Jonathan robert willis biography
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Willis, John Randolph
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Biographical Note
John Willis was born in 1917. He was ordained in the Congregational Church in 1943 and earned a Ph.D. in American Church History from Yale University in 1946. Willis converted to Catholicism and entered the kultur of Jesus in 1955. He was ordained in 1962. From 1964 to 1982, Willis taught history at Boston College and served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1964 to 1969. He later taught at Gonzaga University and Pope John Seminary (Weston, Massachusetts). Willis died in 2001.
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Twice ordained: typescript
Collection — Object BC.2001.015
Identifier: BC-2001-015
Typed autobiography of Rev. John R. Willis, S.J.
Open for research.
Dates: approximately 1994
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WILLIS, JOHN ROBERT, naturalist, teacher, and first Nova Scotian conchologist; b. 14 Feb. 1825 in Philadelphia, Pa., son of John Willis; m. in 1847 to Mary Ann Artz by whom he had six children, and in 1865 to Eliza Jane Mosely by whom he had four children; d. 31 March 1876 in Halifax, N.S.
John Robert Willis came to Halifax as a child; he was educated at the national school where he later became a successful teacher and principal. He was appointed superintendent of the new industrial school in Halifax in 1864, and a year later became secretary to the new board of school commissioners for the city. He retired from the latter post only in 1875.
Willis is remembered primarily, however, as a naturalist. A painstaking and discriminating collector and classifier, mainly of shells but also of insects and birds, he first won acclaim in 1854 when he exhibited his shells at the Nova Scotia Industrial Exhibition and won first prize. Later he sent e
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Jon Willis
For John Willis, see John Willis (disambiguation).
Jonathan Robert James Willis is an épée fencer. In 2007, he became the first British fencer since 1981, to win an event during the 2006–07 Fencing World Cup.[1] He is also a three times British champion.[2][3]
Biography
[edit]Fencing career
[edit]Willis began fencing at Hazel Grove High School after meeting Bob Merry, a fencing coach who encouraged him to take up the sport. His father, a postman, was also keen on sport.[4] Willis joined an after-school club, where he won a team foil competition. Following this he took part in three Under-15s competitions: he won two and came second in the other.[4] At this point Willis still considered fencing to be "a bit of fun", although he continued it because of his height. He decided that épée was the weapon best suited to him and entered a North-West Under-16s event, which he won.[4] The first senior competiti