It was described as " a rose-red city half as old as time " in a Newdigate Prize-winning poem by John William Burgon.

John William Burgon ( 21 August 18134 August 1888 ) was an English Anglican divine who became the Dean of Chichester Cathedral in 1876.

Burgon was born at Smyrna, the son of an English merchant trading in Turkey who was also a skilled numismatist and afterwards became an assistant in the antiquities department of the British Museum.

In 1876 Burgon was made the Dean of Chichester.

However, while Burgon was outspoken about the Revised Version and maintained the position that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, his positions were not exactly the same as today's King James-Only movement.

Another society which takes the Burgon name is the Burgon Society, which was founded to promote the use and study of academical dress, named so because Burgon is the only person to have a hood shape named after him.

The Textus Receptus was defended by John William Burgon in his The Revision Revised ( 1881 ), and also by Edward Miller in A Guide to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament ( 1886 ).

However, both Burgon and Miller believed that, although the Textus Receptus was to be preferred to the Alexandrian Text, nevertheless it still required to be corrected in certain readings against the manuscript tradition of the Byzantine text.

The best known of the translation committee members were Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort ; their fiercest critic of that period was John William Burgon.

However, the Society's only truly academic dress was a blue, lambskin-trimmed robe with an épitoge, for Master of Midwifery ( this examination ceased in 1963 ; Trans Burgon Soc 2008 ; vol. 8, 81-90 ).

Colin Burgon ( born 22 April 1948 ) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Elmet from 1997 to 2010.

Foxwood School in Seacroft where Burgon was employed.

Colin Burgon was born in Leeds to lifelong Labour supporting parents.

Burgon worked as a History teacher at Foxwood High School ( which later became East Leeds Family Learning Centre and was demolished in 2009 ) a deprived secondary school in the Seacroft area of East Leeds, where he was an active member of the NUT union.

Burgon is an honourary member of the National Union of Mineworkers and was made so after his support for the 1984-85 miners ' strike.

Burgon was the Election Agent for the Labour Party in Elmet in 1983 before being selected himself as the Labour candidate for Elemet.

This was probably because Sid Burgon had previously drawn that strip as well.

The Burgon Society was founded in 2000 for the study and promotion of academical dress, to preserve its history, and to advise film and television companies and interested others in its correct usage.

A recent version of this piece was recorded by the girl choristers that make up the group " All Angels "; the words set to the music from the ITV series Brideshead Revisited by Geoffrey Burgon.

Originally, Bully Beef's eyes were always covered up by his hair, but towards the end of the 1980s they became partly visible, and then entirely visible when original artist Jimmy Hughes retired and was replaced by Gordon Bell and later Sid Burgon.

After a few years of business life, working in his father's counting-house, Burgon went to Worcester College, Oxford, in 1841, and took his degree in 1845.

Burgon published it, apparently in a small pamphlet, around 1845.

Burgon made Oxford his headquarters, while holding a living at some distance.

Vehement and almost passionate in his convictions, Burgon nevertheless possessed a warm and kindly heart.

Today, the name of Burgon is known almost exclusively in connection with the Dean Burgon Society and the King-James-Only Movement.

* " John William Burgon, late dean of Chichester: a biography with extracts from his letters and early journals, Vol.

* " John William Burgon, late dean of Chichester: a biography with extracts from his letters and early journals, Vol.

Burgon supported his arguments with the opinion that the Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Ephraemi, were older than the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus ; and also that the Peshitta translation into Syriac ( which supports the Byzantine Text ), originated in the 2nd century.

Dean Burgon, one of the main supporters of the Textus Receptus, declared that the Textus Receptus needs correction.

The Group's champions during its early years included Barker Fairley, a co-founder of Canadian Forum magazine, and the warden of Hart House at the University of Toronto, J. Burgon Bickersteth.

* John Burgon, Lives of Twelve Good Men.

London: Burgon Society.

Retiring to his beloved Mount Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.

After Quiney was elected bailiff in September, 1601, without Greville's approval, Greene wrote him that Coke had promised to be of counsel for Stratford and had advised `` that the office of bayly may be exercised as it is taken upon you, ( Sr. Edwardes his consent not beinge hadd to the swearinge of you ) ''.

Dr. James Brown Fisk, physicist, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, was elected to the Board of Trustees.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

Francesca and Grazie were habitual committee chairmen and they usually managed to be elected co-chairmen, equal bosses, of whatever PTA or civic project was being launched.

State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.

His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.

-- The New York University Board of Trustees has elected the youngest president in the 130-year history of NYU, it was announced yesterday.

John Di Massimo has been elected president of the 1961 Columbus Day Celebration Committee, it was announced yesterday.

The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.

One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.

With almost no support in the South, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.

Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.

Following public demonstrations against Ter-Petrosyan's policies on Nagorno-Karabakh, the President resigned in January 1998 and was replaced by Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan, who was elected President in March 1998.

The newly elected abbot was to put off his shoes at the door of the church, and proceed barefoot to meet the members of the house advancing in a procession.

Secret ballots were introduced, and a bicameral parliament was elected on 9 March 1857, by which time 109, 917 people lived in the province.

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

Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.

He donned the toga virilis four years later, and was elected to the College of Pontiffs in 47 BC.

These scholars also maintain that Jesus was the only human ever elected and that individuals must be " in Christ " ( Eph 1: 3 – 4 ) through faith to be part of the elect.

As well as holding positions at this school until 1828, in 1819 and 1820 Ampère offered courses in philosophy and astronomy, respectively, at the University of Paris, and in 1824 he was elected to the prestigious chair in experimental physics at the Collège de France.

In 1827 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.