On January 22, 1829, at the age of 35, Houston married 19-year-old Eliza Allen, the daughter of the well-connected planter Colonel John Allen ( 1776 – 1833 ) of Gallatin, Tennessee, who was a friend of Andrew Jackson.

" According to John Hills, children of wealthy and well-connected parents usually have a decisive advantage over other types of children, and he notes that " advantage and disadvantage reinforce themselves over the life cycle, and often on to the next generation " so that successful parents pass along their wealth and education to succeeding generations, making it difficult for others to climb up a social ladder.

Undeterred, Susan introduces The Kelly Affair to a flamboyant, well-connected rock producer, Ronnie " Z-Man " Barzell ( John LaZar ), who coaxes them into an impromptu performance at one of his outrageous parties ( after a set by real-life band Strawberry Alarm Clock ).

We the undersigned protest the year 2000 Guggenheim grant to well-known author Rick Moody, because it exemplifies the practice of giving financial assistance to already successful and affluent writers, well-connected, who clearly don ’ t need the help — while other writers abjectly struggle — and because this runs counter to the implicit charitable purpose behind the tax-exempt status of a foundation like John Simon Guggenheim.

The well-connected Blackborne, grandson of Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London, never settled his grant ( nor even visited Florida ), and eventually Blackborne's plantation was regranted to John Graham, a Georgia Loyalist fleeing the Revolutionary War.

Gardiner was a noted and well-connected literary figure, particularly in London in the years around Second World War, though very much in the tradition of the literary amateur.

Her family was well-connected: sister Ada Mary married Admiral Lord Charles Scott, son of the Duke of Buccleuch ; brother Sir Charles Ryan was a noted Melbourne surgeon and for a time Turkish consul in London ( and whose daughter became Baroness Casey ).

At the age of forty-five, Bacon married Alice Barnham, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a well-connected London alderman and MP.

He rejects the notion of protection by senior officers on the grounds that Scott was not important or well-connected enough to warrant this.

In essence, he was a retired and well-connected gentleman of considerable resources who, by then retired from the political and military spheres, decided to fund his own historical project.

Hortense was introduced as a relatively well-connected member of her family.

William was a successful, well-connected and wealthy London lawyer who died in 1534, and Joyce was the daughter of courtier Sir Edmund Denny and the sister of Sir Anthony Denny, who was the principal gentleman of King Henry VIII's privy chamber.

While the banking system evolved in the Low Countries, it was quickly incorporated by the well-connected English, stimulating English economic output.

King Odo was his grand-uncle and King Rudolph the son-in-law of his grandfather, King Robert I. Hugh was born into a well-connected and powerful family with many ties to the reigning nobility of Europe.

It was also at this time that some saw " the Egyptians " of the EIJ begin to exert an influence on Osama bin Laden, who at the time was known as a wealthy and well-connected fundraiser for the jihad in Afghanistan.

Among other things, so that he would not be on the cross for more than a few hours before the Sabbath arrived when it was required by law that Jews be taken down, so that one of his supporters, who was on hand, would give him water ( to quench his thirst ) that was actually laced with a drug to make him unconscious, and so that Joseph of Arimathea, a well-connected supporter, would collect him off the cross while still alive ( but appearing dead ) so that he could be secretly nursed back to health.

Florence Nightingale was born into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia, near the Porta Romana at Bellosguardo in Florence, Italy, and was named after the city of her birth.

Newton was a well-connected, energetic educational reformer.

The primary reason for retaining such a large force was that demobilizing the army would put 1, 500 officers, many of whom were well-connected in Parliament, out of work.

Despite Lord Hastings ' less-than-stellar opinion of Raffles before ( which had necessitated his trip to England to clear his name at the end of his tenure as Governor-General of Java ), the now well-connected and successful Raffles was able to secure the permission to set up a settlement where in Malaysian history the name Lion City was applied and was in a strategically advantageous position.

She promoted her campaign through her well-connected uncle and in 1916 she married Tadeusz Łempicki ( 1888 – 1951 ) in St. Petersburg — a well-known ladies ' man, gadabout, and lawyer by title, who was tempted by the significant dowry.

Profumo was a well-connected politician with a good war record, and ( despite Margesson's above-mentioned outburst ) was highly regarded in the Conservative party.

Even with cacao harvesting becoming a regular business, only royalty and the well-connected could afford to drink this expensive import.

Just across the street were the oldest brownstones in the area, owned by people such as the well-connected Loew Brothers and William Orth.

The accomplished and politically well-connected naturalist Archibald Menzies complained that his servant had been pressed into service during a shipboard emergency ; sailing master Joseph Whidbey had a competing claim for pay as expedition astronomer ; and Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford, whom Vancouver had disciplined for numerous infractions and eventually sent home in disgrace, proceeded to harass him publicly and privately.

even a well-connected abbess and acknowledged prophet does not fit the usual stereotype of this time.

By contrast, " Millionaire's Row " refers to the expensive box seats that attract the rich, the famous and the well-connected.

His name has become a byword in many languages for a well-connected and wealthy patron, a role which he is celebrated for in the two poems, the Elegiae in Maecenatem written after his death and collected in the Appendix Vergiliana.

Rats In The Grain presents evidence that the U. S. Department of Justice often subjugated itself to ADM's political power and well-connected attorneys in prosecuting Whitacre.

If 10 of those mutants are viable genotypes that may reproduce ( and some of whose offspring or grandchilden may mutate back into AGGT again ), we would consider that sequence a well-connected node in the cloud.

The analogue of fitness for a quasispecies is the tendency of nearby relatives within the cloud to be well-connected, meaning that more of the mutant descendants will be viable and give rise to further descendants within the cloud.

Pre-modern female rhetoricians, outside of Socrates ' friend Aspasia, are rare ; but medieval rhetoric produced by women either in religious orders, such as Julian of Norwich ( d. 1415 ), or the very well-connected Christine de Pizan ( 1364 ?- 1430?

Next he needed to gain a praetorship, carrying the Imperium, but non-patricians and the less well-connected had to serve in at least one intermediary post as an aedile or tribune.

The well-connected Duff family, which held fundraisers for Daley, secured nearly $ 100 million from city-related contracts, partly by running a firm falsely listed as woman-owned.

It has been described by prominent evangelical Christians as one of the most politically well-connected conservative Christian organizations in the U. S.

Estêvão da Gama married Isabel Sodré, a daughter of João Sodré ( also known as João de Resende ), scion of a well-connected family of English origin.

The fraudster meets the victim, and must be able to act the part of a well-connected and experienced loan broker.

Most of the sea trade happens through the Kandla and Jawaharlal Nehru Port ( Nhava Sheva ) in the neighboring states, which are well-connected to MP by road and rail networks.

Lobbying in the United States describes paid activity in which special interests hire well-connected professional advocates, often lawyers, to argue for specific legislation in decision-making bodies such as the United States Congress.

Ronald Hutton suggests following the 18th-century Welsh clergyman antiquary John Pettingall that it is merely an Anglicisation of Gŵyl Awst, the Welsh name of the " feast of August ".

The antiquary John Leland ( 1506 – 1552 ) as well as John Bale believed him to be Welsh, but most modern scholars, beginning with G. L. Kittredge in 1894, assume that he was Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire, who was a knight, land-owner and Member of Parliament .< ref > Riddy, Felicity </ Ref >.

* March 12 – John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer ( d. 1697 )

** John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquary ( d. 1652 )

* June 7 – John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer ( b. 1626 )

Ultimately John became a distinguished antiquary, publishing numerous books and articles.

The addition of spices such as cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg was, according to the English antiquary John Timbs, " in token of the offerings of the Eastern Magi.

The antiquary John Brand claimed that in Elizabethan and Jacobean-era England they were known as minched pies, but other names include mutton pie, and starting in the following century, Christmas pie.

The " Black Prince " sobriquet is first found in writing in two manuscript notes made by the antiquary John Leland in the 1530s or early 1540s: in one, Leland refers in English to " the blake prince "; in the other, he refers in Latin to " Edwardi Principis cog: Nigri ".

* John Watson ( antiquary ) ( 1725 – 1783 ), English clergyman and antiquary

It was owned by John Leland, the antiquary, in the 1540s.

About 1535, he met the ex-Carmelite churchman and fellow antiquary John Bale, who much admired his work and offered his assistance.

The original notebooks passed from Henry Cheke to Humphrey Purefoy, and so ( following his death in 1598 ) to Humphrey's son Thomas, who divided many of them between his two cousins John Hales and the antiquary, William Burton.

The antiquary was satirised in John Earle's Micro-cosmographie of 1628 (" Hee is one that hath that unnaturall disease to bee enamour'd of old age, and wrinkles, and loves all things ( as Dutchmen doe Cheese ) the better for being mouldy and worme-eaten "), in Jean-Siméon Chardin's painting " Le Singe Antiquaire " ( c. 1726 ), in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Antiquary ( 1816 ), in the caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson, and in many other places.

* John Marsden ( archaeologist ) ( 1803 – 1870 ), English antiquary and vicar

* John Williams ( Ab Ithel ) ( 1811 – 1862 ), antiquary and Anglican priest

* John Lloyd ( antiquary ) ( 1733 – 1793 ), Welsh cleric and antiquarian

When antiquary John Leland visited the castle some time between 1535 and 1543, he noted that:

Reprints of the first edition, intended for practical use rather than antiquary interest, were published until the 1870s in England and Wales, and a working version by Henry John Stephen, first published in 1841, was reprinted until after the Second World War.

Reprints of the first edition, intended for practical use rather than antiquary interest, were published until the 1870s in England and Wales, and a working version by Henry John Stephen, first published in 1841, was reprinted until after the Second World War.

John Nichols ( 2 February 1745 – 26 November 1826 ) was an English printer, author and antiquary.

John Gough Nichols ( 1806 – 73 ), John Bowyer Nichols ' eldest son, was also a printer and a distinguished antiquary.