In about 1634, he met Joseph Symonds ( assistant to Thomas Gataker ) and Walter Cradock, two Nonconformists.

His father, Thomas Cradock Hepworth, was a famous magic lantern showman and author.

The medieval was the most important to Chambers because he sought to place Thomas More, the author of Utopia, in some intelligible relation with St. Thomas More, the martyr.

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

When Thomas Hobbes wrote that " the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof ", he was promulgating an enormously important truth.

The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.

Thomas Hobbes – a 17th century deist and important influence on subsequent deists – used the cosmological argument for the existence of God at several places in his writings.

Although writing exclusively in the English language, Thomas has been acknowledged as one of the most important Welsh poets of the 20th century.

Its schools spread throughout the entire Church ; its doctors wrote monumental works in all branches of knowledge, including the extremely important Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas.

Brown's most important painting was Work ( 1852 – 1865 ), commissioned by Thomas Plint and which he showed at a special exhibition.

Some historians think that Thomas Cromwell affected a " Tudor Revolution " in government, and it is certain that Parliament became more important during his chancellorship.

However, during the early part of the year, probably before taking up his new office, he had produced two important works for the stage, the music for Nathaniel Lee's Theodosius, and Thomas d ' Urfey's Virtuous Wife.

Thomas Aquinas was the most important Western medieval legal scholar

Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur (" The Death of Arthur "), written in 1485, was important in defining the ideal of chivalry which is essential to the modern concept of the knight as an elite warrior sworn to uphold the values of faith, loyalty, courage, and honour.

The Lansing Metropolitan Area, colloquially referred to as " Mid-Michigan ", is an important center for educational, cultural, governmental, business, and high-tech manufacturing, including two medical schools, one veterinary school, two nursing schools, two law schools, including the nation's largest law school ( Thomas M. Cooley Law School ), a Big Ten Conference university ( Michigan State ), the Michigan State Capitol, the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, a federal court, the Library of Michigan and Historical Center, and headquarters of four national insurance companies.

* 1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.

Other important figures in American politics who participated in the Enlightenment were Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Arnold, the Head Master of Rugby School, was an important influence on Coubertin's thoughts about education, but his meetings with Dr. William Penny Brookes also influenced his thinking about athletic competition to some extent.

Two important authors of short stories in the German language were Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka.

important location along the Anegada Passage-a key shipping lane for the Panama Canal ; Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas is one of the best natural, deepwater harbors in the Caribbean ; well-known beaches include Magens Bay ( Saint Thomas ) and Trunk Bay ( Saint John );

A little later, in England, Thomas Mace wrote Musick's Monument, which deals more with the lute but has an important section on the viol.

* January 27 – Thomas Willis, English physician who made important contributions to anatomy, particularly of the brain and nervous system ( d. 1675 )

* July 28 – One of the most important political figures of the reign of Henry VIII of England, Thomas Cromwell, is executed on order from the king on charges of treason.

Several important cultural achievements were made in the decade, including publication of Roger Bacon's important scientific work Opus Majus and Thomas Aquinas ' Summa contra Gentiles.

The state takes its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor, after whom what is now called Cape Henlopen was originally named.

* 1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opened his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa ( present-day Ghana ).

* 1615 – Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler ( d. 1675 )

" British colonial administrators advocated the spread of the system to the rest of the Commonwealth, the most " persistent " of which was Thomas Taylor Meadows, Britain's consul in Guangzhou, China.

Deism was a religious philosophy in common currency in colonial times, and some Founding Fathers ( most notably Thomas Paine, who was an explicit proponent of it, and Benjamin Franklin, who spoke of it in his Autobiography ) are identified more or less with this system.

In Pennsylvania, political struggles ended with the dissolution of the colonial assembly, and on June 18 a new Conference of Committees under Thomas McKean authorized Pennsylvania's delegates to declare independence.

* February 25 – Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman ( b. 1722 )

Ten Powhatan Indians are brought by Sir Thomas Dale, the colonial governor, at the request of the Virginia Company, as a fund-raising stunt.

* June 3 – Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts ( b. 1711 )

* Zachary Macaulay ( 1768 – 1838 ), estate manager, colonial governor, father of Thomas Babington Macaulay

Ten days later Anna, Thomas, their newborn son and Glasscott arrived in Perth, where Thomas quickly found employment as a clerk in the colonial administration.

When his oldest son, Gabriel joins up, and his second born son, Thomas is killed, he takes it upon himself to join and fight with the colonial militia.

It was Grace Toof's niece, Ruth Moore, who, in 1939 together with her husband Dr. Thomas Moore, built the present American " colonial " style mansion.

Thomas Jefferson wrote early work for Virginia and colonial independence at Rosewell Plantation, then the home of John Page, his close friend and fellow student at the College of William and Mary.

* Thomas Lee, a leading political figure in colonial Virginia

The first colonial owner of the Woodmore site was Thomas Spriggs, who in 1698 acquired of what was then known as the forest of Prince George's County in the Crown Colony of Maryland.

Retiring after twenty years of U. S. diplomatic service in Spain and Portugal, Thomas Ludwell Lee Brent, a nephew of Virginia Congressman and Senator Richard Brent and grandson of Virginia colonial statesman Thomas Ludwell Lee, bought a large tract of land here and settled on it.

First granted by colonial governor Jonathan Belcher in 1735 as Number 9 ( ninth in a line of forts to guard against Indian attacks ), it was regranted in 1753 as Dupplin, after Sir Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin, by Governor Benning Wentworth.

Fincastle's courthouse was designed by Thomas Jefferson and today still houses county government functions for a much smaller county and contains a vast archive of public records relevant to the late colonial Virginia and the Western expansion periods.

Named for the Cinque Ports town of Romney, Kent, England by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the town still bears placenames and symbols from its colonial past such as its Marsham Street, named for Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney.