A biographer called him `` the premature John the Baptist of New England Transcendentalism ''.

In 1970 – 71, Ray Illingworth led England to a 2 – 0 win in Australia, mainly due to John Snow's fast bowling, and the prolific batting of Geoffrey Boycott and John Edrich.

In 1982 – 83 Australia had Greg Chappell back from WSC as captain, while the England team was weakened by the enforced omission of their South African tour rebels, particularly Graham Gooch and John Emburey.

During the Fourth Test news broke that prominent England players had agreed to take part in a " rebel tour " of South Africa the following winter ; three of them ( Tim Robinson, Neil Foster and John Emburey ) were playing in the match, and were subsequently dropped from the England side.

Moreover, there is the 1908 theory that America derives from Richard Amerike of Bristol, England, financier of John Cabot's 1497 expedition.

* 1951 – John Childs, England cricketer

* 1590 – John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.

According to the medieval chronicler John of Worcester, Ealdred was given the see of Ramsbury to administer while Herman remained outside England.

He spent time in England ( John of England knighted him at Clerkenwell Priory in 1213 ) before succeeding to the kingdom on the death of his father on 4 December 1214, being crowned at Scone on 6 December the same year.

In the same year Alexander joined the English barons in their struggle against John of England, and led an army into the Kingdom of England in support of their cause.

The Scottish forces reached the south coast of England at the port of Dover where in September 1216, Alexander paid homage to the pretender Prince Louis of France for his lands in England, chosen by the barons to replace King John.

Joan of England, ( 22 July 1210 – 4 March 1238 ), was the eldest legitimate daughter and third child of John of England and Isabella of Angoulême.

* 1200 – King John of England, signee of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angouleme in Bordeaux Cathedral.

John Tyndall first described antagonistic activities by fungi against bacteria in England in 1875.

Prominent figures in New England Puritanism include Thomas Hooker, John Cotton, and Cotton Mather.

* the " Lost Colony " of Roanoke Island: In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh recruited over 100 men, women and children to journey from England to Roanoke Island on North Carolina's coast and establish the first English settlement in America under the direction of John White as governor.

The fact of her birth is known because the governor of the settlement, Virginia Dare's grandfather, John White, returned to England in 1587 to seek fresh supplies.

John XXIII was acknowledged as pope by France, England, Bohemia, Prussia, Portugal, parts of the Holy Roman Empire, and numerous Northern Italian city states, including Florence and Venice ; however, the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII was regarded as pope by the Kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, and Scotland and Gregory XII was still favored by Ladislaus of Naples, Carlo I Malatesta, the princes of Bavaria, Louis III, Elector Palatine, and parts of Germany and Poland.

Along with John Gummer MP, she converted from the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Church following the decision of the Church of England on the Ordination of women as priests.

A Stationary steam engine | mill engine from Stott Park Bobbin Mill, Cumbria, England

Other famous expository preachers include John Stott, Dick Lucas and Charles Spurgeon from England, William Still from Scotland, Phillip Jensen and David Cook from Australia, and Stephen F. Olford, and Fred Craddock from America.

Sir Arnold Stott was a leading physician at Harley Street and an agnostic, while his wife was a Lutheran churchgoer who attended the nearby Church of England church, All Souls, Langham Place.

Stott played a key role as a leader of evangelicalism within the Church of England, and was regarded as instrumental in persuading evangelicals to play an active role in the Church of England rather than leaving for exclusively evangelical denominations.

The Labour Member of Parliament for Wigan ( Greater Manchester, England ) Roger Stott, died on 9 August 1999, causing a by-election in the constituency.

The drafting committee of the covenant was headed by John Stott of England.

Sergio Franchi returned to England in 1963 to record this song with conductor Wally Stott on his RCA Victor Red Seal album Women in My Life.

* 2009: Englsh Martyn Hamer ( England )

* Martyn, Barrie, Rachmaninov: Composer, Pianist, Conductor ( Aldershot, England: Scolar Press, 1990 )

* Martyn Moxon ( 1960 – present ) Cricketer who played for Yorkshire and played in 10 test matches for England

The Henry Martyn Trust based in Cambridge, England can trace its history back to 1897, at a time of great enthusiasm in Cambridge for overseas missions, when an appeal was launched for a ' Proposed Missionary Library for Cambridge University ', to be housed in the Henry Martyn Hall, erected ten years previously.

#" England, Half English " ( Ian McLagan, Martyn Barker, Lu Edmonds, Ben Mandelson, Billy Bragg & the Blokes )

Despite this recent run of poor scores, Ponting was promoted to the key No. 3 position in the Australian batting order at the expense of the dropped Justin Langer, while Damien Martyn took Ponting's former spot at No. 6, for the very next Test series, the 2001 Ashes tour of England.

Martyn John Evans ( born 27 November 1953 in Birmingham, England ), Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1994 to October 2004, representing the Division of Bonython, South Australia.

Martyn also played in some of the subsequent ODIs on the New Zealand tour as well as on the 1993 Ashes tour to England, but was dropped from the Test team after Waugh scored centuries in the warm-up matches and had been the leading run scorer in the New Zealand ODIs.

Following a poor Ashes tour of England in 2005, where he recorded a total of 178 runs at an average of 19. 77, Martyn was dropped from the Australian Test side to play in the ICC Super Series 2005.

In the 2006 Champions Trophy Tournament, Martyn won back-to-back man of the match awards against England and India.

* 2005: Martyn Hamer ( England )

He was Leeds ' number 2 goalkeeper behind Nigel Martyn for several years, until Martyn asked Terry Venables for some time off during pre-season after going to the 2002 World Cup for England.

Martyn made his debut for the England national side in Moscow in 1992, becoming one of the few Cornishmen to play for England.

Neil Back ( Leicester and England ); Colin Charvis ( Swansea and Wales ); Lawrence Dallaglio ( Wasps and England ); Richard Hill ( Saracens and England ); Scott Quinnell ( Llanelli and Wales ); Simon Taylor ( Edinburgh and Scotland ); Martyn Williams ( Cardiff and Wales ); Martin Corry ( Leicester and England )-injury replacement for Simon Taylor ; David Wallace ( Munster and Ireland )-injury replacement for Lawrence Dallaglio

Ricky Ponting smashed fourteen fours and a six on his way to 111, making a century off 105 balls, Michael Vaughan was forced to wait with the power play overs, Simon Katich, Damien Martyn and Andrew Symonds played well-paced innings, and England found themselves unable to contain the Australians.

Throwing caution to the wind, Pietersen launched himself into his natural game, taking twenty-one runs off seven deliveries before finally being out caught by Damien Martyn, a splendid catch just metres off the ropes, as England looked to subside for 130.

Pietersen dropped him on 21, with the Australian score 139 for 3, and instead of England getting the vital breakthrough Clarke and Martyn ran away with it, hitting 155 in 34. 3 overs.

Andrew Strauss preferred Jason Gillespie for his runs, and their 112-run opening partnership was the highest by England in the Ashes series so far this year-indeed, the second highest of the series thus far, only beaten by Damien Martyn and Michael Clarke's 155 at Lord's.