During this time, Montgomery faced serious trouble from his military superiors and the clergy for his frank attitude regarding the sexual health of his soldiers, but was defended from dismissal by his superior Alan Brooke, commander of II Corps.

After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.

The first North American novel, The History of Emily Montague ( 1769 ) by Frances Brooke was written in epistolary form.

Shakespeare's desire to burlesque a hero of early English Protestantism could indicate Catholic sympathies, but Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham was sufficiently sympathetic to Catholicism that in 1603, he was imprisoned as part of the Main Plot to place Arbella Stuart on the English throne, so if Shakespeare wished to use Oldcastle to embarrass the Cobhams, he seems unlikely to have done so on religious grounds.

William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham may have become aware of the offensive representation after a public performance ; he may also have learned of it while it was being prepared for a court performance ( Cobham was at that time Lord Chamberlain ).

Of Alexander, Alan Brooke felt that he needed an able chief of staff " to think for him ", while Montgomery ( Alexander's subordinate in Africa and Italy ) claimed to think of Alexander as " incompetent " and success was only attained in Tunisia only because Montgomery lent Brian Horrocks to organise the coup de grace.

Spader's first major film role was in 1981 as Brooke Shields ' brother in Endless Love, and his first starring role was in Tuff Turf alongside good friend Robert Downey, Jr.

After the battle, however, the royalist garrison was withdrawn on the approach of Lord Brooke and the castle was garrisoned by parliamentary forces.

In 1795 governor Robert Brooke ( 1787 – 1801 ) was alerted that the French had overrun the Netherlands, forcing the Dutch to become their allies.

Nearer the end of the century, Henry Brooke wrote an adaptation which was apparently never staged.

He asked the British to check whether or not it would be acceptable for him to claim Brunei as his own ; however, they came back with bad news — although Brunei was poorly governed, it had a definite sense of national identity and could therefore not be absorbed by Brooke.

Close is also a second cousin once-removed of actress Brooke Shields ( Shields's great-grandmother Mary Elsie Moore was a sister of Close's maternal grandfather, Charles Arthur Moore, Jr .).

After Clay was employed as Wythe's amanuensis for four years, the chancellor took an active interest in Clay's future ; he arranged a position for him with the Virginia attorney general, Robert Brooke.

Clay received no formal legal education but, as was customary at the time, " read the law " by working and studying with Wythe, Chancellor of the Commonwealth of Virginia ( also a mentor to Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall, among others ) and Brooke.

Clay studied for the bar for a year under Brooke and was admitted to practice law in 1797.

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

Rupert Chawner Brooke ( middle name sometimes given as " Chaucer ") ( 3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915 ) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially " The Soldier ".

Brooke was born at 5 Hillmorton Road in Rugby, Warwickshire, the second of the three sons of William Parker Brooke, a Rugby schoolmaster, and Ruth Mary Brooke, née Cotterill.

During his service under Edward VII, he became involved in an affair with Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick ( i. e., Frances Brooke ), with whom Edward VII was also involved romantically.

Brooke spends a good portion of the series romantically involved with football player Josh Ford, but also develops a relationship with Harrison John, a childhood friend from whom she had grown apart due to their opposite social status.

The show featured Sidney Fields as their landlord, and Hillary Brooke as a friendly neighbor who sometimes got involved in the pair's schemes.

John Wesley Harding preached in Gomersal, one of his closest lay assistants John Nelson was involved with lay preacher Edward Brooke who initiated the construction in 1827 of the Wesleyan Chapel in Latham lane with an unusual bow front, which became known as the " pork pie chapel ".

* A previous marriage to Grant Chambers, whom her son Rick Forrester would shoot in 1997, causing Grant to divorce Brooke and immediately get involved with Macy Alexander before he died of cancer in 1998.

During the 1970s she was involved in a live-in lesbian relationship with Number 96 co-star Bunney Brooke.

Rolph received considerable criticism for publicly praising the citizens of San Jose following the November 1933 lynching of the confessed murderers of Brooke Hart, a local department store heir, while promising to pardon anyone involved, thereby earning the nickname, " Governor Lynch ".

There were many other people who were involved with varying importance and different influences in the early years, from Lena Lamont, part of Sheena Govan's circle, who lived in her caravan with her family and who shunned publicity to those whom Peter Caddy met as he traveled in British New Age circles: among them Robert Ogilvie Crombie ( ROC ); Sir George Trevelyan who formed the Wrekin Trust ; Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke, Liebie Pugh, and Joan Hartnell-Beavis.

The burgeoning nationalism after World War I led Brooke Claxton to become involved in associations such as the Canadian League and the League of Nations Society.

Barr eventually returned in 2010, first with the All My Children 40th anniversary special in January, and then for a two month stint from February to April during which time Brooke takes over as editor-in-chief of Tempo, is involved in a terrible car accident, and falls in love, all of which culminate with Brooke and her former husband Adam Chandler reuniting and officially leaving town together.

At one point in about 1972, Howie soon became involved with Brooke Clinton.

On the 15th the two Catholic priests involved, Sir George Brooke and Sir Griffin Markham, and others, were tried.

His brother, Sir George Brooke, on the other hand, was involved in radical religious politics.

Daisy had a distinct habit of divulging to others when she was involved with a man of wealth and power, a habit which amongst other indiscretions earned her the nickname, " The Babbling Brooke.

By the second season, Brooke and Sam realize that their parents were happy together, and therefore team up to reunite them, a move which results in the girls slowly becoming close friends, and even referring to each other as " family ," though tensions rise when they both get involved with the same boy.

Among famous names involved in those early days were Rupert Brooke as the Herald in Aeschylus ' Eumenides ( 1906 ), Sir Hubert Parry as the composer of incidental music to Aristophanes ' The Birds ( 1883 ) – the Bridal March is still used in weddings – and Ralph Vaughan Williams as composer of incidental music to The Wasps, also by Aristophanes ( 1909 ).

In addition to stage work, Milford appeared in the 1975 television movies Song of the Succubus ( with Brooke Adams ) and Rock-a-Die-Baby also known as Night of the Full Moon, in which he performed music with his band Moon.

* The Commentary of Origen On S. John's Gospel, the text revised and with a critical introduction and indices by A. E. Brooke ( 2 vols., Cambridge University Press, 1896 )

In the Olympic Games held in Paris in 1924 a team composed by Juan Miles, Enrique Padilla, Juan Nelson, Arturo Kenny, G. Brooke Naylor and A. Peña obtained the gold medal ; this also occurred in Berlín 1936 with players Manuel Andrada, Andrés Gazzotti, Roberto Cavanagh, Luis Duggan, Juan Nelson, Diego Cavanagh and Enrique Alberdi.

The next governors, Thomas Brooke ( temporary governor, 1821 – 1823 ) and Alexander Walker ( 1823 – 1828 ), successfully brought the island through this post-Napoleonic period with the opening of a new farmer ’ s market in Jamestown, the foundation of an Agricultural and Horticultural Society and improvements in education.

Historian John Hedley Brooke describes wide variations: " the natural sciences have been invested with religious meaning, with antireligious implications and, in many contexts, with no religious significance at all.

These discussions led to unofficial contacts with the British Northern Ireland Office under the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Brooke, and with the government of the Republic under Charles Haughey – although both governments maintained in public that they would not negotiate with terrorists.

William Brooke, a bookseller in Lincoln, may have helped him with Latin ; which he may also have learned at the school of Thomas Bainbridge.

She has a daughter, Annie Starke, from her previous relationship with John Starke that ended in 1991. Close is a second cousin once removed to actress Brooke Shields.

Fonda had a small role with his son, Peter, in Wanda Nevada ( 1979 ), with Brooke Shields.

Catwalk regulars like Gia Carangi, Cheryl Tiegs, Carol Alt, Christie Brinkley, Kim Alexis, Paulina Porizkova, Kathy Ireland, Brooke Shields, Heather Locklear, and Elle Macpherson began to endorse products with their names, as well as their faces, through the marketing of brands such as the beverage Diet Pepsi to the extension of car title Ford Trucks.

John Brooke: During his employment with the Laurences as a tutor to Laurie, he falls in love with Meg.

When Laurie leaves for college, Brooke continues his employment with Mr. Laurence as an assistant.

When Aunt March overhears Meg rejecting John's declaration of love, she threatens Meg with disinheritance because she suspects that Brooke is only interested in Meg's future prospects.

In the West Virginia Senate, most of Ohio County is part of the first Senate district along with Hancock and Brooke counties.

Virginia Woolf boasted to Vita Sackville-West of once going skinny-dipping with Brooke in a moonlit pool when they were at Cambridge together.