The film was so successful that Harry Warner agreed to sign Barrymore to a generous long-term contract ; like The Marriage Circle, Beau Brummell was named one of the ten best films of the year by The New York Times.

The model dandy in British society was George Bryan " Beau " Brummell ( 1778 – 1840 ), an undergraduate student at Oriel College, Oxford, and an associate of the Prince Regent, who was not from an aristocratic background and whose greatness was " based on nothing at all ," as J. A.

From the mid-1790s, Beau Brummell was an early incarnation of the celebrity.

George Bryan " Beau " Brummell ( 7 June 1778 – 30 March 1840 ) was an iconic figure in Regency England, the arbiter of men's fashion, and a friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV.

The family was middle class, but the elder Brummell was ambitious for his son to become a gentleman, and young George was raised with the understanding.

Brummell was educated at Eton and made his precocious mark on fashion when he not only modernized the white stock, or cravat, that was the mark of the Eton boy, but added a gold buckle to it.

His father died the same year, leaving an inheritance of £ 65, 000 ; of which Brummell was entitled to a third.

For such a junior officer, Brummell took the regiment by storm, and the prince was fascinated and drawn by the force of his personality.

Brummell examined his Grace with the cool impertinence which was his Grace ’ s due.

This changed on July 1813 at a masquerade ball at Watier's private club, when Brummell, who was one of the hosts, openly antagonised the Prince Regent, thereby forcing society to choose between them.

" The Prince Regent was not amused ; this incident was the final and most public sign that Brummell was no longer favored by " Prinny ".

Normally, the loss of royal favour to a favourite was doom, but Brummell ran as much on the approval and friendship of other rulers of the several fashion circles.

Brummell rapidly ran out of money and was placed in debtors prison by his long put off Calais creditors, Only after charitable intervention of his friends in England was he able to secure release.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, Wivenhoe Hall was the home of William Brummell, brother of the more famous Beau Brummell.

Statue of Beau Brummell by Irena Sedlecka in Jermyn Street in London, erected in 2002.

* Beau Brummell, Regency dandy, lived at Donnington Grove

* George Brummell ( 1778 – 1840 ), English dandy, known as " Beau Brummell ", lived in exile in Calais from 1817 to 1830.

Beau Brummell escapes his creditors by fleeing to France.

Jules Amédée Barbey d ' Aurevilly wrote The Anatomy of Dandyism, an essay devoted, in great measure, to examining the career of Beau Brummell.

Considered fashionable and foppish in the best circles and worn by dandies, such as Beau Brummell, they remained the main fashion for men through the 1840s.

Beau Brummell is credited with introducing, and establishing as fashion, the modern men's suit, worn with a tie.

In June 1794 Brummell joined the illustrious Tenth Royal Hussars as a cornet, or lowest rank of commissioned officer.

Brummell put into practice, perhaps instinctively, the principles of harmony of shape and contrast of colors, with such a pleasing result that men of superior rank sought his professional opinion on their dress.

Brummell, Lord Alvanley, Henry Mildmay and Henry Pierrepoint were considered the prime movers of Watier's, dubbed " the Dandy Club " by Byron.

All four were hosts at the ball, where the Prince Regent greeted Alvanley and Pierrepoint, but then " cut " Brummell and Mildmay by snubbing them, staring them in the face but not speaking to them.

Alvanley continued to support Brummell, sending money to his friend during Brummell's exile in France.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

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About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

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Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.