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# John Cobb (cabinetmaker)

John Cobb (c.1710–1778) was an English cabinetmaker and upholsterer.

## Biography

It is believed that John Cobb was apprenticed in 1729 to Timothy Money (fl 1724–59), a Norwich upholsterer. In 1755 he married Sukey, a daughter of the cabinetmaker Giles Grendey, and is said to have acquired a ‘singularly haughty character’, strutting ‘in full dress of the most superb and costly kind...through his workshops giving orders to his men’, and on one occasion earning a rebuke from George III. He worked with William Vile from 1750 until 1765 in premises at No, 72, the corner house of St Martin's Lane & Long Acre. In the early 1750s, William Hallett, a leading cabinetmaker of the time, financially backed Vile and Cobb and formed a working syndicate with them, Vile was also from Crewkerne, and began his career as William Hallett’s journeyman. Vile and Cobb supplied furniture to the leading patrons of the day including George III and Queen Charlotte, the 1st Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, the 4th Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth and the 4th Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey.
Vile and Cobb held the Royal Warrant from 1761 until April 1764 when Vile retired. While Vile created works in an Anglicized Rococo style, Cobb’s furniture of the 1770s was executed in an elegant Neoclassical style. Cobb was well known for his haughty disposition which did not always endear him to his customers, so it was no surprise that the Royal Warrant was awarded to two of their employees William France and John Bradburne instead of Cobb himself. Some of Cobb's work is in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace.
Following Vile's retirement in 1764, Cobb carried on in business with the assistance of his foreman, Samuel Reynolds (fl 1751–85). He made furniture to very high standards and earned a reputation for exquisite marquetry: Hester Thrale, the writer and friend of Dr Johnson, compared the inlaid floors at Sceaux, France, to ‘the most high prized Cabinet which Mr Cobb can produce to captivate the Eyes of his Customers’. Inlay in tropical woods, particularly satinwood, was an important element of Neo-classical furniture. In 1772–4 Cobb produced an ‘Extra neat Inlaid Commode’ and two stands en suite for Paul Methuen at Corsham Court, Wilts, which survive in situ. In 1772 he was implicated in the smuggling of furniture from France. His most extensive work was for the 6th Earl of Coventry at Croome Court, Worcs, between 1765 and 1773. This included a large mahogany wardrobe and extensive seating in the new Neo-classical style. It is recorded that he received commissions for work at a number of other houses, including Burton Hall, Lincs, Uppark, W. Sussex, Audley End, Essex, and David Garrick’s villa at Hampton, Middx. Furniture was also supplied for Strawberry Hill, home of Horace Walpole from 1760 to 1771.
After Cobb’s death in 1778, Samuel Reynolds operated in partnership with John Graham at Cobb’s address at 72 St Martin’s Lane, London, until 1785.
# John B. Whitehead

John Boswell Whitehead (August 18, 1872 in Norfolk, Virginia – November 16, 1954 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American electrical engineer and a professor at Johns Hopkins University as well as the dean of the School of Engineering. Whitehead was president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers from 1933 to 1934. In 1941, Whitehead received the IEEE Edison Medal for "contributions to the field of electrical engineering, his pioneering and development in the field of dielectric research, and his achievements in the advancement of engineering education".
# John D'Or Prairie

John D'Or Prairie is a First Nations settlement within the John D'Or Prairie 215 Indian reserve in northern Alberta, Canada. It is located on the Lawrence River, upstream from the Peace River, and south of the Caribou Mountains. It has an elevation of 290 metres (950 ft).
The settlement is located in census division No. 17 and in the federal riding of Peace River. The settlement and the Indian reserve are part of the Little Red River Cree Nation.

## Access

The settlement is accessed by the John D'Or Prairie Aerodrome and an access road that connects to Alberta Highway 58 to the north of the Indian reserve.

## Demographics

Statistics Canada has not recently published a population for John D’Or Prairie. However, the population of John D'Or Prairie according to the Little Red River Cree Nation is 1,062.
# John Drebinger

John Drebinger (March 23, 1891 – October 22, 1979), nicknamed "Drebby", was an American sportswriter in New York City for over 50 years. Between 1929 and 1963, he wrote the lead story in The New York Times for every World Series contest, a total of 203 games.

## Biography

Drebinger graduated from Curtis High School on Staten Island and went to work for the Staten Island Advance in 1911. He moved to The New York Times in 1923, and worked there until retiring in 1964. Drebinger estimated that he traveled 1,230,000 miles (1,980,000 km) in his career as a sportswriter covering the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, and New York Yankees.
In 1973, Drebinger was honored by the Baseball Writers' Association of America with the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for distinguished baseball writing.
Drebinger died at a nursing home in North Carolina in October 1979. He was survived by his wife, Madeline, and a son.
# John Ewart (disambiguation)

John Ewart (1928–1994) was an Australian actor
John Ewart may also refer to:
* John Ewart (architect) (1788–1856), Canadian architect and business
* John Albert Ewart (1872–1964), Canadian architect
* Jock Ewart (1891–1943), Scottish footballer
* John Ewart (doctor) (1858–1939), New Zealand doctor and hospital superintendent
* J. S. Ewart (John Skirving Ewart, 1849–1933), Canadian lawyer and author
* Sir John Alexander Ewart (1821–1904), Scottish military leader
# John Fentress Gardner

John Fentress Gardner (1912–1998) was an American author and educator.
He wrote about education, spiritualism, and anthroposophy. He was the longtime headmaster of what is now called The Waldorf School of Garden City.
During his tenure as headmaster, the school was called "The Demonstration School of Adelphi College" and then the "Waldorf School of Garden City". The school is based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, a European proponent of alternative education, clairvoyance and mysticism.
He was married to Carol Hemingway Gardner, who was Ernest Hemingway's youngest sister.
# John Glegg

Captain John Glegg was a soldier in the 49th Regiment of Foot of the British Army. He served with General Isaac Brock as one of two aides-de-camp during the War of 1812. He was in charge of funeral arrangements for Brock, who died at the Battle of Queenston Heights.
# John Glen

John Glen may refer to:
* John Glen (1744–1799), mayor of Savannah
* John Glen (director) (born 1932), English film director and editor
* John Glen (mayor) (1809–1895), mayor of Atlanta
* John Glen (politician) (born 1974), UK Conservative politician
* John B. Glen, Scottish veterinarian
# John Griffin (rugby union)

John Griffin (2 August 1859 – 13 July 1895) was an English medical doctor who became an international rugby union forward for Wales despite having no connections to the country.

## Personal background

Griffin was born in Southampton in 1859, the eldest son of Dr. R. W. Waudby Griffin. He was partly educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital before gaining a place at Edinburgh University from which he qualified. During the late 1880s Griffin emigrated to South Africa in an attempt to improve his health, after suffering from hemoptysis. He first spent some time in Pretoria as a locum tenens before gaining a more permanent position in Port Elizabeth, where he set up a practice. After several years his health improved and in 1893 he travelled back to England in charge of small-pox patients on board a steamship. On his return to South Africa it was obvious he was suffering from tuberculosis and his condition worsened. In 1895 he returned to Southampton to spend his last days at his mother's home where he died on 13 July.

## Rugby career

Griffin was awarded his one and only international cap as part of the 1883 Home Nations Championship. Wales had only been playing rugby as an international country for two years when the team played in the 1883 Championship. This was the inaugural tournament and the fixture between Scotland and Wales was the first rugby encounter between the two countries. When Wales arrived in Edinburgh the party was a player short for the match, in similar circumstances to the 1882 clash with Ireland, and attempts were made to draft a player to fill the missing position. Griffin was at the time studying at Edinburgh University and had played rugby for the University team. Although not Welsh, the fact that he was English, made him the 'least Scottish' person to choose from and was brought into the Welsh squad. Griffin was one of three new caps in the Welsh squad, the others being Horace Lyne and John Arthur Jones, all three playing in the pack. Wales lost the game by three goals to one and Griffin returned to his studies and did not represent Wales again.
As part of the first British Isles tour to South Africa in 1889, the British side played three tests against the South African team. The first test was held in Port Elizabeth, and the game was refereed by Griffin.

### International matches played

Wales
* Scotland 1883
# John Dugdale (herald)

Sir John Dugdale (1 June 1628 – 31 August 1700) was a herald at the College of Arms in the City of London and was the son of William Dugdale (1605-1686), the historian and Garter Principal King of Arms herald.

## Life

He was born on 1 June 1628 at Blyth Hall, Shustoke, Warwickshire and was educated at the grammar schools in Sutton Coldfield and Coleshill. He appears to have trained as a surveyor and worked for various royalist landowners during the Interregnum. In 1660 he joined the Earl of Clarendon's household as senior gentleman usher. In 1662, he married Mary Baker, the daughter of a Windsor attorney. They had two children, William and Mary. Following his wife's death in 1671, he married Elizabeth Pigeon, the heiress of a Coventry apothecary, with whom he had a daughter Elizabeth.
In 1675 he replaced his brother-in-law Elias Ashmole as Windsor Herald, although his continued service in the Hyde household meant that he was not an active herald. From the autumn of 1684 his father no longer travelled to London in the winter and a formal deputation was obtained for John to act as Garter King of Arms. His correspondence with his father indicates his discomfort in the role and with the factionalism within the College of Arms. He acted as Garter at the coronation of James II. He hoped to succeed his father, who died in February 1686, but the influence of his friends was only sufficient to gain him the post of Norroy King of Arms. He was also knighted. In the 1690s, he hoped to resign in favour of Gregory King, but was refused permission and died in office in 1700.

## Arms

Coat of arms of John Dugdale :
* NotesSame arms as his father's.
* CrestA griffin's head & wings or.
* EscutcheonArgent, a millrind cross (Cross moline) gules with a roundel gules in the dexter canton.
* MottoPestis Patriae Pigrities ("Sloth is the bane of a country")
# John Harlow

John Harlow may refer to:
* John Martyn Harlow (1819–1907), American physician to head-injury survivor Phineas Gage
* John Harlow (director) (1896–1977), British film director
* John Harlow, former member of band Coachwhips
# John Henderson (British Army officer)

Major-General John McNiven Ross Henderson CB is a retired British Army officer who commanded British Forces Germany. He became Chief Executive of Staffordshire County Council in May 2015.

## Early life

Henderson was educated at Heriot-Watt University (BSc, 1984) and Cranfield University (MSc, 1995).

## Military career

Henderson was commissioned into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in 1982. He became Commanding Officer of 2 Battalion REME in June 2002 and Commander of the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan in June 2004 before becoming Deputy Chief of Staff for 1st Armoured Division in January 2005 and then Commander of 102 Logistic Brigade in December 2006. He went on to be Director Logistics for the Army in December 2008 and General Officer Commanding British Forces Germany in August 2012.
Henderson was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2014 New Year Honours.
# John Finlay (fur trader)

John Finlay (c. 1774 – December 19, 1833) was a fur trader and explorer with the North West Company. He is best remembered for establishing the first fur trading post in what is now British Columbia, Canada and for his exploration of the Finlay River, one of the two major rivers forming the Peace River.
Finlay was born in Montreal, the son of James Finlay, who himself was a significant player in the western Canadian fur trade. Finlay was apprenticed as a clerk in the North West Company in 1789 at the age of 15. He accompanied Alexander Mackenzie on his historic trip across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean in 1792-93 becoming, with him, the first European to traverse North America. He was placed in charge of the North West Company's Athabasca Department in 1794, and the same year established a trading post at present-day Fort St. John, called Rocky Mountain Fort. This was the first European community established in present-day British Columbia and is the province's oldest continuously inhabited European-founded settlement.
In 1797, Finlay revisited Mackenzie's excursion to the Pacific, with a view to taking the north branch of the Peace rather than the southern branch (the Parsnip River) taken by Mackenzie. This northern branch would come to be known as the Finlay River. Finlay perhaps thought that this route might present a less complicated conduit to the Pacific. No record remains of the expedition except in the writings of Samuel Black, who ascended to the source of the Finlay in 1824, noting that "he had studied Finlay’s chart." Nonetheless, it would appear from the information Black had that Finlay had only made it as far as the Ingenika River, about 130 km north of the Finlay River's confluence with the Peace. Indeed, Black's journal makes clear that the northern branch, far from being less complicated, was all but impassable in many parts, perhaps explaining Finlay's reluctance to travel more than about one-quarter of the river's actual length.
Finlay remained in the North West Company's Athabasca Department, becoming a partner of the company in 1799. He retired from the fur trade in 1804 and returned to Montreal. Little is known of his life there, except that he obtained an appointment as deputy commissary-general.
# John Gilroy

John Gilroy may refer to:
* John Gilroy (artist) (1898–1985), English artist/illustrator known for Guinness advertisements
* John Gilroy (baseball) (1875–1897), baseball player
* John Gilroy (film editor) (born 1959), brother of Tony Gilroy
* John Gilroy (politician) (born 1967), Irish Labour Party Senator
* John Brodie Gilroy (1818–1853), English songwriter
* Johnny Gilroy (1896–1952), American football halfback
* John Gilroy (pioneer), 19th century Royal Navy sailor who was the namesake of the city of Gilroy, California
# John Gilroy (politician)

John Gilroy (born 20 July 1967) is an Irish former Labour Party politician. He was elected to the 24th Seanad in April 2011 on the Cultural and Educational Panel. He was previously a member of Cork County Council from 2004 to 2011 for the Blarney local electoral area. He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 2011 general election for the Cork North-Central constituency, polling 6,125 first preference votes (11.7%).
He is a former Psychiatric nurse. He was the Labour Party Seanad spokesperson on Health, Public Service, Reform and the Office of Public Works during his term in office.
# John Lustig

John Lustig (born January 25, 1953) is an American comics writer and former journalist, principally known for his Disney comics scripts featuring Donald Duck and other members of Disney's Duck family. Lustig's scripts have been illustrated by William Van Horn and other artists. In addition, Lustig has written Mickey Mouse scripts that have been drawn by Noel Van Horn (William's son) and others. His first script was for Gold Key Comics ("Flatfood Duck" Daffy Duck #112 [Dec. 1977]), done just after graduating from college (it would be a decade before he wrote any other comics).
Lustig has also become known for his clever post-modern rescripting of panels from old romance comic pages previously published by Charlton Comics under the banner Last Kiss. Besides four issues of the comic book Last Kiss, the panels have also become a regular feature of Comics Buyer's Guide, and recently expanded into being featured on T-shirts, greeting cards, etc.
# John Kelly (minister)

John Kelly (1801–1876) was a Scottish Congregational minister.

## Life

Kelly was born in Edinburgh on 1 December 1801, received his education at Heriot's Hospital, and at an early age was converted by the preaching of Dr. Robert Gordon of Edinburgh. He was for some time engaged in tuition in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and for four years later studied at the dissenting academy at Idle, West Yorkshire, which was later known as Airedale College.
In January 1827 he was sent to Liverpool to preach at Bethesda Chapel, and was ordained to the charge in September 1829. His career as a minister was very successful, and the new Crescent Chapel built for his growing congregation at Everton, Liverpool, was opened on 23 November 1837.
Kelly was for many years a director of the London Missionary Society, and took a warm interest in the Lancashire Independent College. He was chairman of the meeting of the Congregational Union of England and Wales in London in May 1851, and of the meeting held at Northampton in the following October.
He retired from the Crescent Chapel on 28 September 1873, and died at 18 Richmond Terrace, Liverpool, on 12 June 1876. He was buried in the necropolis on 15 June.

## Works

Kelly was author of many addresses and single sermons, and of:
* ‘The Voluntary Support of the Christian Ministry the Law of the New Testament,’ 1838.
* ‘The Hindrances which Civil Establishments present to the Progress of genuine Religion,’ 1840.
* ‘The Church Catechism considered in its Character and Tendency,’ 1843.
* ‘Discourses on Holy Scripture,’ 1850.
* ‘An Examination of the Explanation of the Rev. Samuel Davidson, relative to the Second Volume of the Tenth Edition of Horne's "Introduction,"’ 1857.
* ‘The Divine Covenants: Their Nature and Design; or, The Covenants Considered as Successive Stages in the Development of the Divine Purposes of Mercy,’ 1861. This 344 page book is described as "The Congregational Lecture for 1860".
# John Kelly (offensive lineman)

John Douglas "Big John" Kelly (March 31, 1944 – October 28, 2015) was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Florida A&M University and was drafted in the 20th round of the 1966 NFL draft as the 295th pick by the Washington Redskins.
# John Kirkcaldie

John Kirkcaldie is a retired professional downhill mountain biker from New Zealand. Kirkaldie won the 2005 New Zealand National Championships in both downhill and four cross, and finished third in the NORBA downhill series overall. He also took fourth place overall in the downhill in the 2004 NORBA series and sixth place in downhill at the 2004 UCI World Cup Race in Calgary, BC (Canada). He was also the 2004 New Zealand National Champion, and took NORBA championships in 2000 and 2001.
Following his retirement from competitive cycling in 2006, he worked in carpentry.
# Chamelaucium megalopetalum

Chamaelaucium megalopetalum, is a flowering plant commonly known as the large waxflower, is a member of the family Myrtaceae endemic to Western Australia.
The erect shrub typically grows to a height of 0.25 to 1.4 metres (1 to 5 ft) but can reach as high as 2 metres (7 ft). It blooms between May and December producing white-pink-red or cream-yellow flowers.
Found on sandy ridges or sand plains in the southern Wheatbelt, Great Southern and the south coast of the Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it grows in sand or gravelly soils over laterite.
# Eddie Kotal

Edward Louis Kotal (September 1, 1902 – January 27, 1973) was an American football player, coach, and scout. He played college football at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin and professionally with the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). Kotal served as the head football coach at Lawrence in 1930 and at Central State Teachers College—now known as the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point—from 1931 to 1941, compiling a career college football coaching record of 40–41–9. He also coached basketball, track and field, and boxing at Stevens Point before returning to the NFL in 1942 as an assistant coach for the Packers and later as a scout and assistant coach for the Los Angeles Rams.

## Early life and playing career

Kotal was on September 1, 1902, in Chicago, Illinois. He played college football at Lawrence University.
Kotal played in the National Football League (NFL) with the Green Bay Packers for five seasons. He was a member of the 1929 NFL Champion Packers.

## Coaching career

Kotal coached football, basketball, track and field, and boxing at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. He led teams to conference championships in all four sports and is an inductee in the university's Athletic Hall of Fame.
In 1942, Kotal returned to the Green Bay Packers organization as a backfield coach and scout before becoming the chief scout for the Los Angeles Rams in 1946. In subsequent years, Kotal also assumed coaching responsibilities for the Rams as well.
Kotal has been described as the first key pioneer of scouting. He was described by one general manager as “the modern-day Ulysses, a man in quest of something more rare than the American buffalo: a college football player who can make the jump into the National Football League.”
In 2022, Kotal was named a semifinalist for the seniors ballot of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but he was not selected.

## Head coaching record
### Football

| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing |
| Lawrence Vikings (Midwest Conference) (1930) ||||||
| 1930 | Lawrence | 3–5 | 2–2 | T–5th |
| Lawrence: | Lawrence: | 3–5 | 2–2 | |
| Stevens Point Pointers (Wisconsin State Teachers College Conference) (1931–1941) ||||||
| 1931 | Stevens Point | 1–6–1 | 0–5–1 | 9th |
| 1932 | Stevens Point | 2–5 | 2–3 | 7th |
| 1933 | Stevens Point | 7–0–1 | 4–0–1 | 1st |
| 1934 | Stevens Point | 7–1 | 4–0 | 1st (Southern) |
| 1935 | Stevens Point | 2–5 | 0–4 | 5th (Southern) |
| 1936 | Stevens Point | 3–3–1 | 2–1–1 | 1st (Southern) |
| 1937 | Stevens Point | 2–3–2 | 1–2–1 | T–3rd (Southern) |
| 1938 | Stevens Point | 3–1–3 | | (Southern) |
| 1939 | Stevens Point | 2–6 | 1–3 | 4th (Southern) |
| 1940 | Stevens Point | 5–2–1 | 3–1 | 2nd (Southern) |
| 1941 | Stevens Point | 3–4 | 2–2 | 3rd (Southern) |
| Stevens Point: | Stevens Point: | 37–36–9 | | |
| Total: | Total: | 40–41–9 | | |
| National championship  Conference title  Conference division title or championship game berth ||||||