Researching John Rice
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The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
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Some Famous People called John Rice
John McConnell Rice
John McConnell Rice (February 19, 1831 – September 18, 1895) was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky where he received a limited schooling. He graduated from a Louisville, Kentucky law school in 1852, was admitted to the bar in 1853, and commenced practice in Pikeville, Kentucky.
Rice was the superintendent of schools of Pike County, Kentucky in 1854 and was then elected prosecuting attorney of Pike County in 1856. He served as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1858 before moving to Louisa, Kentucky in 1860. He was again a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1861.
Rice was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1873) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1872. Rice and John T. Zeigler disputed the November 1868 election, and the seat was vacant while in dispute. After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law in Louisa, Kentucky and was appointed judge of the Lawrence County, Kentucky criminal court in 1883 and was elected to the same office in 1884. He was reelected in 1890 and served until his death in Louisa, Kentucky in 1895. He was buried in Pine Hill Cemetery.
Source: John McConnell Rice, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Andrew Rice
John Andrew Rice Jr. (1888 – 1968) was the founder and first rector of Black Mountain College, located near Asheville, North Carolina. During his time there, he introduced many unique methods of education which had not been implemented in any other experimental institution, attracting many important artists as contributing lecturers and mentors, including John Cage, Robert Creeley, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, and Franz Kline. During World War II, he made it a haven for refugee European artists, including Josef Albers and Anni Albers, who arrived from the Bauhaus in Germany. Later, Black Mountain College became the platform for the work of Buckminster Fuller, who made the college the site of the first geodesic dome. Because of his strong ideas and unusual educational philosophy, Rice became involved in many debates in the socially conservative 1930s, '40s and '50s, becoming known as a very outspoken critic of the standard model of higher education in the United States.
Source: John Andrew Rice, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
John Rice (cricketer)
John Michael Rice (born 23 October 1949, at Chandlers Ford) is a retired English first-class cricketer who played for Hampshire from 1971–1982, and briefly from 1983-1984 for Wiltshire.
Educated at Brockley County Grammar School, Rice was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler. After appearing for Surrey's second team in 1970, Rice played 168 first-class games and 178 one-day matches for Hampshire, as well as 2 one-day matches for Wiltshire.
Rice had a career as an all-rounder, and was sometimes used as an opening batsman. He scored 5,091 runs and took 230 wickets in first-class matches and 2,397 runs and 189 wickets in one-day cricket. In 1975 Rice shared a stand of 61 for the tenth wicket with Andy Roberts in a one-day match against Gloucestershire, a Hampshire record for the tenth wicket which remains to this day.
Rice left Hampshire at the end of the 1982 County Championship season, and finally retired from the game in 1984 after a brief spell in Minor Counties cricket with Wiltshire. He was cricket coach at Eton College in 2010.
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