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John Willis (stenographer)
John Willis may refer to: *John Willis (basketball) (born 1952), American-Israeli basketball player * John Willis (inventor) (c. 1575–1625), British clergyman, stenographer and mnemonician *John Willis (gangster), American mobster linked with the Chinese Mafia *John A. Willis (1916–2010), American theatre and film book editor, theatre awards producer, actor, and educator *John Christopher Willis (1868–1958), English botanist *John Willis (RAF officer) (1937–2008), Royal Air Force officer *John Harlan Willis (1921–1945), U.S. Navy hospital corpsman *John Willis (bishop) (1872–1954), Anglican bishop *John Walpole Willis (1793–1877), Welsh-born judge in the Supreme Court of New South Wales * John Willis (cricketer) (1886–1963), English cricketer *John Willis (musician), American guitarist and songwriter * John T. Willis (born 1933), Old Testament scholar *John 'Jock' Willis (1791–1862), ship captain and founder of the Jock Willis Shipping Line, also known as John Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Willis (basketball)
Johan Josef "John" Willis (born September 23, 1952) is an American-Israeli former basketball player. He played the guard position. He played for ten seasons in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, and also played for the Israeli national basketball team. Biography Willis attended Bloomsburg University ('74), and played for the Bloomsburg Huskies from 1971 to 1974. He holds school records for points in a game (48), rebounds in a season (389; 1973-74) and career field goal percentage (54.4). He also ranks fourth in school history in career rebounds (839), and sixth on the Huskies' all-time scoring list with 1,467 points. He was named to the 1972 and 1973 Eastern College Athletic Conference Basketball All-East Division Second Team. He was 1973-74 All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference East Division First Team. He had his jersey retired, and was inducted into the Bloomsburg University Men's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1990. He played for ten seasons in the Israeli Basketball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Willis (musician)
John David Willis is an American guitarist and songwriter. He is best known for work as a session musician and as a songwriter for television and video games. Biography John Willis was raised in St. Martinville, Louisiana. At age 15, he learned to play banjo and then guitar. At age 22, Willis moved to Los Angeles, where he studied guitar at the Guitar Institute of Technology. Upon graduation, Willis moved to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where he began playing guitar in sessions for Shenandoah, Brian McKnight, The Impressions, and others. Upon the suggestion of David Briggs, Willis moved to Nashville. Willis has been a supporting musician on albums by Shania Twain, Taylor Swift, Willie Nelson, and many others. Willis" songs have been featured on television networks and video games. He produces projects and jingles in his Willisoundz recording studio. In 2002, Willis won the Guitarist of The Year award from the Academy of Country Music. Willis is married to animal rescue ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS John Willis (DE-1027)
USS ''John Willis'' (DE-1027) was a in the United States Navy in service from 1957 to 1972. Service history ''John Willis'' was launched by the New York Shipbuilding Company of Camden, New Jersey on 4 February 1956, and was sponsored by Mrs. Winfrey M. Duke, widow of John Willis. She was commissioned at Philadelphia Naval Yard on 21 February 1957. She was named for John Harlan Willis, a navy hospital corpsman who at Iwo Jima was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. 1950s ''John Willis'' reported to Newport, Rhode Island, 7 April for duty with the Atlantic Fleet. Following two months of shakedown along the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean, she departed Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 7 June for a five-week cruise to Northern Europe that carried her to Dutch, German, and Danish ports on the North and Baltic Seas. Upon her return to Newport 14 July, the destroyer escort commenced 10 months of ASW exercises along the Atlantic coast in preparation for deployment with the 6th Fleet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Willis Menard
John Willis Menard (April 3, 1838 – October 8, 1893) was a federal government employee, poet, newspaper publisher and politician born in Kaskaskia, Illinois to parents who were Louisiana Creoles from New Orleans. After moving to New Orleans, on November 3, 1868, Menard was the first black man ever elected to the United States House of Representatives. His opponent contested his election, and opposition to his election prevented him from being seated in Congress. Life and career John Willlis Menard was born in 1838 in Kaskaskia in Randolph County in southern Illinois, to parents who were free people of color. They were Louisiana Creoles from New Orleans, of mostly European and some African descent. He may have been related to Michel Branamour Menard, a French-Canadian fur trader and a founder of Galveston, Texas. Menard attended school in Sparta, Illinois and Ohio Central College, then Iberia College in Iberia, Ohio. Menard married Lucy Samuels on December 30, 1859 in Madison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Willis Fleming
John Willis Fleming (28 November 1781 – 4 September 1844) was an English landed proprietor and Conservative Member of Parliament. He was born at Bletchley in Buckinghamshire, the son of Rev. Thomas Willis and Catherine Hyde. He was educated at Eton College. He was the great grandson of the antiquary Browne Willis, and of Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore and Charlotte Lee, Lady Baltimore. In 1813 he changed his name by Private Act of Parliament from John Fleming Barton Willis to John Fleming, and he was also known thereafter as John Willis Fleming. In 1813 he married Christopheria Buchanan, by whom he had four sons and four daughters. He was High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1817. He was elected Member of Parliament for Hampshire in 1820, and again in 1826 and 1830; and jointly with Henry Combe Compton for South Hampshire in 1835, 1837, and 1841. John Willis Fleming died at Athens, Greece on 18 July 1844, and was buried at St. Nicolas' Church, North Stoneham in Hampshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Willis Clark
John Willis Clark (1833 – 1910), sometimes J. W. Clark, was an English academic and antiquarian. Academic career Clark was born into a Cambridge University academic family, and was a nephew of Prof. Robert Willis. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he spent his life at the university, serving as Fellow of Trinity, Superintendent of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology from 1866 to 1892, and Registrary of the university. He was also Secretary of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. He received the honorary degree Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from the University of Oxford in October 1902, in connection with the tercentenary of the Bodleian Library. Clark died in 1910, and is buried in the Mill Road cemetery, Cambridge. His son was Sir William Henry Clark. Works ''Architectural History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge'' with Robert Willis, 4 volumes, 1886. ''The Life and Letters of The Reverend Adam Sedgwick''(1890) in 2 volumes * '' Libraries in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cutty Sark
''Cutty Sark'' is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which halted as steamships took over their routes. She was named after the apparel (short shirt) of the fictional witch in the Robert Burns poem: Tam o’ Shanter. After the big improvement in the fuel efficiency of steamships in 1866, the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 gave them a shorter route to China, so ''Cutty Sark'' spent only a few years on the tea trade before turning to the trade in wool from Australia, where she held the record time to Britain for ten years. Continuing improvements in steam technology meant that gradually steamships also came to dominate the longer sailing route to Australia, and the ship was sold to the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co. in 1895 and renamed ''Fer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jock Willis Shipping Line
John Willis & Sons of London, also called the Jock Willis Shipping Line, was a nineteenth-century London-based ship-owning firm. It owned a number of clippers including the historic tea clipper ''Cutty Sark''. Company history and its people The company was founded in London by John 'Jock' Willis (1791–1862), a ship captain (nicknamed 'Old Stormy Willis'). Jock Willis had joined ships sailing along the British coast after having run away from his home at Eyemouth, Berwickshire, when he was 14 years old. During one of his sailing voyages to London, he found employment at a pub frequented by seafarers in the New India Dock (now Canary Wharf). He saved the money earned there, supplemented by money earned by repairing seafarers' sea shanty musical instruments. He returned to sail on the West Indiamen as a second and Chief Mate. Willis married Janet Dunbar on 23 July 1815, and the couple had nine children – six sons and three daughters – of whom the eldest was also named Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John T
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 Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Willis (cricketer)
John William Willis (31 August 1886 – 21 September 1963) was an English cricketer. Willis was a right-handed batsman, though his bowling style is unknown. He was born at Rothwell, Northamptonshire. Willis made a single first-class appearance for Northamptonshire against Yorkshire in the 1919 County Championship. In Northamptonshire's first-innings he was dismissed for 4 by Roy Kilner, while in their second-innings he was dismissed by the same bowler for a duck. With the ball, Willis bowled a total of ten wicketless overs. He died at the town of his birth on 21 September 1963. References External linksJohn Willisat ESPNcricinfo ESPN cricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and ''StatsGuru'', a ...John Willisat CricketArchive 1886 births 1963 deaths People from Rothwell, Northamp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American-Israeli
, native_name_lang = , image = , caption = , population = 110,000–150,000 , popplace = New York metropolitan area, Los Angeles metropolitan area, Miami metropolitan area, and other large metropolitan areas , langs = English, Hebrew, Yiddish, French, Russian, Arabic, German , rels = Majority:JudaismMinority:Islam, Christianity, Druzism, and others , related = Jewish Americans, Arab Americans Israeli Americans ( he, אָמֵרִיקָאִים יִשׂרָאֵליִם, translit=Ameriqaim Yiśraʾelim, or ) are Americans who are of full or partial Israeli descent. In this category are those who are Israelis through nationality and/or citizenship. Reflecting Israel's demographics, while the vast majority of the Israeli American populace is Jewish, it is also made up of various ethnic and religious minorities; most notably the ethnic Arab minority, which includes Muslims, Christians, and the Druze, as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Walpole Willis
John Walpole Willis (4 January 1793 – 10 September 1877) was a British judge of Upper Canada, British Guiana (as acting Chief Justice), the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and resident judge at Port Phillip, Melbourne. Early life The second son of Captain William Willis (of the 13th Light Dragoons) and his wife Mary Hamilton Smyth (of the family of the Viscounts Strangford), Willis was born at Holyhead, Anglesey, where his father was stationed. He was a descendant of the Willises of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire – from whom descended the Willys baronets of Fen Ditton – through his grandfather, Joseph Willis of Wakefield, Yorkshire, where the family had been settled since the seventeenth century. Willis was educated at Rugby (alongside his elder brother, William Downes Willis), Charterhouse (whence he was expelled for taking a leading part in a school rebellion alongside a fellow student, Wood), and as a fellow-commoner at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he took an MA. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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