The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

An early psychical researcher to propose an afterlife hypothesis was Edmund Fournier d ' Albe he wrote that at the moment of death the soul floats into the atmosphere.

Edmund ( reigned 1016 ) was an elder half-brother of King Edward the Confessor, and Edmund's son Edward was in Hungary with King Andrew I, having left England as an infant after his father's death and the accession of Cnut as King of England.

He was to take over as tutor to the Robinsons ' son, Edmund who was growing too old to be in Anne's care.

It was the failure of Dalhousie to appoint a prominent Baptist pastor and scholar, Edmund Crawley, to the Chair of Classics, as had been expected, that really thrust into the forefront of Baptist thinking the need for a College established and run by the Baptists.

The second series was the first to establish the familiar Blackadder character: cunning, shrewd and witty, in sharp contrast to the bumbling Prince Edmund of the first series.

It was the following insult directed at Lord Percy by Edmund Blackadder: " The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr. Brain has long since departed, hasn't he, Percy?

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

Raphael Holinshed calls her Voadicia, while Edmund Spenser calls her " Bunduca ", a version of the name that was used in the popular Jacobean play Bonduca, in 1612.

Perhaps the original compilation of popular playing card games was collected by Edmund Hoyle, a self-made authority on many popular parlor games.

This approach was first proposed by the philosopher Edmund Husserl, and later elaborated by other philosophers and scientists.

In 1865 the ' Rules of the Eglinton Castle and Cassiobury Croquet ' was published by Edmund Routledge.

Conservatives typically see Richard Hooker as the founding father of conservatism, the Marquess of Halifax as important for his pragmatism, David Hume articulated conservative mistrust of rationalism in politics, and Edmund Burke was the leading early theorist.

Edmund Burke was the private secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham and official pamphleteer to the Rockingham branch of the Whig Party.

However there was no consistency in Whig ideology, and diverse writers including John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith and Edmund Burke were all influential among Whigs, although none of them was universally accepted.

The form was invented by and is named after Edmund Clerihew Bentley.

After the fall of James II of England, in 1688, Mather was among the leaders of the successful revolt against James's governor of the consolidated Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros.

He was succeeded by his brother Edmund, then aged 18.

Edmund Stoiber was born in Oberaudorf in the district of Rosenheim, Bavaria.

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (; April 8, 1859, Proßnitz, Moravia, Austrian Empire – April 26, 1938, Freiburg, Germany ) was a philosopher and mathematician and the founder of the 20th century philosophical school of phenomenology.

She was portrayed as Belphoebe or Astraea, and after the Armada, as Gloriana, the eternally youthful Faerie Queene of Edmund Spenser's poem.

The concept is also present in the work of Max Weber, Gilles Deleuze, and Edmund Husserl.

Since Edith was also the niece of Edgar the Ætheling and the great-granddaughter of Edmund Ironside ( the half-brother of Edward the Confessor ) the marriage united the Norman line with the old English line of kings.

Many believe that Strauss also found historicism in Edmund Burke, Tocqueville, Augustine, and John Stuart Mill.

In their cross-cultural study of signs and symbols, Patterns that Connect, Carl Schuster and Edmund Carpenter present various forms of the labyrinth and suggest various possible meanings, including not only a sacred path to the home of a sacred ancestor, but also, perhaps, a representation of the ancestor him / herself: "... many World Indians who make the labyrinth regard it as a sacred symbol, a beneficial ancestor, a deity.

Edmund Fanning, also a Loyalist exiled by the Revolution, took over as the second governor, serving until 1804.

The ban was revoked in 1681 by the English-appointed governor Sir Edmund Andros, who also revoked a Puritan ban on festivities on Saturday nights.

* He is also related to the Confederate Generals Fitzhugh Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee, Nelson Pendelton Lee, and Richard L. Page ; and to US Admiral Samuel P. Lee.

There are two fine monuments to members of the Prideaux family ( Sir Nicholas, 1627 and Edmund, 1693 ): there is also a monumental brass of 1421.

Historian and biographer Edmund King, whilst painting a slightly more positive picture than Davis, also concludes that Stephen, while a stoic, pious and genial leader, was also rarely, if ever, his own man, usually relying upon stronger characters such as his brother or wife.

* January – Edmund Halley, Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke have a conversation in which Hooke later claimed not only to have derived the inverse-square law, but also all the laws of planetary motion.

Positive accounts of Aboriginal customs and encounters are also recorded in the journals of early European explorers, who often relied on Aboriginal guides and assistance: Charles Sturt employed Aboriginal envoys to explore the Murray-Darling ; the lone survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition was nursed by local Aborigines, and the famous Aboriginal explorer Jackey Jackey loyally accompanied his ill-fated friend Edmund Kennedy to Cape York.

Edmund Rich ( also known as Saint Edmund or Eadmund of Canterbury, and as Saint Edmund of Abingdon ) ( 1175 – 1240 ) was a 13th century Archbishop of Canterbury in England.

The twenty-nine, also known as the Vrdolyak Twenty-nine, was led by " the Eddies ": Alderman Ed Vrdolyak, Finance Chair Edward Burke and Parks Commissioner Edmund Kelly.

Henry also became embroiled in funding a war in Sicily on behalf of the Pope in return for a title for his second son Edmund.

Masson also wrote a book about living in New Zealand, including an interview with Sir Edmund Hillary.

Although studying an array of subjects at the school, Foucault's particular interest was soon drawn to philosophy, reading not only the works of Hegel and Marx that he had been exposed to by Hyppolite but also studying the writings of the philosophers Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ), Edmund Husserl ( 1859 – 1938 ) and most significantly, Martin Heidegger ( 1889 – 1976 ).

The Society had just spent its book budget on a History of Fishes, and the cost of publication was borne by Edmund Halley ( who was also then acting as publisher of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society ): the book appeared in summer 1687.

Richard of York was not only the wealthiest magnate in the land, but was also descended from King Edward III's third son Lionel of Antwerp and fifth son Edmund of Langley, leading to calls that he be recognised as successor to the childless King Henry.

Many people are familiar with William Shakespeare's melodramatic version of events in Henry VI, Part 3, notably the murder of Edmund of Rutland, although Edmund is depicted as a small child, and following his unnecessary slaughter by Clifford, Margaret torments his father, York, before murdering him also.

According to Edmund Ludlow, " On the fifteenth ( October 15, 1660 ), Mr. John Carew suffered there also, even their enemies confessing that more steadiness of mind, more contempt of death, and more magnanimity could not be expressed.