For the first few years of his reign he had to face the obstacles of two strong rival kings, Wihtred of Kent and Ine of Wessex.

For a more complete genealogy including ancestors and descendants, see House of Wessex family tree.

For 40 years from 1965, Highbury New Park was home to Wessex Studios.

For other kingdoms than his native Northumbria, such as Wessex and Kent, Bede had an informant within the ecclesiastical establishment who supplied him with additional information.

For example, sons and daughters of a British Sovereign e. g. HRH The Prince of Wales, HRH The Princess Royal, HRH The Duke of York and HRH The Earl of Wessex.

For the critic Irving Howe, Under the Greenwood Tree served as a kind of necessary prequel and establishing myth for the world of Wessex that Hardy depicted in subsequent tragic works: the novel, he argued, " is a fragile evocation of a self-contained country world that in Hardy's later fiction will come to seem distant and unavailable, a social memory by which to judge the troubled present.

For many years the passenger services on the line have been provided by Wessex Trains, and since 2006 by First Great Western, using Class 150 or Class 153 diesel multiple units ( DMUs ) either singly or in multiple.

For Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's lying-in-state in 2002, the guard was mounted by her four grandsons the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex and Viscount Linley.

For the 1896 reprinting, Hardy added " An Imaginative Woman ," but in 1912 moved this to another collection, Life's Little Ironies, while at the same time transferring two stories – " A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four " and " The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion " – from Life's Little Ironies to Wessex Tales.

For a brief period in the 8th century, the Kingdom of Essex controlled what is now Kent.

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

For the first time following the Anglo-Saxon invasion, coins began circulating in Kent during his reign.

For this he was thrown into Beauchamp Tower, and after a year's liberation again imprisoned, in December, 1533, on the charges of disseminating the prophecies of the Maid of Kent, encouraging the queen " obstinately to persist in her wilful opinion against the same divorce and separation ", and maintaining her right to the title of queen.

For universities in Canterbury, England, see the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University.

For example, the children of Prince Michael of Kent are known as Lord Frederick Windsor and Lady Gabriella Windsor, bearing courtesy titles as if they were the children of a duke.

For example, the former Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz enjoys the title and style of " HRH Princess Michael of Kent ," and not " HRH Princess Marie-Christine of Kent.

For example, Lois Lane believes that Superman can fly, although she does not believe that Clark Kent can fly.

For the rest of his life Burlington was " the Apollo of the arts " as Horace Walpole phrased it — and Kent his ' proper priest.

For many years it was thought that she had some involvement in the creation of the Bayeux Tapestry ( commonly called La Tapisserie de la Reine Mathilde in French ), but historians no longer believe that ; it seems to have been commissioned by William's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, and made by English artists in Kent ..

For the South Saxons, there is very little charter evidence, but as with Kent, what there is does not show any requirement for Æthelbald's consent to land grants.

For instance, the depiction of Krypton reflects the older idealized version in the Silver Age of Comic Books while the scope of Superman's powers reflect the more restrained contemporary concept as developed by John Byrne in that the superhero has to struggle to perform spectacular feats, while Clark Kent is shown to be openly, if quietly, self-confident.

For example, in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, after Lois Lane learns that Superman is Clark Kent, he discusses his dual identity with her.

He contributed to Archæologia papers ‘ On the Lord Chancellors under King John ,’ ‘ On the Relationship of Bishop FitzJames and Lord Chief Justice Fitzjames ,’ ‘ On the Lineage of Sir Thomas More ,’ and ‘ On the Office and Title of Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer .’ For the Kent Archæological Association, which he helped to found, he wrote a paper ‘ On the Collar of S. S .’; and a privately printed volume of poems, ‘ A Century of Inventions ,’ appeared in 1863.

For his part the Duke of Kent, aged 50, already considering marriage and encouraged into this particular match with her sister-in-law by his now deceased niece Princess Charlotte, became engaged to Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld ( 17 August 1786 – 16 March 1861 ) and the couple married on 29 May 1818 at Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg, ( Lutheran rite ) and again on 11 July 1818 at Kew Palace, Kew, Surrey.

For example, there is an extant speech of his reported at the dedication of a Cross of Sacrifice at the Hamilton Road Cemetery, Deal, Kent.

For air travel, Medway residents must use Kent's main airports Kent International ( Manston ) or Lydd but these lack extensive passenger facilities or routes, thus the London airports are used the vast majority of the time ( mainly Gatwick, Heathrow, Luton and Stansted )

For example, on Bewl Water in Kent, the Bewl Water Dragon Boat Festival organised by the funraisers and dragon boat events ltd now involves around 1, 200 competitors annually and in 2006 raised £ 165, 000.

For many centuries it was called Kirkbie Kendal, meaning " village with a church in the valley of the River Kent ".

For example, the mother of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, the Duchess of Kent, was never a queen dowager because her late husband, the Duke of Kent, had never been king.

For the period prior to Augustine's arrival in 597, Bede drew on earlier writers, including Solinus.

For the early part of the work, up until the Gregorian mission, Goffart feels that Bede used Gildas's De excidio.

For many years, early Anglo-Saxon history was essentially a retelling of the Historia, but recent scholarship has focused as much on what Bede did not write as what he did.

For calendric purposes, Bede made a new calculation of the age of the world since the creation, which he dated as 3952 BC.

For some time the existence of the word bretwalda in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which was based in part on the list given by Bede in his Historia Ecclesiastica, led historians to think that there was perhaps a ' title ' held by Anglo-Saxon overlords.

For Bede, Mercia was a traditional enemy of his native Northumbria and he regarded powerful kings such as the pagan Penda as standing in the way of the Christian conversion of the Anglo-Saxons.

For example during eight centuries the calendar belonging to the Christian era, which era was taken in use in the 8th century by Bede, was the Julian calendar, but after the year 1582 it was the Gregorian calendar.

Oswine and Oswiu came into conflict circa 651, Bede blames Oswiu for the troubles and writes: For when they had raised armies against one another, Oswin perceived that he could not maintain a war against one who had more auxiliaries than himself, and he thought it better at that time to lay aside all thoughts of engaging, and to preserve himself for better times.

For example, Bede knew Acca of Hexham, and dedicated many of his theological works to him.

For instance, the Life gives an account of the Synod of Whitby which differs from Bede ’ s.

In his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Bede writes that " For all the time that Edwin reigned, the sons of the aforesaid Etheifrid, who had reigned before him, with many of the nobility, lived in banishment among the Scots or Picts, and were there instructed according to the doctrine of the Scots, and received the grace of baptism.

For instance, Bede Griffiths writes :-

For example, Bede quotes at length some speeches by people who were not his contemporaries and whose speeches do not appear in any other surviving source ; it is doubtful whether oral traditional history supported these ostensible quotations.

For the period prior to Augustine's arrival in 597, Bede drew on earlier writers, including Orosius, Eutropius, Pliny, and Solinus.

For the early part of the work, up until the Gregorian mission, Goffart feels that Bede used Gildas's De excidio.

For while Bede is loyal to Northumbria he shows an even greater attachment to the Irish and the Irish Celtic missionaries, whom he considers to be far more effective and dedicated than their rather complacent English counterparts.

For example, although Bede recounts Wilfrid's missionary activities, he does not give a full account of his conflict with Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury, or his ambition and aristocratic lifestyle.

For many years, early Anglo-Saxon history was essentially a retelling of the Historia, but recent scholarship has focused as much on what Bede did not write as what he did.