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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 Summerson
* Summerson, Sir John, The Classical Language of Architecture MIT Press, 1966.
* Sir John Summerson, Georgian London, ( 1945 ).
* Sir John Summerson, Architecture in Britain ( series: Pelican History of Art ) Reissued in paperback 1970
This broad use of the term is employed by Sir John Summerson in The Classical Language of Architecture.
* Sir John Summerson ( rev 1980 ) The Classical Language of Architecture ISBN 978-0-500-20177-0.
The architectural historian Sir John Summerson asserts that the palace shows " the essence of Wolsey — the plain English churchman who nevertheless made his sovereign the arbiter of Europe and who built and furnished Hampton Court to show foreign embassies that Henry VIII's chief minister knew how to live as graciously as any cardinal in Rome.
A château is a “ power house ”, as Sir John Summerson dubbed the British and Irish “ stately homes ” that are the British Isles ' architectural counterparts to French châteaux.
According to the architectural historian Sir John Summerson, " It inaugurates an artistic revolution which is the counterpart of the political revolution in which the Earl was so prominent a leader.
Sir John Summerson described Clarendon House as " the most influential house of its time among those who aimed at the grand manner " and Belton as " much the finest surviving example of its class ".
* Summerson, Sir John, 1948.
The architectural historian Sir John Summerson was Curator of the Museum from 1945 to 1984.
* Summerson, John, ( 1966 ) The Fortieth Volume of the Walpole Society 1964-1965, The Book of John Thorpe in Sir John Soane's Museum, The Walpole Society
* Summerson, John: ( 1966 ) The Fourtieth Volume of the Walpole Society 1964 – 1965, The Book of John Thorpe in Sir John Soane's Museum, The Walpole Society
Sir John Summerson wrote that " it leaves an impression of uneasily constricted bulk ", adding that " on the whole, the building is a striking reminder that good taste was not a universal attribute in the eighteenth century ".
* Sir John Summerson, 1948. in Heavenly Mansions.
This broad use of the term is employed by Sir John Summerson in The Classical Language of Architecture.
He was described by Sir John Summerson as " among the few really outstanding architects of the century ", but few of his buildings remain.
The first building to be purpose-built for the study of art history in the United Kingdom, it was described by architectural historian Sir John Summerson as representing " better than almost any other building ( except, perhaps the RIBA in Portland Place ) the spirit of English architecture in the 1930s.
Sir John Summerson included Dance in a list of London architects who he felt debased Palladianism, calling his Mansion House " cramped and overdressed ".
" As Sir John Summerson noted, " There is something wildly ' American ' about Thomson -- a ' New World ' attitude.
Lancaster's Drayneflete may have taken its initial hints from a public lecture delivered in 1947 by Sir John Summerson outlining the issues in historic preservation that underlie Lancaster's comedy.
In a 1941 essay, the architectural historian Sir John Summerson called it " surface modulation ".
Sir John Newenham Summerson CH CBE ( 25 November 1904 – 10 November 1992 ) was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century.
Summerson was curator of Sir John Soane's Museum from 1945 to 1984.

Sir and Classical
" Sir Edward Coke, Ciceronianus: Classical Rhetoric and the Common Law Tradition.
These include the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Classical Players under the direction of Sir Roger Norrington and the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood, among others.
A dictionary of the Bible by Sir William Smith published in 1863, notes the Hebrew word for peacock Thukki, derived from the Classical Tamil for peacock Thogkai joins other Classical Tamil words for ivory, cotton-cloth and apes preserved in the Hebrew Bible.
Pheidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends ( 1868 ) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema | Sir Lawrence Alma-TademaPhidias, or The Great Pheidias ( in Ancient Greek, ; circa 480 – 430 BC ), was a Greek sculptor, painter and architect, who lived in the 5th century BC, and is commonly regarded as one of the greatest of all sculptors of Classical Greece: Phidias ' Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
* Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, Sir James George Frazer ( translator ), two volumes: Loeb Classical Library, # 121, Books I-III and # 122, Book III ; Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press ; ( 1921 ) ISBN 0-674-99135-4, ISBN 0-674-99136-2
In 1906 the RCS moved into an imposing new building designed by Sir Aston Webb, which was built in a Classical style and had distinctive brick courses.
Classical acts to have an album nominated have included Sir John Tavener, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Gavin Bryars and Nicholas Maw.
The encyclopaedist and author Sir Thomas Browne wrote a short essay upon Athenaeus which reflects a revived interest in the Banquet of the Learned amongst scholars during the 17th century following its publication in 1612 by the Classical scholar Isaac Casaubon.
This pre-dated Sir William Jones ’ famous lecture comparing Sanskrit with the Classical languages, by more than seventy years.
* Sir John Boardman ( archaeologist, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology )
With the appointment of Sir Wilfrid Laurier came a new phase of Confederation that Rand Dyck refers to as " Classical Federalism ".
A selection from his Essays and Addresses, and a subsequent volume, Life and Letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb ( with critical introduction by A. W. Verrall ) were published by his widow in 1907 ; see also an appreciative notice by J. E. Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, iii.
The encyclopaedist Sir Thomas Browne wrote a Latin essay on Athenaeus which reflects a revived interest in the Banquet of the Learned amongst scholars following the publication of the Deipnosophistae in 1612 by the Classical scholar Isaac Casaubon.
Among his concerto recordings are the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos with Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra ( EMI ); Mozart Piano Concerto No 24 and Schumann Piano Concerto with Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra ( EMI ); Schumann Concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic and Giulini ( Sony Classical ); Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos.
* Sir Frank Adcock OBE, Professor of Ancient History from 1925-51 at the University of Cambridge, and President from 1947-8 of the Classical Association ( 1897 – 1904 )
Other awards include European Encouragement Prize for Music 1995, NFMS Sir Charles Grove Award 1998, and South Bank Show Award for Classical Music 2000
It is compiled and edited by Sir Paul Harvey, Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford and lecturer in Classical Languages at the University of Oxford.
*" Humanism in Politics and Economics ", Greek Ideals and Modern Life, Sir R. W. Livingstone, Martin Classical Lectures, Vol.

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