Without Stevenson, Sterne might have been a more decorous parish priest, but then might never have written Tristram Shandy.

Benton Harbor was founded by Henry C. Morton, Sterne Brunson and Charles Hull, who all now have or have had schools named after them.

* In Laurence Sterne ´ s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Volume I, Chapter II, there is a reference to the homunculus: "(...) the animal spirits, whose business it was to have escorted and gone hand-in-hand with the homunculus, and conducted him safe to the place destined for his reception.

" An early acquaintance with Lawrence Sterne resulted in Combe's anonymous Letters supposed to have been written by Yorick and Eliza ( 1779 ).

Capp has been compared, at various times, to Mark Twain, Dostoevski, Jonathan Swift, Lawrence Sterne and Rabelais.

His great-grandfather Richard Sterne had been the Master of the college as well as the Archbishop of York.

" Capp has been compared, at various times, to Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jonathan Swift, Lawrence Sterne, and Rabelais.

This is not entirely accurate, for two ( of the nine ) volumes of Tristram Shandy had already been published in 1759 before Sterne moved to Coxwold.

In 1833, in the living room of the Adolphus Sterne House in Nacogdoches, Houston had been baptized into the Catholic faith in order to qualify under the existing law for property ownership in Coahuila y Tejas.

From 1642 Richard Sterne held the rectory of Yeovilton before going on to become Archbishop of York.

Laurence Sterne ( 24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768 ) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman.

Jaques Sterne was a powerful clergyman but a mean-tempered man and a rabid politician.

The clergyman Laurence Sterne consciously set out to imitate Jonathan Swift with his Tristram Shandy ( 1759 – 1767 ).

Laurence Sterne was a clergyman, and he consciously set out to imitate Jonathan Swift with his Tristram Shandy ( 1759 – 1767 ).

* Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 1768 ), an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman

It was immortalised both on record and on a film that played in US theatres for a week in 1964 as well as being the subject of books written by cast members William Redfield and Richard L. Sterne.

Laurence Sterne was born 24 November 1713 in Clonmel, County Tipperary.

His father, Roger Sterne, was an Ensign in a British regiment recently returned from Dunkirk.

Roger's regiment was disbanded on the day of Sterne ’ s birth, and within six months the family had returned to Yorkshire in northern England.

The first decade of Sterne ’ s life was spent moving from place to place as his father was reassigned throughout Ireland.

In 1724, his father took Sterne to Roger's wealthy brother, Richard, so that Sterne could attend Hipperholme Grammar School near Halifax ; Sterne never saw his father again as Roger was ordered to Jamaica where he died of a fever in 1731.

Sterne was admitted to a sizarship at Jesus College, Cambridge, in July 1733 at the age of 20.

Shortly thereafter Sterne was awarded the vicarship living of Sutton-on-the-Forest in Yorkshire ( 1713 – 1768 ).

Sterne ’ s life at this time was closely tied with his uncle, Dr. Jaques Sterne, the Archdeacon of Cleveland and Precentor of York Minster.

Sterne ’ s uncle was an ardent Whig, and urged Sterne to begin a career of political journalism which resulted in some scandal for Sterne and, eventually, a terminal falling-out between the two men.

It was while living in the countryside, having failed in his attempts to supplement his income as a farmer and struggling with tuberculosis, that Sterne began work on his most famous novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the first volumes of which were published in 1759.

Sterne was at work on his celebrated comic novel during the year that his mother died, his wife was seriously ill, and he was ill himself with consumption.

Sterne continued his comic novel, but every sentence, he said, was “ written under the greatest heaviness of heart .” In this mood, he softened the satire and recounted details of Tristram's opinions, eccentric family and ill-fated childhood with a sympathetic humour, sometimes hilarious, sometimes sweetly melancholic — a comedy skirting tragedy.

Sterne was lucky to attach himself to a diplomatic party bound for Turin, as England and France were still adversaries in the Seven Years ' War.

* August-Laurence Sterne is ordained.

* March 18 – Laurence Sterne, Irish writer ( b. 1713 )

* March 18-Laurence Sterne, novelist

It was published on 27 February, and on 18 March Sterne died.

Sterne graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in January 1737 ; and returned in the summer of 1740 to be awarded his Master of Arts degree.

Richard Sterne ( c. 1596 – 1683 ) was a Church of England priest, Archbishop of York from 1664 to 1683.

* Richard Sterne ( bishop ) ( c. 1596 – 1683 ), a Church of England priest and Archbishop of York

* 1910 – Hedda Sterne, Romanian-American painter ( d. 2011 )

Diderot also contributed to literature, notably with Jacques le fataliste et son maître ( Jacques the Fatalist and his Master ), which emulated Laurence Sterne in challenging conventions regarding novels and their structure and content, while also examining philosophical ideas about free will.

Sterne died in London after years of fighting consumption.

During this period Sterne never lived in one place for more than a year.

Sterne married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741.

Subsequently Sterne did duty both there and at Sutton.