Researching John Bush
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The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Bush on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Bush and the Bush Family History
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 8395 people with the Bush surname in the UK? Bush is now ranked number 703 for popularity in the UK. |
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John Bush (musician)
John R. Bush (born August 24, 1963) is an American heavy metal vocalist and songwriter. He came to prominence in the 1980s as the lead singer and lyricist of Armored Saint, a heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. In 1992, he joined thrash metal band Anthrax, with whom he remained until 2005 and briefly rejoined in 2009–2010. Bush has also been active with the reformed Armored Saint intermittently from 1999 to the present.
Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic praised Bush's "remarkable voice" while authors Howie Abrams and Sacha Jenkins ranked him as the eighth-best vocalist in the genre.
Source: John Bush (musician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Bush (English cricketer)
John Edgar Bush (20 August 1928 – 1 June 2015) was an English cricketer in the 1950s.
Bush was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire. He attended Magdalen College School, Oxford, before going on to Magdalen College at Oxford University. A right-handed batsman, he made his first-class debut for Oxford University against the Free Foresters in 1950. He played 7 further first-class matches for the University, the last coming against Cambridge University in 1952. In his 8 first-class matches, he scored 417 runs at a batting average of 29.78, with a high score of 67. This came against Middlesex in 1952.
Bush made his debut for Oxfordshire before playing for Oxford University, first appearing in the 1949 Minor Counties Championship against Buckinghamshire. Bush played Minor counties cricket for Oxfordshire from 1949 to 1973 which included 139 Minor Counties Championship matches. He made his only List A appearance for Oxfordshire against Cambridgeshire in the 1967 Gillette Cup. In this match he scored 14 runs before being dismissed by Alan Wilson.
He was a schoolmaster at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate, from 1956 until his retirement in 1988.
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