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Robert Leighton ( 1611 – 25 June 1684 ) was a Scottish prelate and scholar, best known as a church minister, Bishop of Dunblane, Archbishop of Glasgow, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1653 to 1662.
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* The Thirsty Sword ( 1892 ) by Robert Leighton.
These were Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Mary Sidney and Elizabeth Leighton.
* 1960 — Robert B. Leighton, Robert Noyes, and George Simon discover solar five-minute oscillations by observing the Doppler shifts of solar dark lines
* 1965 — Gerry Neugebauer and Robert Leighton begin a 2. 2 micrometre sky survey with a 1. 6-meter telescope on Mount Wilson
* Robert Leighton ( prelate )-buried here
Notable TV regulars to appear include Felicity Huffman, Ken Jenkins, Leslie Hope, John Spencer, Fyvush Finkel, Laura Leighton, Jane Krakowski, George Takei, Cynthia Nixon, Robert Picardo and Robert Duncan McNeil, Pauley Perrette, and Peri Gilpin.
* Robert William Henry Leighton Seager, 3rd Baron Leighton of St Mellons ( b. 1955 )
Along with the expected genre stars, such as Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Herbert Lom, Amicus also drew its actors from the classical British stage ( Patrick Magee, Margaret Leighton and even Sir Ralph Richardson ), up-and-comers ( Donald Sutherland, Robert Powell and Tom Baker ), or former stars on the way down ( Richard Greene, Robert Hutton, and Terry-Thomas ).
Prominent figures in the movement include Robert Aitken Roshi, Joanna Macy, Gary Snyder, Alan Senauke, Sulak Sivaraksa, Maha Ghosananda, Sylvia Wetzel, Joan Halifax, Tara Brach, Taigen Dan Leighton, Ken Jones, and Bhikkhu Bodhi.
The play was later made into a famous 1948 film directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Robert Donat as Sir Robert Morton KC, Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Arthur Winslow, and Margaret Leighton as Catherine Winslow.
: this article is about the 17th century scholar and preacher Robert Leighton.
For other people with the same name, see Robert Leighton ( disambiguation )
In 1627 ( before his father published his pamphlet ) at the age of sixteen, Robert Leighton went to study at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MA in 1631.
Their social circle included Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Lord Leighton and other prominent figures.
Amelia's sister Nina married Lehmann's younger brother Frederick, and the extended social circle of the two couples included Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Lord Leighton, and other prominent figures.
* Robert Leighton ( 1611 – 1684 ), Scottish prelate
* The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands
The film stars David Niven as Sir Percy Blakeney ( aka The Scarlet Pimpernel ), Margaret Leighton as Marguerite Blakeney and features Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack and Robert Coote.
Robert and 1611
* 1611 – King James Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
* The Phoenix and the Turtle, Q1 — 1601, Q2 — 1611 ( in Robert Chester's Love's Martyr );
The present Jacobean house was built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to King James I and has been the home of the Cecil family ever since.
* Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick ( b. 28 June 1611 )
* Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick ( 1611 – 1659 )
Painting of Robert Sherley visiting Pope Paul V in 1611, Sala dei Corazzieri, Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome.
* Robert Sempill, 4th Lord Sempill ( d. 1611 )
The medieval hunting lodge was modified by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, between 1607 and 1611 to create Cranborne Manor House, a mixture of medieval walls and Renaissance architecture, for King James I who also came to the downs for the hunt.
There he followed courses of his kinsman Robert Boyd and in 1611 became Regent Professor.
In 1611 King James I then sold Oxford Castle to Francis James and Robert Younglove, who in turn sold the property to Christ Church College in 1613 ; the college then leased it to a number of local families over the coming years.
Robert Brydges ( b. 1611 ), died young.
* Robert Sedgwick ( 1611 – 1656 ), Colonist
The core of the main house is a tower house with walls up to five feet thick, built in 1611 by Sir Robert Norton and bought in 1625 by Captain Henry Upton.
Robert Cushman and his family emigrated to Leiden sometime before November 4, 1611 and was a woolcomber.
* Robert Leighton ( bishop ) ( 1611 – 1684 ), Scottish preacher, Bishop of Dunblane, Archbishop of Glasgow, & academic
* Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury 5 July 1611 – 24 May 1612 jointly with
Robert Brydges ( born 1611 ), died young.
Hatfield House, built in its entirety by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, between 1607 and 1611, is a perfect example of the transition period from the gabled turreted style of the previous era.
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* Robert E. Cox ( 1917 – 1989 ) who conducted the " Gleanings for ATMs " column in Sky and Telescope magazine for 21 years.
* 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
* 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
* 1815 – Robert Volkmann, German composer ( d. 1883 )
* 1974 – Robert Kovač, Croatian footballer
* 1981 – Robert Earnshaw, Zambian-Welsh footballer
* 1893 – Robert Harron, American actor ( d. 1920 )
* 1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot ( d. 2006 )
* 1921 – Robert Cliche, Canadian politician and magistrate ( d. 1978 )
* 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
* 1908 – Frank Robert Miller, Canadian airman and politician ( d. 1997 )
* 1916 – Robert Shaw, American conductor ( d. 1999 )
* 1955 – Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
* 1964 – Robert Bogue, American actor
* 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor ( d. 1997 )
* 1797 – Charles Robert Malden, English naval officer ( d. 1855 )
* 1927 – Robert Shaw, English actor ( d. 1978 )
* 1293 – Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
* 1994 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer ( b. 1912 )
* 2005 – Robert Coldwell Wood, American political scientist and educator ( b. 1923 )
* 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War ( d. 1926 )
* 1953 – Robert Cray, American singer and guitarist
* 1678 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
* 2002 – Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
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