Oxford later insisted that ' the Howards were the most treacherous race under heaven ' and that ' my Lord Howard the worst villain that lived in this earth.

B. M. Hertzog, who had recently insisted on his choice of Lord Clarendon as Governor-General of that country, and the selection of an Irishman as Governor-General of the Irish Free State – both of these appointments were agreed to despite royal disfavour.

Before the process could begin, he insisted that all of the contenders recognise him as Lord Paramount of Scotland.

Jack Lord was known as a perfectionist who insisted on the best from everyone.

Before the process got underway Edward insisted that he be recognised as Lord Paramount of Scotland.

Mountbatten insisted that his friend, Zuckerman, be present ( Zuckerman says that he was urged to attend by Mountbatten ’ s son-in-law, Lord Brabourne, who worried King would lead Mountbatten astray ).

However, the Lord insisted that Jeremiah go and speak as commanded, and he touched Jeremiah ’ s mouth and put the word of the Lord into Jeremiah ’ s mouth.

Richard was evidently well aware of the threat from this quarter since in the summer of 1485, when Stanley sought permission to leave the court and return to his northern fastness of Lathom, the king insisted that his son, George Stanley, Lord Strange, take his place at court as a token for his father ’ s good behaviour.

" The issue was resolved by Hillsborough's successor, Lord Dartmouth, who insisted to Gage that the residents were not lawless vagabonds, but English subjects whose rights were protected by the King.

Ironically, the Allendale Nativity caused the rupture in the 1930s between Lord Duveen, who sold it to Andrew Mellon as a Giorgione, and his expert Bernard Berenson, who insisted it was an early Titian.

Baldwin offered Chamberlain the post of Lord Privy Seal, but Chamberlain insisted that other former ministers from the Coalition should be included as well and Baldwin refused.

He left the Colonial Office in the same year, and did not wish to hold any further office, but Grey insisted on his taking the senior non-departmental post of Lord Privy Seal.

* Lord Gilead, formerly the henchman of one of Sara's HackMaster characters, who became a charismatic noble lord after an unknown, potentially dangerous magical helmet which the Knights insisted that he should be the one to try out turned out to be a legendary Helm of Lordship.

Lord Randolph insisted that the principle of the bill should be accepted by the opposition, and that resistance should be focused on the refusal of the government to combine with it a scheme of redistribution.

Meeting of the representative of the World Jewish Congress, Alex Easterman, with the Pasha of Marrakesh and Lord of the Atlas, Thami El Glaoui | T ' hami el Mezourai El Glaoui, at the palace of the Pasha in Marrakesh, Morocco, January 1954The WJC leadership also kept in close touch with the leaders of the Moroccan independence movement, including the exiled sultan of Morocco, Mohammed V, who insisted that an autonomous Morocco would guarantee the freedom and equality of all its citizens, including access of non-Muslims to public administration.

He was always known as ' George Brown ' and for this reason he insisted on combining his first name and surname in his peerage title — so as to be familiarly referred to as ' Lord George-Brown '— which was created on 6 November 1970.

Lord Houghton tried to persuade him to return to Scotland, but Gray insisted on staying in London.

But in 1780 we find his prospects suddenly improved, by his appearance in the case of Ackroyd v Smithson, which became a leading case settling a rule of law ; and young Scott, having lost his point in the inferior court, insisted on arguing it, on appeal, against the opinion of his clients, and carried it before Lord Thurlow, whose favorable consideration he won by his able argument.

Contemporary observers such as Edmund Burke and the anonymous letter-writer ‘ Junius ’ thought it odd that Rochford was appointed northern secretary when all of his diplomatic experience had been in southern courts, but Lord Weymouth had insisted on taking the Southern Department as the more important of the secretaryships.

The meeting came to nothing, as Lord Howe was not authorized to grant terms the Congressional delegation insisted on.

Although her mother insisted she was a daughter of the king, Barbara was probably fathered by either John Churchill, later Duke of Marlborough, a second cousin of her mother, or Lord Chesterfield, whom she is said to have resembled in her features.

" In the event Lord Canning insisted on Peshawar being held, and Dost Mohammed, whose relations with Britain had been equivocal for over 20 years, remained neutral.

He nonetheless insisted on being addressed as " Lord Lambton ", the form of address appropriate to his former courtesy title, though a ruling of the Committee for Privileges said that he should not do so in the House of Commons since he had renounced his peerage.

Anagrams are also often used in fiction for character aliases, such as Tom Marvolo Riddle = I am Lord Voldemort, Leonardo da vinci = O Draconian Devil, The Mona Lisa

* Lord Abergavenny is a character in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII.

Bayezid ( spelt Bayazid ) is a central character in the Robert E. Howard story Lord of Samarcand.

The principal character is Edmund, Lord Blackadder, the great-grandson of the original Black Adder.

He voice-acted in the animated film Arthur and the Invisibles as the powerful villain Maltazard, and lent his voice to the character Lord Royal Highness in the SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis television film.

The character continued to appear over the next 250 years, appearing as Sir Christmas, Lord Christmas or Father Christmas, the last becoming the most common.

This provides a possible explanation for existence of Irving Braxiatel, a Time Lord who claims to be the Doctor's brother yet is not one of the cousins from Lungbarrow and the implication in The Gallifrey Chronicles that the character Marnal is The Master's father ( whose existence is mentioned in The End of Time ).

The poetry, romantic adventures and character of Lord Byron, characterised by his spurned lover Lady Caroline Lamb as ' mad, bad and dangerous to know ' were another inspiration for the Gothic, providing the archetype of the Byronic hero.

Examples would be: Tolkien's Gandalf of The Lord of the Rings, Dumbledore of Harry Potter series, Merlin of Arthurian Legends, Lasky's Ezylryb of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, Brooks ' Allanon of The Sword of Shannara, Eddings ' Belgarath and Polgara of The Belgariad, Feist's Macros the Black of the Riftwar Saga, Jordan's Moiraine of The Wheel of Time ( who at least starts out as this kind of character ), Goodkind's Zeddicus Zu ' l Zorander of The Sword of Truth, Dart-Thornton's Thorn / Angaver, and Paolini's Brom and Oromis of The Inheritance Cycle.

Good versus evil is a common concept in high fantasy, and the character of evil is often an important concept in a work of high fantasy, as in The Lord of the Rings.

Also that year, he appeared as Lord Croft, father of the title character of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, in which he solves mysteries ; usually, but not always, murders.

One of Lord Peter's cars is a 12-cylinder (" double-six ") 1927 Daimler four-seater, which ( like all his cars ) he calls " Mrs. Merdle " after a character in Little Dorrit ( by Charles Dickens ) who " hated fuss ".

As a footnote, Lord Peter Wimsey has also been included by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer as a member of the Wold Newton family ; and Laurie R. King's detective character Mary Russell meets up with Lord Peter at a party in the novel A Letter of Mary.

" In The Last Egyptian, Lord Roane uses " nigger " to insult the title character, while in The Daring Twins, set in the American South, the only character to use the term is a boy from Boston complaining that his mother uses their money to help " naked niggers in Africa.

* In Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous poem " The Lady of Shalott " ( 1833, revised in 1842 ), the titular character possesses a mirror that enables her to look out on the people of Camelot, as she is under a curse that prevents her from seeing Camelot directly.

Oxfordians claim that Lord Burghley was the model for the character of chief minister Polonius in Hamlet.

Explicitly recognising two hundred years ' of ambivalence, the act states that it intended " To give statutory recognition to the existence of the position of Prime Minister, and to the historic link between the Premiership and the office of First Lord of the Treasury, by providing in respect to that position and office a salary of ..." The Act made a distinction between the " position " ( Prime Minister ) and the " office " ( First Lord of the Treasury ), emphasising the unique political character of the former.

At the conclusion of each episode, Jack Lord narrated a teaser for the next episode, often emphasizing the " guest villain ", especially if the villain is a recurring character, such as that played by actor Hume Cronyn.

The reimagined Hawaii Five-0 uses the same principal character names as the original, and the new Steve McGarrett's late father's vintage 1974 Mercury Marquis is the actual specimen driven by Lord in the original series's final seasons.

* Lord Loss ( character ), the Demon Lord from Darren Shan's 10 book series The Demonata