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From the mid-1760s a range of Neoclassical modes were fashionable, associated with the British architects Robert Adam, James Gibbs, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, George Dance the Younger, Henry Holland and Sir John Soane.
These include Richard Kirwan, John Smeaton, Henry Moyes, John Michell, Pieter Camper, R. E. Raspe, John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, John Wyatt, William Thomson, Cyril V. Jackson, Jean-André Deluc, John Wilkinson, John Ash, Samuel More, Robert Bage, James Brindley, Ralph Griffiths, John Roebuck, Thomas Percival, Joseph Black, James Hutton, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, William Herschel, Daniel Solander, John Warltire, George Fordyce, Alexander Blair, Samuel Parr, Louis Joseph d ' Albert d ' Ailly, the seventh Duke of Chaulnes, Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, Grossart de Virly ,, Johann Gottling.
The neo-Gothic architect James Wyatt also carried out works on both the House of Lords and Commons between 1799 and 1801.
* Fawley Court is a red-brick building designed by Christopher Wren for William Freeman ( 1684 ) with subsequent interior remodelling by James Wyatt and landscaping by Lancelot " Capability " Brown.
James, Virgil, Wyatt, Morgan, and Warren Earp were a tight-knit family who had worked and served together as deputy marshal, marshal, sheriff, and saloon owners in several towns, among other occupations, and had moved together from location to location.
In the summer of 1878, as an assistant marshal in Dodge City, Kansas, Wyatt Earp and Policeman James Masterson, together with several citizens, fired their pistols at several cowboys who were fleeing town after shooting up a theater.
Wyatt later told his biographer James Flood that he thought Brocius was still armed at the time, and didn't see Brocius ' pistol on the ground.
On Sunday, March 19, the day after Morgan's murder, Wyatt, his brother James, and a group of friends took Morgan's body to the rail head in Benson.
Many of the early sketches by Turner were studies of Architecture and / or exercises in perspective and it is known that the young Turner worked for several architects including Thomas Hardwick ( junior ), James Wyatt and Bonomi the Elder.
Significant changes to the cathedral were made by the architect James Wyatt in 1790, including replacement of the original rood screen and demolition of the bell tower which stood about 320 feet ( 100 m ) north west of the main building.
Corral ), the Earp brothers ( Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil and James ) are driving cattle to California when they cross the Clanton family led by the " Old Man ".
* James Scott and Edward Wyatt, Petersburg ’ s Story: A History ( 1960 )
British architects whose drawings, and in some cases models of their buildings, in the collection, include: Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, Nicholas Hawksmoor, William Kent, James Gibbs, Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, Henry Holland, John Nash, Sir John Soane, Sir Charles Barry, Charles Robert Cockerell, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Sir George Gilbert Scott, John Loughborough Pearson, George Edmund Street, Richard Norman Shaw, Alfred Waterhouse, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Holden, Frank Hoar, Lord Richard Rogers, Lord Norman Foster, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Zaha Hadid and Alick Horsnell.
British designers with works in the collection include William Kent, Henry Flitcroft, Matthias Lock, Thomas Chippendale, James Stuart, William Chambers, Robert Adam, John Gillow, James Wyatt, Thomas Hopper, Charles Heathcote Tatham, Pugin, William Burges, William Morris, Charles Voysey, Charles Robert Ashbee, Baillie Scott, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edwin Lutyens, Edward Maufe, Wells Coates & Robin Day.
Together with Robert Smirke and Sir John Soane, he became an official architect to the Office of Works in 1813, ( the appointment ended in 1832 ) at a salary of £ 500 per annum, following the death in September of that year of James Wyatt, this marked the high point in his professional life.
* James and Virgil Earp-brothers of legendary Old West lawman Wyatt Earp
Among the notorious characters were such legends of the Old West as: dentist Doc Holliday and his girlfriend Big Nose Kate, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Mysterious Dave Mather, Hoodoo Brown, and Handsome Harry the Dancehall Rustler.
The hall is the oldest surviving college building, but apart from the door with its magnificent medieval ironwork almost no trace of the ancient structure has survived the successive reconstruction efforts, first by James Wyatt in the 1790s and then again by Gilbert Scott in 1874.
Designed by James Wyatt and completed in 1796, this building houses the senior common rooms and library.
The north range houses the library and senior common rooms ; designed in the Neoclassical style by James Wyatt, it was built between 1788 and 1796 to accommodate the books bequested by Edward, Baron Leigh, formerly High Steward of the University and an Orielensis, whose gift had doubled the size of the library.

Wyatt and Virgil
The gunfight, believed to have lasted only about thirty seconds, was fought between the outlaw Cowboys Billy Clanton, Tom McLaury and his brother Frank McLaury, and the opposing lawmen Virgil Earp and his brothers Morgan and Wyatt Earp, aided by Doc Holliday acting as a temporary deputy of Virgil.
Hurst brought four soldiers, and Virgil invited Wyatt and Morgan Earp, as well as Wells Fargo agent Marshall Williams.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Virgil Earp, along with temporary federal deputies Wyatt and Morgan Earp, Wells Fargo agent Marshall Williams, former Kansas Sheriff Bat Masterson ( who was dealing faro at the Oriental Saloon ), and County Sheriff Behan set out to find the robbers.
Ike Clanton later testified at the Spicer hearing that Doc Holliday, Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp, and Morgan Earp had all confided in him that they had actually been involved in the stage robbery.
Wyatt and Virgil Earp rode with a sheriff's posse and tracked the Bisbee stage robbers.
While Wyatt and Virgil were in Tucson for the federal hearing on the charges against Spence and Stilwell, Frank McLaury confronted Morgan Earp.
He said Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan offered him his rifle and to fight him right there in the courthouse, which Ike declined.
As an unpaid deputy marshal for Virgil, Wyatt habitually carried a pistol in his waistband, as was the custom of that time.
Wyatt said in his deposition afterward that he had been temporarily acting as city marshal for Virgil the week before while Virgil was in Tucson for the Pete Spence and Frank Stilwell trial.
Wyatt said that he still considered himself a deputy city marshal, which Virgil later confirmed.
When Virgil Earp learned that Wyatt was talking to the Cowboys at Spangenberg's gun shop he picked up a 10-gauge or 12-gauge, short, double-barreled shotgun from the Wells Fargo office around the corner on Allen Street.
Wyatt spoke of his brothers Virgil and Morgan as the " marshals " while he acted as " deputy.
Virgil was further in the lot opposite Frank and near Wyatt, who was opposite Tom.
Virgil and Wyatt testified they saw Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton draw and cock their six-shooters.
Virgil and Wyatt thought Tom was armed.
Virgil and Wyatt were now firing.
Both Wyatt and Virgil believed Tom McClaury was armed and testified that he had fired at least one shot over the back of a horse, and Tom was killed.
Both Virgil and Wyatt stated that Holliday had shot Tom, which the coroner's exam supported.
Wyatt, Virgil and Holliday believed that Tom had a revolver at the time of the gunfight.
" William Clanton, Frank and Thomas McLaury, came to their deaths in the town of Tombstone on October 26, 1881, from the effects of pistol and gunshot wounds inflicted by Virgil Earp, Morgan Earp, Wyatt Earp, and one — Holliday, commonly called ' Doc Holliday '.
Ike also claimed that Doc Holliday and Morgan, Wyatt, and Virgil Earp had separately confessed to him their role in the Benson stage holdup, or else the cover-up of the robbery by allowing the robbers ' escape.

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