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The corporation voted on September 27, 1598, that Quiney should ride to London about the suit to Sir John Fortescue, chancellor of the Exchequer, for discharging of the tax and subsidy.
Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;
Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the Caterpillar ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being the head end of an actual caterpillar, with the first two right " true " legs visible.
Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.
George Stubbs, William Blake, John Martin, Francisco Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, Eugène Delacroix, Sir Edwin landseer, Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner
He had an elder brother, John ( the father of Sir John Dermot Turing, 12th Baronet of the Turing Baronets ).
" Eleanor Audeley ", wife of Sir John Davies, is said to have been brought before the High Commission in 1634 for extravagances, stimulated by the discovery that her name could be transposed to " Reveale, O Daniel ", and to have been laughed out of court by another anagram submitted by Sir John Lambe, the dean of the Arches, " Dame Eleanor Davies ", " Never soe mad a ladie ".
* 1904 Sir John Gielgud, English actor ( d. 2000 )
Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.
Among Canova's English pupils were sculptors Sir Richard Westmacott and John Gibson.
The English Civil War ( 1642 1651 ) provoked a number of examples of this genre, including works by Sir Edmund Ludlow and Sir John Reresby.
* the " Lost Colony " of Roanoke Island: In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh recruited over 100 men, women and children to journey from England to Roanoke Island on North Carolina's coast and establish the first English settlement in America under the direction of John White as governor.
* 1839 Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English politician ( b. 1758 )
A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.
A subsidiary colony was to be founded on Norfolk Island, as recommended by Sir John Call, to take advantage for naval purposes of that island's native flax and timber.

Sir and Brown
In 1947, David Brown Limited bought the company under the leadership of managing director Sir David Brown — its " post-war saviour ".
In recent history, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Edward Heath, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have not been elevated to the House of Lords.
* Sir John Brown ( industrialist ) ( 1816 1896 ), UK inventor of a process for rolling armor-plate and founder of the Atlas steelworks, Sheffield Towers
* Anthony Cave Brown, " C ": The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill, 1987, published by Macmillan, New York.
Allen Brown described Château Gaillard as " one of the finest castles in Europe " and military historian Sir Charles Oman wrote that:
Britain and British seafarers including Sir Francis Drake, John Hawkins, Frobisher and Captain Brown — played a major role in the transatlantic trade in captured Africans between 1530 and 1810.
Famous alumni include Nobel Laureate in nuclear physics Sir John Cockcroft, aeroplane pioneer Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, and designer of the Lancaster bomber Roy Chadwick, while famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell, Hanna Neumann, Lewis Fry Richardson and Robin Bullough, and the physicist Henry Lipson.
* July 20 Battle of Inverkeithing in Scotland: The English Parliamentarian New Model Army under Major-General John Lambert defeats a Scottish Covenanter army acting on behalf of Charles II, led by Sir John Brown of Fordell.
Tony Rennell's book Last Days of Glory: The Death of Queen Victoria reveals that Victoria had entrusted detailed instructions about her burial to her doctor, Sir James Reid ( in lieu of Brown himself, who had died in 1883: the Queen's wish had been for him to attend to her ).
Many of the roads in the area have aviation-related names: Alcock Road ( Alcock and Brown ), Brabazon Road ( Brabazon ), Bleriot Road ( Louis Blériot ), Cobham Road ( Sir Alan Cobham ), De Havilland Road ( de Havilland ), Norman Crescent ( Nigel Norman ), Phoenix Way ( Heston Phoenix ), Sopwith Road ( Thomas Sopwith ), Spitfire Way ( Supermarine Spitfire ), Whittle Road ( Frank Whittle ), and Wright Road ( the Wright brothers ).
The first Mayor of Wandsworth was Sir Luke Brown of Dempster Road ( alleged to be a former Opium Baron ), who was elected to the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth in 1900.
A triptych by Dante Gabriel Rossetti was designed for use as a reredos, and new stained glass windows were designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Ford Madox Brown.
Famous architects and landscape architects such as Robert Adam, Sir Charles Barry, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Sir John Vanbrugh, Capability Brown and Humphry Repton were employed to incorporate new styles into the buildings.
Principals succeeding John Bamborough were Sir Bryan Cartledge ( 1988 1996 ), Paul Slack ( 1996 2010 ), and Nick Brown ( 2010 –).
Lancelot " Capability " Brown designed the grounds to which Sir Charles Barry added a grand terrace, in 1844.
Durker Roods, the former home of Sir David Brown was converted into a hotel and the grounds were sold for private housing.
The army was arranged in two lines ; the first had the Light Division on the left under Sir George Brown and the 2nd Division under Sir George de Lacy Evans on the right.
Sir George Brown was extremely shortsighted and he failed to notice that this had occurred.

Sir and 1835
* 1835 1881 Sir George Biddell Airy
He was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between 1834 and 1835 and again Foreign Secretary between 1841 and 1846 under Sir Robert Peel. It was during his second stint as Foreign Secretary that he settled two disagreements with the US the Northeast Boundary dispute by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty ( 1842 ), and the Oregon dispute by the Oregon Treaty of 1846.
He attended the anatomical lectures of Sir William Blizard ( 1743 1835 ) at the London Hospital, and was employed to assist as demonstrator ; he also attended Percivall Pott's surgical lectures at St Bartholomew's Hospital, as well as the lectures of John Hunter.
The Englishman Sir Rowland Hill started to take an interest in postal reform in 1835.
* The second episode of the BBC Radio comedy series 1835, entitled " Haircut, Sir?
* June 24 Sir George Stuart White, British field marshal ( b. 1835 ).
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet ( 5 February 17882 July 1850 ) was a British Conservative statesman, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and again from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846.
This concession, together with the Whig Party's internal divisions and the difficulties faced by the nation's economy, allowed the Tories under Sir Robert Peel to make gains in the elections of 1835 and 1837, and to retake the House of Commons in 1841.
* Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, 1st Bt ( Architect and Royal Academician ) ( 1835 1924 )
The staircases of the interior façade are decorated with cartouches similar to those found in First Quad, and likewise bear the arms of important figures in the College's history ; ( 13 ) Sir Walter Raleigh who was an undergraduate from 1572 to 1574, ( 14 ) John Keble who was a Fellow between 1811 and 1835 ), ( archway ) Edward Hawkins who was Provost from 1828 until 1882 and ( 15 ) Gilbert White who was an undergraduate from 1739 until 1743 and a Fellow from 1744 until 1793.
Then in ( 1835 38 ) he remodeled Sir Roger Pratt's Kingston Lacy, the interiors being his work, as well as the exterior being re-clad in stone.
His son, the sixth Earl, was a Tory politician and served as Master of the Buckhounds from 1834 to 1835 in Sir Robert Peel's first administration.
Named in honour of Sir Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, who was Governor General of British North America 1818-1819, Richmond County was created in 1835.
A baronetcy was conferred on him by Sir Robert Peel in 1835.
Sir Julius Vogel, KCMG ( 24 February 1835 12 March 1899 ) was the eighth Premier of New Zealand.
Tralee Courthouse was designed by Sir Richard Morrison and built in 1835.
Sir George Biddell Airy PRS KCB (; 27 July 1801 2 January 1892 ) was an English mathematician and astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881.
Sir Ralph Esher, a romance of Charles II's period, had a success, and Captain Sword and Captain Pen ( 1835 ), a spirited contrast between the victories of peace and the victories of war, deserves to be ranked among his best poems.
Praed sat for Great Yarmouth from 1835 to 1837, and was Secretary to the Board of Control during Sir Robert Peel's short administration.
There were few available soldiers in the colony, but the governor, Sir Benjamin d ' Urban acted quickly and all available forces were mustered under Colonel Sir Harry Smith, who reached Graham ’ s Town on 6 January 1835, six days after news of the uprising had reached Cape Town.
See also the Life ( by Wishaw ) prefixed to Journal of a Mission into the Interior of Africa in 1804 ( London, 1814 ); H. B., Life of Mungo Park ( Edinburgh, 1835 ); and an interesting passage in Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, vol.
In 1835, however, Sir Robert Peel made him rector of St Margaret's, Westminster, and canon of Westminster, and in 1849 he became dean of St Paul's.
* Sir George Murray 1834 1835

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