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1809 in poetry

March 31 – Edward Fitzgerald (died 1883), English writer and poet best known for his English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

1883 in poetry

Edward Fitzgerald, 74, English poet and translator, best known for his translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Alexina Duchamp

Following Duchamp's death, Alexina moved to Villiers-sous-Grez, near Paris, where she assembled an archive of photographs and other material documenting the life and work of her late husband.

Assyrian–Chaldean–Syriac diaspora

There are believed to be some 20,000, mainly concentrated in the northern French suburbs of Sarcelles, where several thousands Chaldean Catholics live, and also in Gonesse and Villiers-le-Bel.

Battle of Villiers

Ducrot established a bridgehead on the opposite bank of the river at the two villages and advanced up a plateau towards Villiers.

Boulge

Boulge church is the burial place of the local poet and writer Edward Fitzgerald, whose most famous work was his translation of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Bredfield House

The house is best known as the birthplace Edward FitzGerald (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883), who went on to translate the Rubàiyàt of Omar Khayyàm.

Charlotte Lee

Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield (1664-1718), illegitimate daughter of King Charles II of England and Scotland, and Barbara Villiers

Chief Justice of South Africa

The position of Chief Justice was created upon the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, with the Chief Justice of the Cape Colony Sir (John) Henry de Villiers (later, John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers) being appointed the first Chief Justice of the newly created Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa.

Chorus of Westerly

This list includes "Songs of the Fleet" by Charles Villiers Stanford, "Lux Aeterna" by William Mathias, "Birthday Madrigals" by John Rutter, "Mass of the Sea" by Paul Patterson and several other works of George Dyson, Patrick Hadley and Gilbert Vinters.

Dark Agnes de Chastillon

Agnes, still with her sidekick Etienne Villiers, faces international intrigue with Cardinal Thomas Wolsey.

De Villiers Graaff High School

De Villiers Graaff High School is an academic state secondary school in Villiersdorp, a small town approximately 150 km from Cape Town, South Africa.

Dirk von Zitzewitz

With Volkswagen withdrawing their participation in 2012, von Zitzewitz and de Villiers joined the South African Imperial Toyota team and finished in third place driving a Toyota Hilux.

Dombresson

The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les Hauts-Geneveys, Montmollin, Le Pâquier, Savagnier and Villiers merged on 1 January 2013 into the new municipality of Val-de-Ruz.

Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick

Howard married Mary Butler, daughter of John Butler (or Boteler) and Elizabeth Villiers, and had two sons, Thomas, 2nd Baron Howard of Escrick, who married Elizabeth Mordaunt, daughter of John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough, and William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Escrick, notorious both as a rebel and as an informer and double agent.

Edward Powys Mathers

He is known also for the translations The Garden of Bright Waters: One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems (1920); and of the Kashmiri poet Bilhana in Bilhana: Black Marigolds (1919), a free interpretation in the tradition of Edward FitzGerald.

Edward Villiers

Edward Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon (1846–1914), English political figure, son of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800–1870); House of Lords (1870–1914)

Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey (1656–1711), English courtier, diplomat and Lord Justice; son of Edward Villiers (1620–1689)

Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey

Villiers was Knight Marshal to the royal household in succession to his father; Master of the Horse to Queen Mary; and Lord Chamberlain to William III and Queen Anne.

English royal mistress

James I was followed by his son Charles I, who was also extremely attached to Villiers, until the latter was murdered by John Felton on 23 August 1628.

Fanie de Villiers

He was selected for the first Test in Melbourne but it was at the second Test in Sydney where De Villiers established himself at Test level.

Feet forwards motorcycle

Designed by Sir Alliot Verdon Roe in 1926, the Ro-Monocar used a 250cc Villiers two stroke engine, and featured a high degree of enclosure for the rider and a bucket seat.

François Coulon de Villiers

Villiers served in many of battles of the war, including the Battle of Fort Duquesne.

Frederic Villiers

Born in London on 23 April 1851, Villiers was educated in France at Guînes situated in the Pas-de-Calais.

Frederick Villiers

Frederick Villiers Meynell (1801–1872), British Whig politician, initially known as Frederick Villiers

George Mason-Villiers, 2nd Earl Grandison

Lord Grandison married Lady Gertrude, daughter of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, in 1772.

Giles Mompesson

Another daughter of John St. John (and thus Mompesson's sister-in-law) married Edward Villiers, the half-brother of George Villiers, and Mompesson's connection to George Villiers was the key to his later despotism.

Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland

Other prominent Royalists, including Buckingham's younger brother Francis Villiers, and Kenelm Digby (son of the scientific writer of the same name), were also killed during the battle.

Jean Louis Barthélemy O'Donnell

He fell from favour under the ultra-Royalist administration of the Jean-Baptiste, comte de Villèle, the Prime Minister of France from 1821–1828, and during which time largely he concentrated on local government, being Maire (Mayor) of Villiers-sur-Orge for seven years from 1820 to 1826, and was one of the founders of the l'Ecole d'enseignement mutuel (primary school) in Montlhéry, where using his own resources, he had several young pupils educated.

Le Pâquier, Neuchâtel

The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les Hauts-Geneveys, Montmollin, Le Pâquier, Savagnier and Villiers merged on 1 January 2013 into the new municipality of Val-de-Ruz.

Lex van Delden

The first of his works to attract wide attention was Rubáiyát (nine quatrains by Omar Khayyám in Edward FitzGerald's English translation, 1948; for chorus with soprano and tenor solos, 2 pianos and percussion), awarded the prestigious Music Prize of the City of Amsterdam in 1948.

Ludwig Kepplinger

On the 6 August 1944, Kepplinger was killed in the town of Villiers-Charlemagne which was under artillery fire, the car he was traveling in was hit, with Kepplinger being instantly killed.

Nessbeal

When his parents divorced he went to live with his mother in difficult conditions in Hautes Noues in Villiers-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne an eastern suburb of Paris, whereas his father stayed in Boulogne-Billancourt.

Princess Caprice

One of the servant-maids was May Etheridge, who married Lord Edward Fitzgerald during the run of the show and subsequently became the Duchess of Leinster.

Renault Trafic

Designed by Renault's corporate design department based within the company's Technocentre outside Paris, the Trafic was developed by the engineering team of Renault's light commercial vehicle unit at Villiers-Saint-Fréderic.

Richard Power, 1st Earl of Tyrone

Catherine Fitzgerald continued to live for a time under charge of Tyrone's father-in-law, Lord Anglesey, but on Easter eve 1677 she left his house, and was married the same day to Edward Villiers, eldest son of George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison.

Robert Danvers

Danvers was the illegitimate son of Lady Frances Villiers, wife of John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck probably by Sir Robert Howard of Clun Castle, Shropshire and was baptised as Robert Wright.

Secteur Ä

The association was made up of artists mainly coming from Val-d'Oise region (Garges-lès-Gonesse, Sarcelles and Villiers-le-Bel).

Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon

Villiers was raised to the peerage as Baron Hyde of Hindon in the County of Wiltshire.

Villiers Engineering

In 1999, Villiers Plc acquired the healthcare company Ultramind and renamed the company Ultrasis.

Villiers II

The Villiers II entered service with Escadrille 5C1 based at Hyères near Toulon in Southern France in May 1927, with the aircraft never being operated from the Béarn.

Villiers-Saint-Fréderic

It is known for having one of the largest Renault factories in France, where they produce tools and design new fittings for the vehicles.

William de Villiers

Andries William de Villiers (born 9 July 1957 in Nairobi) is a South African author who wrote Messengers, Watchmen and Stewards, a biographical register of clergymen licensed, ordained for service, or otherwise active, in the Anglican diocese of Cape Town prior to the death of Archbishop William West Jones on 21 May 1908 (1998).

William John Fitzpatrick

In 1866, in The Sham Squire, he followed up the story of Lord Edward Fitzgerald's betrayal.


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