Contrary to claims of homosexual terminology, Sir Donald Sinden, an actor who met two of the play's original cast ( Irene Vanbrugh, Gwendolen and Allan Aynesworth, Algernon ), and Lord Alfred Douglas, wrote to The Times to dispute suggestions that " Earnest " held any sexual connotations:

Without Parliament, the Whigs gradually crumbled mainly due to the Rye House Plot, with The Earl of Melville, The Earl of Leven, Lord Shaftesbury and the Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate son, both being implicated escaped to the United Provinces and Algernon Sidney, Sir Thomas Armstrong and William Russell, Lord Russell being executed for treason.

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Tintagel is used as a locus for the Arthurian mythos by the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the poem Idylls of the King and Algernon Charles Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse is one of the versions of the Tristan and Iseult legends where some of the events are set at Tintagel.

He became acquainted with Alfred, Lord Tennyson and friends with Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy and Henry James.

He, however, refused to follow Shaftesbury in his extreme courses, declined participation in the latter's design to seize the Tower in 1682, and on Shaftesbury's consequent departure from England became the leader of Monmouth's faction, in which were now included Lord Russell, Algernon Sidney, and Lord Howard of Escrick.

Among other works of art and literature to which Paglia applies her analysis of the Western canon are: the Venus of Willendorf, the Bust of Nefertiti, Ancient Greek sculpture, Donatello's David, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Michelangelo, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare's As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marquis de Sade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lord Byron's Don Juan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry James, The Pre-Raphaelites, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Emily Dickinson.

* Algernon, 1st Lord Redesdale ( 1837 – 1916 )

" He made honorable but vain endeavours to save Algernon Sidney and Lord Russell.

He soon became intimate with the leaders of the country party especially with Lord Essex, William Russell, and Algernon Sidney but never entered into their plans so far as to commit himself beyond recall.

Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood CH, PC, QC ( 14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958 ), known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923, was a lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom.

Late 17th century composite engraving by John Savage ( engraver ) | John Savage, and comprising seven portraits of figures of the Plot all of whom were dead by 1685 ( Sir Thomas Armstrong, the Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll | Earl of Argyll, the Arthur Capel, 1st Earl of Essex | Earl of Essex, Henry Cornish, William Russell, Lord Russell, the James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth | Duke of Monmouth, and Algernon Sidney ), with one of Edmund Berry Godfrey, whose unexplained death triggered the Popish Plot allegations against Catholics.

Algernon Sidney was convicted on weaker evidence by Judge Sir George Jeffreys, who was brought in as Lord Chief Justice in September 1683 ; also executed was Sir Thomas Armstrong, a Member of Parliament.

In March 1626, Algernon was summoned to the House of Lords, assuming his father's barony and becoming known as " Lord Percy.

** Allen Algernon Bathurst, Lord Apsley ( 1895 – 1942 )

Lovecraft names as the four " modern masters " of horror Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood and M. R. James.

Admiral Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland KG, PC, FRS ( 15 December 1792 – 12 February 1865 ), styled Lord Algernon Percy until 1816 and known as The Lord Prudhoe between 1816 and 1847, was a British naval commander, explorer and Conservative politician.

Styled Lord Settrington from birth, he was born at Portland Place, London, the eldest son of Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond and Frances Harriett, daughter of Algernon Frederick Greville.

In 1628, Charles I put the office of Lord High Admiral into commission and control of the Royal Navy passed to a committee in the form of the Board of Admiralty.

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

Following the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the establishment of the Commonwealth under Lord Protector Cromwell, it would not be reinstated until shortly after the restoration of the monarchy to England.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

The Green Dwarf, A Tale of the Perfect Tense was written in 1833 under the pseudonym Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley.

The term took on its present meaning from a group of ministers of King Charles II of England ( Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley, and Lord Lauderdale ), whose initial letters coincidentally spelled CABAL, and who were the signatories of the public Treaty of Dover that allied England to France in a prospective war against the Netherlands.

Thus the " Cabal Ministry " never really unified in its members ' aims and sympathies, and fell apart by 1672 ; Lord Ashley, who became Earl of Shaftesbury, later became one of Charles II's fiercest opponents.

Charles was baptised on 2 December 1600 by the Bishop of Ross, in a ceremony held in Holyrood Abbey, and was created Duke of Albany, Marquess of Ormond, Earl of Ross and Lord Ardmannoch.

While his parents and older siblings left for England in April and May that year, Charles remained in Scotland, with his father's friend and the Lord President of the Court of Session, Alexander Seton, Lord Fyvie, appointed as his guardian.

At the behest of Charles and Buckingham, James assented to the impeachment of the Lord Treasurer, Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, by the House of Commons, who quickly fell in much the same manner as Bacon had.

* 1722 – Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain ( d. 1770 )

The posting did not appeal to his mother, who wrote to Lord Charles Beresford, then a senior naval officer, member of parliament and personal friend, to use his influence to obtain something better.

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

He was replaced by Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, who took three years to defeat the rebels.

After successful settlement on the island of St. Christophe ( St. Kitts ), the French Company of the American Islands delegated ( Charles Lienard ) Liénard de L ' Olive and Jean Duplessis Ossonville, Lord of Ossonville to colonize one or any of the region ’ s islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique or Dominica.

* 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.

Charles Lamb, poet and friend of Coleridge, witnessed Coleridge's work towards publishing the poem and wrote to Wordsworth: " Coleridge is printing Xtabel by Lord Byron's recommendation to Murray, with what he calls a vision of Kubla Khan – which said vision he repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates & brings Heaven & Elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it ".

One of Lord Peter's cars is a 12-cylinder (" double-six ") 1927 Daimler four-seater, which ( like all his cars ) he calls " Mrs. Merdle " after a character in Little Dorrit ( by Charles Dickens ) who " hated fuss ".

Lord Peter encourages his friend and foil, Chief Inspector Charles Parker, to propose to his sister, Lady Mary Wimsey, despite the great difference in their rank and wealth.

* 1951 – Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, British politician and former Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and Great Britain

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.

* Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox 1891 – 1892

## The Lord Nicholas Gordon-Lennox

## The Lord Nicholas Gordon-Lennox

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, and 1st Duke of Gordon KG PC ( 27 February 1818 – 27 September 1903 ), styled Lord Settrington until 1819 and Earl of March between 1819 and 1860, was a British Conservative politician.

* Captain Lord Francis Charles Gordon-Lennox ( 30 July 1849 – 1 January 1886 ), died unmarried

* Lord Walter Charles Gordon-Lennox ( 29 July 1865 – 21 October 1922 ), married Alice Ogilvie-Grant and had issue

:* Charles Gordon-Lennox, Lord Settrington ( 1899 – 1919 ), eldest son of the 8th Duke ( at that point Earl of March ), predeceased his father without issue

::* His heir apparent: Charles Gordon-Lennox, Lord Settrington ( b. 1994 ), eldest son of Lord March

:* Charles Gordon-Lennox, Lord Settrington ( 1899 – 1919 ), eldest son of the 8th Duke ( at that point Earl of March ), died without issue

::* Lord March's heir apparent: Charles Gordon-Lennox, Lord Settrington ( b. 1994 ), Lord March's eldest son

Lord Henry Charles George Gordon-Lennox ( 2 November 1821 – 29 August 1886 ), married Amelia Brooman and left no issue

* Captain Lord Alexander Francis Charles Gordon-Lennox ( 14 June 1825 – 22 January 1892 ), married Emily Towneley and left issue

* Lord George Charles Gordon-Lennox ( 22 October 1829 – 27 February 1877 ), married Minnie Palmer and left no issue

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond and Lennox KG, GCVO ( 27 December 1845 – 18 January 1928 ), styled Lord Settrington until 1860 and Earl of March between 1860 and 1903, was a British politician and peer.

He and his brother, Lord Algernon Gordon-Lennox, served in the South African War.

Richmond's second son Lord Esmé Gordon-Lennox was a Brigadier-General in the British Army while his third and youngest son Lord Bernard Gordon-Lennox was a Major in the Army.