A 14th-century manuscript, Book of Prayers, in the Francis Douce collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford contains a drawing in which two persons are shown, but they bowl to no mark.

no: Francis Bacon

As Sir Francis Drake had no children, his estate and titles passed on to his nephew ( also named Francis ).

no: Francis Drake

Though he had a happy childhood surrounded by his many siblings, his family knew Francis was likely to be a future Emperor ( his uncle Joseph had no surviving issue from either of his two marriages ), and so in 1784 the young Archduke was sent to the Imperial Court in Vienna to educate and prepare him for his future role.

no: Francis Gary Powers

Francis William Newman expressed the critical view common in the early 19th Century, that if the Hittites existed at all " no Hittite king could have compared in power to the King of Judah ...".

It has been often rumored that she had a number of lovers ( including Francis Drake ), but there is no hard evidence.

For example, Immanuel Kant used pure description to discuss recognition and its components and Sir Francis Bacon claimed that the simple observation of the rote recollection of a previously learned list was “ no use to the art ” of memory.

In early 1993, Francis announced in an interview to BBC Radio 5 that the band was finished and offered no explanation at the time, unbeknownst to the other members of the band.

In 1972 French physicist Francis Perrin discovered fifteen ancient and no longer active natural nuclear fission reactors in three separate ore deposits at the Oklo mine in Gabon, West Africa, collectively known as the Oklo Fossil Reactors.

* June 24 – October 14 – The English ships Dobbs galley and California, under Captains William Moore and Francis Smith, explore Hudson Bay, discovering there is no Northwest Passage by this route.

A well known civil rights attorney, Francis Heisler, had volunteered to defend the arrested persons, advising them to plead " no lo contendre ", as an alternative to pleading either guilty or not-guilty.

* January 12 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ( and Charles I of Spain ) and Francis I of France sign the Treaty of Toledo, agreeing to make no further alliances with England.

According to a 1980 review in Nature by Leslie Orgel and Francis Crick, junk DNA has " little specificity and conveys little or no selective advantage to the organism ".

and Francis Beaumont were among the members ( although it is often asserted that William Shakespeare and Sir Walter Raleigh were members of this club, there is no documented evidence to support this claim ).

In 1498, Louis XII, who had married three times but had no son, betrothed his daughter Claude of France to Francis.

no: Francis Walsingham

The cartoon lambastes Sir Francis Buller, a British judge, for allegedly ruling that a man may legally beat his wife, provided that he used a stick no thicker than his thumb, although it is questionable whether Buller ever made such a pronouncement ( poor record-keeping for trial transcripts in that era makes it difficult to determine whether such a ruling may have existed ).

At the persuasion of Count Metternich, a marriage between Napoleon and Marie Louise was suggested by Emperor Francis to the Count of Narbonne but no official overture was made by the Austrians.

Of the four men whose ideas were adopted, neither Charles Thomson, Pierre Du Simitière nor William Barton were Masons and, while Francis Hopkinson has been alleged to have had Masonic connections, there is no firm evidence to support the claim.

He subsequently had no children, but he raised his young cousin Bertha Chevallier-Boutell, daughter of Kitchener's first cousin Sir Francis Hepburn de Chevallier-Boutell.

However, Mary and Francis were to have no children during their short lived marriage, possibly due to Francis ' illnesses or his undescended testicles.

In 1674 he brought forward a motion for disarming " popish recusants ," and supported one by Lord Carlisle for restricting the marriages in the royal family to Protestants ; but he opposed the bill introduced by Lord Danby in 1675, that imposed a test oath on officials and members of parliament, speaking " with that quickness, learning and elegance that are inseparable from all his discourses ," and ridiculing the multiplication of oaths, since " no man would ever sleep with open doors.

The male line of the Scrope family still exists but it has for centuries now been known simply as " Scrope of Danby ", with no hereditary titles left to its name.

Though he changed allegiance himself he had no patience with time-servers: he detested the Earl of Sunderland ( while admitting he was good company ) and in 1689 told his cousin the Earl of Danby that for treachery to James II he deserved to " be knocked on the head ".

Other artists with works in the collection include: Bernardino Fungai, Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Fioravante Ferramola, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Anthony van Dyck, Ludovico Carracci, Antonio Verrio, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Domenico Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francis Hayman, Pompeo Batoni, Benjamin West, Paul Sandby, Richard Wilson, William Etty, Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence, James Barry, Francis Danby, Richard Parkes Bonington & Alphonse Legros.

Francis Danby, a British painter born in Ireland, probably was inspired by Géricault's picture when he painted Sunset at Sea after a Storm in 1824, and wrote in 1829 that The Raft of the Medusa was " the finest and grandest historical picture I have ever seen ".

Painters of the Romantic era like John Martin and Francis Danby were influenced to create large and highly dramatic pictures by the sensational dioramas and panoramas of their day.

The Avon Gorge viewed from Ashton Meadow, by Francis Danby 1822

* Francis Danby ( 1793 – 1861 ) The Opening of the Sixth Seal, 1828

* Francis Danby ( 1793 – 1861 ), Irish painter

* James Francis Danby ( 1816 – 1875 ), English landscape painter

After an abortive trip to England in the company of Francis Danby and James Arthur O ' Connor, both of whom were close friends of his, he returned to Ireland where he worked mostly producing sketches for engravings for travel books – including among others, George Newenham Wright's guides to Killarney, Wicklow and Dublin, Thomas Cromwell's Excursions through Ireland, and James Norris Brewer's Beauties of Ireland.

Francis Danby, who moved to Bristol from Ireland in 1813 and was to succeed Bird as a leader of the Bristol School, was also influenced by Bird's genre style.

Francis Danby ( 16 November 1793 – 9 February 1861 ) was an Irish painter of the Romantic era.

Born in the south of Ireland, he was one of a set of twins ; his father, James Danby, farmed a small property he owned near Wexford, but his death, in 1807, caused the family to move to Dublin, while Francis was still a schoolboy.

The Bristol artists, particularly the amateur Francis Gold, were also important in influencing Danby towards a more imaginative and poetical style.

In 1820 when Francis Danby exhibited The Upas Tree of Java at the British Institution, Cumberland used his influence to promote its favourable reception.

The elder, James Francis Danby ( 1816 – 75 ), exhibited at the Royal Academy.

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