There is plenty more to recommend Gorton, the facts of whose life are given in The Life And Times Of Samuel Gorton, by Adelos Gorton.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

* 1677 – Samuel Gorton, English activist and writer ( b. 1593 )

Samuel Gorton purchased the Native American lands at Shawomet in 1642, precipitating a military dispute with the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Roger Williams and Samuel Gorton both opposed slavery, and the law passed in 1652 was the attempt to stop slavery from coming to Rhode Island.

Founded by Samuel Gorton in 1642, Warwick has witnessed major events in American history.

Warwick was founded in 1642 by Samuel Gorton when Narragansett Indian Chief Sachem Miantonomi agreed to accept 144 fathoms of Wampumpeague for what was known as " The Shawhomett Purchase ".

Nathanael was the son of Nathanael Greene ( 1707 – 1770 ), a Quaker farmer and smith, and the great great grandson of John Greene and Samuel Gorton, both of whom were founding settlers of Warwick, Rhode Island.

The second of the plantation colonies on the mainland ( following Anne Hutchinson ’ s 1638 colony of Portsmouth and the 1639 colony of Newport founded by Coddington and Clarke ; both on Aquidneck or Rhode Island ) was Samuel Gorton ’ s Shawomet Purchase of 1642 from the Narragansetts.

* Hypocrisie Unmasked ; by a True Relation of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts against Samuel Gorton, a Notorious Disturber of the Peace ( 1646 ), to which was added a chapter entitled " A Brief Narration of the True Grounds or Cause of the First Plantation of New England ";

Samuel Gorton ( 1593 – 1677 ), was an early settler and civic leader of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and President of the towns of Providence and Warwick for one term.

Baptized on 12 February 1592 / 3 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, Samuel Gorton was the son of Thomas and Anne Gorton from the chapelry of Gorton, a part of Manchester.

The original Pawtuxet settlers, consisting of William Arnold, his son-in-law William Carpenter, Robert Cole, and Arnold's son Benedict Arnold were deeply offended by Gorton's conduct, so much so that they sent a letter to Massachusetts, dated 17 November 1641, in which they complained of the " insolent and riotous carriage of Samuel Gorton and his company " and they petitioned Massachusetts to " lend us a neighborlike helping hand.

The Samuel Gorton who stepped off the ship in Boston in 1648 seemed to be a totally different person than the one who sailed to England four years earlier.

Grave of Samuel Gorton, Warwick

He is buried in the Samuel Gorton Cemetery, Rhode Island Historic Cemetery, Warwick # 67, at 422 Samuel Gorton Avenue in Warwick, and his grave is marked with a governor's medallion and an uninscribed field stone.

His fellow students — there were 38 in all — included young Samuel I. Hayakawa ( later to become a Republican member of the U. S. Senate ), Ralph Moriarty deBit ( later to become the spiritual teacher Vitvan ) and Wendell Johnson ( founder of the Monster Study ).

He was deeply affected by the death of Artaban ( 226 ) and the downfall of the Arsacid dynasty, and does not appear to have sought the friendship of Ardeshir, founder of the Sassanian dynasty, although Samuel of Nehardea probably did so.

Born in New York City, he was the son of Edith Adelson Lerner and Joseph Jay Lerner, whose brother, Samuel Alexander Lerner, was founder and owner of the Lerner Stores, a chain of dress shops.

Cadmium ( Latin cadmia, Greek καδμεία meaning " calamine ", a cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals, which was named after the Greek mythological character, Κάδμος Cadmus, the founder of Thebes ) was discovered simultaneously in 1817 by Friedrich Stromeyer and Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann, both in Germany, as an impurity in zinc carbonate.

Samuel Slater ( 1768 – 1835 ) is the founder of the Slater Mill.

In this role, Samuel is associated with the bands of musical ecstatic roaming prophets ( shouters-neb ' im ) at Gibeah, Bethel, and Gilgal, and some traditional scholars have argued that Samuel was the founder of these groups.

* Samuel Beckett: in 1930, while teaching at Trinity College Dublin, Samuel Beckett read a learned paper in French on a Toulouse author named Jean du Chas, founder of a movement called Concentrism.

A previous school, the Cooper Medical College of the University of Pacific ( founded 1858 ), entered a period of uncertainty in 1862 when its founder, Dr. Elias Samuel Cooper, died.

* April 28 – Sir Samuel Cunard, Canadian business man & founder of the Cunard Line ( b. 1787 )

* November 21 – Samuel Cunard, Canadian business, prominent Nova Scotian, founder of the Cunard Line ( d. 1865 )

* Samuel de Champlain ( 1570 ?– 1635 ), French explorer, administrator of New France, and founder of Quebec City

* April 10 – Samuel Hahnemann, founder of homeopathy ( d. 1843 )

* December 25 – Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec ( b. c. 1567 )

* Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg, a 12th-13th century rabbi and mystic, founder of Chasidei Ashkenaz

* Samuel Gompers ( 1850 – 1924 ), founder of the American Federation of Labor

Its founder, Samuel D. Waksal, was arrested in 2002 on insider trading charges for informing friends and family to sell their stock, and attempting to sell his own.

Samuel D. " Sam " Waksal, Ph. D., ( born 8 September 1947 ) is the founder and former CEO of the biopharmaceutical company ImClone Systems.

* Samuel Smith Harris, ( 1841 – 1888 ), born in Autauga County, Presbyterian clergyman, founder and editor of Living Word magazine, and bishop of the Diocese of Michigan.

Samuel Seward, described as " a prosperous, domineering doctor and businessman ," was the founder of the S. S. Seward Institute, today a secondary school in the Florida Union Free School District.

Previous Masters of Trinity House have included the diarist Samuel Pepys and the Duke of Wellington, and Admiral William Penn ( father of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania ).

* Samuel Chapman Armstrong, Union general in American Civil War ; founder of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, later Hampton University

To pay for his passage, Taylor was indentured to Samuel Savage, Jr., ironmaster at Warwick Furnace and Coventry Forge.

He became friends with the classics scholar Dr Samuel Parr who lived at Hatton near Warwick and who appreciated Landor as a person and a Latin writer.

1350 ); Guy of Warwick, a poem ( written in 1617 and licensed, but not printed ) by John Lane, the manuscript of which ( in the British Library ) contains a sonnet by John Milton, father of the poet ; The Famous Historie of Guy, Earl of Warwick ( c. 1607 ) by Samuel Rowlands ; The Booke of the moste Victoryous Prince Guy of Warwicke ( William Copland, London, n. d .); other editions by J. Cawood and C. Bates ; chapbooks and ballads of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: The Tragical History, Admirable Atchievements and Curious Events of Guy, Earl of Warwick, a tragedy ( 1661 ) which may possibly be identical with a play on the subject written by John Day and Thomas Dekker, and entered at Stationers ' Hall on 15 January 1618 / 19 ; three verse fragments are printed by Hales and F. J. Furnivall in their edition of the Percy Folio MS. vol.

The colonial port was located at Deep Creek and the Warwick River on of Samuel Mathews ' land.

The colonial port was located at Deep Creek and the Warwick River on of Samuel Mathews ' land.

Many writers and historians, particularly those sympathetic to the Providence and Warwick settlers, including Samuel G. Arnold, considered Coddington's commission and desire to join in the confederation to be treasonous.

Coddington was usually at odds with Roger Williams, who described him in a letter, several years after the founding of Portsmouth ( 1638 ) as, "... a worldly man, a selfish man, nothing for public, but all for himself and private ..." While highly critical of Coddington for obtaining a commission to govern Aquidneck Island separately from Providence and Warwick, Rhode Island historian and Lieutenant Governor Samuel G. Arnold had this to say of him: " He was a man of vigorous intellect, of strong passions, earnest in whatever he undertood, and self-reliant in all his actions.

Mad, Bad and Sad was short-listed for the Warwick Prize and long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize, amongst others, and won several awards.