The reburial was attended by sailors from the modern frigate HMS Chatham and a band from the Egyptian Navy, as well as a descendant of the only identified burial, Commander James Russell.

In 1667, when Defoe was probably about seven years old, a Dutch fleet sailed up the Medway via the River Thames and attacked Chatham.

The first commercially successful emerald synthesis process was that of Carroll Chatham.

After 1800, ships from plague-countries ( or with foul bills ) were enabled to perform their quarantine on arrival in the Medway instead of taking a Mediterranean port on the way for that purpose ; and about the same time an extensive lazaret was built on Chetney Hill near Chatham at an expense of £ 170, 000, which was almost at once condemned owing to its marshy foundations, and the materials sold for £ 15, 000.

Another important friendship was with the prominent Shirreff family of Chatham, the father being High Sheriff of Northumberland County for 25 years.

He was then a partner in the Chatham law firm of Tweedie and Bennett.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC ( 15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778 ), called William Pitt the Elder by historians, was a British Whig statesman who led Britain during the Seven Years ' War ( known as the French and Indian War in the United States ).

Accordingly he obtained a pension of £ 3000 a year and his wife, Lady Hester Grenville was created Baroness Chatham in her own right-although Pitt refused to accept a title himself.

But the celebration was at once countermanded when it was known that he had become Earl of Chatham.

The measure was strongly opposed, and Lord Chatham delivered his first speech in the House of Lords in support of it.

The imposition of the import duty on tea and other commodities was the project of Charles Townshend, and was carried into effect in 1767 without consultation with Lord Chatham, if not in opposition to his wishes.

The film was shot in the Kent towns of Tonbridge, Gravesend, Chatham and Dover.

Although his grandfather, Thomas Whitehead, was known for having founded Chatham House Academy, a fairly successful school for boys, Alfred North was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, then considered the best public school in the country.

Following Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 the issue of parliamentary reform lay dormant until it was revived in the 1760s by the Whig Prime Minister William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (" Pitt the Elder "), who called borough representation " the rotten part of our Constitution " ( hence the term " rotten borough ").

From this wage, 6d per month was deducted for the maintenance of Greenwich Hospital with similar amounts deducted for the Chatham Chest, the chaplain and surgeon.

He was educated at Chatham House Grammar School in Ramsgate and in 1935 with the aid of a county scholarship he went up to study at Balliol College, Oxford.

In 1763 he became a member of the Venetian Academy, but Zuccarelli was soon induced to journey back to London in 1765 by his friend Algarotti's bequest of a cameo and group of drawings made to Lord Chatham.

The earliest, and most famous Louisiana Zouave unit was r White's Company B ( the " Tiger Rifles ") of Major Chatham Roberdeau Wheat's First Special Battalion, Louisiana Volunteers, aka " Louisiana Tigers ".

The name Chatham was first recorded as Cetham in 880.

However, the river-valley situation of Chatham is more consistent with cet being an Old English survival of the element catu that was common in Roman-era names and meant ' basin ' or ' valley '.

Chatham stands on the A2 road along the line of the ancient Celtic route, which was paved by the Romans, and named Watling Street by the Anglo-Saxons.

These practices caused confusion and dissension in Cabinet meetings, especially during the dysfunctional ministries of the Earl of Chatham from 1766 – 1768 and of the Duke of Grafton from 1768 – 1770 when no one, not even the King, seemed to be in charge.

The move for establishment of a national seashore park on 30,000 acres of Cape Cod, from Provincetown to Chatham, is strengthened by President Kennedy's interest in that area.

The American composers Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca have written " symphonic " works for large ensembles of electric guitars, in some cases numbering up to 100 players, and the instrument is a core member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars ( played by Mark Stewart ).

The Moriori, of the Chatham Islands, practiced pacifism by order of their ancestor Nunuku-whenua.

The Board did face some allegations regarding the Medway raid, but they were able to exploit the criticism already attracted by the commissioner of Chatham, Peter Pett, to deflect criticism from themselves.

* Works by William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, in audio format from LibriVox

* Paterson, R. T. ( 1993 ) Use of trees by livestock, 5: Quercus, Chatham: Natural Resources Institute, ISBN 0-85954-365-X

In 1835, the peaceful Moriori of the Chatham Islands were attacked, enslaved, and nearly exterminated by mainland Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama Māori.

Lord Chatham, Prime Minister of Great Britain during the 1760s, once commented that " the importers of foreign gold have forced their way into Parliament, by such a torrent of corruption as no private hereditary fortune could resist.

After the Norman invasion the manor of Chatham, originally Saxon, was given by William the Conqueror to Earl Godwinson.

The dockyard buildings were preserved as the historic site Chatham Historic Dockyard ( operated by Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust ), now under consideration as a World Heritage Site the site is being used for other purposes.

Chatham lost its independence as a borough under the Local Government Act 1972, by which, on 1 April 1974, it became part of the Borough of Medway, a non-metropolitan district of the county of Kent ; under subsequent renaming the Borough became the Borough of Rochester-upon-Medway ( 1979 ); and, from 1982, the City of Rochester-upon-Medway.

Around the same time a group of Māori migrated to Rekohu ( the Chatham Islands ), where, by adapting to the local climate and the availability of resources, they developed a culture known as Moriori — related to but distinct from Māori culture in mainland New Zealand.

The Chatham Islands Council is often counted by many as a unitary authority, but it is officially recognised as a part of the region of Canterbury.

As there was no English-language Catholic high school in Baie-Comeau, Mulroney completed his high school education at a Roman Catholic boarding school in Chatham, New Brunswick operated by St. Thomas University ( in 2001, St. Thomas University named its newest academic building in his honour ).

A flotilla of ships led by Admiral de Ruyter broke through the defensive chains guarding the Medway, burned part of the English fleet docked at Chatham and towed away the Unity and the Royal Charles, pride and normal flagship of the English fleet.

Hundreds of newsboys gathered for a musical version of the tale at the Chatham Theatre in New York City in 1844, but brawling broke out which was only quelled when offenders were led off by police to The Tombs.

Pitt's father, who had by then been raised to the peerage as Earl of Chatham, died in 1779.

Other examples of music that contain noise-based features include works by Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann, Cornelius Cardew, Theatre of Eternal Music, Rhys Chatham, Ryoji Ikeda, Survival Research Laboratories, Whitehouse, Cabaret Voltaire, Psychic TV, Blackhouse, Jean Tinguely's recordings of his sound sculpture ( specifically Bascule VII ), the music of Hermann Nitsch's Orgien Mysterien Theater, and La Monte Young's bowed gong works from the late 1960s.

Among the theaters that existed in Chinatown in later years were Sun Sing Theater under the Manhattan Bridge and Pagoda Theater both on the street of East Broadway, Governor Theater on Chatham Square, Rosemary Theater on Canal Street across the Manhattan Bridge, and Music Palace on the Bowery, which was the last Chinese theater to close.

First granted in 1767 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, the town was named in honor of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham and Prime Minister of Great Britain who had recently led Britain to victory in the Seven Years War.

According to Parkinson, Hornblower in later life became a director of P & O, Governor of Malta ( 1829 – 1831 ), Commander in Chief at Chatham ( 1832 – 1835 ) a Viscount ( in 1850 ), and an Admiral of the Fleet, dying aged 80 on 12 January 1858.

The latter contains a biography of Governor Pitt, grandfather of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.

Details from The Deputy Governor, 6 A High Street, Chatham, Kent, ME4 4EP.

Governor Sir George Grey launched a campaign of suppression against the religion in April 1865, culminating in the raiding of dozens of villages in Taranaki and on the East Coast and the arrest of more than 400 adherents, most of whom where incarcerated on the Chatham Islands.

On 5 April 1764 he joined the 50-gun at Chatham, after leaving, to serve with Admiral Hugh Palliser, then Governor of Newfoundland.

Jabez Bunting Snowball ( 24 September 1837 – 24 February 1907 ) was a businessman, the 11th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, Canada, and politician from the Town of Chatham, New Brunswick.

The interment was attended by His Excellency Sir Derek Plumbly, KCMG, the then British Ambassador to Egypt ; Alan Cobden, the HM Consul-General to Alexandria at the time ; General Abdel Salam El Mahgoub, the Governor of Alexandria ; members of the crew of the HMS Chatham, and a descendant of Commander Russell.