Although unsuccessful, he spent time with the future Prime Minister Lord North and his half-brother, the Bishop of Worcester Brownlow North, and painter Benjamin West.

In the last three decades of the 19th century the 3rd Earl Brownlow spent much time and money restoring Belton, and consequently the house entered the 20th century in a good state of repair and preservation.

In 1857, the Whig quarrelled with the radical Southern Citizen, published by Knoxville businessman William G. Swan and Irish Patriot John Mitchel, and Brownlow spent at least one night parading in front of Swan's home while brandishing a revolver.

Bookies had Carey as pre-count favourite for the Brownlow Medal on four separate occasions ( 1993, 1995, 1996 and 1998 ), but many believe his on field arrogance and backchat to umpires were the primary reason he never claimed the game's highest individual honor.

At the beginning of World War I, like many other British landowners, the 3rd Earl Brownlow offered his house and park to the Government for war service.

Brownlow and many of his supporters were pro-slavery ( he himself owned slaves used as servants at various times ), but were willing to consider scrapping slavery if necessary to save the Union.

Union prisoners in Knoxville endured starvation and other physical abuse for several months as part of an extortion ring involving a corrupt magistrate and jailor, and while Brownlow and many other prisoners were freed after Confederate authorities learned of the abuse, his health never fully recovered.

One story has it she had gotten into the Essanay studios and waited in line to be an extra with Helen Ferguson: in an interview with Kevin Brownlow many years later Ferguson told a story that substantially confirmed many details of the claim, though it is not certain if she was referring to Moore's stints as a background extra ( if she really was one ) or to her film test there prior to her departure for Hollywood in November 1917.

Uniquely for a relatively specialised programme, Thames Television invested in a series of tie-in products: a book accompanying the series, written by Brownlow, Gill and John Kobal, a soundtrack LP featuring Carl Davis ' music, a 7 " single of the main theme, a pictoral newspaper-style publication featuring many of the stills used in the production and several posters bearing the Hollywood logo, licensed from various picture libraries.

Ablett has been recognised as one of the AFL's elite midfielders, being awarded many of the league's highest individual honours, including the prestigious Brownlow Medal, the Leigh Matthews Trophy as the AFL Players Association's Most Valuable Player a record four times, and been selected to Six All-Australian sides, including twice as vice-captain ( 2010 & 2012 ) and once as Captain ( 2011 ).

Garmes was one of many surviving Hollywood veterans from the silent era interviewed by Kevin Brownlow for the 1980 television series Hollywood.

At the end of the season, Carey became the youngest ever All-Australian captain at 22 years of age and finished third in the Brownlow Medal count, after being outright favourite to take out the prestigious award.

The Wind is almost certainly the best-a silent classic, revived in recent years by producer / director Kevin Brownlow with a Carl Davis score, which gave the great Lillian Gish one of the finest parts of her career ... Sjostrom treats the inevitable clash between Letty and her new surroundings with considerable realism and detail, allowing Gish as much leeway as possible to develop her performance.

Melbourne's greatest player of these early years of the VFL was Ivor Warne-Smith, who in 1926 won the club's first Brownlow Medal, the League's annual award for the fairest and best player.

Brownlow and rival editor Landon Carter Haynes brawled in the streets of Jonesborough in May 1840, and over the next several years bashed one another in their respective papers, each managing at times to thwart one another's political ambitions.

His heir was created Lord Brownlow in 1776, and Belton was owned by successive Lords Brownlow for the next 200 years.

The film was restored in 1981 after twenty years ' work by silent film historian Kevin Brownlow.

In 1846, Brownlow ran a multi-part series on " Romanism " in America, claiming that the Catholic Church had kept Europe in " mental slavery " for 1, 200 years, and was inherently intolerant and opposed to democracy.

In years when Ten does not televise the Grand Final ( 2008 and 2010 ), it will show the Brownlow Medal presentation.

He was hit with Brownlow Medal-threatening suspensions and charges during both years, and 2008 saw Goodes miss games through suspension and / or injury for the first time since 2000.

From 2006 – 09 Goodes amassed 84 Brownlow votes which equated to 21 per season, easily a winning tally in years gone by considering he had drawn 22 votes during 2003's success.

Lord Brownlow later served under Lord Salisbury as Paymaster-General from 1887 to 1889 and Under-Secretary of State for War for 1889 to 1892 and was also Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire for over fifty years.

Brownlow developed the concept of the film when he was 18 years old, in 1956.

In response, this was cut from the original release, though it was restored thirty years later, after Brownlow regained the rights to the film.

Schultz won the Brownlow Medal in 1960 ( when only 21 years old ) by one vote from Fitzroy's Kevin Murray.

He won the club's best-and-fairest award in his first two years back, and in 1969 he was awarded the Brownlow Medal.

In later years, he was called upon by silent film historian Kevin Brownlow to write an original score for F. W. Murnau's classic silent horror Nosferatu ( 1922 / 1997 ) and for Brownlow's documentary Universal Horror ( 1998 ) on the horror films of the American studio.

Brownlow had written it shortly after completing work on the film, but the manuscript had sat on the shelf for 34 years before being published.

Through the efforts of Kevin Brownlow and David Gill and the support of granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd Hayes, the British Thames Silents series re-released some of the feature films in the early 1990s on home video, at corrected projection speeds and with new orchestral scores by Carl Davis.

After being escorted to Union lines in March 1862, Brownlow toured the North, stirring up support for East Tennessee Unionists and publishing books and articles, including Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession ; with a Narrative of Personal Adventures Among the Rebels ( Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1862 ).

In Parson Brownlow's Book, published in 1862, Brownlow maintains his support of slavery, but clarified that he would do away with it if it meant preserving the Union.

After his marriage in 1839, Brownlow settled in Elizabethton, and began looking for steady income to support his family.

T. A. R. Nelson, then a local attorney, suggested Brownlow publish a newspaper to support the Whigs in the upcoming elections.

One Elizabethtonian who developed an immediate dislike of Brownlow was Landon Carter Haynes, a fellow Whig who had switched his support to the Democratic Party in 1839.

Knoxville's secessionists cited Brownlow as the source of East Tennessee's pro-Union support, complaining that the Whig was " deluding and poisoning the public mind.

Knoxville Whig editor William " Parson " Brownlow, who had been one of slavery's most outspoken defenders, attacked secessionism with equal fervor, and embarked on a speaking tour of the Northern states to rally support for East Tennessee.

The water was deep and Brownlow took his troopers across naked -- except for guns, cartridge boxes and hats.

One of the few highlights for Essendon supporters during this time was when Graham Moss won the 1976 Brownlow Medal ; he was the only Bomber to do so in a 40-year span from 1953 – 1993.

Despite losing this match, Essendon's performance was good enough for its players to be awarded Brownlow Medal votes – best-on-ground was Brent Stanton ( 3 votes ), followed by Jason Johnson ( 2 votes ) and Andrew Lovett ( 1 vote ).

The first full-length feature produced under the BFI's new scheme was Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's Winstanley ( 1975 ), while others included Moon Over the Alley ( 1975 ), Requiem for a Village ( 1975 ), the openly avant-garde Central Bazaar ( 1973 ), Pressure ( 1975 ) and A Private Enterprise ( 1974 ) -- the last two being, respectively, the first British Black and Asian features.

The VFL / AFL's award for the fairest and best player in a season is named after Charles Brownlow, a Geelong and VFL administrator who died in early 1924.

Newton returned to Liverpool, England and, partly due to the influence of his father's friend Joseph Manesty, obtained a position as first mate aboard the slave ship Brownlow, bound for the West Indies via the coast of Guinea.

Paul Kelly ( born 28 July 1969 ) is a former Australian rules footballer, winner of the Brownlow Medal and captain of the Sydney Swans for ten seasons.

Recruited to the AFL by the Swans, Kelly made his debut in 1990 after being the best player in his school, and was appointed captain in 1993, won the Brownlow Medal ( the AFL's highest individual honour ) in 1995, won club best and fairests in 1992, 1993, 1996 and 1997, All-Australian selection in 1995, 1996 and 1997 ( the last two as captain ), and the AFLPA's Robert Rose Award for Most Courageous Player in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 2000.

In 1994, Hird won the first of three consecutive best and fairests, culminating in his 1996 season, where he was jointly awarded the Brownlow Medal for the League's fairest and best player with Brisbane Bears midfielder Michael Voss.

Controversially, Hird did not receive any Brownlow Medal votes from the umpires for his 34 disposals ; the media speculation was that the umpires deliberately snubbed him because of his earlier comments.

Hird jointly won the Brownlow Medal with Michael Voss in 1996, the award for the fairest and best player in the Australian Football League.

According to Kevin Brownlow and David Gill's documentary series Unknown Chaplin, the first scenes to be written and filmed take place in what became the movie's second half, in which the penniless Tramp finds a coin and goes for a meal in a restaurant, not realising that the coin has fallen out of his pocket.

Dodger, another boy named Charley Bates, and Oliver decide to stick together, and when Dodger and Charley rob Mr. Brownlow, a wealthy old man, they run off, leaving Oliver to be arrested for the crime (" The Robbery ").

Mr. Bumble and Widow Corney, realizing that Oliver may have wealthy relatives, visit Mr. Brownlow, hoping to profit from any reward given for information of him (" Oliver!

Stephen Moore was a replacement for Mr. Brownlow.

Louise Brooks, who rated an entire chapter in the book, was less impressed: " You brush off Clara Bow ," she wrote to Brownlow, " for some old nothing like Brooks.

Brownlow however made up for his omission of Clara in The Parade's Gone By by including a whole segment on her in his 1980 television documentary Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film in which he extensively interviewed Brooks for the segment.

The centrepiece of the room is a large Aubusson carpet made in 1839 for the 1st Earl Brownlow.

The 3rd Earl Brownlow and his Countess lived for only a few months of the year at Belton, where they came for the fox-hunting, and divided the remainder of their time between their house in London and Ashridge, another country house in Hertfordshire.