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Pembroke College, Oxford
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Pembroke College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located in Pembroke Square. As of 2015, Pembroke had a financial endowment of £46.9 million. Pembroke offers the study of almost all the courses offered by the university, dame Lynne Brindley, former head of the British Library, has been Master of the College since 2013. In the early century, the endowment of Thomas Tesdale—a merchant from nearby Abingdon –. Following its foundation, the college proceeded to expand around Broadgates, built in stages through the seventeenth century out of the local Cotswold limestone, space restrictions saw the south-side of the Quad built directly on top of the old City Wall. The Chapel was designed and built by William Townsend, although the interior was redesigned by Charles Kempe—a Pembroke graduate—in 1884. The Chapel which is used for regular worship bears his name. Further expansion of the came in the 1960s, after the closure of Beef Lane to the north of Chapel Quad. The private houses north of the road were acquired by the College in a piecemeal fashion. The new area is now known as North Quad, which was opened in 1962. A modern annex, built near to college on the banks of the Isis at Grandpont, provides accommodation for thirty six graduates, named the Geoffrey Arthur Building, the building was named for the diplomat Sir Geoffrey Arthur — a former master of the college. In April 2013 the Duke of Kent officially opened two new quadrangles, with new buildings including a 170-seat multi-purpose auditorium, a new cafe, art gallery, both James I, as founder of the college, and the Earl of Pembroke are commemorated in the arms. The former, representing the union of the crowns as James I of England and James VI of Scotland, is symbolised by the rose, the three lions rampant are taken from the Earl’s personal coat arms. Pembroke offers a range of courses, covering almost all the subject areas offered by the university, Literae Humaniores, Geography. In particular, the college has had an involvement with Economics, as well as Management Studies. The college has maintained a relationship with the Saïd Business School. In March 2002 two Oxford fellows resigned after allegations that they had offered a place to the child of an undercover reporter in return for a donation to the college library. The journalist alleged that he had taped a conversation where he posed as the father of a fictitious son, Pembroke runs its own access schemes entitled Pem-Brooke and Pembroke North which work with disadvantaged students from London and areas of the North
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Abdullah II of Jordan
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Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein has been king of Jordan since the 1999 death of his father, King Hussein. According to Abdullah, he is a 41st-generation direct descendant of Muhammad since he belongs to the Hashemite family and he was born in Amman as the first child of King Hussein and his second wife, British-born Princess Muna Al-Hussein. Shortly after his birth, Abdullah was named the crown prince, King Hussein transferred the title to his brother, Prince Hassan, in 1965 and returned it to Abdullah in 1999. Abdullah began his schooling in Amman, continuing his education abroad and he assumed command of Jordans Special Forces in 1994, and became a major general in 1998. In 1993 Abdullah married Rania Al-Yassin, and they have four children, Crown Prince Hussein, Princess Iman, Princess Salma, the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Al-Maktoum, is his brother-in-law by marriage. Although Jordan is a monarchy, the king holds wide executive and legislative powers and is commander-in-chief of the Jordanian Armed Forces. Abdullah embarked on aggressive economic liberalization when he assumed the throne, in 2011, large-scale protests demanding reform erupted in the Arab world. Although many of the led to civil wars in other countries, Abdullah responded quickly to domestic unrest by replacing the government. He introduced proportional representation to the Jordanian parliament in 2016, a move which he said would lead to a parliamentary government, although local opposition groups called his reforms inadequate, other observers praised them. Abdullah is popular locally and internationally for maintaining Jordanian stability, and is known for promoting interfaith dialogue, the third-longest-serving Arab leader, he is regarded by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center as the most influential Muslim in the world. Abdullah is custodian of the Muslim and Christian sacred sites in Jerusalem, Abdullah was born in Amman on 30 January 1962 to King Hussein during Husseins marriage to his British-born second wife, Princess Muna Al-Hussein. He is the namesake of his great-grandfather, King Abdullah I, Abdullah says that he is the 41st direct descendant of Muhammad through the Hashemite dynasty, which ruled Mecca for over 700 years and has ruled Jordan since 1921. The Hashemites, the oldest ruling dynasty in the Muslim world, are the second-oldest-ruling dynasty in the world, since Hussein had a daughter from his first marriage, Abdullah became heir apparent to the Jordanian throne under the 1952 constitution. Due to political instability, King Hussein appointed his brother Prince Hassan as his heir apparent in 1965, three more children followed Abdullah from Husseins marriage to Princess Muna, two from the kings third marriage and four from his fourth. Abdullah has four brothers and six sisters, seven of whom are half-siblings and he began his schooling in 1966 at the Islamic Educational College in Amman, and continued at St Edmunds School in England. Abdullah attended high school at Eaglebrook School and Deerfield Academy in the United States and he began his military career at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1980, while he was a training officer in the Jordanian Armed Forces. After Sandhurst, Abdullah was commissioned as a lieutenant in the British Army and served a year in Britain. Abdullah was admitted to Pembroke College in 1982, where he completed a one-year special-studies course in Middle Eastern affairs
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Patience Agbabi
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Patience Agbabi is a British poet and performer with a particular emphasis on the spoken word. Although her poetry is hard-hitting in addressing contemporary themes, her work makes use of strong formal constraints. She has described herself as bi-cultural and bisexual. and issues of racial, sexual Gender identity is important in her poetry, Agbabi was born in London to Nigerian parents, and grew up in North Wales with an adopted family. She studied English Language and Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford, Agbabi began performing on the London club circuit in 1995. She has cited among her influences Janis Joplin, Carol Ann Duffy, Chaucer and her childhood love of cake is apparent in her poem Eat Me. Her latest book, Telling Tales, was published by Canongate in 2014 and it revisits Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales and mines the Middle-English masterwork to offer a 21st-century take on the characters, its poetry and its performance elements. The book met with praise from poets who include Simon Armitage, Agbabi continues to tour Telling Tales as a performance-poetry production shown at literature festivals, arts spaces and libraries across the UK. She is also the author of the poetry collections Bloodshot Monochrome, Transformatrix and R. A. W and she has performed extensively and in collaboration with other writers. Her work has also influenced by rap rhythms and wordplay. She was a member of Atomic Lip, which has described as poetrys first pop group. They worked together from 1995 to 1998 and their last tour, Quadrophonix merged live, in 1996 she worked on a performance piece called FOR WOMEN, with Adeola Agbebiyi and Dorothea Smartt, first performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. As well as performing in Britain, Agbabi has undertaken British Council reading tours of Namibia and she took part in Modern Love, a spoken-word tour produced by Renaissance One, which explored love and modern relationships, touring the UK and Switzerland. Her poetry has been featured on television and radio, including the Channel 4 series Litpop in 1998, in 2000, she was one of ten poets commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to write a poem for National Poetry Day. In 2004, she was named as one of the Next Generation poets and her second book, Transformatrix is a commentary on contemporary Britain which draws inspiration from popular music forms. Agbabi is a former Poet Laureate of Canterbury and she has taught and run workshops and also been poet-in-residence at various places, ranging from Oxford Brookes University to a London tattoo and piercing studio. In March 2015, The Poetry Society announced Agbabi as one of five poets shortlisted for the 2014 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, the Wife of Bafa, Analysis of The Wife of Bafa Telling Tales, Canongate Books. Patience Agbabi on BBC Radio 4 Front Row Charlotte Runcie, Patience Agbabi, alex Goody, Contemporary British poetry, in, The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture, ISBN9780511780776, pp. 137–153
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Princess Aisha bint Hussein
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Princess Aisha bint Hussein is the sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan and is the twin sister of Princess Zein. Her parents are Princess Muna al-Hussein and King Hussein, Aisha was born in Amman, Jordan. She was educated up to age eight in Jordan, at the American community school and she moved to the U. S. to pursue her education for ten years. She attended Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, MD, through the 8th grade and she graduated from Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1986. She then attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the United Kingdom and she then completed an undergraduate degree in Modern Middle East History and Politics from Pembroke College, Oxford. In June 2010 she completed her Masters of Arts degree in Strategic Security Studies at the College of International Security Affairs, at the National Defense University, after graduation from Sandhurst, the princess served in Jordan’s special forces and completed several additional parachuting courses. Since 1996, she has part in several conferences by the Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women. She has also completed an open water diving course at the Scuba Schools International in New Jersey and she travels abroad frequently to further enhance her knowledge of military-related issues, particularly the role of women in the military. She is currently assigned as the defense attaché with the Jordanian embassy to the United States, in 1990, Aisha married Zeid Saadedine Juma in Amman, the couple later divorced. She currently resides in the United States of America and has a son Aoun Juma, born on May 27,1992, Aoun Juma has attended the London campus of Coventry University and is expected to study at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst. On January 27,2016, Princess Aisha married Ashraf Banayoti, edward Banayoti took the Muslim name Ashraf Banayoti when he converted to Islam. HRH Princess Aisha Bint Al Hussein and Ashraf Banayoti divorced in 2016, according to the Royal Hashemite Court
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Sir Edward Astley, 4th Baronet
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Sir Edward Astley, 4th Baronet was a British politician. He was admitted to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1747, in 1760, Astley succeeded his father as baronet. Astley held this seat until the 1790 general election when he retired, Astley married firstly Rhoda Delaval, oldest daughter of Francis Blake Delaval in 1751. Rhoda died in childbirth in 1757, bequeathing him Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland, Astley married secondly Anne Milles, youngest daughter of Christopher Milles, at St Margarets Church, Westminster two years later. She died in 1792, and he married lastly Elizabeth Bullen at St Marylebone Parish Church in the following year, Astley had three sons and a daughter by his first wife and five sons and two daughters by his second wife. He died, aged 72 and was buried at Melton Constable, Astley was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son Sir Jacob Astley, 5th Baronet, who at this time sat also for Norfolk in the House of Commons
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Philip Bailhache
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Sir Philip Martin Bailhache, KBE is a Jersey politician and lawyer. He was elected as a Senator in the States of Jersey in October 2011 and he previously held elected office as Deputy of Grouville 1972-1975. Between 1975 and 2009, he held office as Solicitor General, Attorney General. Bailhache was born in Jersey and was educated at St. Michaels Preparatory School and Charterhouse School and his grandfather was a Jersey solicitor and served as Deputy for Grouville. Bailhache read Law at Oxford University, was called to the English Bar in 1968 and he practised from the family law firm, Bailhache and Bailhache in Hill Street, St Helier. His brother, William Bailhache, was appointed HM Attorney General in 2000, Bailhache served as a Law Officer of the Crown for 19 years, first as HM Solicitor General and subsequently as HM Attorney General. In 1994, Bailhache became Deputy Bailiff of Jersey, following the removal from office of the previous Deputy Bailiff Vernon Tomes. He was appointed Bailiff of Jersey in 1995, in succession to Sir Peter Crill, as Deputy Bailiff and Bailiff, he was an ex officio judge of the Court of Appeal of Jersey. He was a judge of the Court of Appeal of Guernsey from 1995 to 2009, Bailhache introduced several modernizations to Jerseys legal system. In 1997, he was the editor of the Jersey Law Review. Bailhache was invited to chair the Group, which produced a Second Interim Report in December 2007, Bailhache retired from the office of Bailiff at the end of June 2009 and was succeed by Mr Michael Birt. He continued to sit as a Commissioner of the Royal Court of Jersey until July 2011, Bailhache is an active member of the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Association and became the Executive Vice-President in September 2009, following the retirement of Sir Henry Brooke. His period of office as Bailiff was not without political criticism, on 15 July 2008, the States of Jersey Assembly overwhelmingly rejected a vote of no-confidence brought by Jersey Democratic Alliance member Deputy Shona Pitman, by 47 votes to three. Bailhache was elected to the States of Jersey as deputy of Grouville in 1972, in 2009, Bailhache and his wife were among prominent islanders to give public support to a campaign to introduce civil partnerships for gay people in Jersey. For many years, Bailhache has promoted reconciliation between the peoples of Jersey and Germany, especially in Bad Wurzach, where many islanders were interned during the Second World War. In July 2011, he announced that he was standing in the elections for the four vacant Senatorial seats in Jerseys October 2011 general election and he came top of the poll, receiving 17,538 votes. He subsequently stood for election to the post of Chief Minister, in Christmas 2011 Bailhache played a small impromptu role in the local village pantomime of Grouville where his rendition of a popular tune on a washboard was a delightful surprise. On 7 March 2012, the States appointed Bailhache as chairman of Jerseys Electoral Commission, the Electoral Commission was set up to examine the constitution of the States Assembly
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Edwin Barnes
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Edwin Ronald Barnes is a Catholic priest and a former Church of England bishop. He was the Bishop of Richborough from 1995 to 2002 and was formerly the president of the Church Union. Barnes was educated at Plymouth College and Pembroke College, Oxford and he was ordained in 1961 he began his ministry with a curacy at St Marks North End, Portsmouth. After this he held incumbencies at Farncombe and Hessle, in 1987 he became Principal of St Stephens House, Oxford, an Anglican theological college. In 1995 he was chosen to be the first Bishop of Richborough, in October 2010, Barnes was interviewed by The Tablet magazine on the possibility of joining the proposed personal ordinariate in the Roman Catholic Church for former Anglicans. He said that he wanted to join “because the Anglican Church is no longer the one holy and apostolic Church it says it is. ”On 6 January 2011, Barnes announced that he intended being received into the Catholic Church. On 21 January 2011 he and his wife, Jane, were received into the Catholic Church at the Church of Our Lady & St Joseph, Lymington by Monsignor Peter Ryan, himself a former Anglican. He was ordained to the diaconate on 11 February 2011 in the chapel at Bishops House, Portsmouth by the Bishop of Portsmouth. He was ordained to the priesthood on 5 March 2011 by the bishop in the Cathedral of St John the Evangelist. In June 2012 he was elevated to the rank of monsignor as a Chaplain of His Holiness
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Francis Beaumont
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Francis Beaumont was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher. Beaumont was the son of Sir Francis Beaumont of Grace Dieu, near Thringstone in Leicestershire and his mother was Anne, the daughter of Sir George Pierrepont, of Holme Pierrepont, and his wife Winnifred Twaits. Beaumont was born at the seat and was educated at Broadgates Hall at age thirteen. Following the death of his father in 1598, he left university without a degree, accounts suggest that Beaumont did not work long as a lawyer. He became a student of poet and playwright Ben Jonson, he was acquainted with Michael Drayton and other poets and dramatists. His first work, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, appeared in 1602, in 1605, Beaumont wrote commendatory verses to Jonsons Volpone. Beaumonts collaboration with Fletcher may have begun as early as 1605, the play received a lukewarm reception. The following year, Fletchers Faithful Shepherdess failed on the same stage, in 1609, however, the two collaborated on Philaster, which was performed by the Kings Men at the Globe Theatre and at Blackfriars. The play was a success, not only launching the careers of the two playwrights but also sparking a new taste for tragicomedy. According to an anecdote related by John Aubrey, they lived in the same house on the Bankside in Southwark. About 1613 Beaumont married Ursula Isley, daughter and co-heiress of Henry Isley of Sundridge in Kent, by whom he had two daughters, one posthumous. He had a stroke between February and October 1613, after which he no more plays, but was able to write an elegy for Lady Penelope Clifton. Beaumont died in 1616 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, although today Beaumont is remembered as a dramatist, during his lifetime he was also celebrated as a poet. It was once written of Beaumont and Fletcher that in their joint plays their talents are so. completely merged into one, yet this romantic notion did not stand up to critical examination. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century critics like E. H. C, oliphant subjected the plays to a self-consciously literary, and often subjective and impressionistic, reading — but nonetheless began to differentiate the hands of the collaborators. This study was carried much farther, and onto a more objective footing, by twentieth-century scholars, the same is true of The Woman Hater, The Maids Tragedy, The Noble Gentleman, and Philaster. On the other hand, Cupids Revenge, The Coxcomb, The Scornful Lady, Beggars Bush, in Loves Cure and Thierry and Theodoret, the influence of Massingers revision complicates matters, but in those plays too, Fletcher appears to be the majority contributor, Beaumont the minority. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, London, J. M. Dent & Sons
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Francis Bickerstaffe-Drew
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Better known as John Ayscough, was an English writer and Roman Catholic priest. He was born in Headingley, Leeds, the son of Harry Lloyd Bickerstaffe, a Church of England Clergyman, in 1878, he converted to Catholicism while an undergraduate at Pembroke College, Oxford. Drew was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1884 and served as a chaplain in the British army for more than thirty years. He was made a private Chamberlain by Pope Leo XIII in 1891, francis Bickerstaffe-Drew died in Salisbury, England. Drew held honorary degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Marquette University, in 1901, he received the cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice. The Modern Catholic Novel, The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XLVII, Bickerstaffe-Drew, F. John Ayscoughs Letters to his Mother during 1914,1915 and 1916. New York, P. J. Kenedy & Sons, in, Some Catholic Novelists, Their Art and Outlook. London, Burns, Oats & Washbourne, Ltd, the Real Romance of Life, The Catholic World, Vol. XCIII, No
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William Blackstone
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Sir William Blackstone SL KC was an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century. He is most noted for writing the controversial Commentaries on the Laws of England, born into a middle-class family in London, Blackstone was educated at Charterhouse School before matriculating at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1738. After switching to and completing a Bachelor of Civil Law degree, he was made a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford on 2 November 1743, admitted to Middle Temple, and called to the Bar there in 1746. Blackstone is considered responsible for completing the Codrington Library and Warton Building, on 3 July 1753 he formally gave up his practice as a barrister and instead embarked on a series of lectures on English law, the first of their kind. In November 1765 he published the first of four volumes of Commentaries on the Laws of England, considered his magnum opus and he remained in this position until his death, on 14 February 1780. Blackstones controversial legacy and main work of note is his Commentaries, designed to provide a complete overview of English law, the four-volume treatise was repeatedly republished in 1770,1773,1774,1775,1778 and in a posthumous edition in 1783. Legal education in England had stalled, Blackstones work gave the law at least a veneer of scholarly respectability, williams father, Charles Blackstone, was a silk mercer from Cheapside, the son of a wealthy apothecary. He became firm friends with Thomas Bigg, a surgeon and the son of Lovelace Bigg, after Biggs sister Mary came to London, Charles eventually persuaded her to marry him in 1718. This was not seen as a match for her, but the couple lived happily and had four sons. Charles and Henry, both fellows of New College, Oxford and took holy orders. Their last son, William, was born on 10 July 1723, although Charles and Mary Blackstone were members of the middle class rather than landed gentry, they were particularly prosperous. Tax records show Charles Blackstone to have been the second most prosperous man in the parish in 1722 and this, along with Thomas Biggs assistance to the family following Charles death, helps explain the educational upbringing of the children. William Blackstone was sent to Charterhouse School in 1730, nominated by Charles Wither, William did well there, and became head of the school by age 15. However, after Charles death the family declined, and after Mary died the familys resources largely went to meet unpaid bills. William was able to remain at Charterhouse as a poor scholar, Blackstone revelled in Charterhouses academic curriculum, particularly the Latin poetry of Ovid and Virgil. He began to note as a poet at school, writing a 30-line set of rhyming couplets to celebrate the wedding of James Hotchkis. He also won a medal for his Latin verses on John Milton, gave the annual Latin oration in 1738. On 1 October 1738, taking advantage of a new scholarship available to Charterhouse students, Blackstone matriculated at Pembroke College, Blackstone was particularly good at Greek, mathematics and poetry, with his notes on William Shakespeare being included in George Steevens 1781 edition of Shakespeares plays
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Nathaniel Bliss
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The Reverend Nathaniel Bliss was an English astronomer of the 18th century, serving as Britains fourth Astronomer Royal between 1762 and 1764. Nathaniel Bliss was born in the Cotswolds village of Bisley in Gloucestershire and his father, also named Nathaniel Bliss, was a clothier. Bliss studied at Pembroke College, Oxford and he graduated B. A. in 1720 and M. A. in 1723, and married shortly afterwards. In 1736, Bliss became rector of St Ebbes Church in Oxford, as Savilian Professor he lectured courses in arithmetic, algebra, plane and spherical geometry, the use of logarithms and surveying instruments. George Parker, the Earl of Macclesfield, had established an observatory at Shirburn Castle, working for and with the Earl of Macclesfield, Bliss made meridian observations of a comet approaching the sun in 1744 at Shirburn Castle and at Greenwich. Bliss worked alongside James Bradley at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich and in June 1761, owing to the health of Bradley. In 1762 he succeeded James Bradley to become the fourth Astronomer Royal and his assistant at the Royal Observatory was Charles Green, and upon his death, Green continued Bliss work until the appointment of the next Astronomer Royal. In April 1764 Bliss made observations of an annular eclipse visible from Greenwich and his Greenwich observations were not published until 1805 when they were included as a supplement in an edition by Thomas Hornsby on the observations of Bradley. He died in Oxford, but was buried close to Edmond Halley in St Margarets churchyard in Lee in south-east London, as men of independent means, the first four Astronomers Royal including Bliss, were paid only a minimal salary. This situation changed when Nevil Maskelyne succeeded Bliss as Astronomer Royal upon his death - Maskelyne commanded a salary of £350 per annum permitting him to make the post his main occupation. In 2000 the International Astronomical Union named a crater on the Moon after Bliss, London, Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 220–221. The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, A Glance at its History, online catalogue of Bliss working papers
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Edmund Bonner
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Edmund Bonner was Bishop of London from 1539 to 1549 and again from 1553 to 1559. Initially an instrumental figure in the schism of Henry VIII from Rome, he was antagonized by the Protestant reforms introduced by Somerset and reconciled himself to Roman Catholicism. He became notorious as Bloody Bonner for his role in the persecution of heretics under the Catholic government of Mary I of England and he was the son of Elizabeth Frodsham, who was married to Edmund Bonner, a sawyer of Hanley in Worcestershire. This account was disputed by Strypes contemporary, Sir Edmund Lechmere and he was educated at Broadgates Hall, now Pembroke College, Oxford, graduating bachelor of civil and canon law in June 1519. He was ordained about the time and admitted doctor of civil law in 1525. In 1529 he was Cardinal Thomas Wolseys chaplain, which brought him to the notice of the king, after the fall of Wolsey he remained faithful to him and was with him at the time of his arrest at Cawood and death at Leicester in 1530. There he sought to obstruct the proceedings against Henry in the papal curia. For these and other services Bonner had been rewarded by grants of the livings of Cherry Burton, Ripple, Blaydon, and East Dereham. After a brief embassy to the Emperor in the spring of 1538, in this capacity he proved capable and successful, though irritation was frequently caused by his overbearing and dictatorial manner. He began his mission by sending Cromwell a long list of accusations against his predecessor. He was almost as bitter against Wyatt and Mason, whom he denounced as a papist, and he seems, however, to have pleased his patron, Cromwell, and perhaps Henry, by his energy in seeing the kings Great Bible in English through the press in Paris. Bonner returned to England and was consecrated 4 April 1540 and he had graduated in law, and not in theology. During the years 1542-43 he was abroad in Spain and Germany as ambassador to the emperor. The death of the king on 28 January 1547, proved the point in Bonners career. But while accepting the schism from Rome, he had resisted the innovations of the Reformers. Therefore, from the first he put himself in opposition to the changes introduced by Protector Somerset. The ground was chosen, but it was not legally nor constitutionally tenable. It was on this question that he came into conflict with Edwards government, in the next session, November 1548-March 1549, he was a leading opponent of the first Act of Uniformity and Book of Common Prayer
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Kevin Brennan (politician)
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His responsibilities included Further Education, Skills, Apprenticeships and Consumer Affairs. He was Shadow Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills until he resigned on 28 June 2016, Brennan was born in Cwmbran, South Wales, the son of a steelworker and a school dinner lady. He was educated at St Albans RC High School in Pontypool and Pembroke College, after University of Oxford he returned to Wales to study at the University College of Wales, Cardiff where he qualified as a teacher with a Postgraduate Certificate in Education in history in 1985. He finished his education with a degree in Education Management at the University of Glamorgan in 1992. In 1982, Brennan joined the Cwmbran Community Press as a journalist and he joined the National Union of Teachers in 1984 before becoming a teacher at Radyr Comprehensive School in 1985. He left the school in 1994 as Head of the Economics Department, between 1991–2001, Brennan was a member of Cardiff Council representing the ward of Canton, Cardiff. During this time he served as Chair of the Finance Committee, Chair of the Economic Scrutiny Committee, in 2002 he appeared in the House of Commons without a tie, as he favours a less formal dress code. After the 2005 general election, he was promoted to Tony Blairs government as an Assistant Government Whip, Brennan was replaced in this role by Lady Morgan following the government reshuffle in October 2008. Following the 2010 General Election he continued this role in a Shadow Ministerial capacity before Ed Milibands decision to appoint Brennan to his current position of Shadow Minister for Schools. He resigned from this position on 28 June 2016, following a motion of no confidence in Corbyn which was passed overwhelmingly by Labour MPs and he claimed for bunk beds for his daughter while the expenses system was intended exclusively for items for the MPs use. Brennan supports Cardiff City Football Club and the Cardiff Blues rugby team and he is also a member of the parliamentary rock group MP4
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Thomas Browne
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Sir Thomas Browne was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. Brownes writings display a deep curiosity towards the world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry. Brownes literary works are permeated by references to Classical and Biblical sources as well as the idiosyncrasies of his own personality, the son of a silk merchant from Upton, Cheshire, he was born in the parish of St Michael, Cheapside, in London on 19 October 1605. His father died while he was young and he was sent to school at Winchester College. In 1623 Browne went to Oxford University and he settled in Norwich in 1637 and practiced medicine there until his death in 1682. Brownes first literary work was Religio Medici and this work was circulated as a manuscript among his friends. It surprised him when an edition appeared in 1642, since the work included several unorthodox religious speculations. An authorised text appeared in 1643, with some of the controversial views removed. The book is significant in the history of science because it promoted an awareness of up-to-date scientific journalism, Brownes last publication during his lifetime were two philosophical Discourses which are closely related to each other in concept. The other discourse in the diptych is antithetical in style, subject-matter, in Religio Medici, Browne confirmed his belief, in accordance with the vast majority of seventeenth century European society, in the existence of angels and witchcraft. He attended the 1662 Bury St, in 1671 King Charles II, accompanied by the Court, visited Norwich. During his visit, Charles visited Brownes home, a banquet was held in the Civic Hall St. Andrews for the Royal visit. Obliged to honour a local, the name of the Mayor of Norwich was proposed to the King for knighthood. The Mayor, however, declined the honour and proposed Brownes name instead, Sir Thomas Browne died on his 77th birthday,19 October 1682. His Library was held in the care of his eldest son Edward until 1708, the auction of Browne and his son Edwards libraries in January 1711 was attended by Hans Sloane. Editions from Sir Thomas Brownes Library subsequently became included in the collection of the British Library. His skull became the subject of dispute when it was removed from his lead coffin when accidentally re-opened by workmen in 1840. It was not re-interred until 4 July 1922 when it was registered in the church of Saint Peter Mancroft as aged 317 years
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Pete Buttigieg
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Peter Paul Montgomery Pete Buttigieg is the current and 32nd Mayor of South Bend, Indiana. A member of the Democratic Party, Buttigieg has been serving as mayor since January 1,2012, Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard University, a Rhodes Scholar, and a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. Buttigieg was born in South Bend, Indiana, to parents Joseph A. Buttigieg and he is of Maltese and Scottish descent. Buttigieg graduated from St. Joseph High School in 2000, where he was president, buttigieg’s winning essay centered on the integrity and political courage demonstrated by U. S. Congressman Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the nations only Independent member of Congress and he was also selected as one of two Indiana delegates to the United States Senate Youth Program. He attended Harvard College, where he was president of the Harvard Institute of Politics Student Advisory Committee, Buttigieg was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard in 2004, receiving his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in History and Literature, foreign Policy as reflected in the Graham Greene novel The Quiet American. Buttigieg received a first class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 2007 from Oxford University. Before graduating from college, Buttigieg worked as an intern at WMAQ-TV. Buttigieg also worked as an intern for Jill Long Thompsons 2002 congressional campaign and he also spent several months working on Senator John Kerrys 2004 presidential campaign, where he was a policy and research specialist. After graduating from Oxford, he worked as a consultant at McKinsey and Company. He was the Democratic Party candidate in 2010 for State Treasurer of Indiana, Buttigieg lost to incumbent Richard Mourdock, garnering 37. 5% of the vote. Buttigieg was commissioned as a Naval intelligence officer in the Naval Reserves in 2009, after a seven-month deployment, Buttigieg returned to South Bend. He remains a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve, Buttigieg was elected Mayor of South Bend on November 8,2011 with 74% of the vote and took office on January 1 as the youngest mayor of a U. S. city with at least 100,000 residents. Mayor Buttigieg was named mayor of the year for 2013 by GovFresh. com, in 2014, The Washington Post called Buttigieg the most interesting mayor youve never heard of, citing his age, education, and military background. In 2016, The New York Times published an op-ed praising Buttigiegs work as mayor, Buttigieg has made redevelopment a top priority of his administration. The city had addressed 991 properties as of August 2015, the goal was completed by the scheduled end date for the program, November 24,2015. Buttigieg served for seven months in Afghanistan as a lieutenant in the Navy Reserves, in his absence, Deputy Mayor Mark Neal, the City Controller for South Bend, served in the role of executive commencing in February 2014
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William Camden
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His father Sampson Camden was a member of The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers. He attended Christs Hospital and St Pauls School, and in 1566 entered Oxford, at Christ Church, he became acquainted with Philip Sidney, who encouraged Camdens antiquarian interests. He returned to London in 1571 without a degree, in 1575, he became Usher of Westminster School, a position that gave him the freedom to travel and pursue his antiquarian researches during school vacations. In 1577, with the encouragement of Abraham Ortelius, Camden began his great work Britannia and his stated intention was to restore antiquity to Britaine, and Britain to his antiquity. The first edition, written in Latin, was published in 1586 and it proved very popular, and ran through five further editions, of 1587,1590,1594,1600 and 1607, each greatly enlarged from its predecessor in both textual content and illustrations. The 1607 edition included for the first time a set of English county maps, based on the surveys of Christopher Saxton and John Norden. The first English language edition, translated by Philemon Holland, appeared in 1610, Britannia is a county-by-county description of Great Britain and Ireland. It is a work of chorography, a study that relates landscape, geography, antiquarianism, and history. Rather than write a history, Camden wanted to describe in detail the Great Britain of the present, by this method, he produced the first coherent picture of Roman Britain. He continued to collect materials and to revise and expand Britannia throughout his life and he drew on the published and unpublished work of John Leland and William Lambarde, among others, and received the assistance of a large network of correspondents with similar interests. His fieldwork and firsthand research set new standards for the time and he even learned Welsh and Old English for the task, his tutor in Old English was Laurence Nowell. In 1593 Camden became headmaster of Westminster School and he held the post for four years, but left when he was appointed Clarenceux King of Arms. The College of Arms at that time was not only a centre of genealogical and heraldic study, the appointment, however, roused the jealousy of Ralph Brooke, York Herald, who, in retaliation, published an attack on Britannia, charging Camden with inaccuracy and plagiarism. Camden successfully defended himself against the charges in subsequent editions of the work, Britannia was recognised as an important work of Renaissance scholarship, not only in England, but across the European Republic of Letters. In 1612 parts were condemned by the Spanish Inquisition, an abridgement was published in Amsterdam in 1617 and reprinted in 1639, and versions of the text were also included in Joan Blaeus Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and in Jan Janssoniuss Novus Atlas. In 1597, Lord Burghley suggested that Camden write a history of Queen Elizabeths reign, Camden began his work in 1607. The first part of the Annales Rerum Gestarum Angliae et Hiberniae Regnate Elizabetha, covering the reign up to 1597, the second part was completed in 1617, but was not published until 1625, and 1627, following Camdens death. The first translation into English appeared in 1625, the Annales were not written in a continuous narrative, but in the style of earlier annals, giving the events of each year in a separate entry
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John Cameron, Lord Abernethy
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John Alastair Cameron, Lord Abernethy is a Scottish lawyer, and a former Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the countrys Supreme Courts, serving from 1992 to 2007, when he retired. He was a member of the English Bar before moving to the Scottish Faculty of Advocates, Cameron was educated at the Clergy School, Khartoum, St. Marys School, Melrose, and Trinity College, Glenalmond. He undertook National Service as a Second Lieutenant with the Royal Army Service Corps from 1956 to 1958, Cameron was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1963, but moved to the Faculty of Advocates in 1966. He was appointed Queens Counsel in 1979, and the year became Director of Faculty Services Limited, the services branch of the Faculty of Advocates. He was Legal Chairman of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals from 1979 to 1992 and he was elected Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Advocates in 1983, serving until his appointment to the Bench. He was one of the four judges in the original Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial and he was Vice-Chairman of the Judges Forum of the International Bar Association from 1993 to 1994, and Chairman from 1994 to 1998. He then became a member of the Council of the IBAs Section on Legal Practice from 1998 to 2002 and he was the first President of the Scottish Medico-Legal Society, serving from 1996-2000. He is also the author of Medical Negligence, An Introduction, Cameron married Elspeth Miller in 1968. His interests include travel, sport, nature conservation and Africana and he is an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. List of Senators of the College of Justice
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Paul O. Carrese
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Dr. Paul O. Carrese is Director of the School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. For nearly two decades he was a professor of science at the United States Air Force Academy. He is author of the book The Cloaking of Power, Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism and his most recent book is Democracy in Moderation, Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Sustainable Liberalism. He has held fellowships at Harvard University, the University of Delhi, at Oxfords Pembroke College, he earned two masters degrees, one in politics and philosophy in 1991 and one in theology in 1993. He received his Ph. D. in political science from Boston College in 1998, from 1993 to 1995, Carrese was a teaching assistant at Boston College, and he taught at Middlebury from 1996 to 1998. Carrese took a job at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs as an assistant professor of political science, in 2000 he became an associate professor, and in 2003 a full professor. He was the co-founder of the Academys great-books honors program, the Scholars Program, Carrese teaches several political science and social science courses at the Academy. Bio at USAF Academy Political Science page Democracy in Moderation,2016
