John Wright Oakes ARA (9 July 1820 – 8 July 1887) was an English landscape painter. He was born at Sproston House, near Middlewich, Cheshire, which had...
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John Oakes may refer to: John Milton Oakes (c. 1442–1485/86), English businessman John Wright Oakes (1820–1887), English painter John Bertram Oakes (1913–2001)...
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'ac' meaning oak. The first recorded mention of the surname is in Somerset. Alan Oakes (born 1962), English football player and coach Alf Oakes (1901–1967)...
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John Lloyd Wright (December 12, 1892 – December 20, 1972) was an American architect and toy inventor. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Wright was the second-oldest...
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would emerge. By 1901, Wright had completed about 50 projects, including many houses in Oak Park. As his son John Lloyd Wright wrote: William Eugene Drummond...
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Lloyd Wright Home and Studio is a historic house and design studio in Oak Park, Illinois, which was designed and owned by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. First...
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1816) July 8 – John Wright Oakes, English landscape painter (b. 1820) July 17 – Dorothea Dix, American social activist (b. 1802) July 25 – John Taylor, American...
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priest (died 1880) 5 July – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist (died 1872) 9 July – John Wright Oakes, landscape painter (died 1887) 25 July...
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and Jane Oakes, he was born in England in 1631 or 1632, and went, when a child, with his father to Massachusetts by the year 1640; Thomas Oakes was his...
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cowardly Boysie Oakes is mistakenly recruited as a British spy. The book was made into a film, and followed by and seven further Oakes novels and four...
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