The corporation voted on September 27, 1598, that Quiney should ride to London about the suit to Sir John Fortescue, chancellor of the Exchequer, for discharging of the tax and subsidy.

Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the Caterpillar ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being the head end of an actual caterpillar, with the first two right " true " legs visible.

Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.

George Stubbs, William Blake, John Martin, Francisco Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, Eugène Delacroix, Sir Edwin landseer, Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner

He had an elder brother, John ( the father of Sir John Dermot Turing, 12th Baronet of the Turing Baronets ).

" Eleanor Audeley ", wife of Sir John Davies, is said to have been brought before the High Commission in 1634 for extravagances, stimulated by the discovery that her name could be transposed to " Reveale, O Daniel ", and to have been laughed out of court by another anagram submitted by Sir John Lambe, the dean of the Arches, " Dame Eleanor Davies ", " Never soe mad a ladie ".

* 1904 – Sir John Gielgud, English actor ( d. 2000 )

Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.

Among Canova's English pupils were sculptors Sir Richard Westmacott and John Gibson.

The English Civil War ( 1642 – 1651 ) provoked a number of examples of this genre, including works by Sir Edmund Ludlow and Sir John Reresby.

* the " Lost Colony " of Roanoke Island: In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh recruited over 100 men, women and children to journey from England to Roanoke Island on North Carolina's coast and establish the first English settlement in America under the direction of John White as governor.

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

A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.

A subsidiary colony was to be founded on Norfolk Island, as recommended by Sir John Call, to take advantage for naval purposes of that island's native flax and timber.

* Sir John Barrow, An Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart., Late of the Admiralty ( London, 1847 ).

* November 23 – Sir John Barrow, English statesman ( b. 1764 )

Ulverston's most visible landmark is Hoad Monument, a concrete structure built in 1850 to commemorate statesman and local resident Sir John Barrow.

Sir John Barrow, born at Dragley Beck, Ulverston, was the Admiralty's Second Secretary: a much more important position than First Secretary.

* Sir John Barrow

* Frederick William Beechey and Sir John Barrow

Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, FRS, FRGS ( 19 June 1764 – 23 November 1848 ) was an English statesman.

Sir John Barrow, 1st Bt, by John Jackson

The Sir John Barrow monument on Hoad Hill overlooking his home town of Ulverston was built in his honour ( though it is more commonly called Hoad Monument ).

* An Auto-Biographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart, Late of the Admiralty.

* Sir John Barrow, Life of Richard, Earl Howe, ( London, 1838 )

This bird was named after Sir John Barrow.

Sir Alfred Sharpe took over as commissioner in 1896, serving until 1 April 1910, with Francis Barrow Pearce and William Henry Manning as acting commissioner for a period in 1907 and 1908.

He had married Margaret Barrow, who is described as a student in the " school " of Sir Thomas More.

* Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet ( 1764 – 1848 ), English statesman

Founding members of the Society included Sir John Barrow, Sir John Franklin and Francis Beaufort.

: 4th Cavalry Division ( Major General Sir G. de S. Barrow )

The first locomotive superintendent, recruited from Bury, Curtis and Kennedy in 1846, was later to be knighted as Sir James Ramsden, a leading civic figure and first Mayor of Barrow.

Somerville Island ( 74 ° 44 ' N, 96 ° 10 ' W ), a small island in Barrow Strait, Nunavut, was named after her by Sir William Edward Parry in 1819 during the first of the four Arctic expeditions under his command.

The authorship of the tracts has been attributed to several persons: to Penry himself, who however emphatically denied it and whose acknowledged works have little resemblance in style to those of Martin, to Sir Michael Hicks ( by the historian A. L. Rowse ), Henry Barrow, and to Warwickshire squire and Member of Parliament Job Throckmorton, whom most Marprelate scholars now believe was the primary author with the assistance of Penry.

* Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 14th century invented account of travels.

In works such as The Travels of Sir John Mandeville and Historia Trium Regum by John of Hildesheim, Prester John's domain tends to regain its fantastic aspects and finds itself located not on the steppes of Central Asia, but back in India proper, or some other exotic locale.

Early in 1875 Giles prepared his diaries for publication under the title Geographic Travels in Central Australia, and on 13 March 1875, with the generous help of Sir Thomas Elder, he began his third expedition.

These earlier accounts clearly inspired the popular medieval fantasy The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, which also mentions the Fountain of Youth as located at the foot of a mountain outside Polombe ( modern Kollam ) in India.

" Blessed with as many lives as a cat ," his time with the Ojibwa and subsequent explorations are retold in his Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories between the years 1760 and 1776 ( published New York, 1809 ), which he dedicated to his friend Sir Joseph Banks.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a 14th best-seller, associated the Jews with Gog and Magog, saying the nation trapped behind the Gates of Alexander comprised the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.

** The Travels of Sir John Mandeville ( anonymous )

* Jean Chardin-Voyages de monsieur le chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l ' orient ( The Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia and the Orient )

* Sir Anthony Shirley-Sir Anthony Shirley: his Relation of his Travels into Persia

In 1839 he edited Sir John Mandeville's Travels ; in 1842 published an Account of the European manuscripts in the Chetham Library, besides a newly discovered metrical romance of the 18th century ( Torrent of Portugal ).

* The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, John Mandeville

* Pouqueville, François, Travels in Epirus, Albania, Macedonia, and Thessaly ( London: printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co, 1820 ), an English denatured and truncated edition available on line

Swift had used Benjamin Tooke previously when publishing for Sir William Temple, he would use Tooke for both the fifth edition of the Tale ( 1710 ) and later works, and it was Tooke's successor, Benjamin Motte, who published Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

In 1607 Day produced, in conjunction with William Rowley and George Wilkins, The Travels of the Three English Brothers, which detailed the adventures of Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony and Robert Shirley.

Shirley wrote an account of his adventures, Sir Anthony Sherley: his Relation of his Travels into Persia ( 1613 ), the original manuscript of which is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.

See also The Three Brothers ; Travels and Adventures of Sir Anthony, Sir Robert and Sir Thomas Sherley in Persia, Russia, Turkey and Spain ( London, 1825 ); EP Shirley, The Sherley Brothers ( 1848 ), and the same writer's Stemmata Shirleiana ( 1841, again 1873 ).

" Jehan de Mandeville ", translated as " Sir John Mandeville ", is the name claimed by the compiler of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a book account of his supposed travels, which probably first appeared in Anglo-Norman French, and first circulated between 1357 and 1371.

The most recent scholarly work suggests that The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was “ the work of Jan de Langhe, a Fleming who wrote in Latin under the name Johannes Longus and in French as Jean le Long .” Jan de Langhe was born in Ypres early in the 1300s and by 1334 had become a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Saint-Bertin in Saint-Omer which was about 20 miles from Calais.

Sir Robert Naunton ( 1563 – 1635 ) mentions it in his book Travels in England, published sometime between 1628 and 1632: he calls Rye a " small English seaport "; shortly after his arrival he takes post-horses for London, travelling via Flimwell.

* Jean Chardin, ( 1643 – 1713 ), French jeweller and traveller, author of The Travels of Sir John Chardin