John James Clark

John James Clark (23 January 1838 – 25 June 1915), an Australian architect, was born in Liverpool, England. Clark's 30 years in public service, in combination with 33 in private practice, produced some of Australia's most notable public buildings, as well as at least one prominent building in New Zealand.

Biography

John James Clark, commonly referred to as JJ, was born in Liverpool, England on 23 January 1838 to parents George and Mary Clark. Clark was one of six children. The family relocated from Liverpool to Melbourne, Australia in March 1852, in hopes of capitalising on the Victorian Goldrush. Whilst other family members took up employment working in the gold fields, 14-year-old Clark pursued his interest in Architecture and was employed as a draftsman for the colonial architect's office. JJ continued in public service until 1878 when he was retrenched in the Black Wednesday dismissals. Clark took a brief sabbatical in 1858 to tour Europe

In 1865 Clark married Mary Taylor Watmuff (1844–1871) they remained married until her untimely death at the age of 26 in 1871. The couple had one child, Edward James, in 1868. In 1889 when Edward was 21, Clark took him on a tour of Europe and America, mirroring that of the one Clark took in his own youth.

James Clark

James, Jim, Jimmy or Jamie Clark may refer to:

Politicians

James Clark (programmer)

James Clark (23 February 1964) is the author of groff and expat, and has done much work with open-source software and XML.

Born in London and educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford, Clark has lived in Bangkok, Thailand since 1995, and is now a permanent resident. He owns a company called Thai Open Source Software Center, which provides him a legal framework for his open-source activities.

For the GNU project, he wrote groff, as well as an XML editing mode for GNU Emacs.

XML-related work

James Clark served as Technical Lead of the Working Group that developed XML—notably contributing the self-closing, empty-element tag syntax (for example: "<tagname/>"), and the name XML. His contributions to XML are cited in dozens of books on the subject.

James is the author or co-author of a number of influential specifications and implementations, including:

He is listed as part of the Working Group that developed the Java Streaming API for XML (StAX) JSR 173 at the JCP.

James Clark (physician in Dominica)

Dr James Clark or Clarke FRS FRSE (1737-1819) was a Scottish doctor and plantation-owner strongly linked to the history of the Dominican Republic. His treatise on yellow fever earned him instant fame and Fellowship in both the Royal Society of London and Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was a physician, chemist and natural historian. He made significant advances on the understanding of the nature of contagious diseases.

Life

James Clark was a doctor in Aberdeen working there in the mid-18th century.

Around 1770 he sailed to Dominica (now the Dominican Republic). Here he acquired a sugar plantation which still exists today, known either as Clark Hall Estate or Clarke Hall Estate. He also owned coffee plantations. In his 40 years on the island he amassed a considerable fortune. He also served a role in the governance of the island, serving on HM Council.

In Dominica he spent much time with fellow-Scot and fellow-plantation-owner, Dr James Laing, who owned the Shillingford Estate which made Macoucherie Rum. Laing is noted as being the donator of the famous 61-minute clock on Crimond Church which originally came from Laing’s estate at Haddo.

John James (architect)

John James (c. 1673 – 15 May 1746) was a British architect particularly associated with Twickenham in west London, where he rebuilt St Mary's Church and also built a house for James Johnson, Secretary of State for Scotland, later Orleans House and since demolished. Howard Colvin's assessment of him was that of "a competent architect, but he lacked inventive fancy, and his buildings are for the most part plain and unadventurous in design".

Life

The son of a Hampshire parson also named John James, he attended the Holy Ghost School, Basingstoke, of which his father was headmaster. He was then apprenticed in 1690 to Matthew Banckes, Master Carpenter to the Crown 1683–1706, whose niece he married, and he lived for a while at Hampton Court Palace. He was employed at Greenwich, where in 1718 he became joint Clerk of the Works with Hawksmoor, whom he succeeded as Surveyor to the Fabric of Westminster Abbey, where he completed Hawksmoor's west tower. In the interim he was appointed master carpenter at St. Paul's Cathedral, where he assisted Sir Christopher Wren and succeeded him in 1723 as Surveyor to the Fabric. He was Master of the Carpenters' Company in 1734.

John James (actor)

John James Anderson (born April 18, 1956) is an American actor, best known to television audiences for playing the character of Jeff Colby in both the prime-time soap opera Dynasty and its spin-off series The Colbys throughout the 1980s.

Career

James is a veteran of daytime soaps, first appearing in Search for Tomorrow in the late 1970s. In 1981 he won the role of Jeff Colby in Dynasty, appearing in the very first episode, Oil, and remaining on the soap opera until the final episode, Catch 22 (1989). He returned to play Jeff one last time in the TV movie, Dynasty: The Reunion (1991). James was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role in Dynasty (1985) and appeared at the 1986 ceremony along with Ed Begley, Jr., David Carradine, Richard Farnsworth, John Malkovich, Pat Morita, Edward James Olmos, and Bruce Weitz. The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film went to Olmos.

James returned to the genre playing Rick Decker on As the World Turns in 2003–2004. In May 2006, he was cast in the role of Dr. Jeff Martin (the first husband of Erica Kane played by series star Susan Lucci) on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children. He began airing the following month. On July 15, 2008, James returned to As the World Turns, reprising the role of demented Dr. Rick Decker.

John James (writer)

David John James (30 November 1923 – 2 October 1993) was a Welsh author of historical novels.

Life and work

James was born in Aberavon. He studied philosophy at St David's University College, Lampeter, and also read and completed an MA in psychology at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He became a psychologist for the Ministry of Defence, lecturing on the selection and training of air crews for the RAF at Brampton. In addition to writing he also worked as a teacher and later for the Scientific Civil Service working on aviation problems.

He is known for writing four historical novels set in Roman and early medieval Britain and Europe. Neil Gaiman is an admirer of James, especially his novel Votan, which provided one model for American Gods, calling it “I think probably the best book ever done about the Norse”. James's skilful evocation of life and myths of Dark Age Europe also won him the admiration of neo-pagan authors John and Caitlin Matthews. The British writer Byron Rogers said that whereas "other historical novelists cheat" by putting people with modern opinions and sensitivities into the past, John James "had a man from the past as his hero"; James "knew how such a man would have dressed and what he would have eaten, and, what is far more important, he knew what went on in his head".