Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gere is a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrims Francis Eaton, John Billington, George Soule, Richard Warren, Degory Priest, William Brewster, and Francis Cooke.

Stephen presented London stars such as Edmund Kean, Alexander and Elizabeth Pope ( née Elizabeth Younge ), Mrs. Dorothea Jordan, his brother John Philip Kemble, Wright Bowden, his sister Sarah Siddons, Elizabeth Billington, Michael Kelly ( tenor ), Anna Maria Crouch, and Charles Lee Lewes.

* John Billington

* John Billington ( 1580s – 1630 ), an immigrant on the Mayflower and first Englishman to be hanged in New England

Actually, despite fears by the executioner John Billington Fowler did not make a scene.

– September 8, 1642 ) was the first person hanged in the Massachusetts Bay Colony ( the first hanged in any of the colonies of New England being John Billington ) and the first known juvenile to be sentenced to death and executed in the territory of today's United States.

Nothing is known about John Billington ’ s life in England.

Around Cowbit and Spaulding, in Lincolnshire, Francis Longland named young Francis Billington, son of John Billington, an heir ..

John Billington, his wife Elinor and two sons, John and Francis departed Plymouth, England on the Mayflower on September 6 / 16, 1620 with 102 passengers and about 30 crew members in a small 100 foot ship.

In May 1621 John Billington ( younger ) became lost in some woods for several days, eventually being returned home by some natives from Nauset on Cape Cod.

In 1624 John Billington was implicated in the Oldham-Lyford scandal ( a revolt against the rule of the Plymouth church ), but insisted he was innocent and was never officially punished.

John Billington married Elinor _____ in England.

Children of John and Elinor Billington:

In September 1630 John Billington was tried by a jury and hanged for the murder of John Newcomen, whom he saw as an enemy.

In February 2012 Armand appeared as John in Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, receiving a positive review from Michael Billington.

A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

I am also pleased to note that Mr. John B. Oakes, a member of the Times staff since 1946, has been appointed as editorial page editor.

Money was also advanced by the publishers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc..

Another debutante, Miss Virginia Richmond, will also be the honoree this Wednesday at luncheon at which Mrs. John Dane, will be hostess entertaining at a downtown hotel.

The doctrine that no man can cast off his native allegiance without the consent of his sovereign was early abandoned in the United States, and Chief Justice John Rutledge also declared in Talbot v. Janson, " a man may, at the same time, enjoy the rights of citizenship under two governments.

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

John Hick also raises some questions regarding personal identity in his book, Death and Eternal Life using an interesting example of a person ceasing to exist in one place while an exact replica appears in another.

The epithet " Arian " was also applied to the early Unitarians such as John Biddle though in denial of the pre-existence of Christ they were again largely Socinians not Arians.

Those who uphold the original beliefs of Jacobus Arminius himself, is the common way to define Arminianism, but those of Hugo Grotius, John Wesley and others also understood the term as a sort of umbrella for a bigger alliance of ideas as well.

There is also a brief physical description found in John Malalas ' Chronographia:

His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.

John of Worcester also claims that at Wulfstan's consecration, Stigand, the archbishop of Canterbury extracted a promise from Ealdred that neither he nor his successors would lay claim to any jurisdiction over the diocese of Worcester.

Time was also taken up in a controversy involving his Senate colleague from Tennessee, John Bell, a leading Whig.

Cristoforo del Altissimo, Cesare Dandini, Aurelio Lomi, John Mosnier, Giovanni Battista Vanni, and Monanni also were his pupils.

He also translated from Greek into Latin a life of St. John Chrysostom ( Venice, 1533 ); the Spiritual Wisdom of John Moschus ; The Ladder of Divine Ascent of St. John Climacus ( Venice, 1531 ), P. G., LXXXVIII.

He also translated many homilies of St. John Chrysostom ; the treatise of the Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite on the celestial hierarchy ; St.

He also taught Asclepius of Tralles, John Philoponus, Damascius and Simplicius.

In reply to this the French sovereign dispatched Andrew as his ambassador to Güyük Khan ; with Longjumeau went his brother William ( also a Dominican ) and several others — John Goderiche, John of Carcassonne, Herbert " Le Sommelier ," Gerbert of Sens, Robert ( a clerk ), a certain William, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy.

It became the expectation — rather than the exception — that those in the public eye should write about themselves — not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.

* Johnny Appleseed John Chapman ( September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 ), also known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

* John the Conqueror also known as High John the Conqueror, and many other folk variants, is a folk hero from African-American folklore.

Tcl ( originally from " Tool Command Language ", but conventionally spelled " Tcl " rather than " TCL "; pronounced as " tickle " or " tee-see-ell ") is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout.

The name " John Doe ", often spelled " Doo ," along with " Richard Roe " or " Roo " were regularly invoked in English legal instruments to satisfy technical requirements governing standing and jurisdiction, beginning perhaps as early as the reign of England's King Edward III ( 1312 – 1377 ).

Colonel Jack O ' Neill ( spelled Jack O ' Neil in the film, and given as John O ' Neill in one case, and John J. O ' Neill in another ) makes his first appearance, played by actor Kurt Russell, in the 1994 military science fiction film Stargate, written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich.

In that year, Constable wrote a letter to John Dunthorne in which he spelled out his determination to become a professional landscape painter:

By the 19th century it was more commonly spelled Holmes Hole after the descendants of John Holmes ( 1730 – 1812 ) who had settled in the village during the second half of the 18th century.

Fort Ligonier was a logical place for travelers to break their journey, and with such commercial opportunities in mind, a local resident named John Ramsay ( sometimes spelled Ramsey ) laid out the street plan, including the space now known as the Diamond.

Charles Scarburgh ( often now spelled Scarborough ) left his interest to his wife Elizabeth in 1702, and John West's interest went to his eldest son a year later.

Of these, only Philip Vigol ( also spelled Wigle or Weigle ) and John Mitchell were convicted.

Maria Clementina Sobieska ( sometimes spelled: Maria Klementyna Sobieska ) ( 1702 – 1735 ) was a Polish noblewoman, the granddaughter of the Polish king John III Sobieski.

* John Le Carré, " The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ": The protagonist of this short novel is Alec Leamas, " Leamas " being Samael spelled backwards.

" Logan the orator has been variously identified as Tah-gah-jute, Tachnechdorus ( also spelled " Tachnedorus " and " Taghneghdoarus "), Soyechtowa, Tocanioadorogon, the " Great Mingo ", James Logan, and John Logan.

John George Hohman ( also spelled Johann Georg Hohman, and his surname sometimes mispelled as Hoffman ), who was active between 1802 and 1846, was a German-American printer, book seller and compiler of collections of herbal remedies, magical healings, and charms.

It is the resting place of John Jacob Richter ( also spelled Rector ).

* John Pitts ( Catholic scholar ) ( 1560 − 1616 ), also spelled Pits or Pitseus

Such compartmentalized clearances may be expressed as " John has a TS / SCI ", whereby all clearance descriptors are spelled out verbally.

John A. Murrell ( also spelled as Murel and Murrel ) ( 1806 ?- 1844 ), a near-legendary bandit operating in the United States along the Mississippi River in the mid-nineteenth century.

Albert John Lutuli ( commonly spelled Luthuli ; c. 1898 – 21 July 1967 ), also known by his Zulu name Mvumbi, was a South African teacher and politician.

Ion Storm Inc. ( sometimes spelled ION Storm ) was a Texas based developer of computer games founded by John Romero, Tom Hall ( both former employees of id Software ), Todd Porter, and Jerry O ' Flaherty, under the slogan " Design is Law ".

Admiral Sir John Hawkins ( also spelled as Hawkyns ) ( Plymouth 1532 – 12 November 1595 ) was an English shipbuilder, naval administrator and commander, merchant, navigator, and slave trader.

Since then, it has been spelled in its current form, John.

John Paterson ( often spelled Patterson ; 1744 – July 19, 1808 ) was a major general of the Continental Army under George Washington, and later a U. S. Congressman from New York.

Jane McCrea ( sometimes spelled McCrae or MacCrae, 1752 – July 27, 1777 ) was a young woman who was purportedly slain by Native Americans associated with the British army of Lieutenant General John Burgoyne during the American Revolutionary War.

The writer Henry Fielding ( who spelled the family name differently ) was the son of Edmund Feilding, the third son of John Feilding, the youngest son of the 3rd Earl.

These included Edward John " Johnny " Jackett ( 1878 – 1935 ), Charlie Mitchell ( 1885 – 1957 ), who looked after Tuke's boats, Willie Sainsbury, Tuke's eldest nephew, Leo Marshall, Georgie and Richard Fouracre, George Williams – younger son of close neighbours, Maurice Clift – nephew of a family friend, Ainsley Marks, Jack Rowling ( also spelled " Rolling "), Freddy Hall, Bert White and Harry Cleave.