Sterne ’ s life at this time was closely tied with his uncle, Dr. Jaques Sterne, the Archdeacon of Cleveland and Precentor of York Minster.

Jaques Sterne was a powerful clergyman but a mean-tempered man and a rabid politician.

Before he was twelve, his mother married James Cruwys of Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire-who became his guardian ; yet the father figure in his early years appears to have been his uncle, Jaques Wingfield, one of six contemporary martial Wingfields.

In 1809, John Jaques, a boot and shoemaker, set up his shop in this tiny settlement of nine houses, then known as " Little York.

He has shared the stage with Julio Iglesias, Will Smith, Jean Jaques Perrey and Plácido Domingo, and he has headlined at the Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Hall in New York and the Caribe Hilton hotel in San Juan.

Famous graduates of the two movements include Golda Meir, Mike Leigh, Mordechai Richler, Jonathan Freedland, Stanley Fischer, Chaim Herzog, Tony Judt, Sacha Baron Cohen, Seth Rogen, Noah Beresin ( a. k. a. Xaphoon Jones ) of Chiddy Bang, Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, producers of Whose Line Is It Anyway ?, Alexander Bickel, Leonard Fein ( columnist of The Forward and founding editor of Moment ), J. J. Goldberg ( editor-in-chief of The Forward ), David Twersky ( columnist with the New York Sun ), Aaron Naparstek, Matt Witten, Mark Regev, Shuli Egar, Guy Spigelman, Tooker Gomberg, Baroness Deech, Jack Markell ( the governor of Delaware ), Kenneth Bob, Toba Spitzer, Ron Bloom and Jaques Wagner ( the governor of Bahia, Brazil ).

Sterne ’ s uncle was an ardent Whig, and urged Sterne to begin a career of political journalism which resulted in some scandal for Sterne and, eventually, a terminal falling-out between the two men.

In 1741 – 42 Sterne wrote political articles supporting the administration of Sir Robert Walpole for a newspaper founded by his uncle but soon withdrew from politics in disgust.

Diderot also contributed to literature, notably with Jacques le fataliste et son maître ( Jacques the Fatalist and his Master ), which emulated Laurence Sterne in challenging conventions regarding novels and their structure and content, while also examining philosophical ideas about free will.

Laurence Sterne ( 24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768 ) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman.

Laurence Sterne was born 24 November 1713 in Clonmel, County Tipperary.

* Percy Fitzgerald, Life of Laurence Sterne ( London, 1864 ; second edition, London, 1896 )

* Paul Stapfer, Laurence Sterne, sa personne et ses ouvrages ( second edition, Paris, 1882 )

* H. D. Traill, Laurence Sterne, " English Men of Letters ", ( London, 1882 )

* H. W. Thayer, Laurence Sterne in Germany ( New York, 1905 )

* Arthur Cash, Laurence Sterne: The Early and Middle Years ( ISBN 0-416-82210-X, 1975 ) and Laurence Sterne: The Later Years ( ISBN 0-416-32930-6, 1986 )

* Bibliography for the study of Laurence Sterne

* Useful Articles on Laurence Sterne, available online

* Laurence Sterne in Cyberspace

* Ron Schuler's Parlour Tricks: The Scrapbook Mind of Laurence Sterne

* Laurence Sterne Resource

* Laurence Sterne at the Google Books Search

* The Shandean: A Journal Devoted to the Works of Laurence Sterne ( tables of contents available online )

* Laurence Sterne at the National Portrait Gallery, London

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His great-grandfather Richard Sterne had been the Master of the college as well as the Archbishop of York.

* Wilbur Lucius Cross and Times of Sterne, New York 1909

* W. S. Sichel, Sterne ; A Study ( New York, 1910 )

The witnesses were Max Weber and Maurice Sterne, friends and painters who both lived in New York.

Richard Sterne ( c. 1596 – 1683 ) was a Church of England priest, Archbishop of York from 1664 to 1683.

At the Restoration in 1660, Sterne was appointed Bishop of Carlisle, from where he was translated to York in 1664.

In 1664 he was elected bishop of Carlisle, on the translation of Dr. Richard Sterne to York.

From 1642 Richard Sterne held the rectory of Yeovilton before going on to become Archbishop of York.

* Richard Sterne ( bishop ) ( c. 1596 – 1683 ), a Church of England priest and Archbishop of York

Her first ministry was predominantly Tory, and contained such High Tories as Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, and her uncle Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester.

Anne's uncle Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, and the English Secretary of State for the Northern Department, Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, negotiated a marriage treaty.

The younger Benét's paternal uncle, Laurence Vincent Benét, a graduate of Yale, was an ensign in the United States Navy and later manufactured the French-Hotchkiss machine gun.

He was the uncle of the actor Sir Laurence Olivier.

Synge's uncle John Millington Synge was a famous playwright, and Synge is more distantly related to the 1952 Nobel prizewinner in chemistry Richard Laurence Millington Synge.

Her uncle is James Fox and her cousins Laurence and Lydia also have successful acting careers.