** John Desborough, English soldier and politician ( d. 1680 )

Essayist and novelist Nick Hornby was educated at Maidenhead Grammar School ( now Desborough School ), as were children's television presenter and radio show host Toby Anstis, author and broadcaster John O ' Farrell, athlete Mark Richardson and well known " Dragon " Peter Jones.

Cromwell and four other officers – Lambert, John Desborough, Harrison and Matthew Tomlinson – were then co-opted as members.

Two " divisions " i. e. half-regiments of three troops each, one from each of Fairfax's and Whalley's regiments, under Major Christopher Bethel and Major John Desborough, mounted a remarkable charge at the Battle of Langport, where they galloped up a narrow lane and attacked the Royalist Army of Lord Goring in front, putting the entire army to flight.

* Eliza Mary Maitland b. 1832 m. 14 Jul 1857 John Desborough b. 24 Jan 1824 d. 14 Jan 1918

With the return of King Charles II in May 1660, Kelsey felt safer removing himself to the Netherlands, but with others including John Desborough was instructed to return to England in 1666.

Two days latter on 9 May four more men were appointed to the committee John Lambert, John Desborough, James Berry and Thomas Scot.

* John Desborough,

John Desborough ( 1608 – 1680 ) was an English soldier and politician who supported the parliamentary cause during the English Civil War.

The first meeting of the Hakluyt Society, under the chairmanship of the geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, established an eight-man steering group which included the geographer and historian William Desborough Cooley, the Army medical officer Dr Andrew Smith, the naval officer and surveyor Sir Charles Malcolm, the antiquary Bolton Corney, the British Museum Principal Librarian Sir Henry Ellis, W. R. Hamilton, FRS, and John Edward Gray, Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum.

The witchfinder, Matthew Hopkins, John Desborough, parliamentarian general, and William Prynne, lawyer, all make appearances, and the character of Sidrophel is variously seen as either William Lilly or Paul Neale.

Lord Desborough married Ethel Fane, daughter of Julian Fane and granddaughter of John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland, in 1887, They had three sons and two daughters.

Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

John was away at school most of the time.

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.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

Victor's book on John Lloyd Stephens was largely written in my study in the house at Weston.

I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;

The third name was ( John ) Ravencroft, who was admitted to the Inner Temple in November 1631.

The fourth name was ( John ) Milton of Christ's College, followed by ( Richard ) Manningham of Peterhouse, who matriculated 16 October 1624.

( John ) Boutflower of Christ's was twelfth in the list, coming from Perse School under Mr. Lovering as pensioner 20 April 1625 under Mr. Alsop.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

when his Holiness Pope John 23, first called for an Ecumenical Council, and at the same time voiced his yearning for Christian unity, the enthusiasm among Catholic and Protestant ecumenicists was immediate.

John was quietly insistent.

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.

For an instant John was stunned.

He saw with John Hunter now that the perfectability of man was a dream.

This was built by John Templeman from plans submitted by James Finley of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Mr. John Magee, whose work has been discussed in this chapter, was quoted in a New Yorker Magazine profile as saying: `` Of course, you have to remember it's a good thing for us chartists that there aren't more of us.

From 1896 until 1910 John H. Whipple was manager of Western Union at the Center in the drugstore he purchased from Clark Wait.

In November 1900 surveying was done under John Marsden on the east mountains to ascertain if it would be possible to get sufficient water and fall to operate an electric power plant.

While in Washington, D. C., to discuss government contracts, and in conjunction with his application for an appointment into the quartermaster department, Stuart heard about John Brown's raid on the U. S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

In the 2002 film Die Another Day, John Cleese's character is the head of Q branch, having inherited the title of quartermaster from his predecessor.

In Treasure Island, Long John Silver is a pirate who was quartermaster under the notorious Captain Flint.

In 1642 he joined the Parliamentarian army, and served as quartermaster under John Lambert until 1650.

Supremely qualified for the job, the forty-eight-year-old Otis had been a former quartermaster of the Continental army, speaker of the Massachusetts house of representatives, member of Congress under the Articles of Confederation, and John Adams ' long-term ally.

After release from hospital in 1971, he began work as a quartermaster at John Hadland Laboratories in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, near his sister's home in Hemel Hempstead.

Long John Silver from the novel Treasure Island was ship's quartermaster under the notorious Captain Flint.

Fannin needed means of transport and had sent Albert C. Horton and his men to Victoria, to bring carts and twenty yokes of oxen from army quartermaster John J. Linn, who did return around March 16.

The new quartermaster at the fort, John J. Linn, reported that 175 barrels of flour were confiscated, along with a large supply of sugar, coffee, whiskey, and rum.

Units of the 30th Infantry under Colonel John D. Stevenson began building the fort and nearby quartermaster depot ( Cheyenne Depot ) in August 1867.

The only person Flint was said to fear was his quartermaster John Silver, who later even called his parrot " Captain Flint " in mockery.