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Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB, PC (9 January 1735 – 13 March 1823) was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom.
John Jervis GCB, PC [1] (Meaford Hall, Staffordshire, 9 de janeiro de 1735 — Brentwood, 13 de março de 1823), 1.º Conde de St Vincent, foi um almirante da Marinha Real Britânica e membro do Parlamento do Reino Unido.
- 9 de janeiro de 1735, Meaford Hall
- Reino da Grã-Bretanha
- Church of St Michael, Stone
- 13 de março de 1823 (88 anos), Brentwood
John Jervis 1st Earl of St. Vincent. 1735-1823. He was born on 9 January 1735 at Meaford Hall in Staffordshire, the second and younger son of a barrister-at-law, Swynfen Jervis. His mother, Elizabeth, was a distant cousin of Admiral Lord Anson and the sister of the Whig politician, Sir Thomas Parker.
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John Bloomfield Jervis was born in 1795 at Huntington, New York, on Long Island, the son of Timothy Jervis, a carpenter, and Phoebe Bloomfield, the eldest of seven children. Jervis moved with his family to Fort Stanwix (later known as Rome) in upstate New York in 1798when his father purchased a farm and ran a lumber business.: 5 In October 1817 at ...
Jervis steam locomotive
Jervis's first steam locomotive design was the DeWitt Clinton while working as chief engineer for the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad in 1831. The following year he built the Experiment (later renamed the Brother Jonathan), the first steam locomotive with a leading bogie, a four-wheel leading truck that guides the locomotive into curves. This 4-2-0 locomotive, which had two powered driving wheels on a rear axle underneath the locomotive's firebox, became known as the Jervis type. The Mohawk & Huds...
Croton Aqueduct
In 1836, Jervis was chosen as the chief engineer on the 41-mile Croton Aqueduct, which operated from 1842 to 1865, bringing fresh water to New York City. Many of Jervis's original diagrams for this project are now preserved at both the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The High Bridge which still stands across the Harlem River in New York City, connecting Manhattan and the Bronx, was part of this project.
Upon his death, Jervis bequeathed his homestead to the city of Rome to use as the location for a public library. His personal library now forms the John B. Jervis collection of the Jervis Public Library. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.In 1927, the Delaware and Hudson Railroad built an experimental steam ...
Railway Property(1859)The Construction and Management of Railways(1861)Labor and Capital(1877)Notes Further reading 1. Jervis, John B. (1971). FitzSimons, Neal (ed.). The Reminiscences of John B. Jervis. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York. ISBN 0-8156-0077-1. 2. Larkin, F. Daniel (1990). John B. Jervis: An American Engineering Pioneer. Iowa State University Press. ISBN 0-8138-0355-1. 3. Museum of the City of New York, The Croton ...
- 1851-1854
- January 12, 1885 (aged 89), Rome, New York
- December 14, 1795, Huntington, New York
- President of Chicago and Rock Island Railroad
21 de fev. de 2024 · Sir John Jervis was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, Sept. 24, 1787; and in the armament of 1790, had his flag flying on board the Prince, of 98 guns. His quarter-deck was full of young gentlemen, cadets of some of the first families in the kingdom, who made the greatest interest to place them as midshipmen with so distinguished ...
At the age of 60, Jervis was an immensely experienced seaman who quickly recognized Nelson’s qualities and who regarded Nelson “more as an associate than a subordinate Officer.” The arrival of Jervis coincided with an upsurge…
Biography. Naval officer, born Staffordshire; admiral, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, 1795, blockading the French fleet at Toulon; he defeated the Spanish off Cape St Vincent, 1797.
