" Eleanor Audeley ", wife of Sir John Davies, is said to have been brought before the High Commission in 1634 for extravagances, stimulated by the discovery that her name could be transposed to " Reveale, O Daniel ", and to have been laughed out of court by another anagram submitted by Sir John Lambe, the dean of the Arches, " Dame Eleanor Davies ", " Never soe mad a ladie ".

Head of Programmes Wales at the BBC, Aneirin Talfan Davies, who commissioned several of Thomas ' early radio talks, believed that the poet's " whole attitude is that of the medieval bards.

It is said that during a visit to Alde House around 1860, one evening while sitting by the fireside, Elizabeth and Emily Davies selected careers for advancing the frontiers of women's rights ; Elizabeth was to open the medical profession to women, Emily the doors to a university education for women, while 13-year-old Millicent was allocated politics and votes for women.

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

Television series executive producer Russell T Davies wrote in Doctor Who Magazine # 356 that there is no connection between the War of the books and the Time War of the television series.

Hobart's major newspaper is The Mercury, which was founded by John Davies in 1854 and has been continually published ever since.

So the title itself is Davies ' nod to Spengler.

For example, in Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood, created by Russell T Davies, a drug used to erase the memory of characters is called " retcon "; the use of the drug is often referred to by characters as " retconning ".

In a note, Kirby states, " A very abbreviated list of twentieth-century writers on the NT who do not believe that the empty tomb is historically reliable: Marcus Borg, Günther Bornkamm, Gerald Boldock Bostock, Rudolf Bultmann, Peter Carnley, John Dominic Crossan, Stevan Davies, Maurice Goguel, Michael Goulder, Hans Grass, Charles Guignebert, Uta Ranke-Heinemann, Randel Helms, Herman Hendrikx, Roy Hoover, Helmut Koester, Hans Küng, Alfred Loisy, Burton L. Mack, Willi Marxsen, Gerd Lüdemann, Norman Perrin, Robert M. Price, Marianne Sawicki, John Shelby Spong, Howard M. Teeple, and John T.

Afterwards, it follows Tom Hanks as United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller and seven other soldiers ( Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies ) as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan ( Matt Damon ), who is the last-surviving brother of four servicemen.

Dillon-Lee is killed outside his home in Dortmund, Germany and Davies is killed at a railway station in Lichfield, England.

* October 16 – England's first residential university-level women's college, the College for Women, predecessor of Girton College, Cambridge, is founded at Hitchin by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon.

* English scientist Lord John Davies first observes what is later recognised as respiratory collapse

The English composer Peter Maxwell Davies has written eight symphonies, and is completing a ninth in 2012.

The constituency has returned a Conservative MP at most recent elections ; the current member is David Davies, first elected in 2005.

Ambassador Joseph Davies, author of Mission to Moscow, wrote that " It is generally accepted by members of the Diplomatic Corps that the accused must have been guilty of an offense which in the Soviet Union would merit the death penalty ".

Professor Davies tells us that Gerald, whom he calls " an admirable story-teller ", is the only source for some of the most famous of the Welsh folk tales including the declaration of the old man of Pencader to Henry II which concludes Descriptio Cambriae: " This nation, O King, may now, as in former times, be harassed, and in a great measure weakened and destroyed by your and other powers, and it will also prevail by its laudable exertions, but it can never be totally subdued through the wrath of man, unless the wrath of God shall concur.

The ward is represented by two councillors, Kirsty Davies and Gareth Aubrey, both members of the Liberal Democrat Party.

The history of the analysis of The Taming of the Shrew is saturated with controversy almost from its inception, something Stevie Davies summarises when she writes that response to The Shrew " is dominated by feelings of unease and embarrassment, accompanied by the desire to prove that Shakespeare cannot have meant what he seems to be saying ; and that therefore he cannot really be saying it.

Arguably, the best-known living Canadian writer internationally ( especially since the deaths of Robertson Davies and Mordecai Richler ) is Margaret Atwood, a prolific novelist, poet, and literary critic.

Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal, great-grandson of Hugo, is married to Lady Frances von Hofmannsthal, née Armstrong-Jones, daughter of the 1st Earl of Snowdon ( former husband of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon ) and his second wife, Lucy Mary Davies.

He received some of his best reviews for his supporting role as retired professional baseball player Denny Davies in The Upside of Anger, for which he received a nomination from the Broadcast Film Critics Association and won the San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Mark was best known as Marianne Faithfull's accompanist for three years and for having been a member of the band Sweet Thursday ( which included pianist Nicky Hopkins and future Cat Stevens collaborator Alun Davies, also a guitarist ).

Fifth Business, in particular, is considered one of Davies ' best novels.

Gwallter Mechain ( Walter Davies ) won the prize for the best ode and Iolo Morganwg tied a blue armband around his arm as a sign that he belonged now to the Order of Bards in the Gorsedd.

Marion Davies ( January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961 ) was an American film actress, best known for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst.

David Russell Gordon " Dave " Davies ( born 3 February 1947, Fortis Green, London ) is an English rock musician best known for his role as lead guitarist and vocalist for the English rock band The Kinks.

Ray Davies said that Avory was his best friend in the band and he unwillingly had to choose sides, as said later in a 1989 interview:

Windsor Davies ( born 28 August 1930, Canning Town, West Ham, London ) is a British actor, best known for playing the part of Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the British sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum ( 1974-81 ).

Davies ' best known role was as Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the British sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum ( 1974 – 81 ).

In July 2012 Bangor City forward Les Davies made the 32 man longlist for UEFA's best player in Europe award

Les Davies was voted in the list of the best 32 players in European club football by UEFA for his performances for Bangor City FC in the 2011 / 12 season. Les Davies played 64 times for Porthmadog scoring 18 goals.

Davies decided that the best means of paying the debt was to write a new series, which became A Very Peculiar Practice.

Davies wrote poetry in numerous forms, but is best known for his epigrammes and sonnets.

Alan Roger Davies ( born 6 March 1966 ) is an English comedian, writer and actor best known for starring in the TV mystery series Jonathan Creek and as the permanent panellist on the TV panel show QI.

Friend and comedy partner Bill Bailey was Davies ' best man and delivered a speech at the ceremony.

Davies came under fire less than a month after taking over the Defence Equipment brief when an SAS reservist commander in Afghanistan resigned because of what he described as a ' chronic underinvestment ' in troops ' equipment and called the government's attitude to the consideration of the lack of military equipment ' cavalier at best, criminal at worst '.

Eau Claire president W. R. Davies, speaking at a university assembly, said " the goal is a college of education that will rank as one of the best in the middlewest, with a wide enough offering to truly serve the needs of the college youth of northwest Wisconsin.

) Though Citizen Kane is often considered one of the best films ever made, Hearst was allegedly not amused by how he — or his mistress Marion Davies, widely considered the inspiration for Susan Alexander — were depicted, and he attempted to destroy both the film and Welles ' career.

The film won the BAFTA award for best serial drama ; Davies and Johnson also won awards from the Writers ' Guild of Great Britain and the Broadcasting Press Guild respectively.

Elize du Toit ( born 21 February 1980 in Grahamstown, South Africa ) is a South African born actress best known for playing the role of Izzy Davies in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2000 to 2004, with a brief return in 2007.

He is best known for the role of Harrison Davies, the brother of the main character Tru Davies ( played by Eliza Dushku ) on the Fox television series, Tru Calling.

Rick Davies ( born Richard Davies, 22 July 1944, in Swindon, Wiltshire, England ) is an English musician, best known as the founder and keyboardist of progressive rock band Supertramp.