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Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).
They were parents to a daughter, Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois, ( 1500 – 1553 ) who first married Louis II de La Tremouille, Governor of Burgundy, and secondly Philippe de Bourbon ( 1499 – 1557 ), Seigneur de Busset.
In 1806 the Governor General, Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen, created the city of Mahébourg, named in honour of Mahé de La Bourdonnais.
In 1850 it was part of a stretch set aside for public recreation extending from Governor La Trobe ’ s Jolimont Estate to the Yarra River.
* June 7 – Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia ( b. 1577 )
* June 8 – Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates ' convoy meets the ships of Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (" Delaware ") at Mulberry Island.
* June 10 – Jamestown: The convoy of temporary Governor Gates and the ships of Governor Lord De La Warr land at Jamestown.
Loaded aboard the two ships, they were prevented from making this evacuation by the timely arrival of another relief fleet, bearing Governor Lord De La Warre, among others.
In October 1983, with the collapse of military rule, Menem was elected once again as Governor of La Rioja, and reelected in 1987.
He was made Adelantado de La Florida and Knight of Santiago in 1527, and also Governor of Guatemala.
Attempting to following him, Samuel Argall, an English explorer, was blown off course in 1610 and landed in a strange bay that he named after the Governor of Virginia, Thomas West, Lord De La Warr.
Probably the best-known explanation holds that when an early group of Jamestown colonists left to return to England after the Starving Time during the winter of 1609 – 1610 aboard a ship of Captain Christopher Newport, they encountered another fleet of supply ships under the new Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr in the James River off Mulberry Island with reinforcements of men and supplies.
Pedro de Rábago y Terán, Governor of Coahuila in the 1740s led an expedition to La Junta de los Ríos.
Delaware County lies in the river and bay drainage area named " Delaware " in honor of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, Governor of the nearby English colony of Virginia.
By order of the Governor, the courthouse was relocated to the schoolhouse at Cave Springs ( near present day La Russell, Missouri ) in 1865.
In 1705 the House of Burgesses authorized the town to qualify as a " free borough ", and renamed it " Delaware " in honor of former Royal Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr.
Three minor characters in La Tosca are real historical figures: Queen Maria Carolina ; Prince Diego Naselli, the Governor of Rome ; and the composer, Giovanni Paisiello.
In 1692, Charles de La Roche-Courbon, Count of Blénac, the Governor and Lieutenant General of the French colonies in America, named Fort Royal as the capital city of Martinique.
The University was named after Charles Joseph La Trobe, the first Governor of Victoria, and the University motto, ' whoever seeks shall find ', is adapted from Charles La Trobe's family motto.
Other well-known speakers and lecturers in Chautauqua events of various forms included Member of the U. S. House of Representatives Champ Clark from Missouri, Missouri Governor Herbert S. Hadley, and " Fighting Bob " La Follette ( governor of Wisconsin at the time ).
Juan Ramírez de Velasco founded the city with the name Todos los Santos de la Nueva Rioja on 20 May 1591, while he was the Governor of the Territories of Tucumán, and in homage to the region of La Rioja in Spain.

Governor and Trobe
He was appointed Government Botanist for Victoria by Governor Charles La Trobe in 1853 ( a post that was newly created for him ), and examined its flora, and especially the Alpine vegetation of Australia, which was previously unknown.
As Port Phillip District was a dependency of New South Wales at the time, all land sales, building plans and officer appointments had to be approved by Governor of New South Wales George Gipps, with whom La Trobe had a good personal and working relationship.
In 1851, even before the colony of Victoria acquired full parliamentary self-government, Governor Charles La Trobe instructed the colonial surveyor, Robert Hoddle, to select a site for the colony's new parliament to meet.
When Governor La Trobe visited The Grange in 1841 he noted the extent of interracial violence and appointed Acheson French as police magistrate to the area.
Violence and brutality appear to have continued unchecked until Governor La Trobe ordered the Portland Commissioner, all his border police and a contingent of ‘ native police ’ to the Grange in September 1842.
Governor Charles La Trobe set aside in 1845 a reservation of for parkland and open space, however, by the time of its proclamation in 1854 this had been reduced to a reserve of.
In 1856, Victorian Governor Charles La Trobe proclaimed 81 hectares of parkland, extending from Punt Road to Swanston Street, and from Wellington Parade to the Yarra River.
* Governor La Trobe's Cottage is an historic cottage built in 1839 for the first superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales, Charles La Trobe, and his family.
Another, the " Temple of the Winds " monument was dedicated to Governor Charles La Trobe and erected by William Guilfoyle in the Botanical Gardens.
One such story is the discovery in 1847, by Governor Charles La Trobe, of a set of keys embedded in the earth near Corio Bay.
The Geelong Keys were a set of five keys discovered in 1845 or 1846 in the time of Governor Charles La Trobe at Corio Bay in Victoria, Australia.
The suburb is believed to be named after the Melbourne suburb of Jolimont, which was in turn named after ' Jolimont ' - the residence of Governor La Trobe.

Governor and offered
When Governor Al Smith offered New York National Guard planes to fly the mail in and out of the state, it seemed a likely temporary solution, easing Burlington's bottleneck and that at Montpelier too.
In 1908, he was offered the vice-presidential nomination by William Howard Taft, but he declined it to run again for Governor.
He succeeded Governor Philip Gidley King in 1805, having been offered the position by Sir Joseph Banks.
In 1880 Governor Rufus Cobb offered him the wardenship of the State penitentiary.
They took full blame for Stone ’ s death, and offered Governor Roger Ludlow payment for his death.
Governor Francis Bernard offered a £ 300 reward for information on the leaders of the mob, but no information was forthcoming.
Olybrius, the praeses orientis ( Governor of the Roman Diocese of the East ), offered her marriage at the price of her renunciation of Christianity.
After the capture of Tobruk, Wilson was recalled to Cairo where he was offered and accepted the position of Military Governor of Cyrenaica.
Governor Bols and Prince George subsequently offered Beebe Nonsuch Island, a island off the east coast of Bermuda, for use as a research station.
The Reform Party called for a decentralized Canadian federation whereby the provinces would have more authority and advocated that the Canadian federal government ensure provincial equality in Canada such as by creating a Triple E Senate the Canadian Senate ( upper house ) would become a democratically-elected assembly ( then and now the Senate continues to be an appointed assembly, appointments are still made by the Governor General, but now following the list offered by the Prime Minister ) and each province would have an equal number of seats, so that no province would have more power than another.
The Government's war policy was opposed by the British commander, General Duncan Cameron, who clashed with Governor Sir George Grey and offered his resignation in February 1865.
Lafayette boasted in 1792 that he had become an American citizen before the French Revolution created the concept of French citizenship, and in 1803 and 1804, President Jefferson offered to make him Governor of Louisiana.
After Greek independence, Governor Capodistrias requisitioned the facilities for use of the Greek war navy, and offered the Russians an alternative location in a nearby cove.
In 1844, Elias Conway was offered, and declined, the Democratic nomination for Governor.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Cabell returned to Little Rock, Arkansas, and offered his services to Governor Henry Massey Rector.
Bill of 1944, which offered returning soldiers the opportunity of affordable higher education, forced New York to create a public university system since its private universities could not handle the influx ; the State University of New York was created by Governor Dewey in 1948.
Afterwards, then-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich suggested that Bartman join a witness protection program, while then-Florida Governor Jeb Bush offered Bartman asylum.
In 1994 Béliveau was offered the position of Governor General of Canada but declined in order to be with his daughter, Hélène, and two grandchildren, Mylene and Magalie ; their father, a Quebec policeman, committed suicide when they were five and three.
Northcote was still Governor of Bombay when the Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, offered him the post of Governor-General of Australia in 1903.
In 1982, the Citizens Party offered two candidates for Governor ( PA and Texas ), three candidates for the Senate ( PA, Texas, and VT ), and 15 candidates for the U. S. House.
In the 1986 election, the Citizens Party once again offered four candidates: two for Governor ( PA and RI ), one for the Senate ( PA ), and one for the U. S. House ( MN ).
Just days after Fort Sumter surrendered, Rosecrans offered his services to Ohio Governor William Dennison, who assigned him as a volunteer aide-de-camp to Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, the general commanding all Ohio volunteer forces at the beginning of the war.
Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner ( later Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky ), who agreed to accept the unconditional surrender terms offered by Grant.

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