The corporation voted on September 27, 1598, that Quiney should ride to London about the suit to Sir John Fortescue, chancellor of the Exchequer, for discharging of the tax and subsidy.

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 ; ;

Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the Caterpillar ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being the head end of an actual caterpillar, with the first two right " true " legs visible.

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.

George Stubbs, William Blake, John Martin, Francisco Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, Eugène Delacroix, Sir Edwin landseer, Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner

He had an elder brother, John ( the father of Sir John Dermot Turing, 12th Baronet of the Turing Baronets ).

" Eleanor Audeley ", wife of Sir John Davies, is said to have been brought before the High Commission in 1634 for extravagances, stimulated by the discovery that her name could be transposed to " Reveale, O Daniel ", and to have been laughed out of court by another anagram submitted by Sir John Lambe, the dean of the Arches, " Dame Eleanor Davies ", " Never soe mad a ladie ".

* 1904 – Sir John Gielgud, English actor ( d. 2000 )

Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.

Among Canova's English pupils were sculptors Sir Richard Westmacott and John Gibson.

The English Civil War ( 1642 – 1651 ) provoked a number of examples of this genre, including works by Sir Edmund Ludlow and Sir John Reresby.

* the " Lost Colony " of Roanoke Island: In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh recruited over 100 men, women and children to journey from England to Roanoke Island on North Carolina's coast and establish the first English settlement in America under the direction of John White as governor.

* 1839 – Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English politician ( b. 1758 )

A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.

A subsidiary colony was to be founded on Norfolk Island, as recommended by Sir John Call, to take advantage for naval purposes of that island's native flax and timber.

Like his late colleague, Mitropoulos, he reads mystery stories, in particular Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

With the advent of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, the development of the modern private detective begins.

* 1907 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.

Financial problems reappeared in 1932 and the company was rescued by L. Prideaux Brune who funded the company for the following year before passing the company on to Sir Arthur Sutherland.

On the battlefield, it is probably fair to say, Charles was comparable in skill and style to Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington-quite conservative and yet exceedingly competent.

Near impacts have been depicted in Jules Verne's Off on a Comet and Tove Jansson's Comet in Moominland, while a large manned space expedition visits Halley's Comet in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeremy Bentham, Florence Nightingale and even Queen Victoria are reputed to have stayed there, although there is no real evidence for this.

The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of The Strand Magazine.

Author and prominent Spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle learned of the photographs from the editor of the Spiritualists ' publication Light.

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.

* The Coming of the Fairies – scans of the original version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book ( 1922 )

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.

* 1917 – Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English writer ( d. 2008 )

* 1875 – Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian soldier ( d. 1933 )

In May 1902 he was passed fit for sea duty and was appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno in June, spending two months in exercises with the Channel Fleet under Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson before joining the Mediterranean fleet.

" Churchill – who was himself only thirty-eight years old in 1912 – took to him immediately and he was appointed Private Naval Secretary to the First Lord against the advice of First Sea Lord Sir Arthur Wilson.

# General Sir Arthur Currie of Canada,

* Sir Arthur Currie, Lieutenant General, British Army, commanding Canadian Corps

" References to the Britannica can be found throughout English literature, most notably in one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, " The Red-Headed League ".

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?

Writers such as James Boswell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Kenneth Grahame, Muriel Spark and Sir Walter Scott all lived and worked in Edinburgh.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

; Forgotten Futures III: George E. Challenger's Mysterious World: Adventures with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's scientific hero, including the full text of The Lost World, " The Poison Belt ", " When The World Screamed ", The Land Of Mist, " The Horror of the Heights ", and " The Disintegration Machine ", a worldbook, four adventures, and a wargames scenario.

* 1882 – Sir Jack Hobbs, English cricketer ( d. 1963 )

The advice given by the Cabinet is, in order to ensure the stability of government, typically binding ; both the Queen and her viceroy, however, may in exceptional circumstances invoke the reserve powers, which remain the Crown's final check against a ministry's abuse of power, this was last fully exercised in 1932, when Sir Philip Game dismissed Premier Jack Lang.

Eisenstein proposed a biography of munitions tycoon Sir Basil Zaharoff and a film version of Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw, and more fully developed plans for a film of Sutter's Gold by Jack London, but on all accounts failed to impress the studio's producers.

Blackmail and corruption had haunted the double lives of Dorian Gray and Sir Robert Chiltern ( in An Ideal Husband ), but in Earnest the protagonists ' duplicity ( Algernon's " bunburying " and Worthing's double life as Jack and Ernest ) is undertaken for more innocent purposes – largely to avoid unwelcome social obligations.

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.

To commemorate the centenary of the first performance of The Importance of Being Earnest, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation on 13 February 1995 ; directed by Glyn Dearman, it featured Judi Dench as " Lady Bracknell ", Sir Michael Hordern as " Lane ", Michael Sheen as " Jack Worthing ", Martin Clunes as " Algernon Moncrieff ", John Moffatt as " Rev.

The Fredericton campus features two sites of national historic importance, both designated as National Historic Sites of Canada: the 1827 Sir Howard Douglas Hall ( Arts Building ) and the 1851 William Brydone Jack Observatory.

* Sir Jack Hunn, ( LLM ) New Zealand public servant

* Sir Jack Marshall, ( BA, LLB ) former Prime Minister

* Jack Hawkins as Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton

* May 13 – The Premier of New South Wales, Jack Lang, is dismissed by the State Governor, Sir Phillip Game.

Sir John " Black Jack " McEwen, GCMG, CH ( 29 March 1900 – 20 November 1980 ), was an Australian politician and the 18th Prime Minister of Australia.

Lesser known, but still historically notable pit bulls include Helen Keller's family dog " Sir Thomas ", Buster Brown's dog " Tige ", Horatio Jackson's dog " Bud ", President Theodore Roosevelt's Pit Bull terrier " Pete ", " Jack Brutus " who served for Company K, the First Connecticut Volunteer Infantry during the civil war and Sir Walter Scott's beloved " Wasp ".

* Bill Scott – Jack Spigot ( 1821 ), Memnon ( 1825 ), The Colonel ( 1828 ), Rowton ( 1829 ), Don John ( 1838 ), Charles the Twelfth ( 1839 ), Launcelot ( 1840 ), Satirist ( 1841 ), Sir Tatton Sykes ( 1846 )

In Farmer's books a number of historical figures-including Sir Richard Burton, Alice Hargreaves, Samuel Clemens, King John of England, Cyrano de Bergerac, Tom Mix, Mozart, Jack London, Lothar von Richthofen and Hermann Göring-interact with fictional characters in a quest to discover the purpose behind the creation of Riverworld and their reincarnation.

At the age of about 40, she reaches the zenith of her career when she is employed by the eminent British entrepreneur Sir Jack Pitman

On the other hand, England, England is the story of Sir Jack Pitman's gigantic project of draining England of everything that is essentially English ( including the royals ), reassembling it on the Isle of Wight and turning that island into an independent member state of the European Union — a project which quite soon develops its own momentum and which survives its founding fathers and mothers.

Bradman is immortalised in three popular songs from different eras, " Our Don Bradman " ( 1930s, by Jack O ' Hagan ), " Bradman " ( 1980s, by Paul Kelly ), and " Sir Don ", ( a tribute by John Williamson performed at Bradman's memorial service ).

The musical scholar Sir Jack Westrup insisted that according to Elgar's words it was clear that the theme was a melody: " Everyone who knew Elgar at the time is quite emphatic that he meant a tune.

Inventors Augustus Applegath, Sir Hiram Maxim and Jack Wall, inventor of the Crayford focuser, which is incorporated into many modern telescopes were also residents.

Harvey's breakthrough to international stardom came in 1959 when he was cast by director Jack Clayton as the social climber Joe Lampton in Room at the Top produced by British film producing brothers Sir John and James Woolf of Romulus Films and Remus Films.

His unscrupulous uncle, Sir Charles ( Mervyn ), marries him to his mistress, Grace ( Seymour ), in hopes of producing an heir and putting his nephew in an institution ; the plan fails when Grace falls in love with Jack.

Jack gains another ally in Sir Charles ' wife, Lady Claire ( Browne ), who hates her husband and befriends Jack just to spite him.