John Ovington (1653–1731) was an English priest known for his travel narrative A Voyage to Surat in the Year 1689, which described his journey to Surat...
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Ovington may refer to: In England: Ovington, County Durham Ovington, Essex Ovington, Hampshire Ovington, Norfolk Ovington, Northumberland John Ovington...
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referred to as "Moors", which simply meant Muslim, by European writers. John Ovington wrote in 1689: The language of the Moors is different from that of the...
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Mary White Ovington (April 11, 1865 – July 15, 1951) was an American socialist, suffragist, journalist, and co-founder of the National Association for...
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referred to as "Moors" by European writers, such as the English priest John Ovington in 1689 after his visit to India: The language of the Moors is different...
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Urdu, the language associated with the Muslims in North India, such as John Ovington, who visited India during the reign of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb: The...
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Ovington is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 6.44 km2 (2.49 sq mi) and had a population of 239 in 92 households at...
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documented instance of Parsi philanthropy. In 1689, Anglican chaplain John Ovington reported that in Surat the family "assist the poor and are ready to...
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time. During his first-hand experience on a trip to Surat, Britisher John Ovington recalls the great ores Surat possessed, such as gold and silver. He...
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Ovington is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England. Situated 8 miles (13 km) east of Barnard Castle. Lying within the historic boundaries...
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Jadunath Sarkar, History of Aurangzib (Calcutta, 1916), III, 92./28/ John Ovington, A Voyage to Surat (London, 1929), p. 201. M. Reza Pirbhai (2009). Reconsidering...
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Ovington Eugene Weller (January 23, 1862 – January 5, 1947) was an American banker and Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the...
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Jadunath Sarkar, History of Aurangzib (Calcutta, 1916), III, 92. /28/ John Ovington, A Voyage to Surat (London, 1929), p. 201. Brown, Katherine Butler (January...
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Itchen Stoke and Ovington (/ˈɒvɪŋtən/) is an English civil parish consisting of two adjoining villages in Hampshire, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) west of...
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Ovington Square is a garden square in central London's Knightsbridge district. It lies between Brompton Road to the north-west (reached via Ovington Gardens)...
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Monserrate William Moorcroft William Muir Max Müller John Nieuhoff Hermann Oldenberg John Ovington Marco Polo James Prinsep Thomas William Rhys Davids...
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(died 1697) was an English merchant and the Deputy Governor of Bombay. John Ovington described Weldon as "a gentleman well descended". According to one source...
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both the Official Supporters' Club's Young Player of the Year and the John Ovington Community Player of the Year awards, as well as being named Players'...
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Ovington's Bank is a novel by the English historical novelist Stanley John Weyman, set during an 1825 banking crisis. It was published in London in 1922...
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or, The Stranger's Guide through the British Metropolis. 1804. pp. 25–28. John Feltham (1807). The Picture of London, for 1807. pp. 376–7. "William Goode"...
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for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz. Over...
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born on 29 June 1787 at Newton Fell House, Nafferton, two miles north of Ovington, Northumberland. He was the son of Benjamin Green, a carpenter and maker...
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practitioners to be unpleasant, vagrants at best and libertines at worst. John Ovington in his A Voyage to Suratt, In the Year, 1689 described them as "holy...
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translated also various books from English, including "Le voyage de John Ovington à Surate et en divers autres lieux de l'Asie et de l'Afrique, avec l'histoire...
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White Ovington (1911–1912) May Childs Nerney (1912–1916) Mary White Ovington (1916) Royal Freeman Nash (1916–1917) James Weldon Johnson (1917–1918) John Shillady...
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Stanley J. Weyman (redirect from Stanley John Weyman)
directed by Paddy Russell (UK, 1965, TV miniseries, based on Ovington's Bank) "Weyman, Stanley John". The International Who's Who in the World. 1912. pp. 1085–1086...
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corporation. He then expanded his funding of civil rights, funding Mary Ovington, and investing in Phipps Houses; as well as helping to organize the Constitution...
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Elizabeth Standerwick, only daughter and heiress of James Standerwick of Ovington Park. After his death, she married German Baron Friedrich von Zandt. His...
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inquiry by Mary White Ovington, Chairman of the Board of the NAACP, Deputy Sheriff Gene Barbisch replied: Your secretary, John R. Shilladay, reached Austin...
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resignation, which Ovington instantly accepts. Sir Berkeley Nightingale, uncle of one of Donkin's senior boys, uses his influence to have Ovington offered a suffragan...
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