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.

MS Eng 718. 6 ( 12 ) Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914.

Sir John Tenniel is also the author of one of the mosaics, Leonardo da Vinci, in the South Court in the Victoria and Albert Museum ; while his highly stippled watercolour drawings appeared from time to time in the exhibitions of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, of which he had been elected a member in 1874.

Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.

Illustration by Sir John Tenniel

The characters of Hatta and Haigha ( pronounced as the English would have said " hatter " and " hare ") make an appearance, and are pictured ( by Sir John Tenniel, not by Carroll ) to resemble their Wonderland counterparts, the Hatter and the March Hare.

Sir John Tenniel is reported to have come to Oxford especially to sketch him for his illustrations.

He wrote a monograph on the illustrator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland entitled The Life and Work of Sir John Tenniel, R. I.

Alice steps Through the Looking-Glass | through the looking-glass ; illustration by Sir John Tenniel

The British humorous magazine Punch, which was founded in 1841 riding on the earlier success of Cruikshank's Comic Almanac ( 1827 – 1840 ), employed an uninterrupted run of high-quality comic illustrators, including Sir John Tenniel, the Dalziel Brothers and Georges du Maurier, into the 20th century.

* Tenniel Evans – Able Seaman ( later Leading Seaman ) Taffy Goldstein, Admiral Ffont-Bittocks, Sir Willoughby Toddhunter-Brown

Justice, a print by Sir John Tenniel in an September issue of Punch ( magazine ) | Punch.

Cards following Jaques's original designs, with grotesque illustrations possibly by Sir John Tenniel ( there was no official credit ), are still being made.

This, too, fell through, and in 1946, work began on an all-animated version of Alice in Wonderland that would feature art direction heavily based on the famous illustrations of Sir John Tenniel.

Rather than faithfully reproducing the famous illustrations of Sir John Tenniel, a more streamlined and less complicated approach was used for the design of the main characters.

The The Hatter | Mad Hatter's tea party ; illustration by Sir John Tenniel

Tweedledum and Tweedledee ; illustration by Sir John Tenniel

The March Hare ; illustration by Sir John Tenniel

The often-displeased Queen of Hearts ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Queen of Hearts ; illustration by Sir John Tenniel

by Sir John Tenniel

Alice picks up the White King ( Through the Looking-Glass ) | White King ; illustration by Sir John Tenniel.

Alice discovers a Through the Looking-Glass | reflected, alternate world ; illustration by Sir John Tenniel.

The Gryphon ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Gryphon ; illustration by Sir John Tenniel

They include likenesses of Lord Roberts, painted for Queen Victoria ( 1882 ); the Prince of Wales, Lord Dufferin, the Duke of Cleveland ( 1885 ); Lord Overstone, Mr Bright, Mr Gladstone, Mr Chamberlain, Sir J Tenniel, Earl Spencer, Viscount Cranbrook, and a score of other important subjects.

In December 1872, Darwin corresponded briefly with the mathematician and photographer Charles Dodgson ( Lewis Carroll ) ( 1832 – 1898 ), author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( 1865 )-illustrated by Sir John Tenniel ( 1820 – 1914 )-and Dodgson sent Darwin a photograph of " an emotional expression " ( portrait of Flora Rankin ).

* Sir Peter Blake, attended Bayswater Primary School, Takapuna Grammar School

Shortly afterwards, several London newspapers pointed out that " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " anagrams into " Monster hoax by Sir Peter S ".

* 1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield in London.

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

* Sir John Barrow, An Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart., Late of the Admiralty ( London, 1847 ).

* Lady Murray, The Making of a Civil Servant: Sir Oswyn Murray, Secretary of the Admiralty 1917-1936 ( London, 1940 ).

* Sir Charles Walker, Thirty-Six Years at the Admiralty ( London, 1933 )

The Muhammadan Period ; by Sir H. M. Elliot ; Edited by John Dowson ; London Trubner Company 1867 – 1877-This online Copy has been posted by: The Packard Humanities Institute ; Persian Texts in Translation ; Also find other historical books: Author List and Title List )

Through the aegis of her scientific uncle, Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, a chemist and vice chancellor of the University of London, she consulted with botanists at Kew Gardens, convincing George Massee of her ability to germinate spores and her theory of hybridisation.

Sir Herbert Baker's rebuilding of the Bank of England, demolishing most of Sir John Soane's earlier building was described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as " the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century ".

* Frazer, Sir James George, Myths of the Origin of Fire, London: Macmillan, 1930.

" ( 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.

( Meyers 23-24 ) It is composed of seven total books, including Pietas in Patriam: the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, originally published anonymously in London in 1697.

In March 1582 there was a skirmish in the streets of London between Oxford and Anne's uncle, Sir Thomas Knyvet.

In December 1588 Oxford had secretly sold his London mansion of Fisher's Folly to Sir William Cornwallis ; by January 1591 the author Thomas Churchyard was dealing with rent owing for rooms he had taken in a house on behalf of his patron.

Sir Roger Casement was tried in London for high treason and hanged at Pentonville Prison on 3 August.

Bacon was born on 22 January 1561 at York House near the Strand in London, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne ( Cooke ) Bacon, the daughter of noted humanist Anthony Cooke.

At the same time Bragg's Cavendish Laboratory was also effectively competing with King's College London, whose Biophysics department was under the direction of Sir John Randall.

Sir Lawrence Bragg, the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, where Watson and Crick worked, gave a talk at Guys Hospital Medical School in London on Thursday 14 May 1953 which resulted in an article by Ritchie Calder in The News Chronicle of London, on Friday 15 May 1953, entitled " Why You Are You.

After a brief sojourn in Germany, Bopp travelled to London where he made the acquaintance of Sir Charles Wilkins and H. T. Colebrooke.

In 1903, with Sir William Ramsay at University College London, Soddy verified that the decay of radium produced alpha particles composed of positively charged nuclei of helium.

* Laocoon, translated by Sir Robert Phillimore, London, G. Routledge & sons, 1905.