James Britten (3 May 1846 – 8 October 1924) was an English botanist. Born in Chelsea, London, he moved to High Wycombe in 1865 to begin a medical career...
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Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central...
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The Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander is a British light utility aircraft and regional airliner designed and originally manufactured by Britten-Norman of the...
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spiritualist Frederick A. Britten (1871–1946), U.S. Representative from Illinois Harry Britten (1870–1954), English entomologist James Britten (1846–1924), English...
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Press. pp. 146–147. Aubrey, John (1686–1687) [edited and annotated by James Britten in 1881]. The Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme. London: W. Satchell...
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War Requiem (redirect from Requiem (Britten))
War Requiem, Op. 66, is a choral and orchestral composition by Benjamin Britten, composed mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962. The War Requiem...
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using a stone of 14 pounds for trade but other values remained in use. James Britten, in 1880 for example, catalogued a number of different values of the...
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Terence Ernest Britten (born 17 July 1947) is an English-Australian singer-songwriter and record producer, who has written songs for Tina Turner, Cliff...
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of clover. A more scientific approach was taken by English botanists James Britten and Robert Holland, who stated in their Dictionary of English Plant...
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thought to bring luck due to being, according to one woman cited by James Britten (c. 1878), "the first herb our Saviour put in His hand when a child"...
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Geoff Britten is an American athlete and cameraman who competed on American Ninja Warrior in seasons six through eight and season eleven. He is best known...
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1884, under the presidency of Cardinal Vaughan, with W. H. Cologan and James Britten, a layman and the principal spirit behind its refounding, serving as...
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The Britten-Norman Defender is a multi-role utility transport aircraft, manufactured by Britten-Norman of the United Kingdom. It is the military version...
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lupulina", Integrated Taxonomic Information System, retrieved 14 June 2015 James Britten (1886), A Dictionary of English Plant-names, vol. 15, Richard Clay &...
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The Turn of the Screw (opera) (redirect from The Turn of the Screw (Britten))
composed by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. It concerns a young,...
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histories advocating that the Roman Catholic Church helped advance science. James Britten (1846–1924): botanist who was heavily involved in the Catholic Truth...
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involvement in wireless telegraphy and his invention of the Branly coherer James Britten (1846–1924) – botanist, member of the Catholic Truth Society and Knight...
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horse-drawn vehicles (B. T. Batsford, 1985, 136) Frederick James Britten et al., Britten's old clocks and watches and their makers (E. Methuen, 1973,...
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For services to clinical and forensic psychology and the law. Barry James Britten Brown – of Auckland. For services to structural engineering. Jane Caroline...
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James Britten Hannah Crossan (19 December 1902 – 19 April 1979) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football...
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the British Library, as Lansdowne MS 231. An edition was published by James Britten for the Folklore Society in 1881. It was more satisfactorily re-edited...
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Biographical Index of British and Irish Botanists Compiled by James Britten; James Britten; West Newman & Company; London; 1899; Third Supplement: p. 2...
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this last name in his Flora Australiensis in 1867. English botanist James Britten changed the name to Angophora costata in the Journal of Botany, British...
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Britten Pears Arts is a large music education organisation based in Suffolk, England. It aims to continue the legacy of composer Benjamin Britten and...
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Lowestoft (redirect from The Britten Centre)
primary and high schools, including four 11–16 high schools: Benjamin Britten Academy, Ormiston Denes Academy, East Point Academy and Pakefield High...
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Some of the plates were eventually printed. Between 1900 and 1905, James Britten and the British Museum issued prints of 315 of the plant engravings...
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Jekyll, William Morris, Dean Hole, Frank Miles, Canon Ellacombe, and James Britten. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in All Its...
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born in Peterborough in 1901. He was a long-time associate of Benjamin Britten, with whom he conceived many of the composer's unusual percussion effects...
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Britten Sinfonia is a chamber orchestra ensemble based in Cambridge, UK. It was created in 1992, following an initiative from Eastern Arts and a number...
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compositions includes all the published works by English composer Benjamin Britten with opus number. Paul Bunyan, Op. 17: Operetta in two acts, 114'. Libretto...
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