At competitions arranged by Gervase Elwes in 1905-06, several folk singers from the surrounding area — including Joseph Taylor and George Gouldthorpe — sang for the composer Percy Grainger songs such as Brigg Fair and Lisbon.

It is interesting to note that the fanciful derivation of the name Veronica from the words Vera Icon ( eikon ) " true image " dates back to the " Otia Imperialia " ( iii 25 ) of Gervase of Tilbury ( fl.

This transformation is often associated with the appearance of the full moon, as popularly noted by the medieval chronicler Gervase of Tilbury, and perhaps in earlier times among the ancient Greeks through the writings of Petronius.

* The Chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury is written.

A 12th-century writer, Gervase of Tilbury, wrote in his Latin geography that " Poland is bordered in one side with Russia, which is also called Ruthenia, as you may see from the following phrase of Lucan …" The original Latin text: Polonia in uno sui capite contingit Russiam, quae et Ruthenia, de qua Lucanus: Solvuntur flavi longa statione Rutheni.

This is mentioned in Banks and Binns ' introduction to the Otia Imperialia, a 13th century work by Gervase of Tilbury.

Gervase also lists Hilary of Chichester as one of those forgiven by Theobald on that date, but as Hilary attended the council it is likely that this is an error.

Alan, Abbot of Tewkesbury ( date of birth unknown ) is said by Gervase of Canterbury ( contemporary chronicler ) to be of English ( i. e. non-Norman ) descent.

Little is known of his life beyond these small details, and disparaging references by Ben Jonson in 1618 / 19, describing him, ( with Dekker and Edward Sharpham ) as a “ rogue ” and ( with Thomas Middleton and Gervase Markham ) as a “ base fellow ”.

The stories feature Oxford don Gervase Fen, who is a Professor of English at the university and a fellow of St Christopher's College, a fictional institution that Crispin locates next to St John's College.

Castle Coole is, in the words of the architectural commentator Gervase Jackson-Stops, " A culmination of the Palladian traditions, yet strictly neoclassical in its chaste ornament and noble austerity.

The most likely person in whose favour the abeyance would be terminated is the son of Gervase Michael Cobham Thornely ( 1918-2009 ): Richard Michael Gervase Thornely ( b. 20 Jan 1957 ).

Overhaul will start once work on Gervase is complete

Marston's next series was set during the reign of William the Conqueror ; its two main characters, surveyors for Domesday Book, are Ralph Delchard, a Norman soldier, and Gervase Bret, a former novice turned lawyer, who is half Norman and half Saxon.

While Guy is overseas, a German doodlebug hits Uncle Peregrine's flat and kills him and Virginia, sparing Virginia and Trimmer's son, Gervase, who is in the country with Guy's sister.

A hertasi (" Gervase, the Lizard Wizard ," as mentioned in The Oathbound ) is credited with the expansion of the White Winds School of magic.

The almanack is presented as though it were written by Gervase Brightkin, a red squirrel.

Gervase has occasionally been confused with others of the same name, notably with Gervase of S. Ceneri, and thus he is described as prior of Dover by Dom Brial ( Recueil des Historiens de France, XVII, 1818 ), which is impossible on chronological grounds.

The Sullivan scholar Gervase Hughes writes, " Mabel ... must be a coloratura because of ' Poor wand ' ring one!

Historical records show that Gervase took a prominent part in the disputes between the monks and Archbishop Baldwin ( 1185-1191 ) and was one of the monks sent to announce to the archbishop an appeal to the pope.

As yet, Gervase, though one of the senior monks, had held no prominent office, but about this time he was made sacristan, for in 1193 he attended the new archbishop, Hubert Walter, in that capacity.

Gervase is therefore convincingly one of this family ( of which DNB suggests nothing is known, though it confirms she was related to Patrick, earl of Salisbury ).

* In Maryland, the Jesuits Andrew White, John Altham Gravenor, and Thomas Gervase arrived with Lord Leonard Calvert on March 25, 1634, and in that year established an institution of higher learning at St. Mary's which later became known as Georgetown University, North America's oldest university.

Comparing the two extant overtures, Gervase Hughes wrote:

In addition, a number of individuals are known to have read the text or have been indirectly influenced by it, including: Vussin, Hrabanus Maurus, Hermann of Reichenau, Hugo of St. Victor, Gervase of Melkey, William of Malmesbury, Theoderich of St. Trond, Petrus Diaconus, Albertus Magnus, Filippo Villani, Jean de Montreuil, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Giovanni de Dondi, Domenico di Bandino, Niccolò Acciaioli bequeathed copy to the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, Bernward of Hildesheim, and St. Thomas Aquinas.

Gervase's best known work Imperialia was intended for the prince Henry, son of Henry II in whose circle Gervase, a learned scholar and cleric, was retained until the young man ’ s death, in his late twenties, in June 1183.

It has been suggested that, after the resounding defeat of Otto and his English ally John at the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ), Gervase was forced to retire to the duchy of Braunschweig, where he became, and died, provost of Ebstorf, and it is apparent that his work was known to the authors of the Ebstorf world map ( ca.

According to accounts left by the monk Gervase of Canterbury and eyewitness Edward Grim, they placed their weapons under a tree outside the cathedral and hid their mail armour under cloaks before entering to challenge Becket.

Ralph Vaughan Williams produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano ( dedicated to Gervase Elwes ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the London String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917.

This was reinforced when their foremost interpreter and performer, Gervase Elwes ( who had initiated the music festivals at Brigg in Lincolnshire at which Percy Grainger and others had developed their collections of country music ) died in a horrific accident in 1921.

Gervase Markham edited and commented on the list in his The Gentleman's Academic in 1595.

An early printed recipe for haggis appears in 1615 in “ The English Huswife ” by Gervase Markham.

Other material from Thomas of Elmham, Gervase of Canterbury, and William of Malmesbury, later medieval chroniclers, adds little to Bede's account of Justus ' life.

Reliable accounts of the middle and later parts of John's reign are more limited, with Gervase of Canterbury and Ralph of Coggeshall writing the main accounts ; neither of them were positive about John's performance as king.

Stephen probably had three illegitimate sons, Gervase, Ralph and Americ, by his mistress Damette ; Gervase became Abbot of Westminster in 1138, but after his father's death Gervase was removed by Henry in 1157 and died shortly afterwards.

More infrequent visitors included Percy Bates, Charles Leslie Wrenn, Colin Hardie, James Dundas-Grant, John David Arnett, Jon Fromke, John Wain, R. B. McCallum, Gervase Mathew, and C. E. Stevens.

He was taken to the priory of St Gervase at Rouen, where he died on 9 September 1087.

** Gervase Markham, English poet and writer ( d. 1637 )

These include Robert of Torigni's work, Roger of Howden's Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi and Chronica, Ralph Diceto's works, William of Newburgh's Historia Rerum, and Gervase of Canterbury's works.

The only other of his works which has been printed, besides a few letters ( in The Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury, ed.

It was part of a series of such texts, popular in his generation and deemed " the first age of Romanian realism " by researcher Maria Protase.