In 853, at the age of four, Alfred is said to have been sent to Rome where, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, he was confirmed by Pope Leo IV who " anointed him as king ".

Although its function is unknown, it has been often suggested that the jewel was one of the æstels — pointers for reading — that Alfred ordered sent to every bishopric accompanying a copy of his translation of the Pastoral Care.

Alfred Tozzer sent Sapir a copy of Whorf's paper on " Nahuatl tones and saltillo ".

Famous political figures to be sent to the islands included Alfred Dreyfus and Henri Charrière, who managed to escape.

Frédéric Cuvier had received the specimen he described from his brother's stepson, Alfred Duvaucel, who had sent it " from the mountains north of India ".

The telegram sent by Samuel Morse | Samuel F. B. Morse from the Capitol in Washington to Alfred Vail in Baltimore in 1844: " What hath God wrought "

In 853, Æthelwulf sent his son Alfred, a child of about four years, to Rome.

After Snow White, Kreuk's agent sent an audition tape to screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who at the time were putting together the cast of a show they had created for the WB Network entitled Smallville.

Though Lt. J. W. Kittredge attempted the expropriation of Corpus Christi from the Southern forces, Maj. Alfred M. Hobby and troops sent the Union ships sailing away.

Following his victory at the Battle of Fisher's Hill Union general Philip Sheridan sent approximately 6, 000 troopers under Brigadier General Alfred Torbert into the Luray Valley.

For their own safety, Edward and his brother Alfred were sent to Emma's relatives in Normandy.

The horrors of the penal settlement were publicized during the Dreyfus Case, as the French army captain Alfred Dreyfus was unjustly convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island on 5 January 1895.

" In early 1858, Alfred Pretor ( 1840-1908 ), a spirited, good-looking friend of Symonds, sent Symonds a letter, telling him that he was having an affair with Vaughan ; and showed him several love letters.

It may be one of the " aestels " Alfred had sent to each bishopric with a copy of his translation of Pope Gregory the Great's book Pastoral Care.

He was writing up his theory in 1858 when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay which described the same idea, prompting immediate joint publication of both of their theories.

In 883 the English king Alfred the Great reportedly sent a mission and gifts to Saint Thomas ' tomb in India.

In conjunction with operations around Abercorn further down the trade route, this was enough to end the slave trade going east from Mweru, but not enough to bring Mwata Kazembe under British rule, and a military expedition had to be sent in 1899 from British Central Africa ( Nyasaland ) to do that job ( see the article on Alfred Sharpe for more details ).

In 1890 acting for Cecil Rhodes and the British South Africa Company ( BSAC ), Johnston sent Alfred Sharpe ( who would become his successor in Nyasaland ) to obtain a treaty with Msiri, King of Garanganze in Katanga.

Gesta Normannorum Ducum stated that King Cnut sent envoys to Duke Robert offering to settle half the Kingdom of England on Edward and Alfred.

Alfred Russel Wallace sent the first skin and skull of a bay cat from Sarawak to the British Museum of Natural History in 1855.

Rhodes suffered one of his few setbacks when, hearing of Belgian King Leopold II's designs on Katanga, he hastily sent the big game hunter Alfred Sharpe to obtain a treaty from its ruler, Msiri, producing the anomaly of the Congo Pedicle.

Rhodes sent emissaries Joseph Thomson, Frank Elliott Lochner and Alfred Sharpe ( again ) to make treaties with chiefs in the area west of Nyasaland.

Another Javan rhinoceros was shot on the island of Sumatra by Alfred Duvaucel, who sent the specimen to his stepfather Georges Cuvier, the famous French scientist.

" She sent him a book called The Essentials of Elocution by Alfred Ayres, Funk and Wagnals, New York, 1897.

In the year 883, though there is some debate over the year, King Alfred, because of his support and his donation of alms to Rome, received a number of gifts from the Pope Marinus.

The visit of the three pilgrim " Scots " ( i. e. Irish ) to Alfred in 891 is undoubtedly authentic.

The Chester Beatty Library houses the famous collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and decorative arts assembled by American mining millionaire ( and honorary Irish citizen ) Sir Alfred Chester Beatty ( 1875 – 1968 ).

See also F Hardy, Memoirs of Lord Charlemont ( London, 1812 ); Warden Flood, Memoirs of Henry Flood ( London, 1838 ); Francis Plowden, Historical Review of the State of Ireland ( London, 1803 ); Alfred Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography ( Dublin, 1878 ); Sir Jonah Barrington, Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation ( London, 1833 ); WJ O ' Neill Daunt, Ireland and her Agitators ; Lord Mountmorres, History of the Irish Parliament ( 2 vole., London, 1792 ); Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III ( 4 vols., London, 1845 and 1894 ); Lord Stanhope, Life of William Pitt ( 4 vols., London, 1861 ); Thomas Davis, Life of JP Curran ( Dublin, 1846 ) this contains a memoir of Grattan by DO Madden, and Grattan's reply to Lord Clare on the question of the Union ; Charles Phillips, Recollections of Curran and some of his Contemporaries ( London, 1822 ); JA Froude, The English in Ireland ( London, 1881 ); JG McCarthy, Henry Grattan: an Historical Study ( London, 1886 ); Lord Mahon's History of England, vol.

Mention of the battle is made in dozens of sources, in Old English, Latin, Irish, Welsh, Icelandic, and Middle English, and there are many later accounts or responses to the battle, including those by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Jorge Luis Borges.

Gokhale had visited Ireland and had arranged for an Irish nationalist, Alfred Webb, to serve as President of the Indian National Congress in 1894.

* Compendium of Irish Biography by Alfred Webb ( Dublin, 1878 );

Aged 14, Charlotte had given birth to her first child Constance, in Ceylon, from a relationship with Henry Alfred Selby, an Irish foreman of a tea planter.

For example, William Irish was the byline in Dime Detective Magazine ( February, 1942 ) on his 1942 story " It Had to Be Murder ", ( source of the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie Rear Window ) and based on H. G. Wells ' short story " Through a Window ".

Micheál Mac Liammóir ( 25 October 1899 – 6 March 1978 ), born Alfred Willmore, was an English-born Irish actor, dramatist, impresario, writer, poet and painter.

Locally-based musicians include American saxophonist Alfred " Pee Wee " Ellis and Irish folk singer Cara Dillon.

* A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers ( Alfred A. Knopf, 1983 )

* May 12 – Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet, British politician, art collector and philanthropist and honorary Irish citizen ( b. 1903 ).

* January 19-Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet, British politician, art collector and philanthropist and honorary Irish citizen ( d. 1994 )

Alfred Gresham Jones ( 1824 ?- 1913 ) was an Irish architect who designed Merrion Hall on Merrion Street Lower, now the Davenport hotel, in 1862 and designed the villa Verona in Queen's Park in 1873.

Canon Sydney Alfred MacEwan ( 19 October 190825 September 1991 ) was a Scottish tenor and singer of traditional Scottish and Irish songs.

* Songs of Old Ireland: A Collection of Fifty Irish Melodies with words by Alfred Perceval Graves and music arranged by Charles Villiers Stanford

* January 24-Sir Alfred Chester Beatty becomes the first honorary Irish citizen.

* Webb, Alfred, A Compendium of Irish Biography: Comprising Sketches of Distinguished Irishmen ( 1878 )

Alfred John Shout was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 8 August 1882, the son of English-born cook John Shout and his Irish wife Agnes ( née McGovern ).

His book The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies was published by Alfred A. Knopf in October 2010.

* The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

Sir Robert Alfred McCall, KCVO, KC ( 9 July 1849-April 1934 ) was an Irish lawyer.