Later I learned that Sir Hugh Dalton had expressed a desire to see me, hence their trip to `` No Man's Land ''.

* 1599 – Nine Years ' War: Battle of Curlew Pass – Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O ' Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.

Before the demolition could take place, Admiral Sir Hugh Sinclair ( Director of Naval Intelligence and head of MI6 ) bought the site.

They and the Auxies became known as Tudor's Toughs after the police commander, Major-General Sir Henry Hugh Tudor.

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

In the Battle of Ushant with the French in 1778, Lord Keppel commanded the Channel Fleet and the outcome resulted in no clear winner ; Keppel ordered to renew the attack and this was obeyed except by Sir Hugh Palliser, who commanded the rear, and the French escaped bombardment.

Historian Sir Hugh Thomas in his book " Conquest " reports the probable date of her death as 1551, deduced from letters he discovered in Spain alluding to her as alive in 1550 and deceased after 1551.

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

Nevertheless, the Montreal capitalist Sir Hugh Allan, with his syndicate Canada Pacific Railway Company, sought the potentially lucrative charter for the project.

Two groups competed for the contract to build the railway, Sir Hugh Allan's Canada Pacific Railway Company and David Lewis Macpherson's Inter-Oceanic Railway Company.

He announced he had uncovered evidence that Sir Hugh Allan and his associates had been granted the CPR contract in return for political donations of $ 360, 000.

Perhaps even more damaging to Macdonald was when the Liberals discovered a telegram, through a former employee of Sir Hugh Allan, which had been stolen from the safe of Allan's lawyer, Sir John Abbott.

* Sir Hugh Stevenson, 1960 – 63

Notable Jardines Managing Directors or Tai-pans included Sir Alexander Matheson, 1st Baronet, David Jardine, Robert Jardine, William Keswick, James Johnstone Keswick, Ben Beith, David Landale, Sir John Buchanan-Jardine, Sir William Johnstone " Tony " Keswick, Sir Hugh Barton, Sir Michael Herries, Sir John Keswick, Sir Henry Keswick, Simon Keswick and Alasdair Morrison.

Jardine, Matheson and Co. offered its shares to the public in 1961 under the tenure of Sir Hugh Barton and was oversubscribed 56 times.

* March 13 – Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist ( d. 1941 )

** Sir Hugh Willoughby, English Arctic explorer

* Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard, Chief of the Air Staff

" Finally, at the conclusion of the whole book: " The Most Piteous Tale of the Morte Arthure Sanz Gwerdon par le shyvalere Sir Thomas Malleorre, knight, Jesu aide ly pur votre bon mercy.

Sir William Wallace ( Medieval Gaelic: Uilliam Uallas ; modern Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas ; Norman French: William le Waleys ; ; died 23 August 1305 ) was a Scottish knight and landowner who became one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence.

Sir William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke ( 1147 – 14 May 1219 ), also called William the Marshal ( Norman French: William le Mareschal ), was an English ( or Anglo-Norman ) soldier and statesman.

Sir Richard le Breton ( or Richard de Brito ) was one of the four knights who murdered Saint Thomas Becket.

David Lean was born in Croydon, Surrey ( now part of Greater London ), to Francis William le Blount Lean and the former Helena Tangye ( niece of Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye ).

* Sir Nicholas L ' Estrange, 1st Bt ( MP and Chamberlain to the Duke of Norfolk ( 1604-1655 ) descended from Roger le Strange, 5th Baron Strange de / of Knockin ( c. 1326 – 1392 ) and John Hastings, de jure 15th Baron Hastings ( 1531 – 1542 )

The Mountreil-Bellay fief, first belonged to Gelduin le Danois afterward by regal hereditry passed to Berlay le Vieux who became the first Sir of Bellay, in 1025 the castle was seized by Foulque Nerra a Plantagenet making Giraud Berlay his vassal during the second half of the 12th century.

After the defeat of the English by Philip II, the fief returned to a descendant of the Berlay le Vieux family Sir of Bellay, Guillaume de Melun, during this period the fief went under a big renovation by the creation of high massive walls construction including 13 interlocking towers, with entry only via a fortified gateway and the name was anglicized from Barley to Balley.

In the Post-Vulgate Cycle and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur, it is Morgan le Fay who becomes the wife of King Urien and mother of Ywain ( and Malory adds this information ).

Still, even cultures that do not practice it may reflect older customs ; in medieval literature, such as Sir Degaré and Lay le Freine, the child is abandoned immediately after birth, which may reflect pre-Christian practices, both Scandavian and Roman, that the newborn would not be raised without the father's decision to do so.

Soon after the appearance of Burnouf's Commentaire sur le Yacna ( 1833 ), Lassen also directed his attention to the Zend language, and to Iranian studies generally ; and in Die altpersischen Keilinschriften von Persepolis ( 1836 ) he first made known the true character of the Old Persian cuneiform inscriptions, thereby anticipating, by one month, Burnouf's Mémoire on the same subject, while Sir Henry Rawlinson's famous memoir on the Behistun Inscription, though drawn up in Persia, independently of contemporaneous European research, at about the same time, did not reach the Royal Asiatic Society until three years later.

* Sir Hugh le Despenser I ( died 1238 ), High Sheriff of Berkshire

* Sir Hugh le Despenser II ( 1223 – 1265 )

* Jean Chardin-Voyages de monsieur le chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l ' orient ( The Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia and the Orient )

* Sir William Davenant – The Man's the Master ( a translation of Paul Scarron's Jodelet, ou le maître valet )

Other libels published against Arnauld's Moral Theology of Jesuits included the one written by the Jesuit polemist François Pinthereau ( 1605 – 1664 ), under the pseudonym of the abbé de Boisic, titled Les Impostures et les ignorances du libelle intitulé: La Théologie Morale des Jésuites ( 1644 ), who was also the author of a critical history of Jansenism titled La Naissance du Jansénisme découverte à Monsieur le Chancelier ( The Birth of Jansenism Revealed to Sir the Chancellor, Leuven, 1654 ).

* The Mid-Guard: Earl of Menteith, Seneschal of Scotland ; Sir James his uncle ; William Douglas ; David de Lyndseye ; Hugh Fleming ; William de Keith ; Duncan Campbell ; James Steward of Caldru ; Alan Stewart ; William du Jardyn ; William de Abirnethy ; William de Brene de Eldyngton ; John le Fitzwilliam ; Adam More ; Walter FitzGilbert ; John de Chryghton ; all barons with their followers.

Before 1277 the property had escheated to the Crown by the felony of William de la Falaise, grandson of William, and was granted in that year to Sir William le Brune, chamberlain to the king.

The most recent scholarly work suggests that The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was “ the work of Jan de Langhe, a Fleming who wrote in Latin under the name Johannes Longus and in French as Jean le Long .” Jan de Langhe was born in Ypres early in the 1300s and by 1334 had become a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Saint-Bertin in Saint-Omer which was about 20 miles from Calais.

The village that later became Broxburn probably originated around 1350 when Margery le Cheyne inherited the eastern half of the Barony of Strathbrock ( Easter Strathbrock ) on the death of her father, Sir Reginald le Cheyne III.

It was used in 1393 for the inauguration of Sir William le Scrope, and again in 1408 for the inauguration of Sir John Stanley, as Lords of Mann.

Among other things the series asserts that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was a secret illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth I ; that Sir Francis Walsingham, the Queen's spymaster, did not die in 1590 as history records but lived in secret for another five years ; that playwrights Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were all secret agents of the Queen and underwent dangerous missions in her service, in addition to their theatrical activities ; that the plays of all three had profound secret political and magical meanings ; that Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene was not a fictional work but was based on a true Kingdom of Faerie, whose Queen had a secret pact of mutual help with the English Queen Elizabeth ; that Christopher Marlowe was not assassinated in 1593 as history records but was taken into Faerie where he became the lover of the witch Morgan le Fay ; and that Shakespeare had also visited Faerie and personally met with Puck and other supposedly legendary characters depicted in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Further work was undertaken between 1323 – 24, following the Despenser War ; Edward II was threatened in the region by the Mortimer Marcher Lord family, and ordered his sheriff, Sir Gruffuld Llywd, to extend the defences leading up to the gatehouse with additional towers.

The heir of Thomas de Camoys ( d. 1372 ) was his nephew, another Thomas de Camoys ( d. 1421 ), who was the grandson of Ralph de Camoys ( d. 1336 ) by his second wife, Elizabeth le Despenser, and the son of Sir John Camoys by his second wife, Elizabeth le Latimer, daughter of William le Latimer, 3rd Lord Latimer.

He was the son of Sir William de Ferrers, Knt., of Groby, Leicestershire, ( d. 1287 ) by his first wife Anne, daughter of Sir Hugh le Despenser, Knt., of Loughborough, & c., and grandson of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby.

In 1379 Sir Thomas le Despenser granted the Burley manor to trustees, two of whom were his brother Henry, Bishop of Norwich and his nephew Hugh le Despenser.