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* Reginald Johnston — the English tutor to Aisin-Gioro Puyi the last emperor of China.
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* Reginald Fleming Johnston, Puyi's Scottish tutor from 1919 to 1924, published Twilight in the Forbidden City in 1934.
Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston, KCMG, CBE, ( 1874 – 1938 ) was a Scottish academic, diplomat and tutor to Puyi, the last emperor of China, and later appointed as the last Commissioner of Weihaiwei.
In 1935 Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston bequeathed his library to the School of Oriental and African Studies in London England.
* Robert Bickers, Coolie work: Sir Reginald Johnston at the School of Oriental Studies, 1931-1937, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series III, 5, 3 ( November, 1995 ).
* Raymond Lamont-Brown, Tutor to the Dragon Emperor: The Life of Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston, 1999.
After several commissioners held the post of British commissioner of Weihaiwei ( Arthur Powlett Blunt 1921 – 1923 and Walter Russell Brown 1923 – 1927 ), the outstanding sinologist Reginald Johnston ( previously tutor to the last Chinese emperor ) was the last.
In the 1930s, the island was home to Sir Reginald Johnston, retired tutor to Puyi, the last Chinese emperor.
A police officer said that the road was " an indescribable scene of carnage ", whilst Johnston Chapman, the uncle of victims Reginald and Walter Chapman, said that the dead men were " just lying there like dogs, blood everywhere ".
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Yorkists were tied so much to the old order that Catholic rebellions ( such as the Pilgrimage of Grace ) and aspirations ( exemplified by William Allen ( cardinal )) were seen as continuing in their reactionary footsteps, when in opposition to the Tudors ' reformation policies, although the Tudors were not uniformly Protestant according to Continental definition — instead were true to their Lancastrian Beaufort allegiance, in the appointment of Reginald Pole.
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden ( October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932 ), a naturalized American citizen born in Quebec, Canada, was an inventor who performed pioneering experiments in radio, including early — and possibly the first — radio transmissions of voice and music.
— Reginald Dyer on his death bed quoted in The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer by Nigel Collett
The captain, Reginald Cook, was an experienced Royal Air Force pilot with combat experience during World War II — as were his first officer, Norman Hilton Cook, and second officer, Donald Checklin.
On 6 March 1923, in New York City, at the townhouse of friends, Gloria Morgan — then believed to be 17 years of age and having received the legal consent of her father to wed — became the second wife of Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, age 42, an heir to the Vanderbilt railroad fortune.
On the other hand, Reginald Sackville-West succeeded to the barony but was later stripped of it — an impermissible action.
While part of the division was detached to defend Kohat, the 45th Infantry Brigade under Brigadier General Reginald Dyer — who had been at the centre of the Amritsar incident — set out to relieve Eustace's force at Thal.
Much was made of Barry ’ s age by the Irish newspapers, but the British military were to point out that the three soldiers who had been killed were “ much the same age as Barry .” On 20 October, Major Reginald Ingram Marians OBE, Head of the Press Section of the General Staff, informed Basil Clarke, Head of Publicity, that Washington was “ only 19 and that the other soldiers were of similar ages .” General Macready, was well aware of the “ propaganda value of the soldier ’ s ages .” General Macready informed General Sir Henry Wilson on the day that sentence was pronounced “ of the three men who were killed by him ( Barry ) and his friends two were 19 and one 20 — official age so probably they were younger ... so if you want propaganda there you are .” It was later reported that one of the infantrymen was as young as 15 years old.
The anonymous text, De Expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum Libellus claims that Balian, Raymond and Reginald of Sidon fled the field in the middle of the battle, trampling " the Christians, the Turks and the Cross " in the process — but this is not corroborated by other accounts, and likely reflects the author's hostility to the Poleins ( a European born in the Levant ).
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In archaeology, for example, the contributions of Frederick Haverfield and Reginald Smith to the various volumes of the Victoria County Histories raised the discipline from the status of an antiquarian pastime to that of the most valuable single tool of the early English historian.
" The contemporary Reginald Scott noted, " At this day it is indifferent to say in the English tongue, ' she is a witch ' or ' she is a wise woman '".
In 1217, Reginald de Braose of Brecon and Abergavenny, who had been allied to Llywelyn and married his daughter, Gwladus Ddu, was induced by the English crown to change sides.
Leonard Rossiter ( 21 October 1926 – 5 October 1984 ) was an English actor, best known for his roles as Rupert Rigsby, in the British comedy television series and film Rising Damp ( 1974 – 80 ), and Reginald Iolanthe Perrin, in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin ( 1976 – 79 ).
* Reginald Lennard, ' Early English Fulling Mills: additional examples ' Economic History Review, New Series, 3 ( 3 ) ( 1951 ), 342-343.
* Reginald L. Poole: " The Names and Numbers of Medieval Popes ," in: The English Historical Review, Vol.
Twin brothers Ronald " Ronnie " Kray ( 24 October 193317 March 1995 ) and Reginald " Reggie " Kray ( 24 October 19331 October 2000 ) were English gangsters who were foremost perpetrators of organised crime in London's East End during the 1950s and ' 60s.
* Reginald Horace Blyth ( 1898 – 1964 ), English translator of and writer about haiku, and interpreter to the West of Asian culture
There were many editions of his books ( written in Latin ), especially Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, and several adaptations in English, including Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft ( 1584 ).
Reginald Charles Hill FRSL ( 3 April 193612 January 2012 ) was an English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers ' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.
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