Dictionary of National Biography: ErrataSir Sidney Lee |
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1st Baron 1st Earl 1st Lord 1st Viscount 2nd Earl 2nd Earl Bathurst 3rd Earl afterwards Alexander Anne Anthony appointed April read became bishop Bristol brother buried Cambridge Campbell Cathedral Christ's College church Clifford colonel David died Eastington edition Edmund elder eldest elected M.P. Elizabeth end and 1.1 end and l.l. England ERRATA IN VOLUME Essex f.e. ii foot Gloucestershire governor graduated B.A. Hertfordshire Hugh Joseph June read l.l. for last Lady last line Lichfield lieutenant-general Lincolnshire London Long parliaments lord-lieutenant major-general March read married Mary matriculated Nicholas Oxford Page Col portrait prebend prebendary read Earl read John read Sir read St read William regiment resigned Salisbury Samuel Sept Short parliament Sir Charles Sir Edward Sir George Sir Henry Sir James Sir John Sir Richard Sir Robert Sir Thomas Sir William sizar Sloane till death Trinity College Walter Warwickshire whig wife William d
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Page 224 - But whether it be for policie or Armes, it is an error to thinke men without triall worthie to bee compared vnto the others tried, in what place soeuer great or smal.
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Page 241 - Roman 18-12 for omitted, as were the names .... the calendar prefixed, read fe differentiated, as regards its authoritative value, from the rest of the Old Testament, 1 fe for Some sixty read More than sixty 158 ii 39 for Doré's read Dore's 158 i yif.e.
Page 240 - BARE, red morocco, gilt edges, £4. 10s M. Lownes, 1602 A very interesting work, in which will be found an account of the death of Sir Philip Sidney related on the authority of George Whetstone, an eyewitness, whose epitaph on Sidney is also given. It also contains accounts of the " Portugale Voyage," and of the services and death of Sir John Norris, in Ireland.
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Page 243 - Gascoyne's amendment opposing the reduction of the number of members for England and Wales, which was carried against the government. He did not peek re-election after the consequent dissolution (April 1831).
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Page 25 - Leake, was born at Colchester on 9 June, 1710, and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at St. John's College, Cambridge, whence he graduated MB in 1733. He afterwards studied at Leyden.