His son Thomas, aged fifteen when he entered Oxford in 1582, married as his first wife Margaret, sister of Sir Edward Greville.

Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).

Jacques-Louis David, Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Thomas Gainsborough, Antonio Canova, Arnold Bocklin

George Stubbs, William Blake, John Martin, Francisco Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, Eugène Delacroix, Sir Edwin landseer, Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner

Throughout European history, philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, among others, contemplated the possibility that souls exist in animals, plants, and people ; however, the currently accepted definition of animism was only developed in the 19th century by Sir Edward Tylor, who created it as " one of anthropology's earliest concepts, if not the first ".

* Charles Dickens used Selkirk as a simile in Chapter Two of The Pickwick Papers: " Colonel Builder and Sir Thomas Clubber exchanged snuff – boxes, and looked very much like a pair of Alexander Selkirks — ' Monarchs of all they surveyed.

Sir Isaac Newton was probably the discoverer of astigmation ; the position of the astigmatic image lines was determined by Thomas Young ( A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy, 1807 ); and the theory was developed by Allvar Gullstrand.

Sir Thomas Blamey is the only Australian-born officer promoted to the rank.

This setback for Parliament in Cornwall, and the last major victory for the Royalists, was reversed by Sir Thomas Fairfax leading the New Model Army at or near Tresillian Bridge, close to Truro on 12 March 1645.

Sir Thomas Felton fought not only at Poitiers but also the Battle of Crécy.

Sir Thomas Grenville ( 1755 – 1846 ), a Trustee of The British Museum from 1830, assembled a fine library of 20, 240 volumes, which he left to the Museum in his will.

In the early 19th century there was much interest in enclosing and " improving " the open moorland on Dartmoor, encouraged by Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt's early successes at Tor Royal near Princetown.

The chest tomb in the chancel is believed to contain the remains of Sir Thomas Cheddar and is dated 1442.

The term took on its present meaning from a group of ministers of King Charles II of England ( Sir Thomas Clifford, Lord Arlington, the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Ashley, and Lord Lauderdale ), whose initial letters coincidentally spelled CABAL, and who were the signatories of the public Treaty of Dover that allied England to France in a prospective war against the Netherlands.

1984 — The country's first coalition government, between Sir Thomas and Geoffrey Henry, is signed in the lead up to hosting regional Mini Games in 1985.

In it he ruthlessly satirised both the High church Tories and those Dissenters who hypocritically practised so-called " occasional conformity ", such as his Stoke Newington neighbour Sir Thomas Abney.

It was designed by Thomas Manley Dean and Sir Aston Webb as the Royal College of Science.

The first recorded Diprotodon remains were discovered in a cave near Wellington in New South Wales in the early 1830s by Major Thomas Mitchell who sent them to England for study by Sir Richard Owen.

The house had previously belonged to Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane and before him General Sir Robert Arbuthnot KCB.

* Heath, Sir Thomas, Diophantos of Alexandria: A Study in the History of Greek Algebra, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1885, 1910.

The English physician and philosopher, Sir Thomas Browne, specifically employed the word encyclopaedia for the first time in English as early as 1646 in the preface to the reader to describe his Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, a series of refutations of common errors of his age.

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

The Governor of Nova Scotia, Sir John Wentworth ( governor ) | John Wentworth, attempted to convert the Maroons to Christianity.

Jane Seymour was born at Wulfhall, Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, the daughter of Sir John Seymour and Margery Wentworth.

Of Francis Walsingham's five sisters, one married Sir Walter Mildmay, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer for over 20 years, and another married the parliamentarian Peter Wentworth.

Edward Seymour was born in about 1500, to Sir John Seymour and Margery Wentworth.

It was regranted to its inhabitants in 1753 by Governor Benning Wentworth, who renamed it Keene after Sir Benjamin Keene, English minister to Spain and a West Indies trader.

It was granted by Governor John Wentworth on February 8, 1772 to Sir Thomas Wentworth, Samuel Langdon and 81 others.

Due to the inability of its original grantees to settle the remote area, however, it was regranted in 1770 by Colonial Governor John Wentworth, who renamed it Colebrook Town after Sir George Colebrooke, the East India Company's chairman of the board.

Wentworth, acting without approval of the General Assembly, in 1744 issued a King's Patent to establish a new town within Brentwood called Keeneborough Parish, named after his friend, Sir Benjamin Keene ( 1697 – 1757 ), English minister to Spain.

The town was named after Sir Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, a member of Parliament from 1734 to 1750, Secretary of State for the Southern Department from 1761 to 1763, and a good friend of Governor Wentworth.

Wentworth regranted the township in 1766, naming it Acworth after Sir Jacob Acworth, an English admiral with interests in Portsmouth shipping.

Incorporated in 1765 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, it was named for Sir Samuel Cornish, a distinguished admiral of the Royal Navy.

First granted by colonial governor Jonathan Belcher in 1735 as Number 9 ( ninth in a line of forts to guard against Indian attacks ), it was regranted in 1753 as Dupplin, after Sir Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin, by Governor Benning Wentworth.

Flitcroft was Burlington's professional architectural ammanuensis — " Burlington Harry " as he was called ; he had prepared for the engravers the designs of Inigo Jones published by Burlington and William Kent in 1727, and in fact Kent was also called in for confabulation over Wentworth Woodhouse, mediated by Sir Thomas Robinson, though in the event the pedestrian Flitcroft was not unseated and continued to provide designs for the house over the following decade: he revised and enlarged Tunnicliffe's provincial Baroque West Front and added wings, as well as temples and other structures in the park.

Bretton Hall was built about 1720 by Sir William Wentworth, assisted by James Moyser, in of lakes and parkland.

The present building replaces an earlier hall and was designed and built around 1720 by its owner, Sir William Wentworth, assisted by James Moyser.

The oldest part of the house, the south range dates from about 1720 and was designed by the owner, Sir William Wentworth and Colonel James Moyser.

He was born in London, the son of Sir William Wentworth, of Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, a member of an old Yorkshire family, and of Ally, daughter of Sir Robert Atkins of Stowell, Gloucestershire.

In 1621 the chancellor's eldest son, Sir Robert, married Eleanor, daughter of Sir Francis Rushe, whose sisters, Mary and Anne respectively, married Sir Charles Coote and Sir George Wentworth, the lord deputy's brother.

And Charles Stuart, eldest son of the late King, being informed of these transactions, left the Spanish territories where he then resided, and by the advise of Monk went to Breda, a town belonging to the States of Holland: from when he sent his letters and a declaration to the two House by Sir John Greenvil ; whereupon the nominal House of Commons, though called by a Commonwealth writ in the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England, passed a vote about April 25, 1660, ' That the government of the nation should be by a King, Lords and Commons, and that Charles Stuart should be proclamed King of England.

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.

For two years she was in his custody, and probably resided at Ingatestone Hall ; then she was removed to Sir John Wentworth's ( a kinsman of Petre's first wife ) at Gosfield Hall, and after seventeen months ' confinement there was taken to Cockfield Hall at Yoxford in Suffolk.

Upon his retirement Arthur Dee resided in Norwich, where he became a friend of Sir Thomas Browne.

* Sir George Burns ( 1795 – 1890 ), Shipping Magnate and co-founder of the Cunard Line resided at Rosebank House after David Dale's time.

From the 17th to the late 20th centuries it was the family seat of the Bankes family, who had previously resided nearby at Corfe Castle until its destruction in the English Civil War after its incumbent owners, Sir John Bankes and Dame Mary joined the side of Charles I.

Sir Edmund Barton, Australia's first prime minister, resided in the building known as Whitehall in White Street.

The house certainly once belonged to the father-in-law of Sir Everard Digby ( 1578 – 1606 ), one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, and he resided there for some time.

The Beechams estate in the village draws its name from Sir Thomas Beecham who resided in Mursley Hall which used to exist on the site of this estate.

Lord Wilton, who had earlier resided at Heaton Hall near Manchester and represented Lancashire in Parliament, was a descendant of Sir Roland Egerton, 1st Baronet, who married Bridget, sister and co-heir of Thomas Grey, 15th Baron Grey de Wilton, who was attainted in 1603 and forfeited his title.

It was established by Captain Sir William Peel VC, who resided at The Lodge, and was also known as Captain Peel's Railway.

* Sir Daryl Lindsay, Australian artist ( resided at the now heritage-listed Mulberry Hill )

Lieutenant-General William Evelyn Colonel of the 29th Foot in the British Army and Member of Parliament for Helston ( 1767 – 74 ), a son of Sir John Evelyn of Wotton, resided at Send Grove, Church Lane, and he laid out the grounds.

After his death she resided chiefly at Dalemain with her sister's son, Sir Edward Hasell.

Three Governors General, Sir Charles Metcalfe, Lord Cathcart and Lord Elgin, resided at Monklands.

Daughter of an English aristocrat and American mother ; had Anglo-Scots-Irish connections, related to the Leslies of Glaslough, Co. Monaghan ; first cousin of Sir Winston Churchill ; a late convert to Roman Catholicism, from 1960 she resided in retirement for some years at the guest house of the Franciscan Convent in Hope Castle.

* Famous Indian Twins also known as " Arcot twins Brothers " Sir Arcot RamaSwamy Mudaliar and Sir Arcot Lakshmana Swamy Mudaliar were born and resided in this town.

Sir Harold Ridley resided in Wiltshire until his death on 25 May 2001.

Lehzen became strongly protective of the princess, who resided in a household dominated by the controlling Kensington System, implemented by the Duchess and her comptroller Sir John Conroy.

She is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris – her last home where she resided with her spouse Sir Giovanni Matteo de Candia ( Mario the tenor ).

The generous and reclusive Sir FitzOsbert Stafford Jerningham, 11th Baron Stafford, resided at Costessey Hall until his death in 1913, upon which the Hall's contents were auctioned at a high-profile sale.

Sir William Lauder of Haltoun ( d. Nov 1596 ) invested his son, Sir Alexander Lauder, Knt., younger of Haltoun and Sheriff Principal of Edinburgh, and his mother in life-rent in Bruntsfield in 1587, and they resided in Bruntsfield Manor, being then estranged from the laird of Haltoun, and significantly rebuilding the mansion house.