• Robert of Ketton, known in Latin as Rodbertus Ketenensis (fl. 1141–1157), was an English astronomer, translator, priest and diplomat active in Spain. He...
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  • identify him with Robert of Ketton (Latin: Robertus Ketenensis) who was also active as an Arabic-Latin translator in the 1140s. However, Ketton and Chester...
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    Horace Walpole (category Robert Walpole)
    horse"). Biographers, such as W. S. Lewis, Brian Fothergill, and Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, interpreted Walpole as asexual. Walpole's father secured...
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  • pseudo-prophet/false prophet) is the translation of the Qur'an into Medieval Latin by Robert of Ketton (c. 1110 – 1160 AD). It is the earliest translation of the Qur'an into...
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  • Venerable-Robert de Ketton, Marc de Tolède et Jean de Segobia”, Revue des Études Latines, 80, 2002, pp. 223–236. (in French) "El Prólogo de Juan de Segobia...
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    of Cluny during a trip to Spain. The team of translators was led by Robert of Ketton, who translated the Qurʾān. The other translators were Herman of Carinthia...
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  • translations of the Quran Leo Africanus Mark of Toledo Ignazio Lomellini Robert of Ketton Ludovico Marracci Starczewska, Katarzyna K. Thomas, David; Chesworth...
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  • SUMNER, Gerald. 'L'orgue Cavaillé-Coll de Bracewell (1870) et son transfert à Ketton (1875) puis au Parr Hall de Warrington (1928) / The Cavaillé-Coll...
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    William de Longchamp (died 1197) was a medieval Lord Chancellor, Chief Justiciar, and Bishop of Ely in England. Born to a humble family in Normandy, he...
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    met Robert of Ketton in Paris or Chartres. Richard Hakluyt, quoting an anonymous Latin source from the time of the Second Crusade, says that Robert "traveled...
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    of Cremona, Herman of Carinthia, Michael Scotus, and Robert of Ketton. In 1143, Robert of Ketton made the first Latin translation of the Qur'an, at the...
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    succeeded by Celestine II as the 165th pope of the Catholic Church. Robert of Ketton makes the first European translation of the Qur'an for Peter the Venerable...
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    Wyndham Cremer Ketton-Cremer d. 1933 and Emily his wife d. 1952 Flying Officer Richard Thomas Ketton-Cremer d. 1941 Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer d. 1969...
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  • Noel of Ketton 1851: John Moore Paget of Clipsham 1852: William de Capell Brooke of Martinsthorpe 1853: John Parker of Preston 1854: Robert Lee Bradshaw...
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    Bakewell had used successfully on Longhorn cattle. In 1796, Charles Colling of Ketton Hall, bred the famous Durham Ox. The culmination of this breeding program...
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    List of music students by teacher: K to M (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Earliest Times. Da Capo Press. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-306-71112-1. Sybil Eaton, b. Ketton, Rutland, 1897... In May, 1914, she attended von Auer's summer school at...
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  • William de Burgh and Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent. Geoffrey de Burgh was the younger brother of William de Burgh, Lord of Connacht, Hubert de Burgh...
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    Theodore Bibliander (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Latin (Basel, 1543), which was based on the medieval translation of Robert of Ketton. The edition included the entire Toledan Collection, including Doctrina...
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    translation of Robert of Ketton. De non aliud (On the Not-Other) (1462) De venatione sapientiae (1462) De ludo globi (1463) Compendium (1463) De apice theoriae...
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    public in 1928 to establish a new greenfield Portland cement business at Ketton in Rutland, on 1,170 acres of freehold land, containing oolitic limestone...
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    un membre de l'Académie des dames ... Sur la copie à Londres, 1782". Archive.org. Wellcome collection. Retrieved 24 June 2024. R. W. Ketton-Cremer, "Humphrey...
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    interest. The plainer rear is of brick while the front is neo-classical and in Ketton stone. Built between 1670 and 1703, it has been described as "a highly remarkable...
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    important medieval writers such as Al-Tutili. In 1157 the English scholar Robert of Ketton, first translator of the Koran to a Western tongue (Latin), became...
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    pedigree of Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham Maxwell-Lyte, Part 1, pp. 134–5 Ketton-Cremer, Robert Wyndham, Felbrigg, the Story of a House, London, 1962, p.25 "Glasgow...
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    of the Arabic Qur'an (the "Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete") for which Robert of Ketton was the main translator. Peter of Toledo is credited for planning and...
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    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ketton-Cremer (1969), p 42 Ketton-Cremer (1969), p 50 "Paston, Robert, first earl of Yarmouth (1631–1683), politician...
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    this new palace. The Bishop's Palace was built of brick with dressings of Ketton Stone, but its exact location is unknown. In later Tudor times, the rebuilt...
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  • Hastings (Warren Hastings) — 1955 Ivy Compton-Burnett, Mother and Son R. W. Ketton-Cremer, Thomas Gray (Thomas Gray) — 1956 Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond...
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    rev. H. W. Starr 1971) Robert L. Mack, Thomas Gray. A Life (2000) A. L. Sells, Thomas Gray His Life and Works (1980) R. W. Ketton-Cremer, Thomas Gray (1955)...
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    emphasised its place as one of the great English poems. In 1955, R. W. Ketton-Cremer argued, "At the close of his greatest poem Gray was led to describe...
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