* 1947 – Maddy Prior, English singer ( Steeleye Span, Silly Sisters, and The Carnival Band )

Prior to this, in Old and Middle English, the word was usually spelled Crist the i being pronounced either as, preserved in the names of churches such as St Katherine Cree, or as a short, preserved in the modern pronunciation of Christmas.

Prior to Kidd returning to New York City, he learned that he was a wanted pirate, and that several English men-of-war were searching for him.

* Jones, D. and H. Michaelis ( 1913 ), " A Phonetic Dictionary of the English Language ", Hanover-Berlin: Carl Meyer and Gustav Prior ; rpt in Jones ( 2002 ).

Prior to Parsons ' departure from The Byrds, he had accompanied the two Rolling Stones to Stonehenge ( along with McGuinn and Hillman ) in the English county of Wiltshire, where Richards had a house near the ancient site.

Prior to the introduction of the Latin term, incest was known in Old English as sibbleger ( from sibb ' kinship ' + leger ' to lie ') or mǣġhǣmed ( from mǣġ ' kin, parent ' + hǣmed ' sexual intercourse ') but in time, both words fell out of use.

* 1664 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat ( d. 1721 )

* 1721 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat ( b. 1664 )

Prior to this time the word is attested in Scottish legal English to describe restraining orders against debt collection, restraint being its original Latin sense.

Prior to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, English judges were seen as " lions under the throne ", servile creatures of the King.

** Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of the English Knights Hospitaller ( d. 1527 )

* July 21 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat ( d. 1721 )

Prior to Belarus gaining its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the language was known in English as Byelorussian or Belorussian, transliterating the Russian name,, or alternatively as White Ruthenian or White Russian.

Prior to the 15th century English speech in Scotland was known as " English " ( written Ynglis or Inglis at the time ), whereas " Scottish " ( Scottis ) referred to Gaelic.

Prior to the Bastille, the main royal castle in Paris was the Louvre, in the west of the capital, but the city had expanded by the middle of the 14th century and the eastern side was now exposed to an English attack.

In 1588, the claimant to the Portuguese throne, Antonio, Prior of Crato, sold exclusive trade rights on The Gambia River to English merchants ; this grant was confirmed by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I.

Prior to its purchase by English settlers in 1662, the area around Moodus was inhabited by Native American Algonquians, three of which tribes are known: the Wangunks, the Mohegans and the Nehantics.

Prior to the arrival of English colonists, the Massachusetts portion of the Connecticut River valley was occupied by the Nipmuc, an Algonquin-speaking tribe.

Prior to the settlement of the area by English colonists, a hill east of the mouth of the Neponset River near what is now called Squantum was the seat of the ruling Massachusett sachem, or native American leader, Chickatawbut.

Prior to the construction of English park the festival was held in the War Memorial park on 7Th St.

Prior to its opening, the kitchen, exterior painting of the main house, and seed money were provided by $ 15, 000 grants from E. R. English and Abbot Laboratories.

Thorgaut or Turgot ( sometimes, Thurgot ) was Archdeacon and Prior of Durham, and the first English or Anglo-Norman Bishop of Saint Andrews ( then called Cell Ríghmonaidh or Kilrymont ).

Prior to the 12th century, traditional English law courts had been jointly presided over by a bishop and a local secular magistrate.

* September 18 – Matthew Prior, British poet and diplomat ( b. 1664 )

The war poet Siegfried Sassoon, who appears as a major character in the first book, Regeneration, is relegated to a minor role in this final volume, in which the main players are the fictional working-class officer, Billy Prior, and the real-life psychoanalyst, William Rivers.

* September 18-Matthew Prior, British poet and diplomat ( born 1664 )

Matthew Prior ( 21 July 1664 – 18 September 1721 ) was an English poet and diplomat.

At this period Prior could say with good reason that " he had commonly business enough upon his hands, and was only a poet by accident.

* Matthew Prior ( 1664 – 1721 ), English poet

Xavier de Fourvière Rieux, French ( 1853-1912 Celebrated preacher, author and poet in the Provençal language ; Prior of Storrington ( W. Sussex ) Our Lady of England Priory 1903-1912

Prior Park Landscape Garden is an 18th-century landscape garden, designed by the poet Alexander Pope and the landscape gardener Capability Brown, and now owned by the National Trust.

Prior Park's landscape garden was laid out by the poet Alexander Pope between the construction of the house and 1764.

Prior to meeting Ginsberg, Orlovsky had made no deliberate attempts at becoming a poet.

On a number of these films, Prior has collaborated with poet Larry Lynch, who as well as contributing texts often features in the films themselves.

John Wesley in " Thoughts on the Character and Writings of Mr. Prior " ( 1782 ) compared the poet Matthew Prior with Pope, mostly to the detriment of the latter ; in this essay, Wesley says of Pope:

Robert Herrick, the famous seventeenth century poet, lived in the hamlet of Dean Prior on the edge of Rattery.

Prior to the 1980s, heroin was typically transported from Burma to Thailand, before being trafficked by sea to Hong Kong, which was and still remains the major transit point at which heroin enters the international market.

Prior to the junction with CR 693, the route enters Voorhees Township, where it encounters CR 675.

Prior to the Great War, Dakota itself enters the Union as a single state, possibly as a result of the swiftness with which the Army ( necessarily larger than in this timeline because of the Confederate threat ) pacifies the Dakota Territory and allows settlers to move in.

Prior to 2007, a team retained the rights to sign a selected player until one week prior to the next draft, or until the player enters, or returns to, a four-year college on a full-time basis.

Prior to 1976, it was known as the Canadian Radio and Television Commission, which was established in 1968 by the Parliament of Canada to replace the Board of Broadcast Governors.

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

Prior to one month of the beginning of the financial year the President of Turkmenistan submits to the Medjlis of Turkmenistan ( Parliament ) the State budget draft for consideration and adoption

Prior to an Act of Parliament in 1824, Protestant deputies were required when the Earl Marshal was a Roman Catholic.

Prior to 1995, the members of the Flemish Parliament were the members of the Dutch language group of the Federal Parliament of Belgium.

Prior to this there had been no records of appeals to the Lords, and a committee had concluded that there was no precedent to give the Lords jurisdiction over equity matters, except when problems and cases were sent directly to Parliament ( as occasionally had been the case ).

Prior to the creation of the Landsting, he represented Greenland in the Parliament of Denmark from 1973, a position he regained in 2001 and still holds.

Prior to his election to the UK Parliament in 1997, Swinney was employed as Strategic Planning Principal with Scottish Amicable and was a business and economic development consultant for five years.

Prior to 1775, the British had imposed taxes and import duties on the American colonies, to which the colonists objected, since they lacked representation in the British Parliament.

Prior to granting access to information, an individual who has been cleared must sign a Security Screening Certificate and Briefing Form ( TBS / SCT 330-47 ), indicating their willingness to be bound by several Acts of Parliament during and after their appointment finishes.

Prior to the opening of the Gallery these paintings were displayed around Parliament House, in Commonwealth offices, including diplomatic missions overseas, and State Galleries.

Prior to the House of Lords Act 1999, an hereditary peer could not disclaim a peerage after having applied for a writ of summons to Parliament ; now, however, hereditary peers do not have the automatic right to a writ of summons to the House.

Prior to 1746 it was not clear whether a reference to " England " in legislation included Wales, and so in 1746 Parliament passed the Wales and Berwick Act.

Prior to his election, Mwanawasa served as vice president from 1991 to 1994 whilst an elected Member of Parliament for Chifubu Constituency.

Prior to its creation Hallam was a part of the larger Sheffield Borough constituency, which was represented by two Members of Parliament ( MPs ).

Prior to 1988, the Parliament of Australia met in the Provisional Parliament House, which is now known as " Old Parliament House ".

Prior to the Games, the States-General ( national Parliament ) of the Netherlands, as host country, adopted a motion declaring South Africa's participation " undesirable ", due to its policy of apartheid.

Prior to the Act of Union in 1707, Kirkcaldy sent a Member of Parliament to the old Scottish Parliament, which usually met in Edinburgh.

He retired from Parliament in 1987 and was later created a life peer as Baron Prior, of Brampton in the County of Suffolk.

Prior to entering Parliament, Smith worked for Northumberland County Council, managed an Advice Centre in Dundee and was Constituency Assistant to North East Fife MP, Sir Menzies Campbell.