His youngest son, Leicester Silk Buckingham, was a playwright.

Few persons can have been known under a greater variety of Christian names than Buckingham was during his comparatively short life, the following being the names used by him on various occasions: Leicester, Leicester Ambrose, Leicester Silk, Leicester Forbes Ambrose, Leicester Stanhope, Leicester Stanhope Forbes, Leicester Stanhope Forbes Young, and Leicester Stanhope Forbes Young Ambrose.

* Leicester Silk Buckingham, playwright

London Underground provide Hounslow West tube station, Hounslow Central and Hounslow East which are on the Piccadilly Line to Heathrow, Osterley, Hammersmith, Knightsbridge, stations for Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Covent Garden and Cockfosters.

It serves many of London's top tourist attractions including Harrods, Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus ( after which the line is named ), Leicester Square and Covent Garden, as well as Britain's biggest airport, Heathrow.

When the Royal Panopticon ( afterwards the Alhambra in Leicester Square ) was originated in 1854 as a scientific institution, Buckingham was selected to write and deliver the explanatory description of the views of various countries, and more recently at the Egyptian Hall he was the lecturer engaged to illustrate Hamilton's Tour of Europe.

After long retirement, Beaumont was persuaded by the Duke of Buckingham to return to society ; he attended court and on 31 January 1626 / 1627 was made the 1st Baronet Beaumont, of Gracedieu, in Belton, County Leicester, in the Baronetage of England.

Buckingham was born in Leicester.

Hall's writings at Leicester embraced various tracts printed for private circulation ; a number of dontributions to the Eclectic Review, among which may be mentioned his articles on Foster's Essays and on Zeal without Innovation ; several sermons, including those On the Advantages of Knowledge to the Lower Classes ( 1810 ), On the Death of the Princess Charlotte ( 1817 ), and On the Death of Dr Ryland ( 1825 ); and his pamphlet on Terms of Communion, in which he advocated intercommunion with all those who acknowledged the " essentials " of Christianity.

Henry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS ( Leicester, 8 February 1825 – London, 16 February 1892 ) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals.

Instead he was probably the son of a James Christie who in 1821 described himself as a tailor, late of Leicester Square but then of Newman Street, and who died in 1825 aged eighty-six.

* 1265 – Second Barons ' War: Battle of Evesham – the army of Prince Edward ( the future king Edward I of England ) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.

Further success with Manchester United came at last when they beat Leicester City 3 – 1 in the FA Cup final of 1963, with Charlton finally earning a winners ' medal in his third final.

In London, a statue of him as the Tramp was unveiled in Leicester Square in 1981 and a permanent exhibition on his life and career, Charlie Chaplin – The Great Londoner, opened at the London Film Museum in 2010.

* 1680 – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor ( d. 1737 )

* 1979 – Jon Leicester, American baseball player

After four games for the reserves, he replaced the injured Dave McLaren for his Leicester City debut in a 1 – 1 draw against Blackpool on 9 September 1959 and retained his place for the 2 – 0 defeat against Newcastle 3 days later.

On 16 April 1963, an astonishing game at Filbert Street against Manchester United, which saw both Ken Keyworth and Denis Law score a hat-trick each, ended in a 4 – 3 victory for Leicester, which meant Leicester sat top of the First Division and 11 days later Banks put in one of the performances of his career to keep out Liverpool as Leicester beat them 1 – 0 in the FA Cup semi-final despite being completely outplayed all game.

In 1964, Banks finally won his first major trophy though when Leicester beat Stoke City 4 – 3 in the League Cup final over two legs, though they lost the trophy a year later after a 3 – 2 defeat by Chelsea on aggregate in the final.

Lineker began his football career at Leicester City and became known as a prolific goalscorer ; despite failing to score in his first ten games, he finished as the First Division's joint top goalscorer in 1984 – 85 and earned his first England cap.

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Further imprisonments came at London in 1654, Launceston in 1656, Lancaster in 1660, Leicester in 1662, Lancaster again and Scarborough in 1664 – 66 and Worcester in 1673 – 75.

* 1533 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester ( d. 1588 )

* 1118 – Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester ( b. 1049 )

* John Brown ( footballer born 1901 ) ( 1901 – 1977 ), English footballer for Leicester City and Wrexham

By the turn of 1992 they were top of the Second Division, and then suffered a dip in form before recovering to qualify for the playoffs, during which Dalglish led Blackburn into the new Premier League by beating Leicester City 1 – 0 in the Second Division Play-off final at Wembley.

Henry III granted Kenilworth in 1244 to Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, who later became a leader in the Second Barons ' War ( 1263 – 67 ) against the king, using Kenilworth as the centre of his operations.

The first station on the site opened in the Victorian era, on 5 May 1840, which was originally known simply as Leicester, becoming Leicester Campbell Street on 1 June 1867, and Leicester London Road from 12 June 1892.

Thus we hear of abbots going out to hunt, with their men carrying bows and arrows ; keeping horses, dogs and huntsmen ; and special mention is made of an abbot of Leicester, c. 1360, who was the most skilled of all the nobility in hare hunting.

Charlton was related to several professional footballers on his mother's side of the family: his uncles were Jack Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ), George Milburn ( Leeds United and Chesterfield ), Jim Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ) and Stan Milburn ( Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale ), and legendary Newcastle United and England footballer Jackie Milburn, was his mother's cousin.

The expedition was led by her former suitor, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

Elizabeth's " commandment " was that her emissary read out her letters of disapproval publicly before the Dutch Council of State, Leicester having to stand nearby.

Oxford was sympathetic to the proposed marriage, Leicester and his nephew Philip Sidney were adamantly opposed to it.

Oxford openly quarrelled with Leicester about this time ; he was confined to his chamber at Greenwich for some time ' about the libelling between him and my Lord of Leicester '.

The Spanish ambassador, Mendoza, was also of the view that Leicester was behind Oxford's informing on his fellow Catholics in an attempt to prevent the French marriage.

Peck concurs, stating that Leicester was " intent upon rendering Sussex's allies politically useless ".

On 28 July Leicester, who was in overall command of the English land troops, asked for instructions regarding Oxford, stating that " he seems most willing to hazard his life in this quarrel ".

The Earl was offered government of the port of Harwich, but he thought it was unworthy and declined the post ; Leicester was glad to be rid of him.

Coming through the ranks at Leicester City was a young local goalkeeper called Peter Shilton, who was given his debut as a 17-year-old in 1966.

When Shilton told Leicester he would not sign a professional contract unless he was guaranteed first team football, Banks found himself available for transfer, just a year after winning the World Cup.

Shilton became England's number one and was also signed by Stoke City shortly afterwards from Leicester City ( the same club Stoke had bought Banks from ) to take over from Banks in goal at the Victoria Ground.

He led a consortium that invested in his old club Leicester, saving it from bankruptcy, and was appointed honorary vice-president.

Lineker was born in Leicester to Barry and Margaret Lineker ( both born 1939 ).

Lineker's father was a greengrocer in Leicester and he grew up with his family in the city, playing football with his brother Wayne.

He went to the City of Leicester Boys ' Grammar School ( now City of Leicester College ) on Downing Drive in Evington, inside the borough of Leicester due to his preference for football rather than rugby, which was the main sport of most schools near his home.