequented as a boy. He was the son of Florence and Rhodes Cobb, a wealthy furs broker in the City of London. He received his formal education at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, before joining his father's firm and pursuing a successful career as the managing director of a number of companies in the trade, the personal financial resources from which he used to fund a passion for large capacity motor high speed racing. In 1924 he acquired a Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John B
John Bryn Williams (born 1977), known as John B, is an English disc jockey and electronic music producer. He is widely recognised for his eccentric clothing and wild hair and his production of several cutting edge drum and bass tracks. John B ranked number 76 in ''DJ Magazine''s 2010 Top 100 DJs annual poll, announced on 27 October 2010. Career Williams was born on 12 July 1977 in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He started producing music around the age of 14, and now is the head of drum and bass record label Beta Recordings, together with its more specialist drum and bass sub-labels Nu Electro, Tangent, and Chihuahua. He also has releases on Formation Records, Metalheadz and Planet Mu. Williams was ranked 92nd drum and bass DJ on the 2009 ''DJ Magazine'' top 100. Style While his trademark sound has evolved through the years, it generally involves female vocals and trance-like synths (a style which has been dubbed "trance and bass", "trancestep" and "futurestep" by listeners). His m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Nathan Cobb
John Nathan Cobb (February 20, 1868 – January 13, 1930) was an American author, naturalist, conservationist, canneryman, and educator. He attained a high position in academia without the benefit of a college education. In a career that began as a printer's aide for a newspaper, he worked as a stenographer and clerk, a newspaper reporter, a field agent for the U.S. Fish Commission (USFC) and its successor the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, as an editor for a commercial fishing trade magazine of the Pacific Northwest, and as a supervisor for companies in the commercial fishing industry. He took photographs during his extensive travels documenting scenes and people. In 1919, Cobb was appointed the founding director of the College of Fisheries at the University of Washington (UW), the first such college established in the United States. Early life and education John Nathan Cobb was born in Oxford, New Jersey, on February 20, 1868, the son of Samuel Spencer Cobb (1842‒1921), a ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cobbe
John George Cobbe (1859 – 29 December 1944) was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party, United Party and the National Party. Early life Cobbe was born in King's County, Ireland, in 1859. He received his education in Tullamore and Dublin, and arrived in New Zealand in 1886. He was first employed in Auckland by Smith & Caughey, and then moved to Feilding to run a general store. In 1941, he became a sheep farmer in the Waihapi Valley north of the Whanganui River. Politics and public offices He represented the Oroua electorate from 1928 to 1938, having stood and come second in 1922 and 1925. In the , Cobbe was returned unopposed. He then represented the Manawatu electorate from 1938 to 1943, when he retired. He was a cabinet minister from 1928 to 1935 in the United Government and the Liberal-Reform coalition Government; Minister of Defence from 1929 to 1935, Minister of Justice from 1930 to 1935, Minister of Marine from 1928 to 1930 and 1931 to 1935, Minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cobb Cooper
John Cobb Cooper Jr. (September 18, 1887 – July 22, 1967) was an American lawyer, airline executive and presidential advisor. After graduating from Princeton University, he joined the Florida Bar and later the U.S. Navy. Post World War I, he became a member of the Naval Reserve and eventually a Lieutenant-Commander. Cooper held positions such as Editor-in-Chief of the Florida State Bar Association Law Journal, Vice President of Pan American Airways, and consultant to the U.S. President's Air Policy Commission. In 1951, he founded the Institute of Air & Space Law at McGill University, where he also served as a professor. Known as the "Father of Air Space Law," Cooper authored The Right to Fly and was the legal counsel to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). His contributions earned him various awards and honors, including an honorary Doctor of Laws from Princeton University and a lunar crater named after him. Early life and education John Cooper Jr. was born in Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Robert Cobb
John Robert Cobb (1903–1967), was an American orthopedic surgeon, best known for inventing the Cobb angle, the preferred method of measuring the degree of scoliosis and post-traumatic kyphosis. Education Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, John R. Cobb attended the Staunton Military Academy in Virginia, and enlisted on a merchant ship at the age of 16 years. He studied English Literature at Brown University in Providence Rhode Island and earned the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Literature in 1925. In his senior year at Brown he decided on a career in medicine and attended Harvard University for one year of post-graduate study in biological sciences. He then attended Yale Medical School, from which he graduated with an MD (Doctor of Medicine) in 1930. He served a one-year surgical internship and a one-year medical residency in orthopedic surgery at Yale – New Haven Hospital. In 1934 Dr. Cobb became the Gibney Orthopedic Fellow at the ''Hospital for the Ruptured and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cobb (academic)
John Cobb, DCL (19 August 1678, in Adderbury – 10 December 1725, in Oxford) was a college leader in the first quarter of the 18th Century. Dobson was educated at New College where he graduated BCL in 1705. He was Warden of New College, Oxford, from 1712 until 1720; and Warden of Winchester College from 1720 until his death. He held incumbencies at Newbottle, Albourne, Somerton and Stoke Lyne Stoke Lyne is a village and civil parish about north of Bicester, Oxfordshire in southern England. Battle of Fethan leag In AD 584 a Saxon army led by King Ceawlin of Wessex and his son Cutha fought an army of Britons "at the place which is .... References 18th-century English people Wardens of New College, Oxford People from Oxfordshire (before 1974) 1678 deaths 1725 deaths {{UK-academic-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
