In 1851, he represented Alton & Sangamon Railroad in a dispute with one of its shareholders, James A. Barret, who had refused to pay the balance on his pledge to buy shares in the railroad on the grounds that the company had changed its original train route.

The slaveowner hired William Barret Travis, a local lawyer, in an attempt to retrieve the men.

Filmed in black-and-white, it stars Barret Oliver, Shelley Duvall ( with whom he would work again in 1986, directing an episode of her Faerie Tale Theatre ) and Daniel Stern.

Two polemical works thought to be his-A Reply to the Reverend Dean of St. Paul's Reflections on the Rector of Sutton, & c. ( 1681 ) and The Rector of Sutton Committed with the Dean of St. Paul's, or, A Defence of Dr. Stillingfleet's Irenicum ( 1680 )-have also been attributed to the Nottingham Presbyterian John Barret.

* April 2 – Dr. Demento ( Barret Eugene Hansen ), American radio disc jockey and novelty music collector

** William Barret Travis Texan revolutionary ( b. 1809 )

Barret is married to Barbara McConnell Barrett, who was the United States Ambassador to Finland 2008 – 09.

As the siege progressed, Alamo commander William Barret Travis sent many messages asking for reinforcements.

The county is named in honor of William Barret Travis, the commander of the Republic of Texas forces at the Battle of the Alamo.

:: February 23 – Alamo messenger Launcelot Smithers carries to the people of Gonzales, the Colonel William Barret Travis letter stating the enemy is in site and requesting men and provisions.

The Barret School of Irish Dancing has produced some of Ireland's best Irish dancers, and the local theatre group, The Puddle Alley Players, has won several awards over the years in amateur dramatic competitions.

* Barret Hackney, Jared Pfennigwerth, and Kitao Sakurai as The Stygian Triplets, three teenagers brought from Hell by Azrael to aid in his machinations.

Harris Barret School. Located at the corner of Co. Rd.

He was finally taught by his brother-in-law, Jean-Marie Barret, who ran a printing and bookselling business.

Barret also introduced Joseph to learned societies and scholars.

The earliest identified use of the word toothbrush in English was in the autobiography of Anthony Wood, who wrote in 1690 that he had bought a toothbrush from J. Barret.

And there was still not anything that Linda Kay could do.

So Linda Kay gave up asking, and accepted her reprieve.

When Linda Kay had put up her breakfast dishes and mopped her linoleum rugs, she would go to the Big House.

They were an old fat couple ( as Linda Kay described them to herself ), a thick middle-aged man, and a girl about ten or twelve.

There was the suggestion of ice water, and -- in spite of the protest `` We're not really thirsty '' -- Linda Kay, to escape the stuffy air and the smothering soft voices, hurried to the kitchen.

`` Oh that's Linda Kay '', Mama Albright said fondly.

Linda Kay asked.

There was really no reason to refuse, and Linda Kay had never ridden in a Cadillac.

Finally he said, `` Tell me about yourself '', and Linda Kay told him, because she thought herself that she had had an interesting life.

But there was no need for Linda Kay to go on, since all she wanted in life was to make a home for Bobby Joe and ( blushing ) raise his children.

Then he told Linda Kay about himself.

Of course he couldn't say much, really, because of Debora, but Linda Kay could imagine what kind of woman his wife had been and what a raw deal he had got.

Bobby Joe was trying to get Linda Kay to say she would cook one if he brought it home.

Linda Kay told him he couldn't do anything like that with his Grandma dying, and he said well they had to eat, didn't they, they weren't all dying.

Linda Kay felt that she was not exactly more comfortable.

It had been made shockingly evident that very morning to Ensign Kay K. Vesole, in charge of the armed guard aboard the John Bascom.

Miss Glenda Kay Meredith of Denton was her sister's maid of honor, and Vernon Lewelleyn of San Angelo was best man.

Show spotlights the Kings -- George Worth, Bill Kay, Frank Ciciulla and Gene Wilson, flanked by Dave Grossman and Ron Stevens.

`` Skip '' Hovarter back in town from a summer in the Reno-Lake Tahoe area where he ran into Rusty Warren, Kay Martin, the Marskmen and Tune Toppers -- all pulling good biz, he says.

* 1911 – Kay Walsh, English actress ( d. 2005 )

* A Conversation with Alan Kay Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk — and much more.

Here Alexios III conspired against his son-in-law after the latter refused to recognize Alexios ' authority, and received the support of Kay Khusrau I, the sultan of Rûm.

* 1925 – Kay E. Kuter, American actor ( d. 2003 )

* Allene chemistry Kay M. Brummond ( Editor ) Thematic Series in the Open Access Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry