John Evelyn FRS (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706) was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, who is now best...
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earliest recorded bearer was Evelyn Pierrepoint (d. 1726), who was a grandson of the Roundhead politician Sir John Evelyn. It is still occasionally used...
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The Diary of John Evelyn (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706), a gentlemanly Royalist and virtuoso of the seventeenth century, was first published in...
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John Evelyn (1620–1706) was an English writer. John Evelyn is also the name of: John Evelyn (1591–1664), English politician, MP for Bletchingley John...
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Sir John Evelyn Shuckburgh, KCMG (born 18 March 1877 in Eton, died 8 February 1953 in London), was a British colonial administrator. Shuckburgh was the...
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John Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington, PC (27 January 1800 – 7 March 1873) was a British statesman who served as Speaker of the House of Commons...
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Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (/ˈiːvlɪn ˈsɪndʒən ˈwɔː/; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books;...
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largest in the Western world, estimated at 300,000 to 400,000 inhabitants. John Evelyn, contrasting London to the Baroque magnificence of Paris in 1659, called...
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Crabtree & Evelyn was a retailer of body, fragrance and home care products. Beginning with one store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1971, the brand grew...
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Mary Evelyn (née Browne; 1632–1709) was an English letter writer. She was the wife of the English diarist and intellectual John Evelyn. Described as a...
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Sir John Evelyn (11 August 1601 – 26 June 1685) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1626 and 1660. Evelyn was...
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Sir John Evelyn (1591–1664) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1660. He reluctantly supported...
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"pergola" Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S., 22 February 1645. Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S, 20 July 1654. "Centennial Hall...
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John Evelyn the younger (1655–1699) was an English translator. Evelyn was the third but eldest surviving son of John Evelyn, born 19 January 1655. On...
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Nottinghamshire (son of William Pierrepont MP), and his wife Elizabeth Evelyn (daughter of John Evelyn MP). His older brothers were the 3rd Earl and 4th Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull...
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Major General Sir John Evelyn Anderson KBE (28 June 1916 – 9 September 2007) was a senior British Army officer. Anderson entered the Royal Military Academy...
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John Evelyn's cabinet is a highly decorated storage box in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The cabinet was probably made in...
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Lady Helena Gibbs (redirect from John Evelyn Gibbs)
wedding of Princess Patricia to Alexander Ramsay. Helena married Colonel John Evelyn Gibbs (22 December 1879 London – 11 October 1932 Tetbury), a veteran...
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is a historical drama novel by American novelist Taylor Jenkins Reid, and published by Atria Books in 2017. It tells...
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Motivated by the publication of John Evelyn's Diary in 1818, Lord Granville deciphered a few pages.[page needed] John Smith (later the Rector of St Mary...
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Oxford: Clarendon Press for the Oxford Historical Society. Evelyn, John (1952). Diary of John Evelyn, Vol. 1. London: Dent & Sons. Falkus, Christopher (1972)...
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quality had been a problem since at least the 13th century. The diarist John Evelyn had written about "the inconveniencie of the aer and smoak of London...
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Sayes Court (section John Evelyn at Sayes Court)
visit its celebrated garden created by the seventeenth century diarist John Evelyn. Now completely buried beneath Convoys Wharf and Sayes Court Park, the...
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Hanged, drawn and quartered (redirect from John Munday)
University Press, ISBN 978-0-231-13207-7 Evelyn, John (1850), William Bray (ed.), Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, London: Henry Colburn Feilden, Henry...
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Evelyn Louise Keyes (November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008) was an American film actress. She is best known for her role as Suellen O'Hara in the 1939 film...
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Domestic History of the British Royal Household. p. 127. Evelyn, John (1906). The diary of John Evelyn. Macmillan and co., limited. p. 334. Retrieved 2 January...
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William Oughtred (section John Evelyn: Millenarianism)
1646) engraved by Wenceslas Hollar, prefixed to the Clavis Mathematica, John Evelyn remarked that it "extreamly resembles him", and that it showed "that...
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words" or "take nobody's word for it") is the motto of the Royal Society. John Evelyn and other fellows of the Royal Society chose the motto soon after the...
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sexual immorality and prostitution. The British diarist and intellectual John Evelyn referred to the wearing of patches, and make-up more general, as a "most...
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Viscount Falmouth (redirect from Evelyn George Boscawen)
(1811–1852) Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth (1819–1889) Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen, 7th Viscount Falmouth (1847–1918) Evelyn Hugh John Boscawen...
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