In 1691 Richard died at sea ; the post declined.

In the late 1950s, while writing Titus Alone, Peake's health subsequently declined into physical and mental incapacitation, and he died on 17 November 1968 at a care home run by his brother in law, at Burcot, near Oxford.

Helix, a geometry term and a part of the ear, was originally to be named Oxford, but the state declined that option when the community's post office was to be named in 1880.

Observance of fast days declined until the 19th century, when under the influence of the Oxford Movement many Anglicans began once again taking the prescribed fast days more seriously.

of Edinburgh, and Ph. D. of Göttingen, and honorary student of Christ Church, Oxford ; and in 1894 he declined the appointment of Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, lest its duties should interfere with the accomplishment of his history.

The harsh treatment of the Hanoverian demands was inspired by him, and won favour with the queen, while Oxford's influence declined ; and by his support of the Schism Bill in May 1714, a violent Tory measure forbidding all education by dissenters by making an episcopal licence obligatory for schoolmasters, he probably intended to compel Oxford to give up the game.

Lowell was popular enough that he was offered a professorship at Oxford after his recall by president Grover Cleveland, though the offer was declined.

After an impressive start to the season, results steadily declined ; Andy Scott was subsequently sacked on 19 March 2012 after a defeat to Oxford left the Millers with all but a very slim chance of reaching the Play Offs.

It played a useful part in the transfer of goods between the interconnecting lines, but passenger traffic declined in the face of the availability of more direct routes to and from Banbury and Oxford.

He was put forward for the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry in 1989 and UK Poet Laureate in 1999, and was also offered an OBE in 2003, which he declined.

Soon he was deeply influenced by Mrs Robinson's actions, upon the death of her husband, which made clear that she was not going to marry him ; he " declined into chronic alcoholism, opiates, and debt " ( Oxford ).

As he himself generously declared, he was at first mainly guided in the study of Chaucer by Henry Bradshaw, with whom he was to have participated in the edition of Chaucer planned in 1870 by the University of Oxford, having declined in Bradshaw's favour an offer of the editorship made to himself.

Acclaimed as " second Homer ", he was offered scholarships to the universities at Oxford and Berlin but declined both.

In 1855 Newton declined the regius professorship of Greek at Oxford.

He was an athlete who rowed and played Cricket for Oxford, where he took a first class degree in Greats and was offered a college fellowship ( teaching position ) which he declined.

He also declined the provostship of Queen's College, Oxford, which was offered him in 1561.

He offered Mair a post, which he declined, in his new college at the University of Oxford, to be called Cardinal's College, ( later Christ Church, Oxford ).

Oriental Hebrew was chosen as the representative variant by the Academy of the Hebrew Language, but has declined in popularity.

As public worship was developed in the Geonic period, and as the knowledge of the Hebrew language declined, singing gradually superseded the didactic and hortatory element in the worship in the synagogue.

Over the centuries, rather than a few individual events, Jews were eroded into a minority in their historical patria, while the rabbis " Judaized " Judaism, by prescribing only the Hebrew Bible as authoritative, and Hellenistic-Jewish literature, culture and discourse declined sharply from the 2nd century, not only from Imperial Roman suppressions, but also Christian appropriation of the Greek translation of the Old Testament, the Septuagint, as its authorized version.

Although in Hebrew currency names are usually declined for singular and plural, both forms of the Euro name are used for the singular and plural alike.

In the New Testament the word — Mamōnâs — is declined like a Greek word, whereas many of the other Aramaic and Hebrew words are treated as indeclinable foreign words.

He declined the offer of the chair of philosophy in the university in 1723, but accepted, in 1727, the sinecure office of librarian to the city of his adoption.

Halle accepted Cantor's suggestion that it be offered to Dedekind, Heinrich M. Weber and Franz Mertens, in that order, but each declined the chair after being offered it.

She declined offers from the university to become directly affiliated with it, including an offer from Albion Small, chair of the Department of Sociology, of a graduate faculty position.

The school's previous Dean, Elena Kagan, declined the Royall chair, instead giving herself the Charles Hamilton Houston Professorship.

He declined many offers from other Italian universities and from St Petersburg until 1768, when he accepted the invitation of Maria Theresa to the chair of natural history in the University of Pavia, which was then being reorganized.

In 1724, he was offered the chair of mathematics at Uppsala University but he declined, saying that he had mainly dealt with geometry, chemistry and metallurgy during his career.

In 1930 Focke was offered a chair at the Danzig Institute of Technology, an honour which he declined.

Hooker declined a chair at Glasgow University which became vacant on Balfour's appointment.

In 1957, when John George Diefenbaker took power with a minority Progressive Conservative government, he offered the Speaker's chair to Stanley Knowles of the opposition Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( the precursor to the NDP ), who declined.

Wanting a capable administrator, Bhutto sought Lieutenant-General Rahimuddin Khan to chair the commission, which Rahimuddin declined, in 1971.

When Mitscherlich's Jewish-born dissertation thesis supervisor died in 1932 his chair was passed to an antisemitic who declined to take over the dissertation projects begun by his predecessor.

I just want to carry on with my work " University administration also declined to comment, but the faculty member replacing the department chair said: " There are different versions: One side is that he is a victim.

He was made an honorary fellow of Balliol and was awarded honorary doctorates from Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Durham, and was offered ( but declined ) the King Edward VII chair at Cambridge.

He declined the offer of a classical chair at Kiel, and accepted a post as tutor to the son of an intimate friend of Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein, the Prussian minister of education.

George Nelson's influence at Herman Miller gradually declined during the 1970s and new designers joined the company, including ; Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf who co-designed the Equa chair, and in the 1990s developed the highly successful Aeron chair.

Two years later he succeeded Johann Heinrich Hottinger in the chair of theology, which he occupied until his death, having declined an invitation in 1669 to succeed Cocceius at Leiden, as well as a call to Groningen.

Earlier in the year he had been offered, says his nephew John Featley, the chair of divinity at Leyden, but declined it because of age.

The Council Chairman, former Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, declared a personal interest in the matter, as one under investigation for his alleged involvement in the 2000 coup, and declined to chair the meeting, handing over to his deputy, Ratu Sairusi Daugunu.

The offer in 1795 of a mathematical chair in one of the schools of Paris was declined on account of his infirm health, and he was still in straitened circumstances in 1798, when he published a second edition of the first part of his Histoire.

He declined a professorship in the University of Basle, and was afterwards appointed ( 1722 ) to the Greek chair in the Collège de France.

Kaiser Wilhelm II offered him a chair in Naval Architecture at the Technical University of Berlin at Charlottenburg, but Siegfried declined this offer.

It also broke new ground with its famous “ empty chair ” tactic, naming politicians who had declined to appear on the show and showing the empty chair where an absent invitee was supposed to be seated.