In Hollywood Gays ( 1996 ), Boze Hadleigh, author of numerous books purporting to " out " the sexual orientation of celebrities, makes various claims for Scott's homosexuality.

Joshua Francis Rowley, local politician and public servant: born 31 December 1920 ; Deputy Secretary, National Trust 1952-55 ; succeeded 1962 as seventh Bt ; chairman, West Suffolk County Council 1971-74 ; vice-chairman, Suffolk County Council 1974-76, chairman 1976-78 ; Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Suffolk 1973-78, Lord-Lieutenant 1978-94 ; married 1959 The Hon Celia Monckton ( one daughter ); died Hadleigh, Suffolk 21 February 1997.

* The Guardians architecture critic, journalist Jonathan Glancey lives in Hadleigh.

Like its near-neighbour, East Bergholt, Hadleigh was also known during the 16th century for its Protestant radicalism, Rowland Taylor, a noted preacher from the town ( and his curate, Richard Yeoman ), was martyred during the reign of Queen Mary I.

Edward III's grandson, Richard II, made little use of Hadleigh, and the use of the castle was granted to Aubrey de Vere until his death in 1400.

Originally, historians believed that Edward's decision to rebuild much of the castle was in response to the growing tensions with France ; in this version of events, Hadleigh would have formed an importance coastal fortification along the Thames estuary, protecting it from French raids.

In 2008 Hadleigh Farm, close to the castle, was announced as the venue for the mountain biking competition in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

By June 2005 researchers and The Discovery Channel sought permission to take DNA samples from the remains of his sister, Elizabeth Tilney, located in the Church of All Saints, Shelley, near Hadleigh, and they were granted the first faculty for such purposes from the English diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.

* February 9 – Rowland Taylor, Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk, and John Hooper, deposed Bishop of Gloucester, are burned at the stake in England.

For similar reasons relating to the problem of idolatry, Taylor took issue with the Roman Catholic form of the Mass, and received much support from the villagers of Hadleigh.

On January 22, 1555, Rowland Taylor ( Vicar or Rector of Hadleigh ), and several other clergy, including John Hooper, were examined by a commission of leading bishops and lawyers.

* Wikimapia location of Rowland Taylor statue, Hadleigh, Suffolk, UK.

* Rowland Taylor, rector of Hadleigh in Suffolk ( martyr ) – burned at Aldham Common, Nr Hadleigh, Suffolk, 9 February 1555.

In his 1986 gossip book about gay Hollywood, Conversations With My Elders, Boze Hadleigh claimed actor Sal Mineo told him in 1972, " I didn't hear it from Jimmy ( James Dean ), who was sort of awesome to me when we did Rebel.

... the news of the expected coming of the witch-doctor spread far and wide, and about eight o ’ clock there could not have been less than 200 people collected near the cottage of Mrs. Mole to witness the supernatural powers of the Hadleigh wizard.

Whilst the entrance on the inland side remained relatively basic, the building work created a grander impression from the estuary – any visitors to London, English or French, would have passed by Queenborough Castle on the south bank and Hadleigh on the north, the combination communicating a strong sense of royal power.

However, as not all rules were observed, the marriage was arranged in haste and in secret in the town of Hadleigh, Essex, sometime before 7 March 1423.

It was created on 1 October 1929 by the merger of the civil parishes of Hadleigh, South Benfleet and Thundersley, all previously in the Rochford Rural District.

The company Konan ( that developed the Konan-16 subminiature camera ) claims in its history page to have developed the Single-8 system in 1959.

Signatories to the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 agreed not to make such claims, except the Soviet Union and the United States, who reserved the right to make a claim.

The CTA claims that the 5. 4 million number is a decrease from 6. 3 million in 1959 while the Chinese government claims that it is an increase from 2. 7 million in 1954.

In 1959, Heinkel's company was sued by Edmund Bartl for being enriched by slave labor during World War II, however, the German Supreme Court dismissed his claims for filing too late and ordered Bartl to pay court costs and attorney's fees.

Publisher Johnathon Clifford claims to have coined the term in 1959.

Because she was destitute in 1959, de Acosta sold her papers to the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia and claims to have reluctantly included the love letters she received from Garbo.

Enacted in 1959 after revelations of corruption and undemocratic practices in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, International Longshoremen's Association, United Mine Workers and other unions received wide public attention, the Act requires unions to hold secret elections for local union offices on a regular basis and provides for review by the United States Department of Labor of union members ' claims of improper election activity.

She published an account of her life in J ' ai été " La Chatte " ( 1959 ; revised in 1975 as On m ' appelait la Chatte (" I Was Called The Cat ")), in which she denied many claims that had been made about her and her activities during the war.

In 1959, 94 % of Hawaii's residents voted to relinquish all land claims ( proposition 2 ) to the United States and become a state.

* Prohibits recognition of a Cuban government that has not provided compensation for U. S. certified claims against confiscated property, defined as non-residential property with an excess of $ 50, 000 value in 1959.

On December 12, 1959, Tijerina sent a letter signed by some eighty families asking President Eisenhower to investigate the land claims.

Robert " Bob " Lazar ( born January 26, 1959 ) is a controversial individual who claims qualifications as a scientist and engineer and is known for his alleged work with extraterrestrial technology at Area 51.

The Santa Fe Opera claims to have been the first company to give " the first full stage production in over a century " in the US on 26 June 1959.

The history of the Latvian SSR printed in 1959 claims 56, 000 people were killed.

He received his Ph. D. in 1959 from Manchester University before coming to work at Caltech where he has worked ever since ( excepting an absence of four years during which he claims to have had to go back to England to find himself a wife, Anneila Sargent ).

It claims that due to the ' backward ' rule of the local theocracy, there was rapid decrease in the next two hundred years and the population in 1959 was only about one million.

The Wild Palms is quoted in Jean-Luc Godard's 1959 film, Breathless (" À bout de souffle "), when Patricia claims to prefer to take " grief rather than nothing "; the same quote is cited in the 1986 John Hughes comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, when Principal Rooney " consoles " Sloan while waiting in front of the school.

Jimbo and Ned are described as veterans of the Vietnam War, the military conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam that lasted from 1959 to 1975 ; Cartman, who is far too young to have participated in the war, claims to have flashbacks to his experiences in it.

In a 1959 work, he asserted a number of unorthodox claims, such as that the megalithic stone terracing at Baalbek had been used as a launch site for spaceships, and that the destruction of Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah were the result of a nuclear explosion detonated by extraterrestrial beings.

None claims to have known other practitioners who began learning Lee style T ' ai Chi Ch ' uan before the 1970s, and it is therefore unclear who is claimed to have asked Chee Soo to lead the Association in 1959.

) WFRV's early claims to fame included being the first TV station in Northeastern Wisconsin to broadcast in color ( doing so after joining NBC ), the first station to cover a live lunar eclipse in 1959 ( a studio camera was wheeled to the station parking lot and aimed at the moon ), and Green Bay's first color local news broadcasts ( beginning in 1965 ).

The group that claims credit for mooting the idea is the Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament ( or CICD ), a pacifist organization formed out of the Melbourne Peace Congress of 1959.

In 1959, the national claims division of AF & C became National Claims Service, an independent adjuster which could be contracted by other insurance firms.