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John Hopkins (psalmist)
John Hopkins may refer to: Politics * John Hopkins (Bristol MP), member of the English House of Commons in 1601 * John Hopkins (died 1732), English merchant, Member of Parliament (MP) for St Ives 1710–15 and Ilchester 1715–22 * John Hopkins (lieutenant governor), lieutenant governor of South Carolina, 1806-1808 * John Patrick Hopkins (1858–1918), mayor of Chicago 1893–1895 * John Rout Hopkins (1829–1897), politician of Victoria, Australia * Sir John Hopkins, 1st Baronet (1863–1946), English Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for St Pancras South East 1918–23 and 1924–29 * John Marquis Hopkins (1870–1912), Australian politician Sports * John Hopkins (cricketer) (born 1953), former Welsh cricketer * John Hopkins (American football) (born c. 1969), American football placekicker * John Hopkins (motorcyclist) (born 1983), American motorcycle racer Arts and entertainment * John Hopkins (actor) (born 1974), British actor * John Hopkins (art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hopkins (Bristol MP)
John Hopkins (died 1615) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1601. Hopkins was a merchant of Bristol. He was an Alderman and became Sheriff in 1586 and Mayor in 1600. In 1601, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bristol. See also *Politics of the United Kingdom The United Kingdom is a unitary state with devolution that is governed within the framework of a parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy in which the monarch, currently Charles III, King of the United Kingdom, is the head ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hopkins, John Year of birth missing 1615 deaths English MPs 1601 Mayors of Bristol English merchants High Sheriffs of Bristol Place of birth missing 17th-century merchants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hopkins (screenwriter)
John Richard Hopkins (sometimes credited as John R. Hopkins; 27 January 1931 – 23 July 1998) was an English film, stage, and television writer. Biography Born in southwest London, Hopkins was educated at Raynes Park High School, Raynes Park County Grammar School, then completed his Conscription in the United Kingdom#After 1945, National Service in the Army from 1950 to 1951. He read English Literature at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and joined BBC Television as a studio manager on graduation. Hopkins began his writing career in radio, writing episodes of the BBC serial ''Mrs Dale's Diary'' for eighteen months. An attempt to become a trainee television director at the commercial television franchise holder ITV Granada, Granada Television was unsuccessful. The company did accept his first play, ''Break Up'' (1958), about the end of the marriage of a young couple, although it was only shown in the Granada region. He established himself as a writer beginning when his then fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Burroughs Hopkins
John Burroughs Hopkins (July 25, 1742 – December 5, 1796) was a captain of the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War. Biography Hopkins was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the son of Continental navy commander-in-chief Esek Hopkins. John Hopkins was one of seven commanders involved in the Gaspée Affair, in which a British ship was destroyed. This was one of the leading causes of the Revolutionary War. John B. Hopkins was made one of five captains under his father according to in, December 1775, the United States Congress Marine Committee's meeting to discuss ranking the officers. He served in distinction during the war, the Providence Gazette, on March 12, 1796, called him an "eminent nautical commander". References External links * – cenotaph A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere. It can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been reinterred elsewher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hopkins (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Sir John Ommanney Hopkins (13 July 1834 – 29 September 1916) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet. Naval career Hopkins joined the Royal Navy in 1848. Promoted to Captain in 1867, he commanded successively HMS ''Liverpool'', HMS ''Narcissus'', HMS ''Royal Adelaide'' and HMS ''Temeraire''. He became Commander of HMS ''Excellent'', the Gunnery School at Portsmouth, in 1880. In 1881 he became Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty and in 1883 he was made Captain-superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard and Director of Heavy Ordnance in 1883. He went on to be Admiral-superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard in 1886 and Junior Naval Lord and then Third Naval Lord and Controller of the Navy in 1888. Hopkins had the distinction in 1893 of parading his brigade of Royal Marines in New York City in the first display of British military force in that City since the American Revolutionary War. Promoted to vice admiral in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jay Hopkins
John Jay Hopkins (October 15, 1893 – May 3, 1957) was founder and president of General Dynamics from 1952 to 1957. Hopkins was born in Santa Ana, California. He was assistant to the Treasury Secretary. In 1937, he joined Electric Boat as a lawyer, and eventually became director. In 1948, as president of Electric Boat, he purchased Canadair and created General Dynamics from that foundation in 1952. Hopkins created the golf World Cup, which began as the Canada Cup in 1953, and donated the trophy for the event. Hopkins died in Washington, DC.Staff report (May 4, 1957). J.J. HOPKINS DIES; INDUSTRIALIST, 63; Chairman of Billion-Dollar General Dynamics Corp. Built Navy's Nautilus. PROPOSED ATOM PLANS. Winner of '53 Alger Award. Also Worked on Missiles. Founded Golf Group Little Known to Public. Developed Big Concern. Sponsored Golf Matches. ''New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry Hopkins
John Henry Hopkins (January 30, 1792 – January 9, 1868) was the first bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Vermont and the eighth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. He was also an artist (in both watercolor and oils), a lawyer, an ironmonger, a musician and composer, a theologian, and an architect who introduced Gothic architecture into the United States. Early life and education John Henry Hopkins was a descendant of the Hopkins family of England that was conspicuous in the reign of Richard II of England in the fourteenth century. In the reign of William III of England in the seventeenth century Isaac Hopkins was granted an estate in Ireland, where he married Mary Fitzgerald. From them the line of descent runs through the eldest son in two succeeding generations to Thomas Hopkins, who became a merchant in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, "dealing both in flour and linen." In April 1791 he married Elizabeth Fitzakerly, "a highly accomplished young bride ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hopkins (lawyer)
John Alan Hopkins (16 December 1936 – 19 September 2018) was an English legal academic known for developing Downing College's reputation for law. He was a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow of Hughes Hall, Cambridge. Early education and career John Hopkins was born at Hemsworth (Yorkshire) and relocated to Pontypridd when he was 12. He attended Pontypridd Boys' Grammar School and then read law at Queens' College, Cambridge. He was awarded his B.A. in 1960, and his LLB the following year, accompanied by the Whewell Scholarship in International Law. He was elected to a fellowship at Downing College in October 1961. He was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1964. Thereafter, he held many positions in college, including Tutor, Senior Tutor and Director of Studies in Law, retiring in 2004. He became, in addition, a Visiting Professor at City University, London in 1980. In 1981, he was elected Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple, London. He was a governo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hopkins (political Activist)
John Victor Lindsay "Hoppy" Hopkins (15 August 1937 – 30 January 2015) was a British photographer, journalist, researcher and political activist, and "one of the best-known underground figures of 'Swinging London' " in the late 1960s. Life Hopkins was born on 15 August 1937 in Slough. In 1958, Hopkins graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, which he had entered on a scholarship in 1955, with a degree in physics and mathematics, and began to work as a laboratory technician at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, Oxfordshire. When Hopkins took a trip to Moscow to attend a Communist youth festival, his security clearance was revoked. Hopkins then re-located to London at the beginning of 1960, and began to work as a photographer for newspapers and music magazines including ''Jazz News'', ''The Guardian'', ''Melody Maker'' and ''Peace News''. Hopkins photographed many of the leading musicians of the period, including The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. He also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Hopkins
Jonathan Julian Hopkins (born 15 August 1979) is an English musician and producer who writes and performs electronic music. He began his career playing keyboards for Imogen Heap, and has produced but also contributed to albums by Brian Eno, Coldplay, David Holmes and others. Hopkins composed the soundtrack for the 2010 film ''Monsters'', which was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Score. His third studio album, '' Insides'', reached no. 15 on the US Dance/Electronic Albums chart in 2009. His collaborations on ''Small Craft on a Milk Sea'' with Brian Eno and Leo Abrahams and ''Diamond Mine'' with King Creosote both reached no. 82 on the UK Albums Chart. Both of his albums ''Diamond Mine'' (2011) and ''Immunity'' (2013) were nominated for the Mercury Prize. His fifth studio album '' Singularity'' received a Grammy nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album in December 2018. Hopkins's sixth studio album, ''Music for Psychedelic Therapy'', was released on 12 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Christian Hopkins
John Christian Hopkins (born 1960) is a Narragansett journalist, author, poet and public speaker who resides in Tuba City, Arizona, United States. After having grown up in Hope Valley, Rhode Island, Hopkins graduated from the University of Rhode Island with degrees in journalism and history in 1987. Hopkins is a career journalist who has worked at newspapers across New England, in New York, Florida, most recently in Arizona. He was a former nationally syndicated newspaper columnist for Gannett News Service. As a child Hopkins slept clutching books to his chest and dreamed of becoming an author. “I’ve never wanted to do anything else but write,” Hopkins said. He and his wife Sararesa live on her Navajo reservation in Fort Defiance, Arizona. Journalism Hopkins spent time as a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist for the Gannett News Service, and has also written for ''USA Today'', ''The News-Press'', ''The Pequot Times'', ''The Westerly Sun'', ''Indian Country Today ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hopkins (travel Writer)
John Livingston Hopkins Jr. (5 August 1938 – 25 April 2021) was an American novelist and travel writer. Biography Hopkins was born in Orange, New Jersey. Hopkins lived in Tangier, Morocco from 1962 to 1979 where he was a member of the Anglo/American literary crowd of the 1960s and 1970s, becoming friends with William Burroughs, Paul Bowles and Jane Bowles. He wrote several novels, among them ''Tangier Buzzless Flies'' and ''The Flight of the Pelican'', and travel memoirs including ''The Tangier Diaries'', ''The South American Diaries'' and ''The White Nile Diaries''. Latterly Hopkins lived in Oxfordshire Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ..., England. Marriage and children Hopkins married Ellen Ann Ragsdale in 1977. They had three sons.20th Century Cabells an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Larkin Hopkins
John Larkin Hopkins (25 November 1819 – 25 April 1873) was an English organist and composer, mostly of church music. Life He was born in Westminster on 25 November 1819, son of Edward Hopkins, a musician. The organist Edward John Hopkins was a cousin. He sang for several years as chorister boy in Westminster Abbey, James Turle being the organist and master of the choristers. After leaving the abbey choir Hopkins devoted himself to the study of music, and particularly of the organ, with such success that in 1841, aged 22, he was chosen to succeed Ralph Banks as organist of Rochester Cathedral. In 1842 Hopkins took the degree of Mus. Bac. at Cambridge University, and in 1856 was elected organist at Trinity College, Cambridge; he resigned his appointment at Rochester and moved to Cambridge. He proceeded to the degree of Mus. Doc. in 1857. He died at Ventnor Ventnor () is a seaside resort and civil parish established in the Victorian era on the southeast coast of the Isle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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