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# Frank Kearns

Frank Kearns (1917–1986) was an American broadcast journalist for CBS News from 1958 until 1971, although he first began with CBS in 1953 as a freelance correspondent, or "stringer", stationed in Cairo, Egypt.
During World War II, he was assigned to the US Army Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) in London in 1942. He was "named head of counterintelligence in Paris and enter[ed] Dachau with the 45th Division in April 1945."
In 1953, he became a radio stringer in Cairo, where he met up with "former CIC roommates from London, James Eichelberger and Miles Copeland Jr."
Kearns covered several Middle East conflicts including Egypt's Suez Crisis and the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War. For his 1957 coverage of Algeria's struggle for independence from the French where he was embedded with the freedom fighters for six weeks, Kearns was honored with a Peabody Award for providing "news in depth by going behind current happenings to identify related problems and underlying causes," the George Polk Memorial Award for "distinguished achievement in journalism," and the Overseas Press Club of America Award for "Best Foreign Reporting on Radio and Television" for his critical contributions to the CBS documentary "Algeria Aflame."
He was named a network staff correspondent with CBS on September 25, 1958. He reported from news bureaus in London, Paris, Moscow and Rome. Four years later, he was named the CBS News Africa Bureau Chief. From a base in London, he reported on numerous wars and disputes including Rhodesia’s bid for independence, the civil war in Biafra and the bloody conflicts in the Congo Crisis.
In 1971, Kearns left CBS News to accept a teaching position at his alma mater West Virginia University, where he served as a distinguished Benedum Professor of Journalism.
In 1976, Sig Mickelson, the former president of CBS News, told a U. S. Senate committee that during his early years as a “stringer” (part-time reporter) in Egypt, Kearns had U.S. Central Intelligence Agency "connections." In addition, the press alleged that the CIA relationship had been approved by senior CBS management.
In 1983, Kearns retired from the classroom and settled in Sardinia, Italy, where he spent the last three years of his life. Frank Kearns died of cancer on August 1, 1986 at age 68 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. In announcing his death on The CBS Evening News, Dan Rather remarked, "His reporting on CBS radio and television came mostly from datelines such as Baghdad, Khartoum, Yemen and the Congo. He took the tough stories and never complained...Legend may be an overworked word among journalists, but in his quiet, courageous way, Frank Kearns was one around here."
# John Flynn (Gaelic footballer)

John Flynn (born 5 June 1984) is an Irish sportsperson who currently plays Gaelic football for Wicklow Senior Football Championship team Baltinglass and was a member of the Wicklow senior team from 2003 to 2012. While Flynn remained as a sub for most he was called up in 2010 after the current goalkeeper Mervyn Travers sustained a serious knee injury which forced him out, Flynn subsequently replaced Travers and remained in goalkeeping position. In October 2012, Flynn announced his retirement from inter-county football. Flynn returned to the panel in early 2013 after being recalled.
# John Flynn (Australian politician)

John Gerard Flynn (21 May 1953 – 27 February 2024) was an Australian politician. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

## Early life

John Flynn was born in Brisbane, the son of John Joseph Flynn, a postman, and Kathleen Josephine, née De Hayr. He attended convent school at Rosalie and then Marist Brothers College Rosalie, before studying at the University of Queensland from 1971 to 1982, receiving a Bachelor of Science (Hons, 1975) and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Hons). He married Kelyn Ann Blanch, a teacher, on 5 January 1975. From 1976 to 1977 he was a biochemistry tutor at the university, and from 1978 to 1982 a part-time analytical biochemist at Royal Brisbane Hospital. In 1983, he was appointed medical officer at the Royal Brisbane and Royal Children's Hospitals, before becoming a private general practitioner in Toowoomba in 1985.

## Politics

A member of the Labor Party and president of the Toowoomba North branch, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1989 as the member for Toowoomba North. He was defeated in 1992.

## Death

John Flynn died at the age of 70 on 27 February 2024.
# John King (cricketer, born 1871)

John Herbert King (16 April 1871 – 18 November 1946) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Leicestershire County Cricket Club between 1895 and 1925. He also played one Test match for the England cricket team, which was against Australia at Lord's in 1909. He did the double, of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets, in 1912 and 11 years later, when he was 52 years old, scored his second double century.
After retiring as a cricketer, aged 52, he continued his involvement in the game as an umpire for another 11 years.
He had two benefits at Leicestershire: the first in 1910, the second in 1923.
King is the last batsman to have been given out Hit the ball twice in a first-class game in England, when in the match against Surrey at the Oval in 1906 King stopped the ball from running onto his stumps by hitting it a second time, and then attempted to run a single.
# Frank Martínez (artist)

Francisco Alonzo "Frank" Martínez (August 9, 1924 – August 17, 2013) was an American artist. He painted murals of his Mexican American heritage.

## Early years and World War II

Martínez was born in 1924, in Los Angeles, California, to Mexican migrant farmworkers. In his youth, he worked with his parents harvesting crops, while harboring a desire to be an artist. In 1943, he enlisted in the United States Army and served as a unit medic in the European theatre of World War II. He participated in the Omaha Beach invasion in Normandy, France. He went on to serve in four major campaigns in Europe and received four battle stars.

## Art career

Once the war ended, Martínez went to London to study at the Borough Polytechnic Institute (now London South Bank University). He returned to the U.S. in 1947 and continued his studies at the Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts) in Los Angeles until 1951, lastly enrolling at the Otis College of Art and Design.
Never earning a degree and due to his growing family, Martínez began designing lamps for a company in Van Nuys in 1956. He worked for the company until the mid-1980s. In 1976, the Smithsonian Institution commissioned him and four other California artists to paint a mural for the United States Bicentennial celebration. He traveled to Washington, D.C., to complete his part, which depicted the early pueblo years of Los Angeles. He would go on to create large-scale murals for the 1984 Summer Olympics and Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. One of his last works hangs in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. It is a layered mural of early 18th century life, mission-building and Catholic faith in California.

## Exhibitions

Martínez's work over the years was characterized by constant evolution. His works became a regular feature at numerous shows and exhibitions. His works are part of many private and corporate collections, including The Smithsonian Institution, University of Southern California, and the Southern California Gas Company. His works were collected and became part of many private collections such as that of Vidal Sassoon and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles.

## Personal life

Shortly after returning to the U.S. in 1947, Martínez met and married Esther Silva. They had a daughter and four sons, two of which preceded him in death. Late in life, Martínez was diagnosed with diabetes and Parkinson's disease. However, he did not let either disrupt his work. He developed ways to use the Parkinson's to his advantage by drawing sketches directly on the canvas, rather than in a book. On August 17, 2013, Martínez, aged 89, died at Northridge Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from diabetes and renal disease.
# John Harding

John Harding is the name of:
* John Harding (Leicester MP), British politician who represented Leicester (UK Parliament constituency) in 1338?
* John Harding (President of Magdalen) (died 1610), English churchman and academic
* Sir John Harding (1809–1868), Queens Advocate
* John Harding (Southern planter) (1777–1865), American Southern planter and Thoroughbred breeder
* John Harding (cricketer) (fl. 1809), English cricketer
* John Harding (bishop) (1805–1874), bishop of Bombay
* J. Eugene Harding (1877–1959), U.S. Representative from Ohio
* John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1896–1989), British Second World War general, Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Governor of Cyprus
* John Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton (1928–2016), British Army officer
* John L. Harding (1780–1837), American mayor of Frederick, Maryland
* Jack Harding (1898–1963), American coach of American football
* J. P. Harding (1911–1998), British zoologist
* John Harding (footballer) (1932–1994), Australian rules footballer
* John Harding (photographer) (born 1940), American photographer
* John Tisdale Harding (born c. 1945), American on-air radio personality and news director
* John Harding (violinist) (born 1950), Australian violinist
* John Harding (author) (1951–2017), British novelist
* John Wesley Harding (singer) (born 1965), English singer
* John Harding (playwright) (fl. 1990s– ), Australian playwright, co-founder and board member of the First Nations Australia Writers Network
* John Harding (Sha ko hen the tha) (fl. 2000s), Mohawk leader and politician from Quebec, Canada
# John Hardie Wilson

John Hardie Wilson FRSE (1858–1920) was a 19th/20th-century Scottish botanist and photographer. He specialised in the disease resistance of crops and fruits, with a particular interest in disease-resistant potatoes. As a potato breeder he created Rector, Bishop and Templar.

## Life

He was born in St Andrews the second son of James Wilson, a horticulturalist and owner of Greenside Nurseries. He was educated at Madras College in St Andrews. He then had a horticulturalist apprentice at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh from around 1872.
In Edinburgh he undertook formal studies in botany at the University of Edinburgh. He then studied forestry in classes at the Botanic Gardens, winning a first class certificate. In 1886 he returned to the University of St Andrews to obtain a degree in natural history. From 1887 he was a Demonstrator in the botany class. He graduated with a BSc in 1888.
He gained a doctorate (DSc) in 1889, founding the University Science Club in the same year. He was also highly involved in creating the University Botanic Garden, a teaching garden. This he created with the assistance of Thomas Berwick.
He resigned in 1890 for unclear reasons. In 1891 he created a teaching garden at the Morgan Academy in Dundee assisted by the older but less experienced Patrick Geddes.
In 1891 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Carmichael M'Intosh, Hugh Cleghorn, Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour and John Muirhead Macfarlane.
In 1894 he reappears at the University of St Andrews, lecturing in agriculture. From 1894 to 1897 he lectured in botany at the University of Leeds. He returned to the University of St Andrews in 1898.
In 1899 the Royal Horticultural Society awarded him the Banksian Medal. In 1908 the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society awarded him the Neill Prize.
During the First World War all the University's gardeners were called up and Wilson took on the role of maintaining the garden single-handed. This allegedly contributed to his death.
He died of pleurisy and pneumonia at home in St Andrews on 13 January 1920.

## Photography

His large collection of glass plate negatives is held by the University of St Andrews and is partly in the Cowie Collection with the majority held by the Botany Department.

## Publications

* Observations on the Fertilisation and Hybridisation of some Species of Albuca (1891)
* Nature Study Rambles Round St Andrews (1910)
# John Merbecke

John Marbeck, Merbeck or Merbecke (c. 1510 – c. 1585) was an English choral composer and theological writer whose musical setting of the early Anglican liturgy standardised the sung Anglican service until the late 20th century. He is also known today for his setting of the Mass, Missa Per arma justitiae.

## Life

Probably a native of Beverley in Yorkshire, Merbecke appears to have been a boy chorister at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and was employed as an organist there from about 1541. Two years later he was convicted with four others of heresy and sentenced to be burnt at the stake, but received a pardon owing to the intervention of Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, who said he was "but a musitian". An English Concordance of the Bible which Merbecke had been preparing at the suggestion of Richard Turner, was however confiscated and destroyed. A later version of this work, the first of its kind in English, was published in 1550 with a dedication to Edward VI.
In the same year, Merbecke published his Booke of Common Praier Noted, intended to provide for musical uniformity in the use of the First Prayer Book of Edward VI. This set the liturgy to semi-rhythmical melodies partly adapted from Gregorian chant; it was rendered obsolete when the Prayer Book was revised in 1552. Merbecke wrote several devotional and controversial works, and a number of his musical compositions are preserved in manuscript in the British Library, and at Oxford and Cambridge. He died, probably while still organist at Windsor, about 1585.
His son, Roger Marbeck (1536–1605), was a noted classical scholar and physician.

## Legacy

In the first half of the 19th century, the Oxford Movement inspired renewed interest in liturgical music within the Church of England. John Jebb first drew attention to Merbecke's Prayer Book settings in 1841. In 1843, William Dyce published plainsong music for all the Anglican services, which included nearly all of Merbecke's settings, adapted for the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. During the latter half of the 19th century, many different editions of Merbecke's settings were published, especially for the Communion service, with arrangements by noted musicians such as Sir John Stainer, Charles Villiers Stanford and Basil Harwood, Merbecke's Communion setting was very widely sung by choirs and congregations throughout the Anglican Communion until the 1662 Book of Common Prayer began to be supplanted by more modern liturgy in the late 20th century. Parts of his service, notably the Nicene Creed, have been adapted to "modern" wording. His setting has also been adapted for the liturgy of many other denominations; the Catholic Church drew on it for the new English-language form of the Mass of Paul VI following the Second Vatican Council of 1962–65.
His complete Latin Church music was recorded by The Cardinall's Musick under the direction of Andrew Carwood in 1996.
A voluntary choir for young men and women at Southwark Cathedral in London is named the Merbecke Choir in his honour, because Merbecke's heresy trial had been partly held at the church in 1543.
# Franklin Fry

Franklin Fry may refer to:
* Franklin Clark Fry (1900–1968), American Lutheran clergyman
* Franklin Foster Fry (1864–1933), Lutheran minister
# François Beaucourt

François Beaucourt (1740–1794) is said to be the first native-born Canadian painter who studied in France with a professional reputation. He was active mainly in the Province of Quebec.

## Career

François Malepart Beaucourt was born in Laprairie, Quebec. Paul Beaucourt, his father, was an amateur painter and military engineer. After he died, the family seems to have returned to France. In 1773, Beaucourt married the daughter of his painting master, Joseph Camagne, in Bordeaux, afterwards painting in France and Russia. He was accepted into the local academy in Bordeaux in 1784. In Canada, after 1786, he painted a wide variety of subjects, mostly portraits, including a self-portrait in the National Gallery of Canada. In 1792, he worked in Philadelphia but returned to Montreal that year. In 1794, he died in Montreal. One critic speaks of his "decorative and light provincial rococo" manner.
# John Felton Betts

John Felton Betts (October 9, 1854 – May 9, 1914) was a merchant and political figure in the Northwest Territories, Canada. He represented Prince Albert and then Cumberland in the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 1888 to 1898.
He was born in Canada West, the son of the Reverend Lorenzo A. Betts, and was educated at Albert College in Belleville. In 1882, he married Mary E. Boyle. Betts settled in Prince Albert in 1879, where he was the first person to erect a building on the townsite. He was justice of the peace and chairman of the school board. Betts also served as acting mayor of Prince Albert for nine years. He was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 1894 to 1898.
Outside of government, John Betts was a member of the freemasons of Saskatchewan.
# John Howard Hinton

John Howard Hinton (23 March 1791 – 11 December 1873) was an English author and Baptist minister who published, along with many other works, The History and Topography of the United States of North America together with his brother Isaac Taylor Hinton (1799-1847). He is the father of surgeon James Hinton and grandfather of mathematician and science fiction author Charles Howard Hinton.

## Life

John Howard Hinton was born in Oxford in 1791 to James Hinton (1761–1823) and Ann Hinton. His Father, James Hinton, was a pastor in Oxford, and ran a school. Hinton was taught at his father's school where he became friends with Edward Steane. Hinton first preached in Reading, afterwards became pastor of a Baptist church in London, and was distinguished as an independent and original preacher, and a zealous advocate for liberty in religion and politics, for example arguing that it was the church's responsibility to punish "violations of morality", such as lying, whereas the state should limit itself to enforcing "offences against society" (which might encompass the former, such as theft).
For many years Hinton was a joint secretary of the Baptist Union with his lifelong friend Edward Steane.
In 1840 he attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention where he was captured in a group painting just in front of Isaac Crewdson.
In 1865 he published the sixth and last volume of his sermons. He is thought to view God as not necessarily good but a being who deserves adoration irrespective of his works.
Hinton died in 1873 in Bristol.

## Works

* Memoir of William Knibb, Missionary in Jamaica, 1847, accessed April 2009
* The Theological Works of Rev. John Howard Hinton, MA, in 6 volumes
* A Biographical Portraiture of the Late Rev. James Hinton, M.A. Pastor of a congregational church in the city of Oxford.
# Frank Vicari

Frank Vicari (April 11, 1931 – October 20, 2006) was a jazz saxophonist.

## Career

After serving in the Air Force from 1951–55, where he played in service bands, Vicari returned to New York City and played in bands until he joined Maynard Ferguson's big band in 1960.
When the Ferguson band broke up in 1965, Vicari briefly joined Buddy Rich, then Woody Herman and his Thundering Herd and remained until 1970. Vicari worked with Steve Gadd, Mike Mainieri, Randy and Michael Brecker, Dave Matthews, the White Elephant Orchestra, George Benson, Tony Bennett, Dionne Warwick, Billy Eckstein, Tom Waits, John Lennon, Woody Herman, and the Saturday Night Live Band.
He died in New York City at the age of 75.

## Discography
### As sideman

With George Benson
* Good King Bad (CTI, 1976)
* Pacific Fire (CTI, 1983)
* Space (CTI, 1978)
With Maynard Ferguson
* The New Sounds of Maynard Ferguson (Cameo, 1963)
* Come Blow Your Horn (Cameo, 1963)
* Color Him Wild (Mainstream, 1964)
* The Blues Roar (Mainstream, 1964)
* Ridin' High (Enterprise, 1968)
* Color Me Wild (Mainstream, 1974)
* The Big F (Mainstream, 1974)
With Woody Herman
* The Jazz Swinger (Columbia, 1966)
* Heavy Exposure (Cadet, 1969)
* Light My Fire (Cadet, 1969)
* Double Exposure (Chess, 1976)
With Tom Waits
* Foreign Affairs (Asylum, 1977)
* Blue Valentine (Asylum, 1978)
* Bounced Checks (Asylum, 1981)
With others
* James Brown, Hell (Polydor, 1995)
* Geils, Monkey Island (Atlantic, 1977)
* Gotham, Pass the Butter (Natural Resources, 1972)
* Urbie Green, Señor Blues (CTI, 1977)
* Art Farmer, Something You Got (CTI, 1977)
* Corky Laing, Makin' It On the Street (Elektra, 1977)
* John Lennon, Walls and Bridges (Apple, 1974)
* Mike Mainieri, White Elephant (NYC, 1994)
* The Manhattan Transfer, The Manhattan Transfer (Atlantic, 1975)
* David Matthews, Night Flight (Muse, 1977)
* David Matthews, Big Band Recorded Live at the Five Spot (Muse, 1980)
* Bette Midler, Broken Blossom (Atlantic, 1977)
* Blue Mitchell, Many Shades of Blue (Mainstream, 1974)
* Esther Phillips, From a Whisper to a Scream (Kudu, 1971)
* Esther Phillips, For All We Know (Kudu, 1976)
* Dana Valery, Dana Valery (Phantom, 1975)
* T-Bone Walker, Very Rare (Reprise, 1973)
* Leslie West, The Great Fatsby (Phantom, 1975)
* Leslie West, The Leslie West Band (Phantom, 1975)
* White Elephant, White Elephant (Just Sunshine, 1972)
# John Holt (15th-century judge)

John Holt (died 1418) was an English judge of the common pleas who was a native and landowner of Northamptonshire. His name occurs in the year-books from 1366, the fortieth year of Edward III, onwards.

## Life

In 1377, the last year of the reign of Edward III, he became a King's Serjeant. He was appointed a judge of the common pleas in 1383 (Cal. Rot. Parl. p. 208), and at Christmas 1384 he was made a Knight banneret. On 25 Aug. 1387 he was summoned to attend the king at Nottingham and concurred with his colleagues in pronouncing illegal the proceedings of the last parliament, which had appointed a permanent council. For this expression of opinion he was on 3 February 1388 arrested while sitting in court, and on 2 March was put on his trial. He pleaded that he had been compelled to give that opinion by the threats of the Archbishop of York and of the Earl of Suffolk, but he was found guilty by parliament. Upon the intercession of the prelates, his life was spared, and his sentence commuted to banishment for life to Ireland, an allowance of forty marks being made him for his residence at Drogheda. In 1391 his manors were granted to his son John, but in January 1397 parliament remitted his banishment, and in the following year his sentence was reversed and his land was restored. The deposition of Richard II prevented him from recovering the lands. In the second year of the following reign he presented a petition for their restoration, which was granted, but many of them having been granted away in the interim he was compelled to allow the grantees such compensation as the council should think reasonable, and on these terms his lands were restored to him, and passed to his son Hugh on his death in 1418.
Holt's dealings with the manor of Whilton in Northamptonshire is discussed by Robert Palmer in his book 'The Whilton Dispute, 1264-1380: A Social-Legal Study of Dispute Settlement in Medieval England'.