The Reverend George Burton (1717–1791) was an English clergyman and chronologer.
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Chronologer Robert Cary was born in Cockington in about 1615. Robert Sweet (1782-1835), horticulturalist and author, was also born in the village.
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He was apparently both an accurate chronologer and a diligent investigator of ancient usages, respectfully cited by many later authorities.Cicero, de Divin. i. 26; comp.
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The Gentleman's and London Magazine: Or Monthly Chronologer, 1741–1794;, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 405., A New History of Ireland, volume IX, p. 410.
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On 22 February 1665, he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Viscount Powerscourt and assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords.The Gentleman's and London Magazine: Or Monthly Chronologer, 1741-1794 (J. Exshaw., 1741), pp. 299–300.
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The birth of a daughter was announced in April, 1747,Gentleman's and London Magazine: or Monthly Chronologer, 1741–1794, p.190 but she did not survive and is possibly one of the four grandchildren buried near Bishop Mordecai in Killala.
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After Chloridia in February 1631, Jonson no longer received commissions for masques from the Stuart Court; in his long battle of egos with Inigo Jones, Jones had finally won and Jonson had lost. In September of the same year, Jonson had also lost his post as the chronologer of the city of London. The Duke of Newcastle, who had an established relationship with Jonson, stepped in to support the poet laureate in his time of need.Perry, pp.
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Mark Singleton (1762 – 17 July 1840) was an Anglo-Irish politician. He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain as an MP for the borough of Eye from 1796 to 1799, in the Irish House of Commons in 1800 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the rotten borough of Carysfort in County Wicklow, and then in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as an MP for Eye from 1807 to 1820. Singleton was the third son of Dublin lawyer Sydenham Singleton (formerly Fowke) and his wife Elizabeth Whyte, only daughter of the Dublin attorney Mark Whyte.For the Whyte family see Pilton House, PiltonThe London Magazine, and Monthly Chronologer, July 1753, p.
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He published some of Heywood's non-dramatic prose, including his important An Apology for Actors (1612); in that volume, Heywood included an address "to his approved good friend, Nicholas Okes," that praises the printer's "care and workmanship" and calls him "careful and industrious" and "serious and laborious." Okes also published the texts of some of the city entertainments common in the era, including several written by Thomas Middleton when he was City Chronologer of London, plus others by John Webster and Anthony Munday. As with his printing, Okes published non-dramatic works as well as plays. One example is Samuel Daniel's The Collection of the History of England (1618); another is Robert Chamberlain's A New Book of Mistakes (1637).
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The Battle of Dettingen is notable for two things: it was the last time a British monarch personally led his troops into battle, and the last time a serving soldier was knighted on the battlefield. Tom Brown was knighted as a Knight Banneret by the King at the end of the battle for his actions, as noted in The London Magazine, and Monthly Chronologer as "the Trooper who retook the Standard from the French". This is believed to be the last time a sovereign conferred the title Knight Bannerets to troops on the field of battle. It is recorded that the King created sixteen Knights Bannerets on the battlefield by two sources: a diary entry by Miss Gertrude Savile, which states "This honour had been laid aside since James I, when Baronets were instituted",The Complete Peerage (1913) by George Cokayne and a news magazine published in the same year as the battle.
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Though a fairly small engagement and a short lived victory, the storming of the fortifications at Omoa was the scene of an event that would be repeatedly depicted by British engravers for years to come. Captain William Dalrymple, in his letter to Lord George Germain dated the 21 October 1779, wrote: > Your lordship will pardon my mentioning an instance of an elevated mind in a > British tar, which amazed the Spaniards, and gave them a very high idea of > English valour: not content with one cutlass, he scrambled up the walls with > two; and meeting a Spanish officer without arms, who had been roused out of > his sleep, had the generosity not to take any advantage; but presenting him > with one of his cutlasses, told him, "You are now on a footing with me." This incident was first put into print by William Humphrey in 1780, and later by John Thornton in 1783, John Record about 1785, and an unknown engraver for The Gentleman's and London Magazine: Or Monthly Chronologer in 1789.
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