Sir John Johnson, 2nd Baronet — (5 November 1741 ndash; 4 January 1830), was a loyalist leader during the American Revolution. He was the son of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, who had promoted the British settlement of the Mohawk Valley… … Wikipedia
Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet — (May 10 1754 – December 21 1835) a Scottish politician, writer on finance and agriculture and the first person to use the word statistics in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, Statistical Account of Scotland , in 21… … Wikipedia
Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet — (1713 1 July 1777) was a Welsh politician and landowner.Glynne was the third son of Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet, and succeeded to the baronetcy after the successive deaths of his father and elder brothers in 1729 and 1730. In November of the… … Wikipedia
Sir John Macpherson, 1st Baronet — John Macpherson, 1st Baronet (ca. 1745 ndash; 12 January 1821), from Sleat, Isle of Skye, Scotland, was a Scottish administrator in India. He was the acting Governor General of India from 1785 to 1786.Macpherson was born in 1745 at Sleat in the… … Wikipedia
Sir John Hawkins — John Hawkins Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Sir John Hawkins (navigateur), 1532 1595, est un amiral anglais Sir John Hawkins (auteur), 1719 1789, est un écrivain britannique, ami et… … Wikipédia en Français
Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute — Infobox Education in Canada name= Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute imagesize= 150x150 streetaddress= 2300 Pharmacy Avenue city= Agincourt province= Ontario postalcode= M1W 1H8 phone= (416) 396 6793 website=… … Wikipedia
Sir John Sulman Medal — Infobox award name = Sir John Sulman Medal imagesize = caption = current awards = description = Architectural merit presenter = Royal Australian Institute of Architects (NSW) country = Australia year = 1932 website =… … Wikipedia
Hawkins, Sir John — born 1532, Plymouth, Devon, Eng. died Nov. 12, 1595, at sea off Puerto Rico English naval administrator and commander. A relative of Sir Francis Drake, he became a merchant in the African trade and the first English slave trader. After a… … Universalium
John Richardson (Naturforscher) — John Richardson Sir John Richardson (* 5. November 1787 in Dumfries, Schottland; † 5. Juni 1865 in Grasmere, Westmorland) war ein schottischer Naturhistoriker, Mediziner, Botaniker, Zoologe … Deutsch Wikipedia
Denham, Sir John — (1615 1669) Poet, s. of the Chief Baron of Exchequer in Ireland, was b. in Dublin, and ed. at Oxf. He began his literary career with a tragedy, The Sophy (1641), which seldom rises above mediocrity. His poem, Cooper s Hill (1642), is the work… … Short biographical dictionary of English literature