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  Lord Cromwell
Catherine Cromwell married Sir Lionel, Lord Tollemache of Helmingham, Suffolk, Godson to Queen Elizabeth and ancestor by Catherine to the Earls of Dysart.
Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, Lord High Chamberlain of England and Henry VIII’s chief minister responsible for the dissolution of the monasteries bought Launde for the sum of £1500.
Lord Thomas Cromwell is buried at Tickencote, Rutland, 1653.
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 The Silken Thomas
Lord Thomas Fitzgerald or "Silken Thomas", as he was known in history because of his richness in clothes and the silken banners carried by his standard bearers, was "a hot impetuous brave, daring and chivalrous youth".
He set siege to Dublin, and Alan the Archbishop, an archenemy of the Geraldines fled the city by boat, which was driven ashore on Clontarf, from where the archbishop sought refuge in the village of Artane.
The mass execution of Silken Thomas and his five uncles did not bring about the end of the Geraldine Dynasty as Henry was advised it would.
www.silkenthomas.com /history.htm   (578 words)

  
 Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch
Lord Wellington, in a despatch to General Graham, says ‘I beg to congratulate you and the brave troops under your command on the signal victory which you gained on the 5th instant.
Lord Wellington mentions that La Pena was to be brought to a court-martial, but nothing is known of the result.
Lord Lynedoch continued to the last his early rising, his active habits, and temperate mode of living, his interest in rural affairs, and in the management and adornment of his estate.
www.electricscotland.com /webclans/families/thomas_graham.htm   (4541 words)

  
 The Lord Family
In the year 1636, Thomas Lord, his oldest son Richard, and the rest of his family, joined with Rev. Thomas Hooker and one hundred men, women, and children to leave Newtown [Cambridge], Massachusetts, on an epic journey to form a new settlement on the Connecticut River, later to become the City of Hartford.
The arrival of Thomas Lord in Newtown in 1635 was the culmination of at least two years of planning, according to Salisbury.
Thomas Lord was a man of means, position and influence, and in 1632 he sent his eldest son, Richard, then about twenty-one years of age, to America.
home.att.net /~p_lord/lordarms11.html   (1741 words)

  
 NBA.com: Isiah Thomas Bio
Thomas, who stood barely over 6-feet, was in his day the grittiest performer to play the position, a feisty competitor who offered no quarter and expected none in return.
Thomas took whatever defenses gave him, whether it was a three-pointer, the baseline, the lane or an alley-oop opportunity.
Thomas was named MVP of the Finals against the Portland Trail Blazers, averaging 27.6 points and 7.0 assists.
www.nba.com /history/players/thomas_bio.html   (2260 words)

  
 Thomas, Lord Fairfax, and the Northern Neck
Fairfax, Thomas, 6th lord and baron of Cameron, was the friend and patron of George Washington's early life, born in Leeds Castle, Kent, England, 169-3?; died at his seat at "Greenway Court", Frederick County, Virginia, December 12, 1781; son of Thomas, Lord Fairfax of Cameron, and of Catharine, daughter of Lord Culpeper.
The lands of Lord Fairfax were originally granted by King Charles II on September18, 1649 while he was in exile in France.
On February 25, 1673 a new charter was given to Thomas Lord Culpeper and Henry Earl of Arlington.
www.fortedwards.org /fairfax.htm   (704 words)

  
 Lord Sydney - Thomas Townshend 1733-1800
Lord Sydney has been at least equally successful in defining moral and material limits from the one extremity in vogue on the stage to the other which is affected in the palace....
THOMAS TOWNSHEND, baron Sydney of Chiselhurst; one of his majesty's most honourable privy council, one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state, president of the commission for the control of the affairs of the East India company, one of the lords commissioners of trade and plantations, and a governor of the Charter House.
THOMAS TOWNSHEND (1733-1800) took his title of baron Sydney of Chislehurst (Kent) from the family of his great-great-grandmother, Lady Lucy Sydney, daughter of Robert Sydney, second Earl of Leicester (1627-1677), who traced his descent from a Surrey Yeoman, John de Sydenie, a farmer at Alfold, in the reign of Edward I.
home.worldonline.co.za /~townshend/lordsydney2.htm   (3064 words)

  
 Walter Gilbert Genealogy: Thomas Lord & Dorothy Bird   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Anne Lord [#1031]: She was born in Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, on September 18, 1614, and died in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, in 1688.
Thomas Lord was baptized in Towcester on November 15, 1616.
Thomas Lord (son of Richard), born about 1585, lived at Towchester from 1610 to at least as late as 1629.
www.otal.umd.edu /~walt/gen/htmfile/2062.htm   (637 words)

  
 Liberal Democrats : Lord Thomas of Gresford QC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A bencher of Gray’s Inn in 1991, Lord Thomas of Gresford was a member of the Criminal Injuries Board between 1985 to 1993.
Martin Thomas acted as an Advisor to East Asia Institute at the University of Cambridge in 1998 and Patron of China Law Conferences between 1998 and 2001.
Martin Thomas is President of the Gresford Memorial Trust, Friends of Gresford Parish Church and Friends of Wrexham Maelor Hospital, as well as being a vice-President of the Llangollen International Eisteddfod.
www.libdems.org.uk /party/people/lord-lord-thomas-of-gresford-qc.html   (424 words)

  
 NBA.com: Isiah Thomas Summary
Thomas, who stood barely over six feet, was in his day the grittiest performer to play the position, a feisty competitor who offered no quarter and expected none in return.
Thomas possessed the skill and determination to take over a game at will and helped build a last-place Detroit Pistons team into back-to-back NBA champions in the late 1980s.
Thomas' sunny smile belied an inner toughness that made him a key member of a scrappy, physical group of players dubbed the "Bad Boys" of Detroit.
www.nba.com /history/players/thomas_summary.html   (165 words)

  
 MaThomas Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, eldest child of Zachary Macaulay, was born in Leicestershire on 25th October, 1800.
Thomas was an extremely intelligent child he began writing poems about historical characters at the age of eight.
Lord Lansdowne was impressed by Macaulay's articles and in 1830 offered him the seat of Calne, a pocket borough under his control.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRmacaulay.htm   (1183 words)

  
 Isiah Thomas - a Star Library biography
Isiah Lord Thomas III was born April 30, 1961, the youngest of nine children in a West Chicago ghetto.
Thomas was an integral part of the Pistons' first-ever NBA title in 1989 as they swept the Los Angeles Lakers.
Thomas was named to the All-Star team every year of his career except 1994 and named MVP in 1984 and 1986.
www.indystar.com /library/factfiles/people/t/thomas_isiah/thomas.html   (729 words)

  
 Sir Thomas WHITE (Lord Mayor of London)
Sir Thomas White, the founder of St. John's College, Oxford, was born in Reading in 1492, the son of William White of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, clothier, and his wife Mary, daughter of John Kebblewhite of South Fawley, Berkshire.
Thomas appears in 1533 as one of those to whom the nun of Kent made revelations.
On 13 Nov, Thomas sat on the commission for the trial of Lady Jane Grey and her adherents.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/ThomasWhite.htm   (1435 words)

  
 Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (born October 21, 1931 in Windsor), is a British historian.
Thomas was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset before taking a BA in 1953 at Queens' College, Cambridge.
Thomas is married to the former Vanessa Jedd, daughter of the first Acting United Nations Secretary-General Gladwyn Jebb
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Thomas   (248 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Dark Lord: Books: Thomas Harlan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Harlan's experience in gaming and especially his Lords of the Earth clearly had their influences too, which I appreciated, with the various secret organizations and powers waging invisible war.
The Dark Lord itself was a fitting end to the whole series and I'm rather sad it's over (or is it?).
Author Thomas Harlan has created a powerful and thoughtful alternate universe where Christianity never took hold and where Rome is strengthened by an ancient oath that holds the nation together--at a terrible cost of lost creativity.
www.amazon.ca /Dark-Lord-Thomas-Harlan/dp/0812590120   (1820 words)

  
 St. Thomas
Thomas' doubt was conceived in sorrow, born in painful hesitation, and grew into a blessing.
Thomas could not move or talk; he was suddenly hot and afraid, suddenly sorry that he had ever doubted; but he was full of joy to see what he had not believed.
Thomas, tormented by doubt, over whom, nevertheless, the glorious sun of Easter had risen and shone with a special splendor, was able not only to understand human sadness, but also to transfigure it into heavenly bliss.
www.12apostlesofthecatholicchurch.com /thomas.html   (7544 words)

  
 Pepys' Diary: Fairfax, Lord Thomas
Thomas, Lord Fairfax, Generalissimo of the Parliament forces.
In a volume (autograph) of Lord Fairfax’s Poems, preserved in the British Museum, 11744, f.
A sister of Thomas Fairfax married Thomas Widdrington, who became a member of the council of state in 1651, speaker of the Commons in September 1656 and chief baron of the Exchequer, where Pepys worked, in June 1658.
www.pepysdiary.com /p/107.php   (1142 words)

  
 MCC History - History - Lord's
In pursuit of exclusivity, they approached Thomas Lord, a bowler with White Conduit CC, and asked him to set up a new private ground.
In 1805, the dukes and earls were keen to see their sons play cricket and so hired the ground for an Eton versus Harrow schools cricket match - the start of a world-famous, and on-going, tradition.
In 1825, when Thomas Lord was 70, he sold the ground to a Bank of England director, William Ward, for £5,000.
www.lords.org /history/mcc-history   (983 words)

  
 Quoteland :: Search
This deep affection for their kind was brought to the attention of the Dragon Lord, who one day sent a real dragon to stand outside the man's window.
An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain—then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity.
Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
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 Department for Constitutional Affairs - Speeches - Lord Justice Thomas The Senior Presiding Judge - The Judicial and ...
Prior to the decision announced in June 2003 to reform the office of Lord Chancellor, the closeness of the relationship between the Executive and the judiciary was embodied in the position of Lord Chancellor.
Meetings with the Lord Chancellor were on a regular basis [Footnote 5]; one of the topics that was covered with him at these meetings was advice on appointments to the High Court [Footnote 6].
When the Lord Chancellor ceased to be a judge and Head of the Judiciary, it was essential that the interests of the judiciary were made clear and the engagement of the judiciary intensified in relation to resources.
www.dca.gov.uk /judicial/speeches/sp051110.htm   (7989 words)

  
 Thomas' Confession "My Lord and my God!"
Thomas’ statement, while it may have been an exclamation, does in fact confess the faith which he had previously lacked, and Jesus responds to Thomas’ statement in the following verse as if it were a confession.
Thomas was wholly convinced and did not hesitate to address the Risen Christ as Lord and God.
It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent to him, saying, ‘Lord, he whom you love is ill.’ But when Jesus heard it he said, ‘This illness does not lead to death.
www.answering-islam.org /Responses/Osama/zawadi_thomas.htm   (3571 words)

  
 Behind Enemy Lines - 2nd World War
Lord Paw Paw became known throughout the Rhineland, he had become the Fuhrer’s public enemy No 1 and favourite talk show host.
He accepted the title from the King, and in 1947 he was promoted to ‘Director of Red Sector Operations’ - By Christmas, Sir Thomas Mallory had successfully persuaded the Whitehall pen-pushers that his departments efficacy would be unequalled if he was supplied his favourite wartime German breakfast - Bratwurst and Champagne Saurkraut.
The published ‘Bond’ books were fictionalised accounts taken from the real life adventures of Sir Thomas Mallory, who was known simply to his friends and counterpartts as ‘M’.
www.lordgreypaws.com /pages/enemy_lines.html   (491 words)

  
 The Silken Thomas - THE LORD EDWARD
Lord Edward accommodation was built in the mid-eighteenth century.
The Lord Edward is located beside a Norman castle in Kildare town which was, in the thirteenth century, one of the most important castles in Leinster, ranking with the castles at Kilkenny, Carlow and Ferns.
Also at the Lord Edward we offer a high quality of service, en-suite and comfort.
www.silkenthomas.com /accomodation.htm   (135 words)

  
 Sanctifying the Lord's Day
And St. Austin saith that by Christ's rising on the first day of the week, it was consecrated to be the Christian Sabbath, in remembrance of his resurrection.
My lord, your proclamation for the pious observation of the Sabbath and your punitive acts upon some offenders have given a public testimony of your zeal for this day.
'They that feared the Lord spake often one to another; and the Lord hearkened and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him.' Tamerlain, that Scythian captain, had always a book by him of the names and good deserts of his servants which he bountifully rewarded.
www.apuritansmind.com /TheLordsDay/ThomasWatsonLordsDay.htm   (2255 words)

  
 The Lord's Prayer  --  Thomas Watson
His children may not have a liberal share in the things of this life; they may have but little meal in the barrel; they may be drawn low, and almost dry; but they shall have as much as God sees to be good for them.
The Lord is a Father, therefore love to serve him, he is the mighty God, therefore fear to offend him.
‘Lord,’ said Cruciger, ‘I pray, though with a weak faith, yet with faith.’ Prayer is the gun we shoot with, fervency is the fire that discharges it, and faith is the bullet which pierces the throne of grace.
www.biblebb.com /files/TW/tw-LordsPrayer.htm   (15702 words)

  
 Lord Thomas West Delaware
DELAWARR, or DELAWARE, Thomas West, Lord, governor of Virginia, died at sea, 7 June 1618.
He succeeded his father as third Lord Delaware in 1602, and in 1609 was appointed governor and captain general of Virginia.
He arrived at Jamestown, 9 June 1610, with three ships, after a voyage of three months and a half.His coming revived the courage of the colonists, who had been reduced almost to despair, owing to privation and misgovernment, and his judicious and energetic management soon restored order and industry.
www.famousamericans.net /lordthomaswestdelaware   (450 words)

  
 St. Thomas, the Apostle
Thomas is mentioned again (John 21) as one of the seven disciples who were fishing on the Sea of Galilee (Sea of Tiberias) when the Risen Lord appeared to them.
The tradition among Christians in India is that Thomas was speared to death near Madras, and accordingly he is often pictured holding a spear.
I know of no scholarly support for the notion that it is the work of the Apostle Thomas, but some scholars think that some of the sayings in it may be authentic sayings of Jesus.
www.satucket.com /lectionary/Thomas.htm   (357 words)

  
 Lord Elis-Thomas (TheyWorkForYou.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
If this MP or Lord has contributed more than once to one debate, only one speech is shown.
I do not want to excite the noble Lord, Lord Roberts of Conwy, but the Bill lays on the statute book all that is necessary for the proper governance of Wales in the 21st century.
“My Lords, I support Motions B and C and inform the House—I know that many noble Lords and Members in another place follow events in the Assembly in detail—that, by using the device for electing Assembly committees, we have established the shadow commission which has met formally on at least three occasions.
www.theyworkforyou.com /peer/lord_elis-thomas   (407 words)

  
 Lord William Pitt Lennox ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Thomas Cook, William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, plate opposite page 306 in the book Caricature History of the Georges by Thomas Wright (London: John Camden Hotten, [ca.
George Vertue, William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England to Henry VIII, 1737
Thomas Rowlandson, Dr. Syntax with My Lord, plate14 opposite page 101 in the book The Tour of Dr. Syntax, In Search of the Picturesque [by William Combe], 4th ed.
www.wwar.com /masters/l/lennox-lord_william_pitt.html   (785 words)

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