Its use for Chinese military commanders who had a regional power base and ruled independently of the central government dates from the early 1920s, with Bertram Lenox Simpson being one source, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Amongst the many well-known figures who worked for the Customs in China were Willard Straight, botanist Augustine Henry, linguist Thomas Francis Wade, novelist and journalists Bertram Lenox Simpson ( known as Putnam Weale ) and J. O. P.

Lenox Square attracts a significant amount of foreign shoppers and tourists ; an estimated 40 % of all visitors to the shopping center in 2009 were tourists.

* Heartney, Eleanor, Kenneth Snelson: forces made visible / essay by Eleanor Heartney ; additional text by Kenneth Snelson, Lenox, Massachusetts: Hard Press Editions, 2009.

As another tribute to his lasting legacy, the same fleet of cars Edison deployed on the Lackawanna in 1931 served commuters until their retirement in 1984, when some of them were purchased by the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Of his fortune ( estimated at $ 7, 000, 000 ) approximately $ 4, 000, 000 was bequeathed for the establishment and maintenance of a free public library and reading-room in the City of New York ; but, as the will was successfully contested by relatives, only about $ 3, 000, 000 of the bequest was applied to its original purpose ; in 1895, the Tilden Trust was combined with the Astor and Lenox libraries to found the New York Public Library, whose building bears his name on its front.

Lenox was founded in 1889 by Walter Scott Lenox as Lenox's Ceramic Art Company, Trenton, New Jersey.

Lenox pieces were chosen for display in 1928 by the National Museum of Ceramics in Sèvres, France-the only American porcelain to receive this honour.

In 1983, Lenox was acquired by Brown-Forman Corporation.

On March 16, 2009, a group of investors led by Clarion Capital Partners LLC purchased the assets of Lenox and renamed the company Lenox Corporation.

Worried about the painting's reception by Lenox, who knew Turner's work only through his etchings, Leslie wrote Lenox that the quality of Staffa, " a most poetic picture of a steam boat " would become apparent in time.

Upon receiving the painting Lenox was baffled, and " greatly disappointed " by what he called the painting's " indistinctness ".

William Thornton, Daniel Troutman and Daniel W. Wooliver were among the 1829 settlers, followed by William Blackwell, Elisha Nelson, Jerry Potts, Ephraim Bressie, Robert Leonard, Abner Wingfield, Lewis Dent, Wilson Craddock, Thomas Higginbotham, Jack Berry, Silas Hamby, Smith Wofford, Turkill McNeill, Dr. John Hyer, Samuel Hyer and David Lenox.

Richmond is bordered on the north by Hancock and Pittsfield, on the east by Lenox, on the south by Stockbridge and West Stockbridge, and on the west by Canaan, Columbia County, New York.

Stockbridge is bordered by Richmond to the northwest, Lenox to the north and northeast, Lee to the east, Great Barrington to the south, and West Stockbridge to the west.

Located in central Berkshire County along the Hampshire County line, the town, which is roughly shaped, is bordered by Pittsfield to the northwest, Dalton, Hinsdale and Peru to the north, Middlefield to the east, Becket to the southeast, Lee to the southwest, and Lenox to the west.

* Brookside Elementary School, Lenox Elementary School, and Eliot Elementary School were closed as public school buildings: Brookside was procured by a developer who converted the school into condominiums ; Lenox Community Center has the SLP Senior Program and preschool on the main floor, with non-profits on the second ; Eliot has public and private non-district school renters.

Gibson Township is bordered by New Milford, Jackson, Ararat, Herrick, Clifford, Lenox, and Harford townships.

But by that time, U. S. marshal David Lenox had already been sent to serve the writs summoning delinquent distillers to Philadelphia.

David Lenox and General Neville's son, Presley Neville, also returned to the area, though they could not get into the house and were captured by the rebels.

The revue premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and included, among other songs " I Think It ’ s Going to Rain Today ," " Sail Away ," " Marie ," " Louisiana 1927 ," " Feels Like Home ," " You've Got a Friend in Me " and " I Love L. A ." The revue was directed by Jerry Zaks and featured Ryder Bach, Storm Large, Adriane Lenox, Michael McKean, Katey Sagal and Matthew Saldivar.

Sullivan, still believing his ailment to be yet another complication from a long-standing battle with ulcers, died five weeks later, on October 13, 1974, at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital.

When facing the “ Savoy building ”, looking East, from the street at Lenox Avenue and

In 1906 he changed his firm's name from the Ceramic Art Company to Lenox Incorporated to show the widing scope of his products.

Lenox products also became well known in the US thanks to Frank Graham Holmes, chief designer from 1905 to 1954, who won several artistic awards such as the 1927 Craftsmanship Medal of the American Institute of Architects and the 1943 silver medal of the American Designers Institute.

This first set of American made tableware of 1700-pieces from Lenox cost $ 16, 000.

His practice extended from Crown Point, Indiana to New Lenox, Illinois, and he was required to keep two teams of horses in order to make all his calls.

The town lies along Route 183, which passes from Lenox and Great Barrington towards Sandisfield and the Connecticut border.

There are private schools located in the nearby towns of Great Barrington and Lenox which are also open to students from the town.

The town was established in 1896 from a division of the Town of Lenox.

The county's commissioners purchased the initial of land ( now the courthouse square ) from James Lenox, and a temporary courthouse was erected shortly thereafter.

In 1826, Aaron's son, Charles Hyde Olmstead, offered to donate 500 books from his father's personal collection in Oxford, Connecticut, if the residents of Lenox agreed to change the name of the area to Olmstead.

" She contacted White House curator Clement Conger to cancel any further development of a new official china pattern from the Lenox China Company, and began supervising the packing of the family's personal belongings.

Lenox is set apart from Richmond to the west by a branch of the Berkshire Mountains, with the highest peak in the ridge being Yokun Seat at 2, 124 ft ( 647. 4 m ).

Morris Elementary School houses students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, and Lenox Memorial Middle and High School houses students through twelfth grade.

Additionally, Lenox is home to two special education schools ( Valleycrest School and the Hillcrest Center ), as well as a Christian school ( Berkshire Christian, which serves students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade ), and private schools, Berkshire Country Day School, which serves students from pre-kindergarten through ninth grade, and The Montessori School of the Berkshires, which serves toddlers through middle school students.

On July 10, 1905, the connection between the IRT Lenox Avenue Line and IRT White Plains Road Line ( which was previously served by the Third Avenue El ) opened, allowing subway service from Manhattan to the Bronx.

Auchincloss died from complications of a stroke at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan on January 26, 2010.

I-355 runs from Interstate 80 in New Lenox north to Interstate 290 in Itasca, a distance of.

In addition, the North Line for Atlanta's MARTA system was constructed in the median from the Glenridge Connector to south of Lenox Road, and was opened on June 8, 1996.

Among these are “ Adam and Eve ” and a bust of Josiah Quincy, in 1900 in the Boston Athenaeum ; “ Hebe and Ganymede ,” presented to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts by C. C. Perkins, and a bronze statue of Beethoven, presented by the same gentleman to the Boston Music Hall, which now resides at the New England Conservatory ; “ Babes in the Wood ,” in the Lenox Library ; “ Mercury and Psyche ”; “ Flora ,” now in the gallery of the late Mrs. A. T. Stewart ; an Indian girl ; “ Dancing Jenny ,” modelled from his own daughter ; and a statue of James Otis, which adorns the chapel at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge.

It also has 13 principal Roads and Avenues running north-south, which, from the Biscayne Bay side, are Bay Road, West Avenue, Alton Road, Lenox Avenue, Michigan Avenue, Jefferson Avenue, Meridian Avenue, Euclid Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, Drexel Avenue, Washington Avenue, Collins Avenue ( Florida State Road A1A ), and Ocean Drive.

Another girl involved in the accident, Kate Spencer, became friends with Wharton while both worked at the Lenox Library and it was from Spencer that Wharton learned of the accident.