Poor investments, including an unhappy venture into theatre management at the St. James's Theatre, which he built in 1835, meant that he was forced to continue to exploit his reputation long after his voice could justify it, at times retiring to the continent to avoid bankruptcy proceedings.

In 1823 he became curate of Booterstown in Dublin, moving to Bristol in 1831 and St James's Chapel, Piccadilly in 1833.

All Ambassadors and High Commissioners to the United Kingdom are accredited to and received at the Court of St. James's and, as it would not be feasible to do this to a moving Court, a static name was needed.

* Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, which transferred from the Piccadilly Theatre to the St. James's Theatre before moving to the Duchess Theatre where it completed a record run of 1, 997 performances in 1942.

The Bland family, consisting of the couple, their son, Archie Bland, and four stepchildren, lived at Abbots Worthy House, the home of Lady Bland's former husband, the Earl of Strafford, in the village of Abbots Worthy in Hampshire, with a London flat in Catherine Place, near St James's Park, moving their main residence to Blissamore Hall in the village of Clanville near Andover ( also in Hampshire ), in 1998.

He plunges himself into the canal, and we are shown a brief scene is which James's family is moving into a new neighborhood.

After James II was deposed in 1688 and replaced by his daughter Mary II, ruling jointly with her husband and first cousin ( James's nephew ) William III, the Stuarts lived in exile, occasionally attempting to regain the throne.

She was baptised into the Anglican faith in the Chapel Royal at St. James's, and was named after her ancestress, Mary, Queen of Scots.

The cross-dressing actress Charlotte Charke ran the successful but short-lived Punch's Theatre in the Old Tennis Court at St. James's, Westminster, presenting adaptations of Shakespeare as well as plays by herself, her father Colley Cibber, and her friend Henry Fielding.

James's alleged obsession with Barbara Windsor was such that it was said he returned to his home one day to find that all of the furniture had been rearranged, and on another occasion that her husband of the time, Ronnie Knight, had put an axe in his floor.

However, her chief minister Sir Robert Cecil had corresponded with the Protestant King James VI of Scotland, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and James's succession to the English throne was unopposed.

She made her first public appearance as a lecturer at St. James's Hall in London on December 4, 1877.

* February 7 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom ( and her five other Commonwealth realms ) at St. James's Palace, London, England.

* July 13 – Queen Victoria moves from Kensington Palace into Buckingham Palace, the first reigning British monarch to make this, rather than St James's Palace, her London home.

He restored her previous honours, and allowed her to reside in St James's Palace, but excluded her from government and refrained from appointing her regent during his absences abroad.

At the baptism in November 1717, her husband fell out with his father over the choice of godparents, leading to the couple's placement under house arrest at St. James's Palace prior to their banishment from court.

Although Aurembiax's mother, Elvira, had made herself a protegée of James's father, upon her death in 1220 Guerao had occupied the county and displaced Aurembiax, claiming that a woman could not inherit.

Philip Herriton's mission to retrieve her from Italy has features in common with that of Lambert Strether in Henry James's The Ambassadors.

For some time her brother had been urging her to flee to England with her sons ; but she had steadily refused to do so, fearing such a step might lead to James's loss of the crown.

Among James's masterpieces are Daisy Miller ( 1879 ); in which the eponymous protagonist, the young and innocent American Daisy Miller, finds her values in conflict with European sophistication ; and The Portrait of a Lady ( 1881 ), in which a young American woman finds that her upbringing has ill prepared her against two scheming American expatriates during her travels in Europe.

Sarah acted as Anne's agent after the latter's father, James II, was deposed during the Glorious Revolution ; and she promoted her interests during the rule of James's successors, William III and Mary II.

James's son became king as James III and his widow Mary of Guelders acted as regent until her own death three years later.

He found his talent for humour at school and developed his musical ability by singing in the choir at St James's, his local church.

James's musical style changed during the course of her career.

For this latest addition to the Great Letters Series, under the general editorship of Louis Kronenberger, Miss Hardwick has made a selection which admirably displays the variety of James's genius, not to mention the felicities of his style.

The final phase of James's short narratives shows the same characteristics as the final phase of his novels: a more involved style, a deeper psychological approach, and a sharper focus on his central characters.

Other critics like E. M. Forster complained about what they saw as James's squeamishness in the treatment of sex and other possibly controversial material, or dismissed his style as difficult and obscure, relying heavily on extremely long sentences and excessively latinate language.

He was also a successful blues man who played electric slide guitar in James's style.

James's music & style still today has immense influence upon today's modern blues icons, including the young Derek Trucks of the Allman Brothers and The Derek Trucks Band, who has attributed James as his most predominant influence, and inspiration.

When Elizabeth died unmarried and childless in 1603, the throne passed to James VI of Scotland, a great-grandson of Henry VII, who ruled in England as James I. James's silver coinage changed little from that of Elizabeth in production and style.

James's characteristic role as active literary participant and patron in the Scottish court made him a defining figure for English Renaissance poetry and drama, which would reach a pinnacle of achievement in his reign, but his patronage for the high style in his own Scottish tradition largely became sidelined.

James's characteristic role as active literary participant and patron in the Scottish court made him in many respects a defining figure for English Renaissance poetry and drama, which would reach a pinnacle of achievement in his reign, but his patronage for the high style in his own Scottish tradition, a tradition which includes his ancestor James I of Scotland, largely became sidelined.

Their first success in this style was Jhabvala's adaptation of Henry James's The Europeans.

He was a fan favourite with his robust style of playing, and he endeared himself to the Toon Army even further when, during the 1976 – 77 season, he scored the only goal of the game against Teesside club Middlesbrough at St James's.

Another spate of injuries marred James's 1933-34, as Arsenal retained their title but scoring far fewer ( 75 ) goals in the process, but with James recovered they won a fourth, and their third in a row in 1934-35 in style, with Ted Drake scoring 42 league goals that season, many of them supplied by James.

Mary was weak and ill from May 1558, and died aged 42 at St. James's Palace during an influenza epidemic that also claimed the life of Reginald Pole later the same day, 17 November 1558.

* 1951, Laurence Olivier as Antony and Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra in a production that played in repertory with George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra at the St James's Theatre and later on Broadway.

Biographer Leon Edel was the first to call attention to the importance of the " theatrical years " 1890 – 1895 for James's later work.

The successful later novels, in Edel's view, were the result of a kind of self-analysis, expressed in James's fiction, which partly freed him from his fears.

In its intense focus on the consciousness of his major characters, James's later work foreshadows extensive developments in 20th century fiction.

Julian Grenfell was born at 4 St James's Square, London, the eldest son of William Grenfell, later Baron Desborough, and Ethel Priscilla Fane, daughter of Julian Fane.

Two months later the recuperated English fleet challenged the Dutch fleet again, now much more successfully at North Foreland in the St. James's Day Battle.

Bernard Shaw, in his role as a music critic, commented, " The stale wonderment which the great chorus never fails to elicit has already been exhausted "; he later wrote, " Why, instead of wasting huge sums on the multitudinous dullness of a Handel Festival does not somebody set up a thoroughly rehearsed and exhaustively studied performance of the Messiah in St James's Hall with a chorus of twenty capable artists?

She attended the independent St James's School for Girls, in West Malvern, Worcestershire, and later travelled to France and Kenya.

Around this time the King and Queen moved to Buckingham House, at the western end of St. James's Park, which would later be known as Buckingham Palace.

Webster was the lessee of the Haymarket from 1837 to 1853 ; he built the new Adelphi Theatre ( 1859 ); later the Olympic Theatre, Princess's Theatre, London and St James's Theatres came under his control ; and he was the patron of all the contemporary playwrights and many of the best actors, who owed their opportunity of success to him.

However, there are suggestions that he was a child of the chapel royal St. James's palace, the same singing establishment which he later went to as a man.

In his first year, 1898-1899, he published Henry James's In the Cage ; Leslie Stephen's English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century ; Jocelyn by John Sinjohn, a nom-de-plume of John Galsworthy ; a translation of August Strindberg's Der Vater ; and Mother Goose in Prose, the first children's book by L. Frank Baum and the first book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish ( Baum's most famous work The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in Chicago just a year later ).

The next regent was James's paternal grandfather, Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, who a year later was carried fatally wounded into Stirling Castle after a raid by Mary's supporters.

In the early years of James's reign, the day-to-day running of the government was tightly managed by the shrewd Robert Cecil, later Earl of Salisbury, ably assisted by the experienced Thomas Egerton, whom James made Baron Ellesmere and Lord Chancellor, and by Thomas Sackville, soon Earl of Dorset, who continued as Lord Treasurer.

Some of James's biographers conclude that Esmé Stewart ( later Duke of Lennox ), Robert Carr ( later Earl of Somerset ), and George Villiers ( later Duke of Buckingham ) were his lovers.

One of his later prints, Very Slippy-Weather, shows Miss Humphrey's shop in St. James's Street in the background.

The history of his campaigns will be found in the historians of the wars in which he served: for the earlier years, Beatson's Naval and Military Memoirs ; for the later, James's Naval History, vol.

According to writings of the period, Thomas Heywood had been living in Clerkenwell since 1623 and it was there, at St. James's Church that he was buried eighteen years later.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge returned to Great Britain, where they lived at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, and later at St. James's Palace.

The station platforms were also refurbished with new wall tiling in the green, blue, black and white tiling scheme used later by Holden on many stations of the period and still visible at neighbouring St James's Park station.