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# Johann Michael Ackner

Johann Michael Ackner (January 25, 1782 – August 12, 1862) was a Transylvanian archaeologist and nature researcher.

## Biography

A Saxon born in Schäßburg (Sighişoara), a town in the Habsburg province of Transylvania (now Romania), Johann Ackner first studied at the college in his hometown. He then went on to study philosophy at the Reformed College of Hermannstadt and in 1805 in Wittenberg. However, his studies were interrupted by the occupation of Wittenberg by the troops of the French Empire in 1806. Ackner continued his studies in Göttingen where he heard among others Christian Gottlob Heyne, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Johann Beckmann and Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren.
After finishing his university studies, he traveled by foot through large parts of Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland. After returning to Transylvania, he worked for 13 years as professor of philology and archaeology at the school of Hermannstadt. In 1821, the community of Hermannstadt elected him as priest, which gave him time to follow his studies.
He traveled several times between 1832 and 1847 to visit areas of ancient Roman and Dacian history, as well as sites of mineral findings and petrifactions in Transylvania and neighbouring countries. As a result of these travels, he wrote a series of archaeological tracts and tracts on natural history and collected Roman Dacian antiquities, coins, petrifactions and minerals. He often accepted visitors from scientific circles in his parish. In 1851, Johann Michael Ackner was elected as member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 1856 he initiated the archaeological research at the ancient Dacian town of Cumidava (now Râșnov), where the Romans built a castrum after the conquest of Dacia.
Ackner died in 1862 in Hermannstadt (Sibiu).

## Works

* Antiqua musei Parisiorum monumenta, Hermannstadt, 1809
* Mineralogie Siebenbürgens mit geognostischen Andeutungen, 1847-1855
* Die römischen Altertümer und deutschen Burgen in Siebenbürgen mit einer Übersichtskarte
* Die Colonien und militärischen Standlager der Römer in Dacien
* Die römischen Inschriften in Dacien, gesammelt und bearbeitet von J.W.Ackner und Friedr. Müller, Vienna, 1856
# John Beyer

John Charles Beyer (born 20 April 1950) is a former British diplomat who was Ambassador to Moldova.

## Education

Beyer was educated at Abingdon School from 1961 until 1968. He then attended Queens' College, Cambridge, and from 1982 to 1984 taught at the University of Westminster.

## Career

From 1984 to 1988 he was Deputy Director of the China–Britain Business Council Trade Council and Director of the China-Britain Trade Group from 1991 to 1998. In 1999 he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as Head of Section for the European Union Department and was then Deputy Head of Mission for Luxembourg from 2002 to 2005.
He succeeded Bernard Whiteside in 2006 as Ambassador to Moldova and in 2009 was replaced by Keith Shannon.
John Beyer is currently an Academic Visitor in the European Studies Centre for St Antony's College, Oxford.
# John Bexley Sedgers

John Bexley Sedgers (died June 1969) was an Australian businessman. He spent much of his career in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, where he served in the Legislative Council from 1951 to 1954.

## Biography

Sedgers joined W.R. Carpenter as a shipping clerk in 1917. After a spell working on its Mascot ship on the Australia–Solomon Islands route, he worked in Tulagi in the Solomon Islands and then Rabaul in the Territory of New Guinea. He later worked in Kavieng, Salamaua and Wau.
Following the Japanese invasion, he and colleague B.B. Perriman were given responsibility for evacuating civilians from Wau. After around 180 people were airlifted, the remainder (including Sedgers) walked 200 miles to Port Moresby. He then went back to Australia, before returning to New Guinea in 1945, working in Madang. In 1951 he was appointed managing director and chairman of the New Guinea branch of Carpenters, moving to Rabaul. Prior to the elections to the new Legislative Council the same year, he was one of the three European members appointed to the body. He served in the council until the 1954 elections.
He later became a member of the committee of Rabaul Turf Club. After retiring in the early 1960s, he moved back to Australia. He died in June 1969, survived by his wife and three children.
# John Bartlet Brebner

John Bartlet Brebner (19 May 1895 – 9 November 1957) was a Canadian-born Canadian and American historian who spent the major part of his career in the United States.
Born in Toronto and educated at the University of Toronto, St John's College, Oxford, and Columbia University, he taught at the University of Toronto between 1921 and 1925, when he moved to Columbia University where he spent the rest of his career. During the First World War, he served in the Canadian Army, before being commissioned into the British Army (Royal Garrison Artillery).
Brebner was president of the Canadian Historical Association for 1939–40, won the Royal Society of Canada's J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal in 1950, and was Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Cambridge in 1954–55.
Brebner is remembered for coining the expression "the Siamese twins of North America" to describe Canada-United States relations and the concept of the North Atlantic triangle.
# John Baskerville (MP for Herefordshire)

John Baskerville (by 1517 – 23 September 1577), of Chanstone Court, Vowchurch and Eardisley, Herefordshire, was a Member of Parliament for Herefordshire in April 1554 and 1555.
# John Bridge Pratt

John Bridge Pratt (June 16, 1833 — November 27, 1870) was the husband of Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt, the elder sister of novelist Louisa May Alcott. He inspired the fictional character John Brooke in his sister-in-law Louisa May Alcott's best known novels.

## Early life

John Bridge Pratt was born in Boston on June 16, 1833, the third child of Minot Pratt and his wife Maria Jones Bridge Pratt. The Pratt family lived at Brook Farm from 1841 to 1845, after which they moved to Concord, Massachusetts.

## Marriage and family

As a member of the Concord Dramatic Union, John Pratt fell in love with Louisa's elder sister Anna Alcott Pratt, reportedly during a production of "The Loan of a Lover". The two were married in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, on May 23, 1860. They had two sons, Frederick Alcott Pratt (1863-1925) and John Sewall Pratt (1865-1923), who were the models for Demi and Daisy Brooke in the Little Women trilogy.

## Death

After a brief illness, John Pratt died on November 27, 1870, in Maplewood (part of Malden, Massachusetts), where he and Anna were living.

## Connection to Alcott novels

John Bridge Pratt's life became the basis for the character of John Brooke in Alcott's Little Women and Little Men, with both his wedding and early death becoming important events in the story lines. In fact, Pratt's unexpected death in 1870 had prompted Louisa May Alcott, who was staying in Rome at the time, to write Little Men (published 1871) in order to provide financial security for the widowed Anna and her sons. His younger son, John Sewall Pratt, took Alcott as his surname when he was adopted by his Aunt Louisa near the end of her life. John and Anna's elder son, Frederick Alcott Pratt, married Jessica Cate, with whom he had five children before his death in 1910 in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
# John Bridgeman

John Bridgeman may refer to:

## Politicians

* John Bridgeman (died 1523), MP for Exeter
* John Bridgeman (died 1729) (c. 1655–1729), of Prinknash, Member of Parliament for Gloucester
* John Bridgeman (American politician), member of the North Carolina House of Representatives

## Others

* John Bridgeman (judge) (1568/9–1638), of Prinknash, Chief Justice of Chester
* John Bridgeman (bishop) (1577–1652), English bishop of Chester
* Sir John Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet (1631–1710), of the Bridgeman baronets
* Sir John Bridgeman, 3rd Baronet (1667–1747), of the Bridgeman baronets
* John Bridgeman (sculptor) (1916–2004), British sculptor
# John Bridgeman (bishop)

John Bridgeman (2 November 1577 – 11 November 1652) was an English Anglican clergyman.
Born in Exeter, he was the eldest son of Thomas Bridgeman and grandson of Edward Bridgeman. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts, and then at the University of Oxford, receiving there a Doctor of Divinity. Bridgeman became rector of Wigan in 1615 and also of Bangor in 1621. Two years before, he had been consecrated Bishop of Chester, a post he held until the abolition of episcopacy in 1646. In 1633 Bridgeman was subject to a royal commission of enquiry led by Thomas Canon following complaints to the privy council that Bridgeman had embezzled fines taken for commuting penances. During his tenure, he initialised suspensions against the puritans Thomas Paget, John Angier and Samuel Eaton. He was deprived of his See by Parliament on 9 October 1646, as episcopacy was abolished for the duration of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate.
On 29 April 1606, he married Elizabeth Helyar, daughter of Reverend William Helyar, and had by her five sons. Bridgeman died at Moreton, Shropshire and was buried at Kinnerley. His oldest son Orlando was a judge and baronet and his third son Henry Bridgeman a bishop.
# John Blewitt

John Barry Blewitt (born 19 December 1945) is a British speed skater. He competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics and the 1972 Winter Olympics.
# John Bligh, 6th Earl of Darnley

Lieutenant colonel John Stuart Bligh, 6th Earl of Darnley DL (16 April 1827 – 14 December 1896), styled Lord Clifton from 1831 to 1835, lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent, was a British peer.

## Early life

He was the eldest son of Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley and the former Hon. Emma Jane Parnell (a daughter of Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton). Among his siblings were the Rev. Edward Vesey Bligh, Lady Elizabeth Caroline Bligh (wife of Sir Reginald Cust), Lady Emma Bess Bligh (wife of Arthur Purey-Cust), the Rev. Henry Bligh (vicar of St James' Church, Hampton Hill).
Darnley matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 15 May 1845 and received his B.A. in 1848 and his M.A. in 1869.

### Cricket career

An amateur cricketer, Bligh made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of Kent against the Gentlemen of England at Canterbury in 1848. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed without scoring in the Gentlemen of Kent first innings by Jones Nash, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 2 runs by Harvey Fellows.

## Career

Bligh succeeded his father in the earldom in 1835. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Kent on 3 September 1847.
On 24 July 1848, he was commissioned captain of the Cobham Troop of the West Kent Yeomanry. He was promoted to major on 18 April 1859, and to lieutenant-colonel on 28 April 1863. He retired from the Yeomanry on 9 September 1874, retaining his rank.

## Personal life

On 31 August 1850, Darnley married Lady Harriet Mary Pelham, the daughter of Henry Pelham, 3rd Earl of Chichester, and the former Lady Mary Brudenell (daughter of Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl of Cardigan). Together, they had eight children:
* Edward Bligh, 7th Earl of Darnley (1851–1900), who married Jemima Adeline Beatrice Blackwood, daughter of Francis J. L. Blackwood.
* Lady Edith Louisa Mary Bligh (1853–1904), who married George Burvill Rashleigh in 1882.
* Lady Kathleen Susan Emma Bligh (1854–1928), who married William Vesey Brownlow.
* Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley (1859–1927), who married Florence Rose Morphy, daughter of John Stephen Morphy, of Beechworth, Victoria.
* Lady Alice Isabella Harriet Bligh (1860–1943), who died unmarried.
* Hon. Arthur Frederick Pelham Bligh (1865–1924), who died unmarried.
* Lady Mary Rose Florence Bligh (1868–1896), who died unmarried.
* Lady Constance Violet Lucy Bligh (b. 1869), who married William Shakespear Childe-Pemberton in 1894.
Lord Darnley died on 14 December 1896 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward.
# John Chambers

John Chambers may refer to:

## Academics

* John Chambers (scientist), one of two scientists who formulated the Planet V theory in 2002
* John Chambers (statistician), creator of the S programming language and core member of the R programming language project
* John Chambers (topographer) (1780–1839), English antiquarian

## Artists

* John Chambers (artist) (1852–1928), British landscape, seascape and portrait painter
* John Chambers (make-up artist) (1922–2001), American make-up artist, won a special Oscar for his work on Planet of the Apes

## Businessmen

* John Chambers (Australian pastoralist) (c. 1815–1889), Australian pioneer, brother of James Chambers (pastoralist)
* John Chambers (pastoralist) (1819–1893), New Zealand pastoralist, community leader and businessman
* John Chambers (businessman) (c. 1839–1903), New Zealand businessman
* John T. Chambers (born 1949), American businessman and former CEO of Cisco Systems

## Clergy

* John Chambre (1470–1549), also Chambers, English churchman, academic and physician
* John Chambers (bishop) (died 1556), last abbot of Peterborough abbey and, after the dissolution, the first bishop of Peterborough
* John David Chambers (1805–1893), English legal and liturgical writer

## Politicians

* John Chambers (politician) (1780–1852), American politician, governor of Iowa Territory in 1841–1845
* John G. Chambers (Delaware politician), member of the 67th Delaware General Assembly
* John Green Chambers (1798–1884), American politician from Texas
* John M. Chambers (politician) (1845–1916), Irish-American businessman and politician from New York
* John Chambers Hughes (1891–1971), United States diplomat
* John Thomas Chambers Jr. (1928–2011), American politician from Maryland

## Sportsmen

* John Chambers (Australian cricketer) (1930–2017), Australian cricketer
* John Chambers (English cricketer) (born 1971), English cricketer
* John Chambers (footballer) (born 1949), English footballer
* Johnnie Chambers (1911–1977), American baseball player
* John Graham Chambers (1843–1883), codified the "Marquess of Queensberry rules", upon which modern day boxing is based

## Others

* John B. Chambers (born 1956), evaluator of sovereign debt for Standard & Poor's
* John Chambers (writer), American television soap opera writer

## Fictional characters

* Johnny Quick, a DC Comics character whose real name was Johnny Chambers
* Joanna "Johnny" Chambers, one of the two main characters in the 2020 novel Beneath the Rising
# John Brignon

John Brignon, S.J. (1629 – 12 June 1712) was a translator of religious works into French.

## Biography

Born in St. Malo, France, he was a member of the Society of Jesus and spent the sixty-five years of his religious life chiefly in the translation of works of piety into French. He died in Paris.

## Translations

Among Brignon's translations are the works of De Ponte and Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, the Spiritual Combat, the Imitation of Christ and the short treatises of Robert Bellarmine. All these translations have passed through a number of editions. He edited and revised The Devout Life of St. Francis de Sales and the Fondements of Jean-Joseph Surin. The only works by English authors he translated into French were the Decem Rationes of Edmund Campion and the Tractatus de Misericordia fidelibus defunctis exhibendâ by James Mumford.
# John Castillo (poet)

John Castillo (1792 – 16 April 1845), often referred to as the "Bard of the Dales", from his first published book - "The Bard of the Dales - Poems by John Castillo" was a poet who lived for much of his life in the village of Lealholm. Castillo's work is treasured as having rescued the ancient language of the dales from oblivion.
John's father, a traveller, met his spouse in Eskdale and they both returned to Ireland where John was born in 1792 near the small village of Rathfarnham, close to Dublin, today a suburb of the city. At the age of two, the family decided to return to Lealholm and moved to the site that now bears the name Poets' Cottage. At the age of 12 he moved to Lincolnshire and began work as a servant on a country estate and soon became note for his talent as a poet, singer / songwriter.
Later returning to Eskdale, he began work as a farm hand, and soon turned his skills to stonemasonry. Methodism was popular across the Dales, and John converted from Catholicism in 1818. Following thoughts of suicide he became a lay preacher, but continued his stone work and poetry. He often wrote using local dialect and is most well known for the poems "Aud Isaac" and "The Steeplechase" although he also used standard English. Very few of his works have been published since the early 1900s.
He died in the town of Pickering aged 53, and is buried at the Methodist Chapel in Hungate. His gravestone reads an epitaph of his own creation
   SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN CASTILO
   Author of Auld Isaac, The Steeplechase , and other Poems In the Yorkshire Dialect.
   HE LIVED FOR OTHERS
   He was an original and successful local preacher among the Wesleyan Methodists for many years.
   "Bud noo his eean's geean dim i' deeath Nee mare a pilgrim here on earch ; His soul flits fra' her shell beneeath Tee reealms o' day Whoor carpin' care an' pain, an' deeath Are deean away."
# John B. Williams (general)

John B. Williams is a United States Air Force major general who most recently served as the Mobilization Assistant to the Commander of the Air Mobility Command from July 2020 to July 2021. Previously, he was the Mobilization Assistant to the Commander of the Pacific Air Forces.
# John Deubeneye

John Deubeneye (fl.1390s), was an English Member of Parliament (MP).
He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Bletchingley in January 1390, September 1397 and 1399.
# John Deval

John Deval (1701–1774) was an 18th-century British sculptor and Master Mason, as was his namesake son (1728–1794). He was Chief Mason to the Crown and was the mason for the Tower of London and Royal Mews.

## Life

He was born in Eynsham in Oxfordshire, the son of George Deval who died shortly before his birth. In 1718 he was a "bound apprentice" to Joshua Fletcher of Woodstock, Oxfordshire. He became a Freeman in 1727 and went to work for Andrew Jelfe in London.
Around 1750 he became Master Mason to the King and in 1760 he became Master of the Worshipful Company of Masons in London, the highest position a mason could reach.
He died in 1774 and was buried at Isleworth.$^{:128}$

## John Deval the younger

Born in 1728 he trained under his father and became Master Mason to the King in 1774 and in 1784 followed in his shoes as being made Master of the Worshipful Company of Masons.$^{:129}$

## Known works (Elder)

* St Olave's Church, Southwark (1737)
* Kimbolton Castle (1738)
* Marble tables for Lord Folkestone at Longford Castle (1738)
* Chimneypieces for Sir Richard Hoare at Barn Elms House (1739)
* Mansion House, London (1739 to 1750)
* Guy's Hospital (1739)
* Cornbury House (1740)
* Foundling Hospital London (1742 to 1752) note – chapel built 1747
* Ongoing repairs to the Tower of London (1750 to 1770) reducing fortifications
* Relief panels in hall and chimneypieces throughout Woburn Abbey (1751)
* Chimneypieces at Weald Hall for Christopher Tower (1755)
* Huge Chimneypiece at Milton Hall for Lord Fitzwilliam (1756)
* Chimneypieces for Nostell Priory for Sir Rowland Winn (1767)
* Newgate Prison (1769)

## Known works (Younger)

* Repairs at remodelling of Cobham Hall (1776 to 1778)
* North and south fronts of Somerset House (1777 to 1786)
* Mausoleum to the Earl of Radnor at Britford churchyard (1779)
* Chimneypiece for the Long Gallery at Longford Castle (1780)
* Coutts Bank on the Strand, London {1780 to 1789)
* King's Bench Prison (1780 to 1784)
* House for the Marshal of the King's Bench Prison (1781 to 1782)
* Argyll House, London (1783)
* Chimneypieces at Earsham Hall for William Windham (1783)
* Chimneypieces at Attingham Park for Lord Berwick (1785)
* Queen Mary block at Greenwich Palace (1784 to 1789)
* Remodelling of sections of Audley End into a Georgian style (1785)
* Monument to Thomas Spackman at Cliffe Pypard (1786)
* New government offices next to the Admiralty (1786 to 1791)
* Chimneypieces for Bedford House (1787)
* Marblework for the Royal Naval Chapel at Greenwich (1788)
* Remodelling of Prince Edward's apartments at St James's Palace (1788)
* Statuary and marble chimneypieces for Carlton House for the Prince of Wales (1788)
* Remodelling at Woburn Abbey (1790/1)
* Marble column at Colne Park (1791)
* The Temple of Concord at Audley End (1791)
* New guardrooms at St James's Palace (1793)
* The Waiting Room at St James's Palace (1793)

### Gallery

* Queen Mary block at Greenwich
* Interior marblework at Royal Naval Chapel in Greenwich
* Mansion House in London
* Guy's Hospital in 18th century
* Newgate Prison
* King's Bench Prison
# John Daley (jockey)

John Daley (1846 - c. 1890) was a three-time British Classic winning jockey, who most notably won The Derby/Oaks double in 1867.

## Career

Daley was born in Newmarket, Suffolk in 1846. His father was a racehorse trainer for Sir Robert Clifton and others.
His first winner was Renown, carrying 5st 6lbs, at the first Newmarket Spring Meeting of 1857. He received the patronage of owners including Baron Meyer de Rothschild.
He won four races at Royal Ascot in 1860 - the Queen's Stand Stakes and Fern Hill Stakes on Queen of the Vale, a £100 Plate, and the Coronation Stakes on Allington. In 1861, he won the Goodwood Stakes on Elcho for Lord Coventry.
He was booked to ride Hermit in the 1867 Derby after the horse had broken a blood vessel in a training gallop and the intended jockey Henry Custance was released to ride The Rake. Daley was paid £100, with the promise of another £100 if he could get the horse placed, £3,000 if he won. Daley brought Hermit for a late run, on the orders of trainer Captain Machell, and won by a neck from Marksman in the final strides. Two days later he added the Oaks on Hippia for Rothschild.
By early manhood, Daley was struggling to make the weights required. He had a big frame and was taller than Fred Archer. In 1870, it appeared his career was coming to an end. In a final major victory, he won that year's 2,000 Guineas on Macgregor, but he was 1lb overweight for the ride and would have been too weak to ride a close finish.
He died around 1890.

## Major wins

Great Britain
* 2,000 Guineas Stakes - Macgregor (1870)
* Epsom Derby - Hermit (1867)
* Epsom Oaks - Hippia (1867)