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    William Cole FSA (3 August 1714 – 16 December 1782), was a Cambridgeshire clergyman and antiquary, known for his extensive manuscript collections on the...
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  • William Cole (Dean of Lincoln) (c. 1530–1600), English Puritan clergyman William Cole (antiquary) (1714–1782), Cambridgeshire clergyman William Cole (Dean...
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    there's none so rare, as can compare, With King Cole and his fiddlers three. The song is first attested in William King's Useful Transactions in Philosophy for...
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    of Mysore (b. 1720) December 11–William Beadle, Anglo-American merchant (b. 1730) December 16 – William Cole (antiquary), British antiquarian (b. 1714)...
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    acres of ground bearing great crops of hemp ". William Cole (antiquary) (1714–1782), the Cambridge antiquary, who passed through in 1772, mentions that "the...
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    of Mysore (b. 1720) December 11–William Beadle, Anglo-American merchant (b. 1730) December 16 – William Cole (antiquary), British antiquarian (b. 1714)...
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  • William Cole, antiquary (died 1782) 25 October – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, philosopher and evolutionary thinker (died 1799) 13 November – William...
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  • William Charles Cole LVO, DMus, FSA, FRAM, FRCM, FRCO (9 October 1909 in Camberwell, London – 9 May 1997) was an English conductor, composer and organist...
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    William Edward Armytage Axon FRSL (13 January 1846 – 27 December 1913) was an English librarian, antiquary and journalist for the Manchester Guardian....
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  • Michael Tyson (1740–1780) was an English Anglican priest, academic, antiquary, and artist. He was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire on 19 November 1740,...
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  • Sir Charles Travis Clay (1885–1978), antiquary and librarian, elected 1912 Thomas Close (1796–1881) William Cole (1714–1782) Bryony Coles (b. 1946) Dr...
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    Ames (23 January 1689 – 7 October 1759) was an English bibliographer and antiquary. He purportedly wrote an account of printing in England from 1471 to 1600...
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    Baronet (21 June 1733 – 9 October 1785) was an English clergyman and antiquary. The eldest son of Sir John Cullum, 5th Baronet of Hawstead and Hardwick...
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    New York on 9 May 1916. It was later published in volume XLI of Indian Antiquary in May 1917. In the same year, Ambedkar was awarded a PhD degree by Columbia...
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  • publisher (born 1689) April 9 – William Law, English theologian (born 1686) April 15 – William Oldys, English antiquary and bibliographer (born 1696) April...
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    Charles Hamilton Smith (category Knights Fourth Class of the Military Order of William)
    Netherlands – 21 September 1859 in Plymouth) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier, and spy. His military career began in 1787, when...
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    Society of Edinburgh (1820–1832), and a vice president of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1827–1829). His knowledge of history and literary facility...
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    God, Queen of England. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-04424-0. Cole, William. The Unfortunate Royal Mistresses, Rosamond Clifford, and Jane Shore...
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    decoration and several statues. In 1805 he married Lady Henrietta Cole, a daughter of William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen, by whom he had two daughters and...
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  • George Ashby (1724–1808) was an English antiquary and sometime president of St John's College, Cambridge. Ashby was born in Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell...
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    Autobiographical Notes on the Life of William Bell Scott, vol. i. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. pp. 186–187. Cole, Pamela McArthur (January–March...
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    under his control. Antiquary William Hals speculated that Condor, the pre-Conquest Earl of Cornwall who had sworn fealty to William for his earldom, may...
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    2017; "Magna Carta: Magna Carta in the 17th Century". The Society of Antiquaries of London. Archived from the original on 25 September 2018. Retrieved...
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    in The Compleat Angler. William Basse's family background and place of birth are unknown. He was described by the antiquary Anthony à Wood in 1638 as...
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  • bequeathed to the museum. Miller was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1923 for his horological interests. In 1934, he donated six clocks...
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  • 1908 to 1920. In 1891 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. He was secretary of the Irish Methodists' "Home Mission"...
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  • Mortimer Wheeler (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
    been established jointly by the University of London and the Society of Antiquaries in memory of Augustus Wollaston Franks. The prominent archaeologist Sir...
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    17th century, closing in 1850 with the advent of the railway. The antiquary William Cole was born there while his father was publican. The White Hart opened...
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    by Bryant, and translated into French by Matthew Maty; the second by William Cole, with the French by Louis Dutens. On the Zingara or Gypsey Language (1785)...
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  • Royal Exchange William Harrison (1534–1593); clergyman and author of The Description of England William Camden (1551–1623); antiquary John Milton (1608–1674);...
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