Thus, there was seen a need for a new law that would ensure the continuance of the succession following the death of the last legal heir under the Bill of Rights, being Princess Anne, guaranteeing the line of succession would continue in the Protestant line, and excluding any possible claims by the deposed James II or his son and daughter, James Francis Edward and Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart.

The line " There's this to say for blood and breath ,/ they give a man a taste for death " supplies the title for Peter O ' Donnell's 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for P. D. James ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh series.

On the death of Charles II his brother, a Roman Catholic, became James II.

Most important, each year from 1907 until James's death in 1910, James wrote to his friends in the Boston intelligentsia to request financial aid for Peirce ; the fund continued even after James died.

# The final piece of the puzzle, thermal transpiration, was theorized by Osborne Reynolds, but first published by James Clerk Maxwell in the last paper before his death in 1879.

James, who was supportive of Frederick, and had been seeking marriage between the new Prince of Wales and the Spanish Infanta, Maria Anna of Spain, since Prince Henry's death, began to see the Spanish Match as a possible means of achieving peace in Europe.

James Boswell saw Hume a few weeks before his death ( which was from some form of abdominal cancer ).

Many scholars consider the epistle to be written in the late 1st or early 2nd centuries, after the death of James the Just.

The Duke also insisted to his companions that his death be kept a secret until Louis was informed – the men were to journey from Saint James across the Pyrenees as quickly as possible, to call at Bordeaux to notify the Archbishop, and then to make all speed to Paris, to inform the King.

James would continue the grant after her death.

As a Democratic-Republican he was selected as the fifth Vice President of the United States ( 1813 – 1814 ), serving under James Madison, until his death a year and a half into his term.

* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.

After his death in 1955 James Dean was brought back to Fairmount and buried in Park Cemetery.

However, in May 2012 Judge James Taylor ruled that while Price had lived in Coleman's home after their marriage ended, their relationship at the time of his death failed to meet Utah ’ s standard for a common-law marriage.

Also, the writer of the Fourth Gospel, refers to the Sons of Zebedee ( that is, James and John ), while in a fishing trip after Jesus's death, refers to these two, but also refers to this " other disciple ".

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

After the death of Charles II in 1685, his Catholic brother King James II & VII was crowned.

What is known is that the crew of the ship Red Dragon, anchored off Sierra Leone, performed Hamlet in September 1607 ; that the play toured in Germany within five years of Shakespeare's death ; and that it was performed before James I in 1619 and Charles I in 1637.

After the suspicious death ( possibly on the orders of the Duke of Albany ) of his elder son, David, Duke of Rothesay in 1402, Robert, fearful for the safety of his younger son, the future James I, sent him to France in 1406.

With the death of James III in 1488 at the Battle of Sauchieburn, his successor James IV successfully ended the quasi-independent rule of the Lord of the Isles, bringing the Western Isles under effective Royal control for the first time.

This involved even death for Christians such as Stephen () and James, son of Zebedee ().

`` Mr. Wolfe had been in declining health for many years and death was not unexpected ''.

However he had lost all control of his followers and in one incident, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, Lord Kilwarden, reviled as chief prosecutor of William Orr in 1797, but also the judge who granted habeas corpus to Wolfe Tone in 1798, was dragged from his carriage and hacked to death.

Several soldiers in the platoon including Junior, Bunny and Wolfe, are killed, while O ' Neill barely escapes death by hiding under a dead soldier.

Emily Wolfe ( 1892 – 1980 ), the last of the Wolfes to live in Kildare, continued her family tradition of annually laying flowers at Tone's grave until her death.

His journals, which were written for his family and intimate friends were published after his death by his son, William Theobald Wolfe Tone ( 1791 – 1828 ), who was educated by the French government and served with some distinction in the armies of Napoleon, emigrating after Waterloo to America, where he died, in New York City, on 10 October 1828 at the age of 37.

Despite this, Perkins served as Wolfe's literary executor after his early death in 1938 and was considered by Wolfe to be his closest friend.

In his fictional biographies of Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolfe, William S. Baring-Gould puts forth an argument that Adler and Holmes reconnected after the latter's supposed death at Reichenbach Falls.

" After being denied a soldier's death by firing squad, Wolfe Tone cheated the hangman by cutting his own throat.

Unfortunately, the ‘ death of Wolfe ’ was found to be inaccurate and had to be re-designed.

Two more Lord Darcy novels, Ten Little Wizards ( 1988 ), and A Study in Sorcery ( 1989 ), were written by Garrett's friend Michael Kurland after Garrett's death — the two names manifestly modeled on those of famous detective novels by, respectively, Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle, as that of Too Many Magicians was modeled on a famous novel by Rex Stout ( whose Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have counterparts in the novel's universe in the Marquis de London and his Special Investigator, Lord Bontriomphe ).

Wolfe remained at Donoughmore until 1820, but, rejected by the woman for whom he gave up his academic career, and with his only real friend in County Tyrone now dead ( Meredith ), he moved to Cobh, where he remained until his death three years later from consumption ( tuberculosis ), caught from a cow at the age of 31.

Soon after Southwell's death, St Peter's Complaint with other poems appeared, printed by John Windet for John Wolfe, but without the author's name.

* Author Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, who wrote numerous Victorian era novels, lived in Bandon until her death of typhoid fever on 24 Jan 1897.

Wolfe was well respected by his men, to such an extent that to commemorate the death of Wolfe in the battle the 47th began wearing a black line in their lace and also gained the nickname " Wolfe's Own ".

After his return to the United States, Wolfe became a close political associate of factional leader Jay Lovestone, who became the leader of the American Communist Party following the death of C. E.

Donald Wolfe, an author who began work on The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe shortly before Murray's death, theorized that everything in her story was a lie, including her retiring for bed late Saturday evening ( with Monroe's approval ) and the 3: 00 a. m. awakening and phone call to Dr. Greenson.

Feeling that Wolfe does not care about the fact that the kids are still grieving over the death of their father, Zoe yells at him, right before they are then attacked by a pair of masked ninjas, whom Wolfe eventually defeats.

Despite the hopefulness of Wolfe ’ s artistic drive, he becomes the story's tragic hero, as his yearning for a better life leads to his imprisonment and ultimate death.

The death of James Wolfe | General Wolfe after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, in which Britain defeated the French to take Canada

The Death of General Wolfe is a well-known 1770 painting by Anglo-American artist Benjamin West depicting the death of British General James Wolfe during the 1759 Battle of Quebec of the Seven Years ' War.