John Tinker
John Tinker may refer to:
John Tinker (governor)
John Tinker 1700-58 was an early Colonial official who served the Royal African Company on the Gold Coast, was an Agent for the South Sea Company in Portobello and was Royal Governor of the Bahama Islands from 1741-58
Early Life
John Tinker was born and baptised on 30 July 1700 to parents Jeremiah and Hannah at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster. His grandfather was Captain John Tinker, Master Attendant of the King’s Yard at Deptford who commanded ‘The Coverdine’ during the reign of Charles II. In 1722 John went to the Gold Coast to the British trading post of Cape Coast Castle for the Royal African Company, which traded principally in gold and slaves, where he headed up a three-man team to manage the facility. In 1724 he was joined on the Coast by his brother Jeremiah who was based close by at Whydah and also by Nathaniel Rice (later to be a relative). He remained there until 1726 when both Tinker and Rice returned to England.
Portobello
By 1730 Tinker had been appointed Chief of the Panama Factory at Portobello for the South Sea Company where he was responsible for organising the import of slaves under the Asiento agreement reached at the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. He was in post throughout the 1730s though it seems doubtful his family joined him in Panama as his sons were at school in England and wife Isabella was residing in London. In 1738 it was announced that he was to be the next Governor of the Bahamas so it is likely he had left Portobello before Admiral Vernon captured it but he was still involved in affairs because in 1739, when the Board of Trade was considering ways to prevent the Spanish from exporting from their silver mines in Peru and Mexico, both Tinker and his father-in-law Martin Bladen suggested locating a military base at Darien on the Isthmus of Panama, but Vernon rejected this idea as the location was too isolated and would need to be garrisoned.
John Tinker (TV producer)
John Tinker (born July 11, 1958) is an American television producer and writer. Tinker is the co-creator of the CBS drama Judging Amy, and has been an executive producer and writer on American television shows such as the CBS drama Chicago Hope, the ABC drama The Practice, and the NBC drama The Book of Daniel. Prior, Tinker won the 1986 Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Drama series for the script "Time Heals", which he co-wrote with Tom Fontana and John Masius. He is the son of Grant Tinker and the brother of Mark Tinker. John graduated Middlebury College in 1981.
References
'John Tinker' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor (1918)
Actors: James Lindsay (actor), Owen Nares (actor), Tom Reynolds (actor), Isobel Elsom (actress), Minna Grey (actress), Mary Rorke (actress), Kenelm Foss (writer), G.B. Samuelson (writer), Rex Wilson (director),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Tinker, John Filmography
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2013, role: actor , character name: Zombie
Tinker, John Filmography
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2006, role: producer
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2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2001, role: producer
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1999, role: writer
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1999, role: producer
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1994, role: producer
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1993, role: writer
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1993, role: producer
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1992, role: producer
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1992, role: writer
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1988, role: writer
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1986, role: actor , character name: Himself - Winner: Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series
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1982, role: producer
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