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* Sir Henry Worth Thornton, Major General, British Army ( American born )
Susan Stark of the Detroit News commented that in the film Thornton was able to guide Damon, Henry Thomas and Cruz to " their most impressive performances in a major movie yet.
The original design by Thornton was later modified by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and then Charles Bulfinch.
* Henry Thornton ( 1760 – 1815 ), economist, banker, philanthropist, MP for Southwark, great-grandfather of writer E. M. Forster
He inherited £ 8, 000 (£ as of ), from his paternal great-aunt Marianne Thornton ( daughter of the abolitionist Henry Thornton ), who died on 5 November 1887.
J. H. Allen, Richard Reader Harris, Lawrence Graeme Allan Roberts, ‎ Edward Faraday Odlum, William Gordon Mackendrick, William Henry Fasken, Charles Marston, Elizabeth Oke Gordon, F. F. Bosworth, Alexander James Ferris, William Bond, Frank Sandford, Samuel Thornton, David Davidson, Errol Manners and Charles Fox Parham.
Henry P. Davis acquired the school in 1889, and in 1891 the school was given to the Thornton Independent School District.
They included William Wilberforce, Henry Thornton and Zachary Macaulay, father of the historian Thomas Macaulay, as well as William Smith, M. P., the Dissenter and Unitarian.
It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes.
Following her high school graduation in 1938, she went to New York, changed her name to " Teresa Wright ", and was hired as understudy to Dorothy McGuire and Martha Scott for the role of Emily in Thornton Wilder's stage production of Our Town at Henry Miller's Theatre.
* In Thornton Wilder's play The Skin Of Our Teeth ( 1942 ), it is stated that Henry Antrobus ' real name is Cain and he accidentally killed his brother Abel with a stone.
Over the next 20 years they had ten children: Thornton ( 1810 – 73 ), John Horatio Leigh ( 1812 – 46 ), Mary Florimel Leigh ( 1813 – 49 ), Swinburne Percy Leigh ( 1816 – 27 ), Percy Bysshe Shelley Leigh ( 1817 – 99 ), Henry Sylvan Leigh ( 1819 –?
In 1923 CNR's second president, Sir Henry Thornton who succeeded David Blyth Hanna ( 1919 – 1922 ), created the CNR Radio Department to provide passengers with entertainment radio reception and give the railway a competitive advantage over its rival, CP.
Later recipients include Arthur Compton ( 1954 ), Hermann Hesse ( 1954 ), Albert Schweitzer ( 1954 ), Thomas Mann ( 1955 ), Oskar Kokoschka ( 1955 ), Carl Orff ( 1956 ), Erwin Schrödinger ( 1956 ), Thornton Wilder ( 1956 ), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ( 1956 ), Werner Heisenberg ( 1957 ), Gerhard Ritter ( 1957 ), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( 1957 ), Percy Ernst Schramm ( 1958 ), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ( 1961 ), Karl Jaspers ( 1964 ), Otto Klemperer ( 1967 ), Carl Zuckmayer ( 1967 ), Henry Moore ( 1972 ), Raymond Aron ( 1973 ), George F. Kennan ( 1976 ), Friedrich Hayek ( 1977 ), Karl Popper ( 1980 ), Eugène Ionesco ( 1983 ), Hans Bethe ( 1984 ), Gordon A. Craig ( 1990 ), Rudolf Mößbauer ( 1996 ), Umberto Eco ( 1998 ), Hans Magnus Enzensberger ( 1999 ), and Wim Wenders ( 2005 ).
In Josephine Pullein-Thompson's " Pony Club Team " the second novel in her " West Barsetshire Pony Club " series, Landor's " I Strove With None " is quoted by both Noel Kettering and Henry Thornton
* Sir Henry Worth Thornton, President, Canadian National Railway ; Vanderbilt University football coach 1894 ; knighted by George V
Larbey met his future writing partner when they were pupils at the Henry Thornton School.
During his time as Minister of Railways and Canals, Dunning was a staunch supporter of Sir Henry Thornton, the U. S .- born Englishman who, in 1922 had taken over the presidency of the Canadian National Railways.
Some were members of the Clapham Sect of evangelical reformers, including Lord Teignmouth and Henry Thornton, the banker and abolitionist.
Henry Thornton ( 10 March 1760, London – 16 January 1815, London ) was an English economist, banker, philanthropist and parliamentarian.
In 1782 Henry Thornton had been urged to seek a seat in Parliament, and applied to contest one of the two seats for Hull.
Henry Thornton was one of the founders of the Clapham Sect of evangelical reformers and a foremost campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade.
The oldest son, Henry Sykes Thornton ( 1800 – 1881 ), succeeded his father in the banking business, but the firm was merged into Williams Deacon's Bank following the financial crisis of 1825 – 6.

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He was in London `` searching records for our town's causes '' in 1600 with young Henry Sturley, the assistant schoolmaster.
Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.
The list was headed by ( Henry ) Hutton of St. John's who was matriculated from St. John's at Easter, 1625.
A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.
I wish you was Henry.
Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.
Commencing with the death of Lucian Sharpe in 1899, the name of Henry D. Sharpe was for more than 50 years closely interwoven with the destiny of the company.
`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.
The layout of the sewer lines was designed by Henry W. Taylor, who was the engineer for the Manchester Village disposal plant.
In the fall of 1878, the `` Popular Telegraph Line '' was established between Manchester and Factory Point by the owners, Paul W. Orvis, Henry Gray, J. N. Hard, and Clark J. Wait.
In their book, American Skyline, Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed argue that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was what made the modern suburb a possibility -- a fine ironical argument, when you consider how suburbanites tend to vote.
The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.
This basic principle, the first in a richly knotted bundle, was conveyed to me by Dr. Henry Lee Smith, Jr., at the University of Buffalo, where he heads the world's first department of anthropology and linguistics.
By springtime, he was supported by a rich merchant syndicate under the patronage of Henry, Prince of Wales.
Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.
These carts were of a type devised in Pembina in the days of Alexander Henry the Younger about a decade before the Selkirk colony was begun.
One of the President's special assistants, the Harvard dean McGeorge Bundy, was co-author with Henry L. Stimson of the latter's classic memoir, On Active Service.
Henry L. Bowden was listed on the petition as the mayor's attorney.
The corporation was formed by the Reynolds Metal Co. and the Samuel A. and Henry A. Berger firm, a Philadelphia builder, for work in the project.
Her husband, who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, La., and the late Mrs. Henry Cater Parmer, was president of Alpha Tau Omega and a member of Delta Sigma Pi at Lamar Tech, and did graduate work at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, on a Rotary Fellowship.
The AID committee's chairman in charge of the redecoration, Mrs. Henry Francis Lenygon, was in town yesterday to consult with White House staff members on the project.
From the early 1830s, Lincoln was a steadfast Whig and professed to friends in 1861 to be, " an old line Whig, a disciple of Henry Clay ".

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