But I was deeply moved by his letter of resignation as rector of St. Luke's Church in Atlanta.

There was a rector, or superior general, who was assisted by two " visitors ".

In 1714, when he was appointed rector of the university, he succeeded Govert Bidloo in the chair of practical medicine, and in this capacity he introduced the modern system of clinical instruction.

He was made rector of the Roman College in 1592, examiner of bishops in 1598, and cardinal in 1599.

Christina was the daughter of the rector of Stenbrohult, Samuel Brodersonius.

The Polish position was defended by Paulus Vladimiri, rector of the Jagiellonian University, who challenged legality of the Teutonic crusade.

David Brewster was born at the Canongate in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire to Margaret Key ( 1753 – 1790 ) and James Brewster ( c. 1735 – 1815 ), the rector of Jedburgh Grammar School and a teacher of high reputation.

It was also rumoured that his former pupil and Nazi Party member, Martin Heidegger, informed Husserl that he was discharged, but it was actually the former rector.

After successive appeals to the Pope asking for missionaries for the East Indies under the Padroado agreement, John III was enthusiastically advised by Diogo de Gouveia, rector of the Collège Sainte-Barbe, to draw the newly graduated youngsters that would establish the Society of Jesus.

By the votes of his colleagues Fichte was unanimously elected its rector in the succeeding year.

Fichte was made its rector and also the first Chair of Philosophy.

One of the reformers, Nicolas Cop, was rector of the university.

Neither was available, but he succeeded in obtaining Theodore Beza as rector.

In 1992 Boel Flodgren, Professor of Business Law, was appointed rector magnificus ( or, strictly speaking, rectrix magnifica ) of Lund University.

Since 1943 Kuleshov was serving as the academic rector of Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.

Jones was the rector of Llanddowror from 1716 and remained there for the rest of his life.

Unfortunately, Honorius had just returned to Rome when he was informed that the nobles of Benevento had overthrown and killed the rector ( or papal governor ) of the city and established a Commune.

Dr. Cudworth died in 1624 when young Ralph was about 7, and his mother then married John Stoughton, who succeeded Dr. Cudworth as rector of Aller until 1632 and gave the boy a good home education.

He spent most of his adolescent life living in the Old Rectory, Kinnitty, Birr, County Offaly where his father was the Church of Ireland rector.

He was active in the Commission for National Education and the Society for Elementary Textbooks, and reformed the Kraków Academy, of which he was rector in 1783 – 86.

The position of rector was established by Parliament in 1905 following the Dissolution of the Union.

After some parochial work in Oxford, he was ordained a priest in 1847 before becoming rector of Cholderton, Wiltshire.

However, later that month, on 22 January, the English were defeated at the Battle of Basing and, on the 22 March at the Battle of Merton ( perhaps Marden in Wiltshire or Martin in Dorset ), in which Æthelred was killed.

From his fort at Athelney, an island in the marshes near North Petherton, Alfred was able to mount an effective resistance movement, rallying the local militias from Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire.

In the seventh week after Easter May 878, around Whitsuntide, Alfred rode to ‘ Egbert's Stone ’ east of Selwood, where he was met by " all the people of Somerset and of Wiltshire and of that part of Hampshire which is on this side of the sea is, west of Southampton Water, and they rejoiced to see him ".

S. Appelbaum has suggested that Amesbury in Wiltshire might preserve in it the name of Ambrosius, and perhaps Amesbury was the seat of his power base in the later fifth century.

Morris was educated at Dauntsey's School, an independent school in West Lavington, Wiltshire.

Oxygen was independently discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in Uppsala, in 1773 or earlier, and Joseph Priestley in Wiltshire, in 1774, but Priestley is often given priority because his work was published first.

After participating in crucial early battles on the rivers Medway and Thames, he was sent to reduce the south west, penetrating through the modern counties of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall with the probable objectives of securing the south coast ports and harbours along with the tin mines of Cornwall and the silver and lead mines of Somerset.

After being a solicitor's clerk and for a while keeping a school at Mere in Wiltshire, he was ordained into the Church of England in 1847, taking a BD degree from St John's College, Cambridge, in 1851.

A study of the borders between Hampshire and Wiltshire also seem to suggest the West Saxons ' westward advance was checked by about 519.

This precedent was followed in 1937 when Wiltshire County Council was granted arms.

Henry Shrapnel was born at Midway Manor in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England.

Princess Margaret was portrayed by Lucy Cohu in the Channel 4 TV drama The Queen's Sister ( 2005 ), by Trulie MacLeod in the TV drama The Women of Windsor ( 1992 ), and by Hannah Wiltshire in the TV drama Bertie and Elizabeth ; she is portrayed silently in the second series première of Ashes to Ashes ( 2009, set in 1982 ) and subsequently complains off-camera about one of the principal characters.

On 30 November 2009, Williams ' hairdresser Aaron Vickers was found dead in woodland near to Williams ' then home in Wiltshire.

Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard, and was educated in the Netherlands and France, largely as a maid of honour to Claude of France.

Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, later Earl of Wiltshire and Earl of Ormond, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk.

Her father, already Viscount Rochford, was created Earl of Wiltshire.

Some time between 1219 and 1222 he was appointed vicar of the parish of Calne in Wiltshire and treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral.

Maskelyne was born in London, the third son of Edmund Maskelyne of Purton, Wiltshire.

Jane Seymour was born at Wulfhall, Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, the daughter of Sir John Seymour and Margery Wentworth.

Somerset was killed, Wiltshire fled the battlefield and King Henry was taken prisoner by the victorious Duke of York.

It was found at Laverstock, Wiltshire, in 1780 ; it is believed to have been a gift from Æthelwulf to a loyal follower.