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John Sheriff ARSA (1816–1844) was a 19th century Scottish artist, specialising in animals. Life. He was born in Mearnskirk south of Glasgow in 1816. [1] He went to Glasgow as an apprentice copper-plate printer in 1830, working for James Lumsden & Son, wholesale stationers at 20 Queen Street. [2]
His sphere of influence was likely to have been almost exactly the area between the two ancient sultanates of Sulu and Brunei, whose rulers looked at him not as a competitor but as connected by friendship and kinship.
Jan 1, 2022 · Sheriffs were among the most important local office-holders in early modern England. They were generalist officers of the king responsible for executing legal process, holding local courts, empanelling juries, making arrests, executing criminals, collecting royal revenue, holding parliamentary elections, and many other vital duties.
- Jonathan Mcgovern
John Howard lived from 1726 to 1790, and played an important role in prison reform. Why did John Howard influence prisons? As High Sheriff of Bedfordshire, John Howard was responsible for prisons in the county.
John Howard was an English philanthropist and reformer in the fields of penology and public health. On his father’s death in 1742, Howard inherited considerable wealth and traveled widely in Europe. He then became high sheriff in Bedfordshire in 1773. As part of his duties, he inspected Bedford.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 19, 2020 · Bob Marley confesses to having shot Sheriff John Brown, in self-defense, but denies having killed the deputy, the person the town is actually trying to try him for.
Sir John Chichester (1519/20-1569) of Raleigh in the parish of Pilton, near Barnstaple in North Devon, was a leading member of the Devonshire gentry, a naval captain, and ardent Protestant who served as Sheriff of Devon in 1550-1551, and as Knight of the Shire for Devon in 1547, April 1554, and 1563, and as Member of Parliament for Barnstaple ...
