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John Palmer (merchant)
John Palmer may refer to: People Politicians * John Palmer (fl. 1377–1394), English politician *Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet (1735–1817), British politician *John Palmer (1785–1840), U.S. congressman from New York *John Palmer (1842–1905), secretary of state of New York and commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic *John Hinde Palmer (1808–1884), English barrister and Liberal Party politician * John William Palmer (1866–1958), U.S. Representative from Missouri *John M. Palmer (politician) (1817–1900), U.S. Civil War general and governor and senator from Illinois *John R. Palmer (1809–1877), Michigan politician Architects *John Palmer (architect) (1785–1846), English architect *John Palmer (Bath architect) (1738–1817), English architect Religious figures *John Palmer (Unitarian, 1729?–1790), English minister, active in the Midlands and north *John Palmer (Unitarian, 1742–1786), English minister, active in the south *John Palmer (Master of Magdale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Palmer (fl
John Palmer may refer to: People Politicians * John Palmer (fl. 1377–1394), English politician * Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet (1735–1817), British politician *John Palmer (1785–1840), U.S. congressman from New York *John Palmer (1842–1905), secretary of state of New York and commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic *John Hinde Palmer (1808–1884), English barrister and Liberal Party politician *John William Palmer (1866–1958), U.S. Representative from Missouri * John M. Palmer (politician) (1817–1900), U.S. Civil War general and governor and senator from Illinois * John R. Palmer (1809–1877), Michigan politician Architects * John Palmer (architect) (1785–1846), English architect *John Palmer (Bath architect) (1738–1817), English architect Religious figures *John Palmer (Unitarian, 1729?–1790), English minister, active in the Midlands and north *John Palmer (Unitarian, 1742–1786), English minister, active in the south *John Palmer (Master of Magd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bud Palmer
John Shove "Bud" Palmer (born John Palmer Flynn; September 14, 1921 – March 19, 2013) was an American professional basketball player. He was a member of the New York Knicks during the team's first three seasons in the Basketball Association of America, and was the leading scorer in the team's inaugural 1946–47 season. Palmer is considered to be one of the inventors of the Born in Hollywood, California, Palmer was the son of football player and actor Maurice Bennett "Lefty" Flynn and singer Blanche Palmer. He was nicknamed "Bud" due to being the budding image of his father; Palmer relinquished his father's surname from his own name when his parents divorced. Palmer was when he started playing basketball at Hun School of Princeton, and started using the jump shot to compensate for his height. He grew a foot taller to by the time he began playing college basketball at Princeton University, and played for three seasons before he enlisted in the U.S. Navy during After his NBA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Palmer (TV Journalist)
John Spencer Palmer (September 10, 1935 – August 3, 2013) was an American news correspondent, television broadcaster and news anchor for NBC News. Career NBC News Palmer worked for the NBC network over the course of 40 years, first from 1962 to 1990; then again from 1994 until his retirement in 2002. During his tenure with NBC News, he held several positions, including correspondent stints in Chicago, Paris, and the Middle East; White House correspondent (1979–1982); anchor of the Sunday edition of ''NBC Nightly News'' (1984-1986 & 1996) and news anchor for ''The Today Show'' (1982–1989). In April 1980, Palmer reported on the failure of Operation Eagle Claw, the mission to rescue the American hostages held by Iran. This earned him the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for excellence in presidential news coverage, becoming the first broadcast journalist to ever receive this prestigious award. On January 28, 1986, Palmer broke into NBC's regularly scheduled programing from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Palmer (colonial Administrator)
Captain John Palmer (c.1650 – c.1700) was an English soldier, lawyer and colonial administrator. In the earlier 1670s Palmer moved from Barbados to the Province of New York, and he was then appointed ranger of Staten Island. Thomas Rudyard made him one of his councillors in East Jersey, in 1682. Palmer purchased the land comprising much of the neighborhood now known as Far Rockaway in the borough of Queens in New York City in 1685 from the Native American chief Tackapausha for 31 English pounds. Palmer sold most of the land to Richard Cornell in 1687. Also in 1687, Thomas Dongan sent Palmer to England, to confer with James II. He was then made a commissioner governing Maine, with John West, taking profit from supposed uncertainties in land titles of colonists there. In 1688 the governor Sir Edmund Andros of New England fell as a result of the Glorious Revolution, and Palmer was imprisoned. Legacy The Palmer's Landing neighborhood in the Arverne By The Sea development in Arve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Palmer (postal Innovator)
John Palmer of Bath (1742 – 16 August 1818) was a theatre owner and instigator of the British system of mail coaches that was the beginning of the great British post office reforms with the introduction of an efficient mail coach delivery service in Great Britain during the late 18th century. He was Mayor of Bath on two occasions and Comptroller General of the Post Office, and later served as Member of Parliament for the constituency of Bath between 1801 and 1807. Theatre Palmer was the eldest son of a prosperous Bath brewer and theatre owner who inherited his father's Old Orchard Street Theatre, and obtained a royal letters patent for it in 1768 which gave him an effective monopoly on playhouses in the city and the right to use the title "Theatre Royal", the first theatre outside London to acquire it. Palmer's second theatre in Bristol was granted the same status in 1778, becoming the Theatre Royal, Bristol. Palmer worked as his father's London agent, frequently travellin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Palmer (director)
John Palmer (May 13, 1943 – May 15, 2020) was a Canadian theatre and film director and playwright. ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', August 12, 2010. Palmer was born May 13, 1943, in , . Cofounder of several theatre companies in in the 1970s, Palmer was primarily a theatre director, whose credits include the original production of |
John Palmer (Commissary Of New South Wales)
John Palmer (17 June 1760 – 27 September 1833) was a commissary of New South Wales, responsible for the colony's supplies. He arrived with the First Fleet in 1788, and was opposed to those who plotted against Governor William Bligh. One of eight children, John Palmer was born in Portsmouth. He first came to Sydney in 1788 as Purser on the ''Sirius'', the flagship of the First Fleet. In September 1796 he left briefly for England in the ''Britannia'' to bring back his family to settle permanently in New South Wales. He returned in November 1800 on board the ''Porpoise'' with his wife and two surviving sons out of his then six children. One son had been born on the voyage out at Cape Town, but had died at sea less than one month later and before they had reached Sydney. Also with him was an unmarried naval officer brother Christopher Palmer (1767–1821), and two unmarried sisters Sarah Sophia Palmer (1774–?) and Sophia Palmer (1777–1833). In 1801, Sophia married the mercha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Palmer (author)
John Leslie Palmer (4 September 1885, Paddington, London – 5 August 1944) was an English author. Under his own name, he wrote extensively about early English actors and about British literary figures. He also wrote fiction under the collaborative pseudonyms Francis Beeding, Christopher Haddon, David Pilgrim and John Somers. Francis Beeding As "Francis Beeding", he and Hilary Saint George Saunders co-authored 31 novels, including '' The House of Dr. Edwardes'', later used as the basis for the Hitchcock film '' Spellbound''. The majority, beginning with ''The Seven Sleepers'' in 1925 and ending with ''Three are Thirteen'' in 1946, can be classified as spy novels. The Beeding pseudonym was kept secret from its start in 1920, until in 1925 Saunders delivered a lecture about his writing methods, as Francis Beeding, while Palmer heckled from the audience. Saunders invited Palmer to the platform, and the dual authorship was revealed. Nonfiction He wrote biographies of Molière, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Palmer (actor)
John Palmer (c. 1742–1798) was an actor on the English stage in the eighteenth century. There was also another John Palmer (1728–1768) who was known as Gentleman Palmer. Richard Brinsley Sheridan nicknamed him Plausible Jack. Birth and youth He was born in the parish of St Luke's, Old Street, London, about 1742, was son of a private soldier. In 1759 the father served under the Marquis of Granby, and subsequently, on the marquis's recommendation, became a bill-sticker and doorkeeper at Drury Lane Theatre in London. When about eighteen John recited the parts of George Barnwell and Mercutio to David Garrick, but Garrick found no promise in him, and joined his father in urging him to enter the army. Garrick even got a small military appointment for him; but Palmer refused to follow his counsel, and entered the shop of a print-seller on Ludgate Hill. On 20 May 1762, for the benefit of his father and three others, he made his first appearance on any stage, playing Buck in the ''En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Palmer, 4th Earl Of Selborne
John Roundell Palmer, 4th Earl of Selborne, (24 March 1940 – 12 February 2021), was a British peer, ecological expert, and businessman. He was one of the hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the enactment of the House of Lords Act 1999, sitting as a Conservative. He re-designated as non-affiliated in September 2019 and retired from the House on 26 March 2020. Background and education The son of Captain William Palmer, Viscount Wolmer (in turn son of Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne, and the Honourable Grace Ridley), and Priscilla Egerton-Warburton, Lord Selborne succeeded to his grandfather's titles in 1971; this was because his father had been killed in 1942 during a training exercise while serving with the Hampshire Regiment. He was educated first at St. Ronan's School, Hawkhurst, and at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1961, proceeding to complete a Master of Arts. Career Lord Selborne was trea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Palmer (criminal)
John Edward Palmer (September 1950 – 24 June 2015) was an English criminal, former market trader and gold dealer, involved in various criminal activities including mortgage and timeshare fraud. The police believed that much of his alleged £300 million fortune was the result of swindles, violence, racketeering and money laundering. Palmer owned a complex network of 122 companies, many offshore in the Isle of Man, Madeira and the British Virgin Islands, as well as 60 offshore bank accounts. Early life Palmer was born in Solihull, Warwickshire, one of seven children.Elizabeth Nas"Goldfingered", ''The Independent'', 2 July 1999 Reportedly dyslexic, Palmer left school at 15 and joined his brother Malcolm in a roof tiling business and also sold paraffin from "the back of a lorry".Jeevan Vasagar and Nick Hopkin"King of crime who became as rich as the Queen", ''The Guardian'', 24 May 2000 He married Marnie J. A. Ryan in 1975 in Bristol. He ran a gold and jewellery dealing compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Turpin
Richard Turpin (bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher early in his life but, by the early 1730s, he had joined a gang of deer thieves and, later, became a poacher, burglar, horse thief and killer. He is also known for a fictional overnight ride from London to York on his horse Black Bess, a story that was made famous by the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth almost 100 years after Turpin's death. Turpin's involvement in the crime with which he is most closely associated—highway robbery—followed the arrest of the other members of his gang in 1735. He then disappeared from public view towards the end of that year, only to resurface in 1737 with two new accomplices, one of whom Turpin may have accidentally shot and killed. Turpin fled from the scene and shortly afterwards ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
