* January 17 – Robert Fludd, English Rosicrucian and Paracelsian physicist ( d. 1637 )

* Bernard, Christian ( 2001 ) Rosicrucian Order AMORC: Questions and Answers Grand Lodge of the English Language Jurisdiction, AMORC, San Jose, California, ISBN 978-1-893971-02-8 ; based upon the earlier versions by Harve Spencer Lewis 1929 and following, and Heindel, Max ( 1910 ) ' The Rosicrucian philosophy in questions and answers M. A.

* James Brown Craven, Doctor Fludd ( Robertus de Fluctibus ), the English Rosicrucian: Life and Writings, Kirkwall: William Peace & Son, 1902.

* Crowborough is also home of the English Grand Lodge for Europe and Africa of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC.

In North America, the largest Chapter in the world is located at 1342 Naglee Ave. ; the headquarters of the English Grand Lodge for the Americas owns the Rosicrucian Park in San Jose, California, founded in 1927, which includes the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, the fifth planetarium built in the USA ( and the first to have a US-built star projector, built by Dr. Harvey Spencer Lewis ), the Rosicrucian Peace Garden, Rosicrucian Research Library, Grand Temple, Administration Building, Fountain Plaza and Gardens.

2009, the centennial year of H. Spencer Lewis's initiation in Toulouse, saw growth in membership in the English Grand Lodge for the Americas and very active participation in on-line activities including Facebook, Twitter, online Discussion groups, a social networking site, podcasts and Rosicrucian TV on YouTube.

The Imperator dedicated the Rosicrucian Park's newest institution, the Rosicrucian Peace Garden, designed according to examples from Egypt's 18th Dynasty by Grand Master Emeritus of the English Grand Lodge for Australia, New Zealand and Asia, Peter Bindon.

In the United Kingdom the public magazine is named Rosicrucian Beacon and is published quarterly by the " English speaking jurisdiction for Europe, Africa and the Middle East of the Rosicrucian Order AMORC.

* The English Grand Lodge for the Americas began a series of public podcasts in 2006 and launched Rosicrucian TV on YouTube in 2009.

You can read Rosicrucian Digest issues at the web site of the English Grand Lodge of the Americas.

The list contained here, which should be perceived as unofficial, is adapted from the Rosicrucian Home Study Lessons section of the Web version of the Mastery of Life published by the English Grand Lodge for the Americas.

* The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception ( English online edition )

John Heydon ( 10 September 1629 – c. 1667 ) was an English Neoplatonist occult philosopher, Rosicrucian, astrologer and attorney.

Rosicrucian sources, including Heydon's own English Physician's Guide and Frederick Talbot's The Wise Man's Crown, give a florid biography for Heydon, in which he is descended from a King of Hungary.

Randolph himself was greatly influenced by the work of English Rosicrucian and scholar of phallicism, Hargrave Jennings.

Rosicrucian Park is the headquarters of the English Grand Lodge for the Americas of AMORC, located in San Jose, California.

Just as important was the influence of the 19th century English designer William Morris, who had argued that art should meet the needs of society and that there should be no distinction between form and function.

English country dance survived well beyond the Baroque era and eventually spread in various forms across Europe and its colonies, and to all levels of society.

As UCLA law professor Stephen Yeazell has pointed out, the most likely reason is that the abysmally poor transportation, communications, and administrative apparatus of medieval times made it impossible for the English sovereign to directly manage the entire country in terms of individuals ; it was easier to structure society by imposing obligations upon groups which were enforced by the sporadic use of force.

Chancery cases on group litigation after 1700 were a totally incoherent mess, which Yeazell has explained by pointing to the trends towards fragmentation and individualism in English society during that period ; the resulting societal pressures ultimately led to the Reform Act 1832.

He uses the tales and the descriptions of its characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church.

The colony became a slave society and cultivated tobacco as a cash crop, although English immigrants continued to arrive.

George is brought up to be a proper and patriotic member of English society.

Because responsibility for collecting taxes lay in the hands of the gentry, the English kings needed the help of that stratum of society in order to ensure a continued stream of revenue.

Although elves could be considered to be beautiful and potentially helpful beings in some sections of English-speaking society throughout its history, Old English evidence also attests to alignments of elves with demons, as for example in line 112 of Beowulf.

Since at least the 1960s, when Marc Bloch's Feudal Society ( 1939 ) was first translated into English in 1961, many medieval historians have included a broader social aspect that includes not only the nobility but all three estates of the realm, adding the peasantry bonds of manorialism and the estates of the Church ; this is sometimes referred to as " feudal society " since it encompasses all members of society into the feudal system.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Horace Round and Frederic William Maitland, both historians of medieval Britain, arrived at different conclusions as to the character of English society before the Norman Conquest in 1066.

The method combined empiricism and inductivism in a new way that was to imprint its signature on many of the distinctive features of modern English society.

Some described lower-middle class life ( Kipps ; The History of Mr Polly ), leading him to be touted as a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay ( 1909 ), a diagnosis of English society as a whole.

In the latter novels, industrial society becomes the center of this conflict as the backward Scottish nationalists and the " advanced " English have to arise from chaos to create unity.

The English Civil War and the Cromwellian dictatorship had taken place, and he felt absolute authority vested in a monarch, whose subjects obeyed the law, was the basis of a civilized society.

The royalty and nobility then found Lollardy to be a threat not only to the Church, but to English society in general.

This group moved easily between Welsh and English societies and languages, occupying important offices for the Marcher Lords while maintaining their position as uchelwyr — nobles descended from the pre-conquest Welsh royal dynasties — in traditional Welsh society.

After Owain's death, there was little resistance to English rule until, in the 16th century, the Tudor dynasty, whilst allowing Welshmen to become more prominent in English society, saw Owain's revolt as a catastrophe for Wales.

English is sometimes spoken by many professionals and those working in the business or governmental sectors of society.

Like the English poll tax, the French capitation tax was assessed on rank – for taxation persons, French society was divided in twenty-two " classes ", with the Dauphin ( a class by himself ) paying 2, 000 livres, princes of the blood paying 1500 livres, and so on down to the lowest class, composed of day laborers and servants, who paid 1 livre each.

* The Round is the website of the Cambridge University English Dance society, and an excellent resource on e-ceilidh.

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

* 1922 – Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways ( d. 2006 )

* 1720 – Samuel Whitbread, English politician and brewer, founded Whitbread ( d. 1796 )

* 1933 – Keith Duckworth, English engineer, founded Cosworth ( d. 2005 )

Ajmer is notable for its public schools formed in accordance with the precepts of English public schools, amongst which are Mayo College, founded by the British Raj in 1875 to educate the children of Rajputana's royalty and nobles.

In 1965, he founded the Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications and began his monumental work on the Talmud, including translation into Hebrew, English, Russian, and various other languages.

The Cyprus legal system is founded on English law, and is therefore familiar to most international financiers.

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

Commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good.

* 1951 – Richard Desmond, English publisher and businessman, founded Northern & Shell

Daniil Aleksandrovich, the youngest son of Alexander Nevsky, founded the principality of Moscow ( known as Muscovy in English ), which eventually expelled the Tatars from Russia.

The first entirely Catholic English language publication published in Buenos Aires, The Southern Cross is an Argentine newspaper founded on January 16, 1875 by Dean Patricio Dillon, an Irish immigrant, a deputy for Buenos Aires Province and president of the Presidential Affairs Commission amongst other positions.

One of the most widespread is the international organization Theatresports, which was founded by Keith Johnstone, an English director who wrote what many consider to be the seminal work on the relationship between status, story telling and improvisational acting, Impro.

The CISPR ( Comité International Spécial des Perturbations Radioélectriques ) – in English, the International Special Committee on Radio Interference – is one of the groups founded by the IEC.

* 1954 – Len Davies, English wrestling promoter, founded Real Quality Wrestling

* 1910 – Mary Whitehouse, English activist, founded the National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association ( d. 2001 )

* 1931 – Lawrie Dring, English scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts ( d. 2012 )

* 1947 – Ron Dennis, English businessman, founded McLaren Automotive

* 1647 – Thomas Hooker, English minister, founded the Colony of Connecticut ( b. 1586 )

* 1859 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian and minister, founded Lunn Poly ( d. 1939 )

* 1940 – Clive Sinclair, English inventor and businessman, founded Sinclair Radionics and Sinclair Research

He founded York ( now Toronto ) and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as the courts, trial by jury, English common law, freehold land tenure, and in abolishing slavery.

* 1882 – Geoffrey de Havilland, English engineer and businessman, founded the de Havilland Aircraft Company ( d. 1965 )