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John Hunter (Royal Navy Officer), John Hunter
John Hunter may refer to: Politics *John Hunter (British politician) (1724–1802), British Member of Parliament for Leominster *John Hunter (Canadian politician) (1909–1993), Canadian Liberal MP for Parkdale, 1949–1957 *Sir John Hunter (consul-general) (died 1816), British consul-general in Spain *John Hunter (Northern Ireland politician), Ulster unionist member of the Northern Ireland Forum *John Hunter (Royal Navy officer) (1737–1821), Governor of New South Wales * John Hunter (South Carolina politician) (c. 1750–1802), American politician *John Hunter (Westchester County, New York) (1778–1852), New York politician * John F. Hunter (1896–1957), U.S. Representative from Ohio *John W. Hunter (1807–1900), US Congressman from New York *Jon Blair Hunter (fl. 1990s–2000s), West Virginia politician *John Dunn Hunter (1796–1827), leader of the Fredonian Rebellion *John McEwan Hunter (1863–1940), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Sports Soccer *John Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hunter (British Politician)
John Hunter (1724 – 16 December 1802) was a British 'nabob' who became wealthy as a result of trading with India, and subsequently went into politics as deputy chairman of the East India Company and as Member of Parliament (MP) for Leominster. Foundations of business career Although he had only £100 to his name when he left England,"The Late Mr. Hunter", ''The Times'', 12 February 1803, p. 3. Hunter was said to have enjoyed "long success in trade as a free merchant in the East Indies" which gave him assets of over £100,000.'' Gentleman's Magazine'', 1803, p. 88. In July 1777 he bought the Gobions or Gubbins Estate, near Potters Bar in Hertfordshire and served in 1780-1 as High Sheriff of Hertfordshire. At Gubbins, Hunter became interested in farming and in fattening Oxen for sale, at which he is reported to have succeeded in turning a profit. At the 1780 general election, Hunter came forward as an Opposition candidate for the borough of Milborne Port in Somerset. He and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jock Hunter
John Hunter (1875 – 1950) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Preston North End Preston North End Football Club, commonly referred to as Preston, North End or PNE, is a professional football club in Preston, Lancashire, England, who currently play in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league syste .... References 1875 births 1950 deaths Scottish men's footballers Scottish Football League players English Football League players Men's association football wing halves St Mirren F.C. players Preston North End F.C. players Portsmouth F.C. players Lisburn Distillery F.C. players {{Scotland-footy-midfielder-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Sir John Alexander Macdonald (January 10 or 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 to 1891. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career that spanned almost half a century. Macdonald was born in Scotland; when he was a boy his family immigrated to Kingston in the Province of Upper Canada (today in eastern Ontario). As a lawyer, he was involved in several high-profile cases and quickly became prominent in Kingston, which elected him in 1844 to the legislature of the Province of Canada. By 1857, he had become premier under the colony's unstable political system. In 1864, when no party proved capable of governing for long, Macdonald agreed to a proposal from his political rival, George Brown, that the parties unite in a Great Coalition to seek federation and political reform. Macdonald was the leading figure in the subsequent discussions and conferences, which resulted in the Brit ... [...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 Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Irvine Hunter
John Irvine Hunter (24 January 1898 – 10 December 1924)Michael J. Blunt,, '' Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Vol. 9, MUP, 1983, pp 408–9. Retrieved 13 August 2009 was an Australian professor of anatomy. Early life and education Hunter was born in Bendigo, Victoria, the third son of Henry Hunter, a furniture dealer, and Isabella ''née'' Hodgson. At eight years of age, Hunter contracted pneumonia and was sent to recuperate with an aunt in Albury, New South Wales, where he stayed for some years afterwards. Hunter was educated first at Albury Public school (1906–12), and later at the academically selective Fort Street High School, Sydney, which he left with a bursary and an exhibition. As a medical student at the University of Sydney, despite circumstances making it necessary for him to earn money by coaching, he succeeded in winning practically all available prizes and scholarships. Hunter graduated with first-class honours in 1920. From 1917 to 1920, Hunter was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hunter (physician)
Dr John Hunter FRSE (1754–1809) was a Scottish physician linked to Jamaica. Life Hunter was born in Perthshire, and studied medicine at Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.D. in 1775. He was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians of London in 1777, and appointed physician to the army through the interest of George Baker and William Heberden. From 1781 to 1783 Hunter was superintendent of the military hospitals in Jamaica. On returning to England he settled in practice as a physician in London, first in Charles Street, and then in Hill Street. Elected a fellow of the Royal Society by 1787, he was admitted a fellow of the College of Physicians ''speciali gratia'' in 1793, and was made censor the same year. As Gulstonian lecturer in 1796, Hunter lectured on softening of the brain, which he is said to have been the first to treat as a distinct pathological condition; the lecture was not published. He delivered the Croonian lectures from 1799 to 1801. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hunter (surgeon)
John Hunter (13 February 1728 – 16 October 1793) was a British surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine. He was a teacher of, and collaborator with, Edward Jenner, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine. He is alleged to have paid for the stolen body of Charles Byrne, and proceeded to study and exhibit it against the deceased's explicit wishes. His wife, Anne Hunter (''née'' Home), was a poet, some of whose poems were set to music by Joseph Haydn. He learned anatomy by assisting his elder brother William with dissections in William's anatomy school in Central London, starting in 1748, and quickly became an expert in anatomy. He spent some years as an Army surgeon, worked with the dentist James Spence conducting tooth transplants, and in 1764 set up his own anatomy school in London. He built up a collection of living animals whose skeletons and other organs he prepa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hunter (classicist)
John Hunter FRSE (7 September 1746 – 18 January 1837) was a Scottish classicist and horticulturalist. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Life Hunter was born in Closeburn, Dumfries and Galloway on 7 September 1746. He was educated nearby at Wallace Hall School. He was then attended the University of Edinburgh, graduation with an MA in 1768. His first role was as private secretary to Lord Monboddo. In 1775 he then accepted the role of Professor of Humanity at the United College in University of St Andrews, continuing in this role until 1826. In 1826 (aged 80) he took on the role of Principal of the twin colleges of St Leonards and St Salvators at the University. The University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in later life. He died at St Andrews on 18 January 1837, and is buried in St Andrews Cathedral churchyard. Family He married twice, firstly around 1770 to Elizabeth Miln and together they had a son, James Hunter (177 ... [...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 Hunter (screenwriter)
John Evans Hunter (23 August 1911 – 8 September 1984) was an American-born, BAFTA-nominated screenwriter in the British film industry. The son of actress Millicent Evans (1888 - 1952) and producer/director Ernest J. Carpenter (1869 - 1964), Hunter was born in New York on 23 August 1911. He later claimed to be the illegitimate son of Douglas Fairbanks. His parents divorced in 1917 and his mother married director T. Hayes Hunter in Los Angeles in 1919. He graduated from Hollywood High School in 1927 and the family moved to England, where Hunter attended Trinity College, Cambridge. At Trinity, he was a member of the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club and an editor of the college paper. Hunter began his career while still a Trinity student, as a screenwriter for '' Smashing Through'' (1929) and an actor in ''Varsity'' (1930, as J. Evans Hunter). After graduating with Third Class Honours he began a successful career as a screenwriter, most notably with Hammer Film Production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hunter (scientist)
John Hunter (born November 14, 1955) is an American projectile researcher, who developed the 1994 "supergun" Super High Altitude Research Project (SHARP) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The ultimate aim of his research is to shoot payloads into space, at less than one tenth of the cost of unmanned rockets. John Hunter was the director of Quicklaunch until 2012 and currently runs a startup called Green Launch that is developing a light gas gun concepthttps://greenlaunch.org See also * Gerald Bull * Non-rocket spacelaunch Non-rocket spacelaunch refers to theoretical concepts for launch into space where much of the speed and altitude needed to achieve orbit is provided by a propulsion technique that is not subject to the limits of the rocket equation. Although al ... References External links New technology testing may achieve the goals of HARP "space" gun [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Hunter
Johnny Hunter (21 July 1925 – 7 May 1980) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. He played in Sydney's NSWRFL Premiership for the Eastern Suburbs club, with whom he won the 1945 NSWRFL Premiership, as well as in England for Huddersfield, with whom he won the 1953 Challenge Cup. The 1945 NSWRFL season was Hunter's first, and at the end of it he played at centre in Eastern Suburbs' Premiership final victory. In January 1947 Hunter along with Eastern Suburbs teammate Lionel Cooper signed to play with English club Huddersfield. Hunter scored 16-tries during the 1948–49 Northern Rugby Football League season, his first in England, breaking the record for a set by Jim Sullivan. During the 1949–50 Northern Rugby Football League season Hunter played a fullback in Huddersfield's 2–20 defeat by Wigan in the Rugby Football League Championship Final at Maine Road, Manchester on Saturday 13 May 1950. During the 1952-53 season Hunter played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
