He was raised for a career in the Church and spent some time at the court of Hermann IV of Hesse, Elector of Cologne, who appointed him canon of the Cologne Cathedral.

His career was forwarded by the Church however and institutions of the Catholic clerics supported his early advance.

His funeral, a four-hour " homegoing " service, took place on June 7, 2008, at Showers of Blessings Church in Gainesville, Florida and kept in tune with the vibrant spirit of Bo Diddley's life and career.

His father, Henry Churchill de Mille ( 1853 – 1893 ), was a North Carolina-born dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church, who had earlier begun a career as a playwright, writing his first play at age 15.

Cesare was initially groomed for a career in the Church.

The clinic received a large amount funding from John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his family, which continued to make donations to Sanger's causes in future decades, but generally made them anonymously to avoid public exposure of the family name, and to protect family member Nelson Rockefeller's political career since openly advocating birth control could have led to the Catholic Church opposing him politically.

In his early career in the Church Julius established a reputation as an effective and trustworthy diplomat, and was elected to the Papacy as a compromise candidate when the Papal Conclave found itself deadlocked between the rival French and German factions.

He had at one point been considered likely to join the Church but instead opted for a military career.

** António Vieira arrives, with his parents, in Bahia ( present-day Salvador ) in colonial Brazil, an unpromising beginning for his great career as a diplomat, noted author, leading figure of the Church, and protector of Brazilian Indians in an age of intolerance.

According to some older sources he initially wanted to have a career in the Church ( it is probable that he held the post of Oblate ) and even asked for a dispensation to became a monk.

Having earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1857, he was ordained as a Church of England priest in 1858, a career that would span almost 50 years until, in 1904, he was forced to tender his resignation due to " infirmities of sight and memory ".

The second son of John of Gaunt and his mistress Katherine Swynford, Beaufort was born in Anjou, an English domain in France, in about 1374 and educated for a career in the Church.

To ease the situation, Lady Pole devoted her third son Reginald Pole to the Church, where he was to have an eventful career as a papal Legate and Archbishop of Canterbury.

The character of Sharon Falconer was based on elements in the career of Aimee Semple McPherson, a Canadian-born American evangelist who founded the Pentecostal Christian denomination known as the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in 1927.

The Church Road ground saw the start of the career of a number of players who went on to play at higher levels, among them Les Ferdinand and Cyrille Regis.

* D. L. Dykes, Jr., pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Shreveport, began his ministerial career at the denominational church in Zwolle.

* Best-selling author Tom Clancy operated an insurance business in Prince Frederick prior to his bookwriting career and was an active parishioner of St. John Vianney Catholic Church, and still owns a home near Prince Frederick on the Chesapeake Bay.

He was ordained as a priest in 1879 and embarked on an academic career within the Church.

It was the year in which Bishop Hoadley preached the famous sermon on ' The Kingdom of Christ ', which gave rise to the Bangorian controversy ; and Balguy, under the nom de plume of Silvius, began his career of authorship by taking the side of Hoadley in this controversy against some of his High Church opponents.

* Major League Baseball player Louis Francis " Chief " Sockalexis ( Cleveland Spiders outfielder, 1897 – 1899, career batting average. 313 ) was born on the reservation and is buried at St. Anne Church Cemetery.

He deserves, however, to be commemorated as an outstanding figure in the Anglican Church of the nineteenth century, and in particular for his High Church sympathies before the days of the Oxford Movement, at the same time noting that he could never quite come to terms with the Tractarians ; and also for his many innovations in diocesan administration, for example, his opposition to non-residence, his advocacy of theological colleges, and his courage in convening a diocesan synod – perhaps the most important event of his career.

Rejecting family pressure, that like past generations of Hydes he would follow a career in the Church, Hyde instead became an academic.

He was a frequent visitor to Moberly throughout his career, was a member of the Moberly Rotary Club, played near handicap golf regularly at the local course and had a " Bradley pew " at Central Christian Church.

Grand tells Rieux that he married while still in his teens, but overwork and poverty took their toll ( Grand did not receive the career advancement that he had been promised ), and his wife Jeanne left him.

Radim chose a clerical career as did Adalbert, and took the name Gaudentius.

Sacred music was not a high priority for the composer during this stage of his career, but he did compose an Alleluia for chorus and orchestra in 1774, perhaps for his own wedding, or in thanksgiving for it.

After Cal, Walsh did a stint at Stanford as an assistant coach, before beginning his pro coaching career.

Once Berthe settled on pursuing art, her family did not impede her career.

Although this can be seen as social commentary, Chaplin's films did not contain overt political themes or messages until later on his career in the 1930s.

The park's characteristics did not affect just home runs either: 33-year-old outfielder Mike Kingery, a career. 252 hitter who did not play in the majors in 1993, batted. 349 in 301 at-bats.

He became the second player in major league history to hit for the cycle and have an unassisted triple play, which he did on April 29, 2007, in his career.

Only twice in his 22-year career did Young finish lower than 5th in the category.

Not until 1900, a decade into his career, did Young pitch two consecutive incomplete games.

However, she did not find technical illustration suitable for a career ( the extreme exactitude required gave her pains in the " solar plexus ").

In the new environment, his cocaine use increased ; so too did his interest in pursuits outside his musical career.

He soon started to write short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, through Harlan Ellison's help, his short story " The River Styx Runs Upstream " was published and awarded first prize in a Twilight Zone Magazine story competition.

After appearing on Diff ' rent Strokes, Plato's career declined, though she did have roles in some independent movies.

She also complained that she was only portrayed as " sort of as an actress " and did not feel she was given credit for her other accomplishments and contributions towards Wood's career.

However, Satie's military career did not last very long ; within a few months he was discharged after deliberately infecting himself with bronchitis.

She then continued her career in the United States, as did Maurice Tourneur and Léonce Perret after World War I.

Minnie Marx did not have an entertainment industry career, but had intense ambition for her sons to go on the stage like their uncle.

" I did not realize it at the moment, but on August 3, 1914, my career was over forever.

Finkelstein has published heavy criticisms of several books in his career, as he did to Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Johnah Goldhagen, which he calls " replete with gross misinterpretations of source material and internal contradictions ", and says " the book is devoid of scholarly value ".

Goebbels was embittered by the frustration of his literary career ; his novel did not find a publisher until 1929 and his plays were never staged.

" As his vocals matured and deepened through his career, so did the Ramones ' songwriting, leaving a notable difference from Joey's initial melodic and callow style — two notable tracks serving as examples are " Somebody Put Something in My Drink " and " Mama's Boy ".

" During Rabbi's career, not only did the scope of rabbinic jurisdiction increase, but the power of the central rabbinic office increased as well.

Nevertheless, Macdonald later regretted leaving school when he did, remarking to his private secretary Joseph Pope that if he had attended university, he might have embarked on a literary career.