Alfred had been on his way to relieve his son at Thorney when he heard that the Northumbrian and East Anglian Danes were besieging Exeter and an unnamed stronghold on the North Devon shore.

It has been suggested that Beowulf was first composed in the 7th century at Rendlesham in East Anglia, as the Sutton Hoo ship-burial also shows close connections with Scandinavia, and also that the East Anglian royal dynasty, the Wuffings, were descendants of the Geatish Wulfings.

Bede also mentions an Abbot Esi as a source for the affairs of the East Anglian church, and Bishop Cynibert for information about Lindsey.

The following year, having obtained tribute from the East Anglian King Edmund, the Great Army moved north, seizing York, chief city of the Northumbrians.

" In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the British Medical Association.

In 1897 Dr. Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the British Medical Association.

The historian N. J. Higham connects the timing of this episode with a change in the " overkingship " from the Christian Kentish Æthelberht to the pagan East Anglian Raedwald, which Higham feels happened after Æthelberht's death.

In Higham's view, Sæberht's sons drove Mellitus from London because they had passed from Kentish overlordship to East Anglian, and thus no longer needed to keep Mellitus, who was connected with the Kentish kingdom, in office.

Furthermore, while the First Folio shows traces of a dialect identical to Shakespeare's, the Earl of Oxford, raised in Essex, spoke an East Anglian dialect.

Category: East Anglian monarchs

* North East England includes Anglian Bernicia

* May Day, a 5. 0 % abv golden ale, available April and May, is made with East Anglian Pale Ale malt, and hopped with First Gold

* Oyster Stout, a 4. 3 % abv winter stout, available February and March, is made from East Anglian Pale Ale Malt, Crystal Malt, Chocolate Malt, roasted Barley and English Golding hops

On the other hand, however, there started rising at the same time cries in defence of Cockney as, for example the following one: " The London dialect is really, especially on the South side of the Thames, a perfectly legitimate and responsible child of the old kentish tongue the dialect of London North of the Thames has been shown to be one of the many varieties of the Midland or Mercian dialect, flavoured by the East Anglian variety of the same speech ".

East Anglia initially consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk, but upon the marriage of the East Anglian princess Etheldreda, the Isle of Ely also became part of the kingdom.

In the 1630s thousands of Puritan families from East Anglia settled in the American region of New England, taking much East Anglian culture with them.

The East Anglian flag as it is known today was invented by George Henry Langham and adopted by the London Society of East Anglians.

* East Anglian Brigade

* East Anglian English

Subsequent East Anglian history is quite obscure, but in 779 Æthelberht II became king, and was independent long enough to issue coins of his own.

903 Æthelwald incites the East Anglian Danes into breaking the peace.

This was partly due to the perception that the internal debate over the war in Afghanistan had been more honest and open than in other parties, and one of the MPs who had voted against the Afghanistan deployment, Hans-Christian Ströbele, was directly elected to the Bundestag as a district representative for the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg-Prenzlauer Berg East constituency in Berlin, becoming the first Green to ever gain a first-past-the-post seat in Germany.

One of the most influential texts that he read was Cheng Kuan-ying's Sheng-shih Wei-yen ( Words of Warning to an Affluent Age ), a political tract that lamented the deterioration of Chinese power in East Asia, arguing for technological, economic and political reform, modelling China on the representative democracies of the western world.

As a result, for the first time the English-speaking population of Canada West surpassed the French-speaking population of Canada East, tilting the representative balance of power.

Eysenck left Nazi Germany to live in Britain, and was not shy in attacking Stalinist ' communism ' ( which he regarded as representative of communist ideology ), noting the anti-Semitic prejudices of the Russian government, the luxurious lifestyles of the USSR's leaders despite their talk about equality and the poverty of their people, and the Orwellian " doublethink " of East Germany's naming itself the German Democratic Republic despite being " one of the most undemocratic regimes in the world today.

As Roosevelt's personal representative, he traveled to Britain and the Middle East in late 1941, and to the Soviet Union and China in 1942.

Through the persuasion of Jeremiah Dummer, Yale, who had made a fortune through trade while living in India as a representative of the East India Company, donated nine bales of goods, which were sold for more than £ 560, a substantial sum at the time.

Following their meeting, Disney's New York representative ran into Stokowski on a train headed for the East.

" He specifically named Lord Levy who was Blair's official representative in the Middle East and Labour Party politicians Peter Mandelson ( whose father was Jewish ) and Jack Straw ( whose great-grandfather was Jewish ).

In July 2000 the membership of the National Consultative Council was expanded to 36 members including, one representative from each of the 13 districts of East Timor, and the body was renamed the National Council.

Asquith was elected to Parliament in 1886 as the Liberal representative for East Fife, in Scotland.

* Charles L. Vining, Jr., state representative from East and West Carroll parishes, 1968 – 1972

Harry Eastman, the East St. Louis workers ' representative, addressed the mass of employees:

* Vail M. Delony, state representative from East Carroll Parish, 1940 – 1967 ; Speaker of the Louisiana House, 1964 – 1967

* Kenny Havard ( born c. 1971 ), current District 62 state representative from East and West Feliciana parishes and part of East Baton Rouge Parish

In 1593 he was chosen member of parliament for Arundel, in 1594 his university conferred upon him the degree of M. A., and in 1597 he was elected to parliament as the representative of East Grinstead.

John's father, Charles Jerome Reed, was the representative of an agricultural machinery manufacturer who had come to town from the East.

Politics of East Timor takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of East Timor is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.

He was a long-standing public representative for the Dublin South – East constituency.

The UUP also lost their sole representative in East.

Bank of East Asia separates its representative branch in the US and its US-based operations for local customers into BEASUS33xxx ( following the code used in its home country ) and BEAKUS33xxx respectively.

In 1958, with the backing of Herbert Brownell, Bruce Barton, John Aspinwall Roosevelt, and Mrs Wendell Wilkie, Lindsay won the Republican primary and went on to be elected to Congress as the representative of the " Silk Stocking " district, Manhattan's Upper East Side.

However by 1892, Henderson had entered the complex world of Trade Union politics, when he was elected as a paid organiser for the Iron Founders Union, and was also a representative on the North East Conciliation Board.

Brownlow was more closely attuned to, and representative of, East Tennesseans than his contemporary or later critics were willing to admit.