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The list was headed by ( Henry ) Hutton of St. John's who was matriculated from St. John's at Easter, 1625.
This was the beginning of one of the greatest periods in English cricket history with players such as captain Len Hutton, batsmen Denis Compton, Peter May, Tom Graveney, Colin Cowdrey, bowlers Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, Alec Bedser, Jim Laker, Tony Lock and wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans.
The central argument in Principles was that the present is the key to the past – a concept of the Scottish Enlightenment which David Hume had stated as " all inferences from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past ", and James Hutton had described when he wrote in 1788 that " from what has actually been, we have data for concluding with regard to that which is to happen thereafter.
The theory was proposed in 1795 by James Hutton, a Scottish physician and gentleman farmer, and was later incorporated into Charles Lyell's theory of uniformitarianism.
Though Hutton believed in uniformitarianism, the idea was not widely accepted at the time.
Scholar Ronald Hutton argues in his Triumph of the Moon that Gardner's tradition was largely the inspiration of members of the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship and especially that of a woman known by the magical name of " Dafo ".
Ruickbie, Hutton, and others further argue that much of what has been published of Gardnerian Wicca, as Gardner's practice came to be known by, was written by Blake, Yeats, Valiente and Crowley and contains borrowings from other identifiable sources.
Subsequent research by the likes of Hutton and Heselton has shown that in fact the New Forest coven was probably only formed in the early 20th century, based upon such sources as folk magic and the theories of Margaret Murray.
James Hutton ( Edinburgh, 3 June 1726 OS – 26 March 1797 ) was a Scottish physician, geologist, naturalist, chemical manufacturer and experimental agriculturalist.
James Hutton was born in Edinburgh on 3 June 1726 OS as one of five children of William Hutton, a merchant who was Edinburgh City Treasurer, but who died in 1729 when James was still young.
He was particularly friendly with Joseph Black, and the two of them together with Adam Smith founded the Oyster Club for weekly meetings, with Hutton and Black finding a venue which turned out to have rather disreputable associations.
Hutton hit on a variety of ideas to explain the rock formations he saw around him, but according to Playfair he " was in no haste to publish his theory ; for he was one of those who are much more delighted with the contemplation of truth, than with the praise of having discovered it ”.
Hutton proposed that the interior of the Earth was hot, and that this heat was the engine which drove the creation of new rock: land was eroded by air and water and deposited as layers in the sea ; heat then consolidated the sediment into stone, and uplifted it into new lands.
It was not merely the earth to which Hutton directed his attention.

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Only one species protected by CITES, the Spix's Macaw, has possibly become extinct in the wild as a result of trade since the Convention entered into force ( but see case studies in Hutton and Dickinson and Stiles for further discussion of the role CITES has played in the fate of particular species ).
Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.
In addition to hosts Buck Owens and Roy Clark, who would perform at least one song each week, other cast members — such as Gunilla Hutton and Misty Rowe — would occasionally perform a song on the show ; and the show would almost always open with a song performed by the entire cast.
Visiting in 1787, the geologist James Hutton found his first example of an unconformity there and this spot is one of the most famous places in the study of geology.
However, one practising Wiccan, the transgender activist Jani Farrell-Roberts subsequently entered into a publicly published debate with Hutton on the issue in a series of articles published in 2003 in the occult-based magazine The Cauldron.
* Willie Conway ( played by Timothy Hutton ) — The only one of the group to move away to New York City, working as a semi-successful pianist.
As well as Nares and Maclear, others that were part of the naval crew included Pelham Aldrich, Lord George Granville Campbell, and Andrew Francis Balfour ( one of the sons of Scottish botanist John Hutton Balfour ).
Under their leadership, Hutton became one of the most respected financial firms in the United States and for several decades was the second largest brokerage firm in the United States.
Hutton was one of the first brokerages to open offices in California.
In 1980, several Hutton branches began writing checks greater than what they had on hand at one bank, then making a deposit in another bank equal to the amount it wrote at the first bank.
Bobby Hutton was one of seven children born in Jefferson County, Arkansas to John D. Hutton and Dolly Mae Mitchner-Hutton.
In May 1967, Hutton was one of thirty Panthers who traveled to the California state capitol in Sacramento to demonstrate against the Mulford Act, a bill that would prohibit carrying loaded firearms in public.
Hutton took charge of the literary side of the paper, and gradually his own articles became one of the best-known features of serious and thoughtful English journalism.
Hutton had many friends, and became one of the most respected and influential journalists of the day.
Mimi Chandler played one of the four singing sisters in the 1944 film And the Angels Sing, appearing with Dorothy Lamour, Betty Hutton, and Diana Lynn before abandoning acting and working for the Kentucky Department of Tourism.
As mathematician John Playfair, one of Hutton's friends and colleagues in the Scottish Enlightenment, later remarked upon seeing the strata of the angular unconformity at Siccar Point with Hutton and James Hall in June 1788, " the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.
Hutton House is one of six residential division within the Sir Daniel Wilson Residence at the University of Toronto.
Historian Ronald Hutton records comments from British practitioners of Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca that distinctions between the two traditions have blurred in the last couple of decades, and some initiates of both traditions have recognized initiation within one as qualification for the other.
Other trustees include the current Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, Larry Elliott, Will Hutton, Geraldine Proudler, and one member of the Scott family.

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Hutton gave the example that where dogs survived through " swiftness of foot and quickness of sight ... the most defective in respect of those necessary qualities, would be the most subject to perish, and that those who employed them in greatest perfection ... would be those who would remain, to preserve themselves, and to continue the race ".
In the Washington Post, Desson Howe praised Natalie Portman's performance: " As a self-described ' old soul ' who connects spiritually with Hutton ( they're both existential searchers ), she's the movie's most poignant and witty presence ".
The small sword could be a highly effective duelling weapon, and some systems for the use of the bayonet were developed using the method of the smallsword as their foundation, ( including perhaps most notably, that of Alfred Hutton ).
From 1941 to 1947, the USO presented more than 400, 000 performances, featuring entertainers such as Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Hattie McDaniel, Eubie Blake, Ann Sheridan, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Larry Adler, Ossy Renardy, Zero Mostel, James Cagney, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Doraine and Ellis, Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, The Rockettes, Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Curly Joe DeRita, The Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Brown, Joe E. Lewis, Ray Bolger, Lucille Ball, Glenn Miller, Martha Raye, Mickey Rooney, Betty Hutton, Dinah Shore, and most famously, Bob Hope.
He is most notable for his tenure as Director-General of the BBC from January 2000 until 29 January 2004, a position from which he resigned following heavy criticism of the BBC's news reporting process in the Hutton Inquiry.
Ronald Hutton wrote on the decline the " Great Goddess " theory specifically: " The effect upon professional prehistorians was to make most return, quietly and without controversy, to that careful agnosticism as to the nature of ancient religion which most had preserved until the 1940s.
Hutton hit 344 runs in the Test series at an average of 44. 00 ; in all first-class matches, he scored eleven centuries and totalled 2, 585 runs at an average 64. 62, although his achievements that season were overshadowed by those of Denis Compton and Bill Edrich, who both broke the previous record for most runs scored in a season.
The decision generated considerable acrimony, but surprised and pleased the Australians, who felt Hutton was their most formidable opponent with the bat.
Hutton escaped most of the debate by playing in Scotland for Yorkshire before returning to captain the Players against the Gentlemen at Lord's, where he scored 59 and 132 not out.
Wisden observed: " Against Hutton the bowling looked almost mediocre, but most of the other batsmen made it appear lethal.
Some critics held Hutton responsible for this, but the editor of Wisden later wrote: " was involved in the most thankless task any cricket captain has undertaken when he went to West Indies.
The press speculated that Hutton would step aside, but most newspapers favoured Hutton's continued leadership and ran stories alleging MCC prejudice against professional cricketers.
For the second Test, Hutton left out the unfit Alec Bedser, England's most reliable bowler since the war, to include two spinners, but in a low-scoring game, Tyson made the difference and England won by 38 runs.
Wisden viewed Hutton, with Jack Hobbs, as " one of the two most accomplished professional batsmen to have played for his country ", and following the Second World War, critics regarded him as the best batsman in the world.
Although she had brief stints in 1939 with Bob Crosby and Glenn Miller ( who hired her in July of that year when his regular singer, Marion Hutton, was sick ), she spent most of her next few years with Venuti, until he dissolved his band in 1942.
Historian Dr. Paul Hutton has called Young Guns the most historically accurate of all prior Billy the Kid films.
The changes in tone coincided with the changes in cast members, most notably the character of Billie Jo, who as previously played by Jeannine Riley and Gunilla Hutton, was mostly a boy crazy, ditz, or your stereotypical dumb blonde character.
John Hutton Bisdee VC, OBE ( 28 September 1869 – 14 January 1930 ) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Probably the most influential piper from the region was Billy Pigg, but other important pipers in the mid-twentieth century include G. G. Armstrong, George Atkinson, Jack Armstrong, and Joe Hutton.

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