Two months later Rowland Whyte wrote to Sir Robert Sidney that ' Some say my Lord of Oxford is dead '.

The Englishman Sir Rowland Hill started to take an interest in postal reform in 1835.

Although a number of people laid claim to the concept of the postage stamp, it is well documented that stamps were first introduced in the United Kingdom on 1 May 1840, as a part of postal reforms promoted by Sir Rowland Hill.

Rowland Lockey after Hans Holbein the Younger, The Family of Sir Thomas More, c. 1594

* Sir Rowland Hill, the inventor of the Penny Black and the modern postal system, was born in Blackwell Street on 3 December 1795.

Sir Horace Rowland of the Foreign Office said, " I am afraid that it is likely to go hard with Miss Cavell ; I am afraid we are powerless.

The " envelope " used to launch the Penny Post component of the British postal reforms of 1840 by Sir Rowland Hill and the invention of the postage stamp, was a lozenge-shaped lettersheet known as a Mulready.

The original London postal district was devised by Sir Rowland Hill in 1856 as a circular area of radius from the central post office at St. Martin's Le Grand, near St Paul's Cathedral in central London.

During 1442 a local noble named Sir Rowland Standish ( a relative of Myles Standish, Mayflower passenger and military commander of Plymouth Colony ), who had fought at Agincourt, brought back to Chorley the skull and bones of Saint Lawrence and interred them at an altar at the parish church.

The Canadian post office was designed around the British service as created by Sir Rowland Hill, who introduced the concept of charging mail by weight and not destination along with creating the concept of the postage stamp.

The idea of an adhesive stamp to indicate pre-payment of postage was part of Sir Rowland Hill's 1837 proposals to reform the British postal system ; it was normal then for the recipient to pay postage on delivery.

There he attracted the notice of Sir Rowland Cotton, an amateur Hebraist, who made him his domestic chaplain at Bellaport.

Shortly after the removal of Sir Rowland to London, Lightfoot, abandoning an intention to go abroad, accepted a charge at Stone in Staffordshire, where he continued for about two years.

This theory, originated by Sir Sidney Lee in his A Life of William Shakespeare ( 1898 ), was continued by Bernard Rowland Ward in his The Mystery of Mr. W. H.

Sir William Stanley ( 1548 – 1630 ), son of Sir Rowland Stanley of Hooton ( died 1612 ), was a member of the Stanley family.

He was a brother of Sir Rowland Hill.

The idea of connecting Hong Kong and China with a railway was first proposed to prominent Hong Kong businessmen in March 1864 by a British railway engineer, Sir Rowland MacDonald Stephenson, who had considerable experience of developing railways in India.

Postal reformer Sir Rowland Hill is regarded as the creator of the modern postal service and the inventor of the postage stamp ( Penny Black ) — with his solution of pre-payment facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters.

Following Sir Rowland Hill's postal reforms in the 1830s, the reduction in postal rates with the invention of the postage stamp ( Penny Black ) made sending greeting cards an affordable means of personal communication.

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* Margaret FitzAlan, who married Sir Rowland Lenthall ; by whom she had two sons.

Sir Rowland St John, fourth son of the third Baron ( see below for more information on the baronetcy ).

Sir Rowland St John, fourth son of the third Baron St John of Bletsoe.

Despite victories at Dupplin Moor and Halidon Hill, in the face of tough Scottish resistance led by Sir Andrew Murray, the son of Wallace's comrade in arms, successive attempts to secure Balliol on the throne failed.

The cable was completed on 6 June 1929 and the first call between the Isle of Man and the outside world was made on 28 June 1929 by Lieutenant Governor Sir Claude Hill in Douglas to the Postmaster General in Liverpool.

At the request of Governor, Sir George Fitzgerald Hill, on 25 July, " Dr. Jean Baptiste Phillipe the first coloured member of the Council, proposed a resolution to end apprenticeship and this was passed.

Other celebs to have been featured in their own strips include Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand, Esther Rantzen, Stephen Fry, Noel Edmonds, Jimmy Savile ( as the headmaster of " Pop School ", as " Sir Jimmy Savile, the Owl " and in " Jimmy Savile's Haunted Head "), Johnny Vaughan, Adam Ant, Jimmy Hill, Noddy Holder, Boy George, Freddie Garrity, Steve McFadden, Morrissey ( constantly finding daffodils stuck into the seat of his trousers, parodying his appearances on Top of the Pops ), Busted, Eminem, Big Daddy and plenty more.

King led the effort to raise a memorial to Harper, which resulted in the erection of the Sir Galahad statue on Parliament Hill in 1905.

Dollis Hill House, within what later became the park, was occupied by Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, who subsequently became Lord Tweedmouth.

* September 14 – Battle of Homildon Hill: Northern English nobles led by Sir Henry " Hotspur " Percy defeat a Scottish raiding army under the Earl of Douglas.

* July 19 – Battle of Halidon Hill: Edward III defeats Sir Archibald Douglas, during the last of the Wars of Scottish Independence.

* October 17 – British magistrate Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey is found murdered in Primrose Hill, London.

* Sir Archibald Douglas – Guardian, k. Battle of Halidon Hill 1333

Other songs associated with Baez include " Farewell, Angelina ", " Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word ", " Joe Hill ", " Sweet Sir Galahad " and " We Shall Overcome ".

Hill claims that it was named after General Sir De Lacy Evans, a Crimean war hero.

Fisher's head was stuck upon a pole on London Bridge but its ruddy and lifelike appearance excited so much attention that, after a fortnight, it was thrown into the Thames, its place being taken by that of Sir Thomas More, whose martyrdom, also at Tower Hill, occurred on 6 July.

This was re-erected at the private Fawley Hill Museum of Sir William McAlpine, whose company built Waterloo International.

* Sir John Anderson, 1st Baronet, of Mill Hill ( c. 1736 – 1813 ), British politician, MP for City of London, 1793 – 1806

The son of Sir James Murray, the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, he attended school at Mill Hill and during his spare time helped his father produce the first edition of the OED.

In his poem Parliament Hill Fields, Sir John Betjeman refers to " the curious Anglo-Norman parish church of Kentish Town ".

William Wilberforce ( MP, and abolitionist of the slave trade ) and Sir Stamford Raffles ( founder of colonial Singapore ) both briefly resided here, the former being the patron of Mill Hill ’ s first church, Saint Paul ’ s.

Notting Hill is part of the parliamentary constituency of Kensington, represented by Conservative Sir Malcolm Rifkind.

* Sir Ronald Ross, discoverer of malaria transmission by mosquitoes, lived and died at Bath House, Putney Hill.

* Sir Oswald Stoll, Australian-born British theatre and film magnate, 33 Putney Hill