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The English traveller Andrew Battel, wrote that when he was there in about 1610, that the predecessor of the unnamed king ruling at that time was named " Gembe " or Gymbe ( modernized as Njimbe ), A Dutch description published in 1625 said that a ruler who had died sometime before that date had ruled for 60 years and thus took the throne around 1565.
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The first European to visit Kabul was the 18th century English traveller George Foster, who described it as " the best and cleanest city in Asia ".
He was also the great nephew of both George Sandys ( 2 March 1577 – March 1644 ), an English traveller, colonist and poet ; and of Sir Edwin Sandys ( 9 December 1561 – October 1629 ), an English statesman and one of the founders of the London Company.
** Thomas Herbert, English traveller and historian ( d. 1682 )
* March 2 – George Sandys, English traveller ( d. 1644 )
* April – Andrew Boorde, English traveller ( b. 1490 )
In Western Europe the fashionable hour for dinner began to be incrementally postponed during the 18th century, to two and three in the afternoon, until at the time of the First French Empire an English traveller to Paris remarked upon the " abominable habit of dining as late as seven in the evening ".
In a cheap hostel on Khao San Road in Bangkok, Richard, a young English traveller, meets a strange Scotsman going by the pseudonym of Daffy Duck who leaves him a hand-drawn map of a supposed hidden beach located in the Gulf of Thailand that is inaccessible to tourists.
The botanist Peter Collinson and the English traveller Celia Fiennes.
The word " obelisk " as used in English today is of Greek rather than Egyptian origin because Herodotus, the Greek traveller, was one of the first classical writers to describe the objects.
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE ( 14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926 ) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist and spy who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her extensive travels in Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia.
In 1620 the English traveller Peter Munday described a carousel ride he saw in modern Bulgaria, then part of the Ottoman Empire.
The idea of such an anti-Ottoman alliance was not a new one-over a century before, Uzun Hassan, then ruler of part of Iran, had asked the Venetians for military aid-but none of the Safavids had made diplomatic overtures to Europe and Abbas ' attitude was in marked contrast to that of his grandfather, Tahmasp I, who had expelled the English traveller Anthony Jenkinson from his court on hearing he was a Christian.
Sir Robert Shirley ( c. 1581 – 13 July 1628 ) was an English traveller and adventurer, younger brother of Sir Anthony Shirley and of the adventurer Sir Thomas.
Sir Anthony Shirley ( or Sherley ) ( 1565 – 1635 ) was an English traveller, whose imprisonment in 1603 by King James I caused the British House of Commons to assert one of its privileges — freedom of its members from arrest — in a document known as The Form of Apology and Satisfaction.
Sir John Bowring, KCB ( Chinese translated name: 寶寧, 寶靈 or 包令 ) ( 17 October 1792 – 23 November 1872 ) was an English political economist, traveller, miscellaneous writer, polyglot, and the 4th Governor of Hong Kong.
Sir George Thomas Staunton, 2nd Baronet ( 26 May 1781 – 10 August 1859 ) was an English traveller and Orientalist.
For all his bluffness, Suvorov later told an English traveller that when the massacre was over he went back to his tent and wept.
For all his bluffness, Suvorov later told an English traveller that when the massacre was over he went back to his tent and wept.
Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges ( 22 October 1882-June 1959 ) was an English adventurer, traveller, and writer.
Edward Wortley Montagu ( 1713 – 29 April 1776 ) was an English author and traveller.
Bright had a special affection for Hungary and in 1815 he lived in Festetics Castle in Keszthely, where there is a large plaque: “ To the memory of the English physician scientist and traveller who was one of the pioneers in the accurate description of Lake Balaton .”
* William Bullock ( collector ), English traveller, naturalist and antiquarian
* probable date-Peter Mundy, English traveller ( born c. 1596 )
George Sandys ( 2 March 1577 – March 1644 ) was an English traveller, colonist and poet.
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* 1986 – Andrew Taylor, English footballer
André de Longjumeau ( also known as Andrew of Longjumeau in English ) was a 13th century Dominican missionary and diplomat and one of the most active Occidental diplomats in the East in the 13th century.
* 1930 – Andrew Sachs, English actor
In the English language, the first known use of the term is in Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, " He was a constant Catholic / All Lollard he hated and heretic.
* 1956 – Andrew Edge English musician
* 1977 – Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer
* 1979 – Andrew Buchan, English Actor
The following year William Wallace and Andrew de Moray raised forces to resist the occupation and under their joint leadership an English army was defeated at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
* 1963 – Andrew Ridgeley, English musician ( Wham!
* 1924 – Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer ( b. 1902 )
* 1958 – Andrew Gilbert-Scott, English race car driver
* 1961 – Andrew Fletcher, English singer and musician ( Depeche Mode )
* 1965 – Andrew Roachford, English singer and songwriter
* 1977 – Andrew Strauss, English cricket player
* 1863 – Andrew Stoddart, English cricketer ( d. 1915 )
* 1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, English musical theatre composer
* 1961 – Andrew Paul, English actor
* 1967 – Maxim Reality ( Keith Andrew Palmer ), English singer-songwriter ( The Prodigy )
* 1621 – Andrew Marvell, English poet ( d. 1678 )
In the 17th century the most important original odes in English are those of Abraham Cowley and Andrew Marvell.
* 1952 – Andrew Motion, English poet and Poet Laureate
The name of the genus, Pongo, comes from a 16th-century account by Andrew Battell, an English sailor held prisoner by the Portuguese in Angola, which describes two anthropoid " monsters " named Pongo and Engeco.
* My Husband, Bar Kokhba ( 2003 ), an English novel by Andrew Sanders
* 1297 – Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly-led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English.
* 1973 – Andrew Lincoln, English actor
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