' His Nemesis, a prose tragedy in four acts about Beatrice Cenci, partly inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Cenci, was printed while he was dying.

Percy Ludgate wrote about the engine in 1915 and even designed his own Analytical Engine ( it was drawn up in detail but never built ).

This was reinforced when their foremost interpreter and performer, Gervase Elwes ( who had initiated the music festivals at Brigg in Lincolnshire at which Percy Grainger and others had developed their collections of country music ) died in a horrific accident in 1921.

Elizabeth Carver was the sister of the Second World War commander Percy Hobart.

This role was taken in the first two series by Lord Percy Percy, played by Tim McInnerny, with Hugh Laurie playing the role in the third and fourth series, as Prince George, Prince Regent, and Lieutenant George, respectively.

It was the following insult directed at Lord Percy by Edmund Blackadder: " The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr. Brain has long since departed, hasn't he, Percy?

Phyllis Pearce ( Jill Summers ) was hailed as the new Ena Sharples in 1982, the Duckworths moved into No. 9 in 1983 and slipped into the role once held by the Ogdens, while Percy Sugden ( Bill Waddington ) appeared in 1983 and took over the grumpy war veteran role from Albert Tatlock.

A literary interest in the popular ballad was not new ; it dates back to Thomas Percy and William Wordsworth.

It was not until 1890 that Kempe's proof was shown incorrect by Percy Heawood, and 1891 Tait's proof was shown incorrect by Julius Petersen — each false proof stood unchallenged for 11 years.

Percy Bysshe Shelley's first published work was the Gothic novel Zastrozzi ( 1810 ), about an outlaw obsessed with revenge against his father and half-brother.

Byron was also the host of the celebrated ghost-story competition involving himself, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and John William Polidori at the Villa Diodati on the banks of Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816.

In 1891 Carter was sent out by the Egypt Exploration Fund to assist Percy Newberry in the excavation and recording of Middle Kingdom tombs at Beni Hasan.

Following Babbage, although unaware of his earlier work, was Percy Ludgate, an accountant from Dublin, Ireland.

that my last hour was come --" He was later thanked for his devotion by the poet Percy B. Shelley in the preface to his elegy, Adonais, which was written for Keats in 1821.

He was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work only having been in publication for four years before his death.

As governor of Kenya, Sir Percy Girouard was instrumental in initiating railway extension policy that led to construction of the Nairobi-Thika and Konza-Magadi railways.

Percy Redwood created a scandal in New Zealand in 1909 when he was found to be Amy Bock, who had married a woman from Port Molyneaux ; newspapers argued whether it was a sign of insanity or an inherent character flaw.

According to Joe Mikolas, a friend of Kovacs, who also worked with him on his television shows, Ernie had plans to shed more light on the life of Percy Dovetonsils, which never materialized as Kovacs died in the auto accident.

Percy's family was plagued with suicides, including his first cousin LeRoy Pratt Percy and possibly his wife Phinizy, who died in an auto accident.

William Percy took in and adopted his cousin's three sons when they were orphaned as boys ( after their father's suicide and mother's death in an auto accident ).

The 59-mile Wolverhampton-Llangollen race was organised by Percy Stallard in defiance of the sport's governing body, the National Cyclists ' Union, but with approval from all police chief constables through whose districts the event ran.

Based on writing of Percy Smith and Elsdon Best, there grew theories that the Māori had displaced a more primitive pre-Māori population of Moriori ( sometimes described as a small-statured, dark-skinned race of possible Melanesian origin ), in mainland New Zealand-and that the Chatham Island Moriori were the last remnant of this earlier race.

It was built as a touring car homologation package for Group A racing and in racing form, managed to win the 1990 Bathurst 1000 race in the hands of Allan Grice and Win Percy for HSV's racing arm, the Holden Racing Team.

During the championship season the TWR team had also won the Spa 24 Hours race with an XJS driven by Tom Walkinshaw, Hans Heyer and Win Percy.

This time the big Cats got off the start line and Walkinshaw and Percy dominated most of the race, only losing the lead during pit stops.

The Allam / Dickson car went out on lap 3 with engine failure while the Goss / Hahne car, the drivers battling a broken seat on the tricky Mount Panorama Circuit, sat in second most of the way until a split oil line late in the race cost the Walkinshaw / Percy car 3 laps and any chance of victory.

Goss won his second and Hahne his first Bathurst 1000 with Walkinshaw / Percy storming home late in the race to finish 3rd, the two cars crossing the line in formation.

The race saw the Walkinshaw / Percy car leading until retiring on lap 6 with no oil pressure while the Hahne / Denny Hulme / Walkinshaw car only lasted until half distance before retiring with a broken differential.

Neither car finished with Walkinshaw / Percy suffering diff failure and the Hahne / Hulme car cutting a tyre resulting in a race ending crash after fighting their way into the lead.

The pairing of John Goss and Armin Hahne won the race, while Walkinshaw himself placed third, driving alongside Win Percy.

The XJ220C, driven by Win Percy easily won its first race, a round of the BRDC National Sports GT Challenge at Silverstone.

: More than a thousand people watched the finish of the massed-start race organised by Percy Stallard, from Llangollen to Wolverhampton, on Sunday afternoon.

" The Brooklands races inspired some riders and one, Percy Stallard, took advantage of low wartime traffic in 1942 to organise a race on the open road from Llangollen to Wolverhampton.

The race for both cars ran smoothly for the team, with Perkins and Mezera finishing sixth and Percy and Crompton finishing behind them in seventh.

At the Sandown 500, Percy and Allan Grice qualified the car fourth, however did not finish the race.

At the 1990 Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst, the Percy / Grice car took out the victory, after many of the race favourite Ford Sierras, and the sole Nissan GT-R suffered mechanical problems.

This has led to rivalries with the engines, most notably a race with Percy the Small Engine in the helicopter's first appearance, which Percy won.

The tactic resulted in defeat for Percy, who was attacked as a representative of the aristocracy and for taking a progressive stance on race relations ; advocating education for blacks ; and working to improve race relations by appealing to the planters ’ sense of noblesse oblige.

* Percy E. Lambert-racing car driver

Wilds ' sports car racing career included driving at Le Mans 8 times, including C2 cars for Ecurie Ecosse ( World Champion C2, 1986 ), and Group C for Nissan in 1988 with team-mate Win Percy.

In Heavy Weather, she finds Galahad Threepwood's notorious memoirs, hidden in her custom-built new sty by Percy Pilbeam, and eats the whole book, and not long afterward finds herself in the dicky of Ronnie Fish's car, as he threatens to run off with her if her master refuses to fund Fish's elopement.

On top of the northern part of the building is a car parking deck reached from Percy Street via an eight storey spiral-shaped multi-storey car park and a high concrete bridge.

For the 1989 Tooheys 1000, Perkins teamed with Tomas Mezera with Percy and Neil Crompton driving the second car.

At the 1991 Tooheys 1000, Percy and Grice teamed together to score a second place for the team, with the second car of Crompton and Brad Jones being effectively disqualified for refueling outside of pitlane.

They did have some success in 1992 with a third place by Mezera and Jones at the Sandown 500 driving a 1993 Spec 5. 0L V8 car while at Bathurst Percy / Grice came home fourth outright and first in class, also driving a 1993 Spec car.