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John Banks (actor)
John Banks or Bankes may refer to: Politics and law *Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet (1627–1699), English merchant and Member of Parliament *John Banks (American politician) (1793–1864), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania *John Gray Banks (1888–1961), politician in Canada *John Banks (activist) (1915–2010), English political activist and writer *John Banks (New Zealand politician) (born 1946), New Zealand politician *Sir John Bankes (1589–1644), Attorney General and Chief Justice to King Charles I of England *John Bankes (judge) (1854–1947), English judge *John Bankes (died 1772), British politician *John Eldon Bankes (1854–1946), Welsh judge *John Garnett Banks (1889–1974), Scottish businessman and local politician *John Bankes (died 1714), Member of Parliament 1698–1714 for Corfe Castle (UK Parliament constituency), Corfe Castle *John W. Banks (1867–1958), justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court Sport *John Banks (cricketer) (1903–1979), New Zealand crickete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet
Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet FRS (1627 – 18 October 1699) was an English merchant and MP, who rose from relatively humble beginnings to be one of the wealthiest merchants in London and owner of several properties. Life Banks was the son of Caleb Bankes (died 1669) of Maidstone, Kent, gent, and Martha Dann. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. About 1657, Banks married Elizabeth Dethick, daughter of Sir John Dethick. They had several children. His son Caleb was MP for various constituencies, but predeceased him without issue in 1696. Banks was created a baronet by King Charles II in 1661. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1668. He invested in the overseas trade with the East and with Africa and in 1677 was financially involved in an expedition to search for a North-east trade route. He was Governor of the East India Company in 1673–74. Banks was Member of Parliament (MP) several times; for Maidstone 1654–1659, for Winchelsea Winchelsea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Banks (cricketer)
John Elliott Banks (26 May 1903 – 20 October 1979) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Wellington cricket team, Wellington from 1924 to 1926. Banks was born in England and moved to New Zealand with his family in about 1909. He attended Wellington College, Wellington, Wellington College. A middle-order batsman, Banks' highest first-class score was 76 not out, the highest score of the match when Wellington beat the touring Victoria cricket team, Victorian team narrowly in 1924–25. In November 1925 he was selected in the New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 1925–26, New Zealand team to tour Australia that summer, but he was unavailable and had to withdraw; he was replaced by Tom Lowry. Later that month, playing for Institute against Wellington, he scored 260, setting a new record for senior club cricket in Wellington. Banks later served as treasurer of the Wellington Cricket Association. Banks worked in Wellington as a company director. Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Banks (mercenary Recruiter)
John Edward Banks (born 1945) is a British former soldier, mercenary recruiter, and the founder of the Security Advisory Services. Early life John Banks was born in Aldershot in 1945 into the family of an Army Medical Corps officer serving in the Airborne Forces. John spent his childhood years in Camberley not far away from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. As a child he attended service schools in Egypt and Cyprus. His military career started in 1962 when he was only 17 years old. After his initial training Banks served in the "Pathfinder" unit of the Second Battalion of the Parachute Regiment. In four years, he was transferred to the Second Battalion’s Special Patrol Company, a unit trained to penetrate behind the enemy lines. Banks took part in the hostilities in Malaysia, Yemen and Oman. Due to injuries received in combat he could no longer continue his active service and began to work as an unarmed combat instructor at the Parachute Regiment Battle School in Wales. Sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Banks (drummer)
The Merseybeats (sometimes written as the Mersey Beats) are an English band that emerged from the Liverpool Merseybeat scene in the early 1960s, performing at the Cavern Club along with the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and other similar artists. The group's original members were Tony Crane (vocals, lead guitar), John Banks (drums), Aaron Williams (rhythm guitar) and Billy Kinsley (vocals, bass). Kinsley left the group at the beginning of 1964 and was replaced by John Gustafson, though Kinsley returned at the end of that year. The group split in 1966, with Crane and Kinsley continuing as a duo dubbed the Merseys. The Merseys ended in 1969. During the 1970s and 1980s, the Merseybeats would stage several occasional reunions before reforming permanently in 1993. The current line-up is Tony Crane and his son Adrian Crane on keyboards and lead guitar. History The Merseybeats Originally called the Mavericks, the band was formed by singer/guitarist Tony Crane and singer/bassi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Thomas Banks
Sir John Thomas Banks (14 October 1816 – 16 July 1908) was an Anglo-Irish physician and, between 1880 and 1898, Regius Professor of Physic at Trinity College, Dublin. Life Provenance Although born in London, Banks lived and worked in Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom: he would during his lifetime have been identified as a member of the Anglo-Irish class. His elder brother Percival Weldon Banks (d. 1850) later achieved minor notability as a barrister and, using the pseudonym "Morgan Rattler", a writer. Born directly after the Great War (as the international hostilities of the preceding 22 years were known at the time), he was the second son of Percival Banks (1764–1848) by his marriage to Mary Ramsay. John Thomas Banks came from a line of physicians. His father worked as a surgeon in Ennis, following an earlier career as a ships' surgeon. His grandfather (who died only in 1848), was also called Percival Banks, and worked in Ennis as a doctor. The mother of Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Banks (East India Company Officer)
John Sherbrooke Banks (1811–1857) was a British major. Banks was in 1828 nominated to a cadetship in the Bengal army by the Right Honourable Charles Wynn, at that time president of the India Board, Board of Control. Arriving in India in 1829, he was posted to the 4th Prince Albert Victor's Rajputs, 33rd regiment Bengal Native Infantry, of which he became quartermaster and interpreter in 1833. He was subsequently employed for some time on civil duties in the Saugor and Nerbudda territory. In 1842 he served with George Pollock, General Pollock's army of retribution in the march upon Kabul, and shortly afterwards was appointed to a subordinate office in the military secretariat. In this office some years later he was brought into contact with the governor-general, the Marquis of Dalhousie, whose confidence and personal regard he speedily acquired. Owing to the absence of the head of the department on sick leave, it devolved upon Major (then Captain) Banks to make all the arrangements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Banks (playwright)
John Banks (1650–1706) was an English playwright of the English Restoration, Restoration era. His works concentrated on historical dramas, and his plays were twice suppressed because of their implications, or supposed implications, for the contemporaneous political situation. Virtually nothing is known about Banks's early life; his date of birth has been estimated on the basis of his later biography. He studied law at the New Inn, one of the minor Inns of Chancery attached to the Middle Temple. Banks's first play was ''The Rival Kings'' of 1677 in literature, 1677, written in imitation of Nathaniel Lee's ''The Rival Queens'' of the same year. Banks followed this with ''The Destruction of Troy'', which was staged by the Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre in November 1678 in literature, 1678 and printed the following year. ''The Unhappy Favourite, The Unhappy Favourite, or the Earl of Essex'' (1682 in literature, 1682), for which John Dryden provided a prologue and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Banks
Johnny Banks (born December 25, 1861, in Richmond, Virginia), was an African American boxer who fought under the sobriquet "The Darkey Wizard" and was the Negro Middleweight Champion of the World during the mid-1880s. Standing 5'6" tall (some sources claim he was 5'5.5" tall), Banks fought out of New York City at a weight of 128-160 lbs. from 1883 to 1899. In his career, he racked up an official record of 11 wins (three by K.O.) against eight losses (being K.O.ed three times) and 17 draws. Most of his fights went unrecorded. Boxing historian Nat Fleischer claimed that he fought as many as five times a week in Philadelphia and he averaged a fight per week for five years. Fleischer claimed that Banks won over 90% of his bouts. Reportedly, Banks contorted his mouth as he fought and snorted, grunted, and yelled while in the ring. He was a very smart boxer with a good right Rights are law, legal, social, or ethics, ethical principles of freedom or Entitlement (fair division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Banks (footballer)
John Banks (14 June 1875 – January 1947) was an English footballer who played as a wing half for West Bromwich Albion, Manchester United, Plymouth Argyle, Leyton and Exeter City. He made 159 appearances in the Football League. Commonly known as Johnny and Jack, the 1904–05 Plymouth Argyle handbook describes Banks as being "splendid in defence and rarely beaten". Life and career Born in West Bromwich, Banks could also play as an outside forward when required. He began his career as an amateur with Oldbury Broadwell before joining the Football League club West Bromwich Albion on professional terms in 1893. He made 119 league appearances during his time with the club and scored five goals. Banks was transferred to Manchester United in 1901 and spent two years at Old Trafford, where he appeared in 40 league matches. In 1903, he signed for Plymouth Argyle of the Southern League. The Argyle handbook of 1904–05 describes him as being "splendid in defence and rarely beaten". Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Banks (baseball)
John T. Banks Sr. (August 11, 1922 – December 6, 2011) was an American baseball player who pitched and played first base in the Negro leagues in the 1940s and 1950s. Banks began playing semi-professional baseball while still attending Camden High School. He then played for the Philadelphia Stars of the Negro National League before serving three years in the US Army in World War II. He rejoined the team in 1947. He joined the Negro American League in 1950 and played through 1959 on regional teams and for barnstorming off-season squads. He is also listed as playing with the Baltimore Elite Giants in 1950. Banks died in Voorhees, New Jersey Voorhees Township is a township in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is a suburb in the Delaware Valley / Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was ... on December 6, 2011, at the age of 89. References External links * 1922 births 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Banks (motorcyclist)
John Banks (born 16 April 1944) is a British former professional motocross racer. He competed in the Motocross World Championships from 1963 to 1977. A four-time 500cc British national champion, Banks was twice runner-up in the 500cc motocross world championship. __TOC__ Motorcycle racing career Banks was the son of a successful builder from Bury St Edmunds. His first motorcycle was a Greeves trials motorcycle that he bought from Dave Bickers, the 1960 and 1961 European motocross champion. He then gained a sponsorship from the Dot motorcycle company and in 1963 he placed third at the Swiss Grand Prix just after turning 19. His impressive results led to an offer to ride for the BSA factory racing team in 1966 as a teammate to Jeff Smith. He contested a few rounds of the 1967 500cc motocross world championship scoring a third place at the Luxembourg Grand Prix and, placing 12th in the season final points standing. He won the 1967-1968 BBC Grandstand winter series to claim hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John W
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died ), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (died ), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John (disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
