" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

* 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.

Common suggestions are that they are old English breeds introduced by the early whalers, or by Captain Cook or other early explorers.

* 1954 – Captain Sensible, English singer-songwriter and musician ( The Damned and Dead Men Walking )

Matthew Gibson has shown that LeFanu used Dom Augustin Calmet's Treatise on Vampires and Revenants, translated into English in 1850 as The Phantom World, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Were-wolves ( 1863 ), and his account of Elizabeth Bathory, Coleridge's Christabel, and Captain Basil Hall's Schloss Hainfeld ; or a Winter in Lower Styria ( London and Edinburgh, 1836 ).

Captain Kidd and the Blessed William became part of a small fleet assembled by Codrington to defend Nevis from the French, with whom the English were at war.

The strategic position of the castle made it important for the English to capture it in 1593 for their plantation plans which was achieved by a Captain Dowdall.

* Akihiko Hirata as Captain Ryuui ( Yamoto in English version )

Captain George Vancouver ( 22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798 ) was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.

Jamaica became a base of operations for privateers, including Captain Henry Morgan, operating from the main English settlement Port Royal.

Commissioned officers rise through a series of six ranks, namely ( in English translation ): Sub-Lieutenant, Lieutenant, Captain, Commandant, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel.

* 1637 – Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.

* 1774 – Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer ( d. 1814 )

The Hunters crew did not leave the ship nor did Nauruans board, but Captain John Fearn's positive impression of the island and its people " led to its English name, Pleasant Island.

Another English seaman, Captain Abraham Kendall, visited Saint Helena in 1591, and in 1593 Sir James Lancaster stopped at the island on his way home from the East.

* 1697 – War of the Grand Alliance: A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.

* August 25 – Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel.

* March 16 – Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer ( d. 1814 )

* July 19 – Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of the coasts of Australia ( b. 1774 )

* The first African slaves are brought to Bermuda, an English colony, by Captain George Bargrave to dive for pearls, because of their reputed skill in pearl-diving.

* May 26 – Pequot War: A band of English settlers under Captain John Mason, and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies, set fire to a fortified Pequot village near the Mystic River in what is later known as the Mystic massacre.

* English Captain Charles Gough rediscovers Gough Island in the South Atlantic.

There, Engels booked passage on the English schooner, Cornish Diamond under the command of a Captain Stevens.

Captain Christopher Newport led more attacks on Spanish shipping and settlements than any other English privateer.

The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

From the saddlebags, hung on a Hitchcock chair, David took out a good English razor, a present from John Hunter.

Roy Mason is essentially a landscape painter whose style and direction has a kinship with the English watercolorists of the early nineteenth century, especially the beautifully patterned art of John Sell Cotman.

* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

In 1805, English instructor and natural philosopher John Dalton used the concept of atoms to explain why elements always react in ratios of small whole numbers ( the law of multiple proportions ) and why certain gases dissolved better in water than others.

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

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

* 1954 – John Lloyd, English tennis player

* 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet ( d. 1957 )

* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

* 1653 – John Oldham, English poet ( d. 1683 )

* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1925 – John Dexter, English director ( d. 1990 )

The first recorded English antitrinitarian was John Assheton who was forced to recant before Thomas Cranmer in 1548.

* 1692 – John Henley, English clergyman ( d. 1759 )

* 1840 – John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician ( d. 1929 )

* 2007 – John Gardner, English author ( b. 1926 )

* 2012 – John Berry, English motorcycle racing promoter and manager ( b. 1944 )

The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.

Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond.

While Wesley freely made use of the term " Arminian ," he did not self-consciously root his soteriology in the theology of Arminius but was highly influenced by 17th-century English Arminianism and thinkers such as John Goodwin, Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond of the Anglican " Holy Living " school, and the Remonstrant Hugo Grotius.

* 1944 – John Renbourn, English guitarist and songwriter ( Pentangle )

* 1682 – John Hadley, English mathematician and inventor of the octant ( d. 1744 )