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John Williamson (singer) Songs
John Williamson may refer to: Music * John Finley Williamson (1887–1964), American conductor * John Williamson (singer) (born 1945), Australian singer and songwriter * John Williamson (musician) (born 1963), bass guitarist in the band McCarthy * ''John Williamson (album)'', the 1970 debut album by the Australian singer Politics * John Williamson (Arkansas politician), state legislator who served as President of the Arkansas Senate * John Williamson (New Zealand politician) (1815–1875), New Zealand politician * John H. Williamson (1846–1911), North Carolina politician and newspaper publisher * John N. Williamson (1855–1943), U.S. Representative from Oregon * John Williamson (communist) (1903–1974), Scottish-born American Communist leader * John Williamson (Canadian politician) (born 1970), Canadian politician * John C. Williamson (1912–1998), American politician, member of the California legislature * John Clint Williamson (born 1961), U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Finley Williamson
John Finley Williamson (June 23, 1887 in Canton, Ohio – May 28, 1964 in Toledo, Ohio) was the founder of Westminster Choir and co-founder of Westminster Choir College. He is considered to be one of the most influential choral conductors of the twentieth century. He was described by The New York Times as the "dean of American choral directors." He was a 1925 initiate of the Alpha Theta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity, the national fraternity for men in music, at Miami University. Westminster In 1920 Williamson founded the Westminster Choir in 1920 at the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Dayton, Ohio. In 1926, he also founded the Westminster Choir School. In 1929 the School and the Choir moved to Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York State in 1929; in 1932 they moved to Princeton, New Jersey Williamson retired as President of the College in 1958; He died suddenly in 1964. References External links The Daily Princetonian: Westminster Choir College { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Williamson (basketball, Born 1986)
John Williamson (born August 19, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Maccabi Kiryat Gat of the Liga Leumit. College career Williamson began his college career at Cincinnati State. Williamson averaged 27.4 points and 11.7 rebounds leading the school to a 26–9 record, state and regional titles and the finals of the National Junior College Athletic Association Tournament. Before his junior season he transferred to the University of Cincinnati for his final two years of college. He was named the team's MVP as based on the following: team leading 7.3 rebounds and was the team's second-leading scorer (13.5). Williamson finished third in the BIG EAST in offensive rebounding (3.3) and ninth overall. Professional career Williamson entered the 2008 NBA Draft but was not selected. On November 6, 2013, he signed with the Nilan Bisons after playing for Fos Ouest Provence Basket. On August 19, 2015, he signed to Hapoel Tel Aviv Hapoel Tel Aviv ( he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Williamson (musicologist)
John Gordon Williamson (born 1949) is a Scottish musicologist and retired academic. After studying music and history at the University of Glasgow, he completed his doctoral studies at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1974, he was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Liverpool; he was subsequently a professor of music and head of the School of Music there. He specialises in Austro-German music between 1850 and 1950, and he has studied the works of Pfitzner, Strauss, Liszt, Mahler and Wolf The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly un ...."Staff", ''School of Music, University of Liverpool'', as archived o17 August 2004 Selected publications * ''The Music of Hans Pfitzner'' (Oxford University Press, 1992). * ''Strauss: 'Also Sprach Zarathustra'' (Cambridge University Press, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Williamson (economist)
John Harold Williamson (June 7, 1937 – April 11, 2021) was a British-born economist who coined the term Washington Consensus. He served as a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics from 1981 until his retirement in 2012. During that time, he was the project director for the United Nations High-Level Panel on Financing for Development in 2001. He was also on leave as chief economist for South Asia at the World Bank during 1996–99, adviser to the International Monetary Fund from 1972 to 1974, and an economic consultant to the UK Treasury from 1968 to 1970. He was also an economics professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1978–81), University of Warwick (1970–77), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1967, 1980), University of York (1963–68) and Princeton University (1962–63). He is best known for defining the "Washington Consensus" in 1989. He made 10 rules that were imposed by the World Bank, the International M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Leon Williamson
USS ''John L. Williamson'' (DE-370) was a acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. The primary purpose of the destroyer escort was to escort and protect ships in convoy, in addition to other tasks as assigned, such as patrol or radar picket. Namesake John Leon Williamson was born 5 November 1921 in Ash, North Carolina. He enlisted in the Navy at Raleigh, North Carolina on 11 July 1940. After recruit training, he was assigned to cruiser . He was on board the cruiser during the Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and the initial American amphibious assault of the war on Guadalcanal. He also took part in the American victory at the night Battle of Cape Esperance in October. On 12 November 1942 one of the many Japanese attempts to bombard American positions on Guadalcanal and to reinforce their own garrisons there resulted in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Before the main engagement, the ''San Francisco'' and other ships were attacked by torpedo bombers off Guadalca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Williamson
John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006), who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction". He is also credited with one of the first uses of the term '' genetic engineering''. Early in his career he sometimes used the pseudonyms Will Stewart and Nils O. Sonderlund. Early life Williamson was born April 29, 1908 in Bisbee, Arizona Territory. According to his own account, the first three years of his life were spent on a ranch at the top of the Sierra Madre Mountains on the headwaters of the Yaqui River in Sonora, Mexico. He spent much of the rest of his early childhood in western Texas. In search of better pastures, his family migrated to rural New Mexico in a horse-drawn covered wagon in 1915.Williamson, Jack. ''Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction'' (Benbella Books, 2005) The farming was difficult there and the family turned to ranching, which they continue to this day near Pep. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Williamson (geologist)
John Thoburn Williamson (1907 –1958) was a Canadian geologist famous for establishing the Williamson diamond mine in present-day Tanzania. Early life Williamson was born in 1907 in Montfort, Quebec. He attended McGill University, where he initially intended to study law, but became interested in geology after accompanying a friend on a summer field expedition to Labrador. He subsequently earned bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees in geology, completing his studies between 1928 and 1933."Three legends to join the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame," ''The Northern Miner'', V. 96, No. 40, November 22–28, 2010, 5. Williamson mine After completing his studies, Williamson travelled to South Africa with one of his professors, where he eventually took a job with Loangwa Concessions, a De Beers subsidiary in what was then Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). He then moved on to work at the Mabuki diamond mine, which he purchased from the owners in 1936 when they had decided to shu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Williamson (mathematician)
John Williamson (23 May 1901 – 1949) was a Scottish mathematician who worked in the fields of algebra, invariant theory, and linear algebra. Among other contributions, he is known for the Williamson construction of Hadamard matrices. Williamson graduated from the University of Edinburgh with first-class honours in 1922. Awarded a Commonwealth Fellowship in 1925, he studied at the University of Chicago under the direction of L. E. Dickson and E. H. Moore, receiving the Ph.D. in 1927. He held a Lectureship in Mathematics at the University of St Andrews and an Associate Professorship in Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi .... See also * Williamson conjecture References External links * * 1901 births 1949 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ernest Williamson
John Ernest Williamson (8 December 1881 – 15 July 1966) invented the "photosphere" from which he filmed and photographed undersea. He is credited as being the first person to take an underwater photograph from a submarine. Biography He was born in Liverpool, England 1881 to Charles Williamson, a sea captain from Norfolk, Virginia. Charles had invented a deep-sea tube, made of concentric iron rings, "which stretched like an accordion". The tube was used for underwater repair and for ship salvage. In 1912 Williamson, while working as a reporter, used the device to make underwater photographs in Norfolk Harbor. He then expanded the photosphere, which he named ''Jules Verne'', and used it to create motion pictures, starting first in the Bahamas. Williamson created a film company, the Submarine Film Corporation. Their first feature film came out in 1914 and was entitled "Thirty Leagues Under the Sea" starring Williamson in a fight with a shark. The Submarine Film Corporation woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bruce Williamson
John Bruce Williamson KC(1925) 69 Solicitors' Journal and Weekly Reporter 561 (16 MayGoogle Books/ref> (1859–1938) was a British barrister and historical author. Life Williamson was born on 28 January 1859. The son of John Williamson of Glasgow, he matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 29 January 1881, graduating B.A. in 1885. In 1887 Williamson was called to the bar at the Middle Temple. He was appointed secretary to the University of Durham Commissioners constituted under the University of Durham Act 1908 by warrant under the royal sign manual dated 27 October 1908. He was elected to serve on the General Council of the Bar in February 1911 and again in 1913. He became a bencher of the Middle Temple in 1925. Williamson died on 7 July 1938. The National Portrait Gallery has a photograph of him taken in 1936 by Olive Edis. Works Williamson was the author of: *''The Foreign Commerce of England Under the Tudors: The Stanhope Essay for 1883'' (B H Blackwell, Oxford, 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Williamson Nevin
John Williamson Nevin (February 20, 1803June 6, 1886), was an American theologian and educationalist. He was born in the Cumberland Valley, near Shippensburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He was the father of noted sculptor and poet Blanche Nevin. Biography He was a nephew of Hugh Williamson of North Carolina, and was of Scottish blood and Presbyterian training. He graduated at Union College in 1821; studied theology at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1823–1828, being in 1826–28 in charge of the classes of Charles Hodge; was licensed to preach by the Carlisle Presbytery in 1828; and in 1830–1840 was professor of Biblical literature in the newly founded Western Theological Seminary (now Pittsburgh Theological Seminary) of Allegheny, Pennsylvania. But under the influence of Neander, he was gradually breaking away from "Puritanic Presbyterianism", and, in 1840, having resigned his chair in Allegheny, he was appointed professor of theology in the (German Reformed) Theologi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Suther Williamson
Colonel John Suther Williamson ( – 26 April 1836) was a British Army officer who served in the Royal Artillery during the Napoleonic Wars. Williamson was born about 1775. He entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich on 8 August 1791, and received a commission as second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 1 January 1794. He was promoted to lieutenant, on 11 March 1794. In June 1795, he served on the coast of France, in the expedition to Quiberon Bay to assist the French royalists. In 1799, he went to the Cape of Good Hope and served in the First Cape Frontier War of that year. That year, he was gazetted captain-lieutenant, on 12 October. From southern Africa, Williamson went to Egypt, and the Mediterranean. On 12 September 1803, he was promoted to captain. During the Adriatic Campaign, he was at the siege of Ischia in June 1809, and commanded the artillery during the capture of four of the Ionian Islands in October that year. He was at the siege and capture of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
