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John Lamb (dean)
John Lamb may refer to: * John Lamb (general) (1735–1800), U.S. Revolutionary War general and Anti-Federalist organizer *John Lamb (Australian politician) (1790–1862), New South Wales politician * John Lamb (congressman) (1840–1924), United States Congressman from Virginia * John Edward Lamb (1852–1914), U.S. Representative from Indiana * John Lamb (architect) (1859–1949), architect based in Nottingham * John Lamb (American football) (1873–1955), American football coach for Emporia State University * John Lamb (rugby union) (1907–1983), rugby union player who represented Australia * John Lamb (musician) (born 1933), jazz double bassist with the Duke Ellington Orchestra * John Lamb (right-handed pitcher) (born 1946), American baseball player * John Lamb (left-handed pitcher) (born 1990), American baseball player * John Lamb (producer), American film producer and director, animator, artist * John Lamb (footballer) (born 1893), English football half back *John Lamb (priest) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lamb (general)
John Lamb (1735–1800) was an American soldier, politician, and Anti-Federalist organizer (particularly in New York state). During the American Revolutionary War he led the 2nd Continental Artillery Regiment. Career He was born January 1, 1735, in New York City, the son of Anthony Lamb. His father was a convicted burglar who was transported to the colonies in the 1720s. John was initially trained as an optician and instrument maker in New York City and became a prosperous wine merchant. Prior to the Revolutionary War, Lamb was a leading member of the Sons of Liberty. He wrote articles in and published anonymous handbills. When the news of the Battles of Lexington and Concord was received he and his men seized the military stores at Turtle Bay. He was commissioned a captain of an artillery company and served under Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold in the Battle of Quebec. He was wounded and captured at the assault on Quebec city and was released on parole a few months ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lamb (Australian Politician)
Commander John Lamb (1790 – 17 January 1862) was an English-born Australian naval officer, banker and politician. The son of Captain Edward Lamb of the East India Company and Eliza Buchanan, Lamb was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council on 10 September 1844. He had a distinguished career with the Royal Navy, beginning at age 11 on his uncle Captain, Captain William Buchanan's British Navy warship, the ''Leviathan''. Lamb was noted for his role in several feats over the French and accepted the rank of retired naval commander in May 1846. Commander Lamb founded a banking family in Australia as chairman of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney (now National Australia Bank). Four of his sons also became CBCS directors, namely the bankers and politicians Walter Lamb, Alfred Lamb (Australian politician), Alfred Lamb, Edward Lamb (politician), Edward Lamb and the banker Chislehurst, Chatswood, John de Villiers Lamb. His wife Emma (née Robinson) was the daughte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lamb (congressman)
John Lamb (June 12, 1840 – November 21, 1924) was a Virginia farmer, Confederate officer, businessman and politician who served 16 years in the United States House of Representatives. Early and family life Born in Sussex County, Virginia to the former Ann Christian (1820-1876), and her Whig farmer, schoolteacher and surveyor husband, Lycurgus Lamb (1814-1855), John Lamb would have several sisters (three who married after the conflict), as well as a younger brother, James Christian Lamb (1853-1903; who became a lawyer and chancery judge in Richmond). He was descended from the bishop Robert Lamb. His father was a firstborn son and named this boy, his firstborn son, for his own father, but died before any of his children reached adulthood. The Lamb family had owned the "Rural Shades" plantation in Charles City County for 200 years, and by this boy's lifetime, had long used enslaved labor there. In the 1850 census, Lycurgus Lamb owned 15 enslaved people in Charles City County ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Edward Lamb
John Edward Lamb (December 26, 1852 – August 23, 1914) was an American lawyer who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1883 to 1885. Biography Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Lamb attended the common schools and was graduated from the Terre Haute High School. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1873, commencing practice in Terre Haute. He served as prosecuting attorney of the fourteenth judicial circuit 1875-1880. Congress Lamb was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885). Later career and death Afterwards, he resumed the practice of law in Terre Haute. He was appointed United States district attorney for Indiana July 10, 1885, and served until August 16, 1886. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1892, 1896, 1904, 1908, and 1912. He died in Terre Haute, Indiana Terre Haute ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, about 5 miles eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lamb (architect)
John Lamb (1858 - 1949) was a surveyor, civil engineer and architect based in Nottingham. History He was born in 1858 in Shrivenham, Berkshire, the son of Samuel Wrightson Lamb and Caroline Lamb. He married Mary Haddleton Silverwood in 1885, and they had the following children: *Bernard John Lamb (b. 1886) *Frederick Wrightson Lamb (1890-1960) *Alexander Silverwood Lamb (1894-1980) *Gwendoline Mary Lamb (b. 1897) *Lieutenant Frank Muller Lamb (1897-1918) In 1877 he moved to Nottingham, and was articled to a local architect. He worked in partnership with Frederick Ball as ''Ball & Lamb'' until around 1907 when he set up his own practice in Ashbourne Chambers (now 17) Bridlesmith Gate where he worked until he retired in 1924. One of his pupils was Alfred John Thraves. He was superintendent of the Christian Brethren Sunday School in South Parade Hall. In 1942 he moved to live with his daughter in Manchester. He died and was buried on 29 September 1949 at St Margaret's Church, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lamb (American Football)
John Henderson Lamb (February 16, 1873 – March 3, 1955) was an American football coach. He was the first head football coach the Kansas State Normal School—now known as Emporia State University—in Emporia, Kansas, serving for one season, in 1900, and compiling a record of 5–3–1. Emporia State's football team began in 1893 but played without an official head coach for the first seven seasons. Lamb was born on February 16, 1873, in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and moved to Kansas with his father to homestead. He graduated from the College of Emporia and later trained at the Princeton Theological Seminary to become a Presbyterian minister. Lamb married Martha Rannek in Jacksonville, Illinois on May 15, 1902. He died on March 3, 1955, at a hospital in Frederick, Oklahoma Frederick is a city and county seat of Tillman County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 3,940 at the 2010 census. It is an agriculture-based community that primarily produces wheat, cotton, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lamb (rugby Union)
John Stewart "Mac”Lamb (born 12 April 1907 – 12 June 1983) was a rugby union player who represented Australia. Lamb, a lock, claimed a total of 3 international rugby caps for Australia. In 1924 and 1925 he attended Newington College , motto_translation = To Faith Add Knowledge , location = Inner West and Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales , country = Australia , coordinates = , pushpin_map = A .... References Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players 1907 births 1983 deaths People educated at Newington College Rugby union players from Armidale, New South Wales Rugby union locks {{Australia-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lamb (musician)
John Lamb (born November 29, 1933) is an American jazz double bassist who was a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Born in Vero Beach, Florida, Lamb as a child loved playing music, specializing in the tuba. He left high school to join the United States Air Force as a musician for their military band. He was stationed in Texas and then Montana, where the long winters left him ample time to practice. When the band's usual string bass player was unavailable for a gig in 1951, the bandmaster asked Lamb if he could play the bass; Lamb immediately said yes, and before long became the band's new string bassist. He credited his tuba experience for giving him the "feel" to pick up string bass quickly without any prior experience. Lamb joined Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1964, and toured with them for three years. Lamb was more of a fan of Miles Davis and Red Garland when he was with Ellington, later saying, “I was very young and very cocky. I thought I knew more than Duke at that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lamb (right-handed Pitcher)
John Andrew Lamb (born July 20, 1946) is an American former professional baseball player and right-handed pitcher who appeared in portions of three seasons in Major League Baseball between and as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Born in Sharon, Connecticut, he was listed as tall and . Lamb graduated from Housatonic Valley Regional High School — also the alma mater of star Pirates' right-hander and brother-in-law Steve Blass — in 1964. He then entered the Pirates' farm system. In 1969, he enjoyed a breakout season with Salem of the Class-A Carolina League, appearing in 50 games, all in relief, and posting an 11–4 won–lost record and 18 saves, with a sparkling 1.95 earned run average. He followed that campaign with another strong year in 1970, with a combined 6–2 record, 15 saves, and 1.17 earned run average in 39 games in Double-A and Triple-A. He was brought up to Pittsburgh in August for his MLB debut. When Lamb was recalled, the Pirates were involved in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lamb (left-handed Pitcher)
John Michael Lamb (born July 10, 1990) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds and Los Angeles Angels. Lamb is the grandson of John Ramsey, the former Public Address announcer at Dodger Stadium. Career Kansas City Royals Lamb attended Laguna Hills High School in Laguna Hills, California. The Kansas City Royals selected Lamb in the fifth round of the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft. He signed with the Royals, receiving a $165,000 signing bonus. In 2010, Lamb won the Paul Splittorff Award as the best minor league pitcher in the Royals' system. Prior to the 2011 season, Lamb was rated the 18th best prospect in baseball by ''Baseball America''. He underwent Tommy John surgery to repair an ulnar collateral ligament in June 2011. The Royals added him to their 40-man roster after the 2012 season. Lamb pitched for the Wilmington Blue Rocks of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League in 2013. He joined the Omah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lamb (producer)
John Lamb is an American artist and entrepreneur. Lamb created among the first American animated surfing and skateboarding cartoons, and perhaps the first American animated, rotoscoped music video. In 1979, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Lamb with an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement for co-invention of the Lyon Lamb Video Animation System (VAS). In the early 1970s, Lamb's animation appeared in two seminal surf movies. ''The Forgotten Island of Santosha'' by Larry and Roger Yates featured Lamb's first animated film ''Secret Spot'' (1974), while ''Five Summer Stories'' by McGillivray-Freeman Films (1975) featured Lamb's animated short ''Rocket 88''. Secret Spot' introduced Willy Makitt, Lamb's trademark surfer. ''Secret Spot'' features an "air" maneuver where the surfer rides up the face of the wave, into the air, and lands back on the wave to continue surfing. This maneuver was pure imagination at the time, and is now a stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lamb (footballer)
John Lamb (25 July 1889 – 1951) was an English professional footballer who played as a half back in the Football League for Luton Town and The Wednesday. He began his career as a centre forward in non-League football with Bolsover Colliery and was converted into a half back at The Wednesday. Personal life Lamb served as a private in the Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment during the First World War. After the war, the effects of wounds received on the Somme prematurely ended his Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ... career in 1921. Career statistics References 1889 births Date of death missing English men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Bolsover Colliery F.C. players Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
