His father, Richard Carte ( 1808 – 1891 ), was a flautist, and his mother was the former Eliza Jones ( 1814 – 1885 ); they had eloped, to the disappointment of her father, Thomas Jones, a clergyman.

In 1837, sixteen-year-old Eliza eloped with Lieutenant Thomas James.

Pickford eloped with Thomas on October 25, 1916 in New Jersey.

* Lady Lucy Rachel Stanhope ( 1780 – 1814 ) who eloped with Thomas Taylor of Sevenoaks, the family apothecary, and her father refused to be reconciled to her ; but Pitt made her husband Controller-General of Customs and his son was one of the Earl of Chatham's executors.

Thomas Hervey ( 20 January 1699 – 1775 ), was one of the members for Bury from 1733 to 1747 ; held various offices at court ; and eloped with Elizabeth, wife of Sir Thomas Hanmer.

At age 14, she eloped with her first husband, Thomas F. Fox.

Her second brother, Thomas, was made a baron and Lord High Admiral, and in 1547 eloped with Henry VIII's widow, Queen Catherine Parr.

Virginia eloped with overseer Thomas Gott, who had witnessed some of Margaret's behavior, and the couple immediately filed assault and battery charges against Margaret.

Before making the news public Sherman sent an officer with the note to Thomas.

Thomas tried hard to have his cavalry ready for the test it was to meet, but his plans were wrecked when it was forced into a campaign without optimum mobility and with its commander stripped from it.

Sherman knew the uses of cavalry as well as Thomas but he imagined a moving base with infantry wings instead of cavalry wings.

In 1960, David D. Thomas published Basic Vocabulary In some Mon-Khmer Languages ( AL 2, No. 3, pp. 7 - 11 ), which compares 8 Mon-Khmer languages with the I-E language data on which Swadesh based the revised retention rate ( Af ) in place of original ( Af ), and his revised 100 word basic glottochronological list in Towards Greater Accuracy ( IJAL 21::

As to relative frequencies of competing roots ( 7 - 1 vs. 4 - 4, etc. ), Thomas with his ' weighting ' seems to be the first to have considered the significance this might have.

The medieval was the most important to Chambers because he sought to place Thomas More, the author of Utopia, in some intelligible relation with St. Thomas More, the martyr.

Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of Selkirk, a noble humanitarian Scot concerned with the plight of the crofters of his native Highlands, conceived a plan to settle them in the valley of the Red River of the North.

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

Mrs. Thomas Jordan selected a black taffeta frock made with a skirt of fringed tiers and worn with crimson silk slippers.

It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.

The younger Thomas ripped a screen door, breaking the latch, and after an argument struck his uncle with a rock, scratching his face.

Thomas was charged with four counts of assault and battery.

Thomas Rotelli, head of Rhode Island Incinerator Service, Inc., said four of the company's eight trucks were making collections with both newly hired and regular workers.

-- A series of high school assemblies to acquaint junior and senior students with the Junior Achievement program begins at St. Thomas Aquinas Monday.

Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

* Thomas Bopp, shared the discovery of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1995 with unemployed PhD physicist Alan Hale.

Historian Thomas Woods argues that the crashes were caused by various privately-owned banks with state charters that issued paper money, supposedly convertible to gold, in amounts greatly exceeding their gold reserves.

The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.

" Through Methodism, Wesley's teachings also inspire a large scholarly following, with vocal proponents including J. Kenneth Grider, Stanley Hauerwas, Thomas Oden, Thomas Jay Oord, and William Willimon.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

" is attributed to his son William De Morgan, but a family friend John Thomas Graves was prolific, and a manuscript with over 2, 800 has been preserved.

The inventor of the motion picture camera, Thomas Edison himself, was so annoyed by the stiffness of the early " talkies " that he refused to see them and returned to his favorite " silents " with Bow and Mary Pickford.

Both Pickford and Thomas were constantly traveling and had little time to spend together.

Pickford brought Thomas ' body back to the United States.

Pickford met actress and Ziegfeld girl Olive Thomas at a beach cafe on the Santa Monica Pier.

Thomas was just as wild as Pickford, possibly having an alcohol problem herself.

Of her marriage, Thomas said, " I didn't want people to say that I'm succeeding because of the Pickford name.

Thomas was known for her partying and wild ways which was also increased after marrying Pickford.

Alcohol began playing a large role in Thomas ' life ( alcoholism ran in the Pickford family ), fueling most of the drama with her husband and possibly car crashes as well.

Thomas met actor Jack Pickford, brother of one of the most powerful silent stars Mary Pickford, at a beach cafe on the Santa Monica Pier.

Both Pickford and Thomas were constantly traveling and had little time to spend together.

The mausoleum of Olive Thomas Pickford

It starred Drama Desk Award winner Rachel York as Billie Burke, Tony nominee Michael Hayden as Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., Tony Award winner Daisy Eagan as Molly Cook, Kimberly Faye Greenberg as Fanny Brice, Matt Leisy as Jack Pickford and newcomer Rachael Fogle in the leading role of Olive Thomas.

The story was adapted for the screen by Fairbanks ( as " Elton Thomas "), Kenneth Davenport, Edward Knoblock, Allan Dwan and Lotta Woods, and was produced by Fairbanks for his own production company, Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation, and distributed by United Artists, a company owned by Fairbanks, his wife Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin and D. W. Griffith.

In the latter year, he starred in at least 16 movies opposite Mary Pickford, who was hired to replace Lawrence after she and Solter broke their contracts, including the one-reel romance / drama Sweet Memories, which was directed by Thomas H. Ince.

In 1646, a north-country yeoman by the name of Thomas Pickford had his lands confiscated by Parliament for gun-running and supporting the Cavaliers during the English Civil War.