Sentences with phrase «english nobleman»

It was followed two decades later with a traveling English nobleman who used to present acquaintances with a handwritten letter of introduction which he called a resume.

How typical was Cora Cash's experience for an American marrying an English nobleman?

12:15 pm — TCM — Tom Jones The book Tom Jones, written in the late 1700s by Henry Fielding, is usually considered one of the earliest novels, and part of its charm is the way it pastiches earlier literary forms as it tells its story of a rakish young English nobleman and his adventures with women.

She had achieved the seemingly impossible task of bringing to the screen Virginia Woolf's fantastical 1928 novel about a 16th - century English nobleman who lives through three centuries, while aging only three decades and changing gender in the process.

The first accurate measurement of G was not made, in fact, until 1797, more than a century after the discovery of the law of gravity, and it arose from a classic experiment performed by the English nobleman Henry Cavendish.

Lord Baltimore, a Roman Catholic English nobleman, had been given a huge tract of land just north of Virginia, and the king had granted him absolute control over the area.

Most of us think of tweed as being worn by the upper classes and it began to be so during the first half of the 19th century when English noblemen acquired many country estates in Scotland for hunting and outdoor leisure activities.

This idyll was encouraged by the marriages of American heiresses to impoverished English noblemen — usually a trade of money for title — by parents enchanted by a particular vision of British life.

Imagine if the original leadership, a group of English noblemen and merchants, were to see the recently rebranded Hudson's Bay Co. today?

Not exact matches

The wonderfully named François Joseph Marie Henri De Viry, Baron de la Perrière, a minor Sardinian nobleman, was born in London to an English mother, and himself married an Englishwoman, the daughter of the Earl of Sandwich.

That he is acknowledged as the finest golfer in the world, and is being courted by and English promoter interested in turning golf into a spectator sport rather than a nobleman's pastime, gives him the edge he needs to convince Boothby, whom he confronts not just with political rhetoric, but also with the temerity to use the man's front door before doing so.

Black Adder [4/1] Rowan Atkinson may be best known in the States as Mr. Bean (or other dumb - playing roles like Johnny English), but for my money, his absolute best series is Black Adder, where he plays a series of British noblemen (each season is set in a different century) with dry wit and an unfortunate lot of idiotic hangers - on.

lands, titles, pensions, etc) with the Scots nobleman at the expense of the English.