In the early 1840s, Dr Henry Grace and his brother-in-law Alfred Pocock founded the Mangotsfield Cricket Club which merged in 1846 with the West Gloucestershire Cricket Club, whose name was adopted until 1867, after which it became the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club.

" Interregnum: the Oceana of James Harrington ", chapter 6 in Pocock, The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: a Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century, a reissue with a retrospect ( Cambridge: 1987 ; 1957 ); ISBN 0-521-31643-X.

The last taxonomic delineation of the jaguar subspecies was performed by Pocock in 1939.

With writer Tom Pocock he was among the first British civilians to witness the horrors of the Nazi concentration camp at Belsen, where the remaining prisoners, too sick to be moved, were dying before his very eyes.

Pocock, in the so-called " Cambridge School " of interpretation have been able to show that some of the republican themes in Machiavelli's political works, particularly the Discourses on Livy, can be found in medieval Italian literature which was influenced by classical authors such as Sallust.

Pocock argued that this was an ideology with a history and principles distinct from liberalism.

Pocock argues that thinkers who shared these ideals tended to believe that the function of property was to maintain an individual's independence as a precondition of his virtue.

His parents were Henry Mills Grace and Martha ( née Pocock ), who were married in Bristol on Thursday, 3 November 1831 and lived out their lives at Downend, where Henry Grace was the local GP.

It was in the Downend orchard and as members of their local cricket clubs that he and his brothers developed their skills, mainly under the tutelage of his uncle, Alfred Pocock, who was an exceptional coach.

Alfred Pocock was especially instrumental in coaching the Grace brothers and spent long hours with them on the practice pitch at Downend.

His fundamental opinion was that cricketers are " not born " but must be nurtured to develop their skills through coaching and practice ; in his own case, he had achieved his skill through constant practice as a boy at home under the tutelage of his uncle Alfred Pocock.

In 1927, the naturalist Reginald Innes Pocock declared it a separate species, but reversed this decision in 1939 due to lack of evidence ; but in 1928, a skin purchased by Walter Rothschild was found to be intermediate in pattern between the king cheetah and spotted cheetah and Abel Chapman considered it to be a color form of the spotted cheetah.

A cheetah with hardly any spots was shot in Tanzania in 1921 ( Pocock ); it had only a few spots on the neck and back, and these were unusually small.

In 1746 he returned to Britain, and from then to 1780, when he was made rear-admiral, he saw active service in the East Indies with Sir George Pocock and in various quarters of the world.

Admiral Sir George Pocock, KB ( 6 March 1706 – 3 April 1792 ) was a British officer of the Royal Navy.

Pocock was from Chieveley in Berkshire, the son of Thomas Pocock, a chaplain in the navy.

In 1755 Pocock became rear-admiral, and was promoted to vice-admiral in 1756.

Yet the number of the French was superior and Pocock was required by the practice of his time to fight by the old official fighting instructions.

Again Pocock was unable to prevent his opponent from reaching Pondicherry, and a well-contested battle between them on 10 September 1759 proved again indecisive.

Pocock went home in 1760, and in 1761 was made a Knight of the Bath and admiral.

The final victory was largely attributable to the vigorous and intelligent aid which Pocock gave to the troops.

On his return to England Pocock is said to have been disappointed because another officer, Sir Charles Saunders, was chosen in preference to himself as a member of the Admiralty Board, and to have resigned in consequence.

Harrington's prose was marred by what Pocock described as an undisciplined work habit and a conspicuous " lack of sophistication.

The South African fans and pundits went on to criticise referee Bryce Lawrence for " one-sided " refereeing, claiming that Australian openside David Pocock was allowed to " reduce the breakdown to a farce ".

Bishops Philip Pocock, George Flahiff, Joseph Aurele Plourde and the Carter brothers ( Alexander and Emmett ) became close friends who dubbed themselves and became known as “ The Gang of Five .” The five wielded a significant influence upon their fellow bishops and hence upon the face of Roman Catholicism in Canada.

Pocock who argued in The Machiavellian Moment ( 1975 ) that, at least in the early 18th century, republican ideas were just as important as liberal ones.

Journal of Contemporary Art, a low-cost, desktop-published art journal, 1988. In New York City, in 1988, collaborating with the painter, John Zinsser, Philip Pocock co-founded, co-published, co-edited, and designed on an Apple Macintosh Plus and Laserwriter, the early low-cost, interview-based, desktop-published Journal of Contemporary Art, announced in the New York Times 1988-01-22.

For Description of the Equator and Some ØtherLands Philip Pocock assembled longtime collaborator, Felix Stephan Huber, Udo Noll, and Florian Wenz, to produce an early online, user-generated, database-driven hypercinematic work, which introduced the term Tag ( metadata ), taking Pocock and Wenz first to Uganda, then Pocock and Noll to the Java Sea to traverse the Earth's equator, and with thousands of users pursue the potential one of corresponding identities in cyberspace.

Pocock who argued in The Machiavellian Moment ( 1975 ) that, at least in the early eighteenth-century, republican ideas were just as important as liberal ones.

Robert Pocock, a friend from the BBC, recalled " I only once heard Dylan express an opinion on Welsh Nationalism.

Based on morphological evidence, British zoologist Reginald Pocock concluded the jaguar is most closely related to the leopard.

* 1706 – George Pocock, British admiral ( d. 1792 )

* Pocock, J. G. A.

JGA Pocock has played a central role, arguing that there is a distinct republican tradition that stretches from the classical world to the present.

Pocock who in 1975 argued that a series of scholars had expressed a consistent set of republican ideals.

* Pocock, J. G. A.

* Pocock, J. G. A.

Pocock distinguished A. f. styani from A. f. fulgens by its longer winter coat and more abundant blackness in the pelage, bigger skull, more strongly curved forehead, and more robust teeth.

In Ancient Egyptian architecture as early as 2600 BC the architect Imhotep made use of stone columns whose surface was carved to reflect the organic form of bundled reeds ; in later Egyptian architecture faceted cylinders were also common.

The word cactus derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek ( kaktos ), a name originally used for a spiny plant whose identity is not certain.

Djibouti was home to an old civilization, together with northern Somalia, Eritrea, and the Red Sea coast of Sudan, was known to the Ancient Egyptians as Punt ( or " Ta Netjeru ," meaning god's land ), whose first mention dates to the 25th century BC

According to Hippocrates, melancholia was caused by an excess of black bile, hence the name, which means ' black bile ', from Ancient Greek μέλας ( melas ), " dark, black ", + χολή ( kholé ), " bile "; a person whose constitution tended to have a preponderance of black bile had a melancholic disposition.

* Land of Punt, a trading partner of Ancient Egypt, whose location is now unknown

Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in South America and Africa.

Silver-footed Thetis ( Ancient Greek: ), disposer or " placer " ( the one who places ), is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph or known as the goddess of water, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who survives in the historical vestiges of most later Greek myths as Proteus ( whose name suggests the " first ", the " primordial " or the " firstborn ").

Isis (, original Egyptian pronunciation more likely Aset ) is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world.

* c. 1700 BC: Aegean metalworkers are producing decorative objects rivaling those of Ancient Near East jewelers, whose techniques they seem to borrow.

* c. 1700 BC: Aegean metalworkers are producing decorative objects rivaling those of Ancient Near East jewelers, whose techniques they seem to borrow.

This precipitated the Nestorian Schism, by which churches supportive of Nestorius, especially in Persia, were severed from the rest of Christendom and became known as Nestorian Christianity, the Persian Church, or the Church of the East, whose present-day representatives are the Assyrian Church of the East, the Chaldean Syrian Church, the Ancient Church of the East, and the Chaldean Catholic Church.

The writing has been compared to that of Jane Austen, one of Rowling's favourite authors, of Roald Dahl, whose works dominated children's stories before the appearance of Harry Potter, and of the Ancient Greek story-teller Homer.

During the 2nd millennium BC, Ancient Egyptian texts use the term Canaan to refer to an Egyptian-ruled colony, whose boundaries generally corroborate the definition of Canaan found in the Hebrew Bible, bounded to the west by the Mediterranean Sea, to the north in the vicinity of Hamath in Syria, to the east by the Jordan Valley, and to the south by a line extended from the Dead Sea to around Gaza.

The architecture of Ancient Greece is the architecture produced by the Greek-speaking people ( Hellenic people ) whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland and Peloponnesus, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Asia Minor and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC.

250 BC ), whose list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World we use today, was credited with the following description:

I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.

Amongst his Paduan teachers was the abbé Cesarotti, whose version of Ossian had made that work highly popular in Italy, and who influenced Foscolo's literary tastes ; he knew both modern and Ancient Greek.

Min is an Ancient Egyptian god whose cult originated in predynastic times ( 4th millennium BC ).

Khonsu ( alternately Chonsu, Khensu, Khons, Chons or Khonshu ) is an Ancient Egyptian god whose main role was associated with the moon.

Andjety is an Ancient Egyptian deity whose name is associated with the city of Andjet, which in the Greek language was called Busiris.

The complex was surveyed and drawn by Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis, whose large project on numerous prehistoric mounds was published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1848 as Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley.

Gold rushes presumably extend back as far as gold mining, to the Roman Empire, whose gold mining was described by Diodorus Siculus and Pliny the Elder, and probably further back to Ancient Egypt.

Iraq is where the Ancient Mesopotamian civilizations were, whose legacy went on to influence and shape the civilizations of the Old World.

Moving into the twentieth century, the modern Greek literary tradition spans the work of Constantine P. Cavafy, considered a key figure of twentieth century poetry, Giorgos Seferis ( whose works and poems aimed to fuse the literature of Ancient and Modern Greece ) and Odysseas Elytis, both of whom won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

In Ancient Rome, the Auriga was a slave whose duty was to drive a biga, the light vehicle powered by two horses, to transport some important Romans, mainly Duces ( military commanders ); it was then a sort of chauffeur for important men, and was carefully selected among trustworthy slaves only.