), George Jean Nathan and Alexander Woollcott were honored in odd quarters, and the whole Booth Tarkington, Willa Catheter ( sic ), ) Pearl, Buck,, Amy Lowell, William Lyon Phelps atmosphere lay thick as Los Angeles smog

* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875

William of Malmesbury's account attacks Sybilla, but the evidence argues that Alexander and Sybilla were a devoted but childless couple and Sybilla was of noteworthy piety.

Alexander III was also the grandson of William the Lion.

* William Cowper's The Solitude Of Alexander Selkirk is about the feelings of Alexander Selkirk as he lived all alone on the island.

Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

In 1529 he executed The Battle of Alexander at Issus for Duke William IV of Bavaria.

His rather atypical Battle of Issus ( or of Alexander ) of 1529 was commissioned by William IV, Duke of Bavaria as part of a series of eight historical battle scenes destined to hang in the Residenz in Munich.

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

Other chemists who brought major contributions to organic chemistry include Alexander William Williamson with his synthesis of ethers and Christopher Kelk Ingold, who, among many discoveries, established the mechanisms of substitution reactions.

In 1613, Virginian raiders captured Port Royale, and in 1621 Acadia was ceded to Scotland's Sir William Alexander who renamed it Nova Scotia.

Alexander William Doniphan joined Atchison's law practice in Liberty in May, 1833.

The two line poetic form as a closed couplet was also used by William Blake in his poem Auguries of Innocence and also by Byron ( Don Juan ( Byron ) XIII ); John Gay ( Fables ); Alexander Pope ( An Essay on Man ).

This followed the deaths in 1584 of the allies William the Silent, Prince of Orange, and Francis, Duke of Anjou, and the surrender of a series of Dutch towns to Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, Philip's governor of the Spanish Netherlands.

The Congress was a personal triumph for Francis, where he hosted the assorted dignitaries in comfort, though Francis undermined his allies Tsar Alexander and Frederick William III of Prussia by negotiating a secret treaty with the restored French king Louis XVIII.

They decided to replace Auchinleck, appointing XIII Corps commander William Gott to the Eighth Army command and General Sir Harold Alexander as C-in-C Middle East Command.

With the cessation of hostilities, Alexander was under serious consideration for appointment to the post of Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the British army's most senior position beneath the sovereign, but he was invited by Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to be his recommendation to the King for the post of Governor General of Canada.

The Viscount and Viscountess Alexander of Tunis are greeted by Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King | Mackenzie King upon the viceregal couple's arrival in Ottawa, 12 April 1946

Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.

* 1808 – Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1887 )

Alexander was the host of the Comedy Central Roast of actor William Shatner on August 13, 2006 ( first airdate: August 20, 2006 ).

If Wycliffe was in philosophy the superior of his contemporaries and had no equal in scholastic discipline, he belongs with the series of great scholastic philosophers and theologians in which England in the Middle Ages was so rich – with Alexander of Hales, Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham ( Occam ), and Thomas Bradwardine.

Kevin Kiernan argues that Nowell most likely acquired it through William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, in 1563, when Nowell entered Cecil ’ s household as a tutor to his ward, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

Both Cecil ( Class of 1900 ) and William ( Class of 1901 ) graduated from the Academy, which they attended on scholarship.

His brother William was already establishing himself as a playwright and sometimes worked in collaboration with Cecil.

Elizabeth set out to rule by good counsel, and she depended heavily on a group of trusted advisers led by William Cecil, Baron Burghley.

However, William Cecil, Nicholas Throckmorton, and some conservative peers made their disapproval unmistakably clear.

William Cecil was already seeking solutions to the succession problem.

After the death of his father in 1562, he became a ward of Queen Elizabeth and received an excellent education in the household of her Principal Secretary, Sir William Cecil.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, the Queen's Secretary of State and Oxford's father-in-law, c. 1571.

Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.

His future father-in-law, William Cecil, also received honorary degrees of Master of Arts on the same progresses.

His mother's sister was married to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, making Burghley Francis Bacon's uncle.

Scholars have often speculated that Hamlet < nowiki ></ nowiki >' s Polonius might have been inspired by William Cecil ( Lord Burghley )— Lord High Treasurer and chief counsellor to Queen Elizabeth I. E. K. Chambers suggested Polonius's advice to Laertes may have echoed Burghley's to his son Robert Cecil.

The play was written by William C. deMille, whose brother, the then-unknown Cecil B. DeMille, also appeared in the cast.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | William Cecil ( William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Lord Burghley ), Oxford's guardian and father-in-law, and Queen Elizabeth's most trusted advisor.

Examples were Thomas Cromwell under Henry VIII ; William Cecil, Lord Burghley under Elizabeth I ; Clarendon under Charles II and Godolphin under Queen Anne.

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh | Lord Rayleigh's method for the isolation of argon, based on an experiment of Henry Cavendish's.

* 1738 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1809 )

Of these only Henrietta Temple ( based on his affair with Henrietta Sykes, wife of Sir Francis William Sykes, 3rd Bt ) was a true success.

Sketch of Whirlpool Galaxy | Messier 51 by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse | Lord Rosse in 1845, later known as the Whirlpool Galaxy

Major architects to promote the change in direction from baroque were Colen Campbell, author of the influential book Vitruvius Britannicus ; Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and his protégé William Kent ; Isaac Ware ; Henry Flitcroft and the Venetian Giacomo Leoni, who spent most of his career in England.

The same shield shown here is found on the tomb effigy of his grandson, William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury.

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM ( 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919 ) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.

id: John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

* 1778 – Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry ( d. 1854 )

She passed it to her son William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland in 1786.

The brothers had supporters in England, ready to rise up ; led by Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester, the rebellion in England from Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester, and William I of Scotland.

) He appointed as regents Hugh de Puiset, Bishop of Durham, and William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex — who soon died and was replaced by Richard's chancellor William Longchamp.

* July 31 – William S. Clark, American chemist and 3rd President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College

* March 8 – William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, British politician ( b. 1907 )

* October 30 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1738 )

* March 6 – Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry ( b. 1778 )

* October 31 – William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Irish astronomer ( b. 1800 )

* June 17 – William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Irish astronomer ( d. 1867 )

* February 24 – Execution of the Jacobite leaders James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater and William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure.

* April 14 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1809 )

* March 7 – William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader

* November 14 – William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex

* June 6 – William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster is murdered and the Burke Civil War begins in Ireland.