17th-century woman also known as Mother Red Cap and the Shrew of Kentish Town, suspected of being a witch, a murderer and poisoner.
Joan and Peter
Novel by H. G Wells published in 1918, about the education and adolescence of Joan and Peter, two samples of their generation, an excerpt of which was published under the title "Peter Learns Arithmetic" in 1958.
Joan Cunny, witch
One of the 31 Essex witches, hanged in 1589.
John Blenkinsop
Mining engineer at Charles Brandling’s Middleton Collieries who patented a rack and pinion system for a steam locomotive and commissioned the first practical railway locomotive from Fenton, Murray and Wood’s Round Foundry in Holbeck, Leeds in 1811.
John Carr
Prolific architect who worked mainly in the North of England, (1723–1807).
John Collier (caricaturist)
English caricaturist and satirical poet (1708–1786).
John Fian
School teacher convicted of witchcraft in 1590, a central figure in the North Berwick witch trials
John Frederick Bateman
English civil engineer whose work formed the basis of the modern United Kingdom water supply industry.
John Greenwood
John Greenwood (1788–1851) was the keeper of a toll-gate in Pendleton on the Manchester to Liverpool turnpike, who In 1824 inaugurated the United Kingdom’s first omnibus service.
John Gregorson Campbell
Scottish folklorist and Free Church minister at the Tiree and Coll parishes in Argyll, Scotland.
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