The letter gave McGonagall confidence in his " poetic abilities ", and he felt his reputation could be enhanced further if he were to give a live performance before the queen.

William Topaz McGonagall ( March 1825 – 29 September 1902 ) was a Scottish weaver, doggerel poet and actor.

McGonagall moved north and was apprenticed as a handloom weaver in Dundee, following in his father's footsteps.

Despite the industrial revolution slowly making weavers obsolete, McGonagall appeared to prosper, as there was still need for skilled workers to perform tasks of great complexity.

The play should have ended with Macbeth's death, but McGonagall believed the actor playing Macduff was trying to upstage him, and refused to die.

McGonagall claimed he was inspired to become a poet when he " seemed to feel a strange kind of feeling stealing over, and remained so for about five minutes.

McGonagall told the man that " it was so very bad that Her Majesty had thanked for what Chief Templar had condemned.

These were popular, the people of Dundee possibly recognising that McGonagall was " so giftedly bad he backed unwittingly into genius " He met with the ire of the publicans, on one occasion being pelted with peas for reciting a poem about the evils of " strong drink ".

McGonagall was outraged and wrote a poem in response entitled Lines in Protest to the Dundee Magistrates:

In 1890, McGonagall was in dire straits financially.

Despite the fact that this was a fairly transparent hoax, McGonagall would refer to himself as " Sir William Topaz McGonagall, Knight of the White Elephant, Burmah " in his advertising for the rest of his life.

Here, McGonagall met with some success, becoming a " cult figure " and was in great demand.

* The memory of McGonagall was resurrected by comedian Spike Milligan.

* A collection of 35 broadsheet poems of McGonagall, the majority signed by him, was bought for £ 6, 600 ( including commission ) from Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh auctionneers, on 16 May 2008 .< ref >

The event was commemorated in a poem, The Tay Bridge Disaster, written by William McGonagall, a notoriously unskilled Scottish poet.

Crieff was immortalised by William McGonagall in his poem " Crieff "

In 1898 William McGonagall wrote Lines in Praise of Tommy Atkins, which was an attack on what McGonagall saw as the disparaging portrayal of Tommy in Kipling's poem.

This is the hospital where Arthur Weasley is sent after he was attacked by Voldemort's snake, Nagini, in the Ministry of Magic and Minerva McGonagall is hospitalised from severe stunning when Hagrid is forced out of Hogwarts.

A poem was later written about McLean's attempt on the Queen's life by William Topaz McGonagall ,< ref >

Most importantly, like McGonagall, she was drawn to themes of accident, disaster, and sudden death ; as has been said of A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, in her pages you can count the dead and wounded.

The battle was celebrated by the Scottish doggerel poet William McGonagall:

The action was commemorated in verse by William McGonagall, the pipe march The Heights of Dargai by J. Wallace and the fiddle tune Dargai by James Scott Skinner.

Also, like Minerva ( who had the ability to transform into an owl ), the character of McGonagall had the ability to transfigure into a cat.

McGonagall had previously written a poem in praise of the Tay Bridge: " The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay " " With your numerous arches and pillars in so grand array ".

Minerva is also the first name of Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter's Head of House, and a very wise witch of Hogwarts, always concerned with the safety of her students.

* In the Harry Potter series, J. K Rowling named a leading female character Minerva McGonagall in light of the Goddess.

Also, like Minerva's other trait as a goddess of war, Minerva McGonagall is shown to be a good and courageous soldier, actually dueling Tom Marvolo Riddle himself.

* The Great McGonagall ( 1974 ), untalented Scottish poet ( based on William Topaz McGonagall ) angles to become laureate, with Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria.

McGonagall has been acclaimed as the worst poet in British history.

By the 1870s, McGonagall and his family were struggling.

McGonagall realised if he were to succeed as a poet, he required a patron and wrote to Queen Victoria.

McGonagall took this as praise for his work.

Throughout his life McGonagall campaigned against excessive drinking, appearing in pubs and bars to give edifying poems and speeches.

McGonagall constantly struggled with money and earned money by selling his poems in the streets, or reciting them in halls, theatres and public houses.

Throughout his life McGonagall seemed oblivious to the general opinion of his poems, even when his audience were pelting him with eggs and vegetables.

The proceeds provided McGonagall with enough money to live on for a time.

Kidd was presented with a letter of marque, signed personally by King William III of England.

Singer responded with a letter to Science saying the IPCC report had presented material selectively.

Though this has never been proven, many observers in the press and academia believe that the US has not provided convincing answers to several of the more suspicious details surrounding the coup, such as the circumstances under which the US obtained Aristide's purported letter of " resignation " ( as presented by the US ) which, translated from Kreyol, does not actually read as a resignation.

In 1265, an allegedly forged letter was presented to or by the Rath of Hamburg.

In November 2006, Reilly's attorney presented to U. S. District Judge Susan Illston a letter from Hearst senior vice president James Asher to MediaNews President Jody Lodovic that said the two companies agreed to " offer national advertising and internet advertising sales for their San Francisco Bay area newspapers on a joint basis, and to consolidate the San Francisco Bay Area distribution networks of such newspapers ..." Illston, suggesting she had been misled by the companies when they said they had not been collaborating, issued a 14-page ruling forbidding Hearst and MediaNews from working together on national advertising sales or distribution.

Dr. Ashkouri has also presented the plan to President Karzai and has received a letter of support from the president and the Minister of Urban Development.

Clement of Rome wrote in a letter to the Corinthians, c. 96 about the persecution of Christians in Rome as the " struggles in our time " and presented to the Corinthians its heroes, " first, the greatest and most just columns ", the " good apostles " Peter and Paul.

At the diet of Besançon in October 1157, the legates presented to Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor a letter from Adrian IV which alluded to the beneficia or " benefits " conferred upon the Emperor, and the German chancellor translated this beneficia in the feudal sense of the presentation of property from a lord to a vassal ( benefice ).

The first letter, dated 21 November 1804, discussed Gauss ' Disquisitiones and presented some of Germain's work on Fermat's Last Theorem.

In addition to several sounds presented using the same letter ( s ), sometimes, one single sound is represented using several sets of letters.

* October 11 – Manhattan Project: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is presented a letter signed by Albert Einstein, urging the United States to rapidly develop the atomic bomb.

Over dinner, Washington presented Saint-Pierre with the letter from Dinwiddie demanding an immediate French withdrawal from the Ohio Country.

Calhoun presented the letter to Senate along with the treaty.

The submarine's captain presented an open letter to the actors and production team, and a group of officers and crew-members presented another.

He had funded the restoration of the Jewish temple which had originally been decreed by Cyrus the Great, presented favour towards Greek cults which can be seen in his letter to Gadatas, and supported Elamite priests.

In 1615 Jacob le Maire carried a letter from his father to be presented to Governor Reynst, with an offer to carry ( smuggle ) goods to his son-in-law Samuel Blommaert in Amsterdam.

Further evidence is presented by Gerald Schwab in the form of a letter, sent to Ernst vom Rath's brother in 1964 by Erich Wollenburg, a communist exile from Nazi Germany who claimed to be an associate of Moro-Giafferi:

It appeared again in a letter to John William Strutt in 1871, before it was presented to the public in Maxwell's 1871 book on thermodynamics titled Theory of Heat.

A long string of " faced " letters ( i. e. turned to allow the address to be read ) are presented to a keyboard operator at a coding desk who types the postcodes for each destination onto their letter fronts in coloured phosphor dots.

McClellan immediately replied with a 22-page letter objecting in detail to the president's plan and advocating instead his Urbanna plan, which was the first written instance of the plan's details being presented to the president.

Jean Madiran, a critic of Vatican II and founder-editor of the French journal Itinéraires, claimed that this letter was fraudulently presented to the elderly and already blind cardinal for his signature by his secretary, Monsignor ( and future Cardinal ) Gilberto Agustoni, and that Agustoni resigned shortly afterwards.

* Ordinary of the Mass, with English translation at sacred-texts. com ( The text is presented as that of the 1962 edition, but the spelling of the Latin, e. g. " coelum ", " quotidianum ", use of the letter J, shows that, apart from the insertion of " sed et beati Ioseph eiusdem Virginis Sponsi " in the Canon of the Mass, it is really the 1920 text, identical with the 1962 text except for spelling and this insertion )

The artist presented his relief of the Deposition to Charles V at Genoa in 1529 ; though the relief has been lost, a bronze from it by Antonio Susini in 1600 ( Musée du Louvre ) shows the decisive inspiration of Donatello's emotional pitch and intensity ; Bandinelli made several drawings of the Donatello reliefs, though later in life he disparaged them in a letter to Cosimo I de ' Medici.