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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 and Leslie
Following Sir Leslie Stephen's English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, most commentators agree that two features constituted the core of deism:
* A History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Sir Leslie Stephen, 2 volumes ( 1876, 3rd ed.
De Camp and Ley also claim that Sir John Leslie expanded on Euler's idea, suggesting two central suns named Pluto and Proserpine ( this was unrelated to the dwarf planet Pluto, which was discovered and named some time later ).
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" Edgar and Lucie at Mermaiden's well " by Charles Robert Leslie ( 1886 ), after Sir Walter Scott's Bride of Lammermoor.
* Stephen, Sir Leslie and Sir Sidney Lee ( editors ).
* Sir Leslie Fielding, Vice-Chancellor from 1987 to 1992 of the University of Sussex
* 1804 Sir John Leslie observes that a matte black surface radiates heat more effectively than a polished surface, suggesting the importance of black body radiation
* 1810 Sir John Leslie freezes water to ice artificially
* Sir Leslie Stephen, critic, first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
* Sir Leslie Murphy ( 1915 2007 ) was born in Southall and educated at Southall Grammar School ( now Villiers High School ).
Sir Joseph Barnby, caricature by " Leslie Ward | Spy " Sir Joseph Barnby ( 12 August 1838 28 January 1896 ), English musical composer and conductor, son of Thomas Barnby, an organist, was born at York.
Well-known Australian classical performers include: sopranos Dame Joan Sutherland, Dame Joan Hammond, Joan Carden, Yvonne Kenny, Sara Macliver and Emma Matthews ; pianists Roger Woodward, Eileen Joyce, Michael Kieran Harvey, Geoffrey Tozer, Geoffrey Douglas Madge, Leslie Howard and Ian Munro ; guitarists John Williams and Slava Grigoryan ; horn player Barry Tuckwell ; oboist Diana Doherty ; violinists Richard Tognetti and Elizabeth Wallfisch ; cellists John Addison and David Pereira ; organist Christopher Wrench ; orchestras like the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra ; and conductors Sir Bernard Heinze, Sir Charles Mackerras, Richard Bonynge, Simone Young and Geoffrey Simon.
* Stephen, Sir Leslie & Sir Sidney Lee.
( see Sir Leslie Stephen, English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, x.
A biographical introduction to The Backwater of Life was furnished by Sir Leslie Stephen.
Under Sullivan, a reluctant and ineffectual principal, the NTSM failed to provide a satisfactory alternative to the Royal Academy, and by 1880 a committee of examiners comprising Charles Hallé, Sir Julius Benedict, Sir Michael Costa, Henry Leslie and Otto Goldschmidt reported that the school lacked " executive cohesion ".

Sir and 1766
A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made circa 1766 for Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet | Henry Moore, Royal Governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than two miles from the city.
The most infamous club associated with the name was established in England by Sir Francis Dashwood, and met irregularly from around 1749 to around 1760, and possibly up until 1766.
In 1766, Sir Peter Beckford ( 1740 1811 ), a wealthy Englishman and cousin of the novelist William Thomas Beckford, twice Lord Mayor of London, visited Rome.
In 1766 Sir John Boyd had Danson House built in parkland ( now Danson Park between Bexleyheath and Welling ).
* Sir William Cusack-Smith, 2nd Baronet ( 1766 1836 ), baronet
From 1766 or 67, John Nash trained with the architect Sir Robert Taylor.
Wentworth regranted the township in 1766, naming it Acworth after Sir Jacob Acworth, an English admiral with interests in Portsmouth shipping.
A member of the Anglo-Irish elite of Protestant background, Grattan was the son of James Grattan MP, of Belcamp Park, County Dublin ( d. 1766 ), and Mary ( 1724 1768 ), youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Marlay ( 1691 1756 ), Attorney-General of Ireland, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and finally Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench ( Ireland ).
In his pocket-book her name as “ Miss Angelica ” or “ Miss Angel ” appears frequently ; and in 1766 he painted her, a compliment which she returned by her Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
* Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, for Sir Roland Winn, Bt ( 1766 85 );
In July 1766, Pontiac made peace with British Superintendent of Indian Affairs Sir William Johnson.
Pontiac met with Sir William Johnson, the British Superintendent of Indian Affairs, on July 25, 1766, at Oswego, New York, and formally ended hostilities.
West got the canvas into the Exhibition of the year and wrote, on August 4, 1766, a letter to Copley in which he referred to Sir Joshua Reynolds's interest in the work and advised the artist to follow his example by making " a viset to Europe for this porpase ( of self-improvement ) for three or four years.
It was settled in 1766 by Jacob Eaton and Colonel Ebenezer Smith, then regranted in 1768 by Governor John Wentworth and named after Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet, a member of Parliament who opposed taxation on the colonies.
* Sir John Leslie ( physicist ) ( 1766 1832 ), Scottish mathematician and physicist
* Sir George Thomas, 1st Baronet ( died 1774 ), Governor of the Leeward Islands 1753 1766, see Thomas baronets
The Abbey stands at the west end of the market place, which is home to the Shambles a Grade II * covered market built in 1766 by Sir Walter Blackett.
In 1766 he sailed to Newfoundland as Lieutenant on HMS Niger under Captain Sir Thomas Adams.
Sir Robert was appointed Sheriff of London for 1761 and Lord Mayor of London for 1766.
The heiress to the vast Percy estates married the Duke of Somerset ; and her granddaughter married a Yorkshire knight, Sir Hugh Smithson, who in 1766 was created the first Duke of Northumberland and Earl Percy, and it is their descendants who now represent the famous old house.
His son Sir Frederick Morton Eden, 2nd Baronet, of Maryland ( 1766 1809 ) was a pioneering writer and the author of The State of the Poor, published in 3 volumes in 1797.
* Sir Thomas Taylor, 3rd Baronet ( 1724 1795 ) ( created Earl of Bective in 1766 )
His third son from his second marriage, Sir Charles Pratt, was also a prominent lawyer and politician and served as Lord Chancellor between 1766 to 1770.
He was the son of Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet, of Plas Newydd, and Caroline, Lady Bayly ( d. 1766 ), granddaughter of the Hon.

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