Topic: John Boyd
Quotes
It is not true the Pentagon has no strategy. It has a strategy, and once you understand what that strategy is, everything ... does makes sense. The strategy is, don't interrupt the money flow; add to it
Finding ways to tame Pentagon spending at last Mar 13, 2009
I have not encountered anyone who has told me I can't run
Jockstrip: The world as we know it. Mar 13, 2008
I have not encountered anyone who has told me I can't run
Three Cleveland candidates have records Mar 12, 2008
The harsh reality is your state is suffering today not only from a corporate exodus but intellectual capacity (too). Some of your best and brightest college graduates cannot afford to live here; that's a huge problem
Report: Real cost of California's expenses Feb 17, 2005
What is the limit of government's ability to regulate and proscribe the lives of its citizenry if nobody is getting hurt? Who's working for whom here
N.M. religious group can have toxic tea Dec 22, 2004
Sir John Boyd, 1st Baronet Boyd (29 December 1718, St Kitts, Leeward Islands - 24 January 1800, Danson Hill) was a sugar merchant and vice-chairman of the British East India Company. He built Danson House, and was the first English owner of the Piranesi Vase.
He was the only child to Augustus Boyd (1679–1765), a northern Irish merchant who owned several sugar estates on the islands and later moved to London to set up trade links there with the plantations. John went into this family business, but not before he had read theology and classics at Christ Church, Oxford and taken a Grand Tour of the continent.
Settling in Lewisham and marrying his first wife, Mary Bumpstead, in the early 1740s, he purchased the 200-acre (0.81 km2) lease at Danson in 1753, followed by the site he intended for Danson House in 1762. Elected director of the East India Company in April 1753, he served on the Company's court until 1764, and backed the peace made by Britain in 1763 at the end of the Seven Years' War.
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