In 1874, after his first wife's death, Chandler resumed his romance with Lucy Hale, who had been secretly betrothed in 1865 to John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin.

The 1760s saw a growth in the intensity of litigation against state officers, who, using general warrants, conducted raids in search of materials relating to John Wilkes ' publications attacking both government policies and the King himself.

During the uprising known as the Gordon Riots, Wilkes was in charge of the soldiers defending the Bank of England from the attacking mobs.

* May 10-John Wilkes is imprisoned for attacking King George III of the United Kingdom in print.

* 1768 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III.

Then there was the attempted arrest of John Wilkes for seditious libel against the King in the notorious issue No. 45 of his The North Briton in early 1763.

* May 10 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III.

For many decades a popular historic spot in Wilkesboro was the " Tory Oak ", a large oak tree from which Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, a well-known Wilkes County patriot during the American Revolutionary War, hung Loyalist militia leaders who supported the British King and opposed American independence from Britain.

In 1889-1890, these feelings were inflamed by an outspoken parishioner named Martin Wilkes, who came to be known in the national press as " the Polish King ".

Bute, Scottish and politically controversial as an adviser to the King, was associated popularly with Jacobitism, a perception which Wilkes played on.

The King felt personally insulted and ordered general warrants to be issued for the arrest of Wilkes and the publishers on 30 April 1763.

When Wilkes was imprisoned in the King's Bench Prison on 10 May 1768, his supporters appeared before King's Bench, London, chanting " No liberty, no King.

Grenville's first act was to prosecute John Wilkes for publishing in The North Briton newspaper an article deriding King ' George III's speech made on 23 April 1763.

Grenville prosecuted John Wilkes and the printers and authors for treason and sedition for publishing a bitter editorial about King George III's recent speech in " The North Briton " a weekly periodical.

In 1763 the authorities tried to arrest John Wilkes for seditious libel against the King in the notorious issue No. 45 of his The North Briton in 1763.

In November 1763 he was chosen to speak for the Government concerning the issue of John Wilkes, a member of parliament who many felt had made a libellous attack of both the Prime Minister and the King in an edition of his radical newspaper The North Briton.

* January 19-John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel for his article criticising King George III in The North Briton.

Other early settlers were Joseph H. Baird, One Gibbons, William Teall ( the first supervisor ), Benjamin Healey ( the first town clerk, and who left numerous descendants ), Clark Main, Ralph Fisher, Lorenzo H. Sheldon, Chester Winslow, Shubael Parker, Wilkes Richardson ( one of the first assessors and father of Ferdinand and King R ,), William D. Gilmore, William H. Underwood.

While trying to elude Union cavalry, co-conspirators John Wilkes Booth and David Herold crossed into the Northern Neck in King George County from Maryland on April 21, 1865 after assassinating US president Abraham Lincoln.

He tried to encourage the King to overcome his resentments towards the petty Wilkes and also to release his trust in corrupt officials.

Admiral Charles Wilkes serves as the primary antagonist in an 8-page comic titled " The Wicked King ", written by Jeff Pfaller and drawn by Sean Hill.

The paper is mentioned in the Stephen King novel Misery, when Annie Wilkes buys it for Paul Sheldon, thinking that since it is the most expensive paper, it has to be the best.

Also in 1605, he married a woman named Mary, who was probably daughter of William Wilkes, one of King James's chaplains.

* Grenville prosecutes John Wilkes for seditious libel against the King in The North Briton.

Wilkes was charged with libel ( accusing the King of lying ), and imprisoned for a short time in the Tower of London.

Williams moved back to the UK in 2009 when he bought an £ 8. 5 million mansion in Compton Bassett, Wiltshire, nearby to close friend Jonathan Wilkes who lives in Swindon.

He became shadow Attorney-General under the leadership of Frank Wilkes, but when Wilkes lost the 1979 election to the Liberal premier, Dick Hamer, Cain challenged him for the leadership, becoming leader in September 1981.

( during the song sung by Toby Keith ), and Eloise at Christmastime ( when Sir Wilkes is watching television ).

John Wilkes, " who did not stand upon ceremony in these little affairs ," when asked by Lord Talbot how many times they were to fire, replied, " just as often as your Lordship pleases ; I have brought a bag of bullets and a flask of gunpowder.

For instance, when told by a constituent that he would rather vote for the devil, Wilkes responded: " Naturally.

Wilkes was expelled from Parliament in February 1769, on the grounds that he was an outlaw when he was returned.

Although the play achieved great renown during its first few years, and remained very popular throughout the second half of the 19th century, it is now best known as the play U. S. President Abraham Lincoln was attending in Ford's Theatre when he was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.

In the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell and the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler decides to call his newborn daughter " Bonnie Blue Butler " when Melanie Wilkes remarks that her eyes are " as blue as the Bonnie Blue

1825 became a historical footnote when President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth arrived at her house after crossing the Potomac River on his escape route.

Pinkett Smith met Will Smith in 1990 on the set of Smith's television show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, when she auditioned for the role of his character's girlfriend, Lisa Wilkes.

The Modula-3 project started in November 1986 when Maurice Wilkes wrote to Niklaus Wirth with some ideas for a new version of Modula.

* Helen Wilkes ( Form 2 ) Helen is a spiteful, snobbish, spoilt, conceited daddy's girl, who learns some hard lessons and is then a lot nicer, when she learns she's going to get a baby sibling.

Indicted defense contractor Brent R. Wilkes was reported to be ecstatic when hearing that the United States was going to go to war with Iraq.

After the War, Scarlett's character hardens, when she is burdened by her family, servants, the Wilkes family, and the fear of homelessness and starvation.

As Reagan's lead in the polls increased, Brown began to panic and made a gaffe when he told a group of school children that an actor, John Wilkes Booth, had killed Abraham Lincoln.

This began in 1865, the year of Lincoln's assassination by the actor John Wilkes Booth, a time when the public held those in the acting profession in low regard, if not contempt.

In 1763, when George III moved them to the newly bought Buckingham House ( now Buckingham Palace ) there were protests in Parliament by John Wilkes and others, as they would no longer be accessible to the public ( Hampton Court had long been open to visitors ).

Admiral Charles Wilkes when retired

Massachusetts governor John A. Andrew praised Wilkes for his “ manly and heroic success ” and spoke of the “ exultation of the American heart ” when Wilkes “ fired his shot across the bows of the ship that bore the British Lion at its head.

Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles reflected the ambiguity that many felt when he wrote to Wilkes of “ the emphatic approval ” of the Navy Department for his actions while cautioning him that the failure to take the Trent to a prize court “ must by no means be permitted to constitute a precedent hereafter for the treatment of any case of similar infraction of neutral obligations .” On November 24, the New York Times claimed to find no actual on point precedent.