* December 11 – Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher ( b. 1675 )

While multiple sources confirm that Rochester was Barry's lover, the only source for the coaching story is a Life of Barry published in 1740 – 65 years after the events – by Edmund Curll, well known for his fanciful and inaccurate biographies.

In his mid-life, Arbuthnot, complaining of the work of Edmund Curll, among others, who would commission and invent a biography as soon as an author died, said, " Biography is one of the new terrors of death ," and so a biography of Arbuthnot is made difficult by his own reluctance to leave records.

** Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons ( a piracy by Edmund Curll, with forgeries included )

** Dean Swift's Literary Correspondence ( pirate publication by Edmund Curll, for which he was sued by Pope )

* Controversial publisher Edmund Curll announces to the press that he will publish Matthew Prior's Poems on Several Occasions –- even though the rights belong to someone else.

Edmund Curll rushed out a Key to the work, and William Wotton offered up an " Answer " to the author of the work.

The proceedings were printed in a volume of Miscellanies published by Edmund Curll in 1714.

Edmund Curll ( c. 1675 – 11 December 1747 ) was an English bookseller and publisher.

As with previous scandals, Curll attempted to turn it to profit by publishing The Humble Representation of Edmund Curll and rushing forward a new edition of Venus in the Cloister.

The last volume of the memoirs was done by Edmund's son, Henry Curll, and both Henry and Edmund were arrested.

In fact, no figure, including the " King of Dunces " Lewis Theobald ( nor, later, Colley Cibber ) is ridiculed as consistently and viciously in Dunciad as Edmund Curll.

* MacKenzie, Raymond N. " Edmund Curll ," in H. C. G.

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An early pioneer of the publication of erotic works in England was Edmund Curll ( 1675 – 1747 ) who published many of the Merryland books.

The first conviction for obscenity in England occurred in 1727, when Edmund Curll was fined for the publication of Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in her Smock under the common law offence of disturbing the King's peace.

While in the King's Bench Prison he sold to Edmund Curll the bookseller, a fellow-prisoner who was serving a sentence of five months for publishing obscene books, the manuscript of ( or possibly only the materials on which were based ) the Memoirs of John Ker of Kersland, which Curll published in 1726 in three parts, the last of which appeared after Ker's death.

The conviction in 1727 of Edmund Curll for the publication of Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in her Smock under the common law offence of disturbing the King's peace was the first conviction for obscenity in Great Britain, and set a legal precedent for other convictions.

* Edmund Curll and his prosecutions

The subscription controversy was then agitating the university, and Paley published an anonymous defence of a pamphlet in which the Master of Peterhouse and Bishop of Carlisle Edmund Law had advocated the retrenchment and simplification of the Thirty-nine Articles ; he did not, however, sign the petition ( called the " Feathers Tavern " petition, from being drawn up at a meeting at the Feathers Tavern ) for a relaxation of the terms of subscription.

A board-member controversy occurred March 13, 2007, when Chairman of the MARTA board, Edmund Wall, was arrested at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport for public indecency on allegations of having sex in a bathroom stall with a man he met over the Internet.

Some controversy exists between fans of the film and fans of the novel ( who view the film as a watered down adaptation ), as Edmund H. North's script takes some elements of the novel, but is ultimately an entirely different story.

He met with increasing controversy down the years: those provoked into announcing their opposition included R. P. Blackmur, Oscar Cargill, Ernest Hemingway, Harold Laski, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Joel Elias Spingarn, Allen Tate, and Edmund Wilson.

The group attracted controversy in 2008 by expressing disappointment no member of the Royal Family attended the state funeral of Sir Edmund Hillary.

From 1410 to 1414 Payne was principal of St Edmund Hall, and during these years was engaged in controversy with Thomas Netter of Walden, the Carmelite defender of Catholic doctrine.

He later told abolitionist Edmund Quincy of the `` marked attention and civility '' with which the New Orleans gentlemen and the upriver planters greeted him.

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

In England, British Social Anthropology's paradigm began to fragment as Max Gluckman and Peter Worsley experimented with Marxism and authors such as Rodney Needham and Edmund Leach incorporated Lévi-Strauss's structuralism into their work.

Edmund Wilson argues that statistically " the logic of the ' Modest proposal ' can be compared with defense of crime ( arrogated to Marx ) in which he argues that crime takes care of the superfluous population ".

Edmund ( reigned 1016 ) was an elder half-brother of King Edward the Confessor, and Edmund's son Edward was in Hungary with King Andrew I, having left England as an infant after his father's death and the accession of Cnut as King of England.

The series follows the exploits of Richard IV's unfavoured second son Edmund, the Duke of Edinburgh ( who calls himself " The Black Adder ") in his various attempts to increase his standing with his father and his eventual quest to overthrow him.

Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England ( played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales ).

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

A bitter, and very public, dispute ensued between those, like Edmund Grindal and Richard Cox, who wished to preserve in exile the exact form of worship of the 1552 Prayer Book ; and those, like John Knox the pastor of the congregation, who regarded that book as still partially tainted with compromise.

Boveri influenced two generations of American cytologists: Edmund Beecher Wilson, Walter Sutton and Theophilus Painter were all influenced by Boveri ( Wilson and Painter actually worked with him ).

On the 15th day of June, 1835, the first public land sales commenced with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. receiver of public moneys.

Anderson lives in Highbury, north London, with his wife and three children ; Isabella, Flora and Edmund.

* Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, a 1999 biography with fictional elements by Edmund Morris

In 1538, King Francis I of France threatened Edmund Bonner — Henry VIII's Ambassador to the French court and later Bishop — with a hundred strokes of the halberd as punishment for Bonner's " insolent behaviour ".

In November 2007 Edmund Stoiber accepted to direct the High Level Group of the European Union tasked with reducing European Union bureaucracy.

The Idea of a Transcendental Theory of Method with textual notations by Edmund Husserl.

The first signs of a new literary movement had appeared at the end of the second decade of Elizabeth's reign, with John Lyly's Euphues and Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender in 1578.

Edmund thus established a policy of safe borders and peaceful relationships with Scotland.

John of Worcester and William of Malmesbury add some lively detail by suggesting that Edmund had been feasting with his nobles, when he spotted Leofa in the crowd.

Coppola co-wrote the script for Patton in 1970 along with Edmund H. North.

In London, Edmund Kean was the first Hamlet to abandon the regal finery usually associated with the role in favour of a plain costume, and he is said to have surprised his audience by playing Hamlet as serious and introspective.

In 945, Máel Coluim I annexed Strathclyde as part of a deal with King Edmund of England, where the kings of Alba had probably exercised some authority since the later ninth century, an event offset somewhat by loss of control in Moray.

His murder within a few months saw Domnall restored with one of Máel Coluim sons by his second marriage, Edmund, as his heir.

He returned to Freiburg in 1928 to study with Edmund Husserl and write a Habilitation with Martin Heidegger, which was published in 1932 as Hegel's Ontology and Theory of Historicity.