* 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Other notable figures in the movement include Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan ( who together initiated the Great Books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland ), Mark Van Doren, Alexander Meiklejohn, and Sir Richard Livingstone, an English classicist with an American following.

It was a family secret for 600 years and even ( Sir John's ) mother, who died shortly before we visited, refused to reveal the secret.

Another, in bronze by Sir Thomas Brock, erected in 1904, stands outside in St John's Gardens.

* August 5 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert, in what is now the city of St John's, Newfoundland, claims the island of Newfoundland on behalf of England, marking the beginning of the British Empire.

St John's College Chapel was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott

Among them were Hugh Courtenay, younger brother of the Earl of Devon, and Sir John Langstrother, the prior of the military order of St. John's.

Starting off playing at a club called Kingsbury's in Madison, Illinois, within a year Turner had built up a full gig schedule, establishing his group as one of the most highly rated on the St. Louis club circuit, vying for popularity with their main competition, Sir John's Trio featuring Chuck Berry.

The English, lead by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, had claimed St. John's, Newfoundland in 1583 as the first North American English colony by royal prerogative of Queen Elizabeth I.

* St. John's, Newfoundland, chartered by Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583 ; seasonal settlements ca.

Earlier in 1893, Professor McKendrick, of Glasgow, had examined subject and reported unfavourably on the scant knowledge of the special senses displayed by the candidates ; it was in reaction to this that Sir Michael Foster, who had seen the potential in this shy, retiring Bart's man, appointed Rivers as a lecturer and he became Fellow Commoner at St John's College forthwith.

It was once again confiscated from his son by Henry VI during the Wars of the Roses ( due to the family siding with Edward IV ), but was restored to Sir John's grandson, Edward Tiptoft, when Edward IV regained the throne.

After his education at St John's College, Cambridge, Salisbury was made Secretary of State following the death of Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590, and he became the leading minister after the death of his father in 1598, serving both Queen Elizabeth and King James as Secretary of State.

In works such as The Travels of Sir John Mandeville and Historia Trium Regum by John of Hildesheim, Prester John's domain tends to regain its fantastic aspects and finds itself located not on the steppes of Central Asia, but back in India proper, or some other exotic locale.

* Sir Walter St John's School, now Thomas's day school, was founded in 1700.

) St John's Gate ( built by Sir Thomas Docwra in 1504 ) survives in the rebuilt form of the Priory Gate.

Sir John's great-grandsons were William Cavendish ( 3rd husband of Bess of Hardwick ) and George Cavendish, William's brother and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's biographer.

It was here that Sir John's brother Sir Aymer Maxwell began construction of the present castle.

* Sir John Herschel – St. John's College, Cambridge

In The Times, Paul Griffiths wrote, " Sir John's seven-year period with the orchestra has been marked by growing orchestral confidence and many memorable performances.

He also recruited many disciples to the cause – most notably James Clark Ross, a nephew of Sir John's, the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the astronomer royal, George Airy.

A few months after Sir John's death, Mary Hayley Bell ( Lady Mills ) died on 1 December 2005.

They would remain the Sir John's Trio until Berry took one of their tunes, a reworking of Bob Wills ' version of " Ida Red " to Chess Records.

There he met and married as his second wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Lucas of St John's, Colchester ; she was thirty-one years his junior.

She and her second husband, Sir Max Mallowan, were one of the rare married couples to be titled, each in their own right.

Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah also introduced organizational forms that gave Ismāʿīlī communities the means to structure and regulate their own affairs.

Respected literary figures like Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott in Scotland both collected and wrote their own ballads, using the form to create an artistic product.

" ( Book of The Life of Sir William Phips first published anonymously in London in 1697 ) And Mather then included the letter, but, for his own reasons ( surely not brevity, Magnalia is huge ) left out the first, second, and eight sections, which would seem most encouraging to the judges to carry-on with their work.

From the eighteenth century, Spanish sources reported that immediately after the takeover of the city, Sir George Rooke, the British admiral, on his own initiative caused the British flag to be hoisted, and took possession of the Rock in name of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, whose government ratified the occupation.

Also, some British sources have accounted the flag story ( He had the Spanish flag hauled down and the English flag hoisted in its stead ; Rooke's men quickly raised the British flag ... and Rooke claimed the Rock in the name of Queen Anne ; or Sir George Rooke, the British admiral, on his own responsibility caused the British flag to be hoisted, and took possession in name of Queen Anne, whose government ratified the occupation ).

The monarch may, in theory, decline the Prime Minister's advice and ask for another nomination or even appoint a person of his or her own choice, but no such cases have been recorded since November 1930, when James Scullin's proposed appointment of Sir Isaac Isaacs was fiercely opposed by the British government.

By this time billionaire Sir James Goldsmith had set up his own Referendum Party, siphoning off some Conservative support, and at the 1997 General Election many Conservative candidates were openly expressing reluctance to join.

The style Dame Heather McCartney could be used for the wife of a knight ; however, this style is largely archaic and is only used in the most formal of documents, or where the wife is a Dame in her own right ( such as Dame Norma Major, who gained her title six years before her husband Sir John Major was knighted ).

" Ultimately, King Arthur and Sir Robin ( who shows up with his own knights ) both say " it " several times in conversation ( unaware that " it " was the word that was causing the Knights ' pain.

Inasmuch as I am concerned, Most Excellent Sir, the effusion of my gratitude is inexplicable, at having had the unique satisfaction capable of filling the human heart, as is to deserve the public confidence in circumstances so critical to govern the independent Isthmus ; and I can only correspond to such high distinction with the sacrifices I am willing to make since I devoted myself, as it wished, to the mother country that has seen me be born and to who I owe all that I own ...

He left letters to Wilson's mother, Bowers ' mother, a string of notables including his former commander Sir George Egerton, his own mother and his wife.

The first, as for example proposed by the Royalist Sir Richard Willis to King Charles, was that by abandoning the garrisoning of all but the most strategic locations in ones own territory, far more troops would be available for the field armies and it was the field armies which would decide the conflict.

Sir Albert was accused of corruption and of a policy of affirmative action in favor of his own Mende ethnic group

But the Ravenswoods and the wealthy Ashtons, who now own the former Ravenswood lands, are enemies, and Lucie's mother forces her daughter to break her engagement to Edgar and marry the wealthy Sir Arthur Bucklaw.

He wrote that he was " a faithful student of the Scottish ballads, and had always envied Sir Walter the delight of tracing them out amid their own heather, and of writing them down piecemeal from the lips of aged crones.

The first time I heard it mentioned was in the 1980s and I immediately consulted Sir John Gielgud whose own performance of Jack Worthing in the same play was legendary and whose knowledge of theatrical lore was encyclopaedic.

In fact, the light was erected by Sir John Killigrew by his own expense: It was built at the cost of " 20 nobles a year " for 30 years, but it caused an uproar over the following years, as King James I considered charging vessels to pass.

Other celebs to have been featured in their own strips include Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand, Esther Rantzen, Stephen Fry, Noel Edmonds, Jimmy Savile ( as the headmaster of " Pop School ", as " Sir Jimmy Savile, the Owl " and in " Jimmy Savile's Haunted Head "), Johnny Vaughan, Adam Ant, Jimmy Hill, Noddy Holder, Boy George, Freddie Garrity, Steve McFadden, Morrissey ( constantly finding daffodils stuck into the seat of his trousers, parodying his appearances on Top of the Pops ), Busted, Eminem, Big Daddy and plenty more.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

An illustrative example is the Australian constitutional crises of 1975, when the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on his own reserve power authority and replaced him with Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser.

" Defending his own behaviour in not sending his full fleet to North America, he also wrote that " f the admiral in America had met Sir Samuel Hood near the Chesapeake ", that Cornwallis's surrender might have been prevented.

Sir Hugh Munro, a founding member of the Club, took on the task using his own experience as a mountaineer, as well as detailed study of the Ordnance Survey Six-inch to the mile and One-inch to the mile map series.

They are dedicated to two members of the Catholic nobility, Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton and Byrd's own patron Sir John Petre, who had been elevated to the peerage in 1603 under the title Lord Petre of Writtle.

He was also a heavy smoker from the time he was just eight years old ; and by his own admission in a December 1977 interview with Sir Ludovic Kennedy, Burton was smoking 60 – 100 cigarettes per day.