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    John Allen Giles (1808–1884) was an English historian. He was primarily known as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon language and history. He revised Stevens' translation...
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    widely published A Chinese–English Dictionary. Herbert Allen Giles was the fourth son of John Allen Giles (1808–1884), an Anglican clergyman. After studying...
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  • John Giles or Gyles may refer to: John Gyles (MP) (died c. 1406), MP for Dover John Giles (MP fl. 1417–1435), MP for Old Sarum, Marlborough, Calne, Wilton...
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  • John Allen Chau (December 18, 1991 – November 17, 2018) was an American evangelical Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese, a tribe in...
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    Productions. Retrieved 7 September 2024. Roger of Wendover; Matthew Paris; John Allen Giles (1891). Coxe, Henry O. (ed.). Rogeri de Wendover, Chronica, sive Flores...
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  • (1975:247) "The Works of Gildas, Surnamed 'Sapiens,' or the Wise", in: John Allen Giles, ed., ''Six Old English Chronicles, of Which Two Are Now First Translated...
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    ISBN 978-0-22-653852-5. Ovid. Metamorphoses, Books I-IV. Translated by John Allen Giles. London: Cornish & Sons. Ovid (1922). Metamorphoses, Book I, vi. Translated...
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    additional readings from the translation of John Allen Giles). King, Richard John Handbook to the Cathedrals of England John Murray, London, 1862. Labrum, Edward...
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    Latin) Henry Coxe (1841–44): vol 1, vol 2, vol 3, vol 4, Appendix John Allen Giles (1849): vol 1, vol 2 (in Latin) Henry Gay Hewlett, for the Rolls series...
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    SEVERUS". www.dot-domesday.me.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2018. Bede (1843). John Allen Giles (ed.). The Complete Works of Venerable Bede. London: Whittaker and...
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  • character in Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville's play Gorboduc (1561). John Allen Giles (1842). The British History of Geoffrey of Monmouth: In Twelve Books...
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  • friend of John Allen Giles; Giles recorded riding north from Bampton through Wychwood to Pudlicote on 26 March 1852. At this period Giles was planning...
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    T. Cotes for William Cooke (London), 1638. Edited and reprinted by John Allen Giles. "The Works of Gildas, Surnamed 'Sapiens,' or the Wise", §8 in Six...
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    Paris House at St Albans High School for Girls is named after him. John Allen Giles (translator), Matthew Paris' English history, from 1235 to 1273, Publ...
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    Paternoster Row, and T. Meighan in Drury Lane) full text 1845: (in English) John Allen Giles (London: James Bohn) full text. 1866: (in German) M. M. Wilden. Kirchengeschichte...
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    the same to bee a monument of some moment." Later historians such as John Allen Giles followed this suggestion as the most likely location. The figures were...
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  • Vol. 23 (11th ed.). p. 298. Works by or about Richard of Devizes at Wikisource "Chronicle of the deeds of Richard I" translated by John Allen Giles....
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  • Regum Anglorum, published in 1127. This was translated into English by John Allen Giles as William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the kings of England: from...
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    of writing. The school has had thirteen headmasters. The first was John Allen Giles, a scholar of Anglo-Saxon history and a Fellow at Corpus Christi College...
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  • org/texts/Arnold/Works/on_translating_homer.pdf "OBITUARY. - THE REV. JOHN ALLEN GILES" (PDF). New York Times. 26 September 1884. Retrieved 3 August 2011...
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    1868 at the age of 67 he married Anna Isabella Giles, eldest daughter of the historian Rev. John Allen Giles (1808–1884), Doctor of Civil Law, Rector of...
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    His diet was simple and he rigorously excluded animal flesh from it. John Allen Giles, Charles Bertram (1912). Old English chronicles, including Ethelwerd's...
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    Roger Ascham (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
    by John Daye (1570). Ascham's English works were edited by James Bennett, with a life by Samuel Johnson in 1771, reprinted in 1815. John Allen Giles in...
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  • "Giles, John Allen". In Dictionary of National Biography. 21. London. pp. 348-349. Giles, John Allen (1808-1884). WorldCat Identities. A'Becket, John Joseph...
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    Liebermann, for the MGH (1888) (Excerpts) Link English translation by John Allen Giles (1852–54), vol 1, vol 2, vol 3 [1235 to 1259 only, from Wats, with...
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    recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. Wimborne St Giles was established in 1733, when the St Giles and All Hallows parishes were merged at the request...
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    History of Gwynedd during the High Middle Ages Nennius translated by John Allen Giles who wrote that Cunedda arrived in Gwynedd 146 years before the reign...
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  • story describes the encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax, and how Giles manages to use these to rise from humble beginnings...
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  • Johnes, Thomas". In Dictionary of National Biography. 30. London. p. 2. Richard, o. Devizes., Richard, o. Cirencester., Giles, J. A. (John Allen). (1841)...
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    Billy Graham on Woody Allen Show, 1967 Finch, Cox & Giles 2003, p. 113. William F. Buckley on Woody Allen Show, 1967 Woody Allen guest hosts The Tonight...
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