John Sims

John Sims may refer to:

  • John Sims (1749-1831), physician and botanist
  • John Sims (footballer), English former professional footballer
  • John Joseph Sims, English recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • See also

  • John Simms (disambiguation)
  • John Sim (disambiguation)
  • John Sims (taxonomist)

    John Sims (13 October 1749 – 26 February 1831) was an English physician and botanist.

    Life

    Sims was born in Canterbury, Kent, the son of a physician, Robert Courthope Sims, a member of the Society of Friends who published An Essay on the Nature and Constitution of Man, London, 1793.

    He was educated at the Quaker school in Burford, Oxfordshire, with additional instruction from his father. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, obtaining his PhD in 1774. His dissertaion was "De usu aquæ frigidæ interno."

    He moved to London in 1766, where he worked as a physician at the Surrey dispensary. He bought an obstetric practice in 1779, and was he was admitted to the Royal College of Physicians. In 1780 he was appointed Physician and Man Midwife to the Charity for Delivering Poor Married Women at their own Houses. In 1817 he was called to the ill-fated childbirth of Princess Charlotte at which mother and baby died.

    He was the first editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1801–1826 vols. xiv–xlii) after the death of the founder, William Curtis, and edited Annals of Botany (1805–06) with Charles Konig.

    John Sims (footballer)

    John Sims (born 14 August 1952 in Belper, Derbyshire) is an English former professional footballer, playing as a forward, and football manager.

    Sims began his career as an apprentice with Derby County, turning professional in August 1970. His league debut came as a substitute on 16 December 1972 when he replace David Nish with 4 minutes remaining in a 1-1 home draw with Newcastle United. He made only two further appearances for Derby, although one of those was as a substitute in a European Cup semi-final against Juventus.

    He had loan spells with Luton Town in November 1973, Oxford United in September 1974 and Colchester United in January 1975, before moving to Notts County in December 1975 for a fee of £10,000.

    He moved to Exeter City, managed by Bobby Saxton in December 1978 for £12,000, but stayed less than a year, moving to local rivals Plymouth Argyle, where Saxton was now manager, in October 1979, costing the Pilgrims £22,500. He quickly established himself at Home Park, making 183 appearances, scoring 48 goals and was voted Player of the Season in 1982 by the Plymouth fans.

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    "We just have to shoot better. We're going to spend some time on it. We might spend our whole practice tomorrow just shooting. We have put a lot of time in, but obviously they haven't been taught to shoot much and that's a pretty big fundamental of basketball."
    "The trend of the lifestyle holiday continues to grow as people increasingly look for more than a traditional half-board beach vacation. The trend is for combining a relaxing holiday with learning a new skill and finding out more about the area you are visiting."
    "Unfortunately under-insurance is the norm rather than the exception."
    "We played good defense and moved the basketball in the first quarter, but like all young teams, we got into a four or five minute funk where it's like you're brain dead."
    "I'm quite sure those people are nervous. We're just all on high alert and keeping watch. We're all aware of the risk coming our way."
    "We're getting better defensively, we just can't score. We have to find someone that's going to put the ball in the hole and not turn it over."
    "For being undersized, our intensity in man-to-man defense wasn't there like it has been. But it will get there. We're getting better."
    "India is an extremely young country and has an average age of 26 - this is driving a lot of new trends. At the same time as the drop in average age, there has been an economic boom and huge wealth creation. You have this young, rich population with nothing to spend their money on. There is a huge groundswell towards adventure tourism. Skiing is going to take off."
    "To lose by 12 on their court isn't that bad. We didn't get blown out and we weren't even supposed to be in the ballgame and we were."
    "The investment will take place in three stages - $155 million, 185 million and $180 million."
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