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	§16. Sir William Alexander; Drummond of Hawthornden. XII. The Elizabethan Sonnet. Vol. 3. Renascence and ...
		The old paths of imitation were not forsaken, but the spirit of adaptation showed to higher advantage in the work of a few writers who, for the time, withheld their efforts from the press.
		Chief among these was the courtly Scottish poet, Sir William Alexander, afterwards earl of Stirling, who deferred the publication of his sonneteering experiment—“the first fancies of his youth”—till 1604.
		Greville emulated the example of Sir Philip Sidney; but the imagery often associates itself, more closely than was suffered by Sidney’s aims, with the anacreontic vein of the Greek anthologists and of the French sonneteers.
	www.bartelby.com /213/1216.html (543 words)

	Sir William Alexander
		Sir William Alexander, as a man of influence with King James, was persuaded to second a design which promised to establish his personal dignity and advance his interest.
		July 1625, by a charter dated at Oatlands, confirmed Sir William Alexander, and his heirs, in the office of lieutenant of Nova Scotia, with all the prerogatives with which he had been so lavishly invested by King James, and the right of creating an order of baronets of Nova Scotia.
		In 1626, Sir William Alexander was appointed principal secretary for Scotland.
	www.ancestryuk.com /Alexander,SirWilliam,EarlofStirling.htm (0 words)

	JamaicaHomecoming
		William Alexander Clarke was born in Blenheim, Hanover, in 1884 to an Irish planter, Robert Constantine Clarke and his coloured Jamaican wife, Mary Clarke.
		Sir Alexander Bustamante was a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee that drafted the Jamaican Constitution.
		A port in the Newport East area of Kingston, a highway in the parish of Clarendon and the Kingston’s children's hospital, which Sir Alexander converted from an old army hospital, are also dedicated to his memory.
	www.jamaicahomecoming.com /great_jamaicans/general.aspx?guid=eae40c9c-e856-4cee-8984-41c8a59ba99d (494 words)

	William Alexander (Poet) - LoveToKnow 1911
		In 1614 Alexander was appointed to the English office of master of requests, and in July of the following year to a seat on the Scottish privy council.
		Alexander proceeded to recruit emigrants for his "New Scotland," but the terms he offered were so meagre that he failed to attract any except the lowest class.
		But Alexander found the colony a constant drain on his resources, and was unable to obtain from the treasury, in spite of royal support, 6000 which he demanded as compensation for his losses.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /William_Alexander_(Poet) (1485 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		ALEXANDER, SIR WILLIAM, the younger, eldest son of Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, founder of a Scottish colony at Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.); b.
		Alexander’s route thereafter is uncertain and can be deduced only indirectly from his father’s correspondence, in which it appears that he left a colony of “70 men and twa weemen” near Canada.
		He also dispatched Claude de La Tour with an agreement for his father, Sir William, to sign, the terms of which conferred the title of knight-baronet and a large grant of land on Claude and his son Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, in return for their assistance and allegiance.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34132 (648 words)

	William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Summary
		Sir William Alexander, first Earl of Stirling, was one of the Scots nobles who went to England with James VI of Scotland when, as James I, he succeeded Elizabeth to the throne of England in 1603.
		Alexander's prose tract An Encouragement to Colonies (1624), written to stir interest in settling this land, traces the history of colonizing from the time of the sons of Noah, emphasizes the importance of carrying Christianity to foreign shores, and urges the plantation development of New Scotland.
		Alexander, however, had little success in urging Scots to emigrate, and his financial problems, as well as the competing claims of the French to the region, led to the surrender of the grant to the French in 1632.
	www.bookrags.com /William_Alexander,_1st_Earl_of_Stirling (1990 words)

	William Alexander (disambiguation) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		William Alexander (1726-1783), American general in the revolutionary war
		William Alexander (1824-1911) Anglican Bishop, Primate in Ireland
		William Alexander Graham (1804-1875), U.S. Senator from North Carolina
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/w/wi/william_alexander__disambiguation_.html (88 words)

	§16. Sir William Alexander; Drummond of Hawthornden. XII. The Elizabethan Sonnet. Vol. 3. Renascence and ...
		The old paths of imitation were not forsaken, but the spirit of adaptation showed to higher advantage in the work of a few writers who, for the time, withheld their efforts from the press.
		Chief among these was the courtly Scottish poet, Sir William Alexander, afterwards earl of Stirling, who deferred the publication of his sonneteering experiment—“the first fancies of his youth”—till 1604.
		Greville emulated the example of Sir Philip Sidney; but the imagery often associates itself, more closely than was suffered by Sidney’s aims, with the anacreontic vein of the Greek anthologists and of the French sonneteers.
	www.bartleby.com /213/1216.html (543 words)

	Craigie Sir William Alexander - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Craigie, Sir William Alexander (1867-1957), Scottish philologist, born in Dundee, and educated at the universities of Saint Andrews and Oxford.
		Alexander, Sir William, Earl of Stirling (1567?-1640), Scottish poet and courtier, born probably in Menstrie, and educated probably at the...
		Alexander, William, known as Lord Stirling (1726-83), American soldier, born in New York City.
	encarta.msn.com /Craigie_Sir_William_Alexander.html (130 words)

	Sir William Alexander
		ALEXANDER, Sir William, earl of Stirling, born in 1580; died in London, 12 September 1640.
		Sir William held a copyright of this version, but it was never remunerative.
		Sir William speedily became involved in troublesome disputes, and was the object of bitterly sarcastic attacks on the part of his envious contemporaries; but he and his sons persevered in their efforts to turn their prodigious possessions to some practical account.
	famousamericans.net /sirwilliamalexander (704 words)

	Canadian History - Sir William Alexander
		William Alexander's first years were spent in the parish of Logie, but following his father's death he was brought up in Stirling by a granduncle who was a merchant there.
		Alexander was one of the favoured courtiers who accompanied him, and his subsequent involvement in English politics made Alexander unpopular in Scotland.
		At Windsor Castle on September 10, 1621 King James signed a grant in favour of Sir William Alexander covering all of the lands "between our Colonies of New England and Newfoundland, to be known as New Scotland " (Nova Scotia in Latin), an area larger than Great Britain and France combined.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/canada/william_alexander.htm (352 words)

	Sir William Alexander Smith
		William Alexander Smith was born on 27th October 1854 at Pennyland House, Thurso, Scotland.
		William Alexander Smith took a leading role in the new organisation, accepting a full-time post as the first Brigade Secretary in 1887.
		Sir William Smiths body was transported to his home city of Glasgow, where he was buried in the Western Necropolis, and the last act of the day was when the Boys of the lst Glasgow filed past the open grave and each cast into it a white flower.
	www.firstwitneyboysbrigade.fsnet.co.uk /WSmith.html (335 words)

	Regan Thanks Crew of Sir William Alexander
		The excellent cooperation between the Canadian Coast Guard and the Canadian Forces demonstrated during Operation UNISON has also been praised by Vice Admiral Bruce MacLean, Chief of Maritime Staff of the Canadian Forces, who described the partnership of the two organizations as a hugely significant and welcomed interagency undertaking.
		The 83-metre Canadian Coast Guard Ship (CCGS) Sir William Alexander, together with three Canadian Navy vessels, all loaded with supplies, set sail from Halifax on September 6, 2005.
		The Sir William Alexander carried out relief work in US waters until October 22, 2005.
	www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca /media/newsrel/2005/hq-ac92_e.htm (310 words)

	JAMAICA - A premier caribbean travel destination featuring the resort areas of Montego Bay, Negril, Ocho Rios, ...
		George William Gordon was born to a slave mother and a Scottish planter, Joseph Gordon, at Cherry Gardens in St.
		His Excellency the Most Honourable Sir Howard Felix Hanlan Cooke, ON, CD, GC, MG, Governor-General of Jamaica, was born in Goodwill, a small district in the parish of St James on November 13, 1915 to David and Mary Jane Cooke.
		William Alexander Clarke was born in Blenheim, Hanover, in 1884 to an Irish planter, Robert Constantine Clarke and his coloured Jamaican wife, Mary Clarke.
	www.visitjamaica.com /about_jamaica/great_jamaicans.aspx (0 words)

	ALEXANDER, Sir William, Earl of Stirling
		Alexander became secretary of state for Scotland in 1626.
		Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Britain's foreign secretary, was named British prime minister on October 19, 1963, the day after Harold Macmillan tendered his resignation.
		Sir Alexander Fleming was a young bacteriologist when an accidental discovery led to one of the great developments of modern medicine.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=200644 (507 words)

	Sir William Alexander
		ALEXANDER, Sir William, earl of Stirling, born in 1580; died in London, 12 September 1640.
		Sir William held a copyright of this version, but it was never remunerative.
		Sir William speedily became involved in troublesome disputes, and was the object of bitterly sarcastic attacks on the part of his envious contemporaries; but he and his sons persevered in their efforts to turn their prodigious possessions to some practical account.
	www.famousamericans.net /sirwilliamalexander (704 words)

	Overview of Sir William Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alexander was born in the Clackmannanshire village of Menstrie, brought up in Stirling and educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Leiden.
		He was the author of the lengthy 'Doomesday', a series of tragedies and was closely acquainted with the poet William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585 - 1649).
		He was a member of the court of King James VI (1566 - 1625).
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst255.html (0 words)

	First World War.com - Feature Articles - Private John William Alexander Jackson - Australia's Youngest V.C.
		William 'Billy' Jackson VC, was born John William Alexander Jackson on 13 September 1897 at "Glengower" station at Gunbar, a small settlement 80km (50m) north of Hay, New South Wales.
		In August a civic reception for the Governor-General Sir William Slim was disrupted when Slim noticed that his lift driver was wearing the ribbon of a VC.; the accompanying civic dignitaries were left waiting while Slim spoke at length to Jackson.
		William Jackson VC was given full Military Honours by Southern Command when cremated at Springvale Cemetery and his ashes were placed in the Boronia Gardens.
	www.firstworldwar.com /features/jacksonvc.htm (3400 words)

	The Founder
		William Smith was born on 27th October 1854 at Pennyland House, Thurso, Scotland.
		Sir William Smith died on 10th May 1914 after being suddenly taken ill at a Boys' Brigade meeting in London.
		Sir William Alexander Smith Founder of The Boys' Brigade was born in this house on 27th October 1854.
	www.boys-brigade.org.uk /aboutus/swas.htm (411 words)

	Sir William Alexander - Encyclopedia.com
		It was acquired by Sir John Soane, who, as Xavier F. Salomon and Christopher Woodward explain, juxtaposed it with a miniature by Isabey in a graphic comparison of the youthful hero with the tyrannical dicatator.
		Sir Hans Sloane as a collector of small sculpture.
		William Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat: Rite of forgiveness/transference of blame.(Critical Essay)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-AlexndrSirW.html (539 words)

	HOASM: England Through 1635
		His brother William devoted himself largely to instrumental music, which included a number of bold examples of the traditional English art of the viol fantasy.
		William Child, who also served both these kings, wrote much church music as well as catches and ayres and a number of compositions for instruments.
		However, the main event in the history of music of this period was the growth of a body of music for the theatre which prepared the ground for the brief appearance of English opera.
	www.hoasm.org /IVM/Englandthru1635.html (812 words)

	Herschel Club - Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel
		Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, better known as Sir William Herschel, was born in Hanover, Germany on November 15, 1738.
		Because of his great zeal and methodical nature, William Herschel became one of the most notable observers in the history of astronomy.
		Sir William Herschel died in Slough, England on August 25, 1822.
	www.astroleague.org /al/obsclubs/herschel/fwhershs.html (766 words)

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		He promised so to do: the time came, and they were all in the body of the circle, when lo, upon a sudden, after some time of invocation, Evans was taken from out the room, and carried into the field near Battersea Causeway, close to the Thames.
		Sir Kenelm Digby and the Lord Bothwell went home without any harm came next day to hear what was become of him; just as they, in the afternoon, came into the house, a messenger came from Evans to his wife, to come to him at Battersea.
		(Most honoured Sir); he pretended to poetry; and that posterity may have a taste of it, you shall have here inserted two verses of his own making; the occasion of making them was thus.
	www.renaissanceastrology.com /lilly.html (2517 words)

	First For Boys - The Man who Spelt "Boy"
		Sir William Smith was there as usual on Thursday 7th May,1914, with a royal chairman, His Serene Highness, Prince Alexander of Teck, and the great building packed with Boys and parents and friends of The Brigade.
		Sir William Smith was buried in the Western Necropolis, and the last act of the day was when the Boys of the lst Glasgow filed past the open grave and each cast into it a white flower.
		But all who knew Sir William Smith were quick to resolve that the B.B. should go from strength to strength.That was the best tribute they could pay to their beloved Founder.
	www.boys-brigade.org.uk /aboutus/ffb-spelt.htm (1785 words)

	More info about the poet: William Alexander Earl of Stirling - references bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (c.1570, Menstrie, Clackmannanshire – 1640) was a Scotsman who was an early developer of Scottish colonisation of Nova...
		STC 345: William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, The Monarchicke Tragedies...
		William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, The Monarchicke Tragedies.
	www.poemhunter.com /william-alexander-earl-of-stirling/resources (786 words)

	A Queen's man, in the best tradition - smh.com.au
		William Alexander Dargie spent his early childhood years in the Gippsland timber towns of Walhalla and Erica.
		Dargie was attached to the RAAF, the RAN and, as a captain in the AIF, followed the progress of the war through the Middle East, New Guinea, India and Burma.
		Sir William Dargie's brother, the musician Horrie Dargie, pre-deceased him, as did his artist wife, Kathleen.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/07/28/1059244564861.html (1089 words)

	William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (c.1570– 1640) was a Scotsman who was an early developer of British colonization of Nova Scotia.
		He was a courtierin Scotland before its throne was joined with that of England to create the United Kingdom.
		Alexander was an active promoter of his New Scotland and brought many British settlers to the maritimes.
	www.therfcc.org /william-alexander%2C-earl-of-stirling-13216.html (186 words)

	Sir William Alexander Biography
		Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (c.1570—1640) was a Scottish who was an early developer of British colonization of Nova Scotia.
		Alexander was an active promoter of his New Scotland and brought many British settlers to the maritimes.
		He was appointed Secretary of State for Scotland in 1626 and held that office for the rest of his life.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Alexander_Sir_William.html (185 words)

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