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98 unusual facts about Queen


A Year in the Province

He has since worked as an academic, publishing numerous historical titles, and since 1998 has been Reader in History at Queen's University, Belfast.

Albert Joseph Moore

He executed other important decorative works, like 'The Last Supper' and some paintings for a church at Rochdale, the hall at Claremont, the proscenium of the Queen's Theatre, Long Acre, and a frieze of peacocks for Mr. Lehmann.

Andrew Hopper

Hopper was admitted as solicitor in 1972, was appointed Queen's Counsel (Q.C.) in 2001, being the fifth solicitor appointed as QC.

Australian Army Legal Corps

Many members of the Legal Corps have been appointed as Queen's Counsel or Senior Counsel, and a number have been elevated to various Australian courts (including county, district courts, and state supreme courts).

Bernard John Smith

On his return to the UK (via Land Rover across the Sahara) he took up a lecturing position in the Geography Department of Queen's University Belfast in 1979.

He established the Weathering Research Group in the early 1990s in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology at Queen's University Belfast (QUB).

Buddleja davidii 'Queen's Robe'

Buddleja davidii 'Queen's Robe' is a little-known American cultivar raised by Bluestone Perennials Inc., Madison, Ohio, though no longer listed by the company.

Cameron Highlanders

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (1793–1961), former infantry regiment of the British Army

Canadian currency tactile feature

It was suggested by Bruno Thériault, an administrator for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and designed by Dr. Susan Lederman, a professor of Psychology at Queen's University.

Chris Murungaru

He has hired prominent Kenyan lawyer Paul Muite and a group of British lawyers, Mr Rabinder Singh, a Queen's Counsel of Matrix Chambers, London, Mr Richard Stein, a senior partner in Leigh, Day and Company and Ms Tessa Hetherington, a junior counsel of Matrix to represent him.

Cumbria Constabulary

Russell was posthumously awarded the Queen's Police Medal for gallantry and a memorial plaque has been unveiled on a wall at Carlisle Cathedral.

D59

Queen's Gambit Declined, in the classification system of the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings

David J. Eicher

Eicher is working on a book with Brian May, guitarist and singer from the rock group Queen, and astronomer Garik Israelian, constituting the conference proceedings, lectures, and information from the Starmus Festival, a science and music event held in 2011 in the Canary Islands.

Donald Macaulay, Baron Macaulay of Bragar

Donald Macaulay, Baron Macaulay of Bragar, QC (born 14 November 1933) is a British Labour politician and member of the House of Lords.

Dunmurry train explosion

The two damaged carriages were transported to Queen's Quay in Belfast for forensic examination and were subsequently rebuilt.

EPSCI

Some of the most recognizable partners for exchanges are McGill University, Emory University, Keio University, Queen's University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, IE Business School, UNC Chapel Hill, Bocconi Milan, and UNSW Sydney.

Forks of Cypress

Additionally, some of writer Alex Haley's ancestors were slaves on this plantation, which provides a setting for much of his book, Queen: The Story of an American Family.

Gregory Garde

Major General the Honourable Justice Gregory Howard "Greg" Garde AO, RFD, QC is a senior Australian lawyer and Army officer.

Helen King

King graduated from Queen's University Department of Drama in 1994, moving to Montreal in 1995.

Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School

Faculty of Education of Queen's University Associate Teacher of the Year awards - John Esford for the 1998-1999 school year and Frank Halligan for the 2006-2007 school year.

House of Lords Commissioner for Standards

Paul Kernaghan CBE QPM was appointed in 2010 as the first Commissioner.

Jerry S.T. Pitzul

Major-General Jerry S.T. Pitzul, CMM, CD, QC, was the Judge-Advocate-General for the Canadian Forces at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario from 1998 to 2006.

Jim M. Courtright

After completing his degree at U of O he enrolled at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario where he received a degree in Applied Science in 1941 and would later return as a Vice Principal.

James ("Jim") Milton Courtright, PE (December 16, 1914 – February 21, 2003) was a Canadian track and field athlete and Vice Principal of Queen's University.

Kensington South by-election, 1968

The Liberal candidate Thomas Kellock, a QC who had fought the seat at the previous general election, came in a distant second, with Labour candidate Clive Bradley, a barrister and journalist, forced into third place and losing his deposit.

King's High School, Dunedin

King's along with Queen's High School were selected to perform at the opening of Dunedin's new Forsyth Barr Stadium, in August 2011.

Leslie Oliver Oration

The Leslie Oliver Oration is held annually at the Queen's Hospital, London.

Lord Mayor's Day

The new office holder being ' presented ' to the Lord Chief Justice and the other senior judges (originally the Barons of the Exchequer, now represented by the Queen's Remembrancer).

Magnetar

A research led by Matt Nicholl, of the Astrophysics Research Centre at Queen's School of Mathematics and Physics of Queen's University Belfast, the results of which were published on Oct 17, 2013 in Nature, has explained the newly discovered luminous transient PTF 12dam through the same mechanism.

Malcolm Kendall-Smith

Philip Sapsford, QC, defending, told the court martial: "The flight lieutenant is entitled to advance before this tribunal that the use of force in Iraq was unlawful in international law," essentially reasoning that Kendall-Smith should be allowed to argue that any participation in the war effort was therefore unlawful.

Marine Drive, Mumbai

Marine Drive is also known as the Queen's Necklace because if viewed at night from an elevated point anywhere along the drive, the street lights resemble a string of pearls,forming a necklace.

Mark Speight

He was captured on CCTV in the afternoon taking money from a cash machine at Queen's Park station, and he subsequently boarded a southbound Bakerloo line train.

May Nickson

She graduated in 1940 from Queen's University, Kingston, Ont. with a Bachelor of Commerce degree.

Mervyn Finlay

He was admitted to the Bar in 1952 and practised as a Queen's Counsel in New South Wales.

Michael Giffin

While at Queen's University, he was chosen a first-team All-Canadian in 2007 and 2008, and became the first Queen's player to rush for more than 1,000 yards in a single season in school history.

Michael J. H. Walsh

He attained the King's Scout Award with the added distinction of Gold Cords, indicating it as the highest award available in Scouting at the time.

Michael Riegels

Michael Riegels, QC was the inaugural chairman of the Financial Services Commission of the British Virgin Islands.

Mike Rodden

He was a student at Queen's University from 1910 to 1913, earning 15 letters in rugby football and ice hockey over that period.

Military justice

Section 12 of the NDA authorizes the governor in council's creation of the Queen's Regulations and Orders (QR&Os).

Oxamniquine

In 1979, Pfizer at Sandwich was presented with the Queen's Award for Technological Achievement in recognition of the outstanding contribution made to tropical medicine by MANSIL (oxamniquine).

President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada

The President of the Privy Council also has the largely ceremonial duty of presiding over meetings of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, a body which only convenes in full for affairs of state such as the accession of a new Sovereign or the marriage of the Prince of Wales or heir presumptive to the Throne (see Monarchy in Canada).

QPM

Queen's Police Medal, a medal awarded to police officers in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth for gallantry or distinguished service

Queen, New Mexico

The area was originally settled by the agricultural and hunter gatherer Jornada Mogollon people about 200 CE whose suzerainty ended with the influx of the Apache and other plains raiders around 1450.

Queen's Bargemaster

On 3 June 2012, the barge carried the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal Family, in the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant.

Queen's Bench

It was recorded in the chronicle of Abbot Benedict of Peterborough that, in 1178, Henry II ordered that five judges of his household should remain in Curia Regis, referring only difficult cases to himself.

Queen's Building

In the 1880s, the colonial government of Hong Kong initiated the Praya Reclamation Scheme in order to expand the amount of land available in the city.

Queen's Champion

The feudal holder of the Manor of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire, England, has, since the Norman Conquest in 1066, held the manor from the Crown by grand serjeanty of being The Honourable The King's/Queen's Champion.

The current and 34th Queen's Champion and 33rd Lord of the Manor of Scrivelsby, 7th Lord of the Manor of Telford, and of the Manor of Scrivelsby, Thornton and Dalderby, patron of the living of Scrivelsby-cum-Dalderby, and Queen's Champion is Lieutenant-Colonel John Lindley Marmion Dymoke, MBE DL Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.

Queen's Colour Squadron

The unit has mounted the guard at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and The Tower of London on several occasions, and has formed guards of honour for various visiting heads of state at Heathrow Airport, near its former base of RAF Uxbridge and its current base of RAF Northolt.

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service

It was given to the co-pilot and to a flight attendant of British Airways flight 5390.

Queen's Consent

In certain circumstances, such as for the House of Lords Act 1999, the consent of the Prince of Wales, in his capacity of Prince of Wales, Earl of Chester, or Prince and Great Steward of Scotland or as Duke of Cornwall, must also be obtained where a Bill affects his interests.

Queen's Counsel

The NSW Government replaced the office of Queen's Counsel with the office of Senior Counsel in 1993.

These were Arthur Marriott (53), partner of the London office of the American law firm of Wilmer Cutler and Pickering based in Washington, DC, and Dr Lawrence Collins (55), a partner of the City law firm of Herbert Smith.

In New Brunswick, the Lieutenant Governor appoints Queen's Counsel recipients on the advice of a committee comprising the Chief Justice of New Brunswick, the Attorney General, and the president of the Law Society of New Brunswick.

Queen's Cross Church

Queen's Cross Church, Glasgow — designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and consecrated in 1899

Queen's Debating Union

In 2004, Kevin Massie and Michael Saposnik were semi-finalists at the WUDC hosted by Nanyang University in Singapore.

Queen's Engineering Society

Clark Hall Pub has also been home to many successful acts, including The Tragically Hip, Bedouin Soundclash, Poison Ibey, Arkells, Arcade Fire, as well as crowd favourites Horse and Mule, The Radical Dudez, The Cowboys and satirists Khaki Snack.

Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh

It was opened in 2002 by Queen Elizabeth II, and exhibits works from the Royal Collection.

This Victorian building was originally built as Holyrood Free Church (a congregation of the Free Church of Scotland, then from 1900 United Free Church of Scotland), but was last used for worship in 1915.

Queen's Golden Gaels

The varsity teams play at the Kingston Memorial Centre following the demolition of the Jock Harty Arena, while the new arena (part of the Queen's Centre project) is being constructed.

Queen's Market

He rose to fame as a fish trader at the Queen's Market through his composition of a market trader's song.

Queen's Medical Centre

There is a free Medilink bus service, which connects Queen's Drive (Park and Ride) with Queen's Medical Centre, Wilkinson Street (for park and ride and the tram) and Nottingham City Hospital.

Queen's Own Hussars

A Squadron (Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry) The Queen's Own Mercian Yeomanry

Queen's Own McKamikaze Highlanders

They are shown taking part in a training exercise which mainly involves members of the regiment throwing themselves out of a window in (the precipitously high) Edinburgh Castle.

Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment

At the end of the war, the 1st Battalion was transferred back to India, where it took part (along with the Territorial 1/4th Battalion) in the Third Afghan War and the putting down of a Mahsud tribal rebellion in the Northwest Frontier in 1920.

Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry

Further deployments have been to the southern province of Basra and Al Amarah, in Iraq.

Queen's Park F.C.

Queen's Park is the oldest association football club in Scotland, having been founded in 1867, and is the oldest outside of England and Wales.

He would go on to set a goal scoring record for the club and his appearance record was only beaten by Ross Caven at the turn of the next century.

Queen's Park, Brighton

At the north-west corner is Pennant Lodge, once the home of Charles Freshfield.

Queen's Park, Glasgow

The park was acquired in 1857 and was designed by the world renowned Sir Joseph Paxton, also responsible for noted public parks in London, Liverpool, Birkenhead and the grounds of the Spa Buildings at Scarborough.

Queen's peace

The Queen's peace (or, during the reign of a male monarch, King's peace) is the term used in the Commonwealth realms to describe the protection the monarch, in right of each state, provides to his or her subjects.

Queen's Privy Council for Canada

On Canada Day in 1992, which also marked the 125th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Governor General Ramon Hnatyshyn appointed eighteen prominent Canadians to the Privy Council, including former Premier of Ontario David Peterson, retired hockey star Maurice Richard, and businessman Conrad Black.

Queen's Quay, Belfast

The first train from the station ran on 2 August 1848 to Holywood, with services eventually extending as far as Castlewellan, Downpatrick, Newcastle and the fishing village of Ardglass.

Queen's Radio

This operated during the first week of term in September 1995 and was hosted by Cool FM DJs and some students, including the now BBC Radio Ulster presenter/producer Donna Legge, Citybeat presenter Stuart Robinson and Downtown Radio DJ Lynda Cullan but was not set up or run by students at Queen's.

Queen's Regiment

Today, the name of the Queen's Regiment is maintained by B (Queen's Regiment) Company, The London Regiment.

In 1971 the 6th (Volunteer) and 7th (Volunteer) Battalions were formed with headquarters at Wandsworth and Horsham respectively.

In 1993 8QF was retitled the London Regiment with the disbandment of the existing A (Middlesex) Company.

Queen's Regulations

In 1868, Chambers's Encyclopaedia noted that the Queen's Regulations for the Navy "in a great degree regulate matters of finance; whereas, in the army, financial matters are left to the War Office regulations".

Queen's Road, Gibraltar

Also of note, apart from the nature reserve, are the Great Siege Tunnels at the northern end.

Queen's Road is the longest road the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Queen's Road, Hong Kong

Lo Ta-yu, a song writer, has written a song with Albert Leung titled 皇后大道東 (Queen's Road East), performed by Lo Ta-yu and Ram Cheung Chi Kwong (蔣志光) in 1991, to describe the change in this transition period.

Queen's South Africa Medal

Troops on the Mediterranean islands were awarded the Queen's Mediterranean Medal, and some personnel on troopships got the Transport Medal.

Queen's University of Ireland

A number of significant figures in Irish public life participated in the governing senate of the university such as Sir Dominic Corrigan (Vice-Chancellor).

Queen's Wharf Lighthouse

The Queen's Wharf Lighthouse (also known as the Fleet Street Lighthouse, after its current location) is located at Fleet Street just east of the Princes' Gates at the Exhibition Place Grounds in Toronto.

The site is accessible by car from the Gardiner Expressway, by exiting at the Spadina Ave. exit, then travelling west on Lake Shore Boulevard.

Queens Council

Queen's Counsel - are jurists appointed by letters patent to be one of Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law

Royal Stewart tartan

The 5th Bolton Scout Group and the 5th Potters Bar Scout Group wear the scarf, (neckerchief/necker) officially, with permission from the Queen, and the Queen's Bands (of Queen's University) wear the tartan as part of their official uniforms.

Samuel Lodge

The Rev. Samuel Lodge (11 February 1829 – 5 September 1897) was the author of Scrivelsby, the Home of the Champions He was a headmaster of Horncastle Grammar School, Lincolnshire, rector for 30 years of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire, and a Canon of Lincoln Cathedral.

Scout Association of Hong Kong

Enthusiasts and organisations, including Queen's College and St. Joseph's College established on 11 September 1913 the 1st Hong Kong Scout Troop of St. Joseph's College, for which Baden-Powell sent a letter of congratulation on 26 November 1913, which was published in the first issue of the Scout Gazette, the first Scout publication in Hong Kong.

Slamannan

After study at the University of Glasgow, he became a successful QC and was elected to represent Glasgow Hillhead in Parliament, and served as Minister of Labour, President of the Board of Trade and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lloyd George after the First World War.

St Peter-in-the-East

St Peter-in-the-East is a 12th-century church on Queen's Lane, north of the High Street in central Oxford, England.

Ted Reeve

He was coach of the Queen's University football team from 1933 to 1938 where they won three Yates Cup championships the most famous of which was the 1934 victory by the 'Fearless Fourteen', a squad that dressed only 14 players all year owing to academic suspensions which Reeve refused to substitute for.

The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife

Allan's QC, Charles Gray dismissed Shaw's "wildly unlikely" testimony and stressed the physical impossibility of her claim.

Thousand Islands Secondary School

The school is also part of a unique partnership with Queen's University as an associate school and trains dozens of teacher candidates every year.

Vivian Hunter Galbraith

Ater the outbreak of World War I, he enlisted in January 1915 and served as a company commander in the Queen's Regiment and was awarded the Croix de guerre avec palme for his courage in Palestine in 1917 and France in 1918.

Wayne Ray

After moving to Woodstock, Ontario in 1965, he and his brother Cris became Lone Scouts and in 1965 Troop 6 Ernest Harmon Air Force Base and 1968 Ray received his Eagle Scout and Queen's Scout awards while attending Troop 11 in Woodstock.

We Will Rock You: Australasian Edition

This edition is noteworthy for having new album artwork and the inclusion of a new recording of Another One Bites The Dust by Queen featuring as vocalist Annie Crummer who played the part of Killer Queen.

Yoshihiro Tsurumi

Tsurumi has taught at Keio University, Queen's University in Canada, the Harvard Graduate School of Business, the UCLA Graduate School of Management, and the Columbia Graduate School of Business, and continue to give special lectures and faculty seminars at universities in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.


Arawn Death-Lord

In The High King Queen Achren (then sorceress) said that if Arawn were to go into Prydain unprotected and in his true form, he would be killed on sight so Arawn always employed his shape-shifting powers when in Prydain.

Asclepias lanceolata

It serves as a host plant for larvae of monarch, queen, and soldier butterflies (Danaus plexippus, Danaus gilippus, and Danaus eresimus, respectively).

Astrid of Sweden

Their chauffeur was sitting in the back of the Packard One-Twenty convertible, the King was driving and the Queen looking at a map.

Banquets of the Black Widowers

"Sixty Million Trillion Combinations" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 5 May 1980) – A paranoid mathematician who suspects that his work on Goldbach's conjecture has been stolen.

Berenice II of Egypt

The asteroid 653 Berenike, discovered in 1907, is also named after Queen Berenice.

Blore

Blore Hall was the home of the Bassett family, (from whom the Queen is descended) ; William Bassett, the last of the male line, died in 1601 and his magnificent alabaster tomb, erected by his wife about 1630, can be seen in the church.

Buddleja davidii 'Tovelill'

Buddleja davidii 'Tovelill' is a little-known cultivar of Scandinavian origin and named for the Norwegian beauty queen Tove Lill Løyte.

Carriage by Air Act 1961

Sections 1 and 2 of the Act cover its application to the United Kingdom, with Section 1 allowing it to come into force when the Queen makes an Order in Council authorising it, and Section 2 using the same procedure for changing or limiting its territorial extent.

Common Quail

In 1537 Queen Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, pregnant with the future King Edward VI, developed an insatiable craving for quail, and courtiers and diplomats abroad were ordered to find sufficient supplies for the Queen.

Constitution Hill, London

It was the scene of three assassination attempts against Queen Victoria—in 1840 (by Edward Oxford), 1842 (by John Francis) and 1849 (by William Hamilton).

Daphne Trimble

After graduating in Law from Queen's University Belfast, she married her former lecturer David Trimble in August 1978, acquiring the courtesy title of Lady on his elevation in June 2006 to the House of Lords.

Earnest Goodsir-Cullen

In 1947 the family went to live with Elsie's mother in Portstewart, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland and Ernest had to re-qualify as a doctor at Queen's University, Belfast.

Edmund FitzGibbon

The queen's secretary, Sir Robert Cecil, advised the President of Munster, Sir George Carew to take good pledges of Fitzgibbon, "for, it is said, you will be cozened by him at last".

Eleonora Aguiari

In 2004, for her final show at the Royal College of Art, she wrapped an equestrian statue of Lord Napier of Magdala, situated on Queen's Gate in West London, in bright red duct tape, giving the appearance of the statue being painted red.

Ewa Malas-Godlewska

Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute production by Bob Wilson, Paris Opera, L'Opera Comique, Le Theatre du Chatelet, Le Theatre des Champs Elysees, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers and Parisian Bastille Opera, the Houston Grand Opera in Texas

Fleetwood Sheppard

At the same time, Sheppard was a favourite of the new Queen's, and John Oldmixon said that he made the Queen "very merry."

Forensic speechreading

John Terry was alleged to have made a crude racist remark against Anton Ferdinand in the course of a televised premier league soccer match between Chelsea football club and Queen's Park Rangers.

Francisco Goya

They were owned by Godoy, the Prime Minister of Spain and a favorite of the Queen, María Luisa.

Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg

Living in the Netherlands, they became acquainted with Elizabeth's envoy, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and entered into lengthy negotiations with Elizabeth's Court to obtain support for his cause; these efforts failed to garner assistance for renewing the war either from the English queen or in any other quarter.

George Kilpatrick

After tutoring at Queen's College, Edgbaston, and serving as Acting Warden of the College of the Ascension, Selly Oak, Kilpatrick became rector of Wishaw, Warwickshire, and a lecturer at Lichfield Theological College in 1942.

Girdle of Thomas

There were a number of supposed original girdle relics across the ancient Christian world, partly conflated with "tertiary" relics of belts that had touched the supposed genuine belt - Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII of England, bought one of these from a friar to help her pregnancy, and there was an "original" at Westminster Abbey in London.

Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton

He tried by frequent letters to Burghley and to Christopher Hatton to keep himself in favour with the queen's ministers, and managed to offer satisfactory explanations when it was reported in 1574 that he was exchanging tokens with Mary, Queen of Scots.

Ingebjørg Guttormsdatter

Ingebjørg Guttormsdatter was, alongside Ragna Nikolasdatter and Estrid Bjørnsdotter, known as one of the only two acknowledged queen consorts in Norway between the mid 11th century to the 13th century not to have been foreign princesses.

Ingeborg Hallstein

In opera she sang some of the most demanding roles in the coloratura Fach, e.g. Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, Zaide in Mozart's Zaide and the already mentioned Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute.

Jubilee clock

In 1897 the village of Thornford decided to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee by erecting a Jubilee tower clock and incorporating a water tap at its base.

La Trinità della Cava

The church of the monastery has the tombs of Queen Sibylla of Burgundy (died 1150), second consort of King Roger II of Sicily, and a number of notable ecclesiastics.

Meaghan Jarensky

Meaghan Jarensky Castaldi is a beauty queen from The Bronx, New York who has competed in the Miss USA 2005 pageant.

Mount Kōya

For the historical Haida chief in the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, see Koyah.

Office for Judicial Complaints

On 23 January 2010 Cherie Booth QC, wife of Tony Blair (who until recently had been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom), was sitting as a Recorder in a case where a man was found guilty violent assault in which he broke another man's jaw in a queue in a bank.

Ottawa Valley

Among the well-known people who hail from the Ottawa Valley, are former governor-general and broadcaser Adrienne Clarkson, Alanis Morissette, Margaret Atwood, Lorne Greene, Bryan Murray, Terry Murray, Frank Finnigan, Bruce Cockburn, Peter Jennings, Matthew Perry, Dan Aykroyd, Mark Redman, Tom Green, Rich Little, Paul Anka, Alan Verch and Princess Margriet, sister of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Party Queen

Only 2 songs had commercial endorsements prior to the album release: "Party Queen" was used as commercial song for Peach John and "How Beautiful You Are" was the theme song for drama show "Saigokara Nibanme no Koi".

Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

Gary Braver, bestselling author of Skin Deep, said “Paul’s writing in The Sultan and the Mermaid Queen has the humanity of Somerset Maugham, the adventure of Joseph Conrad, the perception of Paul Theroux, and a self-effacing voice uniquely his own.”

Rebecca Marshall

And again, with Marshall as Poppea and Boutell as Cyara in Nathaniel Lee's The Tragedy of Nero (1674); as Queen Berenice and Clarona in John Crowne's The Destruction of Jerusalem (1677); and as Roxana and Statira in Lee's The Rival Queens (also 1677).

Robert Dampier

The ship was returning the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamāmalu to the Hawaiian Islands (known by the British as "Sandwich Islands"), after both died from measles during a visit to England.

Robert Henry Meade

Following his return, he was in attendance on the Queen during her visit to Coburg later in 1862.

Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability

The RHN has always been helped and supported by high profile figures, including Florence Nightingale; author Charles Dickens; poet, John Betjeman; Thomas Hardy the poet and author; Otto Goldschmidt the pianist; and HM Queen Elizabeth II.

Sacconi Quartet

They also returned to the Wigmore Hall to perform Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro with the Southbank Sinfonia, a performance repeated at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Canterbury Cathedral with Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Specsavers

The co-founder of Specsavers, Mary Perkins, was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2007 in recognition of her services to business and the community in Guernsey.

Thami Mdaghri

More recently, in 2007, Nass El Ghiwane recorded a song by Lamdaghri called Ennehla Chama, which is about a conversation between a sultan and the queen of the bees.

Thembang

In an early days the people of the village have fought many battles, most important one is the war with Chandagmai a miji queen, some more were a war with Tukpenpa (present Rupa), the head of the a Mag-pon (general) of Tukpen is still buried under the stone stair near the fort at Thembang.

Thomas Wardlaw Taylor

From 1872 to 1883 he was Master of Chancery, and from 1883 to 1887 puisne judge of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench.

Tim Hitchens

Timothy Mark Hitchens, CMG, LVO (born 1962) is a British diplomat and a former Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, 1999-2002.

Valsad

Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury's family name (Bulsara) is derived from the former name of the city.

Victoria Park, Cardiff

The park was created as a municipal recreation ground by Cardiff City Council through a city charter between 1897 and 1898 to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee marking her record sixty years on the throne.

Wendy Rae Fowler

Eagles of Death Metal - Death by Sexy (2006) "I Like to Move in the Night", "The Ballad of Queen Bee and Baby Duck", and "Poor Doggie"

William Thomas Shave Daniel

W T S Daniel became a student of Lincoln's Inn on 27 January 1825, was called to the bar on 8 February 1830, became Queen's Counsel on 17 July 1851, and was called to the bench on 3 November 1851.