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John Patch, a mariner in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia developed a two-bladed, fan-shaped propeller in 1832 and publicly demonstrated it in 1833, propelling a row boat across Yarmouth Harbour and a small coastal schooner at Saint John, New Brunswick, but his patent application in the United States was rejected until 1849 because he was not an American citizen.
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John and Patch
John Jerwood passes through Patch Bridge on the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal, on its way to the River Severn
Additionally, Chapin wrote the music and lyrics for Cotton Patch Gospel, a musical by Tom Key and Russell Treyz based on Clarence Jordan's book The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John.
Henry John " Harry " Patch, known as " the Last Fighting Tommy " moved to Street in the early 1940s, he ran a plumbing company in the village until his retirement at age 65.
MacWEEK was a controlled-circulation weekly Apple Macintosh trade journal based in San Francisco founded by Michael Tchong, John Anderson, Glenn Patch, Dick Govatski, and Michael F. Billings.
He achieved a level of popularity similar to that formerly held by boxer John L. Sullivan and harness racehorse Dan Patch, and enjoyed later by such sports heroes of the Golden Age of Sports as boxing's Jack Dempsey, baseball's Babe Ruth, tennis's Bill Tilden and golf's Bobby Jones.
Jones married, 15 April 1875, Ann Elizabeth, daughter of John Patch, barrister.
John Jerwood passes through Patch Bridge on the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal, on its passage to the River Severn
Jordan's Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John was the inspiration for a musical theater work by Harry Chapin, The Cotton Patch Gospel.
* Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John.
Henry John Patch ( better known as Harry Patch ) was born in Combe Down in 1898 ; both his father and grandfather were local stonemasons.
Other recent Rose Theater Productions include Little Shop of Horrors, Godspell, Our Town, FAME, Mother Hicks, Suessical the Musical, Steel Magnolias, Romeo and Juliet, Cotton Patch Gospel, Grease, Defying Gravity, Disney's High School Musical, Dearly Beloved, John Lennon and Me, Antigone, and Rowan and Martin's Laugh In.
When Peter Pan, John, and Slightly fire the treasure towards the Rake, it was enough to banish Captain Patch and the Rake back to the spirit world.
# The Rake-Peter, Slightly, and John accidentally open a box that contained the Ghost of Captain Patch ( AKA Jasper Hook ).
After three years on GH, Laiman followed Racina to Days of our Lives to work with Sheri Anderson where the three wrote several stories, including Bo and Hope's wedding in England, and co-created the characters of Steve " Patch " Johnson and John Black.
* John Lithgow as B. Z., the main antagonist-an unscrupulous toy manufacturer who uses Patch in a larger scheme to take over Christmas.
Henry John " Harry " Patch ( 17 June 1898 – 25 July 2009 ), known in his latter years as " the Last Fighting Tommy ", was a British supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the last surviving soldier to have fought in the trenches of the First World War.
Patch was, with Claude Choules and Florence Green, one of the last three surviving British veterans of the First World War and, along with Frank Buckles and John Babcock, one of the last five veterans worldwide.
He appears in the 1901 Census as a two-year-old boy along with his stonemason father William John Patch, mother Elizabeth Ann ( née Morris ), and older brothers George Frederick and William Thomas at a house called " Fonthill ".
John and mariner
* John Wallace Thomas ( 1888 – 1965 ), Newfoundland and Canadian merchant mariner who served in both First and Second World Wars
Also born in Liverpool during 1838, Captain Joseph Richards of the Merchant Navy was likewise from an Irish Catholic family-his father John Richards was also a Merchant Navy Captain, and his mother Catherine Richards came from a mariner family.
Two internationally famous Governors of Tasmania were Captain Sir John Franklin ( the British mariner who would later die trying to find the North West Passage ), and former UNSCOM weapons inspector Richard Butler.
* John Bury ( captain ) ( 1915 – 2006 ), master mariner
In November 1697, Woodes Rogers was apprenticed to Bristol mariner John Yeamans, to learn the profession of a sailor.
The initial landing party included Captain John Lancey, master mariner, the landing party's leader and Fawkner's representative ; George Evans, builder ; carpenters William Jackson and Robert Hay Marr ; ploughman Charles Wise ; blacksmith James Gilbert and his pregnant wife, Mary ; and Evan Evans, George Evans ' servant.
* John Biscoe, English mariner and explorer, who often sailed as first mate
* Patrick Hayes ( mariner ) ( 1770-1856 ), nephew of Commodore John Barry
It began when a merchant and magistrate, Patrick Colquhoun, teamed up with mariner John Harriott and Jeremy Bentham to persuade shipping companies to finance a police force to stop the theft of cargo from the docks.
The archipelago was first sighted by the French mariner Joseph Antoine Bruni d ' Entrecasteaux in 1792 but remained unexplored until 1874 when Captain John Moresby, commanding HMS Basilisk, landed on the westernmost island and named it after a British naval colleague, Commodore James Graham Goodenough.
* John Parsons ( politician ) ( 1868 – 1949 ), Canadian mariner, merchant and politician
John and Yarmouth
The charter of King John ( 1208 ), which gave his burgesses of Yarmouth general liberties according to the customs of Oxford, a gild merchant and weekly hustings, was amplified by several later charters asserting the rights of the borough against Little Yarmouth and Gorleston.
* Sir John Fastolf ( 1378 ?- 1459 ) the prototype for Falstaff lived mainly at Caister-on-Sea but his family had lived at Great Yarmouth for generations
Yarmouth was organized and named in 1639 by John Crowe ( later Crowell ), Thomas Howes and Anthony Thacher.
He estimated that this would cost £ 35, 000, and his plan was published in 1818, but there were immediate objections from the Corporation of Yarmouth, who called on the engineer John Rennie for advice.
* John Wentworth ( died 1651 ), MP for Great Yarmouth ( UK Parliament constituency )
* John Ellis ( died 1402 ), MP for Great Yarmouth ( UK Parliament constituency )
Coleshill was granted a market charter by King John in 1207, alongside Liverpool, Leek and Great Yarmouth.
He was the son of Sir Thomas Corbet of Sprowston, Norfolk and the younger brother of Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet, MP for Great Yarmouth from 1625 to 1629.
Miles succeeded his brother John as MP for Yarmouth, England, serving from 1640 to 1653, and was the very last of the signatories of Charles I's death warrant .< ref > < sup > Sarah Barber, Corbett, Miles ( 1594 / 5 – 1662 ), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 </ sup ></ ref >
The de Engain family of Brumstead and Walcott is first noted in 1404 when Thomas de Engain married Margaret, daughter of John Ellis of Great Yarmouth.
After the Canadian Pacific Railway purchased the DAR in 1911, they sold some of its steamship connections, such as the Yarmouth steamships, but expanded others, such as the Digby-Saint John route, which received large new steamships such as the SS Princess Helene.
The family patriarch, John Gedney ( originally of Norwich ), sailed in 1636 out of Yarmouth, England on the Mary Anne.
* In late November 2008 the Atlantic Towing Ltd. dredging barge Shovel Master was being towed by the company's tugboat Atlantic Larch from Saint John to Halifax for a refit when it foundered in heavy seas west of Yarmouth, NS.
Cardiff was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the son of Florence and John Joseph Cardiff, music hall entertainers.
A stout supporter of his lifelong employers, the royal brothers, it is unclear why Holmes should have associated with Monmouth ; at the centre of the question may lie the shady Irish financier Lemuel Kingdon, who sat for Newtown and Yarmouth together with Holmes's brother, John.
He was probably born in Great Yarmouth, and is presumably the John Wheeler who was Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth in the Parliament of 1604-1611.
John Clipperton was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in 1676, into a family of seafarers.
The assistance of Nasmith is acknowledged in the preface to Henry Swinden's ‘ History of Great Yarmouth ,’ which was edited by John Ives in 1772.
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