* 1574 – Robert Dudley, English explorer and writer ( d. 1649 )

Elizabeth and her favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, c. 1575.

In the spring of 1559 it became evident that Elizabeth was in love with her childhood friend Robert Dudley.

Among other marriages being considered for the queen, Robert Dudley was regarded as a possible candidate for nearly another decade.

In 1563 Elizabeth proposed her own suitor, Robert Dudley, as a husband for Mary, without asking either of the two people concerned.

The expedition was led by her former suitor, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

During his minority as her ward, one third of his estate had already reverted to the Crown, much of which Elizabeth had long since settled on Robert Dudley.

* 1533 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester ( d. 1588 )

The remainder of the inner court was built by Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, in the 1570s.

Leicester's gatehouse, built by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester | Robert Dudley in a deliberately anachronistic style.

In accordance with his will, the castle passed first to his brother Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, and after the latter's death in 1590, to his illegitimate son, Sir Robert Dudley.

Elizabeth also appointed her personal favourite, the son of the Duke of Northumberland Lord Robert Dudley, her Master of the Horse, giving him constant personal access to the queen.

Risk of death came dangerously close in 1564 when Elizabeth caught smallpox ; when she was most at risk, she named Robert Dudley as Lord Protector in the event of her death.

It was rumoured that she was in love with Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and that on one of her summer progresses she had birthed his illegitimate child.

In 1970 Wendy Carlos and Robert Moog built another musical vocoder, a 10-band device inspired by the vocoder designs of Homer Dudley.

* August 7 – Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer ( d. 1649 )

* September 4 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician ( b. 1532 )

* September 6 – Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer ( b. 1574 )

** Lady Douglas Sheffield, lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester ( d. 1608 )

* June 7 – Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester ( d. 1560 )

** Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician ( d. 1588 )

Robert Frost, for instance, writes about rural life in New England, but he does not include any significant amount of folklore in his poems.

* In 1965, Robert Manry crossed the Atlantic from the U. S. to England non-stop in a 13. 5 foot ( 4. 05 meters ) sailboat named " Tinkerbell ".

* 1293 – Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Bowls is played at the Commonwealth Games ; the last being held in Delhi, India, where Natalie Melmore ( England ) and Robert Weale ( Wales ) won the singles Gold Medals.

In England, the clerks of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, made a practice of using the Latin word consul rather than the more common comes when translating his title of ' Earl '.

The world's top 10 association croquet players as of May 2012 are Reg Bamford ( South Africa ), Robert Fulford ( England ), Robert Fletcher ( Australia ), David Maugham ( England ), Toby Garrison ( New Zealand ), Aaron Westerby ( New Zealand ), Paddy Chapman ( New Zealand ), Jamie Burch ( England ), Greg Bryant ( New Zealand ) and Ben Rothman ( USA ).

In England, Charles was placed under the charge of Alletta ( Hogenhove ) Carey, the Dutch-born wife of courtier Sir Robert Carey, who taught him how to talk and insisted that he wear boots made of Spanish leather and brass to help strengthen his weak ankles.

The historicity of this story is questioned by most scholars, although John Robert Moore later said that " no man in England but Defoe ever stood in the pillory and later rose to eminence among his fellow men ".

In despair, he wrote to William Paterson the London Scot and founder of the Bank of England and part instigator of the Darien scheme, who was in the confidence of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, leading minister and spymaster in the English Government.

The Declaration made a number of much-debated rhetorical points: that Scotland had always been independent, indeed for longer than England ; that Edward I of England had unjustly attacked Scotland and perpetrated atrocities ; that Robert the Bruce had delivered the Scottish nation from this peril ; and, most controversially, that the independence of Scotland was the prerogative of the Scottish people, rather than the King of Scots.

In England, the term deist first appeared in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy ( 1621 ).

Born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire near Newark-on-Trent, England, the youngest of seven children of Robert Darwin of Elston ( 12 August 1682 – 20 November 1754 ), a lawyer, and his wife Elizabeth Hill ( 1702 – 1797 ).

By the autumn of 1559 several foreign suitors were vying for Elizabeth's hand ; their impatient envoys engaged in ever more scandalous talk and reported that a marriage with her favourite was not welcome in England: " There is not a man who does not cry out on him and her with indignation ... she will marry none but the favoured Robert ".

In 1592, he was commissioned to write a tract in response to the Jesuit Robert Parson's anti-government polemic, which he titled Certain observations made upon a libel, identifying England with the ideals of democratic Athens against the belligerence of Spain.

While at Reims, Callistus tried to effect a settlement with Henry I of England and his brother Robert.

Robert Hart ( horticulturist ) | Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire, England

In the autumn of 1139, she invaded England with her illegitimate half-brother Robert of Gloucester.

* 1574 – Robert Fludd, English composer and writer ( d. 1637 )

* September 8 – Robert Fludd, English mystic ( b. 1574 )

The legend inspired a variety of works, among them the works of Michael Maier ( 1568 – 1622 ) of Germany ; Robert Fludd ( 1574 – 1637 ) and Elias Ashmole ( 1617 – 1692 ) of England ; Teophilus Schweighardt Constantiens, Gotthardus Arthusius, Julius Sperber, Henricus Madathanus, Gabriel Naudé, Thomas Vaughan, and others.

The affair continued and in 1574 Lady Douglas gave birth to a son, also called Robert Dudley.

* Adams, Simon ( 2008c ): " Dudley, Sir Robert ( 1574 – 1649 )" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online edn.

In 1574 he passed over to England, where he received commission from Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester to portray himself and Queen Elizabeth.

Robert Fludd, also known as Robertus de Fluctibus ( 17 January 1574 – 8 September 1637 ) was a prominent English Paracelsian physician.

* Robert Dudley ( explorer ) ( 1574 – 1649 ), English explorer and cartographer

Prior to Robert Mot, in 1574, the sign of three bells was often cast to indicate that it was a Whitechapel ( or Aldgate ) bell.

* 1574 / 75 Robert Phipps William Parlby

* Robert Barnewall, 7th Baron Trimlestown ( c. 1574 – 1639 )

Sir Robert Dudley ( 7 August 1574 – 6 September 1649 ) was an English explorer and cartographer.

* Adams, Simon ( 2008a ): " Dudley, Sir Robert ( 1574 – 1649 )" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online edn.

* Robert Dudley ( explorer ) ( 1574 – 1649 ), illegitimate son of the above

* Robert White ( composer ) ( c. 1538 – 1574 ), English composer

* Robert White ( composer ) ( c. 1538 – 1574 ), English composer

* Adams, Simon ( 2008c ): " Dudley, Sir Robert ( 1574 – 1649 )" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online edn.

In August 1574, Douglas ' son Robert was born.

* Adams, Simon ( 2008b ): " Dudley, Sir Robert ( 1574 – 1649 )" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online edn.

Archdeacon Robert Johnson ( 1540 – 1625 ) was Rector of North Luffenham for 51 years, from 1574 until his death ; he founded Oakham and Uppingham Schools in 1584, as well as other charitable institutions including almshouses.

He acquired the barony of Portincross and Ardneill from Robert Boyd of that place by contract, 19 April 1572, and had sasine 24 May 1574, following a Crown charter of 11 March of the said lands " formerly belonging to Archibald Boyd ".

* Robert West ( b. 1574 ), married Elizabeth Coks.