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.

Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Holmes, and all but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend, assistant, and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson.

He was born in Bangalore, South India, and educated at Saint Ronan's School in Worthing, West Sussex, and at Cheltenham College, where he met his lifelong friend and biographer, the screenwriter and novelist Gavin Lambert ; Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied classics ; and Magdalen College, Oxford where he studied English literature.

All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson ; two are narrated by Holmes himself (" The Blanched Soldier " and " The Lion's Mane ") and two others are written in the third person (" The Mazarin Stone " and " His Last Bow ").

For Huxley ’ s biographer and friend, the author Sybille Bedford, the book combined sincerity with simplicity, passion with detachment.

His close associate, friend and biographer, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, described Roosevelt's assault on the spoils system:

Eleanor Roosevelt's biographer and very close personal friend Joseph Lash wrote " The anti-Roosevelt underground campaign in 1940 was venomous, and ( Democratic National Chairman ) Flynn accused the Republicans of conducting the ' most vicious, most shameful campaign since the time of Lincoln.

* Virginia Spencer Carr, friend and biographer of Williams

He was a friend of the historian Tacitus and employed the biographer Suetonius in his staff.

Ignatios's biographer argues that Photios forged a document relating to the genealogy and rule of Basil's family, and had it placed in the imperial library where a friend of his was a librarian.

Nicolas Poussin's early biographer was his friend Giovanni Pietro Bellori, who relates that Poussin was born near Les Andelys in Normandy and that he received an education that included some Latin, which would stand him in good stead.

He received his first education from a country priest, and had for a fellow pupil his friend and future biographer, Henri Lebret.

According to Terry Southern's biographer, Lee Hill, the part of George Hanson had been written for Southern's friend, actor Rip Torn.

In April 2010 authorized Norman biographer Allen Flemming, who has described himself as a close friend of over 30 years, created the website " Failed Angle: The Truth Behind Fallen Angel " to dispute some of the claims made in the movie with material such as e-mails, letters, tape recordings, and legal documents, kept by Norman.

But he told his friend and biographer Charles Leslie that the solitude of the mountains oppressed his spirits ; Leslie went on to write: Wivenhoe Park ( 1816 )

* William Herndon — friend and biographer of Abraham Lincoln

The Story of Tommy, a book written by Townshend and his art school friend Richard Barnes ( now the Who's official biographer ) about the writing of Townshend's 1969 rock opera and the making of the 1975 Ken Russell-directed film, was published by Eel Pie the same year.

According to Sayers ' friend and biographer Barbara Reynolds, Sayers had begun work in 1936 on Thrones, Dominations, a murder mystery novel in which the Wimsey marriage was to be contrasted with those of two other couples.

* Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford ( who succeeded his brother ( above ) in the Earldom ), British Labour Cabinet minister, biographer and friend of Éamon de Valera.

According to Dr Charles Barber, biographer, friend, and pen-pal of Kleiber, another factor contributed to his legendary and unusual career.

Leslie Hearnshaw, a close friend of Burt and his official biographer, concluded after examining the criticisms that most of Burt's data from after World War II were unreliable or fraudulent.

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.

Mary Lutyens, a biographer and friend of Krishnamurti, says that there was a time when he believed that he was to become the World Teacher after correct spiritual and secular guidance and education.

According to her friend and biographer Simone Pétrement, Weil decided early in life that she'd need to adopt masculine qualities and sacrifice opportunities to have love affairs in order to fully pursue her vocation to improve social conditions for the disadvantaged.

* February 15-Miep Gies, Anne Frank friend, biographer

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

Leaving home after a few days, he met his friend Basil at Annesoi, where the two lived as ascetics.

In this tense environment, Gregory interceded on behalf of his friend Basil with Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea ( Maritima ).

The ambitions of Gregory's father to have his son rise in the Church hierarchy and the insistence of his friend Basil convinced Gregory to accept this position despite his reservations.

Near the end of this period his friend Basil died.

From his deathbed, Basil reminded them of Gregory's capabilities and likely recommended his friend to champion the trinitarian cause in Constantinople.

Jumping up, he saw his friend and fellow trapper Basil Lajeunesse sprawled in blood.

* Lord Henry " Harry " Wotton – an imperious and decadent dandy who is a friend to Basil initially, but later becomes more intrigued with Dorian's beauty.

Dorian's portrait is the means by which other individuals, such as his friend Basil, may see Dorian's distorted soul.

* ( Basil to Dorian ) It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend.

He became best known for his role as a supporting character, Caldicott, in the 1938 film version of The Lady Vanishes, a role he repeated in three further films, alongside Basil Radford as his equally cricket-obsessed friend, Charters.

The Cappadocian Fathers ( or Cappadocian philosophers ) are Basil the Great ( 330-379 ), who was bishop of Caesarea ; Basil's younger brother Gregory of Nyssa ( c. 332-395 ), who was bishop of Nyssa ; and a close friend, Gregory of Nazianzus ( 329-389 ), who became Patriarch of Constantinople.

The campaign was abandoned while Michael and Basil returned to Constantinople, where Michael adopted his friend and made him co-emperor.

Jumping up, he saw his friend and fellow trapper Basil Lajeunesse sprawled in blood.

* Basil Ruysdael as Judge Walker, Miss Em's friend and Pinky's lawyer

Bruce's signature role was that of Dr. Watson in the 1939-1946 Sherlock Holmes film series with close friend Basil Rathbone as Holmes.

A just ruler and a friend of the church, David allied with the Byzantine Emperor Basil II to defeat the rebel Byzantine noble Bardas Scleros ( 976 – 979 ) and was rewarded with extensive lands that made him the most powerful ruler in the south Caucasus: his state included several Georgian and Armenian provinces up to the Lake Van.

He recruits Basil Seal, a shiftless college friend and heir to an English political family, to preside over the newly established Ministry of Modernization, with the help of Krikor Yokoumian, a successful entrepreneur.

* Basil Murray, 1903 – 1937, who was a well-known and rather louche figure, and friend of Evelyn Waugh.

Fawlty Towers has a new chef named Kurt who has been found for them by André, Kurt's culinary trainer and a friend of the Fawltys, just ahead of a gourmet night that Basil, ever eager to attract the upper crust of clientéle in Torquay, is intending to host at the hotel.

Hare was a friend to the barrister Basil Levett and his wife Lady Mary Levett, the daughter of the Earl of Shaftesbury, to whom Hare left a painting in his will.

While in Hong Kong, he wins big betting on a horse race, is attacked by a cockatoo and meets up with his friend, photographer Basil Pao.

Miss Marple states to Mrs Bantry, that a good suspect in the Bantrys ' neighbour, Basil Blake, the son of an old school friend of Mrs Bantry's, who is mutually disliked intensely by Colonel Bantry.