The vital meeting was held at the Royal Hotel on 1 August 1885, W M C Hickson served as the chairman, and other notables in attendance included all the big sugar mill owners of that time, W G Farquhar, F L Nott, S McDougall, T Penny, S H Bravo and A H Young, all to become the first directors of the Company.

" Their exhibit of this material was held at the college's Nott Memorial building.

Ken Nott is at a loft party in London at the crucial moment.

Orage in New York and at Fontainbleau-Avon by C. S. Nott, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1961

In February 1737 however he spent the night at Puckeridge with his wife, her maid, and a man called Robert Nott.

They were imprisoned at Hertford gaol, although the women were later acquitted ( Nott was released at the next Assize ).

Nott was born in 1782, near Neath in Wales, the second son of Charles Nott, a Herefordshire farmer, who in 1794 became an innkeeper of the Ivy Bush Inn at Carmarthen in Wales.

Nott was educated in Neath, and then at Cowbridge Grammar School but left education after his father became an innkeeper.

On receiving the news of the rising of the Afghans at Kabul in November 1841, Nott took energetic measures.

Nott arranged with Sir George Pollock, now commander-in-chief, to join him at Kabul.

This tract was not promisingly described by Nott some years later as “ pasture grounds, scarred by deep ravines, rendered at once unsightly and difficult of access by an alternation of swamp and sand hill …”.

Schaffer Library opened in 1961, at which time the College library was moved from the Nott Memorial into expanded quarters as the keystone of the arched Ramée colonnade at the east end of the campus.

The son of Richard Nott and Phyllis née Francis, Nott was educated at Bradfield College and was commissioned as a regular officer in the 2nd Gurkha Rifles in Malaysia ( 1952 – 1956 ).

Day asked Nott whether the public should believe the retiring MP's statements on defence cuts, since ( Day thought ) Nott was a " here today, gone tomorrow politician " ( Nott had either recently announced or was shortly to announce that he would not stand at the next election ).

* Edward Tuckerman Potter an architect who designed the Nott Memorial at Union College.

The book revolves around the life of Ken Nott, a radio DJ on a London station called Capital Live!

The Selah Griswold House and Clark Nott House on Bokum Road are fine examples of two-story center chimney homes that were characteristic of the time.

The Snow House on Main Street, the Nott House on Westbrook Road, the Taylor Bushnell House on Ingham Hill Road, and the Silent Rose House near the train station are fine examples.

The first coal-burning furnace was invented in 1833 by Eliphalet Nott in Valley Furnace, a section of New Philadelphia on the northeast end of town and is still standing today.

Robert Nott explains, " To be fair, most of the studios had a team of producers, directors, and writers who could pinpoint a particular star ’ s strengths and worked to capitalize on those strengths in terms of finding vehicles that would appeal to the public – and hence make the studio money.

" According to biographer Robert Nott, " They lived together on and off for about ten years, because they were friends and wanted to save on living expenses ( they were both considered to be notorious tightwads ).

In 1825 Nott was promoted to the command of his regiment of native infantry ; and in 1838, on the outbreak of the First Afghan war, he was appointed to the command of a brigade.

Nott translated Arthur de Gobineau's An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races ( 1853 – 1855 ), a founding work of racial segregationism that made three main divisions between races, based not on colour but on climatic conditions and geographic location, and privileged the " Aryan " race.

* A. R. Orage's Commentaries on Gurdjieff's All and Everything, edited by C. S. Nott

Even as the booming city of Schenectady was alive with commercial activity, Nott was envisioning a college that would to a large extent protect and shield its students from the lowlife and temptations that inevitably accompanied rapid economic growth on the frontier.

But the only way for this to happen was through increased financial support from the State of New York, and Nott began the first of many complicated negotiations to endow the College with funds yielded by an education lottery, the first of which was authorized on March 30, 1805.

Accordingly, in July 1806, Nott and the trustees determined to acquire a large tract of land to the east of the Downtown Schenectady, on a gentle slope up from the Mohawk River and facing nearly due west.

So, it was natural that on a return trip to Philadelphia in January 1813, Parish should introduce Ramée to Eliphalet Nott, who was already in the college building business.

On June 2, 2010 Price Chopper dedicated its new headquarters, on Nott Street, in Downtown Schenectady.

The result of this was that the Common Council resolved on 2 July 1856 to use the grounds of the old Hospital Farm on Nott Terrace, as a public cemetery.

In the last two decades of the 18th century polygenism, the belief that different races had evolved separately in each continent and shared no common ancestor, was advocated in England by historian Edward Long and anatomist Charles White, in Germany by ethnographers Christoph Meiners and Georg Forster, and in France by Julien-Joseph Virey, and prominently in the US by Samuel Morton, Josiah Nott and Louis Agassiz.

The music featured in all the films was written by Julian Nott, a British film composer.

Astaire was married for the first time in 1933, to the 25-year-old Phyllis Potter ( née Phyllis Livingston Baker ; born 1908, died September 13, 1954 ), a Boston-born New York socialite and former wife of Eliphalet Nott Potter III ( 1906 – 1981 ), after pursuing her ardently for roughly two years, and despite the objections of his mother and sister.

" For years, it was thought to be a link with Canute, but it is now thought likely that the " Nott " section of the name is derived from the Saxon personal name Cnotta, with the " ing " part generally accepted as coming from the Saxon for a group or settlement of people.

Eventually this was replaced by a more upbeat theme, by Wallace and Gromit composer Julian Nott, played by a Czech orchestra.

Sir William Nott GCB ( 20 January 1782 – 1 January 1845 ) was a British military leader in British India.

Nott joined the volunteer corps in 1798 and obtained a cadetship in the Indian army and went to India in 1800 when under Company rule in India it was a key component of the growing British Empire.

A statue of General Nott was erected in his home town of Carmarthen in 1851.

The statue occupies the site of the market cross which was dismantled when the market was resited and Nott Square created in 1846.

Nott states that Gilbert made gifts to the Priory, and describes his " great conflict " with Thomas de Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford, also about hunting rights and a ditch that Gilbert dug, that was settled by costly litigation.

Eliphalet Nott, the president of Union College, was an inventor of stoves and a boiler ; he held 31 patents.

The institution that eventually became Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( RPI ) was founded in Troy, New York, in 1824 and incorporated in 1826 ( and of which Union College president Eliphalet Nott was also president from 1829 to 1845 ).

However, Eliphalet Nott, arriving as president of the College in 1804 ( having been a trustee since 1800 ) was not daunted by the obstacles to growth and expansion created by lack of funds, a reluctant legislature, and a sometimes litigious Board of Trustees.