John Aubrey FRS (12 March 1626 – 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded (often...
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John Aubrey (1626–1697), was an English antiquary and writer. John Aubrey may also refer to: John Aubrey (MP for City of London), represented City of London...
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persons named John Aubrey Juliet Aubrey (born 1966), English actress Matthew Aubrey (born 1997), Welsh rugby union player Michael Aubrey (born 1982), American...
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Aubrey Morgan O'Day (born February 11, 1984) is an American singer and reality television personality who has been a member of the girl group Danity Kane...
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The Aubrey holes are a ring of 56 chalk pits at Stonehenge, named after seventeenth-century antiquarian John Aubrey. They date to the earliest phases...
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collection of short biographies written by John Aubrey (1626–1697) in the last decades of the 17th century. Aubrey initially began collecting biographical...
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American actress Aubrey Plaza began her career performing improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. She made her feature film debut...
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Aubrey Christina Plaza (born June 26, 1984) is an American actress, comedian, and producer. She began acting in local theater productions as a teenager...
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Stephen Austin and Sons. Aubrey, John; Jackson, John Edward (1862). Wiltshire: The Topographical Collections of John Aubrey, F. R. S., A. D. 1659–70,...
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Berkeley Public Policy Press. pp. 10–11. ISBN 978-0-87772-435-3. Douglass, John Aubrey (2000). The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the...
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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 7th Baronet (22 August 1912 – 19 June 1992) was a British baronet, who played first-class cricket...
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into the 19th century. Meanwhile, antiquarians such as William Camden, John Aubrey and William Stukeley had begun to take an interest in the monuments....
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material on Oughtred. Account of Oughtred by John Aubrey William Oughtred's "Key of the Mathematics" (John Salusbury's English translation of Oughtred's...
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2017) was a British stage and screen actor. He played the antiquarian John Aubrey in the solo play Brief Lives. He won a Tony Award for his performance...
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contemporary source is Brief Lives of John Aubrey, an uneven compilation including first-hand reports. In the work, Aubrey quotes Christopher, Milton's younger...
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printed in 1705. The work of Waller, along with John Ward's Lives of the Gresham Professors, and John Aubrey's Brief Lives form the major near-contemporaneous...
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2024 – via YouTube. Aubrey, John (1898). Rev. Andrew Clark (ed.). "Brief Lives": Chiefly of Contemporaries, Set Down by John Aubrey, Between the Years...
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original noddy scoring scheme. According to John Aubrey, cribbage was created by the English poet Sir John Suckling in the early 17th century, as a derivation...
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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (/ˈbɪərdzli/ BEERDZ-lee; 21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced...
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John Aubrey Conway Howarth MBE (19 February 1896 – 31 March 1984) was an English stage, radio and television actor, best remembered for his role as grumpy...
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Aubrey Miles Santos Sandel-Miller (born March 16, 1980) is a Filipino television host, singer, model, and actress. Aubrey Sandel was born on March 16...
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the henge, both for religious and practical reasons. The antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley took an interest in Avebury during the 17th and...
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Garden of Eden). It is uncertain when Milton composed Paradise Lost. John Aubrey (1626–1697), Milton's contemporary and biographer, says that it was written...
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Thomas Hobbes (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
Charlton and Westport. Hobbes's father was uneducated, according to John Aubrey, Hobbes's biographer, and he "disesteemed learning." Thomas Sr. was involved...
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of Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, who previously held the office from 1954 to 1961. The only son and second child of Lieut-Col Sir John Aubrey-Fletcher Bt...
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supplement his family home of Gorhambury. The main source describing it is John Aubrey's Brief Lives (1669-1696). It was named after Verulamium, the ancient...
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56 pits, each about 3.3 feet (1 m) in diameter, known as the Aubrey holes after John Aubrey, the 17th-century antiquarian who was thought to have first...
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raine, goe to Spain: faire weather come againe". At the same period John Aubrey noted that "little children have a custom when it raines to sing or charme...
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John "Jack" Aubrey CB MP JP FRS, is a fictional character in the Aubrey–Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian. The series of novels portrays his...
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printed descriptions of rushlights was written by English antiquary John Aubrey in 1673. Rev. Gilbert White gave a detailed description of rushlight...
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