John B. S. Coats or JBS Coats (* 8. July 1906 in Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scottland; † 26. December 1979) was a theosophist, president of the Theosophical Society Adyar and bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church. 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Map sources for Ayr at grid reference NS337220 The royal burgh of Ayr (Scottish Gaelic, Inbhir Ãir) in the south-west of Scotland is a burgh situated on the Firth of Clyde. ... South Ayrshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Ãir a Deas in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland, covering the southern part of Ayrshire. ... Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country or nation and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...
In 1932 he became a member of the T.S. in London. There he met Alice Bailey, C. Jinarajadasa, Rukmini Devi Arundale and George Arundale. In 1973 he became president of the T.S. Adyar.
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Geschichte des Familienunternehmens Coats (German)
Professor John Henry Coates, FRS (born January 26, 1945) is a mathematician who holds (since 1986) the position of Sadleirian Professor (of pure mathematics) at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
In 1969, Coates was appointed assistant professor of mathematics at Harvard University in the United States, before moving again in 1972 to Stanford University where he became an associate professor.