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Whittington was most famous as the author of elementary Latin school books, including De nominum generibus ( 1511 ), Declinationes nominum ( c. 1511 ), De heteroclitis nominibus ( c. 1511 ), Syntaxis ( second edition, 1512 ), De syllabarum quantitate ( second edition, c. 1512 ), De octo partibus orationis ( c. 1514 ), De synonymis together with De magistratibus veterum Romanorum ( 1515 ), Vulgaria ( English and Latin sentences for translation, 1520 ), and Verborum preterita et supina ( 1521 ).
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Excavations were resumed at the Walcott Quarry by the Geological Survey of Canada under the persuasion of trilobite expert Harry Blackmore Whittington, and a new quarry, the Raymond, was established about 20 metres higher up Fossil Ridge.
Richard Whittington ( c. 1354 – 1423 ) was a medieval merchant and politician, and the real-life inspiration for the pantomime character Dick Whittington.
He was born in Gloucestershire, at Pauntley in the Forest of Dean, although his family originated from Kinver in Staffordshire, England, where his grandfather Sir William de Whittington was a knight at arms.
When Adam Bamme, the mayor of London, died in June 1397, Whittington was imposed on the city by the King as Lord Mayor of London two days later to fill the vacancy with immediate effect.
A long dispute with the Company of Brewers over standard prices and measures of ale was won by Whittington.
The gifts left in Whittington's will made him well known and he became a character in an English story that was adapted for the stage as a play, The History of Richard Whittington, of his lowe byrth, his great fortune, in February 1604.
As the son of gentry Whittington was never very poor and there is no evidence that he kept a cat.
Whittington may have become associated with a thirteenth-century Persian folktale about an orphan who gained a fortune through his cat, but the tale was common throughout Europe at that time.
Folklorists have suggested that the most popular legends about Whittington — that his fortunes were founded on the sale of his cat, who was sent on a merchant vessel to a rat-beset Eastern emperor — originated in a popular 17th-century engraving by Renold Elstracke in which his hand rested on a cat, but the picture only reflects a story already in wide circulation.
It was significantly enlarged in 1236, and the executors of Lord Mayor Dick Whittington were granted a license to renovate the prison in 1422.
The governorship or Captaincy of Calais was a lucrative and highly prized public office ; the famous Dick Whittington was simultaneously Lord Mayor of the City of London and Mayor of the Staple in 1407.
Whittington was the president of defunct Bossier Bank and Trust Company and a Louisiana state senator from 1928 – 1932.
After his thorough analysis Whittington concluded that Opabinia was no arthropod, as he found no evidence for arthropodan jointed limbs, and nothing like the flexible, probably fluid-filled proboscis was known in arthropods.
In 1971, Whittington did a thorough redescription of the animal and, on the basis of its legs, gills and head appendages, concluded that it was neither a trilobite, nor a chelicerate, nor a crustacean.
It was mentioned in 1575, when the Commissioners of Sewers, meeting at King's Lynn, ruled that it should be cleared and made wider between Stokebridge and Whittington, and that the bridge at Stoke Ferry should be repaired.
The 5. 5 mile ( 8. 8 km ) stretch which extends northwards beyond Fazeley Junction to Whittington, near Lichfield, was built by the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Company, although it was built on the route authorised by the Coventry Canal's Act of Parliament.
In the 1960s, he was the founder of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band which has included Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Peter Green, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor, Don " Sugarcane " Harris, Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor, Aynsley Dunbar, Hughie Flint, Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser, Johnny Almond, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya and Buddy Whittington.
In the early 1990s most of the excitement was already spent and Buddy Whittington became the sole lead guitarist in a formation which included then organist Tom Canning.
The original medieval court was first mentioned in 1585 ; it was next to the older Newgate Prison, and seems to have grown out of the endowment to improve Newgate prison and rooms for the Sheriffs, made possible by a gift from Sir Richard Whittington.
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Catherine of Valois and Richard Whittington are the most prominent among the secondary characters.
Dick Whittington and His Cat are characters in an English story adapted to the stage in 1605, which since the 19th century has become one of the most popular pantomime subjects, very loosely based on the historical Richard Whittington, a medieval Lord Mayor of London.
Whittington found evidence of near-triangular features along the body, and concluded that they were internal structures, most likely sideways extensions of the gut.
A community centre is situated in the village centre, and has notably been made use of for the Scout's 2006 Christmas Pantomime, " Treasure Island ", the 2007 pantomime, " Robin Hood ", " Cinderella " in 2008 and most recently, " Dick Whittington " in 2009.
Prominent buildings in the area include the Whittington hospital, at Highgate Hill, named after Richard Whittington ; the Archway Tavern, a notable music venue, where the photograph for the cover of The Kinks ' 1971 album Muswell Hillbillies was taken ; and the Archway Tower, which forms the most visible landmark in the area.
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Most famous for the military barracks there known locally as Whittington Barracks.
The famous Whittington Window by John Hayward can be seen in the church, where Dick Whittington was buried in the nave.
It then passed into the hands of West Rainton ’ s more famous son – Sir John Duck, Baronet – a Dick Whittington of the North East of England.
Whittington and author
* Harry Whittington ( author ) ( 1915 – 1989 ), American novelist
Whittington and Latin
Another volume of Latin verse ( Antibossicon ad Gulielmum Hormannum, 1521 ) is directed against a rival schoolmaster and grammarian, Robert Whittington, who had " under the feigned name of Bossus, much provoked Lily with scoffs and biting verses.
His greatest success, in terms of volume, was the Latin grammar of Robert Whittington, which he issued in 155 editions.
Worde, due to his death, ceased to issue Whittington's works after 1534, and Whittington turned his attention to translation from Latin into English.
Whittington and school
Gold made her professional debut in 1973, while still in her last year of school, in the Christmas pantomime Dick Whittington and his Cat, as Fairy Bowbells, at the Malvern Festival Theatre.
The School has three Houses: Gresham, Hale and Whittington ( colours green, red and blue respectively ). These are named after the influential Londoners and school benefactors Sir Thomas Gresham, Warren Stormes Hale and Richard Whittington.
The village has a lower school for 5 – 9 year olds named after Thomas Johnson, a Dick Whittington type character who was Lord Mayor of London in 1840-41.
Whittington and books
Founded and edited by writer Barry Gifford, Black Lizard released over ninety books between 1984 and 1990, including reprints of classic novels by Charles Willeford, David Goodis, Peter Rabe, Harry Whittington, Dan J. Marlowe, Charles Williams, and Lionel White, as well as original novels by Barry Gifford and Jim Nisbet.
Mackay also wrote books under a number of different pseudonyms including Ian Angus, William Finlay, Bruce Garden, Alex Matheson and Peter Whittington.
Whittington and including
Smith wrote several extravaganzas for the Lyceum Theatre, including Aladdin ( 1844 ), Valentine and Orson ( 1844 ) and Whittington and His Cat ( 1845 ), and adapted for the same theatre Charles Dickens's The Cricket on the Hearth ( 1845 ) and The Battle of Life ( 1846 ).
* Description of the Vexations by Stephen Whittington, including a reduced image of the manuscript
His medals, including his Victoria Cross, are on display at the Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England.
He appeared in musicals and pantomime, including The Four Musketeers with Harry Secombe at Drury Lane, Dick Whittington with Ken Dodd at the Manchester Palace and Roll on Four O ' Clock for Colin Welland at Wythenshawe ( which transferred eventually to the Palace, Shaftesbury Avenue ).
Later Whittington appeared in several magazines, including Jet and Sepia.
East Yardley, part of Garretts Green, Glebe Farm, Old Yardley Village, Poolway, Stechford including Stechford Village and Whittington Oval Estate are areas all covered by the ward.
There are four classic pantomime stories: Cinderella, Aladdin ( sometimes combined with Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves or other Arabian Nights tales, and traditionally set in China – following the original tale – rather than the Middle East, as in Disney's version ), Dick Whittington and His Cat ( based on a 17th century play ), and Jack and the Beanstalk ( sometimes including references to nursery rhymes and other children's stories involving characters called Jack, such as Jack and Jill ).
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