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John Varley (actor)
John Varley may refer to: * John Varley (canal engineer) (1740–1809), English canal engineer * John Varley (painter) (1778–1842), English painter and astrologer * John Varley (author) (born 1947), American science fiction author * John Silvester Varley (born 1956), former CEO of Barclays Bank * John Varley (photographer) (1934–2010), British photographer {{hndis, name=Varley, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Varley (canal Engineer)
John Varley (8 June 1740 – 16 February 1809) was an England, English engineer. He was born in Heanor, Derbyshire, Heanor, Derbyshire, and was responsible for the construction of the Chesterfield Canal, Chesterfield and Erewash Canal, Erewash Canals. He died in 1809 and is buried at All Saints Church, Harthill, Derbyshire, Harthill, Derbyshire. Early life John Varley was born on 8 June 1740 to Francis Varley (1719–1789) and Rebekah Varley in Heanor, Derbyshire. He married Hannah Pattern (1752 – ) on 13 March 1770. Early canal engineering James Brindley appointed John Varley as an assistant. The proposed canal from the River Don, South Yorkshire, River Don to Cinderbridge was surveyed by John Varley. Chesterfield Canal The route of the canal was surveyed by James Brindley and John Varley, who estimated the cost at £94,908 17Shilling, s. Brindley presented his proposals to a meeting in Worksop on 24 August 1769. An application was made to Parliament and the Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Varley (painter)
John Varley (17 August 177817 November 1842) was an English Watercolor painting, watercolour Painting, painter and astrologer, and a close friend of William Blake. They collaborated in 1819–1820 on the book ''Visionary Heads'', written by Varley and illustrated by Blake. He was the elder brother of a family of artists: Cornelius Varley, William Fleetwood Varley, and Elizabeth, who married the painter William Mulready. Life and work John Varley was born at the ''Old Blue Post Tavern'', London Borough of Hackney, Hackney, on 17 August 1778. His father, Richard Varley, born at Epworth, Lincolnshire, Epworth in Lincolnshire, had settled in London after the death of his first wife in Yorkshire. His mother was an alleged descendant of the regicide Oliver Cromwell through the marriage of his daughter, Bridget, and the Parliamentarian soldier and politician General Charles Fleetwood. Varley's parents discouraged his leanings towards art, and placed him under a silversmith. But on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Varley (author)
John Herbert Varley (born August 9, 1947) is an American science fiction writer. Biography Varley was born in Austin, Texas. He grew up in Fort Worth, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, graduated from Nederland High School—all in Texas—and went to Michigan State University on a National Merit Scholarship. He started as a physics major, switched to English, then left school before his 20th birthday and arrived in Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco just in time for the " Summer of Love" in 1967. There he worked at various unskilled jobs, depended on St. Anthony's Mission for meals, and panhandled outside the Cala Market on Stanyan Street (since closed) before deciding that writing had to be a better way to make a living. He was serendipitously present at Woodstock in 1969 when his car ran out of gas a half-mile away. He also has lived at various times in Portland and Eugene, Oregon, New York City, San Francisco again, Berkeley, and Los Angeles. Varley has written seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Silvester Varley
John Silvester Varley (born 1 April 1956) is an English banker who was the group chief executive of Barclays from 2004 to 2011. Early life John Silvester Varley was born in Warwick. His father, Philip, was a solicitor in Coventry. Varley was educated at the Catholic Downside School at Stratton-on-the-Fosse south of Bath, becoming head librarian, then at Oriel College, Oxford ( MA History), and London's College of Law. Career He became a solicitor with Frere Cholmeley (which became Frere Cholmeley Bischoff and was then bought by Eversheds in 1998) in 1979. Varley joined Barclays in 1982, as part of the Corporate Finance Department of the then Barclays Merchant Bank. Senior appointments with the successor bank, BZW (now Barclays Capital), included deputy chief executive of BZW's Equity Division and head of BZW's offices in South East Asia. In 1995 he became chairman of the Asset Management Division and from April 1998 to October 2000 was chief executive, retail financial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
