Reynolds wrote to Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St Asaph, a few weeks later: " Your Lordship congratulation on my succeeding Mr. Ramsay I take very kindly but it is a most miserable office, it is reduced from two hundred to thirty-eight pounds per annum, the Kings Rat catcher I believe is a better place, and I am to be paid only a fourth part of what I have from other people, so that the Portraits of their Majesties are not likely to be better done now, than they used to be, I should be ruined if I was to paint them myself ".

In April 1783 he married Anna Maria Shipley, the eldest daughter of Dr. Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of Landaff and Bishop of St Asaph.

* December 6 – Jonathan Shipley, English bishop and politician ( b. 1714 )

* Jonathan Shipley ( bishop ), 18th century clergyman

Privy Councillors recently retired include Clark, former Speaker of the House Jonathan Hunt and former Prime Minister Jenny Shipley.

" Amongst his notable cases in 1780s was his successful defence of William Davies Shipley, dean of St Asaph ( and son of Jonathan Shipley ) who was tried in 1784 at Shrewsbury for seditious libel for publishing Principles of Government, in a Dialogue between a Gentleman and a Farmer, a tract by his brother-in-law Sir William Jones advancing radical views on the relationship between subjects and the state.

* Homecoming — Jonathan Shipley

* Hedgewitch — Jonathan Shipley

The first edition, issued anonymously and dedicated to Jonathan Shipley, was published at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1788.

Shipley was born in Maidstone, Kent, the son of Jonathan Shipley ( d. 1749, originally of Walbrook, London ) and Martha ( née Davies ), and baptized on 2 June 1715.

He had a brother Jonathan Shipley, who became the Bishop of St Asaph, and whose son William Davies Shipley became Dean of St Asaph.

* Jonathan Shipley

Jonathan Shipley ( 1714 – 6 December 1788 ) was the son of a London stationer ; his mother's family were owners of Twyford House, a large manor in Winchester, England.

Jonathan Shipley married Anna Maria Mordaunt, dauther of Rev George Mordaunt and Elizabeth Doyley, and left descendants.

She was friends with Georgiana Shipley, daughter of Jonathan Shipley, in London.

In the chancel is a mural monument, with a bust, by Joseph Nollekens, in memory of Dr. Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St. Asaph, who died in the year 1788.

Director and script writer Sam Raimi drew from a variety of sources, including literature with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, and The Three Stooges.

* 1967 – Jonathan Littell, French-American writer

More was greatly admired by the Anglican writer Jonathan Swift.

* October 19 – Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish writer ( b. 1667 )

* November 30 – Jonathan Swift, Irish writer ( d. 1745 )

* Jonathan Cook ( born 1965 ) is a British writer and a freelance journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, who writes about the Middle East, and more specifically, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

* List of Washington University faculty and staff: economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Douglass North ; husband and wife biochemists and co-Nobel Prize winners Carl and Gerty Cori ; physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton ; novelists Stanley Elkin and William Gass ; poets Carl Phillips and Mary Jo Bang ; architect Fumihiko Maki ; neurologist and Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini ; sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson ; Poets Laureate Howard Nemerov and Mona Van Duyn ; sociologist and " outlaw Marxist " Alvin Ward Gouldner ; attorney, former Counsel to Vice-President Al Gore and former Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson ; writer and culture critic Gerald Early ; Economist, and former Chair of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, Murray Weidenbaum ; chemist Joseph W. Kennedy, co-discoverer of the element plutonium ; computer scientist Jonathan S. Turner, internationally renowned expert in computer networking ; computer scientist Raj Jain, pioneer in the field of network congestion ; and Law Professor Troy A. Paredes, currently on leave as a commissioner of the SEC.

He has two children from his first marriage to Irene, Jonathan b. 1962 who is a music manager, and Naomi b. 1964 who is a freelance writer and journalist.

His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame.

He was the only son of Joseph Brewer Palmer Smyth and Georgina Caroline Pitt Pilkington, granddaughter of the Irish writer Laetitia Pilkington who was a protégée of Jonathan Swift.

* Jonathan Miller – writer, opera director, physiologist and sculptor

" Frank Gehry ," remarked British-born, Seattle-based writer Jonathan Raban, " has created some wonderful buildings, like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, but his Seattle effort, the Experience Music Project, is not one of them.

In the 1960s, Webster Groves was featured in 16 In Webster Groves, a televised documentary that writer Jonathan Franzen, a native of Webster Groves, described in his memoir The Discomfort Zone as an " early experiment in hour-long prime-time sociology ".

The town's history and contemporary state ( circa 1995 ) is discussed at length in travel writer Jonathan Raban's book, Bad Land: An American Romance.

* Jonathan Ames ( born 1964 ), writer, artist, actor who created HBO's Bored to Death.

He was a writer and a friend of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson.

Some of Bellbrook's former and current residents include actor and comedian Jonathan Winters, writer Erma Bombeck.

His nephew, Jonathan Lynn, is a filmmaker and script writer known for satirical BBC shows Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.

The writer Jonathan Cohen noted he made a conjectural leap to reach that conclusion, and no extant evidence supports it.

Sacks had a large extended family, and among his first cousins are Israeli statesman Abba Eban, writer and director Jonathan Lynn, and economist Robert Aumann.

Another important early novel is Gulliver's Travels ( 1726, amended 1735 ), by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, which is both a satire of human nature, as well as a parody of travellers ' tales like Robinson Crusoe.

When Jonathan Hyde, the Hansons ' educated but impoverished lodger, reads A Tale of Two Cities aloud for the family, all of them, especially aspiring writer Katrin, are deeply moved by the story.

Jonathan Creek, by writer David Renwick, ever since taking over the role for its second series in 1998.

* October 27 – Jonathan Stroud, fantasy writer

* 2012 – Jonathan Frid, Canadian actor ( b. 1924 )

* 1758 – Jonathan Edwards, American minister ( b. 1703 )

* 1998 – Jonathan Kwitny, American reporter ( b. 1941 )

* 2003 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor ( b. 1976 )

The Targum of the Prophets was composed by Jonathan ben Uzziel under the guidance of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi ( Jonathan b. Uzziel was a disciple of Hillel, so he had traditions handed down from them-Maharsha ), and the land of Israel quaked over an area of four hundred parasangs by four hundred parasangs, and a Bath Kol ( heavenly voice ) came forth and exclaimed, Who is this that has revealed My secrets to mankind?

Jonathan b. Uzziel thereupon arose and said, It is I who have revealed Thy secrets to mankind.

* January 25 – Jonathan Larson, American composer and playwright ( b. 1960 )

** Jonathan Melvoin, American musician ( b. 1961 )

* February 28 – Jonathan Hale, American actor ( b. 1891 )

* May 17 – Jonathan Young, United States Navy commodore ( b. 1826 )

* August 14 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, African-American minister and politician ( b. 1821 )

* January 30 – Jonathan Alder, American settler ( b. 1773 )

** Jonathan Edwards, U. S. minister ( b. 1703 )

* January 19 – Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic ( b. 1713 )

* August 17 – Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut ( b. 1710 )

* July 9 – Jonathan Mayhew, American minister and patriot ( b. 1720 )

* May 24 – Jonathan Wild, English criminal ( b. 1682 )

* Jonathan Vandenbroeck, singer-songwriter, better known as Milow ( b. 1981 )

In October 1942 Peck married Finnish-born Greta Kukkonen ( 1911 – 2008 ), with whom he had three sons, Jonathan ( 1944 – 75 ), Stephen ( b. 1946 ), and Carey Paul ( b. 1949 ).