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John Walton (other)
John Walton may refer to: People In sport * John Walton (darts player) (born 1961), former BDO World Darts Champion and BDO World Masters Champion * John Walton (Formula One), late Formula One team manager * John Walton (footballer) (1928–1979), former English footballer with several clubs *John Walton (American football) (born 1947), American football player * John Walton (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1900s * John Walton (cricketer) (1888–1970), English cricketer *John Walton (sports broadcaster), American radio sports announcer In politics *John Walton (Continental Congress) (1738–1783), Georgia Continental Congressman, signer of the Articles of Confederation *Sir John Lawson Walton (1852–1908), British MP and Attorney General of England and Wales *Jack C. Walton (John Calloway Walton, 1881–1949), former governor of Oklahoma *John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant (1922–2016), British politician *John Walton (Australian politician) (1927–1994), Victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Walton (darts Player)
John Michael Walton (born 10 November 1961) is an English professional darts player currently playing in World Darts Federation (WDF) events. He is best known for winning the 2001 BDO World Darts Championship. He adopted the nickname John Boy and used the song "Cotton Eye Joe" by Rednex as his walk-on theme. BDO career 1993–2000: Early career Walton picked up some small tournament victories in the early stages of his career, including the Websters 150 Championship in 1993 and the Highlands Open Championship in 1996 but didn't manage to qualify for the World Championship until 1999 when he lost 0–3 to Roland Scholten on his first round debut. He failed to qualify for the World Championship in 2000, but in the autumn of that year he won the prestigious Winmau World Masters. Despite that success, he was 50/1 with the bookmakers to win the World title in the New Year, and his Masters form possibly led to him being tipped by darts pundit Bobby George at the start of the BBC t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Walton (bishop)
John Walton (d. ca. 1490) was an English canon regular who became Archbishop of Dublin. Life Little is known of his early life. In 1452 Walton was made Abbot of Osney, and in 1472 was elected as Archbishop of Dublin, and consecrated in England. In 1478 he managed, through the Irish Parliament, to obtain the restitution of some manors alienated by his predecessors. During his tenure Pope Sixtus IV authorized the re-establishment of the unsuccessful University of Dublin, but the plan was never carried out. Walton kept out of politics, and was apparently rather easily bullied. He was overshadowed by his suffragan, the quarrelsome and unpopular William Sherwood, Bishop of Meath. In 1474 he failed to impose his will on the Dean and Chapter of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and was reprimanded by King Edward IV for making the attempt. He was completely unable to control Sir James Keating, the violent and turbulent Prior of the Order of Knights Hospitallers at Kilmainham. When he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Walton (priest)
John Walton (25 October 1565; 30 August 1646) was an Anglican priest, who served as Archdeacon of Derby from 1603 until 1603. Walton was educated at the University of Oxford. He was appointed a Canon of Lichfield in 1567; Rector of Breadsall in 1577, and of Gedling Gedling is a village in the Gedling district, in Nottinghamshire, England, four miles northeast of Nottingham city centre. The population at the 2011 census of the ward was 6,817 and 111,787 for the district. Gedling was recorded in the Domes ... from 1590 until his death on 1 June 1603. References Archdeacons of Derby Alumni of the University of Oxford 1603 deaths {{England-Anglican-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Walton (entomologist)
John Walton (23 July 1784, Knaresborough, Yorkshire- 3 January 1862, Knaresborough) was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera especially Curculionidae. His collection is held by the Natural History Museum, London John Walton was educated in first in Knaresborough then in London where he studied Chemistry at the Mathematical Society of Spitalfields , then applying his science to sugar refining in his uncles refinery based in Whitechapel whom he succeeded in that lucrative business. By then wealthy he retired in 1832 to devote himself to entomology. He corresponded with Carl Johan Schönherr, Ernst Friedrich Germar and Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat exchanging specimens with all three. He was a fellow of the Entomological Society and the Linnaean Society. Works partial list *Walton J., 1838. Notes upon the genera ''Sitona'', ''Polydrosus'', ''Phyllobius'', and ''Apion'' ''Entomological Magazine'', 5: 1–21, 254–257 Walton, J. 1844 Notes on the Synonymy of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wilson Walton-Wilson
John Wilson Walton-Wilson (10 July 1823 – 14 April 1910), born John Wilson Walton, was an English architect who designed Anglicanism, Anglican churches in the Early English Period, Early English style. His change of name was a condition by which he inherited Shotley Hall and the Wilson family coat of arms from his uncle Thomas Wilson. He is known for his design of St Augustine's Church, Alston, Cumbria, and for his collaboration with the sculptor Robert Beall in his renovation of St Mary's Church, Nun Monkton North Riding of Yorkshire. Background Walton-Wilson's maternal grandfather was John Wilson, gentleman, of Shotley Hall, Northumberland. John Wilson's son-in-law was Thomas Walton who married John Wilson's daughter Maria. Walton-Wilson, son of Thomas Walton, a "gentleman", and Maria Walton, was born as John Wilson Walton on 10 July 1823 at Albany House, Camberwell, He was baptised on 6 August 1823 at St Giles' Church, Camberwell. Shotley Hall, change of name, and inherit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
