The concept of cruising for pleasure was popularized in the nineteenth century, by several widely read authors and books: John MacGregor, 1866, A Thousand Miles in a Rob Roy Canoe ; Robert Louis Stevenson, 1877, An Inland Voyage ; and Nathaniel H. Bishop, 1879, Four Months in a Sneakbox.

Pliny does not name the prostitute ; however, the Restoration playwright Nathaniel Richards calls her Scylla in The Tragedy of Messalina, Empress of Rome, published in 1640, and Robert Graves in his novel Claudius the God also identified the prostitute as Scylla.

1552 ) and the father of an Elizabeth Wighte ( 1606 – 1671 ) who is sometimes thought to have been the ex-wife of Nathaniel Eaton ( 1610 – 1674 ), the first schoolmaster of Harvard College, Massachusetts ; there is a possibility that Bridget White, the sister of John White the Governor of Roanoke Colony, and Bridgett White, the second wife of the same above-mentioned Robert Wight, are directly related to each other.

* Robert Nathaniel Dett, notable composer, pianist, choir director, educator, administrator at Hampton Institute ; a founder of United Service Organization

The town was site of a massacre in 1747, when Elizabeth Simpson, Robert Beard and Nathaniel Folson were slain by Indians of the Winnipesaukee tribe.

Verstegan's account was copied in Nathaniel Wanley's Wonders of the Little World ( 1687 ), which was the immediate source of Robert Browning's well-known poem ( see nineteenth century below ).

For a story-essay on Robert Raikes and his role in starting the Sunday School movement, see Nathaniel Hawthorne's " A Good Man's Miracle.

Those who have been inducted to the Maine Alpha chapter as undergraduates include Nathaniel Hawthorne ( 1825 ), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1825 ), Robert E. Peary ( 1877 ), Owen Brewster ( 1909 ), Harold Hitz Burton ( 1909 ), Paul Douglas ( 1913 ), Alfred Kinsey ( 1916 ), Thomas R. Pickering ( 1953 ), and Lawrence B. Lindsey ( 1976 ).

Put in alphabetical order: John Sullivan, Nathaniel Ramsey, Aaron Burr, Isaac Huger, William Stephens Smith, James Lingan, Henry Lee III, Lachlan McIntosh, William Jackson and several of the first U. S. Marshals, including Robert Forsyth and Allan Maclane.

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Li Hongzhang with Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | Lord Salisbury and George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston | Lord Curzon

Nathaniel Macon is the great-grandfather of Congressman Charles Martin, the uncle of Willis Alston and Micajah Thomas Hawkins, great-uncle of Matt Whitaker Ransom, Robert Ransom and Thomas Jefferson Green, great-great-uncle of Wharton Jackson Green, John Pegram, William Ransom Johnson Pegram, and David Harrison Macon, great-great-great-great-uncle of Claude Kitchin and William Walton Kitchin, and the great-great-great-great-great-uncle of Alvin Paul Kitchin.

* In the field of government, Rider graduates include: Nathaniel Barnes, Liberian Ambassador to the United Nations ; Frederick W. Donnelly, former Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey ; Robert E. Grossman, Judge on the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York ; David Rousseau, MBA, former New Jersey State Treasurer ; and Mark S. Schweiker, MA, 44th Governor of Pennsylvania.

James Manley, Thomas Barnard, John South, Robert Sayer, Christopher Clifford, John Beechee, William Coomes, Christopher Boncher, Richard Taylor, Urian Worthington, Nathaniel Holcombe, Giles Childe ( senior ), John Webb, Thomas Yarwel, William Bonnington.

* Nathaniel Benchley, Robert Benchley, a biography.

As a writer, Drake is considered part of the " Knickerbocker group ", a group which also included Halleck as well as Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Kirke Paulding, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, Robert Charles Sands, Lydia M. Child, and Nathaniel Parker Willis.

In the United States the opera is frequently performed in a translation by Norman Kelley written for the Metropolitan Opera's colorful and very popular 1967 production by Nathaniel Merrill and Robert O ' Hearn.

Charter members of the Academy are Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Bacon, James Bowdoin, Charles Chauncy, John Clark, David Cobb, Samuel Cooper, Thomas Cushing, Nathan Cushing, William Cushing, Tristram Dalton, Francis Dana, Samuel Deane, Perez Fobes, Caleb Gannett, Henry Gardner, Benjamin Guild, John Hancock, Joseph Hawley, Edward Augustus Holyoke, Ebenezer Hunt, Jonathan Jackson, Charles Jarvis, Samuel Langdon, Levi Lincoln, Daniel Little, Elijah Lothrup, John Lowell, Samuel Mather, Samuel Moody, Andrew Oliver, Joseph Orne, Theodore Parsons, George Partridge, Robert Treat Paine, Phillips Payson, Samuel Phillips, Jr., John Pickering, Oliver Prescott, Zedekiah Sanger, Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant, Micajah Sawyer, Theodore Sedgwick, William Sever, Stephen Sewall, David Sewall, John Sprague, Ebenezer Storer, Caleb Strong, James Sullivan, John Bernard Sweat, Nathaniel Tracy, Cotton Tufts, James Warren, Samuel West, Edward Wigglesworth, Joseph Willard, Samuel Williams, Abraham Williams, Nehemiah Williams, and James Winthrop.

Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive ( 1773 ), by Nathaniel Dance

* Robert Nathaniel Cecil George Curzon, 15th Baron Zouche ( 1851 – 1914 )

Robert Alexander, son of Alderman Nathaniel Alexander and elder brother of the 1st Earl of Caledon, had several sons, including Nathaniel Alexander, Bishop of Meath ; Henry Alexander, MP for the Londonderry City and for Old Sarum ; Lieutenant-General William Alexander, Mayor of Derry ; James Alexander, MP for Old Sarum ; and Joseph Josias Du Pré Alexander, MP for Old Sarum.

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* 1882 – American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.

* 1945 – Robert H. Goddard, American physicist and inventor ( b. 1882 )

* Robert Kerr ( 1882 – 1963 ), athlete & Olympic Gold Medalist

** Robert Darwin ( 1766 – 1848 ), physician, father of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

He also illustrated several best-selling books, including Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens ( 1875 ), Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick ( 1882 ), and She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith ( 1887 ).

* 1882 – Robert Lane, Canadian football player ( d. 1940 )

* 1963 – Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter ( b. 1882 )

* 1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.

* 1940 – Robert Lane, Canadian football player ( b. 1882 )

* Robert Morris ( lawyer ) ( 1823 – 1882 ), African-American attorney

* Robert Stevens ( theater director ) ( 1882 –?

* August 10 – Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist ( b. 1882 )

** Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter ( b. 1882 )

In 1882 the Padthaway Estate Homestead was built by Eliza and Robert Lawson.

The modern penny whistle is indigenous to the British Isles particularly England when factory-made " tin whistles " were produced by Robert Clarke from ( 1840 – 1882 ) in Manchester and later New Moston, England.

Robert Goddard ( 1882 – 1945 ) was an American scientist and pioneer of modern rocketry.

Wisden describes how the record was set around 1882, by one Robert Percival at Durham Sands Racecourse, at 140yards and two feet ( 128. 7 m ).

James formed a new gang in 1879 and continued until his death on April 3, 1882, when he was shot by fellow gang-member Robert Ford.

On April 3, 1882, Jesse James planned a robbery of the Platte City bank, but it was never carried out due to his assassination by Robert Ford on the morning of the raid.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

The first classes at the Gordon School were held in 1882, and the post office opened on 17 October 1883 with local businessman Robert Rogan serving as the community's first postmaster.

Duke Robert became a widower in 1882, and two years later he married Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Zita's mother.

The baths were presented as a gift to the town by philanthropists and benefactors Robert Platt ( 1802 – 1882 ), born in Stalybridge, and his wife Margaret Platt ( 1819 – 1888 ), born in Salford.

Robert Hutchings Goddard ( October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945 ) was an American professor, physicist and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which he successfully launched on March 16, 1926.

Among his best works were his drama Hannibal ( 1873 ), The Death of Themistocles, and other Poems ( 1881 ), his Byron in the " English Men of Letters " series ( 1880 ), his Robert Burns ( 1882 ) and Carlyle ( 1892 ).