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* July 14 – William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer ( d. 1761 )
In 1748 a folio edition of Drayton's complete works was published under the editorial supervision of William Oldys, and again in 1753 there appeared an issue in four volumes quarto.
It seems likely, however, that the link between the saying and the Globe was made only later, originating with the industrious early Shakespeare biographer William Oldys, who claimed as his source a private manuscript to which he once had access.
William Oldys ( British Librarian, p. 374 ) acknowledges obligations to Ames, whom he styles ‘ a worthy preserver of antiquities .’
William Oldys said of him that he " would not stoop to fawn ," and some of his verses seem to show that he disliked the pressures of life at court.
William Oldys in 1795
William Oldys ( 14 July 1696 – 15 April 1761 ) was an English antiquarian and bibliographer.
The illegitimate son of Dr William Oldys, chancellor of Lincoln, London was probably his place of birth.
Dr. William Oldys c. 22 October 1636 was the son of Rev.
William Oldys b. 1591 who was murdered in Adderbury, Oxford by Parliamentarian soldiers.
William Oldys was the son of John Oldys b. 13 July 1563 who was son of John Oldys b. 1520 who was son of John Oldys, Bishop of Clanmacknoise, Ireland in 1444 who was son of Richard Oldys b. 1366.
( William Oldys reports a traditional view that the inscription on Jonson's tomb (" O rare Ben Jonson ") refers to the applause this play received, after the failure of Catiline, indicating some degree of popularity.

William and younger
Bernard's mother, Maud, was the daughter of the well-known preacher Frederic William Farrar, and was eighteen years younger than her husband.
The first paper on boxing was published in the late 18th century by successful Birmingham boxer ' William Futrell ' who remained undefeated until his one hour and seventeen minute fight at Smitham Bottom, Croydon, on July 9, 1788 against a much younger " Gentleman " John Jackson which was attended by the Prince of Wales.
He had an elder brother, William Henry Leonard Poe, and a younger sister, Rosalie Poe.
Malherb is introduced as the younger son of a noble family and he builds the Fox Tor house to be the impressive gentleman's residence suggested by William Crossing rather than the humble cottage which it actually is.
William Gordon, younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy and sat as Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire.
His father died in the winter of 1913, while Edwin was still in England, and in the summer of 1913, Edwin returned to care for his mother, two sisters, and younger brother, as did his brother William.
Frederick William would frequently mistreat Fritz ( he preferred his younger sibling August William ).
Frederick William married his first cousin Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, George II's younger sister ( daughter of his uncle, King George I of Great Britain and Sophia Dorothea of Celle ) on 28 November 1706.
Of his two daughters, the eldest, Louise Charlotte, married Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland, and the younger, Hedwig Sophie, married William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.
Otello, based on William Shakespeare's play, with a libretto written by the younger composer of Mefistofele, Arrigo Boito, premiered in Milan in 1887.
A younger generation of novelists that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s included Shena Mackay, Alan Spence, Allan Massie and the work of William McIlvanney.
In Sabrina, Billy Wilder, unable to secure Cary Grant, chose Bogart for the role of the older, conservative brother who competes with his younger playboy sibling ( William Holden ) for the affection of the Cinderella-like Sabrina ( Audrey Hepburn ).
Among those who joined the academy were Charles Eastlake, Richard Westmacott ( the younger ), William Bewick and Thomas Uwins.
Sir William Anglin Scarlett, Lord Abinger's younger brother, was chief justice of Jamaica.
He has three siblings: two are older, brother William " Billy " Ritchie and sister Carol Ritchie ; and one is younger, sister Jill Ritchie who is an actress.
Several suspects exist, including competition director and former pageant winner Kathy Morningside ( Candice Bergen ); her unpleasant assistant Frank Tobin ( Steve Monroe ); veteran emcee Stan Fields ( William Shatner ) who, like Morningside, is being replaced with a younger person ; and Rhode Island's Cheryl Frasier ( Heather Burns ), possibly a radical animal rights activist.
Maria Eleonora's brother George William was flattered by the offer of the British Crown Prince and proposed their younger sister Catherine ( 1602 – 1644 ) as a more suitable wife for the Swedish king.
During his early period, Heinlein's writing for younger readers needed to take account of both editorial perceptions of sexuality in his novels, and potential perceptions among the buying public ; as critic William H. Patterson has put it, his dilemma was " to sort out what was really objectionable from what was only excessive over-sensitivity to imaginary librarians ".
He was a younger brother of William IX, Count of Poitiers ; Henry the Young King ; and Matilda, Duchess of Saxony.
His widow went to stay with the younger son William.
She had a crisis of faith and tended to attend religious services at the nearby St. Stephen's Church and discuss religion with William, Joseph's younger brother, as Joseph had apparently stopped attending religious services.
William, younger brother and heir to Malcolm IV of Scotland, is betrothed to Lady Jeanette " Jenny " Avenel.
Although Orderic Vitalis describes it as starting with a quarrel between Robert and his two younger brothers, William and Henry, including a story that the quarrel was started when William and Henry threw water at Robert, it is much more likely that Robert was feeling powerless.

William and lost
The Cathbuaid, Columba's crozier or staff, has been lost but the 8th-century Breccbennach or Monymusk Reliquary shown here, which held relics of Columba, is known to have been carried into battle from the reign of King William I of Scotland | William I onwards.
Dundas put a brake on intellectual and social change through his ruthless manipulation of patronage in alliance with Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, until he lost power in 1806.
Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.
" In turn after 1840 Webster's books lost market share to the McGuffey Eclectic Readers of William Holmes McGuffey, which sold over 120 million copies.
In 1807, William Wordsworth finished his sonnet on the theme of a modernity deadened to Nature, which opens " The world is too much with us ", with a sense of nostalgia for the lost richness of a world numinous with deities:
* William Wirt / Amos Ellmaker-1832 election for President of the United States ( lost )
The difficulties over the succession led to a loss of authority in Normandy, with the aristocracy regaining much of the power they had lost to the elder William.
The two made up their differences and William agreed to help Robert recover lands lost to France, notably Le Maine.
Less than two years after becoming king, William II lost his father William I's advisor and confidant, the Italian-Norman Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury.
He later ran for mayor and governor and even sought the presidential nomination, but lost much of his personal prestige when outrage exploded in 1901 after columnist Ambrose Bierce and editor Arthur Brisbane published separate columns months apart that suggested the assassination of William McKinley.
However, he lost the general election to William McKinley and the United States formally adopted the gold standard in 1900.
Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy ( reigned 1087 – 1106 ) lost the throne of England to his younger brothers William II ( reigned 1087 – 1100 ) and Henry I ( reigned 1100 – 1135 ).
The sarcophagus of William Butler Ogden in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx ) | Woodlawn CemeteryOn October 8, 1871, Ogden lost most of his prized possessions in the Great Chicago Fire.
Having badly lost the 1904 election with a conservative candidate, the Democratic Party turned to two-time nominee William Jennings Bryan, who had been defeated in 1896 and 1900 by Republican William McKinley.
Although the Whigs at first formed the most important part of the coalition, the Whiggish elements of the new party progressively lost influence during the long leadership of the Peelite William Ewart Gladstone, and many of the old Whig aristocrats broke from the party over the issue of Irish home rule in 1886 to help form the Liberal Unionist Party — which itself would merge with the Conservative Party by 1912.
It was rumoured in December 1554 that Cecil would succeed Sir William Petre as Secretary of State, an office which, with his chancellorship of the Garter, he had lost on Mary's accession to the throne.
His favoured candidate, William Whitelaw, lost to Thatcher in the second vote one week later ( Thatcher 146, Whitelaw 79, Howe 19, Prior 19, Peyton 11 ).
After the death of Queen Mary, King William lost interest in the renovations, and work ceased.
Fellow Democrat William A. Blakley was appointed to replace Johnson as Senator, but Blakley lost a special election in May 1961 to Tower.
However, Sarah Foot is inclined to accept Michael Wood's argument that William's chronicle draws on a lost life of Æthelstan, while cautioning that we have no means of discovering how far William ' improved ' on the original.
Having failed to muster an effective military response, Edgar's leading supporters lost their nerve, and the English leaders surrendered to William at Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.
Cleveland lost support to the Silverites led by William Jennings Bryan, and declined to head the Gold Democrat ticket, though he did endorse the Gold Democrats.

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