What is clear is that Colonel William Burt was dispatched to Tortola and took control of the island by no later than 13 July 1672 ( when Stapleton reported the conquest to the Council of Trade ).

At this time ( 1686 ), Stapleton had completed his term of office and was en route back to Britain.

The Brandenburg claim was dismissed by the British on the grounds that Stapleton had conquered rather than been entrusted with Tortola.

He was an evangelical Christian for one year, converted in 1977 by evangelist Ruth Carter Stapleton, the sister of President Jimmy Carter.

* A television adaptation, directed by John Frankenheimer, was broadcast in two parts on CBS's Playhouse 90 in 1956, starring Jason Robards and Maria Schell as Robert Jordan and Maria, with Nehemiah Persoff as Pablo, Maureen Stapleton as Pilar, and Eli Wallach as the gypsy Rafael.

In 1976, a television version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was produced, starring the then husband-and-wife team of Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner, and featuring Laurence Olivier as Big Daddy and Maureen Stapleton as Big Mama.

The park was originally part of Stapleton Station, Tipperary Station and Camp Creek Station pastoral leases.

The pastoral activity persisted until the declaration of the area as a Park when in 1985, the lessees of Stapleton Station negotiated the surrender of the pastoral lease and it was subsequently taken up by the Conservation Land Corporation.

The homestead was established in 1928 to function as an outstation on Stapleton Station, then owned by Harry Sargent and his family.

It was originally known as " Pine Top ", but was renamed " Stapleton " after the Staples family set up the town's first post office in the mid-19th century.

When the railroad was constructed through the area in 1879, the Stapleton depot was named " Sunbright ," and the name was eventually applied to the entire town.

In October 1536 there was a popular rising in Beverley where 500 men in the town gathered at the Westwood under the leadership of a local lawyer named William Stapleton, later becoming part of the larger Pilgrimage of Grace in York as part of the 30, 000 rebels opposing Henry's new religious laws.

Shortly thereafter, Craig Stapleton ( ambassador to France ) was accredited to Monaco, and ambassador Gilles Noghes became the first Monegasque ambassador to the United States.

A longer version of the song was released as a single on Atlantic Records, reaching No. 30 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart early in 1972 ; the additional lyrics in this longer version lend the song a greater sense of sadness, and make poignant reference to social changes taking place in the 1960s and early 1970s A few perceptible drifts can be observed when listening to each version chronologically: In the original version Jean Stapleton was wearing glasses and after the first time the lyric " Those Were The Days " was sung over the tonic ( root chord of the song's key ) the piano strikes a Dominant 7th chord in transition to the next part which is absent from subsequent versions.

Lilly was on intimate terms with Bulstrode Whitelocke, William Lenthall the speaker, Sir Philip Stapleton, Elias Ashmole and others.

The foundation stone of the parish church of St Paul's, Staley was laid by Stapleton Stapleton-Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere on 2 February 1838.

The show was initially offered to actress Jean Stapleton, who turned it down stating that, after nine years of playing the ditsy but well-meaning Edith Bunker on All In The Family and Archie Bunker's Place, respectively, she did not want to be tied down to another television series.

Scolland's Hall is the gatehouse and was staffed by the Lords of Bedale, such as Bryan FitzAlan, Lord FitzAlan, and Miles Stapleton, Founder KG.

Sir Thomas Ballard's infantry brigade was deployed behind Meldrum and the cavalry regiments under Sir William Balfour and Sir Philip Stapleton behind Charles Essex.

It was originally staged on Broadway with Maureen Stapleton as Magnani's English was too limited at the time for her to star.

He stated that he became " born again " and that he had a vision from God while flying with Stapleton in his jet.

Jean Stapleton ( born Jeanne Murray ; January 19, 1923 ) is an American character actress of stage, television and film.

* Eugène Hus ( 1758 – 1823 ), born Pierre-Louis Stapleton, Franco-Belgian ballet dancer and choreographer

Samuel George Pearse was born on 16 July 1897 at Penarth, Glamorganshire, Wales to George Stapleton Pearse and his wife Sarah Ann.

Stapleton married Robert Thome Stapleton, a successful veterinarian, in 1948 and had four children: Gloria Lynn ( born 1950 ), Sydney Scott ( born 1951 ), Patricia Gordy ( born 1954 ) and Robert Michael ( born 1958 ).

J. Stapleton Roy ( Chinese: 芮效俭 ; Pinyin: Ruì Xiàojiăn ; born 1935 ) was a senior United States diplomat specializing in Asian affairs.

* 12 May-Basil Gerald Stapleton, World War II fighter pilot, is born in Durban

The early-19th-century writer Thomas Stapleton had argued she was a daughter of Matilda, born prior to her marriage to Duke William.

Francis Anthony " Frank " Stapleton ( born 10 July 1956 in Dublin ) is an Irish former football player and manager.

Crapp was born in St Columb Major, Cornwall, and began his career with Stapleton Cricket Club in Bristol, scoring a ' duck ' for the third team on his debut.

On June 21, 1917, Stapleton married Mabel Freeland, with whom he had two children, Lois Jane and Benjamin, Junior.

* June 21 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress ( d. 2006 )

Among its first students were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Julie Harris, Eli Wallach, Karl Malden, Patricia Neal, Mildred Dunnock, James Whitmore, and Maureen Stapleton.

The supporting cast of the film includes Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton, Gene Hackman, Ramon Bieri, Nicolas Coster and M. Emmet Walsh.

The cast included Elizabeth Taylor as Regina, Tom Aldredge as Horace, Dennis Christopher as Leo, Maureen Stapleton as Birdie, and Anthony Zerbe as Benjamin.

" A famous anecdote relates that one of his stage costars, Maureen Stapleton, told the director of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite, " I don't know what to do — I'm scared of him.

* 1951 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play – Maureen Stapleton

* 1951 Theatre World Award – Maureen Stapleton and Eli Wallach

He plans to set off a bomb in an attache case while over the Atlantic with the intent that his wife, Inez ( Maureen Stapleton ), will collect the insurance money.

* Maureen Stapleton as Inez Guerrero, wife of D. O.

** Golden Globe Award – Best Supporting Actress: Maureen Stapleton ( Tied with Karen Black for Five Easy Pieces )

** Oscar Award – Best Actress in Supporting Role: Maureen Stapleton

** BAFTA Film Award – Best Supporting Actress: Maureen Stapleton

He had a long romance with Maureen Stapleton, from 1968 to 1978.

* Lonelyhearts, starring Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan, Myrna Loy, Maureen Stapleton

In 1965, she starred in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams ' The Glass Menagerie, opposite Maureen Stapleton, Pat Hingle and George Grizzard.

Featured performers are Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton, E. G. Marshall, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton and Sam Waterston.

Their father, Arthur ( E. G. Marshall ), parts from their controlling and mentally unstable but artistically inclined mother, Eve ( Geraldine Page ), going on to marry a more " normal " but plainer woman Pearl ( Maureen Stapleton ).

* Maureen Stapleton as Pearl

Author, NPR commentator and political satirist Sarah Vowell explicitly mentions Interiors in her book Assassination Vacation during a comedic tangent about Maureen Stapleton playing Emma Goldman in the film Reds: " And remember Stapleton in that Woody Allen movie, Interiors?

Geraldine Page is all beige this and bland that so her husband divorces her and hooks up with noisy, klutzy Maureen Stapleton, who laughs too loud and smashes pottery and wears a blood-red dress to symbolize that she is Alive, capital A.

* Maureen Stapleton, American actress