According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

The 13th-century Moroccan biographer Ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili and Qadi Ayyad before him in the 12th-century, note that Waggag's learning center was called Dar al-Murabitin ( The house of the Almoravids ), and that might have inspired Ibn Yasin's choice of name for the movement.

" In 2000, biographer Carter Wiseman called Pei " the most distinguished member of his Late-Modernist generation still in practice ".

On April 25 in a house speech that biographer William Nisbet Chambers called “ long, passionate, historical, polemical ,” Benton attacked the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which he “ had stood upon ... above thirty years, and intended to stand upon it to the end -- solitary and alone, if need be ; but preferring company .” The speech was distributed afterwards as a pamphlet when opposition to the act moved outside the walls of congress.

Anastasius was succeeded by his son, Innocent I, who was born before Anastasius entered the clergy, though according to Innocent's biographer in the Liber Pontificalis, Innocent was the son of a man called Innocens of Albano.

According to his biographer in the Liber Pontificalis, Innocent was the son of a man called Innocens of Albano, but according to his contemporary Jerome, his father was Pope Anastasius I ( 399 – 401 ), whom he was called by the unanimous voice of the clergy and laity to succeed ( he had been born before his father's entry to the clergy ).

Eisenstein never saw any of the Sinclair-Lesser films, nor a later effort by his first biographer, Marie Seton, called Time in the Sun.

But the legend of Cobb as a Southern white Protestant who despised blacks, Catholics and anyone who wasn't like him was fanned by sportswriter Al Stump, his first biographer, whose veracity has been called into question.

One biographer called these diaries as " the most important single political document in twentieth-century Canadian history ," for they explain motivations of the Canadian war efforts and describe other events in detail.

Historian and Teddy Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris called Wilson in the Governor's race a " dark horse " and attributed his and others ' success against the Taft Republicans in 1910 in part to the emergent national progressive message enunciated by Roosevelt in his post-presidency.

There is anecdotal evidence, related to biographer George Wyatt by her former lady-in-waiting Anne Gainsford, that Anne brought to Henry's attention a heretical pamphlet, perhaps Tyndale's " The Obedience of a Christian Man " or one by Simon Fish called " Supplication for Beggars ," which cried out to monarchs to rein in the evil excesses of the Catholic Church.

Historian and Point du Sable biographer John F. Swenson has called these claims " elaborate, undocumented assertions ... in a fanciful biography ".

John Y. Simon, editor of Julia Grant's memoirs, concluded that Longstreet " may have been a groomsman ," and Longstreet biographer Donald Brigman Sanger called the role of best man " uncertain " while noting that neither Grant nor Longstreet mentioned any such role in either of their memoirs.

Near the end of his life, Hill played what a recent biographer, Albro Martin, called his " last and greatest role.

Vernoy de Saint-Georges after Sir Walter Scott, is described by Bizet's biographer Winton Dean as " the worst Bizet was ever called upon to set ".

The children of Paganus Ruet ( argued by modern-day genealogist Lindsay Brook and followed by biographer Alison Weir as " probably christened as Gilles ") included Katherine, her sister Philippa, a son, Walter, and the eldest sister, Isabel ( also called Elizabeth ) de Roet ( Canoness of the convent of St. Waudru's, Mons, c. 1366 ).

The late British poet, critic and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, called Vallejo "... the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language.

Historian and biographer Stephen W. Sears has called McClellan's actions " essentially sound " if he had been as outnumbered as he believed, but McClellan in fact rarely had less than a two-to-one advantage over his opponents in 1861 and 1862.

In Lapela, Parish of Cabril and municipality of Montalegre ( Portugal ), the land where allegedly the nickname Cabrilha originated ( allegedly pronounced at the time Cabrilhe in Galician and Cabrillo in Spanish according to João Soares Tavares, biographer of João Rodrigues Cabrilho ), and still existing in Portugal as a surname ( because of this Castro Daire, in Beira Alta, was also claimed as his birthplace ), there is the ancient house called today by local people and alleged local descendants of branches of his ancient family, the same surname ( Rodrigues Cabrilho ), as Casa do " Galego " ( House of the " Galician ") and Casa do " Americano " ( House of the " American ") where allegedly Cabrilho was born, as stated on a plaque where there is also a statue of him.

Rudolf Erich Raspe ( March 1736 – November 1794 ) was a German librarian, writer and scientist, called by his biographer John Carswell a " rogue ".

It was called the Marseillaise of the heart ( Eduard Hanslick, a critic from Vienna in the past century ) and was supposed to have saved Vienna the revolution ( sentence of a biographer of the composer Johann Strauss I ), while Strauss I himself was called the Napoleon Autrichien ( Heinrich Laube, poet from the north of Germany ).

He wrote a defence of revealed religion in his View of Lord Bolingbroke's Philosophy ( 1754 ), and Hume's Natural History of Religion called forth some Remarks ... " by a gentleman of Cambridge " from Warburton, in which his friend and biographer, Richard Hurd, had a share ( 1757 ).

It was reserved for his biographer Karl Benrath to justify him, and to represent him as a fervent evangelist and at the same time as a speculative thinker with a passion for free inquiry, always learning and unlearning and arguing out difficult questions with himself in his dialogues, frequently without attaining to any absolute conviction.

A Paramount employee told biographer Orrin Keepnews that Jefferson was a womanizing sloppy drunk ; on the other hand, Jefferson's neighbor in Chicago, Romeo Nelson, reports him as being " warm and cordial ," and singer Rube Lacy states that Jefferson always refused to play on a Sunday, " even if you give me two hundred.

The biographer Travis Beal Jacobs also suggests that the alienation of the Columbia faculty contributed to sharp intellectual criticism of him for many years.

According to Handel's first biographer, John Mainwaring, he " had discovered such a strong propensity to Music, that his father who always intended him for the study of the Civil Law, had reason to be alarmed.

His first biographer Jack Bracelin reports that this was a watershed in Gardner's life, and that a previous academic interest in spiritualism and life after death thereafter became a matter of firm personal belief for him.

Soranus of Ephesus, a 2nd-century Greek gynecologist, was Hippocrates ' first biographer and is the source of most personal information about him.

His biographer Paolo Giovio says, " His nature was so rough and uncouth that his domestic habits were incredibly squalid, and deprived posterity of any pupils who might have followed him.

In the words of his biographer John MacAloon, " The last of his lineage, Pierre de Coubertin was the only member of it whose fame would outlive him.

The prop allowed him to deliver the line " I could kill you with this and play your funeral march at the same time ", with — according to biographer Colin Escott — " zero conviction ".

His biographer Leigh Montville relates the often told story that Hillerich & Bradsby presented Williams with four bats weighing 34 ounces and one weighing 33 1 / 2 ounces, and challenged him to identify the lighter bat, which he was consistently able to do.

Philip's clubfoot causes him endless self-consciousness and embarrassment, echoing Maugham's struggles with his stutter and, as his biographer Ted Morgan notes, his homosexuality.

According to biographer Anderson, contrary to the belief of Roosevelt and other allies, Taft's role as Governor-General in the Philippines did not serve to equip him with the political skills essential for the White House.

Bryan biographer Paulo E. Coletta wrote, " during this year 1894 – June 1895 of calamities, disintegration and revolution, each crisis aided Bryan because it caused division within his party and permitted him to contest for its mastery as it slipped from Cleveland's fingers.

When Lawrence of Arabia was first announced, Lawrence's biographer Lowell Thomas offered producer Spiegel and screenwriters Bolt and Wilson a large amount of research material he had produced on Lawrence during and after his time with him in the Arab Revolt.

Ernest Jones, a biographer of Freud, termed Ferenczi as " mentally ill " at the end of his life, famously ignoring Ferenczi's struggle with pernicious anemia, which killed him in 1933.

At the time, Foucault engaged in homosexual activity with men whom he encountered in the underground Parisian gay scene, also indulging in drug use ; according to biographer James Miller, he particularly enjoyed the thrill and sense of danger that these activities offered him.

As he later told his biographer, a sermon he heard by a preacher in Faenza persuaded him to abandon the world.

In addition, according to the anti-Photian biographer of Ignatius, partisans of the ex-patriarch after his death endeavored to claim for him the " honor of sainthood ".

One biographer suggests he was " the greatest intelligence gatherer Washington has ever known ", discovering exactly where every Senator stood, his philosophy and prejudices, his strengths and weaknesses, and what it took to break him.

While the Roman biographer Cornelius Nepos charges him with " cruelty and perfidy ", Lysander – according to Xenophon – nonetheless spared the population of captured Greek poleis such as Lampsacus, perhaps in order to gain a useful reputation for mildness.

As his biographer, R. A. Gilbert described him, " Waite's name has survived because he was the first to attempt a systematic study of the history of western occultism — viewed as a spiritual tradition rather than as aspects of proto-science or as the pathology of religion.