It was April 1909 when Byng was promoted to major-general and, though he was placed on half pay, Byng with added income from editing the Cavalry Journal and serving as the first north Essex District Commissioner for the Boy Scouts purchased his first house, Newton Hall, in Dunmow, Essex.

* David R. Carrier, Stephen M. Deban and Jason Otterstrom, The face that sank the Essex: potential function of the spermaceti organ in aggression, Journal of Experimental Biology ' 205: 1755 – 1763, 2002.

Holmes and W Cole ; Archaeological Journal ( 1882 ); the Transactions of the Essex Field Club ; Archaeologia Cantiana.

DP was first described in 1928 by a forensic pathologist, Dr. Harrison Stanford Martland, who was the chief medical examiner of Essex County in Newark, New Jersey in a Journal of the American Medical Association article, in which he noted the tremors, slowed movement, confusion, and speech problems typical of the condition.

Harvey's note says that " the wiser sort " enjoy Hamlet, and implies that the Earl of Essex — executed in February 1601 for rebellion — was still alive.

In the latter part of his life — possibly about 1596, when he published his Wits Miserie and the World's Madnesse, which is dated from Low Leyton in Essex, and the religious tract Prosopopeia ( if, as seems probable, it was his ), in which he repents him of his " lewd lines " of other days — he became a Catholic and engaged in the practice of medicine, for which Wood says he qualified himself by a degree at Avignon in 1600.

The Speech to the Troops at Tilbury was delivered on 9 August Old Style, 19 August New Style 1588 by Queen Elizabeth I of England to the land forces earlier assembled at Tilbury in Essex in preparation of repelling the expected invasion by the Spanish Armada.

The Sudbury Mercury, owned by the Archant group, is delivered free to households, and the Suffolk Free Press, owned by Anglia Newspapers, is sold in shops around south Suffolk and north Essex.

In May 1904 he delivered two addresses in London on The Idea and Reality of Revelation, and Typical Forms of Christianity, as the Essex Hall Lectures ( published, 1904 ).

* PD1 / 1: This version was supplied exclusively to the City Coach Company of Brentwood, whose main service was an inter-urban run from Wood Green in East London to Southend-on-Sea in Essex, the twenty vehicles being delivered to City with bodies by Alexander, J. C. Beadle of Rochester and Charles Roberts of Wakefield, completed in 1946 / 7.

Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).

The force fell back on Essex and, after suffering another defeat at Benfleet, coalesced with Hastein's force at Shoebury.

The first clashes took place on 2 August, but little action took place for several days, as the King waited for all his forces to arrive and Essex waited for the fleet.

On 13 August, the Royalists began to attack in earnest, occupying several outposts on the east bank of the River Fowey, making it even more difficult for help to reach Essex.

The location of this famous battle is now claimed by some to be the village of Great Wratting, in Suffolk, which lies in the Stour Valley on the Icknield Way West of Colchester, and by a village in Essex.

After the sinking of the Essex of Nantucket by a whale, on November 20, 1820, ( an important source event for Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ) the survivors, in three small boats, resorted, by common consent, to cannibalism in order for some to survive.

He spent the summer of that year touring Essex and Somerset on a bicycle, explaining the Act at public meetings.

The river on the American side is all under the jurisdiction of Wayne County, Michigan, and the Canadian side is under the administration of Essex County, Ontario.

He invited Elizabeth to inspect her troops at Tilbury in Essex on 8 August.

Greater London was formally created by the London Government Act 1963, which took force on 1 April 1965, replacing the former administrative counties of Middlesex and London, adding the City of London, which was not under the London County Council, and absorbing parts of Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire.

However, he appeared 23 times in the Essex Second XI between 1962 and 1964, before concentrating entirely on football.

The word arose on the basis that the seven kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, Kent, East Anglia, Essex, Sussex and Wessex were the main polities of south Britain.

Harwich () is a town in Essex, England and one of the Haven ports, located on the coast with the North Sea to the east.

As a result, the council was finally established at a meeting in Essex, Massachusetts, United States on 23-26 March 1995.

Cook married Elizabeth Batts ( 1742 – 1835 ), the daughter of Samuel Batts, keeper of the Bell Inn, Wapping and one of his mentors, on 21 December 1762 at St. Margaret's Church in Barking, Essex.

He died on 28 October 1704, and is buried in the churchyard of the village of High Laver, east of Harlow in Essex, where he had lived in the household of Sir Francis Masham since 1691.

He died on 30 June 1919, in Witham, Essex.

In 1978 Roy Trubshaw, a student at Essex University in the UK, started working on a multi-user adventure game in the MACRO-10 assembly language for a DEC PDP-10.

MUD, better known as Essex MUD and MUD1 in later years, ran on the Essex University network until late 1987, becoming the first Internet multiplayer online role-playing game in 1980, when Essex University connected its internal network to ARPANet.

This left MIST, a derivative of MUD1 with similar gameplay, as the only remaining MUD running on the Essex University network, becoming one of the first of its kind to attain broad popularity.

Whitehouse created Enfield's character Stavros a London-based Greek kebab shop owner, and then Loadsamoney an archetypal Essex boy made good in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s ; he also appeared as Enfield's sidekick Lance on Saturday Live.

* The very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric.

Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.

The whole length of Essex bridge is one thousand and thirty feet and its breadth thirty-four.

The north portion of the Essex bridge was well worth the cost of construction, although it proved to be twice what was estimated in the beginning.

The Essex bridge was a toll crossing until 1868, when the County Commissioners laid out all the Merrimack bridges as highways.

In an early example of a Private Finance Initiative ( PFI ), under the Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Act 1988 control of the crossing passed from Kent and Essex county councils to Dartford River Crossing Limited in 1988, who would fund the construction of the QEII bridge and take on the remaining debt from construction of the tunnels.

The bridge has been featured briefly in the British films Four Weddings and a Funeral, Essex Boys, and the Harry Potter series.

Past this intersection, County Route 507 splits from Route 7 by heading north on River Road, County Route 699 heads to the south on Passaic Avenue, and Route 7 continues west, crossing the Passaic River on a lift bridge, known as the Bellrville Turnpike Bridge or Rutgers Street Bridge, into Belleville, Essex County, where the first section of Route 7 ends at an intersection with Route 21.

Beverly and Salem are separated by the Danvers River and Beverly Harbor, with three bridges, the Veterans Memorial Bridge ( former location of the historic Essex Bridge ), the MBTA railroad bridge, and the Kernwood Bridge, connecting the two cities.

Near the former wooden Putney Bridge, built in 1729 and replaced in 1886, the earl of Essex threw a bridge of boats across the river in 1642 in order to march his army in pursuit of Charles I, who thereupon fell back on Oxford.

Essex Building, erected 1756 – 60, is so named after its builder, James Essex the Younger ( 1722 – 1784 ), a local carpenter who had earlier erected the wooden bridge.

This story is false: the bridge was built of oak in 1749 by James Essex the Younger ( 1722 – 1784 ) to the design of the master carpenter William Etheridge ( 1709 – 1776 ), 22 years after Newton died.

It was first described by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1770, basing the name on the " bottle-nosed whales " seen by Pehr Kalm in his Travels into North America, and on Thomas Pennant's 1766 description of Samuel Dale's " bottle-head whale " found stranded above a bridge in Maldon, Essex, in 1717.

The bridge at the eastern end is Grattan Bridge, formerly known as Essex Bridge, named after Henry Grattan, the famous Irish parliamentarian of the 18th century.

In 1110 Matilda, wife of Henry I, reputedly took a tumble at the ford on her way to Barking Abbey, and ordered a distinctively bow-shaped, three-arched bridge to be built over the River Lea, The like of which had not been seen before ; the area became known variously as Stradford of the Bow, Stratford of the Bow, Stratford the Bow, Stratforde the Bowe, and Stratford-atte-Bow ( at the Bow )< ref >< cite > The Humanities Research Institute-Historical alternative names for Bow, London which over time has been shortened to Bow to distinguish it from Stratford Langthorne on the Essex bank of the Lea .< ref >< cite > How Stratford became Bow ( East London History )</ ref > Land and Abbey Mill were given to Barking Abbey for the continued maintenance of the bridge, who also maintained a chapel on the bridge dedicated to St Katherine, and occupied until the 15th century by a hermit.

The bridge was widened in 1741 and tolls were levied to defray the expense, but litigation over the maintenance lasted until 1834, when the bridge needed to be rebuilt and landowners agreed to pay half of the cost, with Essex and Middlesex sharing the other.

The bridge was again replaced in 1834, by the Middlesex and Essex Turnpike Trust, and in 1866 West Ham took responsibility for its upkeep and that of the causeway and smaller bridges that continued the route across the Lea.

The bridge was designed by William Etheridge, and built by James Essex in 1749.

The original " mathematical bridge " was another bridge of the same design, also designed by James Essex, crossing the Cam between Trinity and Trinity Hall colleges, where Garret Hostel bridge now stands.