The keeper of the collection, John Elphinstone ( or his assistant, David Casley ), had transcribed the 325 lines of the poem in 1724, but the front and back pages were already missing from the manuscript ( possibly around 50 lines each ): an earlier catalog described it as fragmentum capite et calce mutilatum (" mutilated at head and heel ").

Of his daughters: Isobel married John, 8th Lord Elphinstone, and Mary married Charles Carnegie, 4th Earl of Southesk.

Finally there was a group of sources that remain debated: material from Elphinstone, and the authors Veremundus, Cornelius Hibernicus, and John Campbell.

However, the Elphinstone Road railway station and the Elphinstone Circle, both in Mumbai city, are not named after him but in honour of his nephew, Lord John Elphinstone, who also later became Governor of Bombay in the 1850s.

* 1724-" A solemn match of golf " between Alexander Elphinstone and Captain John Porteous becomes the first match reported in a newspaper.

When John Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Balmerino was put on his trial on the capital charge of retaining in his possession a petition regarded as a libel on the king's government, Drummond in an energetic " Letter " ( 1635 ) urged the injustice and folly of the proceedings.

Alexander Elphinstone and John Porteous became the first match to be reported in a newspaper.

* John Elphinstone, 11th Lord Elphinstone ( 1737 – 1813 )

* John Elphinstone, 12th Lord Elphinstone ( 1764 – 1813 )

* John Elphinstone, 13th Lord Elphinstone ( 1807 – 1860 )

* John Elphinstone Fleeming, 14th Lord Elphinstone ( 1819 – 1861 )

* John Elphinstone, 17th Lord Elphinstone, 3rd Baron Elphinstone ( 1914 – 1975 )

An army of 21, 000 British and Indian troops under the command of Sir John Keane ( subsequently replaced by Sir Willoughby Cotton and then by William Elphinstone ) set out from Punjab in December 1838.

The first ever demand for higher education in Madras Presidency was given in a public address to Lord John Elphinstone, Governor of Madras, signed by 70, 000 residents when the Governor in Council was contemplating " some effective and liberal measures for the establishment of an improved system of national education.

Starting with Sir John Malcolm in 1828, a succession of them from Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone, Arthur Malet ( for whom the seat at " Point Arthur " is named ), Carnac, Frere and many others became regular visitors.

** John II, 8th Duke of Braganza and 3rd Duke of Barcelos.

St John Damascene, writing in the 8th century AD, also notes of an earlier sect called the " Cathari ", in his book On Heresies, taken from the epitome provided by Epiphanius of Salamis in his Panarion.

* Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough ( 1871 – 1934 ), only son of the 8th Duke

Essendon slumped to 8th in 1952 but John Coleman was in irrepressible form managing 103 goals for the year.

On the 8th of June Clement X took possession of St. John Lateran.

The emphasis on the salvific nature of the Resurrection continued in Christian theology in the next centuries, e. g., in the 8th century Saint John of Damascus wrote that: "... When he had freed those who were bound from the beginning of time, Christ returned again from among the dead, having opened for us the way to resurrection " and Christian iconography of the ensuing years represented that concept.

* March 21 – John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, whose father, the 8th Duke of Argyll, is the serving Secretary of State for India, marries Princess Louise.

** John J. Peck graduates from West Point 8th from a class of 39.

The dialect thrived between the 8th and 13th centuries and was referred to by John Trevisa, writing in 1387:

** John de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros ( d. 1421 )

The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, which states in part, " The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker ..." The current speaker is John Boehner, a Republican who represents Ohio's 8th congressional district.

In an 8th century polemical work, John of Damascus criticized the Saracens as followers of a false prophet and " forerunner to the Antichrist.

Church of St John the Baptist, 8th century

John the Evangelist | Saint John, evangelist portrait from the Book of Mulling, Irish, late 8th century

They had four children, including John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland.

* John Kennedy, 8th Earl of Cassilis ( 1700 – 1759 ), Scottish peer

* The U. S. Army's ( now inactive ) 8th Infantry Division ( Mechanized ) is called the Pathfinder Division, after John Frémont.

The county is traditionally Democrat and is part of Tennessee's 8th congressional district represented by Blue Dog Democrat John S. Tanner.

As such it is part of Tennessee's 8th congressional district, which is represented by Blue Dog Democrat John S. Tanner.

The words of the hymn ( The Hymn of St. John ) were written by Paulus Diaconus in the 8th century.

In August 2011, a three-judge panel of the 8th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected John Lotter's appeal.

* John St. John, 8th governor of Kansas

* Samuel Bell, 8th governor of New Hampshire and brother of John Bell

The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.

First The Life Of John Bright appeared and seven years later Lord Grey Of The Reform Bill.

Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

Our blessed Lord Jesus Christ, the sinless Son of God, who could not lie, said, `` Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God '' ( St. John 3: 3 ).

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh | Lord Rayleigh's method for the isolation of argon, based on an experiment of Henry Cavendish's.

Arius and his followers appealed to Bible verses such as Jesus saying that the father is " greater than I " ( John ), and " The Lord created me at the beginning of his work " ( Proverbs ).

* John ( 1331 – 1358 ), Lord of Elche, Biel and Bolsa, married in 1355 to Isabel Núñez de Lara and was killed by order of his cousin Pedro of Castile.

Notable English autobiographies of the 17th century include those of Lord Herbert of Cherbury ( 1643, published 1764 ) and John Bunyan ( Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 1666 ).

* Jürgen Klötgen, Prieuré d ' Abergavenny – Tribulations mancelles en Pays de Galles au temps du Pape Jean XXII ( d ' après des documents français et anglais du XIV ° siècle collationnés avec une source d ' histoire retrouvée aux Archives Secrètes du Vatican ), in Revue Historique et Archéologique du Maine, Le Mans, 1989, p. 65 – 88 ( 1319: cf John of Hastings, Lord of Abergavenny ; Adam de Orleton, Bishop of Hereford, John of Monmouth, Bishop of Llandaff ).

The amphisbaena has been referred to by the poets, such as Nicander, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and A. E. Housman, and the amphisbaena as a mythological and legendary creature has been referenced by Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, and Thomas Browne, the last of whom debunked its existence.

Lord John Manners, friend of Disraeli, and leading figure in the Young England movement

Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild a member for the City of London, introduced a Jewish Disabilities Bill to amend the oath and permit Jews to enter Parliament.

One member who was not, Lord John Manners, stood against Rothschild when the latter re-submitted himself for election in 1849.

The first opportunity for the protectionist Tories under Disraeli and Stanley to take office came in 1851, when Lord John Russell's government was defeated in the House of Commons over the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851.

Other possible ministers included Sir Robert Inglis, Henry Goulburn, John Charles Herries, and Lord Ellenborough.

To the right of the infantry Lord John Hay ’ s ‘ Scots Greys ’ also picked their way across the stream and charged the Régment du Roi within Autre-Eglise.

In the years after Grey's retirement the party was led first by Lord Melbourne, a fairly traditional Whig, and then by Lord John Russell, the son of a Duke but a crusading radical, and Lord Palmerston, a renegade Irish Tory and essentially a conservative, although capable of radical gestures.

The 1890s were marred by infighting between the three principal successors to Gladstone, party leader William Harcourt, former Prime Minister Lord Rosebery, and Gladstone's personal secretary, John Morley.

Because Methodists, Pentecostals, and other evangelicals stress " accepting Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour ", which comes from John Wesley's emphasis of the New Birth, they often refer to themselves as being born-again.

* Barry, John F. One Faith, One Lord: A Study of Basic Catholic Belief.

John Perry had written an 1895 paper proposing that the earth's interior was fluid, and disagreeing with Lord Kelvin on the age of the earth.

A well-known instance of the " John Cardinal Doe " style is that in the proclamation, in Latin, of the election of a new pope by the cardinal protodeacon: " Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum ; habemus Papam: Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum ( first name ) Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem ( last name ), ..." ( Meaning: " I announce to you a great joy ; we have a Pope: The Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord, Lord ( first name ) Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church ( last name ), ...")