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Sir Christopher Wren has since the eighteenth century been claimed by the Lodge of Antiquity No. 2, one of the four founding Masonic Lodges of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717, to have been its Master at the Goose and Gridiron at St. Paul's churchyard, while he was rebuilding the cathedral: he is said to have been " adopted " on 18 May 1691 ( that is, accepted as a sort of honorary member or patron, rather than an operative ).
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They often carried the title of master builder, or surveyor, after serving a number of years as an apprentice ( such as Sir Christopher Wren ).
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Elizabeth's reign is known as the Elizabethan era, famous above all for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Sir Francis Drake.
With the exception of Lord Burghley, the most important politicians had died around 1590: The Earl of Leicester in 1588, Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590, Sir Christopher Hatton in 1591.
The work consists of four ‘ books ’, the first addressed to the Queen, the second to Leicester, the third to Lord Burghley, and the fourth to Oxford, Sir Christopher Hatton, and Leicester's nephew Philip Sidney, with whom he would famously quarrel.
He appealed to Burghley to intervene with the Queen on his behalf, but his father-in-law repeatedly put the matter in the hands of Sir Christopher Hatton.
Another of Oxford's men was slain that month, and in March Burghley wrote to Sir Christopher Hatton about the death of one of Knyvet's men, thanking Hatton for his efforts " to bring some good end to these troublesome matters betwixt my Lord and Oxford and Mr Thomas Knyvet ".
He pushed onwards in his lone flagship, now renamed the Golden Hind in honour of Sir Christopher Hatton ( after his coat of arms ).
Georgian succeeded the English Baroque of Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, Thomas Archer, William Talman, and Nicholas Hawksmoor.
The devastating effects of the fire converted the development of insurance " from a matter of convenience into one of urgency, a change of opinion reflected in Sir Christopher Wren's inclusion of a site for ' the Insurance Office ' in his new plan for London in 1667.
* 1660 – At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
These include the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Classical Players under the direction of Sir Roger Norrington and the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood, among others.
The Trumpington Street Façade with the College Chapel on the right, the first building to be built by Sir Christopher Wren
Pembroke College is home to the first chapel designed by Sir Christopher Wren and is also one of the Cambridge colleges to have educated a British prime minister, William Pitt the Younger.
Guy Fawkes, an English soldier, along with other recusants or converts, including, among others, Sir Robert Catesby, Christopher Wright, John Wright and Thomas Percy, was arrested and charged with attempting to blow up Parliament on 5 November 1605.
* Colonel Christopher Brandon — a close friend of Sir John Middleton.
Along with the inventor and microscopist Robert Hooke ( 1635 – 1703 ), Sir Christopher Wren ( 1632 – 1723 ) and Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ), English scientist and astronomer Edmond Halley ( 1656 – 1742 ) was trying to develop a mechanical explanation for planetary motion.
Nevile ’ s Court was completed in the late 17th century when the Wren Library, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, was built.
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* October 20 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician ( d. 1723 )
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* November 28 – At Gresham College in London, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray meet after a lecture by Wren and decide to found " a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning " ( later known as the Royal Society ).
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However, the church of St Mary-le-Bow was destroyed in 1666 by the Great Fire of London and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren.
Flamsteed House, the original part of the Observatory, was designed by Sir Christopher Wren probably with the assistance of Robert Hooke and was the first purpose-built scientific research facility in Britain.
Though Sir Christopher Wren submitted designs for the bridge, it was eventually built on a different site by a local mason, Robert Grumbold, who also built Trinity College Library.
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Sir Christopher Michael Wren FRS ( 20 October 1632 – 25 February 1723 ) is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.
It was probably through Holder that Wren met Sir Charles Scarburgh whom Wren assisted in his anatomical studies.
In 1669 the 37-year-old Wren married his childhood neighbour, the 33-year-old Faith Coghill, daughter of Sir John Coghill of Bletchingdon.
Sir Christopher Wren who died on Monday last in the 91st year of his age, was the only son of
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Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.
Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.
In Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian, for example, the heroine, Jeanie Deans, a Scottish Presbyterian, writes to her father about the church situation she has found in England ( bold added ):
The Muhammadan Period ; by Sir H. M. Elliot ; Edited by John Dowson ; London Trubner Company 1867 – 1877-This online Copy has been posted by: The Packard Humanities Institute ; Persian Texts in Translation ; Also find other historical books: Author List and Title List )
Since 1999, the German parliament has again assembled in Berlin in its original Reichstag building, which dates from the 1890s and underwent a significant renovation under the lead of British architect Sir Norman Foster.
Lara's match-winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 has been rated by Wisden as the second best batting performance in the history of Test cricket, next only to the 270 runs scored by Sir Donald Bradman in The Ashes Test match of 1937.
As early as 1946 the Attorney-General Sir Hartley Shawcross attacked " the campaign of calumny and misrepresentation which the Tory Party and the Tory stooge press has directed at the Labour government.
Medieval sources referred to armour of this type simply as “ mail ”, however “ chain-mail ” has become a commonly-used, if incorrect neologism first attested in Sir Walter Scott ’ s 1822 novel The Fortunes of Nigel.
The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.
However it was only in 1927 that the shakta theory of seven main chakras, that has become most popular in the West, was introduced, largely through the translation of two Indian texts: the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, and the Padaka-Pancaka, by Sir John Woodroffe, alias Arthur Avalon, in a book titled The Serpent Power.
A surgeon who is also a professor is usually known as " Professor " and, similarly, a surgeon who has been ennobled, knighted, created a baronet or appointed a dame uses the corresponding title ( Lord, Sir, Dame ).
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said, " Each Poe's detective stories is a root from which a whole literature has developed .... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?
Edinburgh has been home to the actor Sir Sean Connery, famed as the first cinematic James Bond ; Ronnie Corbett, a comedian and actor, best known as one of The Two Ronnies ;, actor Brian Cox and Dylan Moran, the Irish comedian.
Following his election, Sir Graham said: " I am honoured that ELDR has chosen me to lead our great party.
Sir Harry Kroto, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckyballs commented: " This most exciting breakthrough provides convincing evidence that the buckyball has, as I long suspected, existed since time immemorial in the dark recesses of our galaxy.
The usual wording of official announcements of this nature was " The King has been pleased to appoint ...", but on this occasion the announcement said merely " The King has appointed ...", and his Private Secretary Lord Stamfordham asked the Solicitor-General, Sir Robert Garran, to make sure Scullin was aware of the exact wording.
The amendment has been seen as a reluctant response by Sir Donald Tsang to give satisfaction to the democratic demands made by demonstrators on 4 December.
Since 2011, the incumbent Lieutenant Governor has been Sir John McColl.
The former Bailiff, Sir Philip Bailhache has called for changes to the Channel Islands ' relationship with the United Kingdom government, arguing that ' at the very least, we should be ready for independence if we are placed in a position where that course was the only sensible option '.
Established in Hong Kong in 1889 by Sir Paul Chater and William Keswick, the group today has property interests across the region.
In response, former Channel 4 chief executive Sir Jeremy Isaacs describing Loach's intervention as an act of censorship, he said: " They must not allow someone who has no real position, no rock to stand on, to interfere with their programming.
However, the theory has been traced back to Treatise of Taxes, written in 1662 by Sir William Petty and to John Locke's notion, set out in the Second Treatise on Government ( 1689 ), that property derives from labor through the act of " mixing " one's labor with items in the common store of goods, though this has alternatively been seen as a labor theory of property.
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