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unusual facts about Brother John


Brother John

"Frère Jacques" (in English sometimes called "Brother John"), a French nursery melody



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Baldwin of Avesnes

After the Edict of Péronne and the death of his brother John, he reconciled with his mother, who sent him to Namur on a revenge expedition.

Bragg Creek, Alberta

Bragg Creek is named after Albert Warren Bragg from Collingwood, Nova Scotia and his 14-year old brother John Thomas who homesteaded in the area in 1894.

Charles G. Dahlgren

His older brother, John A. Dahlgren, was a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy and enjoyed a measure of fame for inventing the Dahlgren gun.

Clan Sinclair

Sir William Sinclair, heir to Henry, and his brother John were among the Scots killed at the Battle of Teba (1330).

Clinton Voss

Ship to Shore's creators David Rapsey and his writer brother John Rapsey also favoured Clinton for such roles as 'Snowy Bowles', a gay cyclist in the series 'Sweat' played by Heath Ledger.

Dan Gilroy

His brother Tony Gilroy is a screenwriter and director, and twin brother, John Gilroy, is a film editor.

Daniel Gookin

Gookin's brother John died at Lynn Haven early in November 1643; Gookin, no longer bound by any strong ties to Virginia, left his three plantations in the charge of servants and sailed for Boston in May 1644 with his wife and his infant daughter Mary (his son Samuel having died).

Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads

Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads is a documentary film, released in 1992, and made by David A. Stewart in conjunction with his brother John J. Stewart, in collaboration with music critic and author Robert Palmer and documentary film maker Robert Mugge.

Dick Lotz

Along with his older brother John, he developed his game under the tutelage of noted black golf instructor Lucius Bateman whose other students included PGA Tour winners Don Whitt, John McMullin, and Tony Lema.

Dog Beats

In the early 1990s, Joseph Bruce, Joseph Utsler and Utsler's brother, John performed at local night clubs, using the stage names Violent J, 2 Dope, and John Kickjazz, under the name of their gang, Inner City Posse.

Donaldson v Beckett

Seven months previously, in the case of Hinton v. Donaldson, the Scots Court of Session had ruled that copyright did not exist in the common law of Scotland, so that Alexander Donaldson (an appellant in Donaldson v. Beckett with his older brother, John) could lawfully publish Thomas Stackhouse's New History of the Holy Bible.

Edward Coxen

In 1880, Joseph Coxen's brother John and wife Ellen left England and settled in San Francisco.

Edward Welch

Hansom & Welch designed a number of buildings on the Isle of Man, most notably King William's College, where Welch's brother, John Welch also designed several churches independently.

Ellen O'Leary

Once her brother John was freed, they moved to Dublin, where they contributed to the Irish Literary Revival by holding weekly salons featuring a host of prominent literary figures such as William Butler Yeats, Katharine Tynan, George Russell, and Rosa Mulholland.

George Gately

To keep up with the demand, he recruited Bob Laughlin, and later his brother John to help draw the daily strips and Sunday color pages.

George, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg

In 1611, he purchased the Nassau share of the district of Wehrheim, which Nassau shared with Trier, from his brother John VII.

Gerry Cosby

In 1938, he founded the successful sporting goods and athletic equipment company, Gerry Cosby & Co., along with his brother John, which had its headquarters at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Golden Isles of Georgia

General Oglethorpe’s secretary, Charles Wesley and his famous Anglican clergyman brother, John, considered by many the founder of the Methodist Church, trod these grounds.

Isenburg-Kempenich

Simon I was succeeded by his son Simon II in 1341, and his brother John respected the treaty.

James Drummond, 3rd Duke of Perth

He was brought up by his mother at Drummond Castle till his father's death, when his mother took him and his younger brother John to France.

James Gibb Ross

Born in Carluke, a village of South Lanarkshire, Scotland, Ross emigrated to Canada in 1832 with his brother, John Ross, settling in Quebec City.

James H. Dooley

His father (the original Major) had supported St. Joseph's Orphanage; his brother John attended Georgetown Seminary but died in 1873 before ordination; and his sister Sarah entered the Visitation monastery in Richmond.

James Ritty

He is entombed with his wife Susan and his brother John (ca 1834–28 December 1913) at Dayton's Woodland Cemetery.

John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare

Thus, if any is to blame in the short-lived 'Fitzwilliam episode' it is the great Irish politician Henry Grattan and the Ponsonby brothers - presumably William Ponsonby, later Lord Imokilly and his brother John Ponsonby—not to mention Lord Fitzwilliam himself.

Joseph Lee Heywood

One brother, John, was a farmer; two brothers, Silas and Charles, enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park

Named after Robert Hampton Gray (VC) and his brother, John Balfour Gray, the peak is notable as the mountain featured on the label of Kokanee beer.

Lady Antebellum

Kelley moved to Nashville in mid-2005 from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he had been working construction with his brother John.

Lochearnhead

However, they had just come from murdering her brother, John Drummond of Drummonderinoch, and while she was out of the room placed his severed head on a silver platter, and placed in his mouth some of the cold victuals she had served them.

Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria

In 1408 Louis, William II, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing and John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy defeated the citizens of Liege who revolted against William's brother John of Bavaria, the bishop of Liège on the field of Othée.

Matthew Scrivener

(A year after Matthew's death by drowning, his brother John Scrivener purchased Sibton Abbey in Suffolk, where Scrivener family descendants still reside today.

Myron Cottrell

Myron Cottrell’s brother, John Cottrell, bought a 1999 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Nascar Busch Series race car and modified it to make it street legal.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Wayne County, Michigan

Truman Handy Newberry and his brother John donated nearly $300,000 to the congregation for a new church building, as a memorial to their parents John and Helen.

Peter William Youens

Youens' father was a clergyman in Brodsworth and his elder brother John was eventually to become Chaplain General to the Forces.

Quarry Bank Mill

Samuel Greg's brother-in-law, Thomas Hodgson, owned a slave ship, his father Thomas Greg and his brother John Greg part owned sugar plantations in the Caribbean on the island of Dominica.

Ringling brothers

He died on April 2, 1911 at the home of his brother, John on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 2nd Baronet

He died in 1686 at Lambspring monastery in Hanover, of which his brother John, who died in 1681, had been Abbot.

Sophia Campbell

Her brother John Palmer was bringing his family to settle permanently in New South Wales, and had previously come to Sydney in 1788 as Purser on the Sirius, the flagship of the First Fleet.

Terry Major-Ball

Terry Major-Ball first came to the spotlight in November 1990, when his brother John became Prime Minister after the overthrow of Margaret Thatcher and the subsequent Conservative leadership election.

Thomas Clater

He first exhibited in London in 1819 at the British Institution, sending two pictures, ‘Children at a Spring’ and ‘Puff and Dart, or the Last Shilling—a Provincial Game,’ and at the Royal Academy, to which he sent ‘The Game at Put, or the Cheat detected.’ In 1820 he exhibited at the Royal Academy a portrait of his brother John Clater, and in 1823 portraits of Mr. C. Warren and of his father Francis Clater; the latter picture was subsequently engraved by Lupton.

Walter Patterson

In 1764, Patterson requested grants to own land on the island, and he and his brother, John Patterson (father of future US Naval hero Commodore Daniel Patterson), were awarded Lot 19, near the present-day town of Kensington, through the 1767 land lottery.

William Foord-Kelcey

Foord-Kelcey's brother John also played cricket for Oxford University and his nephew Osbert Mordaunt played for Somerset.

William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford

Married Claude-Charlotte, daughter of Philibert de Gramont and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Hamilton; died without issue and was succeeded by his brother John's son.

William Ord of Fenham

He was the second son of Thomas Ord of Fenham and Anne Bacon and inherited the family estates at Fenham and Newminster Abbey on the death of his elder brother John, in 1745.