Named for William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth — an important supporter of Eleazar Wheelock's earlier efforts but who, in fact, opposed creation of the College and never donated to it — Dartmouth is the nation's ninth oldest college and the last institution of higher learning established under Colonial rule.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

In fact, Richard elevated Henry from Earl of Derby to Duke of Hereford.

Earl Hamner Sr., the basis for the John Walton character, died in 1969 ( a fact referenced by Hamner in a voiceover at the conclusion of The Homecoming pilot ), the year " A Walton's Easter " takes place.

The fact that the book was acquired by a 16th-century Earl of Arundel suggests that Duke Humphrey's inscription was not entirely accurate, as New College would probably not have disposed of it.

The weakening of government if anything, Lynch suggests, came not before the 1384 coup but after it despite the fact that the coup had at its root Robert II's favouring of his third son, Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan ( known as the Wolf of Badenoch ).

* Canning Town in London is often thought of as being named after George Canning, but was in fact named after his son Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, Governor-General of India during the Indian Mutiny.

Divine also played his first on-screen male role, Earl Peterson, in the film, and Waters included a scene during which these two characters had sexual intercourse as a joke on the fact that both characters were played by the same actor.

From 1980 to 1990 he was in fact heir presumptive to these titles, before the birth of the current Earl of Caledon's son and heir, Viscount Alexander.

The center of the earldom's properties in Yorkshire was in the hands of the Earl of Chester, whom the regent could not afford to antagonize, but Pierre did receive the properties of the earldom outside of Yorkshire, which in fact generated the bulk of the earldom's income.

FBI informant Earl Anthony ( who publicly confessed to being a paid FBI informant as early as 1970 ) asserted in his 1990s autobiography, that Jay Richard Kennedy was a highly placed CIA operative within the Civil Rights Movement, who in fact financed and inserted both Mr. Anthony and Ms. Brown, then close friends, into prominent positions within the " Black Power Movement ," through his Civil Rights connections.

In 1861 the Civil War had broken out in America, and Earl Shilton was hard hit by the fact that the Northern States blockaded the ports of the Southern States, so that cotton could not be exported.

It was once part of Pembroke Township, which took its name from the fact that this area was part of the estate of the Earl of Pembroke.

" In fact, Comes ( literally Companion, in the feudal age Count, which word derives from it ) is just a Franco-Latin word used on the British Isles to render either Mormaer or Earl into Latin ( with French ).

The title of " Dudley " came from the fact that Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester ( of the 1618 creation ) was the nephew of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester ( of the 1564 creation ), the fifth son of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, who was as well Viscount Lisle by right of his mother.

The libretto adds the love story of Mary Stuart and Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, which has no basis in fact.

In 1094 king William II of England rewarded Arnulf with the formal lordship of Pembroke ; some historians say that he was in fact created Earl of Pembroke.

The " of Holland " part of the title derived from the fact that Campbell was the husband of Lady Mary Rich, daughter of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland ( see Earl of Holland ).

One of Hart's articles disputed the authorship of the literary works of Shakespeare, asserting that the famous plays and poems were in fact written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford rather than the man from Stratford-on-Avon who is credited with them.

The existence of the rapes before the Norman Conquest provides the most natural explanation of the fact that the two later rapes of Chichester and Arundel are represented in the Domesday Book of the single ' rape of Earl Roger ', William the Conqueror's most important grantee in Sussex.

Richard was in fact, described by his contemporaries as the Earl of Striguil, Striguil being where he had a fortress at a place now called Chepstow, in Monmouthshire on the Wye.

Villeroi still believed ( on 22 May ) the Allies were a full day ’ s march away when in fact they had camped near Corswaren waiting for the Danish squadrons to catch up ; for his part, Marlborough deemed Villeroi still at Jodoigne when in reality he was now approaching the plateau of Mont St. André with the intention of pitching camp near Ramillies ( see map at right ).

The third letter is extant, but no trace of an answer appears in St. Gregory's correspondence, owing probably to the fact that the pope died in 604, about the time it reached Rome.

Brother Robert Fanovich, head of Presentation Brothers ' College ( PBC ) in St. George's tasked some of his senior students with conducting a research project into the era and specifically into the fact that Maurice Bishop's body was never discovered.

When the churchyard of St. George's was redeveloped in the 1960s, his skull was disinterred ( in a manner befitting somebody who chose for himself the nickname of " Yorick "), partly identified by the fact that it was the only skull of the five in Sterne's grave that bore evidence of having been anatomised, and transferred to Coxwold Churchyard in 1969.

Little else is known about his childhood, although there is a persistent tradition that he was educated by his maternal great-grandfather Jean de St. Rémy — a tradition which is somewhat undermined by the fact that the latter disappears from the historical record after 1504, when the child was only one year old.

This measure substantially increased the population of Canada west of the St. Lawrence-Ottawa River confluence during this period, a fact recognized by the Constitutional Act of 1791, which split Quebec into the Canadas: Upper Canada southwest of the St. Lawrence-Ottawa River confluence, and Lower Canada east of it.

The mere fact that Whitey would come all the way out there to talk to us was more than enough to convince me that St. Louis was the place I wanted to be.

The fact that Saint Justin taught Christian doctrine in Rome during the pontificate of St Pius I and that the heretics Valentinus, Cerdon, and Marcion visited Rome at the same time, is an argument for the primacy of the Roman See during the 2nd century.

He was strengthened in his resolve by the fact that the people of St. Gallen elected him again to the highest magistrate in 1490.

His club in fact used a number of other names, such as the Brotherhood of St. Francis of Wycombe, Order of Knights of West Wycombe, The Order of the Friars of St Francis of Wycombe and later, after moving their meetings to Medmenham Abbey, they became the Monks or Friars of Medmenham.

By this time police photos confirmed that Dane was in fact Fred Burke, wanted by the Chicago Police for his participation in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

In April 1791, Mozart did apply to become the Kapellmeister at St. Stephen's Cathedral, and was in fact designated by the City Council to take over this job following the death of the then-ailing incumbent, Leopold Hofmann.

This fact found in the Haarlem archives has led to speculation that Hals made a self-portrait in his 1639 painting of the St. Joris company, though this has never been confirmed.

This is based on the fact that St. Augustine founded an abbey ( within the current school's grounds ) where it is known that teaching took place.

The fact is well remembered, and a memorial plate at St John's Church ( the alleged place of the baptism ) was unveiled a few years ago, commemorating the incident in the Czech and German languages.

Secondly, there was the Augustinian position of an intimate relation between space time and matter ; all three, according to St. Augustine in the Confessions and the City of God, came into being as a unity and ways of speaking that purport to separate them-such as " outside the universe " or " before the beginning of the universe " are, in fact, meaningless.

KWUR was named best radio station in St. Louis of 2003 by the Riverfront Times despite the fact that its signal reaches only a few blocks beyond the boundaries of the campus.

The road crossed the St. Johns River at a narrow point, which the Seminole called Wacca Pilatka and the British named the " Cow Ford ", both names ostensibly reflecting the fact that cattle were brought across the river there.

It ’ s a piece so moving, so anguished – and so uplifting at the same time – that it would not be in any way out of place in the St. Matthew ’ s Passion ; matter of fact, I ’ ve always thought of Variation 15 as the perfect Good Friday spell.

This is often incorrectly believed to be prohibited in the Geneva Conventions, but it significantly predates those conventions, and is in fact a continuance of the St. Petersburg Declaration of 1868, which banned exploding projectiles of less than 400 grams, as well as weapons designed to aggravate injured soldiers or make their death inevitable.

Not a surprising fact, considering that in the 19th century the Prussian authorities dissolved the Order of St Clare and turned the church into a warehouse, among other uses.