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Sir Ifor Williams offered a date prior to 1100, based on linguistic and historical arguments, while later Saunders Lewis set forth a number of arguments for a date between 1170 and 1190 ; Thomas Charles-Edwards, in a paper published in 1970, discussed the strengths and weaknesses of both viewpoints, and while critical of the arguments of both scholars, noted that the language of the stories best fits the 11th century, although much more work is needed.
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Sir Ifor Williams translates this name as " crooked woman ", although the precise meaning of the stems cyrrid and cwrr ( sometimes translated as " crooked " or " bent ") is uncertain.
Sir Ifor Williams, whose work helped lay the foundations for the academic study of Old Welsh, particularly early Welsh poetry, published the text with notes in Canu Taliesin ( 1960 ), and subsequently in an English version as The Poems of Taliesin ( 1968 ).
* Williams, Sir Ifor ( 1980 ): The Beginnings of Welsh Poetry, Studies by Sir Ifor Williams, edited by Rachel Bromwich.
According to Sir Ifor Williams, the word " Glyder " derives from the Welsh word " Cludair ", meaning a heap of stones.
According to Sir Ifor Williams, the word "" derives from the Welsh word "", meaning a heap of stones.
According to Sir Ifor Williams, the word " Glyder " derives from the Welsh word " Gludair ", meaning a heap of stones.
Sir and Williams
During the Civil War, prior to the siege of Raglan Castle in 1645, King Charles I visited Abergavenny and presided in person over the trial of Sir Trefor Williams, 1st Baronet of Llangibby, a Royalist who changed sides, and other Parliamentarians.
:" Mr Cotton Mather was the most active and forward of any Minister in the Country in those matters Goodwin children and Goody Glover, taking home one of the Children, and managing such intrigues with that Child, and after printing such an account of the whole, in his Memorable Provinces in 1689, as conduced much to the kindling of those Flames, that in Sir Williams time Salem Witch Trials threatened the devouring of this Country.
* Sir John in Love, 1924 – 1928, an opera by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.
* 1999 – Sir Edward Williams, Australian judge ( b. 1921 )
* 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
In 1969 it was formally launched to protest the arrest of West Indian students at Sir George Williams University in Montreal.
** Sir Robert Williams, 1st Baronet, of Park, Scottish entrepreneur and explorer ( d. 1938 )
In 2002, Williams appeared on the track " My Culture " on the 1 Giant Leap album, alongside rapper Maxi Jazz ( which features lyrics from the hidden track " Hello Sir " from Life Thru a Lens ).
As a teenager Williams was apprenticed with Sir Edward Coke ( 1552 – 1634 ), the famous jurist, and under Coke's patronage, Williams was educated at Charterhouse and also at Pembroke College, Cambridge ( B. A., 1627 ).
After graduating from Cambridge, Williams became the chaplain to a Puritan lord, Sir William Macham.
Concordia was created following the 1974 merger of Loyola College ( 1896 ) and Sir George Williams University ( 1926 ).
Sir George Williams University's Henry F. Hall Building in 1970.
In 1926, the education program was re-organized as Sir George Williams College, named after George Williams, founder of the YMCA.
In 1934, Sir George Williams College offered the first undergraduate credit course in adult education in Canada.
The College became Sir George Williams University ( SGWU ) in 1948, when it received a university charter from the provincial government, though it remained the education arm of the Montreal YMCA.
The university gained international attention in 1969, when a group of students occupied the Hall Building's 9th floor computer lab ( see Sir George Williams Computer Riot ).
The merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University was recommended in 1969 by the Parent Commission, as part of the secularization of Quebec's educational system ( see Quiet Revolution ).
In 1968, in the wake of the Parent Commission Report, the Quebec government asked Loyola and Sir George Williams to consider some form of union.
While a number of possible models were considered, including that of a loose federation, the solution finally adopted was that of an integrated institution, Concordia University, operating under the existing Sir George Williams charter.
The Henry F. Hall Building ( left ) and the John Wilson McConnell Library Building ( right ) on the Sir George Williams campus.
The university has two campuses, set approximately 7 km apart: Sir George Williams Campus in the downtown core of Montreal, in an area known as Quartier Concordia ( at Guy-Concordia Metro station ), and Loyola Campus in the residential west-end district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
He was particularly pleased to receive the University ’ s gold medal in obstetrics from his distinguished fellow-Welshman, Sir John Williams.
The Father of the House is not necessarily the sitting MP with the earliest date of first election: Sir Peter Tapsell was first elected in 1959, and is the only remaining 1950s MP, but lost his seat in 1964 and was out of Parliament until 1966 ; this meant that Alan Williams was Father of the House until his retirement at the 2010 general election by virtue of his continuous service since the 1964 general election.
Sir and offered
Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;
In 1931 the art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen offered funds to build a gallery for the Parthenon sculptures.
Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson had been offered the governorship of South Australia in 1895 and of Victoria in 1910, but refused both appointments.
" But in spite of this, and though the plotters offered him a large sum of money from the Pope, as well as safe passage for his wife and children to come to him from England, in the end he declined to have anything further to do with their plans and begged pardon from Sir Robert Cecil and from the Queen.
The three races offered the largest purse and in 1919 Sir Barton became the first horse to win all three races.
* Sir Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ) published Novum Organum in 1620, which outlined a new system of logic based on the process of reduction, which he offered as an improvement over Aristotle's philosophical process of syllogism.
Jardine, Matheson and Co. offered its shares to the public in 1961 under the tenure of Sir Hugh Barton and was oversubscribed 56 times.
Sir Richard Lundie, a Scots knight who joined the English after the capitulation at Irvine, offered to outflank the enemy by leading a cavalry force over a nearby ford, where sixty horsemen could cross at the same time.
On the same day, the commissioners offered it to Sir Thomas More and John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, who both refused it.
He succeeded Governor Philip Gidley King in 1805, having been offered the position by Sir Joseph Banks.
Sir Ian McKellen portrayed Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy ( 2001 – 2003 ) directed by Peter Jackson, though Sean Connery was also offered the role.
In 1963, Gilmour offered the editorship to Iain Macleod, the politician who had recently resigned his cabinet seat in objection to the controversial appointment of Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Prime Minister.
Forty years later Sir Henry Tate who was a sugar magnate and a major collector of Victorian art, offered to fund the building of the gallery to house British Art on the condition that the State pay for the site and revenue costs.
The experiment was proposed by Sir Joseph Banks, who recommended Bligh as commander, and was promoted through a prize offered by the Royal Society.
His sitters included the Duchess of Devonshire, Sarah Siddons, Sir Henry Harpur ( of Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, who offered to send Lawrence to Italy-Lawrence senior refused to part with his son ), Warren Hastings and Sir Elijah Impey.
Soon after the attack, when Sir Francis Drake paused on his way home from a successful raid in the Caribbean and offered to take the colonists, including the metallurgist Joachim Gans, back to England, they accepted.
Many, including Parnell, believed that Chamberlain, having brokered the agreement, would be offered the Chief Secretaryship, but Gladstone appointed Sir George Trevelyan instead.
He took shelter in Pimp Hall and was so delighted with the food offered him that he jocularly drew his sword and knighted the joint of beef declaring that it was now Sir Loin.
Thus, ignoring the second opinion offered by Sir Christopher Wren, the marsh was channelled into three small canal-like streams and across it rose a bridge of huge proportions, so huge it was reported to contain some 30-odd rooms.
Many problems experienced by readers in interpreting poems, and the wide variety of interpretations offered for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are shown to stem from the poet ’ s complex view of moral questions ( 103 ).
In 1708 the corporation recognised the potential for profit from horse racing and that local Clifton landowner, Sir William Robinson, had offered his land on Clifton and Rawcliffe Ings as a course, donated £ 15 a year towards a plate.
Sir John Barbirolli was offered the position of Music Director after his contract with the New York Philharmonic expired in 1942 ; however, he declined the offer and chose to return to England instead.
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