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John Reeve (army Officer)
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John Reeve may refer to: * John Reeve (religious leader) (1608–1658), English plebeian prophet * John Reeve (actor) (1799–1838), English comic actor * John Reeve (businessman), executive with Willis Group Holdings * John N. Reeve, American microbiologist * John Reeve (bobsleigh) (born 1937), bobsledder who represented the United States Virgin Islands * John Bunyan Reeve (1831–1916), Presbyterian minister and professor at Howard University See also *John Reeves (other) John Reeves may refer to: Sports * John Reeves (baseball), American baseball player * John Reeves (Australian footballer) (1929–1970), Australian rules footballer * John Reeves (footballer, born 1963), English football (soccer) player for Fulham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Reeve (religious Leader)
John Reeve (1608–1658) was an English plebeian prophet who believed the voice of God had instructed him to found a Third Commission in preparation for the last days of earth. This commission was third in succession to the Mosaic Law and the gospel of Christ Jesus. He and his followers came to be known as Muggletonians, named after his cousin Lodowicke Muggleton. The pair saw themselves as the last prophets and the Two Witnesses foretold in the Book of Revelation chapter 11 verse 3. They are sometimes called “ the Staffordshire prophets”. Early life Reeve was born in Wiltshire. His father, Walter, was styled a gentleman but who fell on hard times. As a result, John and his elder brother, William, were apprenticed tailors in the City of London. William was Lodowicke Muggleton's first employer as a journeyman tailor. Mercurius Politicus (1653) says of John Reeve and Lodowicke Muggleton "only one works and that is Muggleton; the other (they say) writes Prophecies." "A Trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Reeve (actor)
John Reeve (1799–1838) was an English comic actor. His early career was based on mimicry: he became a popular favourite, able to continue in highly paid work, despite drinking heavily and not learning his parts. Early life The son of Thomas Reeve, a hosier and common councillor, and nephew of William Reeve and Robert Waithman, he was born at his father's shop on Ludgate Hill, on 2 February 1799. At school at Winchmore Hill under a Mr. Thompson, he had for companion Frederick Henry Yates. From age 14 behind his father's counter for two years, when his father retired, he was placed with a firm of wholesale hosiers named Nevill or Neville in Maiden Lane, Wood Street, lasting three years there. As a clerk in Gosling's Bank on Fleet Street, Reeve with colleagues hired every two weeks Pym's Theatre, Wilson Street, off Gray's Inn Road. Pym was an ex-actor, who had fitted up an assembly room as an upmarket "private theatre", a place for well-supported amateur theatricals. Finding hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Reeve (businessman)
John Reeve is a former Executive Chairman and chief executive officer of Willis Group Holdings. Business career Reeve worked for The British Aluminum Company plc., and then was a Group Finance Director of Mercantile House Holdings plc. He then joined Sun Life Corporation plc in 1988, and was a managing director there from April 1988 to October 1995. Reeve joined Willis on 1 November 1995 as Executive Chairman-elect. He succeeded Roger Elliott as Executive Chairman on 1 December 1995. During his tenure as Willis CEO, in the Fall of 1988 the company was purchased by Trinity Acquisition P.L.C., a consortium of investors (including five insurers) led by U.S. private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. At that time, Willis was known as Willis Corroon Group Ltd. In 2000, Reed retired at the end of his five-year employment contract. He was succeeded at Willis by Joe Plumeri Joseph J. Plumeri II (born July 7, 1943) is vice chairman of the First Data Board of Directors. He was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John N
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 Reeve (bobsleigh)
John Reeve (born November 7, 1937) is a bobsledder who represented the United States Virgin Islands. He competed in the two man event at the 1988 Winter Olympics The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter Games (french: XVes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Calgary 1988 ( bla, Mohkínsstsisi 1988; sto, Wîchîspa Oyade 1988 or ; cr, Otôskwanihk 1998/; srs, Guts .... References External links * 1937 births Living people United States Virgin Islands male bobsledders Olympic bobsledders for the United States Virgin Islands Bobsledders at the 1988 Winter Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) {{USVirginIslands-bobsleigh-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bunyan Reeve
John Bunyan Reeve (October 29, 1831 - January 24, 1916) was a Presbyterian minister and professor at Howard University. In 1871 he organized the department of theology at Howard. Early life John Bunyan Reeve was born October 29, 1831, in Mattituck, New York. He attended district schools and worked on a farm as a young man. His parents were Presbyterians and his mother pushed him to become a minister. As a young man he was a member of the Shiloh Presbyterian church under Rev. James W.C. Pennington. He worked as a teacher for a few months at New Tower, Long Island when, in 1853, he enrolled at the New York Central College at McGrawsville, New York, in a preparatory course for the seminary. He finished that program in June 1858 and entered the Union Theological Seminary in September 1858.Simmons, William J., and Henry McNeal Turner. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. GM Rewell & Company, 1887. p199-201 Reeve was Union's first black student. As a student, he was supporte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
