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John Kent (golfer)
John Kent may refer to: Politicians *John Kent (died 1630) (1559–1630), MP for Devizes *John Kent (died 1669) (c. 1612–1669), English politician, MP for Devizes *John Kent (died 1413), MP for Reading *John Kent (MP for Bedford), MP for Bedford *John Kent (Newfoundland politician) (1805–1872), premier of Newfoundland Others *John A. Kent (1914–1985), Canadian fighter ace in World War II *John Kent (cartoonist) (1937–2003), New Zealand cartoonist *John Rodolphus Kent (died 1837), Royal Navy officer and trader in New Zealand *John Kent (hymnist) (1766–1843) English Calvinist Baptist hymn writer *John Kent (police officer) (1795–1886) The first Black British police officer See also *Jack Kent (other) *Jonathan Kent (other) *Kent (surname) Kent is a surname. Notable people with the name include: A–D E–H I–J K–M N–R S–T U–Z Fictional characters * Ariella Kent, comic character * Clark Kent, the secret identity of Superman * Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kent (died 1630)
John Kent (1559 – 1 October 1630) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1624. Kent was the son of Roger Kent of Copenhall, Cheshire and his wife Petronelle Hawkins. He was a student of Barnard's Inn in about 1586. He was in the service of the Earl of Hertford. From 1591 to 1592 he was chamberlain of Devizes and from 1592 was town clerk of Devizes from c.1592. He was also coroner in 1592. In 1597, he was elected Member of Parliament for Devizes. From 1597 to 1626 he was clerk of the peace for Wiltshire. He was Mayor of Devizes The following persons have been mayors of the town of Devizes, Wiltshire, England. Medieval *1302 John Cray (the first Mayor of Devizes) *1376–77 Richard Cardmaker *1379–81 Richard Cardmaker *1377–79 William Spicer. *1381–82 William S ... from 1602 to 1603. In 1621 he was elected MP for Devizes again. He was re-elected MP for Devizes in 1624. Kent died at the age of 71, and was burie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kent (died 1669)
John Kent (c. 1612 – will proven 1669), of the Market Place, Devizes, Wiltshire, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Devizes Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman castle, and received a charter in 1141. The castle was besieged during the Anarchy, a 12th-century civil war between St ... from 1661 to August 1669. References 1612 births 1669 deaths People from Devizes English MPs 1661–1679 {{17thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kent (died 1413)
John Kent (died 1413) was a politician from Reading in the English county of Berkshire. John Kent was a mercer in the town of Reading and was elected Mayor there for the periods 1391–1392, 1393–1394, 1401–1402, 1405–1406 and 1409–1410. He was also elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Reading in October 1383, January 1390 and January 1404. He is best remembered as a benefactor of St Laurence's Church where his memorial brass A monumental brass is a type of engraved sepulchral memorial, which in the 13th century began to partially take the place of three-dimensional monuments and effigies carved in stone or wood. Made of hard latten or sheet brass, let into the paveme ... may still be seen. References Politicians from Reading, Berkshire English philanthropists Mayors of Reading, Berkshire Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Reading 14th-century births 1413 deaths English MPs October 1383 English MPs January 1390 14t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedford (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bedford is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Mohammad Yasin of the Labour Party. The seat dates to the earliest century of regular parliaments, in 1295; its double representation was halved in 1885, then being altered by the later-termed Fourth Reform Act in 1918. Constituency profile ;Geographical and economic profile Bedford is a marginal seat between the Labour Party and the Conservatives. The main settlement is Bedford, a well-developed town centre with a considerable amount of social housing relative to Bedfordshire and higher poverty index but on a fast railway link to London and other destinations, the town is at the north end of the Thameslink service to Brighton and is not far from Milton Keynes which has a larger economy. The smaller and contiguous town of Kempston is also in the constituency. History Bedford was first represented in the Model Parliament of 1295. The constituency was originally a parliamentary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kent (Newfoundland Politician)
John Kent (1805 – 1 September 1872) arrived in Newfoundland in 1820 and started working for his uncle, Patrick Morris, a successful businessman and entrepreneur. He was elected to the first House of Assembly in 1832 as a Liberal. Kent was a champion of Catholic rights on an island that was then deeply divided along religious lines, which his actions directly exacerbated. He was described in the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography'' (DCB) as a demagogue who "enjoyed the storm and rode it to his own advantage", a style of politicking later followed in similar fashion by, among others, Edward Murphy Jr. (of Troy, New York) and Richard J. Daley (of Chicago). The DCB states, "Kent's electioneering was a compound of his own strident vitality, intimidation, and clerical influence. Newfoundland in 1832 had virtually universal suffrage under a household franchise, and it was not difficult to secure election by turbulent, and very effective means. Kent was of the school of Refo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Sir John Alexander Macdonald (January 10 or 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 to 1891. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career that spanned almost half a century. Macdonald was born in Scotland; when he was a boy his family immigrated to Kingston in the Province of Upper Canada (today in eastern Ontario). As a lawyer, he was involved in several high-profile cases and quickly became prominent in Kingston, which elected him in 1844 to the legislature of the Province of Canada. By 1857, he had become premier under the colony's unstable political system. In 1864, when no party proved capable of governing for long, Macdonald agreed to a proposal from his political rival, George Brown, that the parties unite in a Great Coalition to seek federation and political reform. Macdonald was the leading figure in the subsequent discussions and conferences, which resulted in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kent (cartoonist)
John Kent (21 June 1937 – 14 April 2003) was a New Zealand cartoonist who is best known as the author of the erotic and satirical '' Varoomshka'' comic strip in the English newspaper ''The Guardian'' during the 1970s. ''Lambiek Comiclopedia''. Biography Born in , Kent was self-taught as an artist, influenced by , creator of ''''. He worked principally in |
John Rodolphus Kent
John Rodolphus Kent (died 1 January 1837), also known as Amukete, was a Royal Navy officer and trader who settled in New Zealand in 1827. He first started sailing to New Zealand from Port Jackson ( Sydney) in New South Wales in 1820. He settled at Koutu Point near Opononi in the Hokianga in 1827 under the protection of the Ngāti Korokoro chief Moetara. He then moved to Kawhia in 1828 to trade with the Waikato tribes. There he met Te Wherowhero, the paramount chief of Waikato, and married his daughter Tiria. He died at Kahawai on the Manukau Harbour on 1 January 1837. See also Elizabeth Henrietta (1816 ship) His Majesty's colonial brig ''Elizabeth Henrietta'' was completed in 1816 for New South Wales service, but capsized on the Hunter River, Australia later that year with the loss of two lives. The ship was wrecked in 1825. ''Elizabeth Henrietta'' ... References 1837 deaths New Zealand traders Sealers Royal Navy officers Year of birth unknown Settlers of New Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kent (hymnist)
John Kent (December 1766 – 15 November 1843) was an English Calvinist Baptist writer of hymns. Biography Kent was born of poor, religious parents in Devonshire, and was apprenticed to his father, a shipwright. He began to write verse in his youth, and worked hard to educate himself despite limited opportunities.Miller, Josiah. ''Singers and Songs of the Church''. Longmans, Green and Co., 1869, p. 333-4. His hymns are first known to have been published in 1799 in Samuel Reece's ''A Selection of Evangelical Hymns'',John Kent - Hymnary. <http://www.hymnary.org/person/Kent_J1?sort=asc&order=Instances> compiled for the Barrack-Street Baptist congregation near Plymouth Dockyard, where he and his father worked. The first collection composed entirely of John Kent's hymns was his ''Original Gospel Hymns'', published in 1803; though he gained a reputation as a hymnist, he continued as a shipbuilder, writing hymns as his work allowed. His collection passed through ten edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kent (police Officer)
John Kent (1805 – 20 July 1886) was a British police constable at Maryport, then with the Carlisle City Police, and is reported to be the first black police officer in Britain. He served seven years in the office of constable at Carlisle before being dismissed from his role in 1844. He then became a court bailiff, then a Parish Constable at Longtown. Until 2006, when a former officer of Cumbria Constabulary discovered Kent's employment records, it was thought that Britain's first black police officer was Norwell Roberts, who was an officer with the Metropolitan Police starting in 1966 (however Astley Lloyd Blair joined Gloucestershire Constabulary as a Special Constable in 1964). The discovery has been heralded by the UK National Black Police Association as having "huge significance" as well as being "totally unexpected". Family and early life Kent was the son of Thomas Kent, a seaman who worked on the estate of a Cumberland colonial civil service worker in the West Indie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Kent (other)
Jack Kent may refer to: *Jack Kent (politician) (1870–1946), British politician with the Socialist Party of Great Britain *Jack Kent (illustrator) John Wellington Kent, better known by his signature Jack Kent (March 10, 1920 – October 18, 1985), was an American cartoonist and prolific author-illustrator of 40 Children's literature, children's books. He is perhaps best known as the creato ... (1920–1985), author-illustrator of children's books *Jack Kent (footballer), 1891–1892 Everton player See also * John Kent (other) * Jonathan Kent (other) * Jack o' Kent, an English folkloric character based in the Welsh Marches {{hndis, Kent, Jack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Kent (other)
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Jonathan or Jon Kent may refer to: * Jonathan Kent (director) (born 1949), British theatre and opera director * Jonathan Kent (cricketer) (born 1973), English cricketer * Jon Kent (cricketer) (born 1979), South African cricketer Comics * Jonathan and Martha Kent, DC Comics characters, Superman's adoptive parents * Jon Kent (DC Comics), the son of Superman in various stories and the Superboy in DC Comics such as ''Convergence'', ''Superman: Lois and Clark'', and DC Rebirth * Jon Lane Kent, son of Superman and Lois Lane from an alternate future in the ''Superboy'' comics * Jonathan Kent, alias of Lar Gand Mon-El in the ''Superman'' comics See also * John Kent (other) * Jack Kent (other) Jack Kent may refer to: *Jack Kent (politician) (1870–1946), British politician with the Socialist Party of Great Britain *Jack Kent (illustrator) John Wellington Kent, better known by his signature Jack Kent (March 10, 1920 – October 18, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
