Without Parliament, the Whigs gradually crumbled mainly due to the Rye House Plot, with The Earl of Melville, The Earl of Leven, Lord Shaftesbury and the Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate son, both being implicated escaped to the United Provinces and Algernon Sidney, Sir Thomas Armstrong and William Russell, Lord Russell being executed for treason.

The early years of the nineteenth century saw Lawrence's portrait practice continue to flourish: amongst his sitters were major political figures such as Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville and William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, whose wife Lady Caroline Lamb was also painted by Lawrence.

In a television adaptation of the Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick, Hawke played the role of Starbuck, the first officer to William Hurt's Captain Ahab.

* William Melville

Among other works of art and literature to which Paglia applies her analysis of the Western canon are: the Venus of Willendorf, the Bust of Nefertiti, Ancient Greek sculpture, Donatello's David, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Michelangelo, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare's As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marquis de Sade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lord Byron's Don Juan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry James, The Pre-Raphaelites, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Emily Dickinson.

The principal are the statues of George Washington in the State-house at Boston, Massachusetts ; of George III in The Guildhall, London ; of George IV at Brighton ; of William Pitt the Younger in Hanover Square, London ; of James Watt in Westminster Abbey and in Glasgow ( also a bust, plus one of William Murdoch, at St. Mary's Church, Handsworth ); of William Roscoe and George Canning in Liverpool ; of John Dalton in Manchester Town Hall ; of Lord President Blair and Lord Melville in Edinburgh, etc.

Another possibility for the model of M was William Melville, an Irishman who became head of the Secret Service Bureau, the forerunner to both MI5 and MI6: Melville was referred to within government circles as M. Melville recruited Sidney Reilly into government service and foiled an assassination plot against Queen Victoria on her 1887 Golden Jubilee.

Among them were writers and artists inspired by the mountain scene: Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Herman Melville, and Henry David Thoreau.

* William Morison, Andrew Melville.

The positions of official keeper and captain of the palace have been held by ; James Hamilton of Finnart, 1534, Captain and Keeper ; William Danielstoun from 19 November 1540 ; Andrew Hamilton in Briggis, from 22 August 1543 ; Andrew Melville of Murdocairney, later Lord Melville of Monimail, brother of James Melville of Halhill, from 15 February 1567 ; George Boyd, deputy Captain, 1564 ; Andrew Ferrier, Captain of the Palace, 1565, Frenchman ; John Brown, June 1569 ; Andrew Lambie, June 1571 ; Ludovic Bellenden of Auchnoul 22 November 1587.

Shooting locations included the Black Sea and the Livadia Palace, Portugal and in England the former administration ( Melville ) building of the Royal William Yard and the Barbican, Plymouth.

In Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, the author has numerous asides and digressive statements that are a side-fiction, and this sort of digression within chapters shows up later in the work of Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Herman Melville, Victor Hugo and others.

Because of his knowledge of languages, Rosenblum became a paid informant for the émigré intelligence network of William Melville, superintendent of Scotland Yard's Special Branch and, according to Cook, later the clandestine head of the British Secret Service Bureau, which was founded in 1909.

Both would eventually marry daughters of Henry Freeman Pannett, an associate of William Melville.

In June 1899, the newly minted Sidney Reilly and his wife Margaret traveled to Czarist Russia using Reilly's new British passport — a cover identity purportedly created by William Melville.

During the brief time that Reilly spent in the city, he renewed his close acquaintance with William Melville, sometimes incorrectly described as the first Director General of MI5, whom Reilly had last seen in 1899 just prior to his departure from London.

Cook further claims that it was Reilly's intelligence chief, William Melville, and a British intelligence officer, Henry Curtis Bennett, who undertook the D ' Arcy assignment.

Arthur William à Beckett ( 25 October 1844 Fulham-14 January 1909 London ) was an English journalist and intellectual.

Visual effects supervisor William Mesa showed Raimi storyboards he had from Victor Fleming's film Joan of Arc that depicted huge battle scenes and he picked out 25 shots to use in Army of Darkness.

Bulwer-Lytton was born on 25 May 1803 to General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire.

This work attracted considerable attention, and in January 1810, at the age of 25, Bessel was appointed director of the Königsberg Observatory by King Frederick William III of Prussia.

# William Adelin, ( 5 August 1103 – 25 November 1120 ).

* 1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on July 25, 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.

On 25 August 1476 in Berlin John married Margaret of Wettin, a daughter of Landgrave William III of Thuringia with Anne of Habsburg, Duchess of Luxembourg.

On April 25 in a house speech that biographer William Nisbet Chambers called “ long, passionate, historical, polemical ,” Benton attacked the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which he “ had stood upon ... above thirty years, and intended to stand upon it to the end -- solitary and alone, if need be ; but preferring company .” The speech was distributed afterwards as a pamphlet when opposition to the act moved outside the walls of congress.

* Sir William Reid ( b. April 25, 1791, Kinglassie-d. October 31, 1858, London, England ), governor of Bermuda ( 1839 – 46 ), Barbados ( 1846 – 48 ), and Malta ( 1851 – 58 ); knighted 1851

* 1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.

Poul William Anderson ( November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001 ) was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century.

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* Cavanaugh, Michael A., and William Marvel, The Petersburg Campaign: The Battle of the Crater: " The Horrid Pit ", June 25 – August 6, 1864 ( 1989 )

William I of Scotland and Hugh Bigod were captured on 13 July and 25 July respectively.

Six weeks after Comyn was killed in Dumfries, Bruce was crowned King of Scots by Bishop William de Lamberton at Scone, near Perth on 25 March with all formality and solemnity.

Stephen ( c. 1092 / 6 – 25 October 1154 ), often referred to as Stephen of Blois (, Medieval French: Estienne de Blois ), was a grandson of William the Conqueror.

The first rules, written down by William G Morgan, called for a net 6 ft 6 in ( 1. 98 m ) high, a 25 × 50 ft ( 7. 6 × 15. 2 m ) court, and any number of players.

:* 25 Years of Viz: The Silver Plated Jubilee ( William Cook, 2004 )

William Paley ( July 1743 – 25 May 1805 ) was an English Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian.

* The Changing Shape of World History, William H. McNeill, Paper originally presented at the History and Theory World History Conference, March 25 – 26, 1994

Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS ( Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel ; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822 ) was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer.

* September 25 – William Bradford, American printer ( b. 1719 )

* July 25 – Sir William Thomas White introduces the first income tax in Canada as a " temporary " measure ( lowest bracket is 4 % and highest is 25 %).

* June 25 – William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1980 )