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* Thomas Wiggin ( 1592 – 1667 ), the first governor of the Upper Plantation of New Hampshire which eventually became the Royal Province of New Hampshire in 1741
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The meeting included Thomas W. Lamont, acting head of Morgan Bank ; Albert Wiggin, head of the Chase National Bank ; and Charles E. Mitchell, president of the National City Bank of New York.
In 1630 Captain Walter Neale was sent as chief agent and governor of the lower settlements on the Piscataqua ( including Strawberry Banke, present-day Portsmouth ), and in 1631 Captain Thomas Wiggin was sent to govern the upper settlements, comprising modern-day Dover, Durham and Stratham.
Dunkery Beacon was given to the National Trust in 1935 by Sir Thomas Acland, Colonel Wiggin and Allan Hughes along with the rest of the Holnicote Estate an event commemorated by the summit memorial cairn.
Thomas and 1592
More was portrayed as a wise and honest statesman in the 1592 play Sir Thomas More, which was probably written in collaboration by Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others, and which survives only in fragmentary form after being censored by Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels in the government of Queen Elizabeth I ( any direct reference to the Act of Supremacy was censored out ).
The first stage in this undertaking comprised the three Ordinary of the Mass cycles ( in four, three and five parts ), which were published by Thomas East between 1592 and 1595.
During the Elizabethan era, stories claiming that she had been murdered by Eleanor of Aquitaine gained popularity ; but the Ballad of Fair Rosamund by Thomas Deloney and the Complaint of Rosamund by Samuel Daniel ( 1592 ) are both purely fictional.
In 1592 the Lord Chief Justice died and, according to custom the Attorney General, John Popham, succeeded him, with the Solicitor General, Thomas Egerton, succeeding Popham.
For example, Michael Taylor argues that there were at least thirty-nine history plays prior to 1592, including the two-part Christopher Marlowe play Tamburlaine ( 1587 ), Thomas Lodge's The Wounds of Civil War ( 1588 ), the anonymous The Troublesome Reign of King John ( 1588 ), Edmund Ironside ( 1590 – also anonymous ), Robert Green's Selimus ( 1591 ) and another anonymous play, The True Tragedy of Richard III ( 1591 ).
In 1592 he was made reader of the physical lecture founded by Thomas Linacre ; he would also read some of the mathematical lectures as well.
* The earliest extant edition of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy is undated, but almost certainly was printed in 1592
When Thomas Nashe wanted to praise Edward Alleyn as the best actor of his generation, he called Alleyn a Roscius ( Pierce Penniless, 1592 ); John Downes titled his history of Restoration drama Roscius Anglicanus ( 1708 ).
William Fulke referred to Tom in 1579 in Heskins Parleament Repealed and Thomas Nashe referred to him in 1592 in his prose satire on the vices of the age, Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Divell.
There is also evidence that Chettle contributed to the play Sir Thomas More ( c. 1592 – 1593 ), which is famous for containing a scene which many scholars believe to be authored by Shakespeare.
Shakespeare's King Lear contains the word, in the general sense of a fool, and before him, Thomas Nashe, in Summer's Last Will and Testament ( 1592, printed 1600 ): " the Idiot, our Playmaker.
A land charter from the king of Scotland in 1592 defines or redefines the lands to be owned by Thomas and his wife Jeanne Leslie ( Jean elsewhere in the charters ) and inherited by his heirs Robert ( 2nd son ), Thomas ( 3rd son ), and George, who are called " legitimate offspring ", and also John, Archibald and Charles Dempster.
Lucy Walter, a Welsh noblewoman, was the daughter of Richard or William Walter, of Roch Castle and of Haverfordwest and wife Elizabeth Protheroe, daughter of John Protheroe, of Hawkesbrook and wife Elinor Vaughan, maternal granddaughter of Walter Vaughan, of Grove and wife Mary or Katherine ferch Gruffud FitzUryan, in turn daughter of Griffith ap Rice FitzUryan ( d. 1592 ) and wife Eleanor Jones, daughter of Sir Thomas Jones, and paternal granddaughter of Rhys FitzUryan and wife Lady Katherine Howard ( c. 1518-12 April 1554, interred 11 May 1554 ), daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and Agnes Tilney.
Marian's role was not entirely virginal in the early days ; in 1592, Thomas Nashe described the Marian of the later May Games as being played by a male actor named Martin, and there are hints in the play of Robin Hood and the Friar that the female character in these plays had become a lewd parody.
He was in turn succeeded in 1592 by his son Richard Thornes, who in 1599 bought a third part of the Manor of Ruyton from George Younge, Esq., possibly the heir of Thomas Younge, Archbishop of York, who had bought the manor in 1567 from the Earl of Arundel and others.
Mayhew was born at Martha's Vineyard, being fifth in descent from Thomas Mayhew ( 1592 – 1682 ), an early settler and the grantee ( 1641 ) of Martha's Vineyard.
Baptized on 12 February 1592 / 3 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, Samuel Gorton was the son of Thomas and Anne Gorton from the chapelry of Gorton, a part of Manchester.
The adjacent almshouses which occupy the central part of Livery Dole were founded in March 1591 by Sir Robert Denys ( 1525 – 1592 ) of Holcombe Burnell and Bicton and were completed, as he requested in his will, by his son Sir Thomas Denys ( 1559 – 1613 ) in 1594.
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* 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
* 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
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.
* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
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