Kevin Kiernan argues that Nowell most likely acquired it through William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, in 1563, when Nowell entered Cecil ’ s household as a tutor to his ward, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

: namely, the logically fatal tautology of any theory that " there must have been a conspiracy to suppress the truth of de Vere ’ s authorship " just because " the very absence of surviving evidence proves the case.

Anderson also observes that while Shakespeare refers to the latest scientific discoveries and events right through the end of the 16th century, " Shakespeare is mute about science after de Vere ’ s death in 1604 ".

The meaning of Dromio ’ s line has not been satisfactorily explained by critics, but Oxfordians say the line is somehow connected to the fact that de Vere was given a £ 1, 000 annuity by the Queen, later continued by King James.

Born in Belgium to Audrey Dorothy Louise Townshend, daughter of Major General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, and Belgian Count Baudouin de Borchgrave d ’ Altena, head of Belgium's military intelligence for the government-in-exile during World War II, Arnaud de Borchgrave was educated in Belgium, Britain and the United States.

* Isabella ’ s Tower, a folly built on top of a hill by Aubrey de Vere Beauclerc in the 19th century as a gazebo for his invalid daughter.

More recently, Ainsley has sung the roles of Soliman in Zaide and Belfiore in La finta giardiniera at the Salzburg Festival ( 2006 ), The Madwoman in Britten ’ s Curlew River with Oper Frankfurt ( 2006 ), Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande with the Deutsche Oper Berlin ( 2006 ), Skuratov in Janáček's From the House of the Dead with both the Amsterdam and Vienna Festivals ( 2007 ), Hippolyt in the world premiere of Henze's Phaedra with the Berlin State Opera ( 2007 ) and La Monnaie ( 2007 ), Vere in Billy Budd with Oper Frankfurt ( 2007 ), Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmelites with the Hamburg State Opera ( 2008 ), and both Bajazete in Tamerlano and the title role in Idomeneo with the Bavarian State Opera ( 2008 ).

Egwene al ’ Vere, the current Amyrlin Seat, never chose an Ajah as she was raised directly from Accepted to Amyrlin without being made Aes Sedai first ; according to a technicality in the law it was actually the act of raising her to the Amyrlin Seat itself that made her Aes Sedai.

Generally Ajahs accept entrance almost immediately ; it is however rumored that some of the Aes Sedai raised by decree of Egwene al ’ Vere had to beg.

The De Vere Code, a book by English actor Jonathan Bond, the author claims that Thomas Thorpe ´ s 30-word dedication to the original publication of Shakespeare's Sonnets contains six simple encryptions which conclusively establish de Vere as the author of the poems.

Colin Earl Meads was born to Vere Meads and Ida Meads ( née Gray ) on 3 June 1936, in the village of Cambridge in the Waikato region.

His father Vere was a descendant of early settlers Joseph Meads and Ann Meads ( née Coates ), who emigrated to New Zealand from England in 1842.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

He was the seventh of nine children of Thomas Vere Wallace and Mary Anne Greenell.

One of the chief commanders at both Crecy and Poitiers was John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, mentioned above.

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( 12 April 155024 June 1604 ) was an English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era.

Oxford was the only son of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and Margery Golding.

He was born on 12 April 1550 at the de Vere ancestral home, Castle Hedingham, the only son of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and his second wife, Margery Golding.

Alberic, or Aubrey de Vere, sided with William the Conqueror, and after 1066 was rewarded with many estates, as well as being made hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, one of the six Great Officers of State.

John de Vere also maintained a company of players known as " Oxford's Men ", which was discontinued by the 17th Earl two years after his father's death.

Like many children of nobility, de Vere was raised by surrogate parents.

Oxford was captured and imprisoned in the Tower, as was Anne and her infant, who would later be known as Sir Edward Vere.

The trial is recounted in chapter 21, the longest chapter in the book, and that trial has become the focus of scholarly controversy: was Captain Vere a good man trapped by bad law, or did he deliberately distort and misrepresent the applicable law to condemn Billy to death?

By the time of Vere Gordon Childe's work, The Dawn of Europe ( 1947 ), which affirms the Mesolithic, sufficient data had been collected to determine that the Mesolithic was in fact necessary and was indeed a transition and intermediary between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

The Oxford theory was first proposed by J. Thomas Looney in his 1920 book Shakespeare Identified in Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

He suggested that de Vere was also responsible for the literary works of Arthur Golding, Anthony Munday and John Lyly.

Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were dedicated to Southampton ( whom many scholars have argued was the Fair Youth of the Sonnets ), and the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays was dedicated to Montgomery ( who married Susan de Vere ) and Pembroke ( who was once engaged to Bridget de Vere ).

This view was first expressed by Charles Wisner Barrell, who argued that De Vere " kept the place as a literary hideaway where he could carry on his creative work without the interference of his father-in-law, Burghley, and other distractions of Court and city life.

Two professors of linguistics have claimed that de Vere wrote not only the works of Shakespeare, but most of what is memorable in English literature during his lifetime, with such names as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Sidney, John Lyly, George Peele, George Gascoigne, Raphael Holinshed, Robert Greene, Thomas Phaer, and Arthur Golding being among dozens of further pseudonyms of de Vere.

Jeremy Bangs, a leading scholar of Pilgrim history, noted that Standish likely served under Sir Horatio Vere, an English general who had recruited soldiers in both Lancashire and the Isle of Man, among other places, and who led the English troops in Holland at the time Standish was there.

However, it is possible that it also had to do with the achievement of status and access to other notable supporters, such as the Duke of Bedford, Lord Vere Beauclerk, and the Earl of Dartmouth, among others.

Sutton also purchased the manor of Castle Campes in Cambridgeshire, which had been in possession of the de Vere family for over five hundred years, and, among other landholdings, he also owned the manors of Haddock, Littlebury, and Balsham, all near Saffron Walden in Essex.

With the redistribution of estates after the Norman Conquest more than two-fifths of the county fell into the hands of the church ; the possessions of the crown covered one-fifth ; while among the chief lay proprietors were Edward of Salisbury, William, Count of Eu, Ralf de Mortimer, Aubrey de Vere II, Robert Fitzgerald, Miles Crispin, Robert d ' Oily and Osbern Giffard.

In 1861, he struck gold with Problematische Naturen ( 1860 – 1861 ; English translation “ Problematic Characters ,” by Prof. Schele de Vere, New York, 1869 ); it was followed a year later by a sequel, Durch Nacht zum Licht ( English translation, “ Through Night to Light ,” by Prof. Schele de Vere, New York, 1869 ), then by Die von Hohenstein ( 1863 ; English translation, “ The Hohensteins ,” by Prof. Schele de Vere, 1870 ), In Reih ' und Glied ( 1866 ), Hammer und Amboß ( 1869 ; English translation, “ Hammer and Anvil ,” by William Hand Browne, 1873 ), Deutsche Pioniere ( 1870 ), Allzeit voran ( 1872 ), Was die Schwalbe sang ( 1873 ; English translation, “ What the Swallow Sang ,” 1873 ), Ultimo ( 1874 ), Liebe für Liebe ( a drama, which has was produced in Leipzig ; 1875 ), Sturmflut ( based on the financial crises in Berlin following the Franco-Prussian War ; 1876 ), Plattland ( 1878 ), Quisisana ( 1880 ), Angela ( 1881 ), Uhlenhans ( 1884 ), Ein neuer Pharao ( 1889 ), Faustulus ( 1897 ) and Freigeboren ( 1900 ) among many others.

In the second, since he had no heirs and if he should die abroad the estates would pass to his sister, Mary, he entailed the lands of the earldom on his first cousin, Hugh Vere.

* While returning from Italy in 1576 Edward de Vere first encountered a cavalry division outside of Paris that was being led by a German duke and then pirates in the English Channel.

The job was given to University of Edinburgh's Professor Vere Gordon Childe who travelled to Skara Brae for the first time in mid-1927.

From his first marriage to Dorothy de Vere, sister of the John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, he had two children, John and Margaret.

His daughter Anne became the first wife of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford in 1571 ; she served as a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth before her marriage.

His film roles include Roman emperor Nero in Quo Vadis ( 1951 ), Lentulus Batiatus in Spartacus ( 1960 ), Captain Vere in Billy Budd ( 1962 ), an old man surviving a totalitarian future in Logan's Run ( 1976 ), and, in half a dozen films, Hercule Poirot, a part he first played in Death on the Nile ( 1978 ).

Lambert's first job was typing menus at the Kensington De Vere Hotel, which employed her because she had been to France and could speak French.

In 1548 his half-sister Margery, by John's first wife, became the second wife of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford, one of the richest peers in England, and by 1552 his brother Henry was steward for his brother-in-law's household.

Married first Aubrey de Vere, son of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford.

These later creations bear the double title because the original earldom is not certainly known to be extinct ; the first de Vere Earl may still have living legitimate descendants in the male line, though it would be exceedingly difficult to prove such a claim.

Roger Bigod ( – 1221 ) was the son of Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk and his first wife, Juliana de Vere.

Geoffrey married Rohese de Vere ( c. 1110-1167 or after ), daughter of Aubrey de Vere II and sister of the first earl of Oxford.

She was Herbert's second wife ; his first wife, Lady Susan de Vere had died the year before.

The term Danubian culture was coined by the Australian archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe to describe the first agrarian society in central and eastern Europe.

The Captain, Philip Bowes Vere Broke, was badly wounded during the action and the Shannons first lieutenant was killed.

Selected by Vere Cornwall Bird as the country's first indigenous prime minister, his term ended in June 2007, after 14 years in office.

Sir Vere Cornwall Bird Sr. ( 9 December 1910, St. John's – 28 June 1999, St. John's ) was the first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda.

He was the first husband of the daughter of Maud de Badlesmere and John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford, Lady Margaret de Vere ( died 15 June 1398 ), by whom he had issue.