* Earl Abell ( 1892-1956 ), American football player

He finally got the chance to record as a leader in 1946, with an occasional group called the Miles Davis Sextet plus Earl Coleman and Ann Hathaway — one of the rare occasions when Davis, by then a member of the groundbreaking Charlie Parker Quintet, can be heard accompanying singers.

Kittredge showed Malory as a soldier and member of Parliament who fought at Calais with Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick.

Whatever Edward's wishes, it was likely that any claim by William would be opposed by Godwin, the Earl of Wessex, a member of the most powerful family in England.

** Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, politician ( member of the Cabal )

* November 28 – Edward, Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York, is executed for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London.

* November 28 – Edward, Earl of Warwick, last male member of the English House of York ( b. 1475 )

* February 25 – Edward, Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York ( d. 1499 )

Anne was a member of the powerful northern English Neville family, being the younger daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, called in history, " The Kingmaker ".

Mary I died in 1558, and she was succeeded by her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth I. Walsingham returned to England, and through the support of one of his fellow former exiles, Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, he was elected to Elizabeth's first parliament as the member for Bossiney, Cornwall, in 1559

Although very hostile to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, Badlesmere helped to make peace between the king and the earl in 1318, and was a member of the middle party which detested alike Edward's minions, like the Despensers, and his violent enemies like Lancaster.

The story is told through the perspective of Earl Turner, an active member of the white revolutionary underground The Organization.

A member of the influential Rich family, he was the son of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick and of Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich, and the younger brother of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick.

Sir Derek Keppel, second son of the seventh Earl, was a soldier and prominent member of the Royal household.

In 1270 it came into the hands of the Neville family, the most notable member of which was Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, known to history as the " Kingmaker ", a leading figure in the Wars of the Roses.

The 3rd Earl of Carlisle first spoke to William Talman, a leading architect, but commissioned Vanbrugh, a fellow member of the Kit-Cat Club, to design the building.

* Willard Lloyd Rambo ( 1917 – 1984 ), he was a member of the state House from 1952 – 1960 and was the floor leader for Governor Earl Kemp Long.

The town was named after Sir Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, a member of Parliament from 1734 to 1750, Secretary of State for the Southern Department from 1761 to 1763, and a good friend of Governor Wentworth.

Sophie, Countess of Wessex ( Sophie Helen ; née Rhys-Jones ; born 20 January 1965 ), is the wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and member of the British Royal Family.

The castle passed into the hands of the Balliol family ( of which the Scottish king, John Balliol, was the most important member ) and then into the possession of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.

* Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers ( 1720 – 1760 ), last member of the House of Lords hanged in England

As a price for supporting the government in the next parliamentary session, the Whigs demanded a share of public office with the appointment of a leading member of their Junto, the Earl of Sunderland ( Marlborough's son-in-law ), to the post of Secretary of State.

On December 12, 2001, Irv Rubin, JDL Chairman, and Earl Krugel, a member of the organization, were charged with conspiracy to bomb private and government property.

His father was a Scottish MP ; his mother, a member of the Cecil family descended from Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, was the daughter of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury and a sister to the 3rd Marquess, the future Prime Minister.

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.

Smith was not among those granted annuities by the 16th Earl, but Edward's tutor, Thomas Fowle, a former fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, was rewarded with one in 1558.

Magdalene College brought suit against the 18th Earl for the Great Garden property, and legal proceedings continued for decades.

They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer ; John, born after Dorothy, who went to sea and died in 1805 when the ship of which he was Master, the Earl of Abergavenny, was wrecked off the south coast of England ; and Christopher, the youngest, who entered the Church and rose to be Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

* The Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William & Mary has a first edition copy of the Principia

He named the town " Dartmouth " after William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, the patron of Dartmouth College.

When chivalry declined in importance, the constable's post declined, and the Earl Marshal became the head of the College of Arms, the body concerned with all matters of genealogy and heraldry, although the Earl Marshal's connection with heraldry came about almost accidentally.

In a declaration made on the 16 June 1673 by Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, the Lord Privy Seal, in reference to a dispute over the exercise of authority over the Officers of Arms the powers of the Earl Marshal were stated as " to have power to order, judge, and determine all matters touching arms, ensigns of nobility, honour, and chivalry ; to make laws, ordinances, and statutes for the good government of the Officers of Arms ; to nominate Officers to fill vacancies in the College of Arms ; to punish and correct Officers of Arms for misbehaviour in the execution of their places ".

In 1974, W. D. Richter's wife read a review of Dirty Pictures from the Prom, the debut novel from Dartmouth College graduate and writer Earl Mac Rauch.

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 foundation stone of the College was laid by the Earl of Powis in a ceremony on 1 June 1881, following a lunch in King's College, Cambridge, and was reported in the national press.

Joseph Hall received his early education at the local Ashby Grammar School, founded by his father's patron the Earl, and was later sent ( 1589 ) to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where Anthony Gilby's son Nathaniel was a Fellow and advocated this course.

He was the eldest son of the 1st Earl by his first wife, Catherine Spencer, granddaughter of Sir William Spencer of Yarnton, Oxfordshire, England, was born in 1602, and was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge ( 1618 – 22 ).

His son Sir William Temple ( 1555 – 1627 ) was secretary to Sir Philip Sidney and the Earl of Essex and afterwards provost of Trinity College, Dublin.

He was born in The College in Youghal, the second son and sixth child of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork and his second wife, formerly Catherine Fenton.

He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, became a law student at the Inner Temple in 1607, and in 1611 was knighted and married Margaret, daughter of Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland.

Intense lobbying by an interest group in the City of Santa Barbara, led by Thomas Storke and Pearl Chase, persuaded the State Legislature, Governor Earl Warren, and the Regents of the University of California to move the State College over to the more research-oriented University of California system in 1944.

Earl Shilton Community College ( a college with a sixth form ) in Leicestershire was renamed in honor of its neighboring village's famous son and is now William Bradford Community College.

* The Picton, a boys boarding house at Wellington College, Crowthorne, UK which is an English co-educational public school founded by Queen Victoria and Prime Minister The Earl of Derby in 1859 as the national monument to Britain's greatest military figure, the Duke of Wellington.

Some believe it was named for George Whitefield, a famous English evangelist, and a friend of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, the patron of Dartmouth College.