Augustus Edwin John OM RA (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important...
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John Augustus (c. 1785 – June 21, 1859) was an American boot maker and penal reformer. He is credited with coining the English term "probation" and is...
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Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (13 March 1834 – 22 January 1903) was an English writer, painter, and raconteur. He was the youngest son of Francis George...
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Joseph Augustus Zarelli (January 13, 1953 – February 1957), previously known as the "Boy in the Box", "Boy in a Box" or "America's Unknown Child", was...
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Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Latin: Octavianus), was the founder of...
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John Augustus Stone (December 15, 1801 – June 1, 1834) was an American actor, dramatist, and playwright, best known as the author of Metamora; or, The...
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Augustus is a masculine given name derived from Augustus, meaning "majestic," "the increaser," or "venerable". Many of its descended forms are August,...
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Frederick Augustus III (German: Friedrich August III.; 25 May 1865 – 18 February 1932) was the last King of Saxony (1904–1918). Born in Dresden, Frederick...
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Sir Augustus John Foster, 1st Baronet, GCH PC (1 or 4 December 1780 – 1 August 1848) was a British diplomat and politician. Born into a notable British...
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T. E. Lawrence (redirect from John Hume Ross)
Robert Graves, Noël Coward, E. M. Forster, Siegfried Sassoon, John Buchan, Augustus John, and Henry Williamson. He met Joseph Conrad and commented perceptively...
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Augustus II the Strong (12 May 1670 – 1 February 1733), was Elector of Saxony from 1694 as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1697...
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lifetime, John's work was overshadowed by that of her brother Augustus and her mentor and lover Auguste Rodin, awareness and esteem for John's artistic...
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in Manly Palmer Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages. John Augustus was the son of John Knapp and Margaret Wente, and brother to a sister, Annie,...
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Vice Admiral Augustus John Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, PC (19 May 1724 – 23 December 1779) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. He commanded the...
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John Augustus Hulen (September 9, 1871 - September 13, 1957) was an officer of the Texas National Guard from 1898 to 1935 and Adjutant General of Texas...
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Augustus John Rush (born December 15, 1942) is an internationally renowned psychiatrist. He is a professor emeritus in Duke-NUS Medical School at the...
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Augustus (plural Augusti; /ɔːˈɡʌstəs/ aw-GUST-əs, Classical Latin: [au̯ˈɡʊstʊs]; "majestic", "great" or "venerable") was the main title of the Roman emperors...
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Marchesa Casati (painting) (redirect from Marchesa Casati (Augustus John))
by Augustus John, painted in oil on canvas in 1919. It is currently housed in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto. John made...
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John Augustus Sutter (February 23, 1803 – June 18, 1880), born Johann August Sutter and known in Spanish as Don Juan Sutter, was a Swiss immigrant who...
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John Augustus Roebling (born Johann August Röbling; June 12, 1806 – July 22, 1869) was a German-born American civil engineer. He designed and built wire...
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Lieutenant Colonel John Augustus Conolly VC (30 May 1829 – 23 December 1888), born in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, was an Irish recipient of the...
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Augustus Prew (born 17 September 1987) is an English film and television actor. He is known for his roles in About a Boy (2002), The Secret of Moonacre...
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Euphemia Lamb (section Augustus John)
artists' model and the wife of painter Henry Lamb. She modelled for Augustus John and Jacob Epstein and came to exemplify the sexual freedom of the bohemian...
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Talitha Getty (section Marriage to John Paul Getty)
(1908–1948). Her father subsequently married Poppet John (1912–1997), daughter of the painter Augustus John (1878–1961), a pivotal figure in the world of Bohemian...
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affair with Virginia Woolf. Her lovers may have included the painters Augustus John and Henry Lamb, the artist Dora Carrington, and the art historian Roger...
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John Augustus Atkinson (c.1775–1830) was an English artist, engraver and watercolourist. Atkinson was born in London. In 1784, he went to St. Petersburg...
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John Augustus O'Shea (24 June 1839 – 13 March 1905) was an Irish soldier, journalist and novelist. Born at Nenagh, Ireland, the son of journalist John...
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William John Augustus Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol (/ˈhɑːrvi/ "Harvey"; 15 September 1954 – 10 January 1999), also known as John Jermyn and John Bristol...
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educated at St Andrew's School, Tenby Gwen John (1876–1939), a Welsh artist who worked in France Augustus John (1878–1961), a Welsh painter, draughtsman...
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aforementioned Montagnana cello, which she is shown playing in the portrait by Augustus John referred to below.[citation needed] In 1927, Suggia married Jose Mena...
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