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John Atkinson (music Editor)
John Atkinson may refer to: Entertainment * John Atkinson (actor), Australian actor * John Augustus Atkinson (c. 1775–1830), English artist engraver and watercolourist * John Christopher Atkinson (1814–1900), English author, antiquary, and priest * John Atkinson, editor-in-chief of ''Stereophile, Stereophile Magazine'' Sports * John Atkinson (athlete) (born 1963), Australian high jumper * John Atkinson (Australian footballer) (1948–2022), Australian rules footballer * John Atkinson (cricketer) (1878–1951), English cricketer * John Atkinson (footballer, born 1884) (1884–1914), Scottish footballer * John Atkinson (rugby league) (1946–2017), English rugby league footballer Other * John Atkinson (Australian politician) (1850–1943), Australian politician * John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson (1844–1932), Irish lawyer and politician * John Atkinson (clergyman) (1835–1897), American Methodist clergyman and historian * John Atkinson (professor) (1938–2022), British classicis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Atkinson (actor)
John Atkinson is an Australian actor. Biography Atkinson first appeared in the 1998-1999 Australian series ''Breakers (TV series), Breakers'' as Steve Giordano. He later portrayed producer Les Markowitz in the fictionalized 2005 American television movie/docudrama ''Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure'', based on the creation and wiktionary:behind the scenes, behind the scenes production of the 1980s prime time soap opera ''Dynasty (1981 TV series), Dynasty''. Atkinson portrayed Roger McIvor in several episodes of the Australian television drama ''McLeod's Daughters'' between 2005 and 2007, and has appeared twice on the Australian medical drama ''All Saints (TV series), All Saints'', in 2003 and 2007. Atkinson later played Detective Parks in the 2007 American miniseries ''The Starter Wife (miniseries), The Starter Wife'' and Stephen Mulroney in the 2008–2009 Australian soap opera ''Out of the Blue (2008 TV series), Out of the Blue''. He played psychopathic killer Derric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Atkinson (Australian Politician)
John Atkinson (21 March 1850 – 19 May 1943) was an English-born Australian politician who was the mayor of Toowoomba, Queensland in 1913 and a Queensland wrestling champion. Born in Cumberland, England, he came to Australia in 1878 took jobs first as a schoolteacher and then as a businessman. He was a Toowoomba City Council alderman An alderman is a member of a Municipal government, municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen). The term may be titular, denotin ... in 1907 and from 1910 to 1912. He died in Toowoomba on 19 May 1943, at the age of 93. References 1850 births 1943 deaths Mayors of Toowoomba People from Cumberland Queensland local councillors Australian male sport wrestlers Australian wrestlers {{Australia-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Atkinson
John William Atkinson (December 31, 1923 – October 27, 2003), also known as Jack Atkinson, was an American psychologist who pioneered the scientific study of human motivation, achievement and behavior. He was a World War II veteran, teacher, scholar, and long term member of the University of Michigan community. Atkinson was a leader in establishing motivation as a distinct field of study in psychology research. His belief that scientific progress came from conceptual breakthroughs fueled his formulation and reformulation of a theory of motivation. He was one of the first in psychology to incorporate rigorous mathematical models in his theories and to use computer simulations of these models for experimentation. He also recognized the importance of measurement in science, maintaining a career-long interest in the refinement of measures of motivation by means of content analysis of imaginative thought using, for example, the Thematic Apperception Test which he developed jointly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Maxwell Atkinson
John Maxwell Atkinson (19 March 1944 – 3 July 2024) was a British academic and author. He worked with a number of politicians and business leaders and is known for his research on speech writing and presentation skills in the fields of political speeches, courtroom language and conversation. Early life and academic career Atkinson was born in Pontefract, Yorkshire on 19 March 1944. After completing a PhD in Sociology at the University of Essex in 1969, Atkinson worked as a Lecturer at the University of Lancaster (1969–72) and the University of Manchester (1973–76) and was a Fellow of Wolfson College at Oxford University from 1976 to 1988. Atkinson also held a visiting professorship at Henley Management College for ten years and for shorter periods at other universities in Sweden, Austria and the United States. Public speaking and speech writing career Atkinson first came to prominence in 1984 with the publication of his book ''Our Masters' Voices: The Language and Bod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torchy Atkinson
John Dunstan "Torchy" Atkinson (3 March 1909 – 27 February 1990) was a New Zealand horticultural scientist and scientific administrator. Atkinson was born in Wellington, New Zealand on 3 March 1909. His father was the solicitor Arnold Atkinson (1874–1917), and his mother was Mary Herrick Atkinson (née Hursthouse). He was known as Duncan by his family, but friends and colleagues almost all referred to him as Torchy for his red hair, and the name stuck even after he had turned grey. New Zealand's tenth Prime Minister of New Zealand, Premier, Sir Harry Atkinson, was his grandfather. Atkinson wrote his master's thesis at Massey University in 1932 with the title ''Studies on the dieback of lacebarks, Myxosporium hoheria. n.f.sp''. He was the director of Fruit Research Station of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand), Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), and later the director of the Plant Diseases Division. His research has contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Atkinson (professor)
John Edward Atkinson (20 October 1938 – 11 April 2022) was a British and South African classicist. He was Emeritus Professor of Classics, as well as a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts, at the University of Cape Town. Early life Atkinson studied at Durham University. He took a BA (Hons) in Classical and General Literature in 1961, where he was classmates with Robert Malcolm Errington, R. M. Errington. Academic career Following his undergraduate studies he joined the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (now University of Zimbabwe) as Assistant Lecturer. He moved to the University of South Africa a year later to take up a Lectureship in Ancient History. In 1965 he joined the University of Cape Town as Lecturer, completing a PhD at this institution in 1971. His first book, ''A commentary on Q. Curtius Rufus' Historiae Alexandri Magni Books 3 and 4'', was published in 1980. Atkinson's academic interests lay in the field of Ancient History, but he can, in the British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Atkinson (clergyman)
John Atkinson (December 6, 1835, Deerfield, New York - December 8, 1897, Haverstraw, New York) was an American Methodist clergyman and historian. He wrote histories of Methodism, and the hymn "We Shall Meet Beyond the River". Biography He became a preacher at 18 years of age and served in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He filled pulpits in New Jersey ( Newark, Jersey City); Chicago; Bay City, Michigan Bay City is a city in Bay County, Michigan, United States, and its county seat. The population was 32,661 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city is located just upriver from the Saginaw Bay on the Saginaw River. It is the princip ...; and finally Haverstraw, New York; after another pass through Newark and Jersey City. Works Works deriving from his pastoral experience: * ''The Living Way'' (1856) * The Garden of Sorrows' (1868) * The Class Leader' (1875) Histories: * Memorials of Methodism in New Jersey' (1860) * The Centennial History of American M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson
John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson, (13 December 1844 – 13 March 1932) was an Irish politician and judge. He was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1905 to 1928. Early life and career Atkinson was born at Drogheda, County Louth, the eldest son of Edward Atkinson, a physician, of Glenwilliam Castle, County Limerick and Skea House, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, and his wife Rosetta. He was educated at the Belfast Academy and later at Queen's College Galway, which he attended from 1858 to 1865. He won Junior Scholarships in the Science Division of the Faculty of Arts, 1858–9, 1859–60 and 1860–1. He was awarded the B.A. degree in mathematics with first-class honours in 1861, and pursued a varied postgraduate career – from initial study of the sciences (with Senior Scholarships in Mathematics, 1861–2, and Natural Philosophy, 1862–3) he moved into Law, gaining a first-class Diploma in Elementary Law in 1864. A further Senior Scholarship, this time in Law, followed, and he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Atkinson (rugby League)
John Atkinson (3 October 1946 – 23 December 2017) was an English rugby union and World Cup-winning professional rugby league footballer. He played in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and was a coach in the 1980s. Atkinson played club level rugby union (RU) for Roundhay RUFC, representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain and England, and at club level for Leeds and Carlisle as a . Atkinson played in four Rugby League World Cups (1968, 1970, 1972 and 1975), scoring six tries in total. Background John Atkinson was born Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, on 3 October 1946. After leaving school, he joined local rugby union club, Roundhay RUFC. His grandfather George Broughton, and uncle George Broughton Jr., both played rugby league for Leeds. Rugby league career Club career Atkinson was signed by his hometown rugby league club Leeds in May 1965. He made his first team debut in March 1966, scoring two tries against York. On 11 May 1968, he won his first trophy with the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Augustus Atkinson
John Augustus Atkinson ( – 1830) was an English artist, engraver and watercolourist. Life Atkinson was born in London. In 1784, he went to St. Petersburg to his uncle James Walker (engraver), James Walker, engraver to the empress Catherine the Great. There he studied in the picture galleries, encouraged by Catherine and her son Paul I of Russia, Paul I, and was commissioned by Paul to paint large pictures of Russian history. In 1801, Atkinson returned to England, and in 1803 published ''A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Russians'', in 100 plates, drawn and etched by himself. He also painted in watercolours and in 1808 was elected to the Royal Watercolour Society, Society of Painters in Water Colours. Many of his works, during the Napoleonic Wars, were of naval subjects. He painted many battle scenes including a ''Battle of Waterloo'', which was engraved by John Burnet (painter), John Burnet. His last contribution to the Royal Academy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Atkinson (footballer, Born 1884)
John Atkinson (5 December 1884 – 26 November 1914) was a Scottish amateur footballer who played in the Scottish League for Hamilton Academical, Queen's Park, Celtic and Partick Thistle as an outside left. Personal life Atkinson was a medical student and later qualified as a doctor, moving to County Durham to practice. After the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, he moved to work in Madagascar. He died in the Atlantic Ocean, off the west coast of Africa, in an accident on 26 November 1914. Career statistics Honours Hamilton Academical * Lanarkshire Cup The Lanarkshire Cup was an annual competition open to football teams in the Lanarkshire area. The competition is now defunct. The Lanarkshire FA was dissolved in June 1999 when it was merged with the Ayrshire and Renfrewshire FAs to form the Wes ...: 1904–05, 1905–06 References 1884 births 1914 deaths Footballers from Cambuslang Scottish men's footballers Men's association football outside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Atkinson (cricketer)
John Atkinson (7 June 1878 – 20 November 1951) was an English first-class cricketer. Atkinson was a left-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. Atkinson made his first-class debut for Nottinghamshire against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's in 1899. The following season he made three first-class appearances in the 1900 County Championship against Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Lancashire. He made three further first-class appearances in 1901, against the Marylebone Cricket Club, Gloucestershire in the County Championship and the touring South Africans. In his seven first-class matches he took 10 wickets at an average of 42.50, with best figures of 1/28. With the bat, he scored a total of 40 runs in at a batting average of 5.00 and a high score of 19. He played six matches for Todmorden Cricket Club in the Lancashire League in 1902. He died at Bentley with Arksey, Yorkshire on 20 November 1951. His uncle Frederick Wyld ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
