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    Bennet Langton (c. 1736 – 1801) was an English writer and a founding member of the Literary Club. He is best known for his close friendship with writer...
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  • miniaturist and writer Arthur Langton (1912–1942), South African cricketer Baden Langton, co-anchor of CTV National News Bennet Langton (1736–1801), English writer...
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    Gerrard Street, now marked by a plaque. Original members included Burke, Bennet Langton, Topham Beauclerk, Goldsmith, Anthony Chamier, Thomas Hawkins, and Nugent...
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    Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton (9 December 1859 – 10 April 1937) was a British composer, pianist, and Professor of piano at the Royal College of Music...
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    the case for abolition in the House of Commons. It was arranged that Bennet Langton, a Lincolnshire landowner and mutual acquaintance of Wilberforce and...
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    gesticulations. In addition to Reynolds, Johnson was close to Bennet Langton and Arthur Murphy. Langton was a scholar and an admirer of Johnson who persuaded...
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    Bishops Percy and Barnard, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Topham Beauclerk, and Bennet Langton. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070207509. Gill, Anton (2010). Titanic:...
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    left £750 (equivalent to £116,000 in 2023) in the trust of his friend Bennet Langton from which he was expected to pay an annuity. Barber moved with his...
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  • Firth starred as Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, respectively. Produced by Sue Birtwistle and directed by Simon Langton, the serial was a BBC production...
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    Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist in the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. She is often referred to as Eliza or Lizzy by her friends and...
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    Edmund Burke: writer, later M.P. Christopher Nugent Topham Beauclerk Bennet Langton Oliver Goldsmith: author, playwright, poet Anthony Chamier John Hawkins:...
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    until about 1817 when it too was destroyed by fire. Bennet Rothes Langton erected the last Langton Hall to the designs of James Fowler, with grounds by...
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    slaves of others against their will?") Dr. Peckard Thomas Clarkson Bennet Langton Lord Scarsdale Dr. Baker Richard Phillips Sheldon Sir Charles Middleton...
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    appears several times in James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. As Bennet Langton records: "His affection for Topham Beauclerk was so great, that when...
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    Commonwealth Law Reports # Reporter Volumes Years 1 W A Barton 1 1903–1904 2 Bennet Langton 1–41 1903–1929 3 H E Manning 1–3 1903–1906 4 C A White 1–10 1903–1910...
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  • publication when it finished. The authors besides Johnson were Thomas Warton, Bennet Langton, and Joshua Reynolds. Johnson's biographer, James Boswell, recalled...
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  • buy mourning rings to nine: Isaac Hawkins Browne, Nathaniel Burwell, Bennet Langton, Samuel Horsley, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Warburton Lytton, Frederick...
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  • the publishers in The Poultry, meeting Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Boswell, and others; and in April 1775 Boswell paid him a visit at...
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  • 1386), poet, Piers Plowman Peter Langtoft (died c. 1305), chronicler Bennet Langton (1736–1801), writer Emilia Lanier or Lanyer, (1569–1645) poet R. F....
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    that he had not the sensibility to perceive them. Johnson's friend Bennet Langton recorded the author's own later disenchantment with the piece: At another...
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  • His father was a physician; his mother was a direct descendant of Bennet Langton, and passed down letters and memorabilia from Samuel Johnson to her...
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    being distributed among several heirs. This happened again in 1801 when Bennet Langton died, and in 1835 when the third Lord Portmore died. The Portmore moiety...
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    vestments, holding a crozier. High on the south wall is a memorial to Bennet Langton, with Samuel Johnson's epitaph to his close friend. The choir of St...
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  • Robert Levet, Frank Barber, John Delap, Fanny Burney, Davy Garrick, Bennet Langton, Frances Reynolds, Giuseppe Baretti, Oliver Goldsmith, Joshua Reynolds...
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  • Theddlethorpe 1756: Thomas Lister of Brough cum Gearsby 1757: Bennet Langton of Langton 1758: Jervase Scrope, of Lincoln 1759: Joseph Dixon of Fulbeck...
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  • antiquarians Daniel Lysons, Samuel Lysons and Richard Gough, the writer Bennet Langton, and the naturalist Joseph Banks who was a close friend. It was for...
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  • 1920. In 1894 he married Dora Florence Geraldine Langton, 3rd daughter of Bennet Langton of Langton Hall in Lincolnshire. John Pyke-Nott sold Bydown at...
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  • They later escape and solidify their alliance with Adelle DeWitt, Boyd Langton, Paul Ballard and Topher Brink against Rossum's ambitions. Whiskey (Amy...
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    Rainham Mark Grammar School Rochester Grammar School Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical...
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  • Ernesto Hernandez, Sal Lopez, Danielle Camastra, Paul Rodriguez, Jeff Langton The Road to El Dorado DreamWorks Eric "Bibo" Bergeron, Will Finn (directors);...
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