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John Morison (minister)
John (or Jack) Morrison or Morison may refer to: In politics * John Morison (Banffshire MP) (c. 1757–1835), British MP for Banffshire * John Morrison (blacksmith) (1726–1816), farmer, blacksmith and politician in Nova Scotia * John Morison (Canadian politician) (1818–1873), Canadian businessman and political figure * John Morrison (Manitoba politician) (1868–1930), politician in Manitoba, Canada * John Morrison (Montana politician) (born 1961), politician in Montana, USA * John Morrison (Saskatchewan politician) (1872–1950), Canadian Member of Parliament * John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale (1906–1996), British Conservative Party politician * John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil (1926–2000), British diplomat * John Alexander Morrison (1814–1904), Pennsylvania Congressman * John B. Morison (1923–1996), member of the Canadian House of Commons for Wentworth and Halton—Wentworth * John Douglas Morrison (1934–2020), Australian police officer and mayor of Waver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Morison (Banffshire MP)
John Morison, 6th Baron of Bognie and Mountblairy, (1757 – 12 February 1835) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Banffshire (UK Parliament constituency), Banffshire, Scotland, between 1827 and 1832. He was the second son of Alexander Morison, 4th Baron of Bognie, and Catharine Duff. During the 1780s and 1790s, John was occupied as a merchant in Riga, before acquiring the lands of Auchintoul (Aberchirder) in 1799. John married Jane Fraser, daughter of Alexander Fraser (8th of Strichen). He was known primarily as John Morison of Auchintoul, though he did succeed his elder brother as 6th Baron of Bognie, Baron of Bognie and Mountblairy for the final four months of his life. References External links * 1750s births 1835 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Morrison (chess Player)
John Stuart Morrison (1889-1975) was a chess master who won the Canadian Championship five times between 1910 and 1926. He represented Canada at the 1939 Buenos Aires Olympiad and played in several international tournaments that were won by José Raúl Capablanca. Biography Born in Toronto, Morrison grew up in the city's west end. He discovered chess through books in 1907 and was mentored in the game at lunchtime at the Toronto Engraving Co. by Alfred Hunter, a co-worker and Toronto chess club member. At 19, Morrison won his first Toronto championship, a feat he repeated in 1945. Morrison won the Canadian Championship five times (1910, 1913, 1922, 1924, and 1926) and shared first place in 1931 ( Maurice Fox won the playoff). He took twelfth place at New York City 1913, seventh place at New York 1918, and equal 14th place at London 1922; all three tournaments were won by Capablanca. Morrison played first board (+5 –6 =4) on the Canadian team at the 8th Chess Olympiad at Bueno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Morrison (intelligence Officer)
John Noble Lennox Morrison (born 14 July 1943, in Hexham), joined the UK's Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) in 1967 as a desk-level intelligence analyst. During his Ministry of Defence (MoD) career he occupied a wide range of analytical and management positions in the DIS and elsewhere, including three tours in the Cabinet Office, culminating as Secretary to the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC). Morrison ended his official career as the senior civilian intelligence professional in the Defence Intelligence Staff, serving four years as Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence and Head of the Defence Intelligence Analysis Staff. During this period he represented the MoD and DIS as a member of the JIC, UK representative to the NATO Intelligence Board and Head of Profession for MoD Intelligence Analyst classes. He was awarded the US Defence Intelligence Agency's Director's Award in 1999. On leaving the DIS and the civil service in 1999, Morrison was selected by the parliamentary Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Morrison (drummer)
James Lloyd Morrison AM (born 11 November 1962) is an Australian jazz musician. Although his main instrument is trumpet, he has also performed on trombone, tuba, euphonium, flugelhorn, saxophone, clarinet, double bass, guitar, and piano. He is a composer, writing jazz charts for ensembles of various sizes and proficiency levels. He composed and performed the opening fanfare at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. In 2009, he joined Steve Pizzati and Warren Brown as a presenter on ''Top Gear Australia''. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2010 Morrison and an a cappella group, The Idea of North, won Best Jazz Album, for their collaboration on '' Feels Like Spring''. In 2012 Morrison was appointed Artistic Director of the Queensland Music Festival for the 2013 and 2015 festivals. He was inducted into the Graeme Bell Hall of Fame 2013 at the Australian Jazz Bell Awards. In July 2013 he conducted the World's Largest Orchestra in Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium, consisting of 7,224 musicians. Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Morrison (actor)
John Ethan Morrison (born February 22, 1962), known professionally as Ethan Wayne, is an American actor, stuntman and podcast host. He is the youngest son of John Wayne and only son of Pilar Pallete, and is best known for his role as Storm Logan in the CBS soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' (1987–1989, 1994, 1998, 2000−2001, 2003). Early life John Ethan Morrison was born in Los Angeles, California, on February 22, 1962, as the middle child and only son to John Wayne, an American actor, and his third wife, Pilar Pallete, a Peruvian former actress. He has two sisters, Aissa Maria Wayne and Marissa Carmela Wayne, and four half-siblings: Michael Wayne, Mary Antonia "Toni" Wayne LaCava, Patrick Wayne, and Melinda Ann Wayne Munoz, from his father's first marriage to Josephine Alicia Saenz. Wayne grew up in Newport Beach, California. His name was chosen in direct relation to Ethan Edwards, his father's character in ''The Searchers''. He was 17-years-old when his fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Morison (bacteriologist)
Dr John Morison FRSE CIE (1879–1971) was a 20th-century British physician prominent in the field of bacteriophage. Life He was born in Rajshahi (now part of Bangladesh) on 6 November 1879 the son of Dr Donald Morison who had come to India as a medical missionary with his wife in 1878. John returned to his parents home country of Scotland for education at Glasgow High School and then George Watson's School in Edinburgh. Then went to study medicine at Glasgow University, graduating MB ChB in 1902. After some practical experience (probably at Glasgow Royal Infirmary he joined the Indian Medical Service and returned to the country of his birth in 1906. He rose to be Director of the Pasteur Institute in Rangoon. In this role in 1927 he encountered the famed microbiologist Prof Felix d'Herelle, who engendered in him a love of bacteriophages. In 1932 he was created a commander of the Order of the Indian Empire by King George V. In 1937 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sinclair Morrison
John Sinclair Morrison (15 June 1913 – 25 October 2000) was an English classicist whose work led to the reconstruction of an Athenian Trireme, an ancient oared warship. From Lindfield, Sussex, Morrison was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was professor of Greek and head of the classics department at the University of Durham from 1945 to 1950. He was a Tutor at Trinity from 1950 to 1960, then vice-master of Churchill College, from 1960 to 1965.when he became the first President of University College, later renamed Wolfson College. He was considered an expert on the Greek trireme, the oared warship of the Athenian classical golden age, and is best known as one of the founders in 1982, with Charles Willink, another classics teacher, John Coates, a naval architect, and Frank Welsh, a banker, of the Trireme Trust, to test his theories about the Athenian trireme by building a full-size reconstruction. In 1984, the Greek Government promised funding, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John L
"John L" is a song by English rock band Black Midi, released in 2021 as the lead single from their second studio album, ''Cavalcade (Black Midi album), Cavalcade''. The song describes the story of a powerful leader, the titular John L, who is eventually betrayed and killed by his followers. It was released on March 23, with the B-side Despair and a music video directed by Nina McNeely. A 12-inch release for the single was made available for pre-order on the same day and released on April 9. The song is one of few on ''Cavalcade'' to have writing credits for guitarist Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, written before his departure from the band but recorded after. Composition and recording "John L" is an Avant-garde music, avant-garde progressive rock song described by ''Guitar World'' as "[featuring] dissonant piano chimes, weaving hypnotic vocals, a cacophony of string sounds, and an edge-of-the-seat dynamic range, spanning from complete silence to raucous, high-energy midsections." ''Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Morrison (writer)
John Gordon Morrison (29 January 1904 – 11 May 1998) was a British-born Australian novelist and short story writer. Life John Morrison was born in Sunderland, England on 29 January 1904. His interest in flora and the natural world saw him begin work at the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens at the age of 14. After two and a half years there he went to work as a learner-gardener for a wealthy shipowner at East Boldon His first wife was Frances Jones (?-1967). They had two children: John, and Marie. He married his second wife, Rachel Gordon (?-1997), in 1969. Australia He migrated to Australia in 1923 and initially worked on sheep-stations in New South Wales. His first Australian job was in the garden of historic Zara Station at Wanganella, outback of Deniliquin. The wide open spaces gave him a sense of freedom: warm friendship with his mates imbued him with the confidence to explore the Australian working class milieu in his stories, and he determined to live out his life i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Morrison (wrestler)
John Randall Hennigan (born October 3, 1979), better known by his ring name John Morrison, is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs under the ring name Johnny TV. He also performs for their sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH). He is best known for his tenures in WWE, Impact Wrestling and Lucha Underground. He also performs on the independent circuit under various ring names. After winning ''Tough Enough III'' (a WWE reality TV competition show that awarded winners a wrestling contract with the company), Hennigan was assigned to its Farm team#Professional wrestling, developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling. WWE promoted Hennigan to its SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown! roster in April 2005 under the ring name Johnny Nitro; winning the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship, WWE Tag Team Championship with Joey Mercury in his first match on the show. Hennigan has also held main event roles in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Morrison (ice Hockey, Born 1945)
John Lewis "Jack" Morrison (born April 6, 1945) is an American former ice hockey athlete and corporate manager. Early life and education Morrison was born in Minneapolis. He attended Phillips Academy, where he captained the hockey and tennis teams. Morrison then graduated from Yale University, where he was the all-time leading scorer for men's hockey with 51 goals and 68 assists, 119 points. He led the team in scoring his senior year with 49 points. During his time at Yale, Morrison won the William Neely Mallory Award. He is a member of the initial class, along with George H. W. Bush, of the Andover Athletic Hall of Honor. ''Life'' profiled Morrison as an outstanding secondary school hockey athlete in 1963. While attending Yale, he was in the same fraternity as George W. Bush. He later graduated from Harvard Business School. Career Morrison was named a first-team All-American at center in 1967, and then captained the United States men's national ice hockey team at the 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Morrison (ice Hockey, Born 1895)
John William "Crutchy" Morrison (March 4, 1895 - March 14, 1956) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 18 games in the National Hockey League during the 1925–26 season with the New York Americans. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1913 to 1932, was spent in a variety of other leagues, including the Western Canada Hockey League, where he played for the Edmonton Eskimos. With Edmonton he played in the 1923 Stanley Cup Finals, and scored the team's only goal. Playing career Born in Selkirk, Manitoba, Morrison played senior hockey for the Selkirk Fishermen, starting in 1913. In 1915, he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force for the First World War. Before being sent overseas, he played one season for the Winnipeg 61st Battalion to capture the Allan Cup in 1916. After his tour of duty ended in 1919, he played two more seasons of senior hockey, with Selkirk in 1919–20 and the Winnipeg Falcons for 1920–21. Morrison joined the Edmonton Eskimos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
