John Halliday (civil Servant)
John Halliday may refer to: * John Halliday (actor) (1880–1947), American actor * John Halliday (ophthalmologist) (1871–1946), Australian doctor * John Halliday (footballer) (born 1880), English professional footballer * John Halliday (died 1805) (c. 1737–1805), British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1775 to 1784 * John Halliday (died 1754) (c. 1709–1754), British politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1754 * John Halliday (cricketer) (1915–1945), English cricketer * John Halliday (civil servant), Deputy Under Secretary of State at the UK Home Office (1991–2001) See also * Jon Halliday, British historian * Johnny Hallyday Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (; 15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017), better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France. During a career spanning 57 ...

John Halliday (actor)
John Halliday (September 14, 1880 – October 17, 1947) was an American actor of stage and screen, who often played suave aristocrats and foreigners. Biography Halliday was born in Brooklyn, New York. In infancy, he moved with his parents to Europe, and he lived abroad until he was 18. He served with the British Army 1901-02 in the Boer War in South Africa. In 1905 Halliday, a civil/mining engineer from before his South Africa adventure, migrated to Nevada and dug up a fortune in gold nuggets and managed to lose the lot. After losing his money in the stock market in Sacramento, Halliday became an actor with a stock theater company headed by Nat Goodwin. He progressed from that group to touring the world as leading man in a troupe headed by T. Daniel Frawley. Making his Broadway debut in 1912 in Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton's '' The Whip'', he became a familiar presence there, especially in sophisticated comedies such as W. Somerset Maugham's ''The Circle'' (1921), Vin ...
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John Halliday (ophthalmologist)
John Charles White Halliday (19 June 1871 – 23 September 1946) was an Australian ophthalmologist who popularised intracapsular cataract extraction in Sydney. Early life John Halliday was the youngest of eight children of Francis and Mary Halliday. His father was a Justice of the Peace and served as Mayor of Bathurst. He attended All Saints' College, Bathurst, in his early school years. In 1888, he was enrolled as Charles Halliday as a boarder at Newington College. In his first year, he was awarded the Form V Classics Prize, the School Prize, and the Mathematics Prize. Halliday was a member and Secretary of the College Literary and Debating Society, he served in the Cadet Corps and was a Prefect. In 1889 he won the Wigram Allen Scholarship, awarded by Sir George Wigram Allen, for General Proficiency, with Edwin Cuthbert Hall receiving it in the same year for Mathematics. At the end of the year, Halliday was named Dux of the College and received the Schofield Scholarship. He we ...
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John Halliday (footballer)
John Frederick Halliday (19 April 1880 – 20 May 1953) was an English professional footballer and manager who played as a full back in the Football League for Bolton Wanderers and Bradford City. He went on to manage Bradford Park Avenue and Brentford. He was posthumously inducted into the Brentford Hall of Fame in 2015. Playing career Halliday began his career as an amateur at local club Chester, playing in The Combination. He transferred to First Division club Liverpool in April 1898, but failed to make a first team appearance. Prior to his release from Liverpool on a free transfer, Halliday played for Lancashire League club Crewe Alexandra. He joined cross-city rivals Everton in 1900, but failed to make an appearance for the Toffees before moving to Bolton Wanderers in 1901. Halliday left Bolton Wanderers at the end of the 1902–03 season, after the club's relegation to the Second Division was confirmed. He moved to newly founded Second Division club Bradford City ...
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John Halliday (died 1805)
John Halliday (c. 1737–1805) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1775 to 1784. Halliday was the eldest son of John Halliday of Yard House, Taunton and his wife Mary Welman, daughter of Isaac Welman of Poundisford Park, Somerset. He succeeded his father in 1754. In 1756 he entered Inner Temple. He founded the banking firm of Halliday and Co. in Lombard Street in about 1770, and went into partnership with Sir John Duntze, Bt in 1776. Halliday contested Taunton on the interest of the Market House Society in the 1774 general election but was defeated. However he was returned on petition as Member of Parliament on 16 March 1775. In 1780 he was returned without contest with the help of Lord North whom he was now supporting. Halliday did not stand at the 1784 general election because he hoped to be given a post as commissioner of taxes. To this end he gave up his partnership in the banking house to remove any objection to the appointment, and worked ...
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John Halliday (died 1754)
John Halliday (c. 1709–1754) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1754. Halliday was the eldest son of John Halliday of Yard House and his wife Mary Trowbridge, daughter of Edmund Trowbridge of Lipyeate, Somerset. He married Mary Welman, daughter of Isaac Welman of Poundisford Park, Somerset in 1737. He was High Sheriff of Somerset in 1746-47 Halliday was returned unopposed for Taunton at the 1754 general election. He died a week after the new Parliament assembled on 8 June 1754, aged 44. He was succeeded by his son John 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 * Seco ... who was also MP for Taunton. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Halliday, John 1700s births 1754 deaths British MPs 1754–1761 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Engli ...
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John Halliday (cricketer)
John Gordon Halliday (4 July 1915 – 3 December 1945) was an English cricketer active in the 1930s. Born at Cockermouth, Cumberland, Halliday was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler who made over twenty appearances in first-class cricket. Life and career Halliday was educated at the City of Oxford High School for Boys, where he excelled at cricket. He debuted for Oxfordshire in the 1932 Minor Counties Championship, and, while studying at Merton College, Oxford, made his debut in first-class cricket for the university cricket team in 1934 against Gloucestershire. Making five first-class appearances for the university in 1934, Halliday was also selected to play for the Minor Counties cricket team ''against'' Oxford University in that same year. He played first-class cricket for university until 1937, making a total of 25 appearances. Though unable to recapture his form as a schoolboy cricketer, Halliday nonetheless scored a total of 766 runs at an ave ...
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John Halliday (civil Servant)
John Halliday may refer to: * John Halliday (actor) (1880–1947), American actor * John Halliday (ophthalmologist) (1871–1946), Australian doctor * John Halliday (footballer) (born 1880), English professional footballer * John Halliday (died 1805) (c. 1737–1805), British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1775 to 1784 * John Halliday (died 1754) (c. 1709–1754), British politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1754 * John Halliday (cricketer) (1915–1945), English cricketer * John Halliday (civil servant), Deputy Under Secretary of State at the UK Home Office (1991–2001) See also * Jon Halliday, British historian * Johnny Hallyday Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (; 15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017), better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France. During a career spanning 57 ...

Jon Halliday
Jon Halliday (born 28 June 1939) is an Irish historian specialising in modern Asia. He was formerly a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London. He was educated at University of Oxford and has been married to Jung Chang since 1991. Halliday is the older brother of the late Irish International relations academic and writer Fred Halliday. Halliday has written or edited eight books, including a long interview with the U.S. film-maker Douglas Sirk. In addition, he and his wife, Jung Chang, with whom he lives in Notting Hill, West London, researched and wrote a biography of Mao Zedong, '' Mao: the Unknown Story''. The book was highly praised in the popular press, and also elicited some controversy. ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' reported that while few commentators disputed it, "some of the world's most eminent scholars of modern Chinese history" had referred to the book as "a gross distortion of the records." Some scholars offered measured praise of the range of schol ...
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