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    William Adams (1585–1661) was a 17th-century London haberdasher born in Newport, Shropshire who, in 1656, founded Adams' Grammar School, now called Haberdashers'...
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    Haberdashers' Adams was founded in 1656 by Alderman William Adams, a wealthy City of London merchant and haberdasher, who was born in Newport. Adams had...
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  • Easton William Adams (pilot) (1564–1620), English maritime navigator, shipbuilder and advisor to the Japanese government William Adams (haberdasher) (1585–1661)...
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    Shropshire Haberdashers' Adams (formerly Adams') Grammar School, Newport, Shropshire Haberdashers' Agincourt School, Monmouth Haberdashers' Aldersey Church...
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    clothing. A draper may additionally operate as a cloth merchant or a haberdasher. Drapers were an important trade guild during the medieval period, when...
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    man." A 1988 article in the Los Angeles Times fashion section about a haberdasher devoted to clothing shorter men included a variation of the tale: "Stern...
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    Roger Crab (category Haberdashers)
    Roger Crab (1621 – 11 September 1680) was an English soldier, haberdasher, herbal doctor and writer who is best known for his ascetic lifestyle which...
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    Sons of Liberty (category Samuel Adams)
    trader Alexander McDougall – captain of privateers Hercules Mulligan – haberdasher, spy under George Washington for the Continental Army, friend of Alexander...
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    novel is an it-narrative, narrated by an atom in the body of a London haberdasher, who is the purported editor of the novel. The atom describes events...
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  • Farrell and others, the 1998 film Patch Adams, starring Robin Williams. Minoff, the son of theatrical haberdasher Harry Minoff, was originally from Brooklyn...
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    Ironmongers did not incorporate under Royal Charter until 1463. The Haberdashers are on record as having formed a fraternity before 1371 and first received...
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  • avoided saying his name. Give 'Em Hell Harry (also a campaign slogan). Haberdasher Harry Man From Independence The Senator From Pendergast, for his connection...
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  • Ali Miraj (category People educated at Haberdashers' Boys' School)
    Muslim; he opposes radicalism and supports freedom of speech. He attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree and then the London School of Economics...
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  • Mississippi. Eventually suspended for non-payment of dues. William Billers, English haberdasher Henry Harrison Bingham (1841–1912), Union Army officer during...
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    with William Shakespeare, brought up in Edgmond nearby. William Adams, (1585 in Newport – 1661) – London Haberdasher founded Haberdashers' Adams in 1656...
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    sensational divorce trial in 1886. No. 30 was the residence of Wynne Ellis, haberdasher and art collector and benefactor to the National Gallery. Dorothea Jordan...
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  • Paul Daneman (category People educated at Haberdashers' Boys' School)
    born in Islington, London. He attended the Haberdashers' Aske's School in Elstree, Hertfordshire, and Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow, Buckinghamshire...
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  • books. Klinghoffer married Marilyn (born Windwehr), the daughter of a haberdasher, in September 1949. The couple had two daughters. Klinghoffer suffered...
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    village of Staithes, to be apprenticed as a shop boy to grocer and haberdasher William Sanderson. Historians have speculated that this is where Cook first...
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    twentieth century, and the proceeds of the final sale were used by the Haberdashers' Company to purchase Longford Hall as a boarding house for the school...
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    educated in New Cross, first at Waller Road Infants School and then Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys School. At 15, Price founded the Carlton Dramatic...
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    000 signatures. In light of criticism of Clive's legacy, in 2020 Haberdashers' Adams school in Newport, Shropshire announced that Clive House was to be...
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    Heath. Francis Smith, who married Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of the haberdasher John Taylor Isabell Smith, after her father's death, in 1587, her husband...
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  • founded in Harrow School. 1797: The top hat arguably invented by English haberdasher John Hetherington (dates not known). 1798: Consequences of population...
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    Daniel Defoe (category Haberdashers)
    Tucker. "Daniel Defoe, Journalist." Business History Review 2.1 (1928): 2–6. Adams, Gavin John (2012). Letters to John Law. Newton Page. pp. liii–lv. ISBN 978-1-934619-08-7...
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  • Latin name of the school or its location as "Old Novaportan" (old boys of Adams' Grammar School, Newport, Shropshire). Some are based on the name of the...
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    was a wealthy citizen Haberdasher in the city of London who gave financial support to the early career of his wife's brother William Bradbridge, later bishop...
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  • School (1677) Davenant Foundation School (1680) Parmiter's School (1681) Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School (1690) Robert May's School (1694) The Royal Hospital...
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  • NRHP in Florence County in the United Kingdom One of the houses in Haberdashers' Adams, Newport, Shropshire, England This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • Royal, acquired by Woodward & Lothrop 1946 Raleigh Haberdasher, operated originally as a haberdasher; expanded in later years to family fashions. Acquired...
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