A decade before the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Through the Looking Glass, Carroll wrote the first stanza to what would become " Jabberwocky " while in Croft on Tees, close to nearby Darlington, where he lived as a child,

) As L. C. Croft has written, " Much of Gosse's success was due to the fact that he was essentially a field naturalist who was able to impart to his readers something of the thrill of studying living animals at first hand rather than the dead disjointed ones of the museum shelf.

One of the most common manifestations of stanzaic form in poetry in English ( and in other Western European languages ) is represented in texts for church hymns, such as the first three stanzas ( of nine ) from a poem by Isaac Watts ( from 1719 ) cited immediately below ( in this case, each stanza is to be sung to the same hymn tune, composed earlier by William Croft in 1708 ):

Two movies — Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life — have been produced starring American actress Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, the first of which is still the highest-grossing film adaptation of a video game ever released in US, and third worldwide.

For example, in the first Tomb Raider game manual, Lara Croft is said to have survived a plane crash in the Himalayas at the age of twenty one, and was later disowned by her parents, who are still living.

The play had its first English production in 1946 at the New Theatre in London with Ralph Richardson as Inspector Goole, Harry Andrews as Gerald Croft, Margaret Leighton as Sheila Birling, Julian Mitchell as Arthur Birling, Marian Spencer as Sybil Birling and Alec Guinness as Eric Birling.

In later years two women would provide him with companionship, friends Elizabeth Croft and Isabella Wolff who first met Lawrence when she sat for her portrait in 1803.

Rose port is a very recent variation on the market, first released in 2008 by Poças and by Croft, part of the Taylor Fladgate Partnership.

But as James Croft, who in 1825 first published the poems Cowper addressed to Theodora, wrote, " her father, from an idea that the union of persons so nearly related was improper, refused to accede to the wishes of his daughter and nephew.

For Tyne Tees Croft also directed and produced the admags Ned's Shed and Mary Goes to Market, as well as producing his first sitcom, Under New Management, set in a derelict pub in the North of England.

For Tyne Tees, Croft also directed and produced the Ned's Shed and Mary Goes to Market admags, as well as producing his first sitcom, Under New Management, set in a derelict pub in the North of England.

It Ain't Half Hot Mum is the second of the two sitcom series co-written by Perry and Croft set in the Second World War, the first being Dad's Army ( 1968 – 1977 ).

Sold again at Sotheby ’ s and acquired by the British Library in 1975, the autograph is, as its first editor P. J. Croft pointed out, " the largest body of verse to have survived from the Elizabethan period in a text entirely set down by the poet himself ".

Leicester won their first piece of silverware for five years on 15 April 2007, beating the Ospreys 41 – 35 with tries from Tom Varndell, Tom Croft, Ben Kay and Alesana Tuilagi to win the EDF Energy Cup at Twickenham Stadium.

In Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation ( 1999 ), the first depiction of a young Croft, she is accompanied by her mentor, Werner Von Croy.

Lara Croft first appeared in a crossover in Sara Pezzini's Witchblade, and later starred in her own comic book series in 1999.

The first, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, was released in 2001, and follows Croft as she encounters the Illuminati, a group searching for a relic able to control time.

In 1991 the college bought Balliol Croft, a neighbouring house to its grounds and former home of the economist Alfred Marshall and his wife Mary Paley Marshall, with whom he wrote his first economics textbook.

The chemistry laboratory was relocated at the southwest range, in the present Croft Chapter House, because it was more logical than in the first study which was in the north.

A life-sized marble statue of Henry Croft, London's first pearly king, was moved to the crypt in 2002 from its original site at St Pancras Cemetery.

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider features several characters visiting Angkor Thom during their trip to Cambodia to recover the first piece of the Triangle of Light.

Also that year, he appeared as Lord Croft, father of the title character of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Eight actors have played more than one character in the series: Nicholas Farrell appeared as Donald Fraser in The ABC Murders ( 1992 ) and then as Major Knighton in The Mystery of the Blue Train ( 2005 ), Simon Shepherd appeared as David Hall in " Jewel Robbery at The Grand Metropolitan " ( 1993 ) and then as Dr Rendell in Mrs McGinty's Dead ( 2008 ) and Carol MacReady appeared as Mildred Croft in Peril at End House ( 1990 ) and then as Miss Johnson in Cat Among the Pigeons ( 2008 ).

He appeared as Jack Croft in series 2 of BBC One show Missing

Lara Croft has appeared in two motion pictures.

As with the main cast, a number of other characters were played by actors who have appeared in Perry / Croft series, including Felix Bowness, Kenneth Connor, Stuart McGugan and Ivor Roberts.

Beyond the games, he also appeared in Top Cow's promotional comics for Soul Reaver and Defiance, and was included alongside Raziel as a playable character in downloadable content for 2010's Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.

He then appeared in Reign of Fire ( 2002 ) as Creedy and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life ( 2003 ) as Terry Sheridan, alongside Angelina Jolie.

In the UK she appeared in the Daily Star as a Page Three girl but it was her role as the Lara Croft model for the video game Tomb Raider between 1998 and 1999 that brought her to the public's attention.

She also appeared in Baywatch as David Hasselhoff's mother, and also had a recurring role in the night-time soap Falcon Crest as Amanda Croft.

Croft is affiliated with the Irish Repertory Theater in NYC ; in 2005 she appeared as Madge in a revival of Brian Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come ; in 2006 she is performing in The Field at the same theater.

Croft has been voiced by five actresses in the video game series: Shelley Blond ( 1996 ), Judith Gibbins ( 1997-1998 ), Jonell Elliott ( 1999-2003 ), Keeley Hawes ( 2006-2010 ) and Camilla Luddington, who will voice Croft in upcoming titles.

Budgetary problems forced it to be relocated to the main campus at Birmingham during the 1970s, but under the guidance of Professor Stanley Wells, the Institute was returned to Mason Croft in the 1980s and its position was consolidated in 1996 with the opening of the purpose-built Shakespeare Institute Library.

is a British television sitcom written by David Croft and Richard Spendlove, which, after a broadcast pilot on 14 August 1995, ran for two series from 8 July 1996, with the last episode being broadcast on 28 September 1997.

The character of Chuck Rock himself was an iconic early character for Core Design before the introduction of Lara Croft in the 1996 game Tomb Raider, and the character of Chuck Rock himself and his family even featured in some UK comic books of the 1990s.

Tomb Raider is a media franchise consisting of video games, comic books, novels, theme park rides and movies, centring around the adventures of the fictional English archaeologist Lara Croft.

A map indicating places visited by Lara Croft during the video games:

A 2001 adventure film adapted from the Tomb Raider video game series ; Lara Croft races against time and villains to recover a powerful artefact called the Triangle of Light.

Angelina Jolie returns as Lara Croft in the 2003 sequel to the original video game based film.

* Lara Croft, a character in video games and film

Among the many noted video game voice actors and actresses are Maaya Sakamoto ( the Japanese voice for the Final Fantasy XIII character Lightning ), Tatsuhisa Suzuki ( the voice of Noctis Lucis Caelum in Final Fantasy Versus XIII ), Troy Baker ( English Snow Villers, Joel, Batman in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes ), Steve Downes and Jen Taylor ( Master Chief and Cortana from the Halo series ), Nolan North ( Nathan Drake from the Uncharted games and Desmond Miles from the Assassin's Creed game series ), Liam O ' Brien ( the voice of Caius Ballad in Final Fantasy XIII-2 and War in Darksiders ), and Jonell Elliott ( the voices of Lara Croft from 1999-2003 ).

In the popular 1999 video game Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, the player ( playing as series heroine Lara Croft ), must play a game of Senet in order to advance through the Tomb of Semerkhet level.

Films based on British historical events ; RMS Titanic, Piracy in the Caribbean, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Great Escape, historical people ; William Wallace, Lawrence of Arabia, King Arthur, Elizabeth I, British stories ; The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, James Bond, The Chronicles of Narnia, Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Treasure Island, The War of the Worlds among many others, while British video game Tomb Raider featuring English archaeologist Lara Croft, has been made into feature films.

Born in Hoogeveen, Drenthe, on March 21, 2002 she was selected by Eidos Interactive as the Lara Croft character model for the Tomb Raider video game series.

Lara Croft is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Square Enix ( previously Eidos Interactive ) video game series Tomb Raider.

Lara Croft primarily appears in the Tomb Raider video game series published by Square Enix Europe ( previously Eidos Interactive ).

" The book Digital Shock: Confronting the New Reality described her as a virtual actress having a " beauty that is ' really ' impressive ", comparing her to video game character Lara Croft.

Named the pin-up girl of the " cyber generation " by The New York Times, Tifa has been compared to Lara Croft as an example of a strong, independent and attractive female character in video games.

In 2011, GameFront placed her brests at ninth place on the list of " the greatest boobs in video game history ," calling her " the existential crisis version of Lara Croft ;" she was also included on the list of " incredible chests in video games " by Joystick Division, but with a comment that she " has much more than sex appeal.

Hawes is also known for voicing various roles in video games, such as the iconic Lara Croft from the long-running Tomb Raider series.

The Master Chief is a video game icon, a relative newcomer among more established franchise characters, such as Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog and Lara Croft.

* In the adventure video game, Tomb Raider: Underworld, Lara Croft kills her mother, who became a monstrous parody of her former self.