Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Baronet ( 1593 – February 22, 1650 ) was the eldest son of John Lyttelton and inherited the family estates in Frankley, Halesowen, Hagley, and Upper Arley from his mother, Meriel daughter of Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor of England, to whom the estates had been restored by James I, after their forfeiture due to his father's conviction of high treason.

Edward died young, Robert became a Knight Bachelor and married Theophile, daughter of Thomas Berkeley, Arthur married Elizabeth, heir of Sir George Walgrave, John married Meriel, daughter of Anthony Wheately, through which Holkham Hall came into the Coke family, Henry married Margaret, daughter of Richard Lovelace, and inherited the manor at Holkham from his brother John ( who had seven daughters but no son ), Clement married Sarah, heiress of Alesxander Redich, and Thomas died as an infant.

The band formed in 1987, initially named The Baby Machines, with a line-up of Meriel Barham ( vocals ), Emma Anderson ( guitar ), Miki Berenyi ( guitar ), Steve Rippon ( bass ), and Chris Acland ( drums ).

The uncle of Roy Harrod the economist and he was also the great-uncle of actress Meriel Forbes ( granddaughter of his brother Norman ), who married the actor Sir Ralph Richardson.

His first marriage was on 10 September 1977 to Lady Jane Meriel Grosvenor ( b. 8 February 1953 ; Lady Jane Dawnay since 1996 ), younger daughter of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster ; the couple were divorced in 1990 after producing two sons and a daughter.

Jeremy Hunt was born in Lambeth Hospital, Kennington, the elder son of Admiral Sir Nicholas Hunt, who was then a Commander in the Royal Navy assigned to work for the Director of Naval Plans inside the recently created Ministry of Defence, by his wife Meriel Eve née Givan ( now Lady Hunt ), daughter of Major Henry C. Givan.

* Lady Jane Meriel Grosvenor ( b. 8 February 1953 ), married Guy David Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe and had issue.

In 1944 Richardson married the actress Meriel (" Mu ") Forbes, a member of the theatrical Forbes-Robertson family.

Meriel married Major Harold Knowling in May 1925 and died on 6 February 1959.

Templemore married Clare Meriel Wingfield, daughter of Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt, in 1911.

In 1954 he toured Australia in a company which included his wife, Meriel Forbes, together with Sybil Thorndike and her husband, Lewis Casson, playing Terence Rattigan's plays The Sleeping Prince and Separate Tables.

In the 1960s Richardson played Lord Emsworth on BBC television in dramatisations of P. G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle stories, with his real-life wife Meriel Forbes playing his domineering sister Connie, and his friend Stanley Holloway as his butler Beach.

There were four children of the marriage: Caroline, Meriel, Diana and David.

His daughter Meriel Buchanan wrote several perceptive books about the revolution, which she witnessed, and key figures she had personally known.

Born in about 1567, Francis Tresham was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Tresham, of Rushton in Northamptonshire, and Meriel Throckmorton, daughter of Sir Robert Throckmorton of Coughton in Warwickshire.

He played in a number of bands, including The Infection, Les Turds and Panic, before founding Lush in 1988 with Steve Rippon, Emma Anderson, Meriel Barham and Miki Berenyi.

In late 1990, Meriel Barham, the original vocalist of Lush, joined the band as second guitarist and vocalist.

Meriel Barham departed in September 1995 and the group eventually disbanded in 1996.

They starred Ralph Richardson as Lord Emsworth, Derek Nimmo as Freddie Threepwood, Meriel Forbes as Lady Constance, and Stanley Holloway as Beach.

* Buxton, Meriel.

* 1839 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer ( d. 1888 )

* 1839 – Benjamin Pierce, American politician ( b. 1757 )

* 1839 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist ( b. 1763 )

* 1839 – Nelson Miles, American general ( d. 1925 )

* 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift " free to the world ".

* 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting ( d. 1839 )

* 1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China.

* 1839 – Gulstan Ropert, French prelate ( d. 1903 )

On her return to Haworth, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate, who started work in the parish in August 1839.

* 1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.

* 1839 – Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist ( d. 1896 )

* 1839 – Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English politician ( b. 1758 )

* 1839 – Walter Pater, English essayist and critic ( d. 1894 )

He married Helen Leech ( 1839 – 1932 ), the daughter of another wealthy cotton merchant and shipbuilder from Stalybridge, at Gee Cross on 8 August 1863.

#* Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte ( 1802 – 1839 )

#*** Léonie Stéphanie Elise Bonaparte ( 1833 – 1839 )

#*** Napoléon Charles Grégoire Jacques Philippe Bonaparte ( 1839 – 1899 )

# Maria Annunziata Caroline Bonaparte ( 1782 – 1839 ) married Joachim Murat, Marshal of France

Portales brought the military under civilian control by rewarding loyal generals, cashiering troublemakers, and promoting a victorious war against the Peru-Bolivia Confederation ( 1836 – 1839 ).

September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914 ) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, sometimes known as " the father of pragmatism ".

A census was taken in the Ottoman Empire 1831-38 by Sultan Mahmud II ( 1808 – 1839 ) as a part of the reform movement Tanzimat.

** William Erasmus Darwin ( 1839 – 1914 ), eldest son of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

It was Rochet d ' Hericourt's exploration into Shoa ( 1839 – 42 ) that marked the beginning of French interest in the Djiboutian coast of the Red Sea.

* 1839 – George Armstrong Custer, American general ( d. 1876 )