However, later that month, on 22 January, the English were defeated at the Battle of Basing and, on the 22 March at the Battle of Merton ( perhaps Marden in Wiltshire or Martin in Dorset ), in which Æthelred was killed.

The footbridge has been re-erected at Corfe Castle station on the Swanage Railway ( although some evidence suggests that this was a similar footbridge removed from the site of Merton Park Railway Station.

After a year at Merton College, Oxford, Simcoe was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, but then decided to follow the military career for which his father had intended him.

In 1944 Polanyi was elected a member of the Royal Society, and on his retirement from the University of Manchester in 1958 he was elected a Senior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford.

Robert K. Merton also coauthored ( with Elinor Barber ) The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity which traces the origins and uses of the word " serendipity " since it was coined.

" Cohen therefore considers it paradoxical " that the rise of early modern science was due at least in part to developments in Christian thought — in particular, to certain aspects of Protestantism " ( a thesis first developed as what is now sometimes called the Merton thesis ).

When his business was enlarged in 1881 by the establishment of a tapestry industry at Merton Abbey Mills, in South West London, Morris found yet another means for expressing the medievalism that inspired all his work, whether on paper or at the loom.

Mr P J M Roberts was educated at Tiffins, Kingston upon Thames and then read Modern History at Merton College, Oxford where he received a first class honours degree.

In 1931 he returned to Oxford as a Fellow of Merton College, where he was highly regarded as a tutor.

The conflicts of the Civil War soon led King Charles to Oxford, with Harvey attending, where the physician was made ' Doctor of Physic ' in 1642 and later Warden of Merton College in 1645.

Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant but was also a rugby union international having played in the first ever international match for England against Scotland in 1871.

The abbey was originally served by a community of Augustinian Canons Regular from Merton Priory and the layout of the original church at Holyrood, now known only from excavations, probably came from the 1125 church at the priory.

It was not until 1598 that the library began to thrive once more, when Thomas Bodley ( a former fellow of Merton College ) wrote to the Vice Chancellor of the University offering to support the development of the library: " where there hath bin hertofore a publike library in Oxford: which you know is apparent by the rome it self remayning, and by your statute records I will take the charge and cost upon me, to reduce it again to his former use.

The area is a possible location for the Battle of Merton, 871, in which King Ethelred of Wessex was either mortally wounded or killed outright.

Wimbledon had its own borough of Wimbledon and was within the county of Surrey ; it was absorbed into the London Borough of Merton as part of the creation of Greater London in 1965.

Wimbledon had its own borough of Wimbledon and was within the county of Surrey ; it was absorbed into the London Borough of Merton as part of the creation of Greater London in 1965.

* Lord Horatio Nelson-Admiral ; Nelson's estate, Merton Place, included part of Wimbledon at the eastern end of the Broadway, though, strictly he was a resident of Merton the neighbouring parish

The borough was formed under the London Government Act in 1965 by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Mitcham, the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon and the Merton and Morden Urban District, all formerly within Surrey.

The borough derives its name from the historic parish of Merton which was centred on the area now known as South Wimbledon.

Merton was chosen as an acceptable compromise, following a dispute between Wimbledon and Mitcham over the new borough's name.

* The first purpose-built accommodation for students ( the Mob Quad ) is completed in Merton College, Oxford, England.

* Merton College, Oxford, is first recorded as having a collection of books, making its Library the world's oldest in continuous daily use.

Robert C. Merton was the first to publish a paper expanding the mathematical understanding of the options pricing model and coined the term Black – Scholes options pricing model.

Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes for an independent academic community and established endowments to support it.

The substance of Merton's claim to the title of oldest College is that Merton was the first college to be provided with " statutes ", a constitution governing the College set out at its founding.

Merton was also the first to be conceived as a community of scholars working to achieve academic ends, rather than just a place for the scholars to live in.

The JCR Football Premier Division was ( jointly ) won for the first time by a Merton team in 2010 / 11.

A post office opened for Glenglade on November 21, 1894, with Merton A Davis as the first postmaster.

At short notice, Merton hosted the first episode after Deayton's departure, and was described as " merciless " in his treatment of his former co-star.

Despite this record though, Merton is one of only three people to have played all three roles of the show's format at various points: he is usually captain of his team, but along with being the first post-Deayton presenter ( series 24, episode 3 ), he has also been a guest on Hislop's team ( in series 11, episode 1 ).

Merton had officially found the Rome he said he didn't see on his first visit: Byzantine Christian Rome.

Merton was also interested in Communism at Columbia, where he briefly joined the Young Communist League ; however, the first meeting he attended failed to interest him further and he never went back.

In March 1942, during the first Sunday of Lent, Merton was accepted as a novice monk at the monastery.

On March 19 Merton became a deacon in the Order, and on May 26 ( Ascension Thursday ) he was ordained a priest, saying his first Mass the following day.

According to The Seven Storey Mountain, the youthful Merton loved jazz but by the time he began his first teaching job he had forsaken all but peaceful music.

It was in this same year that Walter first set aside two manors in Surrey for the priory at Merton, for the support of " scholars residing at the schools ".

The idea of damages was first conceived in English law during the 13th century, when the Statutes of Merton and Gloucester provided for damages in certain circumstances.

The first focus groups were created at the Bureau of Applied Social Research in the USA, by associate director, sociologist Robert K. Merton.

Born in Lottery Hall, Southampton, he was educated at King's College School, London, and at Merton College, Oxford where he achieved a first class BA degree in Classical Mods, ( 1865 ), and a second class in literae humaniores ( 1867 ).

He began lecturing at Merton and in April 1565 he was formally appointed as the college's first Lecturer in Ancient Greek, a post that was subsequently made permanent.

However Merton does explicitly state that functional analysis does not seek to explain why the action happened in the first instance, but why it continues or is reproduced.