John Henry Wigmore (1863–1943) was an American lawyer and legal scholar known for his expertise in the law of evidence and for his influential scholarship. Wigmore taught law at Keio University in Tokyo (1889–1892) before becoming the first full-time dean of Northwestern Law School (1901–1929). His scholarship is best remembered for his Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law (1904), often simply called Wigmore on Evidence, and a graphical analysis method known as a Wigmore chart.
John Henry Wright was an American classical scholar born at Urumiah (Rezaieh), Persia. He earned his Bachelors (1873) and Masters (1876) at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. After junior appointments in 1886 he joined Johns Hopkins as a professor of classical philology. In 1887, he became a professor of Greek at Harvard, where, from 1895 to 1908, he was also Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
J.H. Millar is noted for coining the term the Kailyard for a group of Scottish writers: including J. M. Barrie, Ian Maclaren, J. J. Bell, George MacDonald, Gabriel Setoun, Robina F. Hardy and, S. R. Crockett. His criticism of these writers was published in the April 1895 issue of The New Review. His A Literary History of Scotland (1903) was regarded for many years of the early 20th century as the standard work on Scottish literature. His father was Lord Craighall, a notable senator of the College of Justice in Scotland. In his youth he was schooled at the Edinburgh Academy and went to Balliol College at the University of Oxford. He took up a career in law, being called in 1889 to the Scottish Bar. He subsequently lectured and then became of Professor of Constitutional Law and Constitutional History in 1909 at the University of Edinburgh. He held this post until he retired in 1925. Over the period 1895 and 1917 he made many contributions to the Blackwood's Magazine. Among these contributions was an anonymous contribution "The Works of Mr Kipling" (Blackwood's Magazine CLXIV 1898 October pp. 470-482, With the authorship confirmed by Blackwood's Contributors' Book in the Natinonal Library of Scotland which was to become an influential assessment of Kipling’s work.
Sir John Herkless was a Scottish biographer and educator who was Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of St Andrews and Principal of United College of St Salvator and St Leonard from 1915 to 1920. He was knighted in 1917 and was the author of several books mainly of an ecclesiastical nature.
John Richard Hersey was an American writer and journalist. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reportage. In 1999, Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest piece of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel associated with New York University's journalism department.
John Heywood was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs. Although he is best known as a playwright, he was also active as a musician and composer, though no musical works survive. A devout Catholic, he nevertheless served as a royal servant to both the Catholic and Protestant regimes of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.
