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.

Among the notables buried in the cemetery are explorer-surveyor Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Major Edmund Lockyer and Mary, Lady Jamison ( widow of the colonial pioneer landowner, physician, constitutional reformer and ' knight of the realm ', Sir John Jamison ).

Parkes ' luck changed when one of the colony's wealthiest settlers, Sir John Jamison, gave him a labourer's job.

* Ronald Squire as Sir Francis Jamison

Two other prominent Penrith pioneers were Irish-born Thomas Jamison ( 1752 / 53-1811 ), a member of the First Fleet and surgeon-general of New South Wales ( after whom Jamisontown is named ), and his son, the landowner, physician and constitutional reformer Sir John Jamison ( 1776 – 1844 ).

Other memorable roles included Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith in the Preston Sturges film The Lady Eve ( 1941 ) with Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, a small part as Charles Kimble in the second of the seven Bing Crosby-Bob Hope " Road " films, Road to Zanzibar ( 1941 ), and from 1940 to 1947 in eleven Lone Wolf films as Jamison the butler.

During the 1820s, the Nepean district's most famous early settler, the landowner and physician Sir John Jamison ( 1776 – 1844 ), erected a magnificent Georgian house on the model estate which he had established on a rise overlooking the river, not far from the present-day City of Penrith.

One year later, amid a general renaming, the station was given the name of the nearby creek, Glenbrook, which Sir John Jamison thought came from Regents Glen.

The club's 86 members included such prominent citizens as W. C. Wentworth, Sir John Jamison, Captain John Piper, Dr William Bland, Major Edmund Lockyer, James Macarthur, William Lithgow and John Blaxland.

The mansion belonged to Sir John Jamison and stood at the heart of the knight's showpiece agricultural estate on the Nepean River.

Gibbes was now managing the Regentville estate for his father-in-law, Sir John Jamison, who was in poor health.

Originally called The Weatherboard after the ‘ Weatherboard Inn ’ built in 1814, a year later the town was named Jamison ’ s Valley by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in honour of the colony's leading private citizen, Sir John Jamison.

The park is named after the Penrith region's most famous early settler, Sir John Jamison ( 1776 – 1844 ), of Regentville House.

Sir John Jamison arrived in Sydney in 1814 and progressively established himself during the ensuing two decades as one of the colony's biggest and wealthiest land owners.

Not far away dwelt Cox's friend Sir John Jamison, who erected the colony's finest mansion, Regentville House, in 1824, on an eminence overlooking the Nepean River.

It was the first public building in the Mulgoa Valley and was constructed out of sandstone and cedar on paddocks donated by the Cox family, with Sir John Jamison serving as one of its patrons.

* Sir John Jamison Kt, MD ( 1776 – 1844 ), landowner, physician and Member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales ;

Later, the property passed to his son, Sir John Jamison ( 1776 – 1844 ), Kt, MD, MLC-a celebrated physician, land owner and political reformer, who erected a splendid mansion ( since destroyed by fire ) on the nearby Regentville estate during the 1820s.

Following the arrival of British settlers, the colonial government granted land in the area to one of New South Wales ' leading private citizens, Sir John Jamison ( 1776 – 1844 ), who arrived in Sydney in 1814.

By 1776, the position of the British Secretary at War was a sophisticated managerial role, but the duties in 1661 to 1666 of England's first Secretary at War, Sir William Clarke, were more basic ones of literally handling the secretarial duties of managing official correspondence, memoranda, military orders, and financial accounts.

On 28 June 1776, an incomplete fort was held by colonial forces under Colonel William Moultrie against an onslaught by the British under General Sir Henry Clinton's army sailing with Commodore Sir Peter Parker's men-of-war.

The Old Town Hall, built in 1776, now houses Stranraer Museum with its displays of Victorian Wigtownshire and the town's polar explorers, Sir John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross.

* General Sir Howard Douglas ( 1776 – 1861 ), British general and colonial administrator

* Sir Edward Stanley, 5th Baronet ( 1689 – 1776 ) ( succeeded as 11th Earl of Derby in 1736 )

* Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal ( b. 1776 ), lawyer, judge and Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

" 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.

In 1776 his defense of a small fort on Sullivan's Island ( later named Fort Moultrie in his honor ) prevented Sir Henry Clinton and Sir Peter Parker from taking Charleston, South Carolina.

Sir Thomas Bladen Capell ( 1776 – 1853 ), youngest son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy.

In 1776 Mackenzie married Penuel, daughter of Sir Ludovich Grant of Grant.

David Herd ( 1732 – 1810 ), the collector of the classic edition of Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs ( 1776 ), was " sovereign " of the Cape ( in which he was known as " Sir Scrape ") when Fergusson was dubbed a knight of the order, with the title of " Sir Precentor ", in allusion to his fine voice.

Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, KB ( 3 September 1724 – 10 November 1808 ), known between 1776 and 1786 as Sir Guy Carleton, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and administrator.

Sir Edwin Sandys, 1776 mezzotint by Valentine Green.

Its common name comes from the archipelago of its discovery, the Kerguelens, and its generic name derives from Sir John Pringle, President of the Royal Society at the time of its discovery by Captain James Cook's Surgeon, William Anderson in 1776.

General George Washington barely escaped New York City with his army in January 1776 ; General Sir William Howe was successful in driving Washington out, but erred by expanding into New Jersey.

* Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet ( 1776 – 1861 ), Member of Parliament for Pembroke, 1841 – 1861

* A Detail of Some Particular Services Performed in America, During the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779, Compiled from Journals and Original Papers ... taken from the Journal Kept on Board of the Ship ' Rainbow ' Commanded By Sir George Collier ( New York, 1835 )

Helensburgh was founded in 1776 when Sir James Colquhoun of Luss built spa baths on the site of Ardencaple Castle, which dated back to about 1600.

He participated in the successful defense of Charleston in the Battle of Sullivan's Island in June 1776, when British forces under General Sir Henry Clinton staged an amphibious attack on the state capital.

* Sir William Lyttelton, 7th Baronet ( 1724 – 1808 ) ( created Baron Westcote in 1776 and Baron Lyttelton in 1794 )