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.

Donald Campbell was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, the son of Malcolm, later Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of 13 world speed records in the 1920s and 30s in the famous Bluebird cars and boats, and his second wife, Dorothy Evelyn née Whittall.

* Sir Mark Evelyn Heath-Diplomat, British Ambassador to Chad ( 1975 – 1978 ), the first British Ambassador to Holy See ( 1982 – 1985 ) and Head of Protocol for the Hong Kong Government ( 1985 – 1988 ).

* 1903 – The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.

Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild was Chairman of the company from 1972 to 1989.

Following their 1947 divorce he married the British ballerina and actress Diana Gould, whose mother was the pianist Evelyn Suart ( who had played with artists such as Eugène Ysaÿe and Karel Halíř ), and whose stepfather was Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.

After falling ill in 1925, Strachey finally sold his controlling interest in the paper to his business manager, Sir Evelyn Wrench, and retired, dying two years later in 1928.

Sir John Evelyn recorded in his Diary " I went to Adscomb on 11 July 1703 to see my son-in-law ’ s new house.

Among people associated with Deptford are Christopher Marlowe, who was murdered at Deptford Strand ; diarist John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ) who lived at Sayes Court, and had Peter the Great ( 1672 – 1725 ) as a guest for about three months in 1698 ; and Sir Francis Drake who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind in Deptford Docks.

* Lynn Forester de Rothschild ( born 1954 ), Chief Executive Officer of E. L. Rothschild, a holding company she owns with her husband Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild.

Nairobi Embakasi Airport was opened in May 1958, by the last colonial Governor of Kenya, Sir Evelyn Baring.

* Evelyn Rothwell ( 1911 – 2008 ) ( Lady Barbirolli ), oboist ; wife of Sir John Barbirolli, orchestral conductor

The Life of Lord Palmerston up to 1847 was written by Lord Dalling ( Sir H. Lytton Bulwer ), volumes I and II ( 1870 ), volume III edited and partly written by Evelyn Ashley ( 1874 ), after the author's death.

RADA has a number of notable associate members including Jane Asher, Sir Michael Gambon, Robert Bourne, Kenneth Branagh, Jon Cryer, Richard Digby Day, Trevor Eve, Ralph Fiennes, Edward Fox, Iain Glen, Gerald Harper, Sir Ian Holm, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Derek Jacobi, Patricia Kneale, Paul McGann, Dame Helen Mirren, Sir Trevor Nunn, Peter O ' Toole, Dame Diana Rigg, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, Lord Snowdon, Shelley Thompson, Alan Rickman, Timothy Dalton and Sir Roger Moore.

* Lady Evelyn Leonora Almina Herbert ( 15 August 1901-1980 ), who married Sir Brograve Campbell Beauchamp, 2nd Bt.

Portrait of John Evelyn by Godfrey Kneller | Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1687

Their house, Sayes Court ( adjacent to the naval dockyard ), was purchased by Evelyn from his father-in-law Sir Richard Browne in 1653 and Evelyn soon began to transform the gardens.

Wotton House and estate were inherited by his grandson John ( 1682 – 1763 ) later Sir John Evelyn, bart.

In a 1922 letter to Sir John Shuckburgh of the British Colonial Office, McMahon wrote the following: " It was my intention to exclude Palestine from independent Arabia, and I hoped that I had so worded the letter as to make this sufficiently clear for all practical purposes.

The U. S. and Soviet heads of Government have met three times since Sir Winston Churchill in 1953 introduced a new word into international diplomacy with his call for a fresh approach to the problem of peace `` at the summit of the nations ''.

* 1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.

Hussein learned of the agreement when it was leaked by the new Russian government in December 1917, but was satisfied by two disingenuous telegrams from Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner of Egypt, assuring him that the British government's commitments to the Arabs were still valid and that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was not a formal treaty.

Feodor declared his kingdom open to all foreigners, and dismissed the English ambassador Sir Jerome Bowes, whose pomposity had been tolerated by the new Tsar's late father.

Great expectations attended his coming of age ; Sir George Buc recalled predictions that ' he was much more like ... to acquire a new erldome then to wast & lose an old erldom ', a prophecy that was never fulfilled.

The new name " Falstaff " probably derived from the medieval knight Sir John Fastolf ( who was also a Lollard ).

* 1704 1 August ( NS ): ( 21 July ( OS )) – During the War of the Spanish Succession, and when returning from a failed expedition to Barcelona, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, under the command of Sir George Rooke, chief commander of the Alliance Navy, began a new siege ( the eleventh siege of the town ).

In April, the ABC's new nightly current affairs program This Day Tonight ran a story which criticised the government's decision not to reappoint the Chair of the ABC Board, Sir James Darling.

Steel is often cited as the first of several new areas for industrial mass-production, which are said to characterise a " Second Industrial Revolution ", beginning around 1850, although a method for mass manufacture of steel was not invented until the 1860s, when Sir Henry Bessemer invented a new furnace which could convert wrought iron into steel in large quantities.

The devastating effects of the fire converted the development of insurance " from a matter of convenience into one of urgency, a change of opinion reflected in Sir Christopher Wren's inclusion of a site for ' the Insurance Office ' in his new plan for London in 1667.

Apparently thinking he made a new discovery, he named the island " Sir Thomas Smith's Island " and the volcano " Mount Hakluyt ".

On Christmas Eve 1917, Admiral Jellicoe was rather abruptly dismissed as First Sea Lord by the new First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, and was succeeded by Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss.

was signed in London on 18 June 1935 by Ribbentrop and Sir Samuel Hoare, the new British Foreign Secretary.

In the preceding year, the British government had appointed a new constitutional reform commission under Sir John Simon, which did not include any Indian as its member.

Neon ( Greek ( neon ) meaning " new one ") was discovered in 1898 by the British chemists Sir William Ramsay ( 1852 – 1916 ) and Morris W. Travers ( 1872 – 1961 ) in London.

However, his government lost a vote of confidence in 1980 and was replaced by a new cabinet headed by Sir Julius Chan as prime minister.

In November 1951, Sir Milton Margai oversaw the drafting of a new constitution, which united the separate Colonial and Protectorate legislatures and —- most importantly —- provided a framework for decolonization.

Their new home lacks many of the conveniences that they have been used to, however they are warmly received by Sir John, and welcomed into the local society, meeting his wife, Lady Middleton, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Jennings and his friend, the grave, quiet and gentlemanly Colonel Brandon.

* The Authorised Daily Prayer Book of the British Commonwealth, translation by Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks ( the new version of " Singer's Prayer Book ") ( Hebrew-English )

The story revolves around the knight Sir Gawain granting to Dame Ragnell, his new bride, what is purported to be wanted most by women: sovereignty.

* 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.

In 1877, the Russian chemist Serge Kern reported discovering the missing element in platinum ore. Kern named what he thought was the new element davyum ( after the noted English chemist Sir Humphry Davy ), but it was eventually determined to be a mixture of iridium, rhodium and iron.