Special Collections also contains the Chamberlain collection of papers from Neville Chamberlain, Joseph Chamberlain and Austen Chamberlain, the Avon Papers belonging to Antony Eden with material on the Suez Crisis, the Cadbury Papers relating to the Cadbury firm from 1900 to 1960, the Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts of Alphonse Mingana, the Noël Coward Collection, the papers of Edward Elgar, Oswald Mosley, and David Lodge, and the records of the English YMCA and of the Church Missionary Society.

Other noteworthy members of staff were James Rendel Harris, Alphonse Mingana, the Semitic scholar Professor Edward Robertson ( d. 1964 ) who was the third librarian, and Moses Tyson, keeper of western manuscripts, afterwards librarian of Manchester University Library.

* Alphonse Mingana ( 1878 – 1937 )

* Islamic-Awareness, From Alphonse Mingana To Christoph Luxenberg: Arabic Script & The Alleged Syriac Origins Of The Qur ' an

Alphonse Floristan Picou ( October 19, 1878 – February 4, 1961 ) was an important very early jazz clarinetist who also wrote and arranged music.

* Alphonse Magnien ( 1837 – 1902 ), the superior at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1878 to 1902

* Alphonse Picou ( 1878 – 1961 ), an American early jazz clarinetist

His studies continued for a short time in Paris in 1875 with François Bonvin before returning to Lille where, in 1878, he enrolled at the Écoles Académiques de Dessin et d ' Architecture, studying for three years in the studio of Alphonse Colas.

* 1878: with Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Études sur les Mammifères et les Oiseaux des Îles Comores, ( Studies on Mammals and Birds of the Comoro Islands ).

The seminary's influence increased in the late 19th century under the leadership of Alphonse Magnien, who served as superior from 1878 to 1902.

* Alfonso XIII of Spain ( 1886 – 1941 ), known to French Legitimists as " Alphonse I "

Alphonse of Poitiers ( 11 November 1220 – 21 August 1271 ) was the Count of Poitou from 1225 and Count of Toulouse ( as Alfonso II ) from 1247.

* 1974 – Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou

Alphonse Gabriel " Al " Capone ( January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947 ) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate.

** Alphonse I ( 1139 – 1185 )

** Alphonse II ( 1211 – 1223 )

** Alphonse III ( 1247 – 1279 )

** Alphonse IV ( 1325 – 1357 )

** Alphonse XII ( 1874 – 1885 )

** Alphonse XIII ( 1886 – 1931 )

* Alphonse ( 1975 – 1989 )

* 1888 – Alphonse Juin, marshal of France ( d. 1967 )

* 1868 – Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player ( d. 1949 )

* 1908 – Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian engineer and designer ( d. 1988 )

* 1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1922 )

* 1860 – Alphonse Mucha, Czech artist ( d. 1939 )

* 1939 – Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter ( b. 1860 )

* 1840 – Alphonse Daudet, French novelist ( d. 1897 )

* 1915 – Alphonse " Bois Sec " Ardoin, Cajun accordionist ( d. 2007 )

* 1842 – Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist ( d. 1903 )

* Medicine – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

* December 16 – Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France ( d. 1967 )

* October 22 – Alphonse Pénaud, French aviation pioneer ( b. 1850 )

* May 18 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1845 )

* December 2 – Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, French writer ( b. 1740 )

In Ann Arbor, Michigan, in January 1937 he married Jacqueline de Rothschild, daughter of Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild of the wealthy Rothschild banking family of France.

The strip faded from public view shortly after Opper's death in 1937, but the catchphrase " After you, my dear Alphonse " lived on.

Afonso III (; rare English alternatives: Alphonzo or Alphonse ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin ), the Bolognian ( Port.

Variants of the name include: Alfonso ( Italian and Spanish ), Alfons ( Catalan, Dutch, German, Polish and Scandinavian ), Afonso ( Portuguese and Galician ), Affonso ( Ancient Portuguese ), Alphonse, Alfonse ( Italian, French and English ), Αλφόνσος Alphonsos ( Greek ), Alphonsus ( Latin ), Alphons ( Dutch ), Alfonsu in ( Leonese ), Alfonsas ( Lithuanian ).

When Louis IX again engaged in a crusade ( the Eighth Crusade ), Alphonse again raised a large sum of money and accompanied his brother.

Gabriele and Teresa had nine children: Alphonse " Scarface Al " Capone, James Capone ( also known as Richard Two-Gun Hart ), Raffaele Capone ( also known as Ralph " Bottles " Capone, who took charge of his brother's beverage industry ), Salvatore " Frank " Capone, John Capone, Albert Capone, Matthew Capone, Rose Capone, and Mafalda Capone ( who married John J. Maritote ).

In 1897 ( 27 November ), the Teatro Lirico in Milan saw the première of Cilea's third opera L ' Arlesiana, based on the play by Alphonse Daudet, with a libretto by Leopoldo Marenco.

The French King Philip the Fair, who had inherited from his father all the rights of Alphonse de Poitiers ( the last Count of Toulouse ), made them over to Charles II, King of Naples and Count of Provence ( 1290 ).

The first kings of Asturias referred to themselves as " princeps " ( prince ) and later as " rex " ( king ), but the later title was not firmly established until the period of Alphonse II.

The chronicles on which knowledge of this period is based, written all during the reign of Alphonse III when there was great Gothic ideological influence, are the Sebastianensian Chronicle ( Crónica Sebastianense ), the Albeldensian Chronicle ( Crónica Albeldense ) and the Rotensian Chronicle ( Crónica Rotense ).

The rebellion removed Alphonse II from the throne ( although he became king again later, from 791 to 842 ), and initiated a series of rebellions whose principal leaders were members of ascending aristocratic palace groups and landowners who, based on the growing economic development of the area, tried to displace from power of the reigning family of Don Pelayo.

Alphonse II was elected king after Silo's death, but Mauregato organized a strong opposition and forced the new king to withdraw to lands in Alava ( his mother, Munia, was Basque ), obtaining the Asturian throne.

Laughton played a cowardly schoolmaster in occupied France in This Land is Mine ( 1943 ), by Jean Renoir, in which he engaged himself most actively ; in fact, while Renoir was still working on an early script, Laughton would talk about Alphonse Daudet's story " The Last Lesson ", which suggested to Renoir a relevant scene for the film.

Through him, Whistler was introduced to the circle of Gustave Courbet, which included Carolus-Duran ( later the teacher of John Singer Sargent ), Alphonse Legros, and Édouard Manet.

The novel Tartarin de Tarascon ( 1872 ) and its two sequels Tartarin sur les Alpes ( 1885 ) and Port-Tarascon ( 1890 ), by Alphonse Daudet, were set here.