John Kendrick Bangs was an American writer of mostly humorous poetry and prose who spent some time as an Associate Editor on Life magazine, this being a good outlet for a lot of his work during the late 1880s. He also held editorial positions with the Harper’s group of magazines. He might have become a politician as well but failed in his attempt ...
John Keble was an English poet, university tutor and eminent clergyman who was one of the founders of “The Oxford Movement”. This was an initiative to enhance the teachings of the Church of England with some of the older, Christian traditions, creating a form of Anglo-Catholicism. This process became known as Tractarianism. He was born on the 25th April 1792 in the small Gloucestershire ...
John Jay Chapman was an American writer who was a passionate abolitionist and who wrote in strong terms about the “get rich quick” attitudes of those who sought to profit from a post-Civil War America, during the so-called “gilded age”. He was also a practicing lawyer for ten years of his life. He was born on the 2nd March 1862 in New York ...
John Howard Payne was a US poet, songwriter, playwright and actor. His most well known piece of work was a song written in 1822 called Home! Sweet Home! An Englishman wrote the music for this piece which was part of Payne’s opera Clari, or the Maid of Milan and the words “…be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home” are very ...
John Hoskins was a Greek scholar and poet from England. This extremely learned man also served as a Member of Parliament on a number of occasions. Having been called to the bar he served as a lawyer and then a circuit judge. He was eventually granted the distinction of being appointed to the distinguished body of barristers that meant he could call ...
