Mannerism as a stylistic category is less frequently applied to English visual and decorative arts, where local categories such as " Elizabethan " and " Jacobean " are more common.

In English literature, Mannerism is commonly identified with the qualities of the " Metaphysical " poets of whom the most famous is John Donne.

Extended conceits in English are part of the poetic idiom of Mannerism, during the later sixteenth and early seventeenth century.

The English period began far later than the Italian, which is usually considered to begin with Dante, Petrarch and Giotto in the early 14th century, and was moving into Mannerism and the Baroque by the 1550s or earlier.

In particular, they objected to the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the founder of the English Royal Academy of Arts, believing that his broad technique was a sloppy and formulaic form of academic Mannerism.

Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist, coined the word agnostic in 1869.

Azincourt is famous as being near the site of the battle fought on 25 October 1415 in which the army led by King Henry V of England defeated the forces led by Charles d ' Albret on behalf of Charles VI of France, which has gone down in English history as the Battle of Agincourt.

Later on, when he became king in 1509, Henry VIII is supposed to have commissioned an English translation of a Life of Henry V so that he could emulate him, on the grounds that he thought that launching a campaign against France would help him to impose himself on the European stage.

In 1513, Henry VIII conclusively crossed the English Channel and stopped at Azincourt.

* 1810 – Philip Henry Gosse, English naturalist ( d. 1888 )

* 1513 – Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.

* 1844 – James Henry Greathead, English engineer ( d. 1896 )

* 1910 – James Henry Govier, English painter ( d. 1974 )

* 1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.

Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond.

While Wesley freely made use of the term " Arminian ," he did not self-consciously root his soteriology in the theology of Arminius but was highly influenced by 17th-century English Arminianism and thinkers such as John Goodwin, Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond of the Anglican " Holy Living " school, and the Remonstrant Hugo Grotius.

* 1730 – Henry Clinton, English general ( d. 1795 )

* 1598 – Nine Years ' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford – Irish forces under Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.

* 1590 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier ( d. 1649 )

But John having died, the Pope and the English aristocracy changed their allegiance to his nine-year-old son, Henry, forcing the French and the Scots armies to return home.

Soon afterwards a claim for homage from Henry of England drew forth from Alexander a counter-claim to the northern English counties.

A threat of invasion by Henry in 1243 for a time interrupted the friendly relations between the two countries ; but the prompt action of Alexander in anticipating his attack, and the disinclination of the English barons for war, compelled him to make peace next year at Newcastle.

* 1958 – Lenny Henry, English comedian, actor, and writer

* 1890 – Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English pilot ( d. 1918 )

* 1599 – Henry Wallop, English statesman

During that time he took a great part in the campaigns and negotiations which led to the Treaty of Paris in 1259, under which King Henry III of England recognized his loss of continental territory to France ( including Normandy, Maine, Anjou, and Poitou ) in exchange for France withdrawing support from English rebels.

Henry Sweet incorrectly predicted in 1877 that within a century American English, Australian English and British English would be mutually unintelligible.

* 1958 – Howard Stableford, English actor and host

* 1932 – Howard Hodgkin, English painter

* 1584 – Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician ( d. 1640 )

* 1942 – Howard Jacobson, English author and journalist

He is of English ( maternal ), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic ( paternal ) ancestry His father, Howard " Pete " Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth ( née Ivey ), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money.

In 1569 there was a major Catholic rising in the North ; the goal was to free Mary, marry her to Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, and put her on the English throne.

Ernest Howard Shepard ( 10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976 ) was an English artist and book illustrator.

Howard Carter ( 9 May 18742 March 1939 ) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist known for discovering the tomb of 14th-century BC pharaoh Tutankhamun.

* 1718 – George Howard, English field marshal ( d. 1796 )

* 1943 – Leslie Howard, English actor ( b. 1893 )

* 1586 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman and art collector ( d. 1646 )

* 1941 – Michael Howard, English politician

* 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.

* 1874 – Howard Carter, English archaeologist ( d. 1939 )

* 1958 – Howard Goodall, English composer

* 1536 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician ( d. 1572 )

His mother, Margory Golding, was the sister of the Ovid translator Arthur Golding, and his uncle, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was the inventor of the English or Shakespearean sonnet form.

The development of penicillin for use as a medicine is attributed to the Australian Nobel laureate Howard Walter Florey, together with the German Nobel laureate Ernst Chain and the English biochemist Norman Heatley.

For example, in Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism, English professor Howard Schwartz writes, " the definition of ' mythology ' offered here does not attempt to determine if biblical or subsequent narratives are true or false, i. e., historically accurate or not ".

Some Jewish scholars, including Dov Noy, a professor of folklore at Hebrew University and founder of the Israel Folktale Archives, and Howard Schwartz, Jewish anthologist and English professor at the University of Missouri – St. Louis, have discussed traditional Jewish stories as " mythology ".

* 1629 – Philip Howard, English cardinal ( d. 1694 )

The first known sonnets in English, written by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, used this Italian scheme, as did sonnets by later English poets including John Milton, Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.