Encouraged to study music by his father, he was sponsored as a young composer by Sir Peter Beckford, a wealthy Englishman who took him to England to advance his studies.

In 1766, Sir Peter Beckford ( 1740 – 1811 ), a wealthy Englishman and cousin of the novelist William Thomas Beckford, twice Lord Mayor of London, visited Rome.

The oldest-born star baritone known for sure to have made solo gramophone discs was the Englishman Sir Charles Santley ( 1834 – 1922 ).

The Englishman Sir John Acton, who in 1779 was appointed director of marine, won Maria Carolina's favour by supporting her scheme to free Naples from Spanish influence, securing rapprochement with Austria and Great Britain.

* Sir Alliott Verdon Roe OBE, FRAeS-He was the first Englishman to make a powered flight ( in 1908 at Brooklands ) and the first Englishman to fly an all-British machine a year later, on Walthamstow Marshes

As a mathematician, he was the only Englishman after Sir Isaac Newton and Roger Cotes capable of holding his own with the Bernoullis, but a great part of the effect of his demonstrations was lost through his failure to express his ideas fully and clearly.

Finally Chatelmorant fought with Sir William Farrington, the former receiving a dangerous wound in the thigh, for which the Englishman was greatly blamed, as being an infraction of the rules of the tourney, but an accident was pleaded just as in the case of the 1380 duel between Gauvain Micaille and Joachim Cator.

* An Englishman in Greece with introduction by Sir Rennell Rodd at Internet Archive

Sir Richard Arkwright ( 23 December 1732 – 3 August 1792 ), was an Englishman who, although the patents were eventually overturned, is often credited with inventing the spinning frame, later renamed the water frame following the transition to water power.

On the right Olivier de Clisson, on the left the Englishman Sir Robert Knolles, in the centre Montfort and the Englishman Chandos.

Pitman shorthand is a system of shorthand for the English language developed by Englishman Sir Isaac Pitman ( 1813 – 1897 ), who first presented it in 1837.

Notable examples of social mobility include Pierre Bérégovoy who started working at the age of 16 as a metal worker and later became Prime Minister of France, Ramsay MacDonald the illegitimate son of a farm labourer and a housemaid who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Sir Joseph Cook, an Englishman who had no schooling and worked as a coal miner at the age of nine and went on to become Prime Minister of Australia.

Le Val Rahmeh was established in 1905 by Englishman Sir Percy Radcliffe, the first owner of the gardens, and named for his wife.

The first chancellor was Sultan Shah Jahan Begum, a prominent Muslim noblewoman, and Sir Syed invited an Englishman, Theodore Beck, to serve as the first college principal.

The account of the insurrection from an Englishman named Sir Edwin Pears both describes the atrocities in gruesome detail and reveals British surprise at their extent.

During his time as Minister of Railways and Canals, Dunning was a staunch supporter of Sir Henry Thornton, the U. S .- born Englishman who, in 1922 had taken over the presidency of the Canadian National Railways.

In 1595, Englishman Sir Francis Drake attacked San Juan with his fleet.

Dell ' Arcano del Mare by Sir Robert Dudley is a 17th century maritime encyclopedia, the sixth part of which comprises a maritime atlas of the entire world, which is the first such in print, the first made by an Englishman, and the first to use the Mercator projection.

Sir Bobby Robson had been appointed as the new manager of Lisbon club Sporting Clube de Portugal and the Englishman required a local coach with a good command of English to work as his interpreter.

# " The Earliest Englishman " by Sir Arthur Smith-Woodward

* Sir Politic Would-Be – ridiculous Englishman.

After Cahir O ' Doherty was killed and his land seized, the keep was granted to Sir Arthur Chichester, who then leased it to Englishman Henry Vaughan, were it was repaired and lived in by the Vaughan family until 1718.

They in turn commissioned a classically-styled design from William B. Durgin's of Concord, New Hampshire, crafted by the Englishman Rowland Rhodes.

* Gill Hill – named for Englishman Mark Gill, whose abandoned homestead spurned ghost stories and legends of notoriety before burning and the land became a county reforestation area in the 1920s.

* Hill, Christopher, God's Englishman, Penguin 1970.

Parts of the 1995 film The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, starring Hugh Grant were filmed in the village.

The newspaper had falsely claimed that Grant verbally abused a young extra with a " foul-mouthed tongue lashing " on the set of The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.

It was also featured in a 1950 Western, Apache Drums, at the conclusion of the 1945 film The Corn Is Green, starring Bette Davis, and at the conclusion of the 1995 film The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain starring Hugh Grant.

Two years later she again appeared with Grant in the comedy The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain is a 1995 film written by Ivor Monger and directed by Christopher Monger.

* Englishman Who Went Up A Hill – Backsights Magazine ( Surveyors Historical Society ), originally published in Professional Surveyor, Nov ./ Dec.

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At the end, Hill and Surtees had the only healthy cars, and the Englishman claimed his second win of the season, now five points ahead of Surtees, and seven ahead of Clark in the Championship standings.

Schenken was 3rd, with Wisell pipping Hill for 4th place-the Englishman was another to suffer a puncture in the dying stages and Pescarolo finished 6th in his March.

In the United Kingdom geographers historically regarded mountains as hills greater than above sea level, which formed the basis of the plot of the 1995 film The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.

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In UK they recruited Englishman Tony Hill on rhythm guitar.

More recent cinemagoers may have seen him as the " mad old man " in Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ), as Reverend Jones in The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain ( 1995 ), and as the Minister in Very Annie Mary ( 2001 )

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Taff's Well is the original location of the story that inspired the film The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, which was written and directed by Taff's Well natives Ivor and Christopher Monger.