Alma-Tadema's meticulous archaeological research, including research into Roman architecture ( which was so thorough that every building featured in his canvases could have been built using Roman tools and methods ) led to his paintings being used as source material by Hollywood directors in their vision of the ancient world for films such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), Ben Hur ( 1926 ), Cleopatra ( 1934 ), and most notably of all, Cecil B. DeMille's epic remake of The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

British expansionist ideas ( notably propagated by Cecil Rhodes ) as well as disputes over uitlander political and economic rights resulted in the failed Jameson Raid of 1895.

The most well-heeled of the townspeople, such as Cecil Rhodes, sheltered in the Sanatorium, site of the present-day McGregor Museum ; the poorer residents, notably the black population, did not have any shelter from the shelling.

Hastings has been portrayed on film and television by several actors, including Robert Morley in The Alphabet Murders ( 1965 ); Jonathan Cecil in three TV films-Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), Dead Man's Folly ( 1986 ), and Murder in Three Acts ( 1986 ); and most notably, Hugh Fraser, who has portrayed Hastings alongside David Suchet's Poirot in 41 of the 49 episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot broadcast up until 2003.

From 1601, in the last years of Elizabeth I's life, certain English politicians, notably her chief minister Sir Robert Cecil, maintained a secret correspondence with James in order to prepare in advance for a smooth succession.

Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and his collaborations with his " New Thing " contemporaries, most notably Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane.

Cecil has many similarities to other object-oriented languages, most notably Objective-C, Modula-3, and Self.

From 1601, in the last years of Elizabeth I's life, certain English politicians, notably her chief minister Sir Robert Cecil, maintained a secret correspondence with James in order to prepare in advance for a smooth succession.

From 1601, in the last years of Elizabeth I's life, certain English politicians, notably her chief minister Sir Robert Cecil, maintained a secret correspondence with James in order to prepare in advance for a smooth succession.

He held this position until 1967, when he became professor of applied math and director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, until 1981 ; he also served as Cecil & Ida Green professor of education at MIT from 1974-1981.

One of the latter branch, Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ( 1830 – 1903 ), served three times as Prime Minister under Queen Victoria and Edward VII.

John Cecil, who had earlier served as Newton County's sheriff, served as a Confederate Captain.

One of Davis's state Senate colleagues, Cecil R. Blair of Rapides Parish, who served from 1960 – 1964 and 1966 – 1976, resided and operated a business in Lecompte.

Chesapeake City is served by the Chesapeake City Branch of the Cecil County Public Library located on Maryland Route 213.

Cecil Gray served about two years before his father, Rev.

Cecil Township is served by the Canon-McMillan School District.

Lord Robert Cecil was first elected to the House of Commons in 1854 and served as Secretary of State for India in Lord Derby's Conservative government from 1866 until his resignation in 1867 over its introduction of Benjamin Disraeli's Reform Bill that extended the suffrage to working-class men.

By this time, Googe had served Cecil on a military expedition to Ireland, where he had contracted dysentry and nearly died.

Exemplifying the power of the Lord High Treasurer is William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, who served in the post from 1572 to 1598.

He served under three different governors, Democrat Cecil Andrus, and Republicans Phil Batt and Dirk Kempthorne.

Sir Richard's daughter Alice's husband Sir ( William ) Cecil Bottomley served in the Colonial Office before being the Senior Crown Agent for the Colonies.

Cecil Dale Andrus ( born August 25, 1931 ) was an American politician who served as Governor of Idaho from 1971 to 1977, and again from 1987 to 1995 ; and in Washington as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1977 to 1981, during the Carter administration.

His only son, Sir William Cecil, was a prominent statesman and served as Secretary of State, Lord High Treasurer and Lord Privy Seal.

Other noteworthy members of the Ogilvy family were John Ogilvy, also known as Powrie Ogilvy, a political adventurer who professed to serve King James VI as a spy and who certainly served William Cecil in this capacity.

Their treatment served as the pretext for the Jameson Raid in 1895 ; Cecil Rhodes planned an invasion of the Transvaal to coincide with an uprising of the uitlanders in Johannesburg.

Calvert also served in James ’ s first parliament as a member for the borough of Bossiney, Cornwall, installed there by Cecil to support his policies.

Sir Cecil Clementi, who served as the Governor of the Straits Settlements as well as the High Commissioner of the Malay States from 1930 to 1934, remarked in December 1932 that Sultan Ibrahim was too independent in state affairs and proposed to the Sultan that he should approach Clementi in future under the capacity of the High Commissioner instead of the Straits Governor.

Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice GCMG GCVO ( 27 February 1859 – 14 February 1918 ) was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918.

During World War I his father served as an ambulance driver in France and Flanders, while he with his two sisters went to live in the village of Calstock ten miles north of Plymouth, where his uncle Cecil Goold worked for the railways and later became station master.

Cecil Landau Heftel ( September 30, 1924 – February 4, 2010 ), popularly known as Cec Heftel, was an American politician and businessman from Hawai ' i. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1976 to 1986 for the First Congressional District, encompassing most of urban Honolulu.

Zuken's older brother, William Ross ( Cecil Zuken ), was also an active Communist politician, and served as leader of the Communist Party in Manitoba from 1948 to 1981.

While still a boy he served as a cavalry officer in the regiment of James Cecil, 4th Earl of Salisbury ; Salisbury was appointed a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Catholic King James II in 1688 and he duly converted to Roman Catholicism and served the king as Colonel of a regiment of horse.

Cecil eventually obtained a position for him under the Earl of Sussex in a Scottish campaign the following spring.

Contemporaneously with Child came the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, and later and more significantly Cecil Sharp who worked in the early 20th century to preserve a great body of English rural traditional song, music and dance, under the aegis of what became and remains the English Folk Dance and Song Society ( EFDSS ).

Examples were Thomas Cromwell under Henry VIII ; William Cecil, Lord Burghley under Elizabeth I ; Clarendon under Charles II and Godolphin under Queen Anne.

Its operations were overseen by the Twenty Committee under the chairmanship of John Cecil Masterman ; the name of the committee comes from the number 20 in Roman numerals: " XX ".

So he negotiated by letter under the assumed name John Sinclair with William Cecil, Elizabeth's chief adviser, for English support.

After Mary Stuart's flight into England ( 1568 ) Leicester was, unlike Cecil, in favour of restoring her as Scottish queen under English control, preferably with a Protestant English husband — as long as he himself would not be the intended bridegroom ( which had been suggested ).

But service under Warwick ( by now the Duke of Northumberland ) carried some risk, and decades later in his diary, Cecil recorded his release in the phrase " ex misero aulico factus liber et mei juris " (" I was freed from this miserable court ").

His younger son, Sir Robert Cecil ( later created Baron Cecil, Viscount Cranborne and finally Earl of Salisbury ), inherited his political mantle, taking on the role of chief minister and arranging a smooth transfer of power to the Stuart administration under King James I.

The writing of the song is contemporaneous with the publication of Cecil Rhodes ' will — in which he bequeathed his considerable wealth for the specific purpose of promoting " the extension of British rule throughout the world ", and added a long detailed list of territories which Rhodes wanted brought under British rule and colonised by British people.

* Cecil William Mercer ( 1885 – 1960 ), British novelist who wrote under the pseudonym of Dornford Yates

A coalition of PLP dissidents and former UBP members formed the Free National Movement ( FNM ) in 1971 under the leadership of Cecil Wallace Whitfield.

Cecil Rhodes, governor of the Cape, had a vision to incorporate the Transvaal and the Orange Free State in a federation under British control.

The force was placed under the control of Leander Starr Jameson, the Administrator General of the Chartered Company ( of which Cecil Rhodes was the Chairman ) for Matabeleland.

It is said that Coke first suggested marrying Hatton to Sir Robert Cecil, Hatton's uncle, at the funeral of Lord Burghley, Coke's patron ; he needed to ensure that he would continue his rise under Burghley's son, Cecil, and did this by marrying into the family.

Known as an old and prestigious international graduate scholarship ", the Rhodes Scholarships are administered and awarded by the Rhodes Trust, which was established in 1902 under the terms and conditions of the will of Cecil John Rhodes, and funded by his estate under the administration of Nathan Rothschild.

J. Theodore Bent's season at Zimbabwe, under Cecil Rhodes's patronage, resulted in publications which introduced the ruins to English readers.

In 1903, Pamela launched her own magazine under the title The Green Sheaf, with contributions by Yeats, Christopher St John ( Christabel Marshall ), Cecil French, A. E. ( George William Russell ), Gordon Craig ( Ellen Terry's son ), Dorothy Ward, John Todhunter, and others.