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John Gibson (art Dealer)
John Gibson may refer to: Sports *John Gibson (Nottingham cricketer), English cricketer *John Gibson (cricketer, born 1833) (1833–1892), English priest and cricketer *John Gibson (footballer, born 1967), Scottish football player *John Gibson (footballer, born 1989), footballer who plays for Dundee *John Gibson (ice hockey, born 1959) (1959–2020), Canadian and ex-NHL hockey player, winner of the 1979–1980 Governor's Trophy * John Gibson (ice hockey, born 1993), American ice hockey goaltender * John Gibson (motorcycle racer), 1956 Daytona 200 winner *Johnny Gibson (John Anthony Gibson, 1905–2006), American 400 meter hurdles world record holder * Johnny Gibson (footballer) (born 1950), Scottish footballer (Partick Thistle) Law and politics *John Arthur Gibson (1850–1912), Six Nations Reserve chief of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) * John Gibson (Philadelphia), mayor of Philadelphia, 1771–1773 *John Gibson (police officer) (1956–1998), U.S. Capitol police officer killed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gibson (Nottingham Cricketer)
John Gibson (dates unknown) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1837 to 1842. He played for Nottingham Cricket Club (''aka'' Nottinghamshire) and made four known appearances in first-class matches. Retrieved on 2 December 2008. He represented the North of England cricket team, North in the North v. South series. References English cricketers English cricketers of 1826 to 1863 Nottinghamshire cricketers North v South cricketers Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Players of Nottinghamshire cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gibson (RAF Officer)
John Albert Axel Gibson, (24 August 1916 – 1 July 2000) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer and a flying ace of the Second World War. He was credited with the destruction of 12 enemy aircraft. Born in Brighton, the United Kingdom, Gibson moved to New Zealand with his mother after his parents divorced. In 1938, he went to England having been accepted for service with the RAF. He flew with No. 501 (County of Gloucester) Squadron during the Battle of France and the subsequent Battle of Britain. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in late August 1940, he spent much of 1941 as an instructor before briefly serving with No. 457 Squadron. In mid-1942, he was loaned to the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) and served with its No. 15 Squadron, including a period as its commander, during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific. He was later awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his service with the squadron. He returned to Europe in 1945, serving with No. 80 Squadron. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gibson (American Soldier)
John Gibson (May 23, 1740 – April 10, 1822) was a veteran of the French and Indian War, Lord Dunmore's War, the American Revolutionary War, Tecumseh's War, and the War of 1812. A delegate to the first Pennsylvania constitutional convention in 1790, and a merchant, he earned a reputation as a frontier leader and had good relations with many Native American in the region. At age sixty he was appointed the Secretary of the Indiana Territory where he was responsible for organising the territorial government. He served twice as acting governor of the territory, including a one-year period during the War of 1812 in which he mobilized and led the territorial militia to relieve besieged Fort Harrison. Early life John Gibson was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on May 23, 1740, the son of George and Elizabeth de Vinez Gibson. Gibson's father was born in Antrim, Ireland and came to Pennsylvania in 1730. The elder Gibson was a trader, who exchanged goods with the Conestogas who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gibson (sculptor)
John Gibson (19 June 1790 – 27 January 1866) was a Welsh Neoclassical sculptor who studied in Rome under Canova. He excelled chiefly in bas-relief, notably the two life-size works ''The Hours Leading the Horses of the Sun'' and ''Phaethon driving the Chariot of the Sun'', but was also proficient in monumental and portrait statuary. He is famous for his statues of Sir Robert Peel (Westminster Abbey), William Huskisson (St George's Square) and Queen Victoria (Houses of Parliament). Gibson was elected a Royal Academician in 1836, and left the contents of his studio to the Royal Academy, where many of his marbles and casts are currently on display. Life Early life Gibson was born near Conwy, Wales, where his father was a market gardener. When he was nine years old the family were on the point of emigrating to America, but his mother put a stop to this plan on their arrival at Liverpool, where they settled, and where Gibson was sent to school. He became fascinated by the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gibson (political Commentator)
John David Gibson (born July 25, 1946) is an American radio talk show host. As of September 2008, he hosts the syndicated radio program ''The John Gibson Show''. Gibson was formerly the co-host of the weekday edition of '' The Big Story'' on the Fox News TV channel. Career Gibson earned a Bacherlor of Arts degree from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. He began his reporting career with ''The Hollywood Reporter'' (1969–1972) and worked for Atlantic Records (1972–1974). Gibson worked for KFWB-AM (1974–1975) and KEYT-TV (1975–1977). At KCRA, he was a feature reporter on the ''Weeknight'' magazine show (1977–1979) and San Francisco bureau chief (1979–1989)."John Gibson Named Anchor For Daytime Programming on MSNBC Cable", PR Newswire, April 30, 1996 Beginning in 1992, Gibson worked as an NBC News correspondent in Burbank, California. In 1994, he became the first West Coast correspondent for the NBC News Channel. He covered the 1995 O. J. Simpson trial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gibson (editor And Journalist)
Sir John Gibson (1841–1915) was a journalist who spent most of his career at Aberystwyth as editor of the ''Cambrian News''. His book, ''The Emancipation of Women'', dealt particularly with Wales. Early life Gibson was born in Lancaster on 14 February 1841, the son of a hatter named John Gibson. His mother, Dorothy Gradwell, had worked in a cotton mill before her marriage and appears to have returned to the mills after the death of her husband, another John Gibson. Around 1863 he joined the '' Oswestry Advertiser'' as a printer and began to write for the paper. For the next ten years he appears to have worked as a journalist in various places in Wales and the English border counties. Influence In September 1873, Gibson became the manager and editor of the ''Cambrian News'' at Aberystwyth, which had been established in the wake of the 1868 general elections. Its early editions had focused on allegations of evictions made in Wales at the time of those elections. In 1880, a conso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gibson (cartographer)
John Gibson (flourished in London 1750 to his death in 1792) was an English cartographer, geographer, draughtsman and engraver. Recognized as an important late eighteenth-century British cartographer, a contemporary of Jacques-Nicolas Bellin and skilled engraver, spent most of his life in prison because of several debts, however, produced thousands of maps and its best-known work in 1758 was called the pocket atlas ''Atlas Minimus''. He worked also for the Gentleman's Magazine for which engraved different decorative maps. He also published his own work in ''The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...'', ''The Universal Museum'' and ''The Universal Traveller''. References External links *University of Pittsburgh, Atlas Mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gibson (architect)
John Gibson (2 June 1817 – 23 December 1892) was an English architect born at Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire. Life Gibson was an assistant to Sir Charles Barry and assisted him in the drawings of the Houses of Parliament. Gibson was a prominent bank architect at a time when joint-stock banking was an innovation. His 1847 National Bank of Scotland branch in Glasgow led to perhaps his best-known work, the former National Provincial Bank in Bishopsgate, London, designed in 1862. It was Listed building, listed Grade I in 1950 and is now known as Westminster Bank, London, Gibson Hall. Gibson also designed Todmorden Town Hall which opened in 1875. He also designed Dobroyd Castle in Todmorden and Todmorden Unitarian Church. Gibson is responsible for several churches in and around North Wales, but perhaps his most notable church is St Margaret's in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, more popularly known as the Marble Church, Bodelwyddan, consecrated in 1860. The church is a prominent landma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of King's And Queen's Counsel In New Zealand
The office of King's Counsel was established in New Zealand in 1907. During the reign of a male sovereign, appointees are called King's Counsel, and this applied from 1907 to 1952 during the reign of Edward VII (1907–1910), George V (1910–1936), Edward VIII (1936), and George VI (1936–1952). During Elizabeth II's reign (February 1952 – September 2022), new appointees were called Queen's Counsel and living King's Counsel became Queen's Counsel. Forty-three King's Counsel had been appointed before 1952. When King Charles III ascended the throne on 9 September 2022 (New Zealand Time), living Queen's Counsel became King's Counsel. Appointments in New Zealand can be made annually by the Governor-General acting on behalf of the sovereign. Recommendations are made by the Attorney-General with concurrence by the Chief Justice. When the first ten appointments were made in June 1907 by Chief Justice Robert Stout, two were from Auckland, four were from Wellington, two were from Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gibson (New Zealand Lawyer)
John Gibson may refer to: Sports *John Gibson (Nottingham cricketer), English cricketer *John Gibson (cricketer, born 1833) (1833–1892), English priest and cricketer *John Gibson (footballer, born 1967), Scottish football player *John Gibson (footballer, born 1989), footballer who plays for Dundee *John Gibson (ice hockey, born 1959) (1959–2020), Canadian and ex-NHL hockey player, winner of the 1979–1980 Governor's Trophy *John Gibson (ice hockey, born 1993), American ice hockey goaltender * John Gibson (motorcycle racer), 1956 Daytona 200 winner * Johnny Gibson (John Anthony Gibson, 1905–2006), American 400 meter hurdles world record holder * Johnny Gibson (footballer) (born 1950), Scottish footballer (Partick Thistle) Law and politics *John Arthur Gibson (1850–1912), Six Nations Reserve chief of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) * John Gibson (Philadelphia), mayor of Philadelphia, 1771–1773 *John Gibson (police officer) (1956–1998), U.S. Capitol police officer killed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gibson (Australian Politician)
John Blackler Gibson (1857 - 5 December 1941) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1903 to 1906, representing the electorate of North Esk. Gibson was born at Evandale and was educated at Launceston. He was the grandson of prominent pastoralist and former convict David Gibson, and inherited the family's (now-historic) " Pleasant Banks" estate. He became, as with much of his family, a prominent sheepbreeder. Gibson was a long-serving member of the Evandale Municipal Council and was chairman of the local Licensing Bench, Warden of the local Police Court, and secretary of the local agricultural show at the time of his election. Gibson was elected to the House of Assembly at the 1903 election, defeating incumbent MPs Thomas Massey and John Charles von Steiglitz, whose seats had been amalgamated in a redistribution. He supported government retrenchment as opposed to taxation, the reduction in size of both Houses of Parliament and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
