The King believed that Puritans ( or Dissenters ) encouraged by five vociferous members of the House of Commons, John Pym, John Hampden, Denzil Holles, Sir Arthur Haselrig and William Strode along with Viscount Mandeville ( the future Earl of Manchester ) who sat in the House of Lords, had encouraged the Scots to invade England in the recent Bishops ' Wars and that they were intent on turning the London mob against him.

* January 9 – John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( d. 1711 )

Pym, John Hampden and Denzil Holles were the leading members of the committee from the Commons.

Another daughter, Lady Margaret Cavendish, married John Holles, 4th Earl of Clare.

The Holles family descended from John Holles, 1st Baron Haughton.

* John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare ( 1564 – 1637 ) was comptroller of the household to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales

* John Holles, 4th Earl of Clare ( 1662 – 1711 ), eldest son of the 3rd Earl, was created Duke in 1694

* John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( 1662 – 1711 ) died without male issue, and his titles were extinct

* Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( 1693 – 1768 ), a nephew of John Holles, 1st Duke, died without male issue, and his father's Laughton Barony and Baronetcy, his Earldom and his first Dukedom went extinct

By his first wife he had ten children, of whom one son, Henry, survived him and became 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, dying in 1691 without surviving male issue ; the title then became extinct and the estates passed to his third daughter Margaret, wife of John Holles, Earl of Clare, created Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1694.

He opposed Charles I from the start, and took a leading part in the disorderly scene of 2 March 1629, when the speaker, Sir John Finch, was held down in the chair after refusing to put the resolution of Sir John Eliot against arbitrary taxation and innovations in religion ( see Denzil Holles ).

Holles was the third son of John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare ( c. 1564 – 1637 ), by Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Stanhope.

In 1624 Holles was returned as Member of Parliament for Mitchell in Cornwall, replacing his brother John who chose to sit for another constituency.

On 2 March 1629, when Sir John Finch, the speaker, refused to put Sir John Eliot's Protestations and was about to adjourn the House by the king's command, Holles together with another member, Sir Walter Long, thrust him back into the chair and swore " he should sit still till it pleased them to rise.

Among the papers of the secretary Sir John Coke is a petition of Holles, couched in humble and submissive terms, to be restored to the king's favour ; having given the security demanded for his good behaviour, he was liberated early in 1630, and on 30 October was allowed bail.

The peerage became extinct in the person of his grandson Denzil Holles, 3rd Baron Holles, in c. 1692, the estates devolving on John Holles ( 1662 – 1711 ), 4th Earl of Clare and Duke of Newcastle.

John Hutchins claimed he was told that the Cerne Abbas giant was cut by Holles, who owned the farm.

The most nearly complete collection of Aldine editions ever brought together was in the Althorp library of the 2nd Earl Spencer, now in the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

The earlier date, first proposed in modern times by John Robinson in a closely argued chapter of " Redating the New Testament " ( 1976 ), relies on the book's internal evidence, given that no external testimony exists earlier than that of Irenaeus, noted above, and the earliest extant manuscript evidence of Revelation ( P98 ) is likewise dated no earlier than the late 2nd century.

* Hill, John E. Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE.

* Introduction to Languages and the Theory of Computation by John C. Martin McGraw Hill 1996 ( 2nd edition )

Christianity spread throughout Egypt within half a century of Saint Mark's arrival in Alexandria, as is clear from the New Testament writings found in Bahnasa, in Middle Egypt, which date around the year AD 200, and a fragment of the Gospel of John, written in Coptic, which was found in Upper Egypt and can be dated to the first half of the 2nd century.

* Saliba, John A., Understanding New Religious Movements, 2nd edition ( Alta Mira Press, Walnut Creek, Lanham, New York & Oxford, 2003 ).

* 1908 – John A. Volpe, American politician and 2nd United States Secretary of Transportation ( d. 1994 )

* Raymond Wilder ( 1965 ) Introduction to the Foundations of Mathematics 2nd edition, Chapter 2-8: Axioms defining equivalence, pp 48 – 50, John Wiley & Sons.

* Sir John Gordon, 2nd Baronet ( c. 1632 – 1665 )

Julien Fedon, a mixed race owner of the Belvedere estate in the St. John Parish, launched a rebellion against British rule on the night of 2nd March 1795, with coordinated attacks on the towns of Grenville, La Baye and Gouyave.

A tradition arising in the 2nd century ascribes it to Mark the Evangelist ( also known as John Mark ), the companion of Peter, on whose memories it is supposedly based.

" The text does not actually name this disciple, but by the beginning of the 2nd century a tradition began to form which identified him with John the Apostle, one of the Twelve ( Jesus's innermost circle ).

Since the middle of the 2nd century writings of Justin Martyr use language very similar to that found in the Gospel of John, the Gospel is considered to have been in existence at least at that time.

According to scholar Ronald Cameron, it was originally composed some time between the middle of the 1st century and early in the 2nd century, and it was probably written shortly before the Gospel of John.

Liberal scholar Robert W. Funk and the Jesus Seminar place the Egerton fragment in the 2nd century, perhaps as early as 125, which would make it as old as the oldest fragments of John.

John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst | The Lord Wakehurst takes the oath of office upon his arrival in Sydney in 1937.

* 2nd trombone – Craig Klein, John Allred

* Edwin F. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler, Spacetime Physics, 2nd ed.

Notable among these were John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, and the Marquis de Sade.

* 1826 – John Adams, American politician, 2nd President of the United States ( b. 1735 )

In order to enter at a talent competition at University High School, Berry and Torrence helped form a doo-wop group known as " The Barons " ( named after their high school's Hi-Y club, where they were members ), which comprised fellow University High students William " Chuck " Steele ( lead singer ), Arnold P. " Arnie " Ginsburg ( born November 19, 1939 ) ( 1st tenor ), Wallace S. " Wally " Yagi ( born 20 July 1940 ) ( 2nd tenor ), John ' Sagi " Seligman ( 2nd tenor ), with Berry singing bass, and Torrence providing falsetto.

Gen. John Buford's brigade, Col. Thomas T. Munford's 2nd Virginia Cavalry was overwhelmed until Stuart sent in two more regiments as reinforcements.

Harris believes that the tradition that John lived to old age in Ephesus developed in the late 2nd century, although the tradition does appear in the last chapter of the gospel, though this debatable tradition assumes that John the Evangelist, John the Apostle, the Beloved Disciple mentioned in John 21 and sometimes also John the Presbyter are the same person.

* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )

* 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician ( d. 1751 )

* 1628 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English statesman ( d. 1701 )

* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.

* John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1865 – 1868

* John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1891 – 1894

* John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1896 – 1902

* John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer 1902 – 1905

One of the chief commanders at both Crecy and Poitiers was John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, mentioned above.

* Back to Basics, a government policy slogan portrayed by opponents and the press as a morality campaign to compare it with a contemporaneous succession of sex scandals in John Major's government which led to the resignation of Tim Yeo and the Earl of Caithness, among others ( 1994 )

Sir Robert Gordon, a younger son of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen, acquired the lease in 1830 and made major alterations to the castle, with baronial-style extensions designed by John Smith of Aberdeen.

It is now held by Clement Attlee's grandson John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee.

Four-fifths of the cost for the venture was paid for by noble lords, who were among the most powerful men in England: the Earl of Orford, The Baron of Romney, the Duke of Shrewsbury and Sir John Somers.

The board complained that Pfeiffer was too removed from management and the troops, as he surrounded himself with a " clique " of Chief Financial Officer Earl Mason, Senior Vice-President John Rose, and Human Resources Chief Hans Gutsch.

Rosen assumed the capacity of interim CEO and began " cleaning house ", as shortly afterward many of Pfeiffer's top executives resigned or were pushed out, including John Rando, Earl Mason, and John Rose.

The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.

* John Churchill, 1st Earl of Marlborough ( 1650 – 1722 ), became Duke of Marlborough in 1702

: Lord Blandford's heir apparent: George John Godolphin Spencer-Churchill, Earl of Sunderland ( b. 1992 ), his elder son

Oxford was the only son of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and Margery Golding.

He was born on 12 April 1550 at the de Vere ancestral home, Castle Hedingham, the only son of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and his second wife, Margery Golding.

Both the 16th Earl and the Countess of Oxford had established court connections: John accompanying Princess Elizabeth from house arrest at Hatfield to the throne, and Margery being appointed a Maid of Honor in 1559.