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John Cleland ( baptised 24 September 1709 – 23 January 1789 ) was an English novelist most famous and infamous as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.
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* While in debtor's prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill ( Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure ).
* September – John Cleland, English novelist ( d. 1789 )
* In a landmark obscenity case, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the banned novel John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland did not meet the Roth standard for obscenity.
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John Cleland was the oldest son of William Cleland ( 1673 / 4 – 1741 ) and Lucy Cleland ( née DuPass ).
John Cleland entered Westminster School in 1721, but he left or was expelled in 1723.
John Cleland began courting the Portuguese in a vain attempt to refound the Portuguese East India Company.
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John and baptised
For further evidence, Jehovah's Witnesses note that in Mark 1: 9-10, after Jesus was baptised in water by John the Baptist, he was baptised by the spirit symbolised by a dove.
Also, in Acts 1: 5, Jesus assured his disciples that they too would soon be baptised in holy spirit: " For John truly baptized with water ; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
* 1580 – ( baptised ) John Smith of Jamestown ( d. 1631 )
* John the Baptist baptised people who were also required to be circumcised.
In Christian tradition, Jesus was baptised in it by John the Baptist.
The New Testament states that John the Baptist baptised unto repentance in the Jordan ( Matthew 3: 5-6 ; Mark ; Luke ; John ).
When his enemies sought to capture him, Jesus took refuge at Jordan in the place John had first baptised ().
The Paschal candle is also lit during baptisms to signify the Holy Spirit and fire that John the Baptist promised to those who were baptised in Christ.
William Dobson ( 24 February 1611 ( baptised ) – 28 October 1646 ( buried )) was a portraitist and one of the first notable English painters, praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as " the most excellent painter that England has yet bred ".
He was baptised in the parish church of St Paul's, Shadwell, which had been connected to such luminaries as James Cook, Jane Randolph Jefferson ( mother of Thomas Jefferson ) and John Wesley.
Sir John Vanbrugh (; 24 January 1664 ( baptised ) – 26 March 1726 ) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.
John Smith was baptised on 6 January 1580 at Willoughby near Alford, Lincolnshire, where his parents rented a farm from Lord Willoughby.
John Blow ( baptised 23 February 1649 – 1 October 1708 ) was an English Baroque composer and organist, appointed to Westminster Abbey in 1669.
Jesus is born to Joseph and Mary ; he is baptised by John the Baptist and begins a preaching and healing mission in Galilee ; he comes up to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover, is arrested, tried, condemned, and crucified.
John Arbuthnot, often known simply as Dr. Arbuthnot, ( baptised April 29, 1667 – February 27, 1735 ), was a physician, satirist and polymath in London.
He took the Christian name of Hastings after being baptised into the Church of Scotland, naming himself after John Hastings, a Scottish missionary working near his village whom he admired.
Sir John Coape Sherbrooke ( baptised 29 April 1764 – 14 February 1830 ) was a British soldier and colonial administrator.
Their first child, John, was baptised at the parish of St Dunstan-in-the-West on 8 March 1605 or 1606.
He was baptised by the Merry Men and then called Little John, as he most certainly was not Little.
John Ford ( baptised 17 April 1586ca.
A business associate of Shakespeare's family was a local butcher and inn-holder who was also a parochial, school and church officer with the Bard's colleagues ; this was Robert Harvard whose son John Harvard was baptised here.
He was baptised at Cambridge House on 11 May 1819, by the Reverend John Sanford, his father's Domestic Chaplain.
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