* Robert Finch ( 1783 – 1830 ), English antiquary and connoisseur of the arts

The site of Baiae has occasionally revealed Roman sculptures: an Aphrodite of Baiae supposedly excavated in the site, was purchased before 1803 by the English antiquary and connoisseur Thomas Hope, who displayed it in his gallery in Duchess Street, London.

The borrowing of connoisseur into English predates this change ; the modern French spelling is connaisseur.

Spon travelled to Italy, and then to Greece, to Constantinople and the Levant in 1675 – 1676 in the company of the English connoisseur and botanist Sir George Wheler ( 1650 – 1723 ), whose collection of antiquities was afterwards bequeathed to Oxford University.

As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.

For example, out of the social evils of the English industrial revolution came the novels of Charles Dickens ; ;

Charles Dickens was a prominent English author of the 19th century.

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

* 1726 – Charles Burney, English historian ( d. 1814 )

* 1642 – Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors.

* 1637 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician ( d. 1715 )

* 1877 – Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited ( d. 1910 )

* 1910 – Charles Crichton, English director ( d. 1999 )

* 1963 – Charles Ingram, English game show contestant and author

* 1797 – Charles Robert Malden, English naval officer ( d. 1855 )

* 1899 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter ( d. 1995 )

The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician Charles Babbage.

* 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

* 1834 – Charles Lennox Richardson, English merchant ( d. 1862 )

* 1640 – Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.

* 1725 – Charles Townshend, English politician ( d. 1767 )

* 1928 – Charles Gray, English actor ( d. 2000 )

* 1873 – William Charles Macready, English actor ( b. 1793 )

* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.

An early professed empiricist, Thomas Hobbes, known as an eccentric denizen of the court of Charles II of England ( an " old bear "), published in 1651 Leviathan, a political treatise written during the English civil war, containing an early manifesto in English of rationalism.

The army ( assembled by the Duke's brother, General Charles Churchill ) consisted of 66 squadrons, 31 battalions and 38 guns and mortars totalling 21, 000 men ( 16, 000 of whom were English troops ).

The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

* September 27 – Toke Townley, English actor ( b. 1912 )

* November 6 – Toke Townley, English actor ( d. 1984 )

* July 5 – James Townley, English dramatist ( b. 1714 )

Charles Townley ( 1 October 1737 – 3 January 1805 ) was an English country gentleman, antiquary and collector of the Townley Marbles ( or Towneley Marbles ).

* Toke Townley born 6 November 1912 in Great Dunmow, died 27 September 1984 in Leeds, was an English actor who appeared as a regular character in the soap opera Emmerdale Farm.

Of course, the crowning event that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern of English religious history was the friendly visit paid by Dr. Fisher, then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican last December.

For the first time, the tactic of using two express bowlers in tandem paid off as Jack Gregory and Ted McDonald crippled the English batting on a regular basis.

Eileen volunteered for a post in John McNair's office and with the help of Georges Kopp paid visits to her husband, bringing him English tea, chocolate and cigars.

When Scotland finally paid the ransom in 1424, James, aged 32, returned with his English bride determined to assert this authority.

It was believed that religious uncertainties caused by the English Reformation and a greater attention being paid to issues of sin, damnation, and salvation, led to this effect.

Like the English poll tax, the French capitation tax was assessed on rank – for taxation persons, French society was divided in twenty-two " classes ", with the Dauphin ( a class by himself ) paying 2, 000 livres, princes of the blood paying 1500 livres, and so on down to the lowest class, composed of day laborers and servants, who paid 1 livre each.

The English group Madness are among the artists that have cited Roxy Music as an influence and have paid tribute to Bryan Ferry in the song " 4BF " ( the title is a reference to the song " 2HB ", itself a tribute to Humphrey Bogart from the first Roxy Music album ).

and which Jews paid to the English exchequer like English subjects ( in law, Jews were technically the king's slaves rather than subjects ), though probably on a larger scale.

The greatest of “ the great men of England ,” the last and noblest of the Romans, was considered the embodiment of virtue, wisdom, patriotism, liberty, and temperance ... Pitt, “ glorious and immortal ,” the “ guardian of America ,” was the idol of the colonies ... A Son of Liberty in Bristol County, Massachussetts paid him the ultimate tribute of identification with English liberty: “ Our toast in general is ,— Magna Charta, the British Constitution ,— and Liberty forever !”

The captains, officers, sailors of these ships, whose wages must be paid, are English.

A few English verbs, particularly those concerned with financial transactions, take four arguments, as in " Pat < sub > 1 </ sub > sold Chris < sub > 2 </ sub > a lawnmower < sub > 3 </ sub > for $ 20 < sub > 4 </ sub >" or " Chris < sub > 1 </ sub > paid Pat < sub > 2 </ sub > $ 20 < sub > 3 </ sub > for a lawnmower < sub > 4 </ sub >".

The English invasion campaign had subdued most of the country by August and, after removing the Stone of Destiny from Scone Abbey and transporting it to Westminster Abbey, Edward convened a parliament at Berwick, where the Scottish nobles paid homage to him as King of England.

On his diplomatic mission in 1286, Edward had paid homage to the new king, Philip IV, but in 1294 Philip declared Gascony forfeit when Edward refused to appear before him in Paris to discuss the recent conflict between English, Gascon, and French sailors ( that had resulted in several French ships being captured, along with the sacking of the French port of La Rochelle ).

With Florida depopulated, English traders paid other tribes to attack and enslave the Yamasee, leading to the Yamassee War of 1715 – 17.

The Northumbrians did indeed appease the English king in this way and paid compensation.

The king did have a small household of Scots paid for by the English — these included Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, Sir David Fleming's nephew, Alexander Seton and Orkney's brother John Sinclair following the earl's return to Scotland.

Edward's behaviour was typical of an increasing number of English knights and nobles during the late Middle Ages who paid less and less attention to the high ideal of chivalry.

The ransom paid was, however, a little short of that demanded by the English, and John the Good was not returned to the French.

The Northumbrians preferred to appease the English king, renounced Eirik and paid compensation.

The English Monarch paid an annual tribute to the Doge of Genoa for this privilege.

Nonetheless, her husband paid little attention to her begging ; when he decided to support Edward, it was when he had decided for himself that it was in his best interests to oppose the Lancastrian rule of England, backed as it was by a France which had in early December 1470 been encouraged by the English situation to declare war on Burgundy.

In 1801, the British government issued statements blaming the French Consul for not supplying sufficient clothing ( the British government had paid the French for all English prisoners held in France and French colonies to be clothed ).

The introduction of university fees paid by students from 2006 onwards has led many English and Welsh students to apply to institutions closer to their family's homes to reduce the additional costs of moving and living farther away.

He informed the French ambassador Colbert de Croissy that to his regret he had to terminate the English war effort and told the Dutch via the Spanish consul in London, the Marquess del Fresno, that, his main war aim, to install his noble nephew as stadtholder, having been attained, there was no longer any objection on his side to concluding a lasting peace between the two Protestant brother nations, if only some minor " indemnities " could be paid.