Shower (surname)
Shower is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Bartholomew Shower (1658–1701), English lawyer and politician * Jacob Shower (1803–1879), American politician * John Shower (1657–1715), English nonconformist minister * Kathy Shower (born 1953), American actress and nude model See also * Showers (surname) Showers is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Derek Showers (born 1953), Welsh footballer * Edward Maclean Showers (died 1925), British soldier, police officer, and Chief Constable * Jameill Showers (born 1991), American football q ...

Bartholomew Shower
Sir Bartholomew Shower (1658–1701) was an English lawyer and politician, Recorder of London and a distinguished High Tory. Life He was born in Northgate Street, Exeter, on 14 December 1658, the third son of William Shower, merchant, of Exeter, by his wife Dorcas, daughter of John Anthony. John Shower was his brother. Educated in his native city, Bartholomew came to London early in 1675, entered the Middle Temple on 9 September 1676, was called to the bar on 21 May 1680, and became known as a pleader. In 1683 he achieved prominence as an adherent of the court party by publishing a pamphlet against the executed William Russell, Lord Russell and his partisans. He followed it up in the same year with ''The Magistracy and Government of England Vindicated''. In 1684 he moved from the Temple into Chancery Lane, and next year was appointed deputy recorder under Sir John Holt. Shower was knighted by James II at Whitehall on 12 May 1687, and was made recorder of London in place of Sir J. ...
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Jacob Shower
Jacob Shower (February 22, 1803 – May 25, 1879) was an American politician. Born in Manchester, Maryland, Shower was a drummer in the War of 1812 and attended private schools at Emmitsburg, Maryland. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Maryland at Baltimore in 1825 and commenced the practice of his profession in Carroll County, Maryland. Shower was a charter member of the first Andrew Jackson Club in the State in 1824. He was a Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1834 to 1840, clerk of the circuit court of Carroll County from 1842 to 1850, and delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1851. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress, serving from March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1855. After Congress, he resumed medical practice, and died in Manchester, Maryland Manchester is a small incorporated town in northeastern Carroll County, Maryland, United States, located just south of the Pennsylvania state lin ...
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John Shower
John Shower (1657–1715) was a prominent English nonconformist minister. Life The elder brother of Sir Bartholomew Shower, he was born at Exeter, and baptised on 18 May 1657. His father, William, a wealthy merchant, died about 1661, leaving a widow (Dorcas, daughter of John Anthony) and four sons. Shower was educated in turn at Exeter, and at Taunton under Matthew Warren. His mother moved with him to London, and he was taught by Edward Veal and at the Newington Green academy by Charles Morton. In 1677, before he was twenty, he began to preach, on the advice of Morton and Thomas Manton Next year, in the period of the Popish Plot, a merchant's lecture was begun in the large room of a coffee-house in Exchange Alley. Four young preachers were chosen as evening lecturers, among them being Shower (with Theophilus Dorrington, Thomas Goodwin the younger and James Lambert).''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', article on Dorrington. Shower was ordained on 24 December 1679 by five ...
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Kathy Shower
Kathleen Ann Shower (born March 8, 1953 as Kathleen Ann Schrauer) is an American model and actress. Known as Kathy Shower she is '' Playboy's'' Playmate of the Month for May 1985 and Playmate of the Year for 1986. At that time, she was the oldest woman ever to appear as a Playboy Playmate, at age 33, as well as a single mother of two. Career As many Playboy models do, Shower went on to appear in a string of Playboy videos. Before and after Playboy, Shower had an acting career mainly within the action-adventure (''American Kickboxer 2'', ''The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck'') & erotic thriller genres (''Boundaries'', ''LA Goddess'' and ''Velvet Dreams''). Shower also made numerous appearances on mainstream TV, guest-starring in episodes of ''Knight Rider'', ''Three's Company'', ''Simon & Simon'' and a forty-six episode continuing role in the daytime drama series '' Santa Barbara''. In 2009, Shower completed an independent film entitled ''Kathy Shower: Playmate Model Mom ...
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