John Mevi

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John Sevier

John Sevier was an American soldier, frontiersman, and politician, and one of the founding fathers of the State of Tennessee. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he played a leading role in Tread more...ennessee's pre-statehood period, both militarily and politically, and he was elected the state's first governor in 1796. He served as a colonel of the Washington District Regiment in the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780, and he commanded the frontier militia in dozens of battles against the Cherokee in the 1780s and 1790s.read less...

John Merivale

John Herman Merivale was a Canadian-born British theatre actor, and occasional supporting player in British films.

John McVicar

John McVicar is a British journalist and convicted one-time armed robber who escaped from prison.

John Neville (actor)

John Reginald Neville, CM, OBE was an English theatre and film actor who moved to Canada in 1972. He enjoyed a resurgence of international attention in the 1980s as a result of his starring role in Teread more...rry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988).read less...

John Mein (publisher)

John Mein was a Boston, Massachusetts, bookseller and publisher in the time before the American Revolution. Mein started Boston's first circulating library, and with his business partner, John Fleeminread more...g, Mein published the Loyalist newspaper, the Boston Chronicle, the first semi-weekly in New England.read less...

John Mervin Nooth

John Mervin Nooth was an English physician, scientist, and army officer. Nooth earned his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1766 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1774.read more... In the same year, inspired by Joseph Priestley's work on "fixed air", Nooth invented an instrument for producing carbonated water. The Nooth apparatus, as it came to be called, became popular for household use; the liquid it produced was thought to have medicinal properties. Modified versions of the Nooth apparatus were used in commercial beverage manufacturing and in early experiments with general anaesthesia. Nooth joined the British Army in 1775 and served in North America until 1784, becoming superintendent-general of the British military hospitals in 1779. In 1788 he was deployed to Quebec; he remained in Canada until 1799 and became involved in scientific and political pursuits there. On his return he settled in Bath, England, where he lived until his death.read less...