• Thomas Greaves (1612–1676) was an English orientalist, a contributor to the London Polyglot of Brian Walton. He was a son of the Rev. John Greaves of Colemore...
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  • Stoke 1908–11 Thomas Greaves (musician) (fl. 1604) Thomas Greaves (orientalist) (1613–1676) Tommy Greaves (1892–19??), English football full back with Bury...
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  • Greaves is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aaron Greaves, Australian rules football coach and former player Alex Greaves...
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    eldest son of John Greaves, rector of Colemore, and Sarah Greaves. His brothers were Nicholas Greaves, Thomas Greaves and Sir Edward Greaves, physician to...
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    The brothers John Greaves (1602–52, mathematician), Edward Greaves (1608–80, physician) and Thomas Greaves (1612–76, orientalist) were all sons of a...
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    Edward Pococke (category English orientalists)
    Pococke (baptised 8 November 1604 – 10 September 1691) was an English Orientalist and biblical scholar. The son of Edward Pococke (died 1636), vicar of...
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  • near-earth objects into Japanese. JPL · 9898 9899 Greaves 1996 EH William Michael Herbert Greaves (1897–1955) was a British astronomer and 6th Astronomer...
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  • artist and book illustrator Frank Holl (1845–1888) – English painter Walter Greaves (1846–1930) – English painter James Campbell Noble (1846–1913) – Scottish...
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    celebrate his memory.[citation needed] According to a 1659 letter to Thomas Greaves from Edward Pococke (who, on his book-hunting travels for archbishop...
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  • Geoffrey Gorer (1905–1985), anthropologist and author Thomas Greaves (1612–1676), English orientalist and a contributor to the London Polyglot Philip Seaforth...
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  • Portsmouth Simon Gray, playwright, was born in Hayling Island Nicholas Greaves, clergyman, was born in Colemore Chris Green, railwayman, was born in Winchester...
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    carved in the manner of a sepulcher." Finally, in the 17th century, John Greaves, professor of astronomy at Oxford, published the first truly scientific...
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    In: French Profiles. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 287–295. Greaves, Anthony A. (1978). Maurice Barrès. Boston: Twayne Publishers. Grover,...
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  • Edward Pococke, Orientalist and biblical scholar (died 1691) 23 November (bapt.) – Jasper Mayne, dramatist (died 1672) 1605 June – Thomas Randolph, poet...
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  • 1678) Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (d. 1675) John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquary (d. 1652) Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte...
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    varied. The second professor, Thomas Hyde, is described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as a "mediocre orientalist", and one history of the...
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  • Italian-British; zooarchaeology William F. Albright (1891–1971) U.S.; Orientalist Leslie Alcock (1925–2006) English; Dark Age Britain Susan E. Alcock (born...
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    Ivan Kalmar, "The Houkah in the Harem: On Smoking and Orientalist Art" in Smoke, pp. 218–29 Greaves, p. 266 Benno Tempel, "Symbol and File: Smoking in Art...
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    writing in English from 1740 to the present; co-founded Angelaki Hilary Greaves (1978), philosopher Charlotte Byron Green (1842–1929, Vice-President),...
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    Later during the enlightenment period, Alexander Pope refers to Ascapart. Greaves, Richard L. (2002). Glimpses of glory : John Bunyan and English dissent...
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    Francis, devised and directed by Lewis Barfoot, choreography by Tom Jackson Greaves. The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen as part of the Aberdeen International Youth Festival...
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    Westminster 1879 (26th): Professor Max Müller, philologist and Orientalist 1880 (27th): Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, politician 1881 (28th): Professor...
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    (b. 1584) September 17 – Sumitomo Masatomo (b. 1585) October 8 – John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquarian (b. 1602) October 11 – Léon Bouthillier...
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    (1566–1646), diplomat and future Doge of Venice Thomas van Erpe of the Netherlands (1584–1624), Orientalist Scholar Fakhr-al-Din II (1572–1635), Lebanese...
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    Office in London. Sir Gore Ouseley was the younger brother of the British orientalist William Ouseley, who served as secretary to the British ambassador in...
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    for the Savilian professor were unsuccessful. John Greaves, professor 1643–1648, also an Orientalist who surveyed the Great Pyramid of Giza. Seth Ward...
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    original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 25, 2015. "Last Word: Jimmy Greaves (pictured), Sir Clive Sinclair, Olivia Jordan, Carolyn Shoemaker, 6.57...
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    Political Challenges, World Scientific, 2012, p. 479; Hann, G., Dabrowska, K., Greaves, T.T., Iraq: The Ancient Sites and Iraqi Kurdistan, Bradt Travel Guides...
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  • Simeonie Amagoalik, 77, Canadian carver, cancer. Louis Bazin, 90, French orientalist. Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, Pakistani politician, Minister for Minorities (since...
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