** Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter ( d. 1519 )

Their patronage underpinned the careers of a number of young Lancashire men, including William Smyth, Hugh Oldham, and Christopher Urswick, who went on to become pillars of the Tudor church and state.

Foxe had initially stated that he intended the college as a lodge for monks from St Swythun's Priory in Winchester ; however, under the influence of the Bishop of Exeter ( and friend of Foxe ) Hugh Oldham it became a humanist enterprise, dedicated to the study of the classics.

The coat of arms is quite complex, since it incorporates ( from left to right ) a symbol chosen by the founder, the arms of the See of Winchester, and the arms of Hugh Oldham.

Michael Hugh Meacher ( born 4 November 1939 ) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Oldham West and Royton since 1997.

* 1520 / 21 William Holden Hugh Oldham

::::::::::::* The early 16th century Bishop of Exeter, Hugh Oldham adopted the owl as his personal device.

The MGS Coat of Arms, which the School displays in the Memorial Hall, is that which Hugh Oldham bore as Bishop of Exeter.

This is a heraldic ' canting ' reference to its founder, Hugh Oldham, and the badge should be read as " owl-dom ".

There is also, possibly, a second significance to the " dom " of which Hugh Oldham, as a churchman, would have been very well aware.

The founder Hugh Oldham, a Manchester-born man, attended Exeter College, Oxford and Queens ' College, Cambridge, after having been tutored in the house of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby.

Statue of Hugh Oldham at Manchester Grammar School

Hugh Oldham ( c. 1452 – 25 June 1519 ) was a Bishop of Exeter and a notable patron of education.

Heraldic escutcheon on tomb of Hugh Oldham ( d. 1519 ), Bishop of Exeter: Dexter and sinister | Dexter: Gules, a sword erect in pale argent, hilted or surmounted by two keys addorsed in saltire of the last ( See of Exeter ) Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaling: Sable, a chevron or between three owls argent on a chief of the second three roses gules ( Oldham ).

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

His British colleague Hugh McGregor Ross helped to popularize this work — according to Bemer, " so much so that the code that was to become ASCII was first called the Bemer-Ross Code in Europe ".

Even the abbey of St Denis was held in commendam by Hugh Capet.

By his first wife, Eschiva of Ibelin, he was the father of Hugh I of Cyprus and was crowned in Nicosia on September 22, 1197.

He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming ( 1816 – 1888 ) from his second marriage to Grace Stirling Morton ( 1848 – 1928 ), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer.

He was the oldest of ten children born to Hugh Brunty and Eleanor McCrory, poor Irish peasant farmers.

Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.

* The Cardinalis tower was constructed in the 14th century as a bell tower for the Dominican convent, which was founded on the bequest of Hugh of Saint-Cher.

This role was taken in the first two series by Lord Percy Percy, played by Tim McInnerny, with Hugh Laurie playing the role in the third and fourth series, as Prince George, Prince Regent, and Lieutenant George, respectively.

Martha, Bill's widow, who was with him in these troubling times, denies he had a brain tumor as does his old, very close friend, Hugh McCallum.

Four of these have been previously canonized as saints, namely William of Norwich, Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, Simon of Trent ( Simon was decanonized in the 20th century ), and Gavriil Belostoksky who remains canonized in the Russian Orthodox Church.

In 2003, while promoting X2, Hugh Jackman mentioned in an interview on UK television morning talk show This Morning that he planned to make a biopic of Bill Bixby, that he had been drawn to the project by Bryan Singer and that it was a project he loved.

While the first telegraph company was the Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company, founded in 1846, it was the Montreal Telegraph Company, controlled by Hugh Allan and founded a year later, that dominated in Canada during the technology's early years.

The film was written by Colin Welland and directed by Hugh Hudson.

As Prime Minister, Attlee appointed Ernest Bevin as Foreign Secretary and Hugh Dalton was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer ( although it had widely been expected to be the other way around ).

He retired as leader of the party on 14 December 1955, having led Labour for twenty years, and was succeeded by Hugh Gaitskell.

However on the confiscation of lands relating to Hugh Maguire, Fermanagh was divided in similar manner to the other five escheated counties among Scottish and English undertakers and native Irish.

* Holly Madison, one of Hugh Hefner's ex-girlfriends, born in Astoria but left before 2nd birthday

Although several versions of many-worlds have been proposed since Hugh Everett's original work, they all contain one key idea: the equations of physics that model the time evolution of systems without embedded observers are sufficient for modelling systems which do contain observers ; in particular there is no observation-triggered wave function collapse which the Copenhagen interpretation proposes.

Ironically one of the bands on the album, The Headstones, featured singer Hugh Dillon, who also starred in the movie as a singer of the fictional band.

Hugh Capet, the first Capetian king, is not a well documented figure, his greatest achievement being certainly to survive as king and defeating the Carolingian claimant, thus allowing him to establish what would become one of Europe's most powerful house of kings.

Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation ( MWI ) is one of several mainstream interpretations of quantum mechanics.

Numerous members, including Larry Csonka, Ray Flaherty, Joe Guyon, Pete Henry, Arnie Herber, Cal Hubbard, Don Maynard, Hugh McElhenny, and Jim Thorpe were at one time associated with the New York Giants, but they were inducted largely based on their careers with other teams.

The painting, long claimed to be one of the portraits of Shakespeare, but considered by Barrell to be an overpaint of a portrait of the Earl of Oxford, turned out to represent neither, but rather depicted Hugh Hamersley.

Arguably one of the most influential schools of rhetoric during this time was Scottish Belletristic rhetoric, exemplified by such professors of rhetoric as Hugh Blair whose Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres saw international success in various editions and translations.

In the 1836 elections, the party was not yet sufficiently organized to run one nationwide candidate ; instead William Henry Harrison was its candidate in the northern and border states, Hugh Lawson White ran in the South, and Daniel Webster ran in his home state of Massachusetts.

George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Barbara Bates, Gary Merrill and Thelma Ritter also appear, and the film provided one of Marilyn Monroe's earliest important roles.

( Curtis Cate, one of his biographers, claims that Malraux was slightly wounded twice during efforts to stop the Falangists ' takeover of Madrid, but the historian Hugh Thomas claims otherwise.

A swan is one of the attributes of St Hugh of Lincoln based on the story of a swan who was devoted to him.

) and on one occasion in the third series as a wrestling tournament MC ; Horne comments after being introduced as ' Your referee for the contest-Kenneth " Man Mountain " Horne ': ' That was Hugh Paddick, the wrestling vicar of St Barnabas Without.

On one memorable occasion in the fourth series, Smith was permitted to sing Nobody Loves a Fairy When She's Forty, much to Kenneth Williams's disgust and Hugh Paddick's anger (" He must have bribed the producer!

In a 1982 interview in Sounds, Phil Collins talked about the band ’ s reputation in the music press and claimed that he only knew of one music journalist, Hugh Fielder, who openly liked Genesis.

* Hugh, issue of Azzo's second marriage to Garsend of Maine, inherited the County of Maine, his mother's dowry, but sold it one year later and died without heirs.

In attendance were Captain Clarence Renshaw, one of Groves ' assistants ; Major Hugh J. Casey, the chief of the Construction Division's Design and Engineering Section ; and George Bergstrom, a former president of the American Institute of Architects.

In 1942, safety pioneer Hugh DeHaven published the classic Mechanical analysis of survival in falls from heights of fifty to one hundred and fifty feet.

The bishop of Lincoln, Hugh of Wells, was one of the signatories to the Magna Carta and for hundreds of years the Cathedral held one of the four remaining copies of the original, now securely displayed in Lincoln Castle.

In 956, Hugh inherited his father's estates and became one of the most powerful nobles in the much-reduced West Frankish kingdom.

The realm in which Hugh grew up, and of which he would one day be king, bore no resemblance to modern France.

That morning, he had mailed two suicide notes, one to Dorothy ( who at a coroner's inquest testified that he had given his reasons ) and one to his friend and boss, Playboy editor-publisher Hugh Hefner.