But Abraham ben Hasdai, quoting the biographer Sanah ibn Sa ' id al-Kurtubi (" Orient, Lit.

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

This biography depicts Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who through his existence in a primordial landscape has an absolute connection to the divine truth, which always is synonymous with that of Athanasius as the biographer.

Written in Greek around 360 by Athanasius of Alexandria, it depicts Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who through his existence in a primordial landscape has an absolute connection to the divine truth, which always is in harmony with that of Athanasius as the biographer.

Two individuals gave eulogies at his funeral: Gauss's son-in-law Heinrich Ewald and Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, who was Gauss's close friend and biographer.

According to biographer Keay Davidson, Sagan's " inner war " was a result of his close relations with both his parents, who were in many ways " opposites ".

She would later advise her confessor and biographer, the Blessed Raymond of Capua, O. P., ( who went on to become Master General of the Order ) to do during times of trouble what she did now as a teenager: " Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

According to Capra biographer Joseph McBride, Capra " obviously felt a strong identification with the story of a Jewish immigrant who grows up in the ghetto of New York ... and feels he has to deny his ethnic origins to rise to success in America.

This has been confirmed by Hollywood biographer E. J. Fleming, who has recounted that, during a particularly difficult scene, Gable erupted publicly, screaming: " I can't go on with this picture.

According to Handel's first biographer, John Mainwaring, he " had discovered such a strong propensity to Music, that his father who always intended him for the study of the Civil Law, had reason to be alarmed.

As Whale biographer James Curtis wrote, the play " managed to coalesce, at the right time and in the right manner, the impressions of a whole generation of men who were in the war and who had found it impossible, through words or deeds, to adequately express to their friends and families what the trenches had been like ".

It was in Paris in the middle 1840s that Millet befriended Constant Troyon, Narcisse Diaz, Charles Jacque, and Théodore Rousseau, artists who, like Millet, would become associated with the Barbizon school ; Honoré Daumier, whose figure draftsmanship would influence Millet's subsequent rendering of peasant subjects ; and Alfred Sensier, a government bureaucrat who would become a lifelong supporter and eventually the artist's biographer.

Once released, the full body of official evidence against Beria, in the words of Stalin biographer Simon Sebag-Montefiore, " reveals a sexual predator who used his power to indulge himself in obsessive depravity.

With the top drivers already signed to other teams, Mayer turned to James Hunt, a driver who biographer Gerald Donaldson reflected on as having " a dubious reputation ".

His biographer Paolo Giovio says, " His nature was so rough and uncouth that his domestic habits were incredibly squalid, and deprived posterity of any pupils who might have followed him.

" Ronald Reagan biographer Lou Cannon nevertheless characterized her as a " reliable " and " solid " performer who held her own in performances with better-known actors.

Alan Nelson, de Vere's only biographer who does not advocate the Oxfordian Theory, writes that " ontemporary observers such as Harvey, Webbe, Puttenham and Meres clearly exaggerated Oxford's talent in deference to his rank.

Anastasius was succeeded by his son, Innocent I, who was born before Anastasius entered the clergy, though according to Innocent's biographer in the Liber Pontificalis, Innocent was the son of a man called Innocens of Albano.

Historians differ in their assessments as to who was the principal player in the purchase ; the Jefferson biographer Peterson notes a range of opinion among those who credit Napoleon, or others who credit Jefferson, his secretary of state James Madison, and his negotiator James Monroe.

But the legend of Cobb as a Southern white Protestant who despised blacks, Catholics and anyone who wasn't like him was fanned by sportswriter Al Stump, his first biographer, whose veracity has been called into question.

When his longtime companion David Lewis died in 1987, his executor and Whale biographer James Curtis had his ashes interred in a niche across from Whale's.

Richard ’ s chief biographer, Jean de Toulouse, writes that when Richard died in 1173 he was still young and so it therefore must be assumed that he entered the Order well into its second period of development, near the end of Hugh ’ s life.

Harding's biographer, Samuel H. Adams, concluded that " Warren G. Harding died a natural death which, in any case, could not have been long postponed ".

* Paul Leicester Ford ( 1865 – 1902 ), editor, bibliographer, novelist, and biographer ; brother of Malcolm Webster Ford by whose hand he died

According to an anonymous biographer of Aeschylus, the Athenians chose Simonides ahead of Aeschylus to be the author of an epigram honouring their war-dead at Marathon, which led the tragedian ( who had fought at the battle and whose brother had died there ) to withdraw sulking to the court of Hieron of Syracuse — the story is probably based on the inventions of comic dramatists but it is likely that Simonides did in fact write some kind of commemorative verses for the Athenian victory at Marathon.

To this list his biographer Giovanni Monleone adds several other works, such as a defence of the Dominicans, printed at Venice in 1504, and a Summa virtutum et vitiorum Guillelmi Peraldi, a Dominican who died in 1271.

In Mao: The Unknown Story, Mao biographer Jung Chang and historian Jon Halliday estimate that perhaps 27 million people died in prisons and labor camps during Mao Tse-tung's rule.

One twentieth century biographer, John Watney, concluded: " He did not die from a self-inflicted wound ... He died of a heart attack brought on by an overdose of drugs ".

His adored daughter Margaret ( died 1953 ) married John William Mackail ( 1850 – 1945 ), the friend and biographer of Morris, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1911 – 1916.

* June 29-John Toland, Pulitzer-winning historian and biographer ( died 2004 )

* July 14-Vincent Brome, biographer and novelist ( died 2004 )

* November 3-Conor Cruise O ' Brien, Irish biographer and political writer ( died 2008 )

* April 9-Lord David Cecil, English literary critic and biographer ( died 1986 )

* November 28-Nancy Mitford, English novelist and biographer ( died 1973 )

* August 30-Elizabeth Longford, biographer ( died 2002 )

* November 2-Roger Lancelyn Green, biographer ( died 1987 )

* April 24-Martin Seymour-Smith, British poet, biographer & critic ( died 1998 )

* November 13-Theo Aronson, British biographer ( died 2003 )

By James ' third year his mother and five of his siblings had died of consumption, leaving James to what biographer Herbert Paul describes as a " loveless, cheerless boyhood " with his cold, disciplinarian father and brother Richard.

* September 19-Hartley Coleridge, poet, biographer, essayist, and eldest son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( died 1849 )

Giorgio Vasari, an artist and biographer of the Italian Renaissance, alleged that Castagno murdered Domenico Veneziano, but this is impossible, since Veneziano died in 1461, four years after Castagno died of the plague.

* December 27-Arthur Murphy, biographer ( died 1805 )

* October 29-James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson ( died 1795 )