The competition itself was won by F H W Hawes of Dagenham in Essex who finished in less than eight minutes.

Hansard records that on 15 December 1837, Benjamin Hawes asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer " whether it was the intention of the Government to give effect to the recommendation of the Commissioners of the Post-office, contained in their ninth report relating to the reduction of the rates of postage, and the issuing of penny stamps?

Buckner was established in 1875 and named in honor of Benjamin Hawes Buckner ( 1783-1854 )( a cousin and business partner of Richard Hawes ) who once lived on a hill south of the town.

Langley was mentioned in the first episode of the TV series Ashes to Ashes, in February 2008, when DI Alex Drake, played by Keeley Hawes mentions Langley, Virginia, most famous as home to the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The result was her first book, Entertaining ( December 13, 1982 ), ghostwritten by Elizabeth Hawes.

Jasper was named after Jasper Hawes, who operated a trading post in the region for the North West Company.

** At Hawes station, on the branch to the east of the main line, there was an end-on-junction with the North Eastern Railway ( NER ) line across the Pennines to Northallerton

A missionary, Dr. Charles Hawes, learned of the preparation's therapeutic properties, and then determined through extensive study that the product of distillation ( likely steam distillation ) of the plant's twigs was even more efficacious.

Hawes ' process was further refined by Thomas Newton Dickinson, Sr., who is credited with starting the commercial production of witch hazel extract, also in Essex, Connecticut, in 1866, and eventually establishing nine production sites in eastern Connecticut.

The town's grammar school was opened on Hawes Lane in September 1962.

The cathedral was designed by Monsignor John Hawes who was both an architect and a priest.

After Johnson was killed fighting in the Battle of Shiloh, Richard Hawes was named Confederate governor.

Crittenden joined Archibald Dixon and S. S. Nicholas as Unionist representatives at the conference ; the Southern Rights position was represented by John C. Breckinridge, Governor Beriah Magoffin, and Richard Hawes.

Bess Lomax Hawes, who was twenty at the time and did not sing on the John Doe album, writes in her autobiography Sing It Pretty ( 2008 ), that for her part, she had taken the pacifist oath as a girl out repugnance for the senseless brutality of the first World War ( a sentiment shared by many ) and that she took the oath very seriously.

This album was performed by Almanac alumni: Pete Seeger, Bess Lomax, Butch Hawes, and Tom Glazer.

A demonstration of the route between Dent & Wharton with Garsdale & Hawes, titled Hawes Junction, was also included in Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006.

Control of the music lay with the Succentor, Canon Beckwith, who was at odds with the Almoner, Canon Hawes, who was responsible for rehearsing the boy choristers.

Harriet Boyd Hawes ( October 11, 1871 – March 31, 1945 ) was a pioneering American archaeologist, nurse and relief worker.

During the Carter administration, he was an attorney with the Washington, D. C. law firm of Leva, Hawes, Symington, Martin and Oppenheimer.

During the first two months the group worked on demos at South Hill Park Recording Studios in Bracknell, Berkshire with producer / studio owner Michael Sparkes and song writer / arranger Tim Hawes.

Early tradesmen in Jacksonville included William Snooks, the township's first blacksmith, Samuel Glass who operated a house of entertainment, shoemaker Alvah Doke, cabinet-maker George McCline, physicians Dr. Reeves, Dr. A. M. C. Hawes and Dr. Joseph Roberts and various general storekeepers.

Hawes first came into the public eye in the early 1990s, in Troublemakers and the 1997 BBC costume drama, The Moonstone.

Early on, the area was a busy center of commerce, including daguerreotypist ( photographer ), Josiah Johnson Hawes ( 1808 – 1901 ), and Dr. William Thomas Green Morton, the first dentist to use ether as an anaesthetic.

Patrick Hawes wrote his first film score, for The Incredible Mrs Ritchie, directed by Paul Johansson.

Hawes ' first experience with the piano was as a toddler sitting on his mother's lap while she practiced.

Jeanette was married in 1970 to Reginald Hawes, and gave birth to her first son, Chicha.

To add to their laurels, six years later the Players performed an old spy melodrama titled The Queen ’ s Messenger in the world ’ s first dramatic program to be broadcast simultaneously over both radio and the new medium called television .< ref > McLeod, Elizabeth, Old Time Radio Moments of the Century < www. old-time. com / mcleod / top100. html >; New York Times, “ Play Is Broadcast by Voice and Acting in Radio-Television ,” September 12, 1928, pp. 1, 10 ; Lanza, Joseph, & Dennis Penna, Russ, Russ Columbo and the Crooner Mystique ( Feral House, 2002 ), p. 155 ; Hawes, William, American Television Drama, The Experimental Years ( University of Alabama Press, 1986 ), p. 155 ; Wilkin, Jeff, “ In 1928, WGY Transmitted First Pictures on Television ,” Daily Gazette, Schenectady, NY, September 11, 2006, p. C1 .</ ref >

However, it is significant to note that Sir Francis Beaufort's 5 October 1837 letter to Benjamin Hawes refers to this first near-permanent telegraph installation of the Euston Square to Camden Town system-as an " experiment " and " one of the most striking novelties of this inventive age.

Hawes is claimed to have made the first arrangement for the partnership between Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1837, although other sources claim such introductions were made through Peter Mark Roget, examiner in physiology in the University of London.

The Hare – Hawes – Cutting Act ( 1933 ) was the first US law passed for the decolonization of the Philippines.

The Gardens include a large building originally known as the Sanitary Public Market, first constructed in 1926-27, and designed by architect Albert Lee Hawes.

ARexx was first created in 1987, developed for the Amiga by William S. Hawes.

Hawes is at the centre of great walking ( hiking ) country and the Pennine Way ( the UK's first National Trail ) passes through.

For his part in that difficult and dangerous operation Boatswain Hawes received his first Navy Cross.

Through heavy bombing and strafing, Lieutenant Hawes maneuvered the 187-foot Pigeon back to the flaming dock to haul the helpless submarine stern first from her berth.

For this heroic action, Hawes received his second Navy Cross and Pigeon was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation, the first warship to receive the award in World War II.

Wensleydale cheese is a cheese produced in the town of Hawes in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England.

In 1999, BBC produced a four-part miniseries based on the novel with a screenplay written by Andrew Davies ; Wives and Daughters featuring Justine Waddell, Bill Paterson, Francesca Annis, Keeley Hawes, Rosamund Pike, Tom Hollander, Anthony Howell, Michael Gambon, Penelope Wilton, Barbara Flynn, Deborah Findlay, Iain Glen, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, and Ian Carmichael.

In 2001 he directed a modern-day adaptation of the story of Othello, produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network and starring Eamonn Walker, Christopher Eccleston and Keeley Hawes.

Portraits of outstanding quality with the maker's marks of highly-regarded daguerreotypists such as Southworth & Hawes of Boston, George S. Cook of Charleston, Gurney, Pratt and others are now valued as photographic works of art rather than as antiques or curios, and they fetch corresponding prices when sold at auction.

In 1869, Brownlow sold the Whig to T. Hawes and Company, which in turn sold it to Knoxville businessman Joseph A. Mabry.

During a ten-month tour of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, Hawes recorded nine albums, played sold out shows and concert halls in ten countries, and was covered widely in the press, appearing on European television and radio.