Also the late paleontologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould was a long-time supporter.

In 1860 he was a supporter of Stephen A. Douglas for President.

Even up till her last moments, she was being reported on by a man named Stephen Lushington, who conveyed his insights to the King's loyal supporter, the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool.

Cadfael is on good terms with people on both sides of the English war ; his best friend Hugh is a staunch supporter of King Stephen, and his son Olivier is just as much committed to the Empress Maud.

Like his father, Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare ( commonly known as Strongbow ) was a supporter of Stephen I of England-the last Norman king of England.

He was the half-brother of the Empress Matilda, and her chief military supporter during the civil war known as The Anarchy, in which she vied with Stephen of Blois for the throne of England.

Although her husband was a staunch supporter of Stephen during the Anglo-Norman civil war, her own personal inclination may have been toward her stepdaughter's cause, the Empress Matilda.

Consumer protection advocate, Stephen Barrett, is a strong supporter of the HONcode and has made efforts to improve compliance with its rules and to expose those who abuse it.

At first a supporter of Stephen of Blois during this king's struggle with the empress Matilda.

In 1138 Conan III's daughter Bertha was married to Alan of Penthièvre, a supporter of King Stephen.

1155 ) a favourite of Empress Matilda and a loyal supporter of her in the war against King Stephen ( during which he earned the epithet of the " Scourge of the West ") was given the title Earl of Somerset, in 1141.

The castle's first stone buildings were probably erected by Henry de Tracey, a strong supporter of King Stephen.

This included David, who despite his promise to Stephen was a loyal supporter of Matilda, but he did not go South with a Scottish army.

Although he was a nominal supporter of the king, there seems to have been little contact between him and Stephen, who did not confirm the foundation of Leicester Abbey till 1153.

In the 2004 federal Conservative leadership campaign, Runciman was an early supporter of eventual winner Stephen Harper

In October 2005, Frank donated £ 500, 000 and a statue by sculptor Stephen Kettle to Bletchley Park Trust to fund a new Science Center dedicated to Alan Turing and, as a great supporter of RJ Mitchell's Spitfire, commissioned a life size statue of Mitchell as well as funding a website dedicated to Mitchell's life: RJ Mitchell.

The church is presently served by Interim Senior Minister Stephen H. Phelps, a graduate of Yale Divinity School and a supporter of interfaith dialogue.

Stephen finally arrived in Normandy in 1137 and restored order, but he had lost much of credibility in the eyes of his supporter Robert of Gloucester.

Castles played a key role in the conflict between the Empress Matilda and King Stephen, and in 1143 Geoffrey de Mandeville, a supporter of the Empress, attacked Cambridge ; the town was raided and the castle temporarily captured.

* Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (~ 1090-31 October 1147 ), a major figure in The Anarchy and supporter of Empress Matilda against King Stephen

It is, however, during his last years that he is most in evidence as a leading supporter of King Stephen He took a large body of Derbyshire men northwards to assist in repelling an invasion of the Scots under King David I of Scotland, nominally on the behalf of Matilda.

Stephen Swid is an active supporter of the arts and education and currently serves as a Director of The Municipal Art Society of New York.

A Bay State supporter said, `` Mr. Hearst's fight has been helped along greatly by the starting of his paper in Boston ''.

Woodruff wanted this political windfall very badly, and everyone assumed that he would get it because he was a close friend of the governor and his stanchest supporter.

At his first speech, when he saw a supporter in the crowd being attacked, Lincoln grabbed the assailant by his " neck and the seat of his trousers " and threw him.

While in Washington, Doubleday remained a loyal Republican and staunch supporter of President Abraham Lincoln.

Mackenzie was elected to the Legislative Assembly as a supporter of George Brown in 1861.

A supporter of Alcott's philosophies, Emerson offered to help with his writing, which proved a difficult task.

These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

Having extorted a large sum of money from the citizens of Nuremberg, he quarrelled with his supporter, the French King, and offered his services to the Emperor.

Ealdred helped Sweyn not only because Ealdred was a supporter of Earl Godwin's family but because Sweyn's earldom was close to his bishopric.

Earl Godwin's rebellion against the king in 1051 came as a blow to Ealdred, who was a supporter of the earl and his family.

He was also a powerful and consistent supporter of Skanderbeg, whom he decided to take under his protection as a vassal in 1451, shortly after the latter had scored his second victory against Murad II.

Cam., also referred to as Ambrose of Camaldoli, ( 1386 – October 20, 1439 ) was an Italian monk and theologian, who was a prime supporter of the papal cause in the 15th century.

In 1900 he moved to San Diego and became a prominent member and supporter of the Theosophical community Lomaland, which was being developed on Point Loma by Katherine Tingley.

He was a powerful supporter of the movement for spelling reform as a means of promoting the spread of the English language.

Carnegie was an ardent supporter of commercial “ survival of the fittest ” and sought to immunity from business challenges by dominating all phases of the steel manufacturing procedure.

Colangelo's bid received strong support from one of his friends, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and media reports say that then-acting Commissioner of Baseball and Milwaukee Brewers founder Bud Selig was also a strong supporter of Colangelo's bid.

Behaving " in a way that cost nothing ," Kantorek is a strong supporter of the war and encourages Bäumer and other students in his class to join the war effort.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

Although he eventually became a supporter of the claims of Lambert, he initially gave his support to Arnulf.

Adam was a supporter of converting the Northern people.

From him it has descended continuously, through fifteen individuals, the title being increased to an Earldom in 1784 ; and in 1876 William Nevill 5th Earl ( b. 1826 ), ( d. 1915 ) an indefatigable and powerful supporter of the Tory Party, was created 1st Marquess of Abergavenny.

In 1 Kings 1: 7, 19, 25, however, Abiathar appears as a supporter of Adonijah, and in 2: 22 and 26 it is said that he was deposed by Solomon and banished to Anathoth.

Artemis may have been represented as a supporter of Troy because her brother Apollo was the patron god of the city and she herself was widely worshipped in western Anatolia in historical times.