His associates Richard Barleycorn, Robert Lamley, William Jenkins, Gabriel Loffe, Able Owens, and Hugh Parrot were convicted, but pardoned just prior to hanging at Execution Dock.

* 1739 – War of Jenkins ' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.

The 1891 founding professors included Robert Allardice in mathematics, Douglas Houghton Campbell in botany, Charles Henry Gilbert in zoology, George Elliott Howard in history, Oliver Peebles Jenkins in physiology and histology, Charles David Marx in civil engineering, Fernando Sanford in physics and John Maxson Stillman in chemistry.

Robert Jenkins, of “ Jenkins Ear ” fame ( governor 1740 – 1742 ) embarked on a programme of eliminating corruption and improving the defences.

In 1739 Walpole abandoned all efforts to stop the conflict and commenced the War of Jenkins ' Ear ( so called because Robert Jenkins, a Welsh mariner, claimed that a Spaniard inspecting his vessel had severed his ear ).

Its unusual name, coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1858, refers to an ear severed from Robert Jenkins, captain of a British merchant ship.

After boarding, Fandiño cut off the left ear of the Rebecca < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s captain, Robert Jenkins, who had been accused of piracy.

The Fall of the Alamo by Robert Jenkins Onderdonk depicts Davy Crockett swinging his rifle at Mexican troops who have breached the south gate of the mission.

Other KC ministers Lewis interviewed included Burris Jenkins, Earl Blackman, I. M. Hargett, Bert Fiske, and Robert Nelson Horatio Spencer ( 1877-1961 ), who was Rector of a large Episcopal parish, Grace and Holy Trinity Church, which is now the Cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri.

The War of Jenkins ' Ear ( named for a 1731 incident in which a Spanish commander chopped off the ear of English merchant captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take it to his king, George II ) broke out in 1739 between Spain and Great Britain, but was confined to the Caribbean Sea and conflict between Spanish Florida and the neighboring British Province of Georgia.

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Her husbands were John Young ( 1942 – 43 ), George Jenkins ( 1946 ), Robert Grayson ( 1947 ), Walter Buchanan ( 1950 ), saxophonist Eddie Chamblee ( 1957 ), Rafael Campos ( 1961 ), and pro football player Dick " Night Train " Lane ( 1963 ).

She had two sons: George Kenneth Jenkins and Robert Grayson.

They had three sons, Michael David Kelly ( who had three children: Elizabeth, Alexander and Ruby ); Brent Robert Kelly ( who had three children: Lori, Nicholas and Elissa ); and Raymond Joseph Kelly ( who had three children Heather ( now married to Michael Weathers ), Carissa ( now married to Frank Jenkins.

Robert Jenkins hands a dismissive Prime Minister Robert Walpole his severed ear, as his companions lift off his wig to show the scar ; one of Walpole's associates displays total indifference, preferring to converse with a lady.

Contained within the Admiralty records files with the 1731 correspondence from Jamaica was a List of British Merchant ships taken or plundered by the Spaniards compiled in 1737, listing 52 ships, among them, Rebecca, Robert Jenkins, Jamaica to London, boarded and plundered near the Havana, 9 April 1731.

The 1889 correspondent noted that the 1739 author was named Charles Jenkins, while Laughton's research had proved the real mariner was named Robert Jenkins.

Laughton subsequently examined the 1739 publication and, in writing Robert Jenkins entry for the Dictionary of National Biography he dismissed it as, " a catch-penny chapbook, in which no reference is made to Jenkins's case, except in a worthless frontispiece ".

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Robert Todd Lincoln was born in 1843 and Edward Baker Lincoln ( Eddie ) in 1846.

They brought two children from Ireland, Hugh ( born 1763 ) and Robert ( born 1764 ).

Robert Roy MacGregor was born at the head of nearby Loch Katrine, and his well known cattle stealing exploits took him all around the area surrounding Aberfoyle.

However, the most local historical figure is the Reverend Robert Kirk, born in 1644.

One was also awarded for the same action to Robert Jones ( VC ), born at Clytha between Abergavenny and Raglan.

Arthur Robert Jensen ( born August 24, 1923 ) is a Professor Emeritus of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

* Robert DiPierdomenico ( born 1958 ), Australian rules footballer

Robert James Lee " Bob " Hawke AC GCL ( born 9 December 1929 ) is a former Australian politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.

Sir Robert " Bobby " Charlton CBE ( born 11 October 1937 ) is an English former football player.

Robert ( Bob ) M. Frankston ( born June 14, 1949 in Brooklyn New York ) is the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it.

The author Robert Lee speculated that Teach may therefore have been born into a respectable, wealthy family.

Robert Quinlan " Bob " Costas ( born March 22, 1952 ) is an American sportscaster, on the air for NBC Sports television since the early 1980s.

Daniel Robert " Danny " Elfman ( born May 29, 1953 ) is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme.

Stephen Donaldson ( July 27, 1946 – July 18, 1996 ), born Robert Anthony Martin, Jr and also known by the pseudonym Donny the Punk, was an American bisexual-identified LGBT political activist.

She was born in Sevierville, Tennessee, the fourth of twelve children of Robert Lee Parton, a tobacco farmer, and his wife Avie Lee Owens.

Hofstadter was born in New York City, the son of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Hofstadter.

David Robert Jones ( born 8 January 1947 ), known by his stage name David Bowie ( ), is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger.

David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in Brixton, London, on 8 January 1947.

Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Theodor Robert and Henrietta ( Seuss ) Geisel .< ref name =" early ">

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

On 6 April 1584, Oxford's daughter, Bridget, was born, and two works were dedicated to him, Robert Greene's Gwydonius ; The Card of Fancy, and John Southern's Pandora.

They have three children ; Robert ( born 1958 ), Wendy ( born 1963 ) and Julia ( born 1969 ).