John Leland or Leyland (13 September, c. 1503 – 18 April 1552) was an English poet and antiquary. Leland has been described as "the father of English local...
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"Elder John Leland, Jeffersonian Itinerant" (PDF). Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. 62. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society:...
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An antiquarian or antiquary (from Latin antiquarius 'pertaining to ancient times') is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past. More...
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earliest contemporary reference to a route down the valley comes from John Leland, antiquarian to King Henry VIII, who travelled to Wales in 1538. In describing...
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The John Leland Center for Theological Studies, known as Leland Seminary, is a nondenominational theological institute in the Baptist tradition based...
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Northumberland, courtier (died 1537) 1503 13 September (?) – John Leland, antiquarian (died 1552) John Frith, Protestant priest and martyr (died 1533) Approximate...
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Walter Cronkite (redirect from Walter Leland Cronkite Jr.)
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for...
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1567 and 1572. Wolfe published works by Archbishop Cranmer, the antiquarian John Leland, Robert Recorde and Archbishop Parker. In 1548, he conceived a...
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organisations. John Brent, antiquarian and writer Leland Lewis Duncan, civil servant and antiquarian Thomas Godfrey Faussett, antiquarian Rev. Lambert Blackwell...
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16th-century antiquarian John Leland, was a saint venerated at a chapel in the forest of Selwood, three miles from Mells (near Frome), Somerset. Leland wrote...
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p. 422, American Architecture: A History, Leland M. Roth, Westview Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8133-3662-7 "The John Hancock Center: 875 North Michigan Avenue...
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William of Newburgh's Historia rerum Anglicarum (1719). He also edited: John Leland's Itinerary (1710–1712) and the same author's Collectanea (1715) William...
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irresistible flood of French infidelity." One pastor in Cheshire, Elder John Leland, opposed this line of thought. A beleaguered minority in Congregationalist...
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1st Earl of Leicester. "John of Padua". Wiltshire Archaeology and Natural History Magazine. 23: 14–31. 1886. As editor: Leland's Journey Through Wiltshire...
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with William Durant over World War I production, Cadillac founder Henry Leland created the Lincoln Motor Company. Initially, the company produced Liberty...
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History of archaeology (section Antiquarians)
father of modern classical archeology. English antiquarians of the 16th century including John Leland and William Camden conducted topographical surveys...
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Thwaites and other fellows of Queen's persuaded him in 1705 to edit John Leland's Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis from the manuscript in the Bodleian...
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John Stow (also Stowe; 1524/25 – 5 April 1605) was an English historian and antiquarian. He wrote a series of chronicles of English history, published...
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George Washington, Vol. I, 2007, The Echo Library, p. 30; Haworth, Paul Leland, George Washington, Kessinger Publishing, 2004, p. 119; Thayer, William...
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Alanson Partridge Brush and built by Leland and Faulconer Manufacturing Company of Detroit, of which Henry Leland was founder, vice-president and general...
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was proposed and endorsed by antiquarians and scholars during the middle ages: Ranulf Higden (c.1280–1364). John Leland (c.1503–1552). William Camden...
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Philip Danforth Armour James Clair Flood Mark Hopkins Jr. Edward Cabot Clark Leland Stanford Hetty Green James J. Hill William Rockefeller Elias Hasket Derby...
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"John Gower." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford UP, 2004. John Leland (1540). Commentarii de Scriptoribus Brittannicis (in Latin). R. F. Yeager...
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1999). "'Duane's Depressed' by Larry McMurtry". Los Angeles Times. Leland, John (March 18, 2007). "Duane's Depraved". The New York Times. Hendricks,...
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of Wells Cathedral. pp. 34–36. ISBN 0-902321-11-0. Leland, John (1768). Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary Published from the Original MS in the...
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his literary curiosities, among which was an excellent transcript of John Leland's Itinerary of the age of Queen Elizabeth, were unfortunately consumed...
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ruins can still be seen, and are in the care of Cadw. Tudor historian John Leland called Neath Abbey "the fairest abbey of all Wales." Neath Abbey is also...
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the cause. This story was retold by the antiquarian, John Leland in his book, "The Itinerary of John Leland", a recollection of his travels around England...
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made; one of the earliest of these was provided by the pioneering antiquarian John Leland (c.1503–1552) in his unpublished account of his travels across...
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William Camden (category Antiquarians from London)
William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first...
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