* John Brown ( builder ) ( 1809 – 1876 ), prolific Canadian builder best remembered for building Ontario's Imperial Towers

* Sir John Brown ( industrialist ) ( 1816 – 1896 ), UK inventor of a process for rolling armor-plate and founder of the Atlas steelworks, Sheffield Towers

John spent £ 1, 115 on Kenilworth Castle between 1210 and 1216, building the outer bailey wall in stone and improving the other defences, including creating Mortimer's and Lunn's Towers.

Well-remembered series include John Cleese and Connie Booth's farcical Fawlty Towers, John Esmonde and Bob Larbey's self-sufficiency comedy The Good Life.

Dr. Jerome Hunsaker was asked to develop a theory of airship design, Lt. John H. Towers returned from Europe having inspected British designs, the Navy sought bids for 16 blimps from American manufacturers.

John Cleese ( later part of Monty Python and star of Fawlty Towers ; formed his own production company Video Arts to make business training films, which contained much Python-esque / Basil Fawlty-style humour, as well as making films including A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures ).

Galveston's modern architecture include the American National Insurance Company Tower ( One Moody Plaza ), San Luis Resort South and North Towers, The Breakers Condominiums, The Galvestonian Resort and Condos, One Shearn Moody Plaza, US National Bank Building, the Rainforest Pyramid at Moody Gardens, John Sealy Hospital Towers at UTMB and Medical Arts Building ( also known as Two Moody Plaza ).

He is noted for his contributions to the designs for some of the multi-billion dollar projects in the United States, Middle East and India including Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Center, 75-story JPMorgan Chase Tower in Houston, 160-story Burj Khalifa Tower in Dubai ( present tallest tower in the world ) and The Imperial Twin Towers, Tardeo, Mumbai, India.

The city has also produced many other musicians, including singer and songwriter John Waite, who first became known as lead singer of The Babys in the 1970s ; Paul James, better known as The Rev, former guitarist of English punk band Towers Of London who is now in the band Day 21 and plays guitar live on tour for The Prodigy, Chris Acland, drummer of the early 1990s shoegaze band Lush ; Tom English, drummer of North East indie band Maxïmo Park and Steve Kemp, drummer of the indie band Hard-Fi.

Apart from the infamous appearance of several of Kenton's streets in one episode of the cult BBC TV series " Fawlty Towers " starring John Cleese, the only known reference to Kenton in modern popular culture is the song " Kenton Kev ", by the Berlin-based punk-jazz band The Magoo Brothers on their album " Beyond Believable ", released on the Bouncing Corporation label in 1988.

In 1832 he had made the acquaintance of John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, a Roman Catholic, sympathetic to his aesthetic views who employed him in alterations and additions to his residence Alton Towers, which subsequently led to many other commissions.

By then it was called the John Ringling Towers and was purchased by a phosphate miner, Gardinier, who wanted to turn it into his corporate headquarters.

* John Cleese & Connie Booth: Fawlty Towers ( 1975 )

Perhaps the most compelling story in that day's edition was a first-hand account of the Twin Towers ' collapse written by then-Foreign Editor ( and current Washington bureau chief ) John Bussey, who holed up in a ninth-floor Journal office, literally in the shadow of the towers, from where he phoned in live reports to CNBC as the towers burned.

Constance " Connie " Booth ( born 31 January 1944 ) is an American-born writer and actress, known for appearances on British television and particularly for her portrayal of Polly Sherman in the popular 1970s television show Fawlty Towers, which she co-wrote with her then-husband John Cleese.

As the show was originally scheduled to air after Fawlty Towers, John Cleese was to have introduced the first episode in a sketch referring to a technicians ' strike then in progress, explaining ( in character as Basil Fawlty ) that there was no show that week so a " tatty revue " would be broadcast instead.

One exception was John Towers, a constant critic of Spruance, whom Spruance came to despise for his naked ambition.

* In episode 6 of Fawlty Towers, " The Germans ," Basil ( John Cleese ) is impersonating Hitler and says, " I'll even do the silly walk ," goose-stepping in a similar way to his Python routine.

The consortium was headed by ex-Rover Chief Executive John Towers.

Her statement was based on a conversation with MG Rover chairman, John Towers.

Gray, to the Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Admiral John H. Towers.

In this John Ford Western, there is a scene in which Constance Towers ' character falls asleep in a chair with a rifle in her lap, looking out for hostile Apache, just as Jill McBain does in Leone's film.

For an instant John longed for the sound of the bells of Noyon-la-Sainte, the touch of his mother's hand, the lilt of Charles's voice in the square raftered rooms, his father's bass tones rumbling to the canons, and the sight of the beloved bishop.

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.

This incident shows the strong position of a bishop in the Western part of the empire, even when facing a strong emperor — the controversy of John Chrysostom with a much weaker emperor a few years later in Constantinople led to a crushing defeat of the bishop.

In any case, it existed by 635, when Gunzo appointed John of Grab bishop.

Related to the argument from morality is the argument from conscience, associated with eighteenth-century bishop Joseph Butler and nineteenth-century cardinal John Henry Newman.

In 1763, Greek Orthodox bishop Erasmus of the Diocese of Arcadia, visited London, where John Wesley had considerable conversation with him, and ordained several Methodist lay preachers as priests, including John Jones.

John Wesley a bishop or not, If he was episcopally consecrated, Wesley could not openly announce this without incurring the penalty of the Præmunire Act.

John Wesley held that, as a presbyter, though not a bishop, he had the power to transmit apostolic succession to others and himself ordained ministers for the United States.

John Wesley, along with a priest from the Anglican Church and two other elders, operating under the ancient Alexandrian custom, ordained Thomas Coke a " superintendent ", although Coke embraced the title " bishop ".

In about 692, in Bede's nineteenth year, Bede was ordained a deacon by his diocesan bishop, John, who was bishop of Hexham.

Ignatius of Antioch | Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, student of John the Apostle

Mitre worn by an Eastern bishop with icon s of Christ, the Theotokos ( Mary, Mother of God ) and John the Baptist | Forerunner ( John the Baptist ).

The next archdeacon was W. H. Rigg and in 1953 the assistant bishop John Wellington became additionally Archdeacon of Bodmin.

Since the time of Pope John XXIII a priest who is appointed a cardinal must be consecrated a bishop, unless he obtains a dispensation.

According to the church historian Eusebius, the Quartodeciman Polycarp ( bishop of Smyrna, by tradition a disciple of John the Evangelist ) debated the question with Anicetus ( bishop of Rome ).

Bishop Epiphanius of Salamis, wrote his letter 51 to John, Bishop of Jerusalem ( c. 394 ) in which he recounted how he tore down an image in a church and admonished the other bishop that such images are " opposed.

* John Ford ( bishop ) ( born 1952 ), English curate, chaplain and diocesan missioner who rose through Church of England hierarchy to become Bishop of Plymouth in 2006

* John F. Young ( 1820 – 1885 ), American Episcopal bishop of Florida, translator of the hymn Silent Night

* John Young ( bishop ) ( c. 1532 – 1605 ), English academic and Anglican bishop of Rochester