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...

"Elder John Leland, Jeffersonian Itinerant" (PDF). Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. 62. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society:...

An antiquarian or antiquary (from Latin antiquarius 'pertaining to ancient times') is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past. More...

Northumberland, courtier (died 1537) 1503 13 September (?) – John Leland, antiquarian (died 1552) John Frith, Protestant priest and martyr (died 1533) Approximate...

The John Leland Center for Theological Studies, known as Leland Seminary, is a nondenominational theological institute in the Baptist tradition based...

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...

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...

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...

organisations. John Brent, antiquarian and writer Leland Lewis Duncan, civil servant and antiquarian Thomas Godfrey Faussett, antiquarian Rev. Lambert Blackwell...

1567 and 1572. Wolfe published works by Archbishop Cranmer, the antiquarian John Leland, Robert Recorde and Archbishop Parker. In 1548, he conceived a...

1st Earl of Leicester. "John of Padua". Wiltshire Archaeology and Natural History Magazine. 23: 14–31. 1886. As editor: Leland's Journey Through Wiltshire...

irresistible flood of French infidelity." One pastor in Cheshire, Elder John Leland, opposed this line of thought. A beleaguered minority in Congregationalist...

father of modern classical archeology. English antiquarians of the 16th century including John Leland and William Camden conducted topographical surveys...

George Washington, Vol. I, 2007, The Echo Library, p. 30; Haworth, Paul Leland, George Washington, Kessinger Publishing, 2004, p. 119; Thayer, William...

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...

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...

with William Durant over World War I production, Cadillac founder Henry Leland created the Lincoln Motor Company. Initially, the company produced Liberty...

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...

was proposed and endorsed by antiquarians and scholars during the middle ages: Ranulf Higden (c.1280–1364). John Leland (c.1503–1552). William Camden...

Alanson Partridge Brush and built by Leland and Faulconer Manufacturing Company of Detroit, of which Henry Leland was founder, vice-president and general...

by antiquarian John Leland as being hills and ditches (historians have used this to incorrectly state that the castle had been ruinous, yet Leland never...

1999). "'Duane's Depressed' by Larry McMurtry". Los Angeles Times. Leland, John (March 18, 2007). "Duane's Depraved". The New York Times. Hendricks,...

Philip Danforth Armour James Clair Flood Mark Hopkins Jr. Edward Cabot Clark Leland Stanford Hetty Green James J. Hill William Rockefeller Elias Hasket Derby...

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...

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...

church, is a typical example of Perpendicular Gothic architecture; antiquarian John Leland called it orbis miraculum ("the wonder of the world"). The abbey...

"John Gower." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford UP, 2004. John Leland (1540). Commentarii de Scriptoribus Brittannicis (in Latin). R. F. Yeager...

with Eleanor Borrow. She informs him that her late mother worked with John Leland. Craving visions he talks her into giving him some of her mother's most...

Lincoln Continental. Lincoln Motor Company was founded in 1917 by Henry M. Leland, naming it after Abraham Lincoln. In February 1922, the company was acquired...

William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first...