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are favourite schemes for English Palladian mirror frames of the late 1720s through the 1740s, by such designers as William Kent.
Johnson ) have claimed precedence in this invention, but recent analysis of both his concrete and raw cement have shown that William Aspdin's product made at Northfleet, Kent was a true alite-based cement.
Richard Kent was also killed, and Thomas and William Kent were arrested.
Major architects to promote the change in direction from baroque were Colen Campbell, author of the influential book Vitruvius Britannicus ; Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and his protégé William Kent ; Isaac Ware ; Henry Flitcroft and the Venetian Giacomo Leoni, who spent most of his career in England.
In 1972: Won by Tim Powell, HRH Prince Michael of Kent, William Meyers, Stirling Moss.
* Kent, William.
After waiting a short while, William secured Dover, parts of Kent, and Canterbury, while also sending a force to capture Winchester, where the royal treasury was.
* August 18 The Canadian ship SS Royal William sets out from Pictou, Nova Scotia on a 25-day passage of the Atlantic Ocean largely under steam to Gravesend, Kent, England.
* April 12 William Kent, English architect ( b. c. 1685 )
* Pope Clement VI annuls the marriage of William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and Joan of Kent, on the grounds of her prior marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent.
William advanced through Kent devastating Romney and receiving the submission of Dover and its important castle.
However, scholarly analysis in the 20th century concluded it was probably commissioned by William's half-brother, Bishop Odo who, after the Conquest, became Earl of Kent and, when William was absent in Normandy, de facto regent of England.
She commissioned works such as terracotta busts of the kings and queens of England from Michael Rysbrack, and supervised a more naturalistic design of the royal gardens by William Kent and Charles Bridgeman.
Edward Heath ( known as " Teddy " as a young man ) was born at 54 Albion Road, Broadstairs, Kent, the son of William George Heath, a carpenter and builder, and Edith Anne Heath ( née Pantony ), a maid.
Under George II and his Queen, Caroline, further refurbishment took place, with the architect William Kent employed to design new furnishings and decor including the Queen's Staircase, ( 1733 ) and the Cumberland Suite ( 1737 ) for the Duke of Cumberland.
It was named by William Penn for Dover in Kent, England.
Dover was founded as the court town for newly established Kent County in 1683 by William Penn, the proprietor of the territory generally known as the " Lower Counties on the Delaware.
The original production featured Kenneth Cranham as Inspector Goole ( later played by Barry Foster and Philip Whitchurch ), Richard Pasco as Arthur Birling ( later played by Julian Glover, Edward Peel and William Gaunt ), Barbara Leigh Hunt as Sybil Birling ( later played by Judy Parfitt, Margaret Tyzack and Marjorie Yates ), Diana Kent as Sheila Birling ( later played by Sylvestra Le Touzel ) and Louis Hillyer as Gerald Croft.
Burlington's first project, appropriately, was his own London residence, Burlington House, where he dismissed his baroque architect James Gibbs when he returned from the continent in 1719 and employed the Scottish architect Colen Campbell, with the history-painter-turned-designer William Kent for the interiors.
In many cases his ideas were informal: at Holkham Hall the architect Matthew Brettingham recalled that " the general ideas were first struck out by the Earls of Burlington and Leicester, assisted by Mr. William Kent.
** Chapter 8: Lord Burlington and William Kent.
In the third-season episode " Bart the Murderer ", Fat Tony is referred to in a news report given by Kent Brockman as William " Fat Tony " Williams, presumably an alias.
William therefore advanced, marching around the coast of Kent to London.

William and 1685
With the Edict of Potsdam in 1685, Frederick William offered asylum to the French Huguenots.
* William Mayo ( civil engineer ) ( c. 1685 1744 ), the civil engineer who laid out the city of Richmond, Virginia
The history of Potsdamer Platz can probably be traced back to 29 October 1685, when the Tolerance Edict of Potsdam was signed, whereby Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia from 1640 to 1688, allowed large numbers of religious refugees, including Jews from Austria and Huguenots expelled from France, to settle on his territory.
** William Diaper, English poet of the Augustan era ( b. 1685 )
In 1685, the Simmern line died out, and the Palatinate was inherited by Philip William, Count Palatine of Neuburg ( also Duke of Jülich and Berg ), a Catholic.
In 1685, when James II succeeded Charles, William at first attempted a conciliatory approach, at the same time trying not to offend the Protestants in England.
His grandfather, James II of England and VII of Scotland, had ruled the country from 1685 to 1689, at which time he was deposed when Parliament invited the Dutch Protestant, William of Orange and his wife the Princess Mary ( King James ' eldest daughter ) to replace him, in the Revolution of 1688.
After the Shorediche family Milton Farm was bought by William Crosier in 1685.
William Kent ( c. 1685 12 April 1748 ), born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, was an eminent English architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th century.
Burlington, himself a talented amateur architect and ( in the words of Horace Walpole ) " Apollo of the Arts ", designed the villa with the aid of William Kent ( 1685 1748 ), who took a leading role in designing the gardens.
* Harris, John, William Kent, 1685 1748.
Much of Berks County was transferred from the Native Americans to William Penn in 1685.
Churchill's role in defeating the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 helped secure James on the throne, yet just three years later he abandoned his Catholic patron for the Protestant Dutchman, William of Orange.
He became page of honor to William III in his mid-teens, possibly as early as 1685.
The tract provoked some rejoinders and was defended, amongst others, by William Penn, and by the author himself in The Duke of Buckingham's Letter to the unknown author of a short answer to the Duke of Buckingham's Paper ( 1685 ).
* 1685 William Lea, A. M.
During the reign of Charles II ( 1660 1685 ), playwrights such as John Dryden, George Etherege, Aphra Behn, and William Wycherley wrote comedies that triumphantly reassert aristocratic dominance and prestige after the years of middle class power during Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth.
In 1685, the almanac that Bradford printed for Atkins received immediate attention, especially from Pennsylvania Governor William Penn who took offense at a reference to him.
** William Diaper, poet ( born 1685 )
With the Edict of Potsdam in 1685, Frederick William invited the French Calvinist Huguenots to Brandenburg.
* 1685, William Halifax ( English )
* 1685 / 86 William Jackson John Unwin
These were Charles II ( 1661 ), James II ( 1685 ), William III ( 1689 ), George V ( 1911 ), George VI ( 1937 ) and Elizabeth II ( 1953 ).

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