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John Jardine (dean)
John Jardine may refer to: * John Jardine (American football) (1936–1990), American football coach *John Jardine (British Columbia politician) (1857–1937), politician in British Columbia, Canada * Sir John Jardine, 1st Baronet (1844–1919), Scottish businessman and Liberal politician * Sir John Jardine, 3rd Baronet (1683–1737) *John Jardine (Prince Edward Island politician), Prince Edward Island, Canada politician *John Jardine, police magistrate at Rockhampton, Government Resident in the Torres Strait Islands from 1862. * Rick Jardine (John Frederick Jardine), Canadian mathematician *John Jardine (minister) John Jardine (1716–1766) was a Church of Scotland minister who served as Dean of the Chapel Royal, Dean of the Thistle Chapel and Chaplain in Ordinary to the King. He was a close friend of the Edinburgh author John Home (who was a distant ... (1716-1766) Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland See also * Jardine baronets for others {{hndis, name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jardine (American Football)
John Jardine (July 20, 1935 – March 23, 1990) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1970 to 1977, compiling a record of 37–47–3. Jardine's best season came in 1974, when his Wisconsin Badgers went 7–4 and placed fourth in the Big Ten Conference. Noteworthy was the Badgers' 21–20 victory over the perennial powerhouse Nebraska during the second week of the season. Jardine was a graduate of Purdue University where he was a starting guard in 1956 and 1957. He began his coaching career at Central Catholic High School in Lafayette, Indiana in 1958, then moved to the head coaching job at Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois. Jardine's five teams at Fenwick produced an overall 51–6–1 record and the Friars played in the Chicago Catholic League title game in 1959, 1961, and 1962. His 1962 squad was undefeated, winning the Chicago city title. Jardine left the prep ranks following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jardine (British Columbia Politician)
John Jardine (September 24, 1854 – October 15, 1937) was a Scotland, Scottish-born joiner, decorator and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Esquimalt (electoral district), Esquimalt from 1907 to 1912 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a British Columbia Liberal Party, Liberal. Biography He was born in Lockerbie, the son of John Jardine and Janet Montgomery, and educated in Lockerbie Academy, Dryfesdale. Jardine apprenticed as a house painter with his older brother Thomas for five years and then continued to work at that trade in Scotland for about three more years. He moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1880. In the same year, he married Jane King Stoddart. Jardine stayed in Minnesota until 1884, when he moved to Victoria, British Columbia. He owned a ranch on the British Columbia Electric Railway near Langley, British Columbia (city), Langley. The Jardine station was named in his honour. However, he lived in Esquimalt, British Columbia, Esquim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Jardine, 1st Baronet
Sir John Jardine, 1st Baronet, KCIE (27 September 1844 – 26 April 1919) was a British Liberal politician and colonial civil servant in India. Biography Early life and career in India Jardine was the son of William Jardine of Bedford (but originally of Dumfriesshire, Scotland) and was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for English Verse in 1864. He joined the Bombay Civil Service in 1864, and was Political Officer in Native States of Kattywar in 1871, Secretary for the trial of the Gaekwar of Baroda in 1875, Secretary to Treaty with Portugal and Law Officer to Government of India in 1877; Judicial Commissioner of Burma in 1878, President of the Burma School Board in 1881, and Chief Secretary to Bombay Government, holding the Political, Secret, Educational, Persian, and Judicial portfolios in 1885. Jardine was elected Fellow of the University of Bombay in 1872, and was sometime the University's Dean of Arts and Dean of Law. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jardine (Prince Edward Island Politician)
John Jardine was the speaker of 19th Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island The Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island (french: Assemblée législative de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard) is the sole chamber of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island. The Legislative Assembly meets at Province House, which is locate ... in 1854. References Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island Members of the Legislative Council of Prince Edward Island 19th-century Canadian politicians Year of birth uncertain Year of death uncertain Colony of Prince Edward Island people {{PrinceEdwardIsland-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torres Strait Islands
The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait, a waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea. They span an area of , but their total land area is . The Islands have been inhabited by the indigenous Torres Strait Islanders. Lieutenant James Cook first claimed British sovereignty over the eastern part of Australia at Possession Island, Queensland, Possession Island in 1770, but British administrative control only began in the Torres Strait Islands in 1862. The islands are now mostly part of Queensland, a constituent State of the Australia, Commonwealth of Australia, but are administered by the Torres Strait Regional Authority, a statutory authority of the Australian federal government. A few islands very close to the coast of mainland New Guinea belong to the Western Province (Papua New Guinea), Western Province of Papua New Guinea, most importantly Daru Island with the provin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Jardine
John Frederick "Rick" Jardine (born December 6, 1951 in Belleville, Canada) is a Canadian mathematician working in the fields of homotopy theory, category theory, and number theory. Biography Jardine obtained his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1981, with thesis ''Algebraic Homotopy'' written under the direction of Roy Douglas. Following a research fellowship at the University of Toronto and a Dickson instructorship at the University of Chicago, he joined the Department of Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario in 1984, where he is currently an emeritus professor. From 2002 to 2016, Jardine held a Canada Research Chair in applied homotopy theory. Since 2008, he is fellow of the Fields Institute, and has been recognized with the Coxeter–James Prize in 1992 by the Canadian Mathematical Society. In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed him in their inaugural class of fellows. Work Jardine is known for his work on model category In mathemati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jardine (minister)
John Jardine (1716–1766) was a Church of Scotland minister who served as Dean of the Chapel Royal, Dean of the Thistle Chapel and Chaplain in Ordinary to the King. He was a close friend of the Edinburgh author John Home (who was a distant cousin to his wife), and also of David Hume and Henry Home, Lord Kames. Life He was born on 3 January 1716 the son of Rev Robert Jardine (d.1749), and his wife Janet Rannie (d.1778). His father was minister of Cummertrees at the time of his birth but moved to Glencairn in 1719 and settled in Lochmaben near Dumfries in 1732. There is no mention of any formal training but he was licensed to preach as a Church of Scotland minister by the Presbytery of Lochmaben in September 1736. It took five years to find a position, and only in July 1741 was he ordained as minister of Liberton parish, just south of Edinburgh. He was translated to Lady Yester's Church in the city in 1750 and in October 1754 moved to the Tron Kirk on the Royal Mile w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
