Blanchard officially separated the college from any denominational support and was responsible for its new name, given in honor of trustee and benefactor Warren L. Wheaton.

Within the church one of two large commemorative memorials to the Wood family, is a marble bust of General Cornelius Wood who as benefactor was responsible for the major restoration of the church at the end of the 17th century.

# Vira Kerala Varma I ( 1125 – 1145 ); a great religious benefactor, responsible for the rebuilding of Padmanabhaswamy and the endowment of Suchindram Temples.

Similar to Maria Sinukuan of Pampanga's Mount Arayat and Maria Cacao on Cebu's Mount Lantoy, Maria Makiling is the guardian spirit of the mountain, responsible for protecting its bounty and thus, is also a benefactor for the townspeople who depend on the mountain's resources.

Carnegie was a large benefactor of the Tuskegee Institute under Booker T. Washington for African-American education.

" The article recounted Capp's days working for an unnamed " benefactor " with a miserly, swinish personality, who Capp claimed was a never-ending source of inspiration when it came time to create a new unregenerate villain for his comic strip.

Among his principal miracles are: ( 1 ) procuring of food for a sick monk and curing the wife of his benefactor ; ( 2 ) escape from hurt when surrounded by wolves ; ( 3 ) obedience of a bear which evacuated a cave at his biddings ; ( 4 ) producing a spring of water near his cave ; ( 5 ) repletion of the Luxeuil granary when empty ; ( 6 ) multiplication of bread and beer for his community ; ( 7 ) curing of the sick monks, who rose from their beds at his request to reap the harvest ; ( 8 ) giving sight to a blind man at Orleans ; ( 9 ) taming a bear, and yoking it to a plough.

* Daniel McLean McDonald-Founder of the BSR company and benefactor of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in the University of Cambridge.

Following the death of the club's principal benefactor,, in October 1927, the club's finances deteriorated to the extent that Manchester United would likely have gone bankrupt had it not been for James W. Gibson, who, in December 1931, invested £ 2, 000 and assumed control of the club.

In Prometheus Bound, this dynamic is transposed: Prometheus becomes the benefactor of humanity, while every character in the drama ( except for Hermes, a virtual stand-in for Zeus ) decries the Olympian as a cruel, vicious tyrant.

Free elections were a startling, and not altogether welcome, innovation for ordinary Paraguayans, who had always allied themselves with a patrón ( benefactor ) for security and protection.

" Zinj " is an ancient Arabic word for the coast of East Africa and " boisei " referred to Charles Boise, an anthropological benefactor of the Leakeys.

The university completed the James H. Clark Center for interdisciplinary research in engineering and medicine in 2003, named for benefactor, co-founder of Netscape, Silicon Graphics and WebMD, and former professor of electrical engineering James H. Clark.

Here he soon died in such debt that a benefactor kindly paid for his funeral.

The benefactor was aware of the political or social favors expected by the courtesan, the courtesan was aware of the price expected from them for those favors being carried out, and the two met one another's demands, an example being Madame de Pompadour.

By the late 19th century, and for a brief period in the early 20th century, courtesans had reached a level of social acceptance in many circles and settings, often even to the extent of becoming a friend and confidant to the wife of their benefactor.

In gratitude to his benefactor, Stravinsky also dedicated his Three Pieces for Clarinet ( October – November 1918 ) to Reinhart, who was an excellent amateur clarinetist.

The university was founded on January 22, 1876 and named for its benefactor, the philanthropist Johns Hopkins.

* Independent wealth ( e. g., Batman or the X-Men's benefactor Professor X ) or an occupation that allows for minimal supervision ( e. g., Superman's civilian job as a reporter ).

The centrepiece of the Yard is Corfield Court, named for the project's chief benefactor, Charles Corfield.

* Porter Hall-home of the math and science curriculum is named for alumnus, William A. Porter, the creator of E-Trade and a major benefactor of the school.

A circular garden at the entrance to the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum in Florida honors Burr, who was a shell collector as well as a benefactor and fund-raiser for the museum.

The Abbey now sits partly isolated in lawns, like a cathedral in its cathedral close, for the area surrounding the Abbey is protected from development by the Abbey Lawn Trust, originally funded by a United States benefactor in 1962.

After the close of the exposition, a benefactor purchased the entire chapel for installation in the crypt of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York in New York City.

In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.

Paul Mellon, a primary benefactor of the gallery and a member of its building committee, set to work with his assistant J. Carter Brown ( who became gallery director in 1969 ) to find an architect.

The noted engineer Theodore von Kármán, Parsons ' friend and benefactor, declared that the work of Parsons and his peers helped usher in the age of space travel.

In 1913, Anagarika Dharmapala took a sapling of the Sri Maha Bodhi to Hawai ' i, where he presented it to his benefactor, Mary Foster – who had funded much Buddhist missionary work.

Modern copyright law has been influenced by an array of older legal rights that have been recognized throughout history, including the moral rights of the author who created a work, the economic rights of a benefactor who paid to have a copy made, the property rights of the individual owner of a copy, and a sovereign's right to censor and to regulate the printing industry.

When a benefactor, Don Banks, asked Zinovieff for a synthesiser, Zinovieff and Cockerell decided to work together on building an instrument that was small, portable, but very powerful and flexible.

Bridget Bevan, known as Madam Bevan, was an educator, who was the main benefactor to the work of Griffith Jones, the father of the modern schooling system in Wales.

It appeared, then, that justice had not been done at the time to the pioneer work of the Southern Cross expedition, which had been carried out under the British flag and at the expense of a British benefactor.

He was well known as a philanthropist, using much of his fortune for charity work including setting up the Jane Hodge Foundation in memory of his mother and as a benefactor for Cardiff University from 1970 onwards ( one of the halls of residence now bears his name-Hodge Hall ).

The Lyre of Orpheus explores not only the world of early eighteenth century opera, but also follows Darcourt's research into the life of the benefactor and artist, Francis Cornish, leading to a discovery that forces Darcourt to conclude that a painting previously attributed to an unknown fifteenth century painter was in fact the work of Francis Cornish himself.

Stephen Wraysford is sent by his wealthy but disempassioned benefactor to work with René Azaire at his textile factory.

The work is dedicated to Walton's friend and benefactor, Gerald Berners.

Miss Garrett, who had been prominent in suffrage work and a benefactor of Bryn Mawr, left to President Thomas $ 15, 000, 000 to be disposed of as she saw fit.

Crispin Bates has noted that Morton's " systematic justification " for the separation of races, along with the work of Louis Agassiz, was also used by those who favoured slavery in the US, with the Charleston Medical Journal noting at his death that " We of the South should consider him as our benefactor for aiding most materially in giving to the negro his true position as an inferior race.

With becoming modesty, they are loath to assume the credit for what has been done, giving praise to God first for enabling them to carry our that work which He has put in the mind of their reverend benefactor, Leon Le Fevre to design and plan for the ,.”

At the end of the 11th century construction work began on the second cathedral, called ‘ Hermanowska ’, it is probable that Władysław I Herman was its benefactor.

In April 1882, Alcott's friend and benefactor Ralph Waldo Emerson was sick and bedridden.

The first president ( Henry Dunster ), the first benefactor ( John Harvard ), and the first schoolmaster ( Nathaniel Eaton ) of Harvard were all Cambridge University alumni, as was the then ruling ( and first ) governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop.

Paul V was a notable benefactor of the order.

Elihu Yale ( April 5, 1649 – July 8, 1721 ) was an American merchant and philanthropist, governor of the East India Company settlement at Madras and a benefactor of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which in 1718 was named Yale College in his honor.

With others, Bacon was appointed to investigate the charges against Essex, his former friend and benefactor.

Such was the hatred he henceforth conceived against his former benefactor, that he did his very utmost to effect Oldebarneveldt's ruin.

On November 30, 1860, Agassiz's daughter Pauline was married to Quincy Adams Shaw ( 1825 – 1908 ), a wealthy Boston merchant and later benefactor to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

The word " Maecenas ", in the sense of cultural benefactor, was the penultimate word used in the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee, on May 28, 2009.

After her abdication the queen came to reside in Rome, where she was confirmed in her baptism by the Pope, in whom she found a generous friend and benefactor, on Christmas Day, 1655.

She was a major benefactor of the University of California, Berkeley and its first woman Regent, serving on the board from 1897 until her death.

The painting was last sold at Gallerie Bernheim-Jeune in 1926 to Herbert May, husband of Sadie May, a benefactor of the Baltimore Museum of Art.

The bishop was a generous benefactor of learning.

She was the daughter of the inventor Lewis Miller, co-founder of the Chautauqua Institution and a benefactor of Methodist charities.

I was visiting my friend and generous benefactor, Prof. Edward C. Pickering.

In cases like this, a courtesan was solely dependent on her benefactor or benefactors financially, making her vulnerable ; Cora Pearl is a good example.

This was generally a safe affair, as both the benefactor's spouse and the courtesan's spouse usually were fully aware of the arrangement, and the courtesan was not solely dependent on the benefactor.