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* Sir Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ) published Novum Organum in 1620, which outlined a new system of logic based on the process of reduction, which he offered as an improvement over Aristotle's philosophical process of syllogism.
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Mynheer, Sir Francis, the valley society, the very smell of the river on his right purling along to the bay past fish weirs and rocks, and ahead the sleepy ribbon of moon-drenched road.
Instead of quelling the dissension, as many captains of the era would have done ( Sir Francis Drake lopped a man's head off under similar circumstances ), Hudson decided to be reasonable.
* 1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker ( d. 1810 )
* 1982 – 1990 Sir Francis Graham-Smith
He was then deluged with petitions urging him to call it together, and this agitation was opposed by Sir George Jeffreys and Francis Wythens, who presented addresses expressing abhorrence of the Petitioners, and thus initiated the movement of the abhorrers, who supported the action of the king.
Before he entered parliament, Disraeli was involved with several women, most notably Henrietta, Lady Sykes ( the wife of Sir Francis Sykes, 3rd Bt ), who served as the model for Henrietta Temple.
A Young Disraeli by Francis Grant ( artist ) | Sir Francis Grant, 1852
Of these only Henrietta Temple ( based on his affair with Henrietta Sykes, wife of Sir Francis William Sykes, 3rd Bt ) was a true success.
Similarly, the influences of philosophers such as Sir Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ) and René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), who demanded more rigor in mathematics and in removing bias from scientific observations, led to a scientific revolution.
The first recorded English visitor was Sir Francis Drake in 1586, who reported that the caymanas were edible, but it was the turtles which attracted ships in search of fresh meat for their crews.
Trevor Huddleston, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir Herbert Read, Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist ' Vicky ', Professor C. H. Waddington and Barbara Wootton.
In 1586, Sir Francis Drake captured the city of Santo Domingo, collecting a ransom for its return to Spanish rule.
The Neustra Señora del Rosario, the Spanish Armada's " payship " commanded by Admiral Pedro de Valdés, was captured along with all its crew by Sir Francis Drake.
* Piggott, Sir Francis.
* 1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.
The modern field and term were first formulated by Sir Francis Galton in 1883, drawing on the recent work of his half-cousin Charles Darwin.
Elizabeth's reign is known as the Elizabethan era, famous above all for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Sir Francis Drake.
Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State ( England ) | Principal Secretary 1573 – 1590.
Mary may not have been told of every Catholic plot to put her on the English throne, but from the Ridolfi Plot of 1571 ( which caused Mary's suitor, the Duke of Norfolk, to lose his head ) to the Babington Plot of 1586, Elizabeth's spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and the royal council keenly assembled a case against her.
Meanwhile, Sir Francis Drake had undertaken a major voyage against Spanish ports and ships to the Caribbean in 1585 and 1586, and in 1587 had made a successful raid on Cadiz, destroying the Spanish fleet of war ships intended for the Enterprise of England: Philip II had decided to take the war to England.
With the exception of Lord Burghley, the most important politicians had died around 1590: The Earl of Leicester in 1588, Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590, Sir Christopher Hatton in 1591.
Sir and Bacon
Several of Ochino's Prediche were also translated into English by a lady, Anna Cooke ( or Anne Cooke ; b. 1533 ) afterwards second wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon ; and he published numerous controversial treatises on the Continent.
Bacon was born on 22 January 1561 at York House near the Strand in London, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne ( Cooke ) Bacon, the daughter of noted humanist Anthony Cooke.
Bacon was subsequently a part of the legal team headed by Attorney General Sir Edward Coke at Essex's treason trial.
Bacon disinherited her upon discovering her secret romantic relationship with Sir John Underhill.
As late as the eighteenth-century some juries still declared the law rather than the fact, but already before the end of the seventeenth century Sir Matthew Hale explained modern common law adjudication procedure and acknowledged Bacon as the inventor of the process of discovering unwritten laws from the evidences of their applications.
The Baconian theory of Shakespearean authorship, first proposed in the mid-19th century, contends that Sir Francis Bacon wrote some or all the plays conventionally attributed to William Shakespeare, in opposition to the scholarly consensus that William Shakespeare of Stratford was the author.
* The Learned Reading of Sir Francis Bacon ( to Gray's Inn ) ( 1642 )
For example, Immanuel Kant used pure description to discuss recognition and its components and Sir Francis Bacon claimed that the simple observation of the rote recollection of a previously learned list was “ no use to the art ” of memory.
* George Chapman, The Works of Hesiod, London, 1618, dedicated to Sir Francis Bacon.
* 1561 – Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher ( d. 1626 )
* January 22 – Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, scientist, and statesman ( d. 1626 )
* With much legal strife and the encouragement of Sir Francis Bacon, Chief Justice Edward Coke is dismissed from the King's Bench, and the royal prerogatives of King James I triumph over English common law.
* Sir Francis Bacon
The work of Sir Francis Bacon popularized this approach, thereby helping to forge the scientific revolution.
A week after his appointment Haig met Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon, who emphasised the importance of obtaining control of the Belgian coast, to end the threat from there by German naval forces.
Three years later, on 21 December 1546 he married Mildred Cooke, who was ranked by Ascham with Lady Jane Grey as one of the two most learned ladies in the kingdom, and whose sister, Anne, became the wife of Sir Nicholas ( and later the mother of Sir Francis ) Bacon.
The two courts became locked in a stalemate, and the matter was eventually referred to the Attorney-General, Sir Francis Bacon.
Within the walls of Verulam, which he took for the name of his Barony, the essayist and statesman Sir Francis Bacon built a refined small house that was thoroughly described by the 17th century diarist John Aubrey.
He also painted Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir Nicholas Bacon, Sir Francis Walsingham, Lord High Admiral Howard.
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* 1561 – Sir Edwin Sandys, English colonial settler ( d. 1629 )
He was also the great nephew of both George Sandys ( 2 March 1577 – March 1644 ), an English traveller, colonist and poet ; and of Sir Edwin Sandys ( 9 December 1561 – October 1629 ), an English statesman and one of the founders of the London Company.
** Sir Anthony Babington, English Catholic conspirator ( executed ) ( b. 1561 )
In January 1561, he was given the lucrative office of Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries in succession to Sir Thomas Parry.
The chief conspirator was Sir Anthony Babington ( 1561 – 1586 ), a young Catholic nobleman.
In 1553 Sir Nicholas Bacon married secondly Anne Cooke ( 1528 – 1610 ), one of the daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke, by whom he had two sons, Anthony ( 1558 – 1601 ) and Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ), who became Lord Chancellor and was also a philosopher, author and scientist.
He married in 1577 Mary Sidney, the famous Countess of Pembroke ( c. 1561 – 1621 ), third daughter of Sir Henry Sidney and his wife Mary Dudley.
His first wife was Margaret Bostock, she had five children, but only two daughters survived-Mary ( d. after 1547 ) and Ann who married Sir Henry Boynton in 1561.
Founded in 1561 by Sir Thomas White and Sir Richard Hilles, the School is one of the original nine English Public Schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868.
Sir William Cecil gave the manuscript to Golding for completion sometime between Brende ’ s death in 1560 or 1561 ( the exact year he died is not certain ) and 1564.
Sir Edwin Sandys ( pronounced " Sands ") ( 9 December 1561 – October 1629 ) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1626.
* Sir Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ) was lord of the manor of Gorehambury which included Hemel Hempstead from 1601.
In 1561 or 1562, Walter married Lettice, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys and Catherine Carey.
* Sir Edwin Sandys ( died 1629 ) ( 1561 – 1629 ), founder of the colony of Virginia, son of the above
* Sir Richard Bulkeley of Beaumaris, Anglesey, and Lewisham-ex-officio mayor ( 1561 – 1562 ), mayor ( 1562 – 1563 )
Sir John Harington ( also spelled Harrington ) ( 4 August 1561 – 20 November 1612 ), of Kelston, was a courtier, author and master of art, popularly known as the inventor of the flush toilet.
* Sir Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Baronet ( 1561 – 1630 ) ( created Viscount Castleton in 1627 )
He later married Anne Broughton ( d. 1561 ), the daughter of Sir William Broughton, in 1539, at Toddington, in Bedfordshire.
Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington and Thirlstane ( 1496 – 1 August 1586 ) was a Senator of the College of Justice, an Ordinary Lord of Session from 1561 until 1584, and notable Scottish poet.
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