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Pre-ferment
Jumat, 2026-06-12 21:30:34

A pre-ferment (also known as bread starter) is a fermentation starter used in indirect‍ methods of bread making. It may also be called mother dough. A...

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A Fool's Preferment
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 17:12:02

A Fool's Preferment; Or, The Three Dukes Of Dunstable is a 1688 comedy play by the English writer Thomas D'Urfey. It is a reworking of John Fletcher's...

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List of religious titles and styles
Selasa, 2026-06-16 20:30:52

"preferments" and are ordered by bishops. Such appointments that place a preferment title in front of "Reverend" are normally a permanent preferment,...

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Benefice
Jumat, 2026-08-14 20:48:33

cession, upon the clerk being instituted to another benefice or some other preferment incompatible with it; by deprivation and sentence of an ecclesiastical...

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The Noble Fisherman
Senin, 2026-03-09 04:57:37

The Noble Fisherman, also known as Robin Hood's Preferment and Robin Hood's Fishing, is a 17th-century ballad of Robin Hood. Unusually, it depicts Robin...

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The Vicar of Bray (song)
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 14:25:25

Loyalty no harm meant; A Furious High-Church Man I was,1 And so I gain'd Preferment.2 Unto my Flock I daily Preach'd, Kings are by God appointed, And Damn'd...

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Nymphs and Shepherds
Kamis, 2024-05-23 21:32:46

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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Nathan Paget
Minggu, 2026-03-08 06:24:08

Nathan Paget (March 1615 – January 1679) was an English physician, active during the English Civil War, under the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and...

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George Bromley (politician)
Kamis, 2026-07-02 02:59:05

George Bromley (ca. 1526–1589) was an English lawyer, landowner, politician and judge of the Mid-Tudor and Elizabethan period, a member of an important...

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John Merewether
Kamis, 2026-07-23 00:08:11

John Merewether (1797 – 4 April 1850) was an English churchman, Dean of Hereford from 1832, known also as an antiquary. The son of John Merewether of Blackland...

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The Maid's Last Prayer
Jumat, 2026-06-19 02:02:22

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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Leavening agent
Minggu, 2026-05-03 01:34:41

dough to raise the bread. French sponge (also known as poolish) is a preferment that uses bakers yeast and flour which is fermented for 2–8 hours. Italian...

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Theodosius (play)
Jumat, 2026-06-19 03:47:01

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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2015 Melbourne Cup
Rabu, 2026-07-01 03:54:52

13 8th 14 Grand Marshall Chris Waller Jim Cassidy 53.5 kg 15 21st 15 Preferment Chris Waller Hugh Bowman 53.5 kg 11 20th 16 Quest For More Roger Charlton...

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Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 04:55:01

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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Edward Young
Jumat, 2026-07-31 20:31:07

Young took holy orders, and wrote many fawning letters in search of preferment, attracting accusations of insincerity. Young was a son of Edward Young...

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Ingelger
Jumat, 2026-07-03 10:40:20

counselor of both Louis II and Louis III of France, from whom he received preferment. By Louis II Ingelger was appointed viscount of Orléans, which city was...

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John Taylor of Ashbourne
Kamis, 2026-01-08 07:45:15

Bosworth in Leicestershire. The duties were performed by a curate. This preferment he retained for the rest of his life; he was unpopular with his parishioners...

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Australian Champion Stayer
Rabu, 2026-02-25 21:41:31

2014-2015 Protectionist 5yo H Monsun (GER) – Patineuse (IRE) 2015-2016 Preferment 5yo H Zabeel (NZ) – Better Alternative (AUS) 2016-2017 Jameka 4yo M Myboycharlie...

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King James Version
Minggu, 2026-08-09 23:26:19

Bible, and in this number, divers of them have either no ecclesiastical preferment at all, or else so very small, as the same is far unmeet for men of their...

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John Vaughan (chief justice)
Minggu, 2026-03-15 07:39:52

Cardiganshire in the Cavalier Parliament. Refusing an offer of judicial preferment from his old friend Clarendon, now Charles II's Lord Chancellor and chief...

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Women in Islam
Minggu, 2026-07-19 15:46:24

Islam declares that all human beings are equal considering the status, preferment and dignity but determine the different responsibilities of male and female...

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Henry Purcell
Minggu, 2026-08-09 20:52:08

A few months later, he wrote the music for D'Urfey's play, The Fool's Preferment. In 1690, he composed the music for Betterton's adaptation of Fletcher...

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Nicolas de Besse
Kamis, 2026-08-13 18:03:22

Nicolas de Besse was born in the diocese of Limoges, in 1322. He was a French bishop and Cardinal. He was the son of Jacques de Besse, Seigneur de Bellefaye...

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John Pocklington
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 05:54:23

never to come within the verge of the court, to be deprived of all his preferments, and to have his two books, 'Altare Christianum' and 'Sunday no Sabbath...

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Dido and Aeneas
Jumat, 2026-08-07 00:52:50

The Force of Love (1680) and eight songs for Thomas d'Urfey's A Fool's Preferment (1688). He also composed songs for two plays by Nahum Tate (later the...

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Earnest Hooton
Jumat, 2026-07-31 06:34:43

any ethnic or national group, or any linguistic or religious group, for preferment of condemnation. Our real purpose should be to segregate and eliminate...

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John Arundel (bishop of Chichester)
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 04:52:43

confessor to King Henry VI, who exerted influence on his behalf to gain him preferment in the Church, though without conspicuous success. He became precentor...

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Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell
Rabu, 2026-07-22 17:20:44

Lichfield and Coventry. English Bishop. Educated at Cambridge, he received preferment under the patronage of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who employed him in the...

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Canon (title)
Minggu, 2026-07-26 05:43:40

is not a permanent title and, when no longer in a position entitling preferment, it is usually dropped from a cleric's title nomenclature. However, it...

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Simony Act 1713
Kamis, 2026-07-30 17:52:37

any Ecclesiastical Persons from buying the next Avoidance of any Church Preferment. Citation 13 Ann. c. 11 12 Ann. St. 2. c. 12 Territorial extent  Great...

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John Orum
Selasa, 2025-04-15 07:11:35

January he received the prebend of Fridaythorpe, York Cathedral, which preferment he had vacated before October 1412. On 21 December he received the church...

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List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1866
Selasa, 2026-08-04 00:16:51

Clerk to execute his Office of a Priest and to hold any Ecclesiastical Preferment or Office in the United Church of England and Ireland within Her Majesty's...

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Francis Turner (bishop)
Sabtu, 2026-06-20 19:21:29

graduated B.A. on 14 April 1659 and M. A. on 14 January 1663. Turner's preferments were mainly due to the favour of the Duke of York, to whom he was chaplain...

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Laurence Sterne
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 22:34:13

York to assist Fountayne with bureaucratic tasks, in hopes of further preferment. In 1759, Sterne contributed to a pamphlet war related to Fountayne's...

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St Davids Cathedral
Senin, 2026-07-13 22:19:09

energy was short-lived as he was offered what some was believed as a preferment as Archdeacon of Oxford, but did not leave that position for the rest...

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The Moor's Pavane
Kamis, 2026-02-12 21:03:06

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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Philip of Tripoli
Senin, 2025-07-07 06:06:03

Philip of Tripoli, sometimes Philippus Tripolitanus or Philip of Foligno (fl. 1218–1269), was an Italian Catholic priest and translator. Although he had...

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William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley
Kamis, 2026-07-16 22:42:48

Technical Institute. As a Conservative, Dudley could not have expected preferment from the Liberal government which came to office in 1905, but King Edward...

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Anne of Denmark
Selasa, 2026-08-04 23:52:32

get once into his favour, those who shall have most contributed to his preferment will be the first sufferers by him. I shall be no more spared than the...

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Arabella Churchill (royal mistress)
Minggu, 2026-02-22 06:50:56

have been a joyful surprise that so plain a girl had attained such high preferment". Arabella gave birth to two children during Anne's lifetime, and James...

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William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys
Rabu, 2026-07-22 16:24:16

of Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland. As a young man, he gained preferment at court and was soon associated with the future King Henry VIII, assisting...

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Alan Cadman
Kamis, 2026-04-02 11:25:08

Despite his long tenure, Cadman was only considered for ministerial preferment twice. He served as parliamentary secretary to the prime minister (Malcolm...

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National Catholicism
Senin, 2026-07-27 19:43:47

ISBN 978-1-85285-100-2. Maurice Larkin (2002). Religion, Politics and Preferment in France since 1890: La Belle Epoque and its Legacy. Cambridge University...

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1975 Australian constitutional crisis
Kamis, 2026-07-16 00:57:21

party's weakened state, Barnard should remain in Parliament and be given no preferment if he resigned; party president and future prime minister Bob Hawke described...

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Brian Walton (bishop)
Rabu, 2026-06-03 02:39:43

which appear to have led to the sequestration of his very considerable preferments. He was also charged with Popish practices, but on frivolous grounds...

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Geoffrey de Geneville, 1st Baron Geneville
Senin, 2026-06-08 20:17:50

the role played by Geoffrey de Joinville at the English court and their preferment in England. Geoffrey was thus one of the "Savoyards" who arrived in England...

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Richard Cox (bishop)
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:16:03

of Harrow (1547) and the deanery of Westminster (1549). Cox lost his preferments on Mary's accession, and was for a fortnight in August 1553 confined...

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John Wilkes
Jumat, 2026-07-17 05:23:53

Treaty of Paris (1763), arguing that a "Scotchman had no more right to preferment in England than a Hanoverian or a Hottentot.". The newspaper’s title itself...

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Thomas Pierce
Kamis, 2026-05-14 05:30:56

Magdalen College School under William White, for whom in 1662 he obtained preferment. On 7 December 1638 he matriculated at the college, and in 1639 he became...

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Sir William Talbot, 3rd Baronet
Selasa, 2025-06-03 14:32:22

Ireland, became for a short time almost all-powerful in Ireland, gained him preferment, especially during the reign of the ardently Catholic King James II. Like...

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John Bargrave
Rabu, 2026-08-12 16:05:08

secular leaders and scandals. After the Restoration he obtained several preferments in Kent and in 1662 was made a canon of Canterbury. Immediately after...

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Henry Raikes
Senin, 2026-06-15 10:38:43

Archbishop of Canterbury". Chester Chronicle. 17 March 1848. p. 4. "Clerical Preferments". Salisbury and Winchester Journal. 17 June 1848. p. 2. "Liverpool Auxiliary...

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Northwest Passage (novel)
Senin, 2026-05-18 05:01:14

London, Towne learns that no one can achieve success except through "preferment", usually through a sponsor. His search for sponsorship leads him to Benjamin...

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Charles de la Cerda
Rabu, 2025-11-26 01:07:34

her son, Charles II, King of Navarre, who bitterly resented La Cerda's preferment. In 1351, Charles de la Cerda married Marguerite, a daughter of Charles...

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John Bond (jurist)
Sabtu, 2024-08-17 14:53:09

appointed vice-chancellor of Cambridge University in 1658, but lost his preferments at Cambridge and London on the Restoration of 1660. He retired to Dorset...

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Martha Poland Thurston
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 16:13:08

took a strong interest in politics and contributed much to the political preferment of her husband. She was his constant traveling companion and aided him...

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Francesco Accolti
Kamis, 2026-01-22 12:08:02

would gladly have granted you the honor, had I not feared, that your preferment, by removing you from your school, would have hindered the progress of...

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List of sexually active popes
Minggu, 2026-07-26 21:55:25

Guicciardini and Paolo Giovio). Falconi suggests he may have offered preferment to Marcantonio Flaminio because he was attracted to him. Historians have...

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Spoils system
Jumat, 2026-08-14 04:26:10

enemy. And those who were excluded from his friendship were excluded from preferment." Historians like Paul W. Gates and especially Malcolm J. Rohrbough seem...

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Henry Wilberforce
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 17:32:14

Theological Prize for an essay on the Trinity. Wilberforce then had two preferments. He was vicar of Walmer from 1841, appointed by Archbishop William Howley;...

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Hector Boece
Selasa, 2026-05-12 09:39:57

flowing and pleasing style, became popular, and led to ecclesiastical preferment and royal favour. By modern standards, it is overly patriotic, and has...

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Thomas de Cottingham
Senin, 2024-08-05 23:04:52

clearly expected him to find it a thankless task since he was promised preferment both for his past services and "the labours which he would have to endure"...

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Croydon
Minggu, 2026-08-09 04:57:50

addition to the suffragan Bishop of Croydon, the Vicar of Croydon is a preferment. Addington Palace is a Palladian-style mansion between Addington Village...

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Shakespeare authorship question
Minggu, 2026-08-16 06:46:56

record of university education, foreign travel, legal studies or court preferment, the controversialists proposed instead a sequence of mainly aristocratic...

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Robert Crowley (printer)
Minggu, 2026-07-26 13:48:57

). By 1568–69, Crowley had resigned or had been stripped of all his preferments. He returned to the printing trade, although that had been his immediate...

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Martha Beauclerk
Jumat, 2026-03-06 09:42:50

– 5 March 1788) was a British courtier. She was ambitious and gained preferment in court circles. Beauclerk was baptised on 10 January 1710 in Westminster...

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Province of Maryland
Senin, 2026-08-10 17:53:49

revolted against the proprietary government, in part because of the apparent preferment of Catholics like Colonel Henry Darnall to official positions of power...

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Henry Newcome
Kamis, 2026-07-23 01:49:19

were to be chosen, but it was too late. The new fellows all had other preferments, so Newcome continued to preach as their deputy; his last sermon in the...

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E. J. H. Nash
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 02:10:10

clergyman who never sought the limelight, hit the headlines or wanted preferment; and yet whose influence within the Church of England... was probably...

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Thomas Wilson (bishop)
Minggu, 2025-10-12 14:45:29

shield his flock from the demands of the state authorities. He declined preferment to the much wealthier See of Exeter. When he died on 7 March 1755 at the...

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Hugh Conway (Lord Treasurer)
Senin, 2026-01-12 07:26:07

servants; and that the majority of men in Calais were of "my lord Daubeney's preferment." Flamanck put all this information from Conway in a very long and detailed...

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Avro 720
Senin, 2025-12-15 23:37:37

the termination of the Avro 720. One of the reasons for the Ministry's preferment of the SR.53, despite its development programme being comparatively behind...

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History of Afghanistan (1978–1992)
Rabu, 2026-08-05 10:45:41

traits they brought with them had been accentuated in the struggle for preferment in Peshawar. Collusions between military leaders quickly brought down...

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Adam Squire
Minggu, 2026-03-08 08:43:19

A. in 1564. He became vicar of Cumnor in 1568, and accumulated other preferments, being canon of St Paul's Cathedral in 1577. Squire's suspicions of Robert...

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Philip Hawford
Selasa, 2026-06-16 23:43:54

to preferment" promised him by Cromwell. Philip Hawford was called to preferment on 4 April 1538. Evidently he had bribed Cromwell for his preferment, for...

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Dioclesian
Jumat, 2025-10-31 02:45:00

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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Translation Office (Ottoman Empire)
Jumat, 2024-11-22 22:09:06

Europe, wrote that the Translation Office became "one of the avenues to preferment and power". The office created French-language versions of official documents...

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Laurence Nowell
Rabu, 2026-06-03 06:22:53

Nowell. Nowell, probably realising that he was not going to be given the preferment he sought from Cecil, decided to visit the Continent to study (and possibly...

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Henry Fairfax (academic)
Jumat, 2026-03-27 22:50:24

accepting the living of Newton Kyme, Yorkshire, from his father. This preferment he exchanged for a few years for the parish of Ashton-in-Makerfield in...

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Greenvile Collins
Minggu, 2026-05-10 09:32:48

experienced seamen. In the Spring of 1681, Collins gained the King's preferment to survey the country's coasts. For the survey, the Admiralty supplied...

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Peter Damian
Jumat, 2026-08-07 05:19:29

solemn oath from the archbishop and all his clergy that for the future no preferment should be paid for; then, imposing a penance on all who had been guilty...

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List of acts of the Parliament of England from 1627
Senin, 2026-08-03 18:05:45

and Sir Thomas to sell certain Lands for Payment of their Debts, and Preferment of their younger Children. Earl of Devon's Estate Act 1627 3 Cha. 1. c...

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Gustavian era
Jumat, 2026-05-15 03:15:03

without the nobility. The third clause required him, in all cases of preferment, to be guided not "principally" as heretofore, but "solely" by merit....

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William Richardson (antiquary)
Jumat, 2026-06-12 10:02:03

12 August 1745, left his executors all his options in ecclesiastical preferments, but asked them to have regard in the distribution to Richardson and...

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Roger Williams
Rabu, 2026-08-05 02:14:20

but he became a Puritan at Cambridge and thus ruined his chance for preferment in the Anglican Church. After graduating from Cambridge, he became the...

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Daniel Waterland
Senin, 2026-05-18 14:07:11

his restoration to office. A Windsor canonry was added to Waterland's preferments on 27 September 1727, and in 1730 the archdeaconry of Middlesex (13 August)...

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Appointment of Church of England bishops
Rabu, 2026-07-22 05:42:53

touching or concerning the appointment to or disposal of any office or preferment in the Church of England, or in the Church of Scotland". This means that...

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Paul Sabatier (theologian)
Selasa, 2026-05-05 08:02:57

became vicar of St Nicolas, Strasbourg, but in 1889, declining an offer of preferment which was conditional on his becoming a German subject, he was expelled...

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History of American newspapers
Senin, 2026-08-10 16:13:24

principles of sincere public policy. An active ambition for political preferment prevented him from achieving this ideal. Although he professed conservatism...

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William II of England
Rabu, 2026-08-12 02:42:25

more bitter hatred." The English clergy, beholden to the king for their preferments and livings, were unable to support Anselm publicly. In 1095 William...

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Come Ye Sons of Art
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 04:39:14

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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Joseph Trapp
Minggu, 2024-08-18 17:31:50

of Poetry in 1708. Later his High Church opinions established him in preferment and position. As a poet, he was not well thought of by contemporaries...

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John Hales (theologian)
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 06:04:25

reported on 1 December 1618. Hales then refused all offers of ecclesiastical preferment, choosing instead a scholarly retirement in a Fellowship of Eton College...

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John Castell
Senin, 2025-09-08 21:22:04

University College. He became Master of the College circa 1408. He also held preferment in the Diocese of York with his mastership. In 1411, a sentence of excommunication...

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Telluride House
Minggu, 2026-08-16 00:26:50

to apply to the Telluride House in a yearly process known as 'preferment'. Preferment, like other house matters, is decided on democratically by house...

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Roger Northburgh
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:15:42

1321. Nothing more came of the project. Northburgh was recommended for preferment to the pope by the king in letters from 1318 to 1320. From 1320 to mid-1321...

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Malcolm MacColl
Selasa, 2026-07-28 09:43:51

developed a lifelong friendship and political alliance. Gladstone secured preferment for his protégé, but MacColl never rose high in the Anglican Church. He...

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Robert Fletcher (priest)
Jumat, 2026-06-26 11:28:47

Standard (London, England), Friday, May 25, 1888; pg. 3; Issue 19929 ’PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS’ The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent (Sheffield, England)...

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Joseph Romilly
Selasa, 2026-06-09 18:35:04

and proceeded M.A. in 1816. He took holy orders, but he never held any preferment, except that he was rector of the family living of Porthkerry, Glamorgan...

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Dean (Christianity)
Rabu, 2026-07-29 14:07:54

status of a Dean, the Very Reverend title is normally a permanent title preferment.[citation needed] Some important deans include the deans of St Paul's...

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Charitable Uses Act 1601
Senin, 2026-01-05 02:45:06

havens, causeways, churches, sea-banks, and highways." "The education and preferment of orphans." "The relief, stock, or maintenance for houses of correction...

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Bribery
Jumat, 2026-07-24 01:26:07

recipient's conduct. It may be money, goods, rights in action, property, preferment, privilege, emolument, objects of value, advantage, or merely a promise...

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René Vilatte
Minggu, 2026-08-09 03:04:30

Church of England (CoE) found Marsh-Edwards to be "incapable of holding preferment" after he was required to "answer charges against his moral character"...

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Jonathan Swift
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 01:18:14

a bitter enemy, made it clear that Swift would not have received the preferment if she could have prevented it. With the return of the Whigs, Swift's...

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Carew Reynell (writer)
Kamis, 2026-03-05 05:21:10

infinite Wealth and Greatness, Trade and Populacy, with Employment and Preferment for all Persons,’ London, 1674, 8vo (licensed 5 Sept. 1673). It is a noticeable...

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William Maloney (politician)
Sabtu, 2026-06-13 22:56:59

despite his long service, he was never even considered for ministerial preferment, partly because he was reckoned as a political lightweight. He did serve...

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Katharine Basset
Minggu, 2026-07-05 01:47:26

sayeth that Mother Lowe, the Mother of the Dutch Maids, may do much for my preferment to the Queen's Highness; so that your ladyship would send her my good...

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Mathurin Régnier
Rabu, 2026-04-29 17:54:57

life. But the death of Henri IV. deprived him of his last hope of great preferments. His later life had been one of dissipation, and he died at Rouen at...

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Rowland Meyrick
Senin, 2026-05-25 20:53:48

was principal of New Inn Hall from 1534 to 1536. In 1541 he obtained preferment at Eglwysael, and was also made precentor of Llandewy-Velfrey, Pembrokeshire...

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Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland
Kamis, 2026-08-13 20:22:29

intelligence, preferments and appointments Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser: 27 July 1877: Ecclesiastical intelligence, preferments and appointments...

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Alonso Cano
Minggu, 2026-07-26 12:04:15

Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias. The King gave him the church preferment of a canon of the Granada Cathedral (1652), in order to take up a position...

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King Arthur (opera)
Selasa, 2026-04-07 15:37:13

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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William Jane
Rabu, 2025-04-23 08:41:49

little hopes of preferment from William III, and in 1696 it was rumoured that he was to be removed from his professorship and other preferments, because he...

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Gilbert Sheldon
Kamis, 2026-06-04 04:10:48

sympathies. He became a royal chaplain through Coventry, and the king intended preferment for him, plans interrupted by the political crises. He was intimate with...

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Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore
Senin, 2026-06-29 05:15:19

of official support for the new King and Queen, and resentful of the preferment of Catholics like deputy governor Colonel Henry Darnall to official positions...

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List of acts of the Parliament of England from 1661
Senin, 2026-08-03 18:06:12

Lord Abergaveny, to sell certain Lands, for Payment of his Debts, and Preferment of his Brother and Sisters. Naturalization of Francis Brudenell and Anna...

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Johann Christoph Schwab
Minggu, 2026-06-21 23:20:07

Prussia. In the event, however, Schwab received more persuasive offers of preferment at home. The Prince of Württemberg gave him a government appointment as...

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Charles Atmore Ogilvie
Senin, 2025-09-01 13:15:33

1844, and was made Bampton lecturer in 1836. Ogilvie held some clerical preferment while still fellow and tutor of Balliol. He was rector of Wickford, Essex...

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Samuel Bradford
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:06:18

rectory of St. Mary-le-Bow; he then resigned his minor ecclesiastical preferments, but soon after accepted the lectureship of All Hallows, Bread Street...

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John Bury (divine)
Minggu, 2024-02-11 20:06:49

Heavitree and a canonry in Exeter Cathedral, his collation to the latter preferment dating 20 March 1637. A few years later he resigned his benefice in favour...

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Sir Henry Martin, 1st Baronet
Kamis, 2026-07-09 20:10:46

'self-diffident' and in 'want of that assurance so necessary to push his way to preferment' he was given the goad of being let survive with some difficulty on limited...

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George Walker (Puritan)
Senin, 2026-01-19 05:30:50

inducted on 29 April 1614. There he continued all his life, refusing preferment. In 1614 he accused Anthony Wotton of Socinian heresy and blasphemy. This...

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Samuel Chandler
Kamis, 2026-07-02 00:26:04

Archbishop Secker, who in spite of their later churchmanship and high preferment remained life-long friends. In 1714, Chandler began a preaching ministry...

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William Agutter
Rabu, 2024-07-17 23:38:34

of the Rev. Thomas Broughton. Agutter does not seem to have held any preferment in the English church, but in 1797 he was appointed to the post of chaplain...

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The Female Virtuosos
Kamis, 2026-07-23 17:18:05

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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George Cornelius Gorham
Jumat, 2025-09-26 17:18:07

Alma mater Queens' College, Cambridge Known for Being denied an ecclesiastical preferment due to his opinions concerning baptismal regeneration Religion Christianity...

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Chris Waller (horse trainer)
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 06:40:50

Danleigh (2009); Kolding (2021); Beiwacht (2026) Australian Cup (1) - Preferment (2016) Australian Derby (2) - Riff Rocket (2024); Aeliana (2025) Australasian...

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Mael Ísu Ua Cerbaill
Minggu, 2025-11-30 11:52:50

of Louth from 1182 and Archbishop of Armagh from 1184, holding both preferments until his death in 1187. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy...

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Helene Lange Gymnasium
Kamis, 2026-07-09 20:53:54

("Völkerversöhnung") was a detriment to German nationality and to the "preferment of the Jewish element" within the school, said the school was imbued with...

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The Massacre of Paris
Jumat, 2026-06-19 03:16:14

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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Rejoice in the Lord alway
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 04:56:45

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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Frederick Donaldson (priest)
Rabu, 2026-04-01 00:51:04

Oxford Journal" (Oxford, England), Saturday, January 16, 1886; Issue 6930 PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS Bristol Mercury and Daily Post (Bristol, England), Thursday...

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Sydney, Lady Morgan
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 05:23:35

France in 1829-1830 (1830) Dramatic Scenes of Real Life (1833) Review of Preferment; or, My Uncle the Earl, by Mrs. Gore (1839) Woman and Her Master (1840)...

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Julius von Pflug
Sabtu, 2022-09-17 14:33:58

to Bologna, whence he went to Padua, but in 1521, induced by offers of preferment from Duke George, he returned to his native state, first of all to Dresden...

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Richard Pococke
Minggu, 2026-06-14 08:06:48

hi to Archdeacon of Dublin. In 1756, he received an important furrher preferment when he was appointed as Bishop of Ossory. In 1765, having briefly been...

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Richard Marshall (priest)
Sabtu, 2024-08-17 15:20:43

in the autumn of 1555. At Elizabeth I's accession Marshall lost his preferments. He retained powerful friends, as he had been domestic chaplain to Lord...

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Richard Haydock
Jumat, 2026-03-06 12:37:15

after a public recantation, was pardoned by the king, who offered him preferment in the church. Haydock did not, however, take orders, ‘but lived always...

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Christopher Harvey (poet)
Minggu, 2022-05-08 19:41:06

instituted to the vicarage of Clifton on Dunsmore, Warwickshire. He owed this preferment to his patron Sir Robert Whitney, according to a dedicatory epistle to...

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All Saints Church, Alrewas
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 09:46:32

Newspaper Archive. "Preferment". Derbyshire Times. England. 30 July 1881. Retrieved 21 April 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive. "Preferments and Appointments"...

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Anne Boleyn
Jumat, 2026-08-07 02:11:52

always looked for such an alteration as I now find; for the ground of my preferment being on no surer foundation than your Grace's fancy, the least alteration...

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List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1828
Senin, 2026-08-03 19:00:07

Covenants, and other Assurances for the Resignation of Ecclesiastical Preferments, in certain specified Cases. Appropriation Act 1828 (repealed) 9 Geo...

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Albert Cohn (scholar)
Minggu, 2026-04-12 03:40:49

Cohn's decision to leave Vienna, where at that time there was no hope of preferment for a Jew, and to settle in Paris, which he did in 1836. Then began his...

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John Mason Neale
Senin, 2025-05-26 17:29:45

threatened to stone him or to burn his house. He received no honour or preferment in England, and his doctorate was bestowed by Trinity College (Connecticut)...

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David Obiosa
Selasa, 2026-02-17 15:48:57

David Obiosa was the first Bishop of Ndokwa Diocese, one of the 13 Dioceses in the Province of Bendel under the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion David...

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History of Belfast
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 00:15:46

Catholics and Protestants were often employed, Protestants would experience preferment over their Catholic counterparts. Hardly any of those in management were...

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Grand Orient de France
Rabu, 2026-08-12 11:45:54

Grand Orient de France 1890, 500 sq" Page 162, Religion, Politics and Preferment in France Since 1890, Maurice Larkin, 1995, Cambridge University Press...

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Colonel Jack
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 23:12:46

times married to Four Whores; went into the Wars, behav'd bravely, got Preferment, was made Colonel of a Regiment, came over, and fled with the Chevalier...

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Hugh Weston
Selasa, 2025-04-15 09:32:01

retained all his offices except his professorship, and received further preferment on Queen Mary's accession. On 18 September 1553 he was installed dean...

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James Stirling (Royal Navy officer)
Kamis, 2026-08-13 04:44:28

reflected in his personal dealings with officialdom and his hopes for preferment received many rebuffs. Stirling also personally led the attack in Western...

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Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol
Kamis, 2025-07-24 01:42:45

then set off on an extended Grand Tour while awaiting ecclesiastical preferment. During his European travels, he developed his already insatiable passion...

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Jews Relief Act 1858
Senin, 2026-07-20 00:24:36

indirectly, to advise Her Majesty ... touching or concerning ... any office or preferment in the Church of England or in the Church of Scotland." The Oaths Act...

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Malcolm Parr
Senin, 2025-05-19 04:50:21

Telegraph. 16 July 1962. p. 27. Retrieved 10 April 2024. "Church news: preferments and appointments". Church Times. No. 4311. 7 September 1945. p. 508....

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John Chamber (academic)
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 06:16:35

Merton for a licence to practise medicine. In 1593 Chamber received the preferment of prebendary of Netherbury in Terra at Salisbury Cathedral, and in June...

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James Pilkington (bishop)
Selasa, 2026-08-04 13:14:17

universities recommending the study of divinity and making an offer of office or preferment to the best of those who preached divinity. In 1560 he wrote, "Aggeus...

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Dido's Lament
Selasa, 2026-08-04 04:55:44

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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Whipping boy
Jumat, 2026-06-19 15:04:37

the children of the poorer gentry, as the first step in the ladder of preferment." John Gough Nichols wrote in 1857, "the whole matter is somewhat legendary...

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Richard Edes
Kamis, 2026-08-06 01:28:57

6 July 1584, and D.D. 6 July 1590. In favour at court, he had rapid preferment, with prebends at Salisbury (1584), Christ Church (1586), and Hereford...

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Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1933
Senin, 2026-08-03 01:11:57

act remain in force. Section 2, which established the procedure for the preferment of bills of indictment following the abolition of grand juries, has been...

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Thomas Lydiat
Senin, 2025-07-07 01:22:52

mastership. The death of the Prince of Wales in 1612 cut off his hopes of preferment, and in the same year, after some hesitation, he accepted the family living...

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Robert Cusack (judge)
Kamis, 2026-04-02 06:09:02

but was passed over for the office, though with a promise of future preferment. His career was cut short by his premature death. He came from a prominent...

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List of folk songs by Roud number
Minggu, 2026-08-16 06:51:18

Rescuing Will Stutly" (Child 141) 3958. "The Noble Fisherman", "Robin Hood's Preferment" (Child 148) 3959. "The West Country Damosel's Complaint" (Child 292)...

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David Weller (painter)
Selasa, 2026-07-21 09:10:02

procured him the appointment of court painter to the Elector, but this preferment only reached him a few days before his death. He died at Dresden in 1789...

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Joseph White (orientalist)
Sabtu, 2023-01-07 14:38:42

arrangement. The lectures were very well received, and White received preferment: the rectory of Melton, Suffolk, through Moore's influence, and then a...

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Philip Henry
Kamis, 2026-07-02 02:28:34

the oath of allegiance, but refusing reordination he was incapable of preferment. On 24 October 1661 Bridgeman, having failed to arrange matters, came...

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Hugh Pearson (dean of Salisbury)
Jumat, 2025-02-28 04:25:37

living of Sandford, in the gift of the Duke of Marlborough. He owed this preferment to Ann Kennicott, whom he had met at Windsor where he had been living...

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William Worsley (priest)
Jumat, 2025-08-15 15:27:20

Overall in Southwell, and in 1457 to South Cave in York Cathedral. These preferments were apparently conferred on him during his minority by his uncles, for...

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Anselme de Peellaert
Senin, 2024-11-18 04:25:42

Anselme de Peellaert (23 November 1764 – 14 January 1817) was a nobleman from Bruges. He played a role in politics locally during the revolutionary period...

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Samuel Rosewell
Kamis, 2025-03-06 01:38:44

lecture was moved to Founder's Hall, Lothbury, in 1713. He resigned his preferment from ill health in October 1719 and moved to Mare Street, Hackney. Samuel...

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Joseph Bingham
Rabu, 2026-03-11 05:57:37

centuries. Notwithstanding his learning and merit, Bingham received no higher preferment than that of Headbourne Worthy until 1712, when he was collated to the...

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Paul Pellisson
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 02:00:52

1670 he was converted to Catholicism and obtained rich ecclesiastical preferment. He was very intimate with Mlle de Scudéry, in whose novels he figures...

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William Winde
Senin, 2025-12-08 03:06:25

II, resulting in fortifications and topographical surveys but lack of preferment, and his later career, following the Glorious Revolution, as designer...

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William Beale (college head)
Kamis, 2025-05-22 16:17:21

period Beale was deprived of his mastership and all his ecclesiastical preferments. From the Tower the prisoners were moved to Lord Petre's house in Aldersgate...

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John Gilbert (archbishop of York)
Kamis, 2026-06-04 06:09:00

aristocratic connections, Gilbert began early to climb the ladder of preferment. On 1 August 1721 he was appointed to the chapter living of Ashburton;...

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John Maynard (1604–1690)
Senin, 2026-06-01 03:21:06

Sir John Maynard KS (1604 – 9 October 1690) was an English lawyer and politician, prominent under the reigns of Charles I, the Commonwealth, Charles II...

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Henry Ussher
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:24:47

incorporated B.A. 1 July 1572, and graduated M.A. 11 July 1572. His first preferment was the treasurership of Christ Church, Dublin (1573); on 12 March 1580...

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Henry Wharton (writer)
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 14:45:07

partly owing to the bishop's hostility that he did not obtain further preferment in the English church. He died on 5 March 1695, and was buried in Westminster...

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John Owen (theologian)
Jumat, 2026-06-12 09:10:51

Animadversions; and so great was the success of that work that he was offered preferment if he would conform. Owen's condition was liberty to all who disagreed...

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St Ia's Church, St Ives
Rabu, 2026-07-22 10:22:05

Rev. Dr. Cardew, the curate is the Rev. C. Aldrich; the patronage of preferment is the diocesan bishop.–Pigot & Co.'s Directory of Cornwall, 1830. The...

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Lord Robert Manners (Royal Navy officer)
Rabu, 2026-05-20 22:48:10

promotion to lieutenant, Manners again began to appeal to the Admiralty for preferment. He was moved into Alcide on 15 July 1779, in the fleet of Admiral Rodney...

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Anthony Lowther (died 1741)
Senin, 2026-01-26 11:14:48

resigned in 1734, apparently out of pique at not receiving any greater preferment. He was supposed to have had a hand in stoking the discontent of his elder...

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The Adventures of Roderick Random
Senin, 2026-06-22 05:03:01

the Royal Navy at the Battle of Cartagena in 1741 and in relation to preferment, promotion and medical treatment. The novel embraces common 18th century...

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John Peel (priest)
Senin, 2026-08-03 04:29:02

The Standard (London, England), Friday, 8 February 1828; issue 227. 'PREFERMENT', Berrow's Worcester Journal, (Worcester, England), Thursday, 6 March...

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William Burke (prior)
Sabtu, 2025-05-31 19:14:38

Germany at least once. By 1664, having resigned his office, and survived a preferment controversy for "favouring Connachtmen" at Louvain, Burke was again in...

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Lanfranc
Kamis, 2026-06-04 10:44:02

accelerated the process of substituting Normans for Englishmen in all preferments of importance; and although his nominees were usually respectable, it...

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John Pomfret (poet)
Senin, 2025-08-04 10:30:31

his death at the young age of 35. He had travelled to London to seek preferment from Dr. Henry Compton, Bishop of London, but the bishop had been informed...

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John Luxmoore
Kamis, 2025-07-24 22:16:08

his college, and having been tutor to the Earl of Dalkeith, he obtained preferment. He was rector of St. George the Martyr, Holborn, in 1782, prebendary...

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John Baker (1488–1558)
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 13:02:40

and Elizabeth I. He was knighted in June 1540 but gained no further preferment until 1545, when, having recommended himself to the king by his activity...

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Brethren of the Common Life
Rabu, 2026-08-12 08:22:01

Cologne, at the Sorbonne, and at Prague, he took orders and obtained preferment, a canon's stall at Utrecht and another at Aachen. His relations with...

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Edward Heath
Rabu, 2026-08-12 13:49:17

self-control and living a celibate existence as he climbed the 'greasy pole' of preferment." In April 2015, a rape claim against Heath was investigated by the Metropolitan...

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Bureaucracy
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 07:31:53

inter-departmental transfers, and promotion should be through achievement rather than "preferment, patronage, or purchase". This led to implementation of His Majesty's...

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John Boys (priest)
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 16:18:10

Norfolk man. Boys was forthwith chosen fellow of Clare Hall. His first preferment was the small rectory of Betteshanger in his native county, which he tells...

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William Whitaker (theologian)
Senin, 2026-05-25 17:12:53

and in 1593, on the mastership of Trinity College falling vacant by the preferment of Dr. John Still to the bishopric of Bath and Wells, he was an unsuccessful...

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Dean and Chapter of St Paul's
Kamis, 2025-07-03 15:41:26

Friday 04 November 1904. p.3. Preferments and Appointments Western Daily Press - Friday 09 February 1906. p.6. Preferments and Appointments "uk.linkedin...

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Philip Baker (provost)
Kamis, 2026-07-30 16:56:09

provostship 22 Feb. 1569–70. About the same period he lost all his other preferments. Thomas Fuller says: 'Even such as dislike his judgment will commend...

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Robert Cox Clifton
Jumat, 2023-08-11 19:07:22

rectory of Somerton in Oxfordshire, a benefice he held with his Manchester preferment until his death. He took part in the administration of public charities...

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Civil service
Senin, 2026-05-25 23:25:23

hierarchy and that promotion should be through achievement, rather than "preferment, patronage or purchase". It also recommended a clear division between...

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Waleran III, Count of Ligny
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 13:24:26

his daughter to Philip's son Antoine. Under the Burgundians he obtained preferment, becoming Grand Maître des Eaux et Forêts, the governor of Paris in 1410...

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Simon of Joinville
Senin, 2026-06-08 02:18:05

played by Geoffrey and Simon de Joinville at the English court and their preferment in England. Smith states Simon's involvement in the Albigensian Crusade...

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Giles Farnaby
Jumat, 2026-08-14 16:21:40

Dom. 1500, to the end of the year 1690 representing the birth, fortune, preferment, and death of all those authors and prelates, the great accidents of their...

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Thomas Mante
Minggu, 2026-03-08 03:58:49

jstor.org/stable/23521364 William Godfrey (1982). Pursuit of Profit and Preferment in Colonial North America: John Bradstreet's Quest. Wilfrid Laurier Univ...

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Malcolm Fraser
Kamis, 2026-08-06 16:31:56

served in cabinet during Menzies' tenure. His long wait for ministerial preferment was probably due to a combination of his youth and the fact that Menzies'...

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Humphrey Willis
Rabu, 2025-04-09 19:04:44

to the sordid deputy's wife; and another, named Willis, got a similar preferment for sixty pounds. These unscrupulous marauders pillaged the country and...

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Alexander Gordon (bishop of Galloway)
Kamis, 2026-07-30 13:46:25

servant to the Queen Dowager, Mary of Guise. Apart from his ecclesiastical preferments, Guise gave him a yearly pension of £200 on 17 January 1547. The next...

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Elizabeth Harriet Grieve
Senin, 2026-04-20 03:28:34

after) was a British swindler. She was offering to intercede to gain preferments for her customers. She charged them with the costs of the (illegal) bribes...

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Chaplain
Minggu, 2026-07-05 20:09:23

order every parson, vicar, &c. ought to observe in obtaining a spiritual preferment, and what duties are incumbent upon him after taking the same, and many...

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William Thomas (MP for Old Sarum and Downton)
Rabu, 2026-08-05 17:24:46

on 23 June 1550 agreed to settle on him. Ridley, who had intended this preferment for his chaplain Grindal, stigmatised Thomas as "an ungodly man", and...

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George Frideric Handel
Selasa, 2026-08-11 15:47:55

a court musician on his return), Handel was no longer able to expect preferment (whether as a musician, lawyer or otherwise) within Brandenburg–Prussia...

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Richard Hole
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 09:53:12

Church of England, where the influence of his father could secure him preferment. For some time Hole served as curate of Sowton, near Exeter, and continued...

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Nicolas Fatio de Duillier
Minggu, 2026-07-05 06:10:47

offer to reside in Cambridge as his assistant, seeking instead academic preferment in the Netherlands. In the spring of 1690 he went to The Hague as tutor...

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Abu Hilal al-Askari
Selasa, 2026-07-21 15:50:27

like himself to develop refined and literary Arabic usage and so gain preferment under Arab rule. He is best known for his Kitāb al-ṣināʽatayn, Dīwān al-maʽāni...

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Etheldreda Townshend
Rabu, 2026-08-12 17:14:48

father's fortune and estates, which made her an excellent match for social preferment. Young, attractive and vivacious, she was probably over indulged by her...

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Martyn Gough
Senin, 2026-05-25 03:59:37

senior leadership experience who had not risen through their own internal-preferment structures". The See of Swansea and Brecon in the Church in Wales became...

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Edward Finch (composer)
Senin, 2025-12-08 20:54:43

there enunciated his views on sinecures and discusses other questions of preferment. "Finch, Edward (FNC677E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of...

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George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond
Senin, 2026-06-29 07:42:48

and lover of King James, and her family were showered with titles and preferment as a result of Villiers' immense influence. In 1622, when George was eight...

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Sneyd Davies
Selasa, 2025-04-15 09:15:20

spirit "beatified before his time". Davies was interested in further preferment, but when Pratt as Lord Camden eventually offered him a small living in...

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Whip (politics)
Selasa, 2026-07-28 16:26:50

line between legitimate and illegitimate persuasion: "Yes to threats on preferment (for government positions) and honours. No to abusing public money, such...

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John Prophet (MP died c. 1399)
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 10:32:04

mugging in church lane, and possibly Master Prophet's decision to seek preferment elsewhere. Permission had to be obtained both from the king and the bishop...

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Dissolution of the monasteries
Jumat, 2026-08-14 00:59:56

public rejection of the key tenets of Lutheranism and offering him church preferment should he wish to return to England. On famously failing to receive from...

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Spencer Rodney, 5th Baron Rodney
Minggu, 2025-04-20 02:15:22

1821, he was appointed vicar of New Romney, Kent. He received his last preferment in 1833, as honorary rector of Chelsfield, Kent. In 1843, Spencer succeeded...

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Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich
Senin, 2026-07-20 14:27:59

legal posts, before he became truly prominent in the mid-1530s. Other preferments followed, and in 1533 Rich was knighted and became the Solicitor General...

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Matthew Poole
Minggu, 2026-02-22 21:24:32

under the parliamentary system of presbyterianism. This was his only preferment. He proceeded M.A. in 1652. On 14 July 1657 he was one of eleven Cambridge...

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John Richardson (dean of Kilmacduagh)
Rabu, 2025-11-26 23:33:25

Lindsay's successor Hugh Boulter was more sympathetic, and Richardson had preferment, being Dean of Kilmacduagh from 1731 until his death. "Letters Written...

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Victoria & Abdul
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 19:21:44

carvings by Bhai Ram Singh. While Victoria treats Abdul as a son, his preferment is resented by her household and inner circle, including her son, Bertie...

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Godfrey Giffard
Jumat, 2026-06-05 05:11:19

to become Archbishop of York and whose successful career ensured the preferment of Godfrey. His sister Mabel was the abbess of Shaftesbury Abbey. Giffard...

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John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford
Senin, 2026-06-08 08:50:03

instrumental in her accession to the throne in 1553, though he was given no preferment by her. During her reign he was active as the principal magnate in Essex...

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Bread
Senin, 2026-08-10 20:43:27

Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016. "Preferments". King Arthur Flour. Archived from the original on 10 November 2025....

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Francis Mount
Selasa, 2026-04-07 06:18:24

Times. No. 26729. London, England. 20 April 1870. p. 11. "Ecclesiastical Preferments". The Times. No. 27174. London, England. 21 September 1871. p. 6. "Cuckfield...

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List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1827
Minggu, 2026-07-26 19:30:58

the Relief of certain Spiritual Persons, and Patrons of Ecclesiastical Preferments, from certain Penalties; and rendering valid certain Bonds, Covenants...

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Geoffrey de Bocland
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 22:15:16

the latter year, 25 March, he is found dean of St. Martin's-le-Grand, preferment which he obtained from the crown. He was concerned in the First Barons'...

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Nobility
Jumat, 2026-08-14 21:41:28

1890s, the Andriana held various privileges, including land ownership, preferment for senior government posts, free labor from members of lower classes...

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Mike Ahern (Australian politician)
Kamis, 2026-07-16 08:36:15

in Cabinet. For these reasons, Ahern had a long wait for ministerial preferment. Despite this, Ahern was chosen as National Party whip in 1972. He lobbied...

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Henry Chichele
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:16:41

and civil servants of the day Chichele was paid with ecclesiastical preferments. On 13 April 1396, he obtained ratification of the parsonage of St Stephen...

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Count of Lyon
Rabu, 2026-04-22 04:16:50

displeasure. François-Joachim de Pierre, Cardinal de Bernis, who owed his preferment to Madame de Pompadour, was taxed by her, when they eventually broke:...

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James Bentham
Senin, 2025-06-09 12:26:37

year to the rectory of Feltwell St Nicholas in the same county. This preferment he held till 1774, when Bishop Edmund Keene presented him to the rectory...

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Alexander Leslie of Auchintoul
Rabu, 2026-05-06 23:30:55

Sir Alexander Leslie Major-Generall of your Mateis warlyk forces, which preferment is by ws most kyndlie accepted and greatlie esteamed, in preferring one...

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Hear my prayer, O Lord (Purcell)
Selasa, 2025-11-04 23:29:40

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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Conservatism
Rabu, 2026-08-12 11:16:29

ISBN 978-1-85109-439-4. Larkin, Maurice (2002). Religion, Politics and Preferment in France Since 1890: La Belle Epoque and Its Legacy. Cambridge University...

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Edmund de Bromfield
Rabu, 2026-03-11 01:28:12

a promise being at the same time asked from him that he would seek no preferment in his own community. A reputation for learning followed him to Rome,...

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HMS Sapphire (1675)
Rabu, 2026-07-29 17:20:00

and the Court was pleased to tell him, that he deserved a reward and preferment, for his courage and conduct in that Action. Cleasby returned to Newfoundland...

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Robert Cary (priest)
Senin, 2025-01-13 06:29:08

was installed archdeacon of Exeter on 18 August 1662. He gave up his preferment, feeling threatened by 'some great men then in power' in 1664, and retired...

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John Hudson (classicist)
Rabu, 2025-11-26 11:40:04

of St Mary Hall, Oxford. His political views stood in the way of his preferment in the church and university. As an editor and commentator, he enjoyed...

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Eisteddfod
Senin, 2026-08-10 19:51:00

of their knowledge and also not a little hindered in their living and preferments." Unlicensed bards, according to Hywel Teifi Edwards, "would be put to...

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Charles Godfrey (courtier)
Senin, 2026-08-03 23:37:55

brother-in-law of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and on course for preferment in the Royal Household. He also became a close friend and political protégé...

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John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
Kamis, 2026-04-23 18:31:21

son's prospects, depriving him of his fellowship and his chance of church preferment. But while the bride's family refused to associate with the couple, Scott...

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Michael O'Donnell (physician)
Minggu, 2026-02-08 16:19:35

because I was outside the medical career structure and uninterested in preferment. I didn't have to maintain diplomatic silences or say things I didn't...

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Thomas Wynter
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:28:03

his problem simply, as "I am devoted to letters but desire to keep my preferments," and by the end of 1533, he could not do both. Wynter returned to England...

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Pope Innocent III
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 17:04:35

marry them ignorant of who they are. Canon 69 forbade "that Jews be given preferment in public office since this offers them the pretext to vent their wrath...

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St Corentine's Church, Cury
Rabu, 2026-07-22 10:21:19

services there. When at last the Bishop deprived him of ecclesiastical preferment in the diocese and of the living, the dispute reached an acute phase when...

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John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury
Kamis, 2026-04-09 17:55:38

his lot in with York and Warwick now a united party. He supported the preferment of George Neville to archbishop. Realising the possible treachery of the...

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Alured Clarke (priest)
Senin, 2026-05-11 08:59:21

Katherine Thomson's Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon show he was avid for preferment. Winchester County Hospital, the first in England outside London, was...

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Thomas Ley
Rabu, 2026-07-29 23:32:07

after the election. As a result, Ley was not considered for ministerial preferment. McDonald took the matter of the bribe to court, but disappeared in mysterious...

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Elizabeth Gaskell
Kamis, 2026-07-23 04:34:13

an early age, like his grandfathers and uncles, but he did not obtain preferment into the Service and had to join the Merchant Navy with the East India...

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Exam
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 08:01:28

hierarchy, and that promotion should be through achievement, rather than 'preferment, patronage, or purchase'. When the report was brought up in parliament...

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Samuel Burdy
Sabtu, 2024-04-06 08:19:29

was only once promoted, to the perpetual curacy of Kilclief, a small preferment in County Down. This was soon after 1800, and he died there in 1820. In...

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Midshipman
Minggu, 2026-06-14 11:26:47

Sail, such as the Saumarez, Hood, and Parker families. The niceties of preferment and promotion made family connections an obvious advantage for prospective...

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Joseph Glanvill
Senin, 2026-08-10 20:54:04

edu. Retrieved 2016-03-03. "The Scholar Gypsy: Tired of Knocking at Preferment's Door". Archived from the original on April 15, 2009. Retrieved February...

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F. D. Maurice
Senin, 2026-07-20 20:47:52

at [the University of] Cambridge." This professorship was the "highest preferment" Maurice attained. Among his books he cited in his application, were his...

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Henry Denne
Kamis, 2026-07-23 18:33:17

other clerics by the committee of the House of Commons for ecclesiastical preferment. He delivered a controversial sermon at Baldock at the visitation held...

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John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
Kamis, 2026-08-13 14:36:27

than patronage and had become increasingly frustrated with the system of preferment by social rank and not competence. At his retirement in 1807 he had an...

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Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts (Purcell)
Senin, 2025-12-29 15:35:53

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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Philippe Desportes
Rabu, 2025-09-24 06:50:53

freely from him. In his old age Desportes acknowledged his ecclesiastical preferment by a translation of the Psalms remembered chiefly for the brutal mot of...

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Denis Granville
Rabu, 2023-05-17 14:22:28

£221. Through family influence Grenville retained the revenues of his preferment for a time; but when he declined to take the oaths of allegiance to William...

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Richard Hakluyt
Jumat, 2026-08-14 21:09:19

vacant, to which he was admitted in 1585 or 1586 and held with other preferments till his death. Hakluyt's other works during his time in Paris consisted...

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William Ó Mullally
Senin, 2026-07-13 22:48:35

the said University for the same time Representing the Birth Fortune Preferment and Death of all those and relating the great Accidents of their Lives...

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Henry Seymour (16th-century MP)
Jumat, 2026-07-31 15:24:49

most part, he lived in relative obscurity and did not seek honours and preferments. He held a number of offices, including: Keeper, Taunton Castle, Somerset...

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St John's Cathedral, Oban
Senin, 2026-05-18 11:57:30

June 1920. Retrieved 12 October 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive. "Preferments and Appointments". Berkshire Chronicle. England. 22 January 1881. Retrieved...

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James Hamilton, Lord Paisley
Senin, 2026-06-08 02:31:09

become a Protestant. At the Restoration Lord Paisley tried to obtain some preferment through the intermediate of his uncle Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet...

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1688 in music
Rabu, 2026-08-05 07:07:21

Johann Philipp Krieger – O Jesu, du mein Leben Henry Purcell – A Fool's Preferment, Z.571 André Raison – Premier livre d'orgue Johann Schenck – Tyd en Konst-Oeffeningen...

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The Rival Sisters
Jumat, 2026-06-19 03:28:07

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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William Chillingworth
Rabu, 2026-07-29 18:16:34

Pyrrhonism. His theological sensitiveness appears in his refusal of a preferment offered to him in 1635 by Sir Thomas Coventry, Lord Keeper of the Great...

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Gilbert Stuart (writer)
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 17:59:48

followed the law as profession. In 1768 Stuart went to London, hoping for preferment through Lord Mansfield. In 1769 he lodged with Thomas Somerville in the...

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Commander-in-Chief, The Nore
Rabu, 2025-12-10 08:32:24

"George Mackenzie (d.1780)". Three Decks. Retrieved 10 January 2023. "Preferments". The Scots Magazine. IV: 47. January 1742. Fearne, Charles (1746). Minutes...

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The Richmond Heiress
Jumat, 2026-06-19 03:27:33

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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Henry Benedict Stuart
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 19:07:05

Arch-Priest of St. Peter's Basilica. His revenues from the many ecclesiastical preferments he enjoyed were enormous. His income from abbeys and other pluralities...

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Humphrey Sydenham (1591–1650)
Rabu, 2026-06-17 20:58:40

presented by the king to the vicarage of Ashbrittle, Somerset, holding that preferment down to 1645. On 18 May 1629 he was presented by Sir Hugh Portman to the...

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Charles Brodrick
Selasa, 2026-06-02 11:32:46

whence he was translated to Kilmore in 1796. In 1801, following the preferment of Charles Agar to Dublin, Brodrick was appointed Archbishop of Cashel...

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Jakob Abbadie
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 20:29:08

London and Dublin, but his lack of facility in English prevented his preferment in England, and also excluded him from the deanery of St. Patrick's, Dublin...

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Mary Ball Washington
Rabu, 2026-08-12 00:56:27

lacked the proper connections and would never achieve "any considerable preferment in the navy." He warned that they would most likely "cut and staple him...

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Horatio Walpole (died 1717)
Senin, 2026-08-03 23:36:18

Harley, claiming to be an effective Tory agent in Norfolk and seeking some preferment. In 1712, he was appointed a commissioner of revenue for Ireland. He voted...

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Clement Ellis
Jumat, 2025-12-05 23:52:38

prevented him from fulfilling all of his duties he decided to resign his preferment. On 4 June 1664, he married Elizabeth Remington. The couple were married...

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List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1842
Selasa, 2026-08-04 00:19:28

eight hundred and forty-three, Appointments to certain Ecclesiastical Preferments in the Dioceses of Saint Asaph and Bangor, and for securing certain Property...

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Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury
Kamis, 2026-08-13 06:53:46

Warden of the West March. He also persuaded the council to agree to the preferment of his son George to the next bishopric to become available, and furthered...

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Andrew Dokett
Selasa, 2025-12-02 22:52:01

canons or prebendaries of the royal chapel of St Stephen's, Westminster, a preferment he exchanged in 1479 with Dr Walter Oudeby for the provostship of the...

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Priestley Swain
Selasa, 2026-05-05 13:24:36

ascending to the Episcopate. A man "whose great gifts marked him out for preferment," his scholarship was considered a great asset to the Church in the mid-20th...

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Music for a While
Minggu, 2025-11-09 01:05:01

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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George Pellew
Selasa, 2025-02-25 18:35:27

ordained in the Church of England. With family connections, his church preferment was rapid. In February 1819 he became, by the gift of the lord chancellor...

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George Ingram, 8th Viscount of Irvine
Minggu, 2025-08-24 21:04:20

George Ingram, 8th Viscount Irvine (or Irwin) (1694 – 1763) was an English clergyman and peer in the Peerage of Scotland. His occupation of the Viscountcy...

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House of Plantagenet
Jumat, 2026-08-14 20:14:26

consolidating his position with victory at the Battle of Towton. Edward's preferment of the former Lancastrian-supporting Woodville family, following his marriage...

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Michael Hobart Seymour
Kamis, 2023-06-22 07:19:04

that time he resided, when in England, at Bath, and did not hold any preferment in the church. In September 1844 Seymour and his wife travelled by easy...

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Government in medieval Scotland
Minggu, 2026-06-14 21:54:38

literate laymen, often secular lawyers, of which the most successful gained preferment in the judicial system and grants of lands and lordships. From the reign...

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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Minggu, 2025-06-08 23:52:20

may have been fanciful on his part, it did seem to help him secure his preferment. The dedication to the duchess meant that Thomas Percy arranged the work...

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Zachary Langton
Minggu, 2021-03-14 05:58:21

Robert Clayton, was bishop of Killala, and afterwards of Clogher. He held preferments in the diocese of Killala, and was chaplain between 1746 and 1761 to...

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Anthony Wotton
Sabtu, 2023-06-10 20:27:52

books are dated from his house on Tower Hill. He failed to obtain further preferment, because of his views, but he became a well-known and popular preacher...

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Lopo Soares de Albergaria
Minggu, 2026-05-10 16:33:42

King Manuel I of Portugal. This placed him in a good position for future preferment and appointments. In March 1515 Lopo Soares de Albergaria was chosen by...

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John Droxford
Jumat, 2026-06-05 05:32:54

expedition of 1303–4. His services were rewarded with ecclesiastical preferments; he was rector of Droxford, of Hemingburgh and Stillingfleet in Yorkshire...

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Alban Langdale
Kamis, 2023-04-13 21:32:42

take the oath of supremacy he was soon afterwards deprived of all his preferments. He appeared on a list made in 1561 of recusants who were at large, but...

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Fairest Isle
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 04:57:54

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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Samuel Baker (divine)
Senin, 2026-03-30 23:31:38

license to others, and he was subsequently sequestered from all his preferments, persecuted, and imprisoned. Baker, who is supposed to have died in the...

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Catherine Gore
Jumat, 2026-05-01 18:19:58

Drama in Verse (1840) The Dowager, or the New School for Scandal (1840) Preferment, or My Uncle the Earl (1840) The Abbey and Other Tales (1840) Greville...

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Archdeacon of Suffolk
Kamis, 2026-01-01 22:08:12

UNDER QUEEN ELIZABETH" (PDF). Retrieved 10 June 2012. "Church news: preferments and appointments". Church Times. No. 276. 16 May 1868. p. 193. ISSN 0009-658X...

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Bernward of Hildesheim
Selasa, 2026-06-16 00:54:21

Willigis, Chancellor of the Empire (975-1011). He declined a valuable preferment in the diocese of his uncle, Bishop Volkmar, and chose to remain with...

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England in the Late Middle Ages
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 06:33:41

consolidating his position with victory at the Battle of Towton. Edward's preferment of the former Lancastrian-supporting Woodville family, following his marriage...

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American Legion
Senin, 2026-08-10 23:31:28

the promotion of the candidacy of any person seeking public office or preferment; and no candidate for or incumbent of a salaried elective public office...

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Albert-Léon-Marie Le Nordez
Rabu, 2026-07-22 03:04:03

Retrieved 2026-07-21. Larkin, Maurice (1995). Religion, Politics, and Preferment in France Since 1890: La Belle Epoque and its Legacy. p. 60. Catholic...

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Joseph Mendham
Sabtu, 2020-11-21 08:34:01

Mendham accepted the curacy of Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire. His sole preferment seems to have been the incumbency of Hill Chapel in Arden, Warwickshire...

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Epsom Wells
Minggu, 2026-07-19 16:59:49

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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Thomas Stanley (bishop)
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:26:21

account of his bastardy, he obtained leave from the Pope to hold his preferments, especially the rectory of Wigan. In 1513 he became rector of Badworth...

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Movement for Economic Empowerment
Selasa, 2025-08-19 06:03:57

National Traditional Council Women Hail Pres. Weah for Amb. Kemayah's Preferment as Foreign Minister". FrontPage Africa. Retrieved April 26, 2024. Genoway...

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Charles Richard Ball
Jumat, 2025-12-19 13:41:36

Article Bristol Mercury Bristol Mercury Bristol, England 6 Mar 1891 PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS". Genes Reunited. Retrieved 4 March 2017. Edmund Waller...

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Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie
Kamis, 2026-07-23 02:01:07

education from his father, who resided in England, though holding church preferment and some landed property in Ireland. His father taught him Latin, Greek...

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Richard Hollinworth
Rabu, 2024-10-09 05:00:13

that position in 1636, and until a short time before 1649, holding the preferment along with offices at Manchester Collegiate Church. In 1643 he is styled...

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Thomas de Brantingham
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:19:28

of the Brantingham family of North East England. Edward III obtained preferment for him in the church, and from 1361 to 1368 he was employed in France...

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Abdelazer
Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:20:06

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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Noble savage
Selasa, 2026-08-04 22:37:32

any other." Therefore, "it is this desire for reputation, honors, and preferment which devours us all . . . this rage to be distinguished, that we own...

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John Glen King
Selasa, 2025-10-21 09:21:35

Macartney. While it made him a scholarly reputation, he struggled for church preferment, patronage and social acceptance. King was also the author of: Verses...

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François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac
Kamis, 2026-04-23 05:56:01

The death of the duc de Fronsac in 1646 put an end to hopes of further preferment, and Ambroise Paréd'Aubignac retired to Nemours, occupying himself with...

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Richard Lane Freer
Senin, 2022-04-11 13:34:09

Worcester Journal (Worcester, England), Thursday, March 06, 1845; Issue 7423 Preferments and Appointments Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday...

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Henry More
Kamis, 2026-07-02 05:59:03

shortly thereafter elected a fellow of his college, declining all other preferments. He declined the mastership of Christ's College in 1654, despite indications...

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Giovanni Battista Casti
Senin, 2025-09-08 05:01:02

in the cathedral of his native place, but gave up his chance of church preferment to satisfy his restless spirit by visiting most of the capitals of Europe...

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Richard Sampson
Jumat, 2026-08-14 16:22:05

of Tournai), where he lived until 1517. Meanwhile, he gained English preferment, becoming Dean of St. Stephen's, Westminster and of the Chapel Royal (1516)...

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Nathaniel Wanley
Kamis, 2026-07-16 17:22:09

College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. in 1653, M.A. in 1657. His first preferment was as rector of Beeby, Leicestershire. On the resignation of John Bryan...

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Elliott O'Donnell
Minggu, 2026-08-09 00:44:45

child the Rev. Henry O'Donnell travelled to Abyssinia while awaiting preferment to a new parish. Here he was said to have been attacked by a gang and...

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Thomas Powys (judge)
Sabtu, 2025-01-04 19:29:25

mismanagement of the previous ministry. He had been agitating Lord Harley for preferment since the Tory administration was formed and was rewarded on 8 June 1713...

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William Watkin Hicks
Jumat, 2026-05-08 07:51:34

inauguration of James A. Garfield, Hicks moved to Washington, D. C., seeking preferment for some political office, but he was unsuccessful. He became the pastor...

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Perry
Kamis, 2026-05-28 11:05:08

occur between apples and pears; these factors play a crucial role in prefermentation and fermentation decisions for perry production. Compared to most apples...

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William Cliffe
Senin, 2024-11-25 03:28:08

Cliffe's advice, as a civil lawyer, on the royal divorce, in 1533. On his preferment to the deanery of Chester he was immediately thrown into the Fleet prison...

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William Bissett (bishop)
Senin, 2026-05-18 02:50:22

Donoghmore and was appointed in 1812 as the rectory of Loughgilly. All his preferments, except the archdeaconry of Ross, were within the Diocese of Armagh....

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John Lynch (dean of Canterbury)
Senin, 2022-04-11 07:10:34

married the archbishop's daughter, Mary, in 1728 and received further preferment, including appointment as master of the Hospital of St Cross, Winchester...

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William of Exeter (physician)
Senin, 2026-01-19 22:24:52

Exeter was physician to Queen Philippa, and held a variety of church preferments; including chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, treasurer of Chichester Cathedral...

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José Gutiérrez Guerra
Jumat, 2026-08-14 02:30:10

enter politics. As one contemporary put it, "He never sought political preferment." In 1914, he was elected to Congress as deputy from La Paz. His rise...

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Critical Legal Conference
Minggu, 2022-09-25 05:05:56

No honour, power or position attaches to the conference, no promotion preferment or move to better posts follows organisation or participation. There is...

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The Hare and many friends
Selasa, 2026-03-24 01:01:54

Cumberland. Soon after its publication in 1727, Gay's hopes of Court preferment were disappointed and the story was put about by his friends that the...

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Gustave Delacroix de Ravignan
Jumat, 2026-02-27 03:12:58

the defender and the suppressor of the Jesuits. He steadfastly refused preferment, even the archbishopric of Paris, devoting himself to other works. He...

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John Anderson (diplomatic writer)
Kamis, 2026-03-26 07:31:08

of Requests; the duties of which offices were continued to him on his preferment, in 1823, to be 'junior merchant.' By various steps he had become, in...

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Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky
Selasa, 2026-03-03 03:28:42

studied law and theology at Jena and Halle; but ill health prevented his preferment. He settled at Glaucha in Silesia, now part of Halle, where he founded...

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Pope Adrian IV
Kamis, 2026-08-13 20:04:00

to learn the skills of a clerk. This was, he notes, a normal path to preferment in the 12th century, although it was more unusual for those that did so...

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Timothy Rogers (Puritan)
Senin, 2026-08-03 22:50:35

the vicarage of All Saints', Sudbury, Suffolk. How long he held this preferment is not certain. In 1648 he was a member of the twelfth or Lexden classis...

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William Dodsworth
Sabtu, 2023-09-16 12:08:57

Pancras, London. After the judgment in the Gorham case, he resigned his preferment, and joined the Roman Catholic church in January 1851. Being married,...

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Mackenzie Walcott
Senin, 2025-06-09 12:35:39

precentor (with the prebend of Oving) of Chichester Cathedral, and held that preferment until his death. Always at work on antiquarian and ecclesiological subjects...

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François Henri Eugène Daugier
Rabu, 2025-10-29 04:35:51

in 1815 and defended naval interests in that role as well as gaining preferment for those whose careers had declined in the final years of the First Empire...

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Arthur Tozer Russell
Minggu, 2024-04-28 03:52:15

1868 Russell became vicar of Wrockwardine Wood, Shropshire. His last preferment was to the rectory of Southwick, Sussex, in 1874; but his health was poor...

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William Buckland
Minggu, 2026-08-09 01:06:51

Wilberforce). Soon after, he was inducted to the living of Islip, near Oxford, a preferment attached to the deanery. As Dean and head of Chapter, Buckland was involved...

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Sir Herbert Oakeley, 3rd Baronet
Minggu, 2026-03-08 01:47:05

to William Howley, then Bishop of London, to whom he owed subsequent preferment, and resided with the bishop for 12 years, until his marriage. He was...

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Samuel Rowe (antiquary)
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 03:53:59

vacant incumbency of St. George, the older church of Stonehouse: these preferments were all in the gift of Hatchard. In 1835 Rowe was elected vicar of Crediton...

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John Potter (priest)
Jumat, 2022-10-21 10:55:00

which the archbishop disapproved but he nevertheless enjoyed considerable preferment within the church as a result of his father's patronage. Hasted noted...

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Ian Wilson (Australian politician)
Jumat, 2026-07-24 15:29:55

Malcolm Fraser in 1975, he was initially passed over for ministerial preferment in favour of the more conservative John McLeay Jr. In 1981, McLeay was...

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Claudine Guérin de Tencin
Sabtu, 2026-06-13 11:28:06

this time she devoted herself to political intrigue, especially for the preferment of her brother the abbé Tencin, who became archbishop of Lyon and received...

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William Hamilton (Lord Chancellor)
Kamis, 2024-12-26 03:23:26

had charge of the great seal. Meantime, he had received ecclesiastical preferment of various kinds. In 1287, he received the prebend of Warthill, York,...

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Anne Southwell
Selasa, 2026-04-14 16:51:47

I of England, but apart from the knighthood, her husband received no preferment there. Some time after her first husband's death in 1626, she married...

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Martin Benson (bishop)
Kamis, 2026-06-04 11:33:08

On his appointment Benson declared his resolution to accept no higher preferment. He revived the institution of rural deans, repaved the choir of Gloucester...

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Elder House of Welf
Jumat, 2026-08-07 02:05:56

Paris. He had two sons: Conrad the Jounger (II) and Hugh, from his church preferment, styled the Abbot. He is traditionally given a third son, Welf I of the...

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Charles Farrar Forster
Selasa, 2026-06-02 11:34:18

and the promise of a future vicarage by Dr Williams of Moor Park; his preferment was announced on 7 January 1887 and he was licensed to the post by the...

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Matthew Bryan
Selasa, 2026-07-07 03:22:46

take the oaths on the accession of William III and Mary II, he lost his preferment. He became the minister of a Jacobite congregation meeting in St. Dunstan's...

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House of Lancaster
Kamis, 2026-08-06 20:14:00

crowned. Disaffected with Edward's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville and preferment of her formerly Lancastrian-supporting family, Warwick and Clarence defected...

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Eliza Berkeley
Senin, 2025-10-27 01:41:49

Eliza Berkeley passed her childhood, since her father would not accept preferment on condition of voting against his principles. A tomboy at six, Eliza...

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Conservatism in France
Selasa, 2025-09-02 11:54:55

University Press. p. 298. Larkin, Maurice (2002). Religion, Politics and Preferment in France since 1890: La Belle Epoque and its Legacy. Cambridge University...

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John Gaule
Minggu, 2023-07-16 06:35:02

he was chaplain to Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden. Gaule's one preferment was as vicar of Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, through Viscountess...

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Peter of Geneva (son of Humbert)
Senin, 2024-05-27 09:25:06

either Peter II, Count of Savoy arranged for Pierre and Ebal to find preferment in England in return for their rights on the north shore of Lake Geneva...

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Dorothy Bulstrode
Selasa, 2026-03-03 10:30:20

1609, leaving in his will £100 "to my daughter Bulstrode towards the preferment of her daughters unmarried". Dorothy and her older sister Cecily Bulstrode...

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Robert Shorton
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 06:07:04

the chapel to Thomas Wolsey, and through Wolsey's influence he received preferment. On 1 November 1517 he obtained the prebend of Donnington in the diocese...

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Anthony Maxey
Kamis, 2024-12-26 06:57:26

the order of the Garter. Maxey offered money to Sir Henry Hobart for preferment, and two months before his death made the highest bid for the vacant see...

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Prince George, Duke of Cambridge
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 21:27:16

replaced by Lord Wolseley, after 32 years was not the only patron of preferment. The Staff College was not intended to educate a General Staff until much...

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St Mildred, Bread Street
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 10:54:47

arcades and the windows above them were rebuilt. Obadiah Sedgwick's first preferment (1630) in the church was as lecturer at St. Mildred's, Bread Street, where...

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James Arderne
Senin, 2026-06-01 19:11:58

within sight of preferment. In April 1666 he was curate of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, and held that post until 1682. Another of his preferments was Thornton-le-Moors...

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Public administration
Jumat, 2026-08-14 12:41:34

inter-departmental transfers, and promotion should be through achievement rather than "preferment, patronage, or purchase". This led to implementation of Her Majesty's...

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Isaac P. Rodman
Jumat, 2026-07-31 07:56:55

solicitations of his own. He never joined the crowd that throng the avenues of preferment. Patient, laborious, courageous, wholly devoted to his duties, he filled...

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Joseph Dacre Carlyle
Rabu, 2025-10-22 16:01:32

June 1758 – 12 April 1804) was an English orientalist. He gained church preferment and travelled widely. Carlyle worked with Sarah Hodgson to create a version...

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William Zouche
Kamis, 2026-06-04 02:32:16

receiving monies from tax collectors and holding it for the King. After preferment to various benefices, in 1329 he was appointed Archdeacon of Barnstaple...

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Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg
Selasa, 2026-04-07 21:44:52

against France. Arthur Collins, The peerage of England (1779), p. 364. "Preferments". The Scots Magazine. 2 August 1779. p. 56. Major Robert Bell Turton...

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Sir Henry Dashwood, 3rd Baronet
Minggu, 2026-04-05 18:39:09

he was a loyal supporter of the government. Unhappily for Dashwood no preferment was forthcoming. Dashwood died on 10 June 1828. He and his wife had four...

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Andrew Bell (educationalist)
Kamis, 2026-04-30 21:08:04

using Bell's system. For his valuable services he was recompensed by his preferment to a prebend of Westminster, and to the mastership of Sherburn Hospital...

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John Lamb (priest)
Rabu, 2025-10-22 22:24:20

Venn,. Vol. iv. Kahlenberg – Oyler, 1947 p80: Cambridge, CUP, 1951 PREFERMENTS Berrow's Worcester Journal (Worcester, England), Thursday, August 17...

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Louis Zukofsky
Rabu, 2026-08-05 19:56:37

figure (Adams had died only six years before) was not the path to academic preferment [...] [Zukofsky's inability to secure an instructorship] might have been...

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Thomas Eagles
Minggu, 2026-08-02 23:27:41

classic. The death of a nobleman, however, to whom he had looked for preferment, obliged him to give up all thoughts of making the church his profession...

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Thomas Seward
Selasa, 2026-07-28 08:55:38

who died while on the tour in Italy in 1739. The Duke promised some preferment for Seward: he became rector of Eyam in Derbyshire, and Kingsley, Staffordshire...

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William John Copeland
Selasa, 2026-07-07 03:14:18

he accepted the college living of Farnham, Essex. This was his sole preferment in the church, and he rebuilt the parish church with care. After a long...

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Herbert Kynaston
Senin, 2024-09-23 00:55:31

1866. He resigned the mastership of St. Paul's in 1876, and the only preferment which he held at the time of his death was the prebendal stall of Holborn...

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Annabell Murray, Countess of Mar
Rabu, 2026-07-29 06:15:31

to be battered or overcome, and that for no fear, pleasure, profit, or preferment that is able to provoke him thereto". Expensive clothes included a cloak...

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Robert Chambers (English judge)
Kamis, 2025-08-14 23:51:33

years, returning to England in 1799. Despite frequent efforts to gain preferment, he appears to have acted with integrity despite the controversial administration...

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Roman imperial cult
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 00:37:07

of the Senate and Augustan tradition, Severus overrode the customary preferment of senators to senior military office. He increased plebeian privilege...

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Ludwig Freiherr Roth von Schreckenstein
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 16:16:57

of peace, he could always be sure of the favour of his superiors and preferment in promotions. There followed his appointment to lieutenant colonel in...

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Jean Desmarets
Kamis, 2026-04-23 11:13:35

chancellor. He was related to Marie Dupré. His success led to official preferment, and he was made conseiller du roi, contrôleur-général de l'extraordinaire...

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List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th century)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 14:18:49

four years later gave permission to build a new school house. Being non-preferment establishment a chapel was built on Holy Well Street opposite St Helen's...

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John Wallis (antiquary)
Selasa, 2025-06-10 19:06:29

resign. In 1779 Thomas Pennant tried without success to secure him some preferment, from the Bishop of Durham. About two years before his death a small estate...

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Daniel Collyer
Senin, 2026-07-06 15:17:16

1873; pg. 2; Issue 2857. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-1900 PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS Bristol Mercury (Bristol, England), Friday, October...

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Glossary of law
Minggu, 2025-12-28 22:46:36

ecclesiastical law. In its technical sense, this term includes ecclesiastical preferments to which rank or public office is attached, otherwise described as ecclesiastical...

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Joseph Hall (bishop)
Senin, 2026-06-08 22:33:13

see of Gloucester: at the time English delegates to Dort were receiving preferment, since King James approved of the outcome. Hall was then involved as a...

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Thomas d'Urfey
Senin, 2026-06-15 19:36:10

Royalist (1682) A Commonwealth of Women (1685) The Banditti (1686) A Fool's Preferment (1688) Love for Money, or, The Boarding School (1691) Bussy D'Ambois (1691)...

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William Jenkyn
Jumat, 2026-07-31 18:22:06

sequestrated (June 1650), and he was suspended from the ministry; his preferments were given to Christopher Feake. He retired for six months to Billericay...

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Thomas Langton
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:23:10

match was broken off. Meanwhile, Langton received much ecclesiastical preferment. In 1478 he was made treasurer of Exeter, prebendary of St. Decuman's...

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Thomas Wood (bishop of Lichfield and Coventry)
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:27:56

his cathedral, but before this appointment was completed, his course of preferment was interrupted by the Civil War, and he was ejected from his living by...

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V. A. Holmes-Gore
Senin, 2025-07-07 11:10:47

Daniel. 1971. ISBN 978-0852070031. [First edition, published in 1941] "Preferment for Crediton Curate". Crediton Gazette, East Devon Herald and County Press...

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W. G. Godfrey
Kamis, 2023-07-27 17:10:10

the Maritimes." Acadiensis 10.1 (1980), 131–135. Pursuit of Profit and Preferment in Colonial North America: John Bradstreet's Quest. Waterloo, Ontario:...

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Biga (bread baking)
Senin, 2025-11-10 05:23:12

Poles; from there it arrived in England.[citation needed] Pre-ferment "Preferments—and How to Adapt Any Bread Recipe to Use One". Food52. 2016-06-10. Retrieved...

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Duncan Mackintosh, 31st Chattan
Rabu, 2026-03-04 13:33:59

confederation of Scottish Highland Clans. As a result of the 29th Chief's preferment of a more distant cousin and Arbell Mackintosh becoming the 30th Chief...

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William Barclay (jurist)
Minggu, 2026-03-08 03:32:32

their society. Arriving in England, Barclay was offered considerable preferment by James VI on condition of becoming a member of the Church of England...

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William Bickerstaffe
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 09:54:15

parishes, asking for preferment to recently vacated offices in their churches, as they came available. He never received any preferment in his lifetime, but...

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Robinson Thornton
Jumat, 2025-08-29 10:05:19

head-mastership of the Royal Medical College at Epsom, vacant by the preferment of the Rev. Robinson Thornton, M. A., to the wardenship of Trinity College...

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Fytche baronets
Kamis, 2026-06-04 01:02:26

Fytche, of Mount Markfall, Eltham, Kent. He died nine days after his preferment. His son, the second Baronet, was High Sheriff of Kent in 1709. The baronetcy...

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Catherine Barton
Minggu, 2025-06-22 22:44:25

Essay on Epic Poetry of 1727. Voltaire also insinuated that Newton's preferment to the Royal Mint was the result of Barton's alleged affair with Charles...

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Robert Tounson
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:25:29

he had a large family. Two sons, Robert and John, afterwards received preferment in their uncle Davenant's diocese. His daughter Gertrude married James...

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Britons, Strike Home!
Kamis, 2026-04-09 20:43:12

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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Jonathan Smedley
Rabu, 2021-12-29 21:31:52

spending as much time in London as he was able and lobbying to get further preferment in the church. He did this by publishing nine of his sermons in 1719,...

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Adam Martindale
Kamis, 2026-07-16 02:23:05

himself 'for a king and a free parliament,' though expecting to lose his preferment at the Restoration. The act of September 1660 for confirming and restoring...

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Edmund Castell
Minggu, 2026-01-11 01:50:31

liable. However, a volume of poems dedicated to the king brought him preferment. He was made prebendary of Canterbury Cathedral and professor of Arabic...

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Joseph Devonsher Jackson
Rabu, 2025-03-05 13:29:22

affairs. He was also made a member of the Privy Council of Ireland. This preferment had the effect of vacating his Parliamentary seat. Instead of seeking...

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Henry Sutton (judge)
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 00:38:23

Court as a matter of course, Sutton had to wait for 15 years for judicial preferment, there being doubts about his abilities. Finally, on 4 December 1905,...

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The Indian Queen (opera)
Jumat, 2025-09-26 00:32:07

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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George Ashby (antiquary)
Selasa, 2026-07-07 03:14:26

where he supported academic reform too vigorously to obtain further preferment. Among other changes, he advocated the right of the fellows to marry....

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John Rawlet
Minggu, 2025-11-23 01:31:14

Church of England. At this period, Rawlet mentioned to Baxter rumours of preferments that he could have himself as an Anglican. In 1679, Rawlet described...

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Sweating sickness
Senin, 2026-08-10 02:47:35

Henry Viii. I. Of his Birth, and the various Steps he took to attain Preferment, connected with Affairs, both Foreign and Domestick, from the Death of...

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The Fatal Marriage
Selasa, 2026-07-21 17:09:55

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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H E Tancred Stakes
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 14:15:23

- Verry Elleegant 2019 - Avilius 2018 - Almandin 2017 - Jameka 2016 - Preferment 2015 - Hartnell 2014 - Silent Achiever 2013 - Fiveandahalfstar 2012 -...

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Aymer de Valence (bishop)
Jumat, 2026-06-05 04:33:37

Isabella's marriage came to England in 1247 in the hope of obtaining court preferment. Aymer received a prebend in the diocese of London. In 1250 the King,...

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Thou shalt not steal
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 06:25:19

by violence, in withholding wages, fraud, and by buying positions of preferment. The hypocritical thief is personified by Judas, who took secretly his...

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Hugh Bowman
Jumat, 2026-08-14 05:27:32

Stakes 2016 Rosehill 2400 Preferment George Ryder Stakes 2016 Rosehill 1500 Winx Australian Cup 2016 Flemington 2000 Preferment Chipping Norton Stakes 2016...

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Plantation of Ulster
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 21:48:36

language before ordination, and nearly 10% of those who took up their preferments spoke it fluently.[page needed] Nevertheless, conversion was rare, despite...

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Francis Blackburne (priest)
Senin, 2026-02-09 03:44:18

Bilton, by Archbishop Matthew Hutton. His principles prevented any further preferment, and he decided never again to subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles....

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List of diplomats of Great Britain to the Republic of Genoa
Minggu, 2026-01-11 07:19:34

uk/catalogue/default.asp The National Archives catalogue, class SP 79 "Deaths and Preferments". The Scots Magazine. 38: 363. 1786. Retrieved 14 September 2016 – via...

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Thomas Broughton (writer)
Minggu, 2026-04-12 22:50:34

Nature won him immediate approval in the Inns of Court, and subsequent preferment in the Church. Broughton was a versatile writer. His works included the...

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Sir William Clerke, 8th Baronet
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 22:23:27

Francis asked Burgoyne to endeavour, on his return to England, to procure preferment for his brother, who had taken orders. The twelfth Earl of Derby, at the...

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Matthew Sylvester
Senin, 2026-08-03 15:48:05

resigned his living in that year, rejecting Sanderson's offer of further preferment. He then became domestic chaplain to Sir John Bright, 1st Baronet, and...

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Pietro Bizzarri
Sabtu, 2025-04-19 20:05:42

different treatise, and shortly went abroad. Not receiving further church preferment, Bizzarri began to travel. He obtained, in 1570, a license from William...

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Ælfwine of Winchester
Jumat, 2026-06-05 04:25:06

According to the historian John Crook, Ælfwyn is Bishop Ælfwine. Smith "Preferment of Royal Clerks" Haskins Society Journal p. 164 Maddicott "Edward the...

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Lillibullero
Jumat, 2026-08-14 23:51:59

Strike Home!" (1695) Theodosius (1680) Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681) A Fool's Preferment (1688) The Massacre of Paris (1689) Amphitryon (1690) Distressed Innocence...

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John Gordon (bishop, born 1544)
Kamis, 2026-07-30 19:48:35

clandestinely, only in 1546, before Alexander obtained ecclesiastical preferment (for this, see his new DNB entry). Gordon first studied at St Leonard's...

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Henry Hart Milman
Jumat, 2026-04-10 05:30:51

minimized the miraculous. In consequence, the author was attacked and his preferment was delayed. His History of Christianity to the Abolition of Paganism...

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Thomas Beckington
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:23:36

rectory at Sutton Courtenay in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), an early preferment. The most important results of Beckington's missions to France were one...

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William Owtram
Selasa, 2026-03-24 22:46:34

proctor, and in 1662 he was awarded the degree of D.D. His first church preferment was in Lincolnshire, after which he obtained the rectory of St. Mary Woolnoth...

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John Parkhurst (lexicographer)
Senin, 2026-05-04 17:31:58

Surrey. For some time he acted as curate for a friend, but received no preferment. In 1785 he gave the family living of Epsom to Jonathan Boucher, though...

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Angelo Fabroni
Jumat, 2026-01-16 02:00:56

Florence (1767); two years later, Fabroni took leave to pursue promises of preferment at Rome, made by Pope Clement XIV Ganganelli, in which he was disappointed...

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Edward Garbett
Jumat, 2025-06-20 06:45:39

his cousin, the Rev. John Garbett. At Birmingham he obtained his first preferment, the vicarage of St. Stephen's. In 1854 he became perpetual curate of...

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Gavin Douglas
Rabu, 2026-06-03 06:12:56

that he supported the pretensions of the young earl. His own hopes of preferment had been strengthened by the death of many of the higher clergy at Flodden...

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Elisha Leighton
Sabtu, 2025-07-19 08:30:31

Leighton made his peace with Buckingham, and was indebted to him for preferment. He persuaded Lord Aubigny to recommend his elder brother, Robert for...

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Thomas Davies (bishop)
Kamis, 2026-07-30 13:29:18

including one portion of the sinecure of Llandinam, and retained his preferments during the reigns of Edward VI and Mary I. He was a sufficiently good...

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Charles Hoole
Minggu, 2025-03-23 10:07:17

became bishop of Lincoln, made Hoole his chaplain, and looked to give him preferment. On 10 December 1660 he became rector of Stock, Essex, and held the position...

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Anthony Draycot
Minggu, 2025-06-08 14:15:46

he refused to take the oath of supremacy, and was stripped of all his preferments, except the rectory of Draycot. In 1560 he was in the Fleet Prison. He...

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Alfred Ainger
Sabtu, 2025-06-07 22:01:31

he subsequently entered the Church, and, after holding various minor preferments (including teaching at Sheffield Collegiate School from 1864 to 1866)...

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William Davison (diplomat)
Rabu, 2026-07-29 17:28:29

the remainder of the reign. And James I was even less likely to offer preferment. Davison and family retired to Stepney, where he died on 21 December 1608...

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Robert Wright (judge, died 1689)
Rabu, 2025-06-25 02:13:07

royal authority, and declared incapable of holding any ecclesiastical preferment. When the president of Magdalen, John Hough, protested against the proceedings...

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Leonard Hutten
Senin, 2025-08-18 09:26:53

1601 received the vicarage of Flore, Northamptonshire, another college preferment, which he retained with his prebend until his death. He was also subdean...

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Thomas Hall (minister, born 1610)
Senin, 2025-11-03 01:02:09

plundered, and five times imprison'd', according to Edmund Calamy. He refused preferment when his party was in power. In June 1652 he 'had liberty allow'd him...

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Robert de Shardlow
Senin, 2025-07-14 02:01:44

took only minor orders: he was not an ordained priest, never received preferment within the Church, and was married with children. He was also described...

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Armagh Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Minggu, 2026-05-10 03:26:03

direction". As these clergymen naturally looked to the archbishop for preferment, it is improbable that there were many resignations under the last clause...

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Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord Ruthven
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 07:53:41

to pay him with deprecated coinage. Patrick also asked for political preferment: I haif evir bene and salbe at your grace commandment. Fordir, pleis your...

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List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1843
Minggu, 2026-08-02 23:09:56

Clerk, to exercise his Office of a Priest, and to hold any Benefice or Preferment in the United Church of England and Ireland. Kendall's Divorce Act 1843...

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Alexander Barclay
Kamis, 2026-07-30 05:12:19

All Hallows, Lombard Street, London. He died shortly after this last preferment at Croydon, Surrey, where he was buried on 10 June 1552. The Ship of Fools...

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Susanna Howard
Kamis, 2026-05-14 17:49:33

and he was known as "Holy Mr Herbert". He was someone who had given up preferment to devote himself to God. She would learn sections of the bible and it...

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William Talbot (bishop)
Jumat, 2026-06-05 04:12:11

graduated B.A. on 16 October 1677, and M.A. on 23 June 1680. Talbot's first preferment was the rectory of Burghfield, Berkshire (1682), a living in the gift...

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Samuel Goodenough
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:35:55

Chapel, Windsor, and in 1802 promoted to the deanery of Rochester. In this preferment he was aided by William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, all...

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Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton
Senin, 2026-08-10 11:00:44

Essex man, borne in strand neare me, and which has had many rewards & preferments by the earle essex, his villany I have often complained of, he dweles...

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William Coles (botanist)
Kamis, 2026-04-02 11:41:50

1500, to the End of the Year 1690. Representing the Birth, Fortune, Preferment, and Death of All those Authors and Prelates, the Great Accidents of Their...

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John Bidlake
Jumat, 2026-05-01 18:24:58

affliction of the head, which terminated in blindness. He is without any preferment, and has been obliged to give up the Curacy of Stonehouse, Devon, from...

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Arthur Loftus (politician, died 1781)
Kamis, 2026-04-02 23:24:03

Irish Establishments. London: War Office. p. 76. Anon (1 August 1763). "Preferments". The British Newspaper Archive. The Scots Magazine. Retrieved 15 March...

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Solomon of Rochester
Kamis, 2026-01-22 06:11:37

to give to his brother Gilbert. Rochester them aimed at ecclesiastical preferment. He already held the prebend of Chamberlain Wood in St Paul's Cathedral...

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Bruce Baird
Minggu, 2026-04-05 22:03:28

time in Federal Parliament. Baird had been overlooked for ministerial preferment by Prime Minister John Howard because he was a supporter of deputy Liberal...

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Edmund Hall (priest)
Senin, 2024-12-23 15:08:15

to which Bray had presented him, without effect. He secured, however, preferment at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, where he was generally popular and taken...

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William Barlow (bishop of Lincoln)
Selasa, 2026-07-28 17:10:47

in 1590. His publications showed his talents both for scholarship and preferment. Barlow was buried at St Mary's Church, Buckden, Huntingdonshire. His...

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Samuel Ogden (priest)
Jumat, 2026-07-24 17:59:14

Finding Ogden free with his opinions, Newcastle gave him no further preferment. In 1764 he was appointed to the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology...

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First Crusade
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 17:35:22

with the Seljuks' habitual governance of territory based on political preferment and competition between independent princes rather than geography. Romanos...

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Stanislas du Lac
Selasa, 2025-04-15 00:47:21

autobiographical reminiscences. Maurice Larkin, Religion, Politics, and Preferment in France Since 1890 (1995), pp. 15–6. Albert S. Lindemann, The Jew Accused:...

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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 05:17:43

courts of princes, in the drawing-rooms of the great, where success and preferment depend, not upon the esteem of intelligent and well-informed equals, but...

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A Tale of a Tub
Minggu, 2026-06-28 18:18:05

purpose for profanity." It "effectively disbarred its author from proper preferment" in the Church of England. The work holds significant importance in both...

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John Richards Lapenotière
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 23:33:50

some of the other junior officers later expressed anger at the seeming preferment of Lapenotière.[citation needed] Arriving in the English Channel on 1...

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Robert Woodlark
Selasa, 2024-01-09 08:45:46

present year 1715: Containing the names, dates, of consecration, admission, preferment, removal or death of the archbishops, bishops, deans, praecentors, treasurers...

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Joachim du Bellay
Senin, 2026-04-06 02:07:13

at the University of Poitiers, no doubt with a view to his obtaining preferment through his kinsman the Cardinal Jean du Bellay. At Poitiers he came in...

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Maurice Denys
Rabu, 2026-08-12 17:18:17

England during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. This considerable preferment may have been due to his eldest brother, Sir Walter Denys, having married...

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John Bercow
Senin, 2026-08-10 01:34:20

leader, Jeremy Corbyn, in the hope that the opposition might give him preferment. He was nominated for a peerage by Corbyn, but this was refused by Johnson...

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Anthony Ellys
Minggu, 2026-01-11 19:21:52

and in 1729 vicar of Great Marlow also, without surrendering earlier preferments. In 1723 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In October 1752...

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List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1865
Selasa, 2026-08-04 00:16:59

to enable Abraham Edwards Clerk to exercise his Office of a Priest, and to hold any Benefice or Preferment in the United Church of England and Ireland....

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William King (bishop)
Kamis, 2026-06-25 03:35:41

appointments, and the two could rarely agree on a suitable candidate. Boulter's preferment to the See of Armagh, passing over his own more obvious claims, was a...

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Wilhelm Gesenius
Senin, 2026-04-27 02:01:56

ordinarius, at the University of Halle, where, in spite of many offers of high preferment elsewhere, he spent the rest of his life. He taught with great regularity...

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Barchester Towers
Selasa, 2026-06-16 11:48:54

Slope campaigns to become the new Dean but Mr Harding is offered the preferment, with a beautiful house in the Close and fifteen acres of garden. Mr Harding...

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William Darell (clergyman)
Sabtu, 2025-01-18 07:34:00

collection on the heraldry of the Irish nobility. Darell also received preferment elsewhere while at Canterbury. He seems to have received an MA in 1564...

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Obadiah Sedgwick
Selasa, 2026-04-28 02:37:49

Returning to Oxford, he commenced B.D. on 16 January 1630. His first preferment (1630) in the church was as lecturer at St Mildred, Bread Street, London...

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Castlereagh–Canning duel
Rabu, 2026-05-27 20:05:53

with Pitt, Canning poured out his grievances. He complained about the preferment of Castlereagh ahead of himself, yet at the same time claiming he had...

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Edward Mangin
Minggu, 2025-07-20 11:46:38

as prebendary of Rathmichael in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. This preferment he surrendered on 1 December 1803, when he became prebendary of Rath in...

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Court of First Fruits and Tenths
Jumat, 2026-08-07 18:25:21

The former consist of the first whole year's profit of all spiritual preferments, the latter of one-tenth of their annual profits after the first year...

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Thomas Fastolf
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:19:42

advanced in the service of the Avignon popes, he gained a series of preferments in the British Isles, concluding with the bishopric of St David's. Fastolf...

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Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper)
Senin, 2026-07-06 15:20:57

had risen to become treasurer of Gray's Inn. As a Protestant, he lost preferment under Queen Mary I. However, on the accession of her younger sister Elizabeth...

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Owston Ferry
Senin, 2025-10-20 05:40:13

original (PDF) on 2 March 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2014. "After initial preferment, Owston Ferry later deprecated by government as new nuclear site due to...

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Thomas Nuce
Kamis, 2022-06-30 10:14:22

1599 he was appointed rector of Weston-Market, Suffolk. Besides these preferments he held, from 1585 until his death, a prebend in Ely Cathedral. He died...

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Okehampton (constituency)
Rabu, 2026-06-24 13:22:14

and he seems to have secured his election with the promise of further preferment for Hunt: 18 months later, on the eve of the next general election, the...

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Walsham How
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:57:50

was published in the October 1897 issue of The Naturalist. He refused preferment on several occasions, but his energy and success made him well known,...

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Malcolm Grundy
Kamis, 2026-01-01 15:13:36

long unexplained stay in this post without further Church of England preferment resulted in his being 'headhunted' in 2005 to become the founding director...

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Victoria Derby
Kamis, 2026-01-08 10:32:54

Victoria Derby at his first start. Fire Oak in 1990, Redding in 1992 and Preferment in 2014 are the only other maidens to win the Victoria Derby. In 2005...

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French Third Republic
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 19:38:48

Recouly, R. Joffre (1931) Larkin, Maurice (2002). Religion, Politics and Preferment in France since 1890: La Belle Époque and its Legacy. Cambridge University...

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Statute Law Revision Act 1873
Minggu, 2026-05-24 23:05:33

the Relief of certain Spiritual Persons, and Patrons of Ecclesiastical Preferments, from certain Penalties; and rendering valid certain Bonds, Covenants...

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Archdeacon of Stow and Lindsey
Selasa, 2025-03-04 04:16:01

year: 1862. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1863. p. 695. "Church news: preferments and appointments". Church Times. No. 171. 12 May 1866. p. 153. ISSN 0009-658X...

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Michael Lort
Senin, 2025-06-09 12:28:06

graduating in 1746, Lort acted as librarian to Richard Mead until 1754. His preferments were numerous, but for many years not very lucrative. From 1759 to 1771...

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Walter Harte (clergyman)
Minggu, 2026-08-02 17:39:15

Glorious Revolution, which resulted in him being deprived of all of his preferments. Unusually his three successors all agreed that he receive the benefits...

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William Whittlesey
Kamis, 2026-06-04 02:32:12

Islip, archbishop of Canterbury, he received numerous ecclesiastical preferments; he held prebends at Lichfield, Chichester and Lincoln, and livings at...

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The Coronation Triumph
Minggu, 2024-05-12 19:27:07

Cynthia's Revels was a failure when acted at Court in 1601, and led to no preferment from Queen Elizabeth. His luck with the new dynasty was much better: Jonson...

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Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus
Senin, 2026-08-10 07:59:34

strain Lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp. Bulgaricus BB18 during continuous prefermentation of yogurt starter culture and subsequent batch coagulation of milk"...

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Jacob Mountain
Rabu, 2026-07-22 23:20:48

the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD; jure dignitatis). These preferments he owed to the friendship of William Pitt the Younger, who also, on the...

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Samuel Patrick
Kamis, 2025-10-30 21:20:28

from the University of St. Andrews and took holy orders, but received no preferment. He died at Kentish Town on 20 March 1748. Patrick was deeply if narrowly...

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John Randolph (bishop of Guildford)
Kamis, 2026-06-04 07:00:13

p. 622. The Times, Thursday, 31 May 1894; pg. 10; Issue 34278; col C Preferments and appointments History of area Stained glass window in his memory Archived...

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Joseph Pitts (author)
Selasa, 2025-11-25 11:44:03

I ran in making my escape. I was in a much fairer way for honour and preferment in Algier, than I could ever expect to have been in England." Pitts soon...

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Abingdon Abbey
Jumat, 2026-07-17 22:12:10

monastery in 1538, receiving the manor of Cumnor for life or until he had preferment to the extent of £223 per annum. The revenues of the abbey (26 Hen. VIII)...

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