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John Guest (company)
John Guest may refer to: People *John Guest (judge) (died 1707), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania *John Josiah Guest (1785–1852), British industrialist *John Guest (naval officer) (1822–1879), United States Navy officer *John Guest (politician) (1867–1931), British Labour Party Member of Parliament *Jack Guest (1906–1972), Canadian rowing Olympic medal winner *John Rodney Guest (born 1935), British microbiologist *John Guest (geologist) John Edward Guest (6 December 1938 – 19 May 2012), was a British volcanologist and planetary scientist. Education and family Guest was born in London, England). He studied at University College London (UCL) and he graduated there in 1962. H ... (1938–2012), British volcanologist and planetary scientist Other * John Guest (company), British manufacturer of push-in fittings, pipe and plastic plumbing systems {{disambig, hn=Guest, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Guest (judge)
John Guest (died 8 September 1707) was a Province of Pennsylvania, Chief Justice of the provincial Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Guest was born in England, where he received a university education, and probably engaged in the practice of law before coming to Pennsylvania. Shortly after his arrival in Province of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 1701, he was commissioned by William Penn as chief justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania and presiding judge of the courts of Court of common pleas (Pennsylvania), common pleas, Court of quarter sessions, quarter sessions, and the Probate court, orphans' court of the city and county of Philadelphia. He served as chief justice in 1701, 1702, and 1705, as an associate justice in the same court in 1704, and as presiding judge of the other courts from 1701 till 1706. In July 1701, he was invited by Penn to a seat in his council, of which he remained a member until his death. References Year of birth missing 1707 deaths People from c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Josiah Guest
Sir Josiah John Guest, 1st Baronet (2 February 1785 – 26 November 1852), known as John Josiah Guest, was a British engineer, entrepreneur and politician. Early life Guest was born on 2 February 1785 in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. He was the son of Thomas Guest, a partner in the Dowlais Iron Company, and Jemima Revel Phillips. Guest was educated at Bridgnorth Grammar School and Monmouth School. Career After attending school, he learned the trade of ironmaking in his father's foundry at the hands of the works manager, John Evans. Guest was renowned for his ability to roll a bar of steel or cut a tram of coal as well as any of his father's workmen.Vaughan (1975), p. 13 Upon his father's death in 1807, Guest inherited his father's share of the company and developed the business, becoming sole owner of the works in 1815. By the time of his death in 1852, the Dowlais Iron Company had become the largest producer of iron in the world. Guest was elected in 1825 as Member of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Guest (naval Officer)
John Guest (7 March 1822 – 12 January 1879) was a commodore of the United States Navy, whose active-duty career lasted from the late 1830s through the Civil War. Guest was born in Missouri on 7 March 1822. He was appointed midshipman 16 December 1837, served in the frigate ''Congress'' during the Mexican–American War, and protected foreign residents from Chinese Imperial forces at Shanghai in April 1854. During the Civil War, he held several sea commands and participated in actions along the Gulf Coast. He commanded ''Owasco'' and ''Sangamon'', passing the forts for the capture of New Orleans and engaging Confederate batteries in the siege of Vicksburg. He also took part in the capture of the forts at Galveston, Texas, and the capture of Fort Fisher, North Carolina. After the Civil War, Guest became a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, a military society for officers who had served the Union during the war. He was promoted to commo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Guest (politician)
John Guest (1867 – 6 October 1931) was a British Labour Party politician. Guest was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament for Hemsworth Hemsworth is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. Historic counties of England, Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire and had a population of 13,311 at the 2001 census, .... He held the seat at the next four general elections, and died shortly before the 1931 general election. Biography Born in 1867 he lived all his life at The Elders, Main Street, South Hiendley below the Sun Inn. The Elders was passed down to his niece Miss Ada Guest who also passed away without issue. The Elders and the large orchard to its rear were demolished to make way for Orchard Drive housing by Hemsworth Council. John Guest started his working life as a miner at age 14, starting at Hodroyd Colliery before moving on to South Hiendley Colliery and being sele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jack Guest
John Schofield Guest (28 March 1906 – 12 June 1972) was a Canadian rower who won a silver medal in the double sculls at the 1928 Summer Olympics, together with Joseph Wright Jr. Guest started rowing in 1924, and in 1928 already competed in the Diamond Challenge Sculls, which was then an unofficial world championship. He lost in the semifinals to Wright, and became his double scull partner at the Summer Olympics. Next year Guest won a national title in the single sculls, but lost again to Wright in the semifinal of Diamond Sculls. Guest won the Diamond Sculls in 1930. Guest retired from rowing in 1930 and worked as a rowing administrator, particularly as the president of the Don Rowing Club of Mississauga from 1938 to 1952. He led the Canadian rowing team at the 1956 Olympics and the 1962 and 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, and became the first Canadian member of the International Federation of Rowing Associations. Between 1960 and 1968 he headed the Canadian Olym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Rodney Guest
John Rodney Guest, FRS (born 27 December 1935) is a British molecular microbiologist. He was born the son of Sidney Ramsey Guest in Leeds, West Yorkshire and educated at the University of Leeds (B.Sc. 1957) and Trinity College, Oxford (Ph.D. 1961). He worked as a Fellow at Oxford University from 1960 to 1965 and as a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University in 1963–64. He was appointed Lecturer in Microbiology at the University of Sheffield from 1965 to 1968, Senior Lecturer and Reader from 1968 to 1981 and has been Professor of Microbiology at Sheffield since 1981. He is known for his work on the application of mutant and genetic approaches to define the biochemistry and genetic make-up of central anabolic and catabolic pathways of bacteria, in particular the citric acid cycle and related functions in both aerobic and anaerobic metabolism. In 1986 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and delivered their Leeuwenhoek Lecture The Leeuwenhoek Lecture is a prize lecture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Guest (geologist)
John Edward Guest (6 December 1938 – 19 May 2012), was a British volcanologist and planetary scientist. Education and family Guest was born in London, England). He studied at University College London (UCL) and he graduated there in 1962. He and Mary Guest, his wife, had two sons, Ben and James Career Guest remained as an employee of his ''alma mater'' for the remainder of his career. He worked on his PhD under Sydney Ewart Hollingworth on the subject of tertiary ignimbrites in the Chilean Andes, where Hollingworth had been mapping the geology. Planetary geology and physical volcanology were developed at UCL under his auspices. He did research on a number of volcanoes around the World, but most notably Mount Etna in Sicily. He was the leader of the United Kingdom's efforts in a long-term collaboration with Italy to study the evolution of Mount Etna and, for the first time in over 100 years, make a geological map of it. In 1984, he was asked by the government of the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
