He played for Essex 2nd XI but soon realised his main talent was for rugby.

Canon F. H. Gillingham, the old Dulwich College and Essex batsman, in his address at the Memorial Service in St. Paul's Cathedral, said that after coming down from Cambridge Kynaston realised that games were only a preparation for sterner duties, and in his presence it was easier for men to be good and harder to be bad.

The first recorded king, according to the East Saxon King List, was Æscwine to which a date of AD 527 is given for the start of his reign, although there are some difficulties with the date of his reign, and Sledda is listed as the founder of the Essex royal house by other sources.

Despite the comparative obscurity of the kingdom, there were strong connections between Essex and the Kentish kingdom across the river Thames which led to the marriage of King Sledd to Ricula, sister of the king, Aethelbert of Kent.

The only previous royals supposedly buried there were Sæberht of Essex and his wife Æthelgoda.

Little is known about the history of the East Saxons during the eighth century, but what evidence there is indicates that both London and Middlesex, which had been part of the kingdom of Essex, were finally brought under Mercian control during the reign of Æthelbald.

During the War of 1812, the British attacked Essex, Connecticut, and burned the ships in the harbor, due to the construction there of a number of privateers.

The witness whom Essex expected to confirm this allegation, his uncle William Knollys, was called and admitted there had once been read in Cecil's presence a book treating such matters ( possibly either The book of succession supposedly by an otherwise unknown R. Doleman but probably really by Robert Persons or A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crown of England explicitly mentioned to be by Parsons, in which a Catholic successor friendly to Spain was favored ).

In 1891, the singer and banjoist Clifford Essex returned from France enamored of the Pierrots he had seen there and resolved to create a troupe of English Pierrot entertainers.

Before the creation of the East of England region there had been a smaller standard statistical region of East Anglia which did not include Essex, Hertfordshire or Bedfordshire.

Until 1999, there was a South East Standard Statistical Region, which also included the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Greater London.

He continued his medical studies in London while training there and was attached to a church in Ongar, Essex, to be a minister under LMS.

Greenaway's family left South Wales when he was three years old ( they had moved there originally to avoid the Blitz ) and settled in Chingford, Essex, England.

Essex arrived back in London to a hero's welcome on 7 November, before Charles was able to get there.

He was born at Waltham Abbey, Essex in 1900 where his father was a major in the Royal Artillery and at the time the assistant superintendent of the gunpowder factory there.

Contrast this with Essex Village, where there are relatively few Gothic or Victorian style dwellings, two examples of which are the 1855 " Gingerbread House " at the corner of Riverview Street and Maple Avenue, and the Parker House on North Main Street.

As of March 23, 2011, there were 14, 099 registered voters in the township ( 103. 3 % of the 2010 population ages 18 and over of 13, 647 in the 2010 Census, vs. 77. 7 % in all of Essex County of the 589, 051 ages 18 and up ) of which, 4, 512 ( 32. 0 % vs. 45. 9 % countywide ) were registered as Democrats, 3, 214 ( 22. 8 % vs. 9. 9 % countywide ) were registered as Republicans, 6, 361 ( 45. 1 % vs. 44. 1 % countywide ) were registered as Unaffiliated and there were 12 voters registered to other parties

After dropping out of Brighton Polytechnic, he began his TV career as a sports personality impersonator on The David Essex Showcase ; it was at this point that he adopted the surname " Barrie " for Equity reasons – as there was already an actor named Chris Brown on the Equity UK lists.

In the UK there are several Elms that have survived the outbreak of DED, one of which is located in Essex and is thought to be nearly 200 years old.

The maypole there was the tallest by far, reaching over a hundred and thirty feet, and it stood until being blown over by a high wind in 1672, when it was moved to Wansted in Essex and served as a mount for a telescope.

Essex, who had just reached there, ordered an immediate march to Kineton to bring relief to Banbury, even though his army had straggled and not all his troops were present.

The Earl of Essex's purpose might have lain in furthering his own interests rather than those of the Catholic Church, but Catesby hoped that if Essex succeeded, there might once more be a Catholic monarch.

He continued serving with Essex during the disastrous Lostwithiel campaign and was left in command of the Parliamentarian garrison of 6, 000 there on 1 September 1644 when Essex and Robartes fled it to Plymouth.

Bowles died at the age of 85 after suffering a stroke in Essex, Connecticut and is buried there in River View Cemetery.

Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.

The Essex Merrimack Bridge when first built was not covered.

The `` Essex Journal '' says that he `` delivered an oration on the bridge, which for elegance of style, propriety of speech or force of argument, was truly Ciceronian ''.

The north portion of the Essex bridge was well worth the cost of construction, although it proved to be twice what was estimated in the beginning.

The Essex bridge was a toll crossing until 1868, when the County Commissioners laid out all the Merrimack bridges as highways.

Sandman, state campaign chairman for Jones, was addressing a meeting in the Military Park Hotel, Newark, of Essex County leaders and campaign managers for Jones.

The candidacy of Mayor James J. Sheeran of West Orange, for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Essex County, was supported today by Edward W. Roos, West Orange public safety commissioner.

Joan died in Essex in 1238, and was buried at Tarant Crawford Abbey in Dorset.

He was saved by the new sulphonamide drug, Sulphapyridine, known at the time under the research code M & B 693, discovered and produced by May & Baker Ltd, Dagenham, Essex – a subsidiary of the French group Rhône-Poulenc.

Montgomery came to the conclusion that the conflict could not be won without harsh measures, and that self-government was the only feasible solution ; in 1923, after the establishment of the Irish Free State and during the Irish Civil War, Montgomery wrote to Colonel Arthur Percival of the Essex Regiment:

The competition itself was won by F H W Hawes of Dagenham in Essex who finished in less than eight minutes.

After defeating the Army of Sir William Waller at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, King Charles marched west in pursuit of the Parliamentarian army of the Earl of Essex, who was invading the Royalist stronghold of Cornwall.

When the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by a whale in 1820, the captain opted to sail 3000 miles upwind to Chile rather than 1400 miles downwind to the Marquesas because he had heard the Marquesans were cannibals.

However, the Essex Camulodunum was located well within territory usually thought to have been conquered early in the 5th century by Saxons, so it is unlikely to have been the location of any " true " Camelot.

Even Colchester Museum argues strongly regarding the historical Arthur: " It would be impossible and inconceivable to link him to the Colchester area, or to Essex more generally ", pointing out that the connection between the name Camuloduum and Colchester was unknown till the 18th century.

This was subsequently translated into English by John Essex and published in England as For the Further Improvement of Dancing.

The Kingdom of Essex or Kingdom of the East Saxons () was one of the seven traditional kingdoms of the so-called Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.

It was founded in the 6th century and covered the territory later occupied by the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and ( for a short while ) Kent.

The last king of Essex was Sigered and in 825, he ceded the kingdom to Egbert of Wessex.

Although the kingdom of Essex was one of the kingdoms of the Heptarchy, its history is not well documented.

For most of the kingdom's existence, the Essex king was subservient to an overlord-variously the kings of Kent, Anglia or Mercia.

According to British legend ( see: Historia Brittonum ) the territory known later as Essex was ceded by the Britons to the Saxons following the infamous Brad y Cyllyll Hirion event which occurred ca.