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	John Fielding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir John Fielding (1721 – 4 September 1780) was a notable English magistrate and social reformer of the 18th century.
		John Fielding was the younger half-brother of novelist, playwright and chief magistrate Henry Fielding.
		A fictionalized Sir John Fielding is the protagonist of 10 historical detective novels written by the late American writer Bruce Cook (1932-2003) under the pseudonym Bruce Alexander.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Fielding (232 words)

	Schulers Books (Fielding - 28/31)
		John Fielding, the novelist's half-brother, as already stated, succeeded him at Bow Street, though the post is sometimes claimed (on Boswell's authority) for Mr.
		As a magistrate, in spite of his blindness, John Fielding was remarkably energetic, and is reported to have known more than 3000 thieves by their voices alone, and could recognise them when brought into Court.
		Fielding's only posthumous works are the _Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon_ and the comedy of _The Fathers; or, The Good-Natur'd Man_.
	www.schulers.com /books/au/f/Fielding/Fielding28.htm (1628 words)

	Henry Fielding - Free Online Library
		However, Fielding's sharp burlesques satirizing the government gained the attention of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, and Fielding's career in theater was ended by Theatrical Licensing Act - directed primarily at him.
		As a reward for his governmental journalism he was made justice of the peace for the City of Westminster in 1748 and for the county of Middlesex in 1749.
		Together with his half brother Sir John Fielding, he established a new tradition of justice and suppression of crime in London, organizing a detective force that later developed into Scotland Yard.
	fielding.thefreelibrary.com (705 words)

	John Fielding (1759-1836)
		Two of his sons (John and James), became ministers and one of his daughters (Ann) married a minister, Timothy Matthews.
		John and Rachael Fielding were natives of Yorkshire, but in the course of divide providence they removed to Bedfordshire, where, as farmers, they spent at least forty years of their lives.
		Most of this time my father was a local preacher among the Methodists, in which work he laboured with all diligence, frequently riding from ten to thirty miles on the Sunday, to teach the truth of God as far as he knew it.
	www.saintswithouthalos.com /b/fielding_john.phtml (243 words)

	Tider Insider - PROFILE for JOHN FIELDING
		In some ways John was in the unfortunate situation of playing in the most talented HS secondary in the south.
		John played like a LB at strong safety.
		John was originally thought to be leaning to Clemson before choosing the Tide.
	www.tiderinsider.com /recap/1997/profiles/jfielding.html (202 words)

	Johnston's Beloved Character Finds New Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The witty Fielding, who walks with a limp after a bout of TB, has taken on a life of her own so insistent that readers wrote him demanding to know what happened to her during the periods when she disappeared from Smallwood's story.
		In the new book, we learn that Fielding went away in 1945 to a deserted island in the Atlantic to mourn the death of her son David, whom she barely knew before he was killed in the Second World War.
		Deserted by her mother and raised by her father in St. John's, Fielding had become pregnant at 16 and was sent to her mother's house in New York to escape scandal.
	www.langfieldentertainment.com /12-10-06-WJOHNSTON.htm (793 words)

	UCM - Sir John Fielding
		John Fielding became the first British proponent of crime prevention and police public relations.
		John Fielding was knighted in 1761, the first of an unbroken string of such honors bestowed upon Bow Street magistrates up until the present.
		The first person to use the term, "police" in its law enforcement sense, John Fielding confirmed the value of a detective unit, demonstrated the value of patrolling, exploited the crime preventive capacity of the press, and never lost sight of the social context of crime.
	www.cmsu.edu /x74733.xml (685 words)

	Henry Fielding
		Fielding's career as a dramatist has been shadowed by his career as a novelist.
		It was written according to Fielding "to promote the cause of virtue and to expose some of the most glaring evils, as well public as private, which at present infect the country..." In the story an army officer is imprisoned.
		Fielding's improvidence led to long periods of considerable poverty, but he was greatly assisted at various periods of his life by his friend R. Allen, who was the model for Allworthy in Tom Jones.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /hfieldin.htm (1304 words)

	Amazon.de: Watery Grave (Sir John Fielding Mysteries (Paperback)): English Books: Bruce Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Bruce Alexander's third period novel, Jeremy Proctor is employed by the blind magistrate Sir John Fielding to be his eyes at Bow Street Court.
		When blind magistrate Sir John Fielding, well known for his shrewd, relentless interrogations (and last seen in Murder in Grub Street) is called in for further investigation, this engrossing story expands to encompass the byzantine workings of maritime and urban justice against a rich backdrop of the teeming, scoundrel-infested streets of 18th-century London.
		Fielding is ably guided by his bright, streetwise assistant, 14-year-old narrator Jeremy Proctor, who grimly discovers, while scouring the seamier side of the city for eyewitnesses, that the reluctant seamen from the frigate are being killed off one by one.
	www.amazon.de /Watery-Grave-Fielding-Mysteries-Paperback/dp/042516036X (990 words)

	Amazon.de: The Price of Murder (Sir John Fielding Mysteries (Thorndike)): English Books: Bruce Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Alexander's 10th enjoyable Sir John Fielding novel set in Georgian England (after 2002's An Experiment in Treason), the brilliant blind magistrate and his young apprentice Jeremy Proctor investigate the brutal murder of a little girl whose mother had sold her into slavery.
		Alexander's detective is a real-life one: the younger half-brother of the novelist Henry Fielding, Sir John Fielding, who studied law and became chief magistrate after losing his sight at 19, relied on members of the Bow Street Runners as his eyes and ears.
		In the tenth Fielding adventure, the discovery of a seven-year-old girl's body in the Thames sends Proctor into the notorious Seven Dials district of London, where he seeks the girl's mother, only to discover that the gin-addicted mother was tricked into seling her daughter into child prostitution.
	www.amazon.de /Price-Murder-Fielding-Mysteries-Thorndike/dp/0425198073 (688 words)

	Fielding - desc20 - Generated by Ancestral Quest
		ETHINGTON (John Henry, Mary Jane, Jack John, Fielding) was born 4 Jul 1905 in Watonga, Blaine, OK. He died 11 Jun 1974 in Louisville, Franklin, KY and was buried in Memorial Gardens.
		Gussie Grace ETHINGTON (John Henry, Mary Jane, Jack John, Fielding) was born 12 Jun 1909 in Watonga, Blaine, OK. She died 27 Mar 1977 in Louisville, Jefferson, KY and was buried in Defoe, Henry, KY.
		Mary Lee ETHINGTON (John Thomas N. Ambrose M. Jack John, Fielding) was born 8 Jun 1911 in, Woodford, KY. She died 28 Jan 1966 in Lexington, Fayette, KY and was buried in Lexington Cem, Fayette, KY.
	www.ethington.org /fielding/desc20.htm (545 words)

	Henry Fielding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones.
		Fielding therefore retired from the theatre and resumed his career in law, becoming a Justice of the Peace in 1748 for Middlesex and Westminster.
		Despite being now blind, John Fielding succeeded his older brother as Chief Magistrate and became known as the 'Blind Beak' of Bow Street for his ability to recognise criminals by their voice alone.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Fielding (889 words)

	Amazon.com: Watery Grave (Sir John Fielding): Books: Bruce Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On a day in July 1769, I had been sent by Sir John Fielding to accompany Lady Fielding to the Tower Wharf, where we were to meet her homecoming son, Tom, returned from near three years' duty on the India station.
		The sightless blindfold-wearing Sir John Fielding, the principal character in the series, remains, as always, the personification of blindfolded Justice and a bulwark of opposition to official wrongdoing.
		Oddly enough and amusingly enough, this instruction comes not from the embarrassed father-figure Sir John Fielding (who hastily puts off all such inquiries) but from the avuncular Black Jack Bilbo of uncertain past (rumored to be sinister), who runs the respectable and legal gambling house in Goodhope Manor.
	www.amazon.com /Watery-Grave-Sir-John-Fielding/dp/042516036X (2199 words)

	Introduction to Aircraft Design by John Fielding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Introduction to Aircraft Design by John Fielding, : Here is an accessible introduction to the fundamentals of civil and military aircraft design.
		The Art of Digital Auido with CD (Audio) by John W : Described as "the most comprehensive book on digital audio to date," it is widely acclaimed as an industry "...
		Solid State Physics by John Sidney Blakemore, ISBN : Now available in paperback, Solid State Physics is designed to serve as a first text for a course on the phy...
	www.tonsofspecials.com /sales.php?522612 (646 words)

	SIR JOHN FIELDING HIS LIFE AND TIMES
		Born during the hard London winter of 1721, and blind either at birth or blinded in an accident when he was 19 years of age, John Fielding was the the son of Gen. Fielding by his second wife and younger half brother of
		Along with this came another innovation by the Fieldings, the circulation of a police gazette.These posters contained descriptions of known criminals throughout all of Britain, Scotland, and Ireland.
		Henry Fielding died in 1754, at which time John (who had been his assistant for 3-4 years), was appointed as magistrate.
	www.angelfire.com /ct/TORTUGA/fielding.html (593 words)

	Interview \| Bruce Cook
		While the American publisher of the Sir John Fielding mysteries continues to tell readers only that Alexander is "the pseudonym for a well-known author of fiction and non-fiction," the 67-year-old Cook, now a Los Angeles resident, says "it's truly high time" that he emerge publicly to acknowledge all of the work he's done.
		Sir John Fielding, for those who are unfamiliar with these books, was a blind magistrate, creator of the first London police force, the Bow Street Runners, and half-brother of novelist Henry Fielding (who wrote Jonathan Wild, Tom Jones and other works).
		Under Fielding's tutelage ("Jeremy, to be a lawyer, you must learn to think as a lawyer"), he is much more than Sir John's sighted helper in chambers and around London.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/bruce.html (4725 words)

	NPG 3834; Sir John Fielding
		Sir John Fielding (1721-1780), Magistrate and social reformer.
		Fielding, a magistrate, was the son of a general and the half brother of the magistrate and renowned novelist Henry Fielding.
		John is shown here with one hand holding a document, which is thought to represent one of several which he and his brother wrote suggesting improvements in the law, and the other resting on two volumes, a law book and a Bible.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/portrait.asp?mkey=mw02215 (176 words)

	Books : Blind Justice (Sir John Fielding)
		This very first in the Sir John Fielding mystery series is a good one.
		The justice, wisdom and perspicacity of Sir John prevails and Jeremy, cleared of all charges, finds himself, despite his youth, in the enviable position of assisting Sir John in investigating the details of the messy suicide of a member of the House of Lords, Sir Richard Goodhope.
		Soon, Fielding and Proctor discover that the lord was poisoned before being shot, and they find a secret passageway.
	www.cosyreading.info /0425150070/Blind_Justice_Sir_John_Fielding.shtml (636 words)

	Murder in Grub Street (Sir John Fielding) - Bruce Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Orphan Jeremy Proctor is beside himself because his guardian, Sir John Fielding, has arranged for him to be apprenticed to bookdealer and publisher Ezekiel Crabb.
		Before Jeremy can begin, however, Crabb and his family are hacked to death in their own home and the likely culprit is their houseguest, poet John Clayton.
		Fielding, a blind magistrate, wants more evidence and recruits his friends to do the legwork.
	www.biblio.com /books/88213051.html (294 words)

	Henry Fielding
		Fielding formed his own company and was running the Little Theatre, Haymarket, when one of his satirical plays began to upset the government.
		Critics agree that it is one of the greatest comic novels in the English language.
		Throughout his life, Fielding suffered from poor health and by 1752 he could not move without the help of crutches.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jfielding.htm (230 words)

	Weir-MacCuish Funeral Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John was born in Plymouth, NH and moved to Malden at an early age.
		Fielding of Salem, NH, his mother Rita J. Fielding of Hamilton, MA, his sister Florence Del Rossi of Brunswick, ME, brothers Steven Fielding of Tampa, FL and David Fielding of Andover, and sisters Kathryn Fielding of Los Angeles, CA, and Janet Awaida of Palo Alto, CA.
		He was preceded in death by his father John Fielding.
	www.weirfuneralhome.com /e-h/Fielding_John.htm (296 words)

	John Fielding Crigler (www.whonamedit.com)
		A familial form of congenital hyperbilirubinemia associated with severe disorders of the central nervous system and resembling kernicterus (degeneration of the basal ganglia).
		John Fielding Crigler was educated at Duke University and the Johns Hopkins School of medicine, graduating in 1943.
		He specialised in paediatrics and in 1955 became a member of the staff of the Children’s Hospital, Boston, where he became chief of the division of endocrinology in 1965.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/69.html (147 words)

	Amazon.ca: Introduction to Aircraft Design: Books: John P. Fielding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		by John P. Fielding (Author) "The world has accepted that flying is an extremely efficient means of quickly transporting people, cargo or equipment, and performing a wide range of other..." (more)
		this is a book intended as an 'introduction' to the whole field of aircraft design.
		John Flemings' book introduces the 'why' of the aircraft design process.
	www.amazon.ca /Introduction-Aircraft-Design-John-Fielding/dp/0521657229 (593 words)

	rorkesdriftvc.com - John Williams (Fielding)
		On the opposite side of the road is a residential home for the mentally handicapped which is named after him, 'Fielding House'.
		Held one hospital room for an hour against heavy odds until his ammunition ran out, then with Hook broke through three patition walls to allow the evacuation of eight patients to the inner defence lines, holding the enemy back at bayonet point.
		Born in Merthyr Road, Abergavenny as John Fielding.
	www.rorkesdriftvc.com /vc/williams.htm (243 words)

	Fielding,John Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Tom Jones, a foundling who is taken in and raised by the kindly Squire Allworthy, is a guileless boy whose inherent decency is sometimes obscured by his high-spirited bawdiness and candor....
		The astonishing range of John McPhee gains further dimension from the five extraordinary parts of his most unique novel.
		Contents: universality of superstitions; magical symbolism of numbers; signs, omens and warnings; rings, amulets and talismans; gems and precious stones; the sun and other heavenly bodies; mythology and the calendar; magic of taboo; fairies, brownies and incubi; fl magic and the evil eye; popular belief in witchcraft; human souls in animal...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Fielding,John (574 words)

	Amazon.com: Blind Justice (Sir John Fielding): Books: Bruce Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		YA?In the rough-and-tumble world of London in 1768, Jeremy, orphaned at the age of 13, is rescued from the streets by Sir John Fielding, a prominent judge who is known for his uncanny ability to dispense justice and ferret out evidence even though he is blind.
		I stumbled on Bruce Alexander's series of novels concerning Sir John Fielding and his irrepressible assistant, young Jeremy Proctor, quite by accident one day as I was browsing Amazon with no clue what I wanted to read or buy.
		Therefore, especially since the Fieldings, although comfortable, are not portrayed as wealthy, I think it very likely that wax candles would be reserved for special occasions and that the servants would use tallow candles.
	www.amazon.com /Blind-Justice-Sir-John-Fielding/dp/0425150070 (2096 words)

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