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.

British economist Sir John Bowring met Jacquard, who told Bowring that at one time he had been a maker of straw hats.

Richard Cobden, a British MP of the time, describes the events conducted by the British under Sir John Bowring the day after the prisoners ' release given in a speech to parliament:

Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, there was an attempt to poison the British Superintendent of Trade, Sir John Bowring and his family in January.

* G. F. Bartle, Sir John Bowring and the Arrow war in China, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, 43: 2 ( 1961 ), 293 – 316

However, he was not the first former MP to become a Governor of Hong Kong: that was Sir John Bowring ( Governor of Hong Kong 1854 – 1859 ).

* Sir Charles Calvert Bowring: 27 March 1924 – 30 May 1929

Her maternal grandfather was Walter Andrew Bowring, CBE, a British diplomat who served as Administrator of Dominica ( 1933 – 1935 ); she was a great-great-granddaughter of political economist Sir John Bowring.

Sir John Bowring, KCB ( Chinese translated name: 寶寧, 寶靈 or 包令 ) ( 17 October 1792 – 23 November 1872 ) was an English political economist, traveller, miscellaneous writer, polyglot, and the 4th Governor of Hong Kong.

While there, he acted as Consul in the absence of Sir John Bowring, and in August 1853 he was placed temporarily in charge of the Canton vice-consulate.

Parkes considered this action a violation of the treaty rights and sent dispatches to the governor of Hong Kong, Sir John Bowring, in which he portrayed the action as an insult to the British flag.

According to Sir John Bowring ( A Visit to the Philippine Island ) " the priests have been generally willing to recognize the name Bathala as not objectionable in substitution for Dios ( God )".

* A Visit to the Philippine Island by Sir John Bowring.

The first governor to live there was Sir John Bowring, the fourth governor of the territory.

: Sir John Bowring

The Cambrian / Llynfi Works attracted investment capital from a number of prominent figures of the early Victorian period, including the poet William Wordsworth, who was a Cambrian shareholder in the early 1840s, Sir Felix Booth, the gin distiller, and the writer and radical politician, Dr John Bowring.

This situation began the change to a market economy with the Bowring Treaty, negotiated by free-trade advocate Sir John Bowring with Siam's modernizing King Mongkut, signed on April 18, 1855.

This came in 1855 in the form of a mission led by the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir John Bowring, who arrived in Bangkok with demands for immediate changes, backed by the threat of force.

Treasurer: Sir Graham Rowlandson, MBE, JP, ( in 1977-June 1985 ), Mr. W. L. Grant ( June 1985-August 1988 ), Peter Bowring ( Sept 1988-).

Sir William Benjamin Bowring Gammell, commonly known as Bill Gammell ( born 29 December 1952 ) is a Scottish sportsman and industrialist.

Beginning in 1857, the northern shore of Hong Kong Island ( also known as Victoria City ) underwent a series of reclamations under then-Governor Sir John Bowring.

In the Spring of 1618 Constantijn found employment with Sir Dudley Carleton, the English envoy at the Court in The Hague.

He appeared in the 1955 BBC Television serial Quatermass II, had a role in the Powell and Pressburger wartime drama Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 ), and came to wide popular attention in Britain when he played the duplicitous Spanish envoy Mendoza in the ITC Entertainment series Sir Francis Drake ( 1961 – 62 ), after which he was much in demand ; an ' in-joke ' in the 1971 Doctor Who story Colony in Space refers to that role: the Brigadier tells the Doctor not to worry — the suspected sighting of the Master was only the Spanish Ambassador!

He delegated Prince Gong for several negotiations but relations broke down completely when a British diplomatic envoy, Sir Harry Parkes, was arrested during negotiations on 18 September.

On 23 December the British envoy, Sir William Hay Macnaghten, was murdered at Kabul ; and in February 1842 the weak and incompetent commander-in-chief, General Elphinstone, sent orders that Kandahar was to be evacuated.

Britain ’ s envoy at Stockholm, Sir John Goodricke, made adroit use of this money, and helped to maintain Sweden ’ s liberal constitution.

The prince decides to send an envoy, in a group led by Pan ( Sir ) Bychowiec ( Bykhovets ), to the Sitch to find out about Chmielnicki.

' In 1933 Lord and Lady Downe, as representatives of the British Fascists, entertained Nazi German envoy Gunther Schmidt-Lorenzen at their country estate and suggested to him that the Nazis should avoid any links with Mosley, whom Lady Downe accused of being in the pay of Jewish figures such as Baron Rothschild and Sir Philip Sassoon.

Former leader of the CBI, Sir Digby Jones, was critical of the LSC during his time as the UK government's skills envoy.

In September 1879 he was despatched to Kabul to seek retribution for the death of Sir Louis Cavagnari, the British envoy there.

He soon became so fashionable that Sir Dudley Carleton, then English envoy at The Hague, recommended his works to the Earl of Arundel and Lord Dorchester.

Munshi, India ’ s envoy and agent general to Hyderabad, and the Nizam ’ s envoys, Laik Ali and Sir Walter Monckton.

The then-British envoy to Kenya, Sir Edward Clay, publicly raised the issue of Anglo-Leasing at a dinner in Nairobi ( see the Guardian Newspaper article ).

* John W. Kaye, The life and correspondence of Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G. C. B., late envoy to Persia, and governor of Bombay, from unpublished letters and journals 2 vols., London, Smith Elder and Co. ( 1856 ).

He behaved with equal propriety during the negotiations between Sir H. Drummond Wolff and the Turkish envoy, Mukhtar Pasha, in 1886.

After the death of Edward Bruce and the recall of the expeditionary force from Ireland, Sir Thomas was sent by his uncle as envoy to the court of Rome where he succeeded in getting a temporary absolution for King Robert who had been excommunicated for killing John Comyn.

* Sir Henry Howard ( diplomat ) ( 1843 – 1921 ), the first formal British envoy to the Vatican for over 300 years

* Sir Donald Acheson: CMO and spearhead of UN medical relief envoy in Sarajevo

* Sir Edward Wood ( diplomat ), British envoy to Sweden in 1670s

In fact a secret, purely oral, agreement had been made a week earlier between the English envoy, Sir Gilbert Talbot and the king of Denmark that Denmark-Norway would allow the English fleet to assault the Dutch convoy and that the loot would be shared in equal parts.

He made another find in the Cambridge library of considerable philological and historical importance ; Cromwell's envoy, Sir Samuel Morland ( 1625-1695 ), had brought back from Piedmont MSS.

Less than a fortnight after his arrival Sir William Macnaghten was murdered, and Pottinger succeeded to his position as envoy to the Afghan court.

He had several interviews with the prime minister, Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, who eventually despatched Sir John Lindsay, as king's envoy extraordinary, to effect a settlement of the Nawab's claims.