Pomham and Soconoco, a couple of minor sachems ( of something less than exalted character ) under Miantonomi, declared that they had never assented to the sale of land to Gorton and had never received anything for it.

In the 2000 Washington Senatorial Election, Republican Slade Gorton received 55. 93 % to Democrat Maria Cantwell's 42. 57 %.

Baptized in 1593 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, Gorton received a classic education in languages and English law from tutors.

Gorton received a classical education from tutors, and became an accomplished scholar, particularly in the area of languages and English law.

In 1675 Gorton had received word that the Indians living in the Connecticut Colony intended to invade the Narragansett country.

More than a century later, however, Samuel Eddy, the Rhode Island Secretary of State, wrote, " In the case of Gorton, ... no one of the first settlers has received more unmerited reproach, nor any one suffered so much injustice.

Despite the banning of The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie in Australia, the films received considerable support from the Australian government of John Gorton, becoming the first film to receive funding from the Australian Film Development Commission.

Gorton left England, he said, `` to enjoy libertie of conscience in respect to faith towards God, and for no other end ''.

Gorton said they were preparing to deport her as a vagabond, and to escape the shame she fled to the woods for several days, returning at night.

Gorton appeared for her, however, and what he told the magistrates must have been plenty, for he was charged with deluding the court, fined, and told to leave the colony within fourteen days.

One can imagine that with her and Gorton there it was no place for anyone with weak nerves.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

Up to now, Gorton had been looking for trouble, and now that he was trying to get away from it, trouble started looking for him.

If Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his complicated meditations this is where he should have had it.

* Senator John Gorton ( LP ), Minister for Works and Minister in Charge of Commonwealth Activities in Education and Research

He also established the Australian Council for the Arts ( later the Australia Council ), which began the tradition of federal government support for Australian arts and artists, an initiative that was considerably expanded by Holt's successor John Gorton.

Under John Gorton he became Minister for Education and Science, and in 1969 he was made Minister for Defence: a challenging post at the height of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War and the protests against it.

A similar attendance was also recorded for a friendly match against Gorton Villa on 5 September 1889.

It would be only after McEwen announced his retirement that MacMahon would be able to successfully challenge Gorton for the Liberal leadership.

The only case where a senator was appointed prime minister was that of John Gorton, who subsequently resigned his Senate position and was elected as a member of the House of Representatives ( Senator George Pearce was acting prime minister for seven months in 1916 while Billy Hughes was overseas ).

McEwen was prime minister for 23 days, until the election of ( then Senator ) John Gorton.

In late 1969, Askin, with Bolte, organised an ' emergency ' premiers ' conference, without Gorton, to publicise the disadvantages of the States, a move that was partly responsible for the party deposition of Gorton in 1971.

In, in the aftermath of the Seattle Pilots ' purchase and relocation to Milwaukee ( as the Milwaukee Brewers ) by future Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig, the City of Seattle, King County, and the state of Washington ( represented by then-State Attorney General and later U. S. Senator Slade Gorton ) sued the American League for breach of contract.

John Gorton prior to leaving for war service in 1941.

During late 1941, Gorton and other members of his squadron became part of the cadre of a Hurricane wing being formed for service in the Middle East.

After a few months Gorton was released from confinement, but banished from Massachusetts and his home settlement of Shawomet, which was claimed by Massachusetts.

Once back in New England, with his settlement of Shawomet ( now called Warwick ) secure, Gorton became a part of the civil authority that he had previously rejected, serving as assistant to the president, commissioner, deputy, and president of the two towns of Providence and Warwick.

On 8 March 1640 Roger Williams wrote to Massachusetts magistrate John Winthrop, " Master Gorton having abused high and low at Aquidneck, is now bewitching and bemadding poor Providence, both with his unclean and his foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself in Christ's name have withstood him ) and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism ..." Being a bitter partisan by nature he used his talent and energy to consolidate many discordant elements of the discontented into a destructive party within the comparatively peaceful settlement established by Williams.

At this point Gorton moved once again to an area called Pawtuxet, along the Pawtuxet River, about five miles south of the settlement at Providence ( later the dividing line between the Rhode Island towns of Cranston and Warwick ).

With his settlement of Warwick secured by royal decree, Gorton became actively involved in roles that he had previously criticized.

In 1648, Gorton was granted a Charter by Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, Lord Admiral and head of the Parliamentary Commission on Plantation Affairs.

Gorton returned to his colony in 1648 with a letter from Rich, ordering Massachusetts to cease molesting him and his people.

In 1648 Gorton returned to New England, landing in Boston that May.

The Samuel Gorton who stepped off the ship in Boston in 1648 seemed to be a totally different person than the one who sailed to England four years earlier.

Concept artist Peter McKinstry and prosthetics designer Neill Gorton decided to base Davros's appearance on the original Michael Wisher version, which they felt was " somehow creepier — more " than subsequent incarnations.

In October the government became embroiled in another embarrassing controversy over the alleged misuse of VIP aircraft, which came to a head when John Gorton ( Government Leader in the Senate ) tabled documents which showed that Holt had unintentionally misled Parliament in his earlier answers on the matter.

During one of his first sorties, Gorton was involved in a brief dogfight over the South China Sea, after which he suffered engine failure and was forced to land on Bintan island, 40 km ( 25 mi ) south east of Singapore.

Gorton then spent almost a day on a crowded liferaft, in shark-infested waters, with little drinking water, until the raft was spotted by HMAS Ballarat, which picked up the passengers and took them to Batavia.

Two schoolfriends, who had also been evacuated from Singapore to Batavia, heard that Gorton was in hospital, arranged for them to be put on a ship for Fremantle, which left on 23 February and treated Gorton's wounds.

During late 1944 Gorton went to Heidelberg hospital for surgery which could not fully repair his facial injuries.

In 1969 he was appointed Minister for the Army, and in this role played a minor part in the drama which brought down Prime Minister John Gorton in 1971.

In early 1969, Gorton offered him the post of Governor-General, which he accepted.

In 1790 Robert Grimshaw, of Gorton Manchester, erected a weaving factory at Knott Mill which he was to fill with 500 of Cartwright's power looms, but with only 30 in place, the factory was burnt down probably as an act of arson inspired by the fears of hand loom weavers.

He was the author of a 1969 report which led to legislation by Prime Minister John Gorton in 1970 for an Australian Film and Television Development Corporation ( later the Australian Film Commission ) and the Experimental Film Fund.

In 1953 the American company Gorton-Pew Fisheries, now known as Gorton's, had been the first company to introduce a frozen ready-to-cook fish finger, named Gorton ’ s Fish Sticks, which won the Parents Magazine Seal of Approval.

Gorton serves on the Board of Trustees of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, which is a museum dedicated to the U. S. Constitution.

* Hypocrisie Unmasked ; by a True Relation of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts against Samuel Gorton, a Notorious Disturber of the Peace ( 1646 ), to which was added a chapter entitled " A Brief Narration of the True Grounds or Cause of the First Plantation of New England ";

With the steady increase in vehicle production, the limits of the Gorton site were in turn soon reached, and in 1914 a further 48 acre ( 194, 000 m² ) site was bought in Heaton Chapel, Stockport which became the Errwood Park Works.

In 1969 the Gorton administration was severely embarrassed by a renowned This Day Tonight story in which a conscientious objector, who had been on the run from police for several months, was interviewed live in the studio by journalist Richard Carleton, who then posed awkward questions to the Army minister about why TDT had been able to locate the man within hours and bring him to the studio when the federal police had been unable to capture him, and the event was made even more embarrassing for the government because the man was able to leave the studio before police arrived to arrest him.

Higgins is the only Division to have been held by two Prime Ministers, which occurred when Holt went missing while Prime Minister, and then-Senator Gorton was elected as his replacement.

This was partly because Chipp had supported another candidate, Billy Snedden, in the Liberal leadership ballot, and partly because Gorton disapproved of Chipp's decision to hold a second Royal Commission into the 1964 Voyager disaster – a decision which Gorton felt reflected badly on the Royal Australian Navy.

With his hostile attitude towards the judges, he was indicted on 14 counts, some of which were calling the magistrates " Just Asses ," calling a freeman in open court " saucy boy and Jack-an-Apes ," and when Governor Coddington said, " all you that own the King take away Gorton and carry him to prison " Gorton replied, " all you that own the King take away Coddington and carry him to prison.