* 1838 – The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838

Nora Titone, in her book My Thoughts Be Bloody, recounts how the shame and ambition of Junius Brutus Booth's two illegitimate actor sons, Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, would eventually spur them to strive, as rivals, for achievement and acclaim — Edwin, a Unionist, and John Wilkes, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.

The board agreed that, as a first step, Lyons would provide Hartree and Wilkes with £ 3, 000 funding for the EDSAC project, and would also provide them with the services of a Lyons electrical engineer, Ernest Lenaerts.

Lenaerts returned to Lyons to work on the project, and Wilkes provided training for Lyons ' engineer Derek Hemy, who would be responsible for writing LEO's programs.

Because of the loss of key players such as Barry, Wilkes and Thurmond, to bad trades and retirements, the Warriors would struggle to put a competitive team on the court from 1978 – 1987 following their time as one of the NBA's dominant teams during the 1960s and most of the 1970s.

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

During this time he would defend the title against Zenk, Greg Gagne, Wahoo McDaniel, Ken Patera, Nikita Koloff, Brad Rheingans, The Trooper Del Wilkes, and Masa Saito.

On Sunday mornings Wilkes would go to Shanklin Church, and after the service would walk across the fields to Knighton with David Garrick and his wife.

However, the Wilkes appreciated that such scholarships were really intended for talented children from less well-off families, and provided places at significantly reduced fees for deserving cases, in the hope that they would attain these scholarships.

Longhurst, who had great admiration for the school and for Mrs. Wilkes, described these authors ' accounts of the school as unrecognizable, and would frequently defend " a very fine school " in response to reviewers of Orwell's work.

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 ).

Wilkes headed there, despite the unlikelihood that Sumter would have remained in the area.

He realized that the ship would need to use the “ narrow Bahama Channel, the only deepwater route between Cuba and the shallow Grand Bahama Bank .” Wilkes discussed legal options with his second in command, Lt. D. M. Fairfax, before making plans to intercept and reviewed law books on the subject.

Wilkes adopted the position that Mason and Slidell would qualify as “ contraband ,” subject to seizure by a United States ship.

While this was Wilkes ’ initial determination, Fairfax argued against this since transferring crew from San Jacinto to Trent would leave San Jacinto dangerously undermanned, and it would seriously inconvenience Trents other passengers as well as mail recipients.

Harvard law professor Theophilus Parsons wrote, “ I am just as certain that Wilkes had a legal right to take Mason and Slidell from the Trent, as I am that our government has a legal right to blockade the port of Charleston .” Caleb Cushing, a prominent Democrat, and former Attorney General ( under Franklin Pierce ) concurred: “ In my judgment, the act of Captain Wilkes was one which any and every self-respecting nation must and would have done by its own sovereign right and power, regardless of circumstances .” Richard Henry Dana, Jr., considered an expert on maritime law, justified the detention because the envoys were engaged “ solely a mission hostile to the United States ,” making them guilty of “ treason within our municipal law .” Edward Everett, a former minister to Great Britain and a former Secretary of State, also argued that “ the detention was perfectly lawful their confinement in Fort Warren will be perfectly lawful .”

" George T. Bigelow, the chief justice of Massachusetts, spoke admiringly of Wilkes: “ In common with all loyal men of the North, I have been sighing, for the last six months, for someone who would be willing to say to himself, ‘ I will take the responsibility .’” On December 2 Congress passed unanimously a resolution thanking Wilkes “ for his brave, adroit and patriotic conduct in the arrest and detention of the traitors, James M. Mason and John Slidell ” and proposing that he receive a “ gold medal with suitable emblems and devices, in testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of his good conduct .”

He had written to Adams at the end of November that Wilkes had not acted under instructions, but would hold back any more information until it had received some response from Great Britain.

: Ashley Wilkes is stationed on the Rapidan River, Virginia, in the winter of 1863, later captured and sent to a Union prison camp, Rock Island.

With the untimely death of Melanie Wilkes a short time later, Rhett decides he only wants the calm dignity of the genial South he once knew in his youth and he leaves Atlanta to find it.

Of these, Booth remained to make his career in the States, fathering the nation's most notorious actor, John Wilkes Booth ( who later assassinated Abraham Lincoln ), and its most famous Hamlet, Edwin Booth.

The list of supposed members is immense ; among the more probable candidates are George Bubb Dodington, a fabulously corpulent man in his 60s ; William Hogarth, although hardly a gentleman, has been associated with the club after painting Dashwood as a Franciscan Friar and John Wilkes, though much later, under the pseudonym John of Aylesbury.

* 1864: Junius, Jr., Edwin and John Wilkes Booth ( later the assassin of U. S. president Abraham Lincoln ) made their only appearance onstage together in a benefit performance of Julius Caesar on 25 November 1864, at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.

A number of the attendees were to later go on to develop computers, such as Maurice Wilkes, of Cambridge, who built EDSAC.

Logger George Brackett founded Edmonds in 1890, naming the city either for Vermont Sen. George Franklin Edmunds or in association with the nearby Point Edmund, named by Charles Wilkes in 1841 and later changed to Point Edwards.

* Nia Long as Lisa Wilkes, Will's girlfriend and later fiancée

Wilkes was later elected and re-elected by the Middlesex constituencty.

Indeed, later in the century the Whig John Wilkes contemptuously described it as like " Peace of God, for it passeth all understanding ".

Fisher escapes from the Kalinatek building, but in the process Wilkes is mortally wounded and later dies.

George Ashley Wilkes is a fictional character in the Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and the later film of the same name.

* It is probable that Boston Corbett, the man who shot John Wilkes Booth, suffered from Korsakoff's syndrome later in life due to his pre-and-post war profession as a hatter, and his eventual madness.

In April 1997, Eastbourne Civic Society ( now The Eastbourne Society ), in conjunction with the County Borough of Eastbourne, erected a blue plaque at the house in Summerdown Road which was connected with the school and Mrs Wilkes ' residence in later years.

Decades later, Booth ’ s son, John Wilkes Booth, assassinated president Abraham Lincoln.

In 1763, he signed the general warrant for the " authors, printers and publishers " of The North Briton number 45, under which John Wilkes and 48 others were arrested, and for which, six years later, the courts of law made Halifax pay damages.

Most notable was Col. Henry Lawes Luttrell ( later 2nd Earl Carhampton ), whom Grafton appointed MP for Middlesex ( instead of the duly elected Wilkes ), and Richard Rigby, whom Grafton made Paymaster of the Forces.

In 1945, Wilkes was appointed as the second director of the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory ( later known as the Computer Laboratory ).

Then in 1835 a Birmingham solicitor called John Wilkes Unett bought of land and built the Crescent, later known as the Royal Crescent.

He took a prominent part in opposing John Wilkes, and later led objections to a public funeral for Pitt the Elder.

He later wakes up, found to have been accidentally resurrected by his attacker and is in the care of scientists James Renshaw, the believed killer of one of the other scientists at Wilkes.

Additionally, numerous former players with the Negro Leagues played in the Senior Intercounty Baseball League after the Negro Leagues gradually folded after Jackie Robinson broke the " colour barrier " in 1947, including pitcher Ted Alexander of the Kansas City Monarchs and the Homestead Grays ( 1950-51 London Majors ); Wilmer Fields ( Brantford Red Sox ); Jimmy Wilkes ( retired jersey # 5 for the Brantford Red Sox, later became a City league umpire after a decade with Brantford ); Gentry ( Geep ) Jessup ( Galt Terriers ); Larry Cunningham ( Galt Terriers, Hamilton Cardinals ); Ed Steele ( Galt ) and Shanty Clifford ( Galt and Brantford ); Luther Clifford ; Max Manning ; Lester Lockett ; Bob Thurman and Stanley Glenn ( St. Thomas Elgins ); all made numerous appearances at Labatt Park in the 1950s.

A few years later, in December 1864, Surratt introduced him to John Wilkes Booth.

Booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865 ( with the run ending just a few months before Booth's brother John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln ), and would later revive the role at his own Booth's Theatre ( which was managed for a time by his brother Junius Brutus Booth, Jr .).