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" Sir Robert Cotton late of Connington in the County of Huntingdon Baronett did at his own great Charge and Expense and by the Assistance of the most learned Antiquaries of his Time collect and purchase the most useful Manuscripts Written Books Papers Parchments and other Memorialls in most Languages of great Use and Service for the Knowledge and Preservation of our Constitution both in Church and State
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Editor's note: Sir Robert Watson-Watt wrote, on page 50 of SR Research for 4 March 1961::
Sir Robert Watson-Watt's `` rebuttal '' of Sir Charles Snow's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself from Sir Charles' supposed falsehoods while stating those `` falsehoods '' in an unclear incoherent argument.
The circle symbol for aromaticity was introduced by Sir Robert Robinson and his student James Armit in 1925 and popularized starting in 1959 by the Morrison & Boyd textbook on organic chemistry.
The property was wholly disencumbered in 1847 by Robert Cadell, the publisher, who cancelled the bond upon it in exchange for the family's share in the copyright of Sir Walter's works.
* 1863 – Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility ( b. 1782 )
In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.
Henry Montgomery, Vicar of St Mark's, Kennington, at that time, was the second son of the noted Indian administrator, Sir Robert Montgomery, who died a month after Bernard's birth.
After the death of Sir Robert Montgomery, Henry inherited the Montgomery ancestral estate of New Park at Moville in northern County Donegal.
Sir Robert Peel, Bt., Prime Minister 1834 – 35, 1841 – 46
Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel passed over Disraeli when putting together his government in 1841 and Disraeli, hurt, gradually became a sharp critic of Peel's government, often deliberately adopting positions contrary to those of his nominal chief.
Other possible ministers included Sir Robert Inglis, Henry Goulburn, John Charles Herries, and Lord Ellenborough.
Sir Robert " Bobby " Charlton CBE ( born 11 October 1937 ) is an English former football player.
In 1841 the Liberals lost office to the Conservative Party under Sir Robert Peel, but their period in opposition was short, because the Conservatives split over the repeal of the Corn Laws, a free trade issue, and a faction known as the Peelites ( but not Peel himself, who died soon after ), defected to the Liberal side.
Over two-thirds of the members, and all the serving MPs, of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan, and later by Paddy Ashdown ( 1988 – 99 ), Charles Kennedy ( 1999 – 2006 ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( 2006 – 07 ) and Nick Clegg ( incumbent ).
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.
Sir Robert Gordon, a younger son of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen, acquired the lease in 1830 and made major alterations to the castle, with baronial-style extensions designed by John Smith of Aberdeen.
Sir Robert Gordon died in 1847, and the lease on Balmoral reverted to Lord Aberdeen.
The Cottonian Library, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton, dated back to Elizabethan times and the Harleian library, the collection of the Earls of Oxford.
Left to Right: Montagu House, Bloomsbury | Montagu House, Townley Gallery and Robert Smirke ( architect ) | Sir Robert Smirke's west wing under construction ( July 1828 )
The neoclassical architect, Sir Robert Smirke, was asked to draw up plans for an eastern extension to the Museum "... for the reception of the Royal Library, and a Picture Gallery over it ..." and put forward plans for today's quadrangular building, much of which can be seen today.
The Museum became a construction site as Sir Robert Smirke's grand neo-classical building gradually arose.
The Greek Revival façade facing Great Russell Street is a characteristic building of Sir Robert Smirke, with 44 columns in the Ionic order high, closely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene in Asia Minor.
Sir and Cotton
:" Mr Cotton Mather was the most active and forward of any Minister in the Country in those matters Goodwin children and Goody Glover, taking home one of the Children, and managing such intrigues with that Child, and after printing such an account of the whole, in his Memorable Provinces in 1689, as conduced much to the kindling of those Flames, that in Sir Williams time Salem Witch Trials threatened the devouring of this Country.
* 1570 – Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician ( d. 1631 )
Thomas Bowdler was born at Box, near Bath, Somerset, the youngest son of the six children of Thomas Bowdler ( c. 1719 – 1785 ), a banker of substantial fortune, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Cotton ( d. 1797 ), the daughter of Sir John Cotton of Conington, Huntingdonshire.
A barrage was built on the river at Dowleswaram by Sir Arthur Cotton in 1852.
The Gospels may have been taken from Durham Cathedral during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, ordered by Henry VIII, and were acquired in the early 17th century by Sir Robert Cotton from Thomas Walker, Clerk of the Parliaments.
In the early 17th century the Gospels were owned by Sir Robert Cotton ( 1571 – 1631 ) and in 1753 became part of the founding collections of the British Museum in 1753 ( Chilvers 2004 ).
Camden left his library to his closest friend, Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.
Members included William Camden, Sir Robert Cotton, John Stow, William Lambarde, Richard Carew and others.
It was designed by Sir Henry Cotton.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Through the Lens of Sir Robert Cotton
There he attracted the notice of Sir Rowland Cotton, an amateur Hebraist, who made him his domestic chaplain at Bellaport.
* Sir Steve Redgrave Fairtrade Cotton FiveG Clothing range
It excluded him from the circle of the " wits "; and he was not accepted in the circle of the lay learned, the " antiquaries " like William Camden, Sir Robert Cotton and Henry Spelman.
Lieutenant ( later General Sir ) Arthur Thomas Cotton ( 1803 – 99 ), Madras Engineers, was responsible for the design and construction of the great irrigation works on the river Cauvery, which watered the rice crops of Tanjore and Trichinopoly districts in the late 1820s.
Rajahmundry is the hub for great Engineering and Architectural monuments such as Godavari Bridge ( Asia's second largest Road cum Railway Bridge ), Papi Hills, Iskon Temple, Tantikonda, Sir Aurthur Cotton Museum, Pushkar Ghat, Gowthami Ghat.
In 1948, Mirrlees moved to South Africa and remained there until 1963, when the first volume of her " extravagant biography " of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton was published ( the second volume is unpublished ).
* A Fly in Amber: Being an Extravagant Biography of the Romantic Antiquary Sir Robert Bruce Cotton ( 1962 )
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet ( 22 January 1570 / 1 – 6 May 1631 ) was an English antiquarian and Member of Parliament, founder of the important Cotton library.
* Sharpe, Kevin ( 1979 ) Sir Robert Cotton, 1586-1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England.
* Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Many famous people connected with literature, sport, film and stage live or have lived in Datchet — Valentine Dyall, Billy Cotton, Billie Whitelaw, and Sir Donald Pleasence.
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