* June 6 – Richard Whittington is nominated as Lord Mayor of London for the first time.

* October 13 – Richard Whittington is elected Lord Mayor of London for a second full term.

* date unknown – Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London ( b. 1358 )

* Richard (' Dick ') Whittington ( 1397, 1398, 1406 and 1419-4 terms )

W. Hamilton describes Chaucer, Gower, Kay, Andrew Bernard, John Skelton, Robert Whittington, Richard Edwards and Samuel Daniel as " volunteer Laureates ".

# REDIRECT Richard Whittington # Dick Whittington — Stage character

Richard Whittington and his Cat

He bequeathed his fortune to form the Charity of Sir Richard Whittington which, nearly 600 years later, continues to assist people in need.

The deposition of Richard II in 1399 did not affect Whittington and it is thought that he merely acquiesced in the coup led by Bolingbroke.

The gifts left in Whittington's will made him well known and he became a character in an English story that was adapted for the stage as a play, The History of Richard Whittington, of his lowe byrth, his great fortune, in February 1604.

In the 19th century this became popular as a pantomime called Dick Whittington and His Cat, very loosely based on Richard Whittington.

* The History of Sir Richard Whittington by T. H. ( 1885 ), from Project Gutenberg

Catherine of Valois and Richard Whittington are the most prominent among the secondary characters.

Dick Whittington and His Cat are characters in an English story adapted to the stage in 1605, which since the 19th century has become one of the most popular pantomime subjects, very loosely based on the historical Richard Whittington, a medieval Lord Mayor of London.

The original medieval court was first mentioned in 1585 ; it was next to the older Newgate Prison, and seems to have grown out of the endowment to improve Newgate prison and rooms for the Sheriffs, made possible by a gift from Sir Richard Whittington.

* Dick Whittington, also known as Richard Whittington and who later became Lord Mayor of the City of London, was born in Pauntley, now part of the Forest of Dean district.

* Richard Whittington, Mayor of the City of London

The first Customs officers were appointed in 1294, and later on included Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Paine, Robert Burns and Richard Whittington ( also known as Dick Whittington ).

After being expelled from Poitou by their overlord, Richard the Lion-hearted, for the murder of Patrick of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Amalric arrived in Palestine c. 1174, Guy possibly later.

Ambroise ( flourished c. 1190 ) was a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a work called L ' Estoire de la guerre sainte, which describes in rhyming Old French verse the adventures of Richard Coeur de Lion as a crusader.

Similarly, a carol attributed to Richard Smert ( c. 1400 – c.

# Richard of Lincoln ( c. 1094 – 25 November 1120 ); perished in the wreck of the White Ship.

* Richard Butler ( c. 1510-68 or later ), MP

George Richard Lee Turberville ( c. 1770 ), son of Hon.

Thomas was the son of Col. Richard Lee II, Esq., " the scholar " ( 1647 – 1715 ) and Laetitia Corbin ( c. 1657 – 1706 ).

Richard II, was the son of Col. Richard Lee I, Esq., " the immigrant " ( 1618 – 1664 ) and Anne Constable ( c. 1621 – 1666 ).

* The History of King Richard III ( c. 1513 – 1518 ) ( CW 2 & 15 )

Image: Thomas Gainsborough Richard Savage. JPG | The Honorable Richard Savage Nassau de Zuylestein, M. P., ( c. 1778 – 80 ), oil on canvas, The Detroit Institute of Arts

** Richard Lovelace, English poet ( d. c. 1657 )

* August 25 – Richard Crashaw, English poet ( b. c. 1613 )

* November 23 – Richard Hakluyt, English author, editor and translator ( b. c. 1552 )

* March 13 – Richard Burbage, English actor ( b. c. 1567 )

* September 1 – Richard, Duke of Burgundy ( b. c. 867 )

* June 8 – Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York, executed in York ( b. c. 1350 )

* October 5 – Richard Foxe, English churchman ( b. c. 1448 )

* November 7 – Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar ( b. c. 1505 )

* August 18 – Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier ( b. c. 1660 )

* November 10 – Richard Chancellor, English Arctic explorer ( drowned at sea ) ( b. c. 1521 )

** Richard Hakluyt, English author, editor and translator ( b. c. 1552 or 1553 ; d. 1616 )

* July 22 – Richard Wingfield, English diplomat ( b. c. 1456 )

As notable examples of this abuse, he quotes passages from the Examiner, `` that Destroyer of all things '', and The Character of Richard Steele, which he here attributes to Swift.

The countrywide success of `` Lazybones '' and `` And The Angels Sing '' could only lead to Hollywood, where, besides Harold Arlen, Mercer collaborated with Harry Warren, Jimmy Van Heusen, Richard Whiting, Walter Donaldson, Jerome Kern, and Arthur Schwartz.

Richard Peters, Secretary of the Board of War, thought Morgan was so extreme on the subject that he accused him of trying to pick a quarrel.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

The hounds of hell search out their quarry in Apollo's sanctuary as they do in the tent of Richard 3.

Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.

This seems to refer, not to the loan Richard had asked for, but to a proposed bargain with Shakespeare.

Richard Quiney the younger, a schoolboy of eleven, wrote a letter in Latin asking his father to buy copybooks ( `` chartaceos libellos ) '' ) for him and his brother.

The fourth name was ( John ) Milton of Christ's College, followed by ( Richard ) Manningham of Peterhouse, who matriculated 16 October 1624.

The fourteenth name was ( Richard ) Buckenham, written Buckman, admitted to Christ's College under Scott 2 July 1625.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

His proposal is opposed to that of Richard Nixon, Governor Rockefeller, past chairmen Strauss and McCone of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Edward Teller and those others now enjoying their hour of triumph in the exacerbation of the cold war.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.

many of us in public relations were flattered that Richard L. Tobin chose to devote his editorial in the March 11 Communications Supplement to the merger of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Public Relations Association.

Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, and Edwin C. Kepler of General Electric Company.

Richard S. Allen is the authority for the statement that the northern section was probably roofed by 1810.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan said, `` I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two ''.

Ten-year-old Richard Stewart had been irritable and quarrelsome for almost a year.

Richard Stewart is no special case.

Former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in Detroit called for a firmer and tougher policy toward the Soviet Union.

-- James P. Mitchell and Sen. Walter H. Jones R-Bergen, last night disagreed on the value of using as a campaign issue a remark by Richard J. Hughes, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, that the GOP is `` Campaigning on the carcass of Eisenhower Republicanism ''.

`` I think that all Americans will resent deeply the statements made about President Eisenhower by Richard J. Hughes.

-- Richard J. Hughes made his Morris County debut in his bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination here last night with a pledge `` to carry the issues to every corner of the state ''.

City Finance Director Richard J. McConnell indorsed the higher fees, which, he said, had been under study for more than a year.