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John Healey (born 13 February 1960) is a British politician serving as Secretary of State for Defence since July 2024. He previously served in Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Adult Skills from 1997 to 2001, as Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 2002 to 2005, Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2005 to 2007, and under Gordon Brown's ...
John Healy (born 1943) is an Irish writer and former tournament chess player. Early life and personal life. He was born in London in 1943 [1] to Irish immigrant parents in London's Kentish Town. Leaving school at the age of 14, he spent his formative years in the army, where he had a successful boxing career.
May 25, 2012 · Austin Collings chats with author, chess master, ex-prisoner and former boxing champion John Healy, the subject of new documentary Barbaric Genius, which opens this weekend. Chess photograph by Glyn Roberts
Mar 7, 2013 · The John Healy Story: From Homeless Wino, to Author, to Chess Genius. He fought other homeless winos in the street, then won book awards, then played tournament chess. DW. by Dan Wilkinson. March...
John Healy may refer to: John Healy (author) (born 1943), British author of The Grass Arena. John Healy (bishop) (1841–1918), Irish Roman Catholic archbishop of Tuam, 1896–1918. John Healy (cricketer) (1851–1916), Australian cricketer. John Healy (entrepreneur) (1840–1908), 19th-century American entrepreneur. John Healy (hurler), Irish ...
The son of Irish immigrants, John Healy lived rough on the violent streets of London for fifteen years, drinking heavily and turning to crime to survive. On one stint in prison he was taught the basics of chess by his cellmate.
Sep 26, 2013 · John Healy: 20 Questions. John Healy was born on 11 November 1942 in London, the son of Irish immigrants. Consistently beaten by his father, he left school at 14 and took up boxing. According to his trainer George Francis, ‘Healy at 16 was a supreme stylist possessing concussive power in both hands. He was tipped for the top but in the end it ...
Aug 4, 2008 · First published by Faber in 1988 and now republished as a Penguin Modern Classic, Healy's visceral account of his decade and a half as a wino vagrant among London's feral...
Lt. Gen. John P. Healy is the Chief of Air Force Reserve, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Arlington, Virginia, and Commander, Air Force Reserve Command, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.
Jul 31, 2008 · John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play chess in prison, and his ongoing search for peace of mind. This Penguin Classics edition includes an afterword by Colin MacCabe.
- John Healy
