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99 unusual facts about Richard "Squire" Lee


4th Virginia Cavalry

The field officers were Colonels Stephen D. Lee, William H. F. Payne, Beverly Robertson, William C. Wickham, and W.B. Wooldridge; Lieutenant Colonels Charles Old and Robert Randolph; and Majors Alexander M. Hobson and Robert E. Utterback.

63rd Virginia Infantry

After it became a part of the Army of Tennessee, the 63rd served under, at different times, James Longstreet, Patrick Cleburne, Nathan Bedford Forrest, William J. Hardee, Stephen D. Lee, and Daniel Harvey Hill.

Albert G. Lee

He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1929, and awarded the IRE Medal of Honor in 1939 "for his accomplishments in promoting international radio services and in fostering advances in the art and science of radio communication."

Alexander Barkashov

The Beast Reawakens by Martin A. Lee (1997, Little, Brown and Company, ISBN 0-316-51959-6), chapter eight: "Shadow Over the East"

Alvin A. Lee

He received honorary doctorates from Victoria University in the University of Toronto, and from McMaster University, and was made an honorary professor at Beijing University, the University of Science and Technology Beijing, and Heilongjiang University.

American armored fighting vehicle production during World War II

The US version in British service was the Lee (named after General Lee); the British specification version (a different turret) was the Grant (named after General Grant).

Arlington, Oregon

The account of how this city received its name varies: one tradition claims it was named after the lawyer Nathan Arlington Cornish; another tradition claims that the Southern inhabitants of this city had enough clout to rename the city after Arlington, Virginia, home of general Robert E. Lee.

Army of Virginia

It should not be confused with its principal opponent, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E. Lee.

Ateneo de Davao University

Jasmine B. Lee (born Jasmine Bacurnay y Villanueva) - a Filipino-born Korean, television personality, actress and civil servant; Elected as a proportional representative in South Korea’s National Assembly

Blanche Douglass Leathers

She was the daughter-in-law of Captain T. P. Leathers, who was commander of the Natchez in its historic 1870 race with Robert E. Lee.

Boss of All Bosses

The second single from the album was "Thug" produced by Mr. Lee, and contains elements of the Eazy-E song "Eazy-Duz-It".

Bruce Chadwick

Chadwick’s newest books are 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See (Sourcebooks, 2008), about the causes of the Civil War.

Burt Ovrut

His doctoral advisors were Benjamin W. Lee and Yoichiro Nambu, and his thesis was on an Sp(4) x U(1) Theory of the Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions.

C. C. Lee

He became the ninth Taiwanese player to play in the MLB.

C. S. Lee

He can also be seen as the office worker holding the boombox in the award-winning Nextel commercial, "Nextel Dance Party".

C. Y. Lee

Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport-Terminal 2, Taoyuan,Buddhist temple in the world since 2001, and the tallest Buddhist Building in the world from 2001 to 2006.

Chaos at the Chateau

Appearing on the talk show Richard & Judy, Ann Darrell stated that "It's all real" and held her head in embarrassment at some of the events.

Collected Works of Northrop Frye

The project is under the general editorship of Alvin A. Lee, with day-to-day operations supervised by associate editor Jean O'Grady, aided by editorial assistant Margaret Burgess and others.

CSS Robert E. Lee

From January 13 to January 22, 1865 she aided in the bombardment of Fort Fisher's batteries and landed ammunition supplies for the Union forces.

Daisy wheel printing

In 1972 a team at Diablo Systems led by engineer David S. Lee developed the first commercially successful daisy wheel printer, a device that was faster and more flexible than IBM's golf-ball devices, being capable of 30 cps (characters per second), whereas IBM's Selectric operated at 13.4 cps.

David L. Lee

In 1981, he joined a company that was acquired by the satellite communications firm Comsat, where he held a variety of executive positions before joining TRW Information Systems Group in 1986.

His thesis work was on alternative theories of gravity to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity; he is co-author of the Lightman-Lee and Lee-Lightman-Ni theories of gravity (see Alternatives to General Relativity).

Debra L. Lee

In March 1996, Lee became President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of BET Holdings, Inc., replacing departing network founder, Robert L. Johnson.

Debra Lee

Debra L. Lee, an American businesswoman who serves as CEO of Black Entertainment Television and is a Chairman for the Ad council

Dee C. Lee

In 1985, after the release of the second Style Council album Our Favourite Shop, and a stint working with the band Animal Nightlife, Lee released another solo single; the self-penned ballad "See the Day".

Lee's follow-up singles, a cover of Judie Tzuke's "Come Hell Or Waters High" and "Hold On" failed to make the UK Top 40.

Fort Macon State Park

In the 1840s, a system of erosion control was initially engineered by Robert E. Lee, who later became general of the Confederate Army.

Frank Crawford Armstrong

In February 1864, Armstrong requested a transfer to the command of Maj. Gen. Stephen D. Lee.

Gary A. Lee

He later relocated to Fort Myers, Florida, where he remained active in politics, including serving as Chairman of the Lee County Republican Party.

George W. Lee

Simeon Booker of Jet (magazine), observed how Lee’s "down-home dialogue and his sense of political timing" had "electrified" the crowd.

Gerry Markman

His particularly notable musical associations have been with The Cameo Blues Band, The Lincolns, Richard "Hock" Walsh and Alannah Myles.

Gonzales County, Texas

:April 9 – Robert E. Lee formally surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House.

Greencastle, Pennsylvania

In the summer of 1863, the war touched close to home when Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia invaded lower Pennsylvania in what later became known as the Gettysburg Campaign.

Hansberry

Hansberry v. Lee, a U.S. Supreme Court decision that dealt with a racially restrictive covenant.

Harold B. Lee

Lee focused on music the first few years and played the alto, French, and baritone horns.

When he was eight, he was sent to get a can of lye from the shelf and spilled the deadly product all over himself.

Harold Lee

Harold B. Lee (1899–1973), eleventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Henry A. G. Lee

In December 1847 when word of the attack reached the Willamette Valley, the Provisional Government and Gov. George Abernethy called for volunteers to fight against the Cayuse, with Lee volunteering and being selected as captain of a 50 man unit to be dispatched immediately to The Dalles.

Henry Lee I

#Richard "Squire" Lee (1726-1795), who married Sarah "Sally" Bland Poythress (1768-1828), daughter of Peter Poythress (1715-1785) of "Branchester", and Elizabeth Bland (1733-1792).

Howard V. Lee

In September 1955, he entered the 14th Officer Candidates' Course, Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia, and upon completing the course the following December, was commissioned a Marine Corps Reserve second lieutenant.

J. R. E. Lee

From 1915 to 1921 he served as principal of Lincoln High School in Kansas City, Missouri.

He was able to obtain greater salaries for teachers and administrators despite the statement of Florida Governor Fred P. Cone that "no Negro was worth $4000 a year".

James H. Madole

The Beast Reawakens by Martin A. Lee (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1997, ISBN 0-316-51959-6)

Jasmine B. Lee

As an actress, she essayed the role of the mother of lead actor Yoo Ah-in in the highly acclaimed 2011 film Punch which drew 5.3 million viewers.

Jenni Trent Hughes

She has appeared regularly as an advisory guest on GMTV, LK-Today, This Morning, and CH4’s Richard and Judy, speaking on relationship, family, career and political issues.

John B. Lee

A popular performer of children's poems and songs, he has been a writer-in-residence at the University of Windsor, Kitchener Public Library, and Hillfield Strathallen private school.

John C. H. Lee

This section of the Ohio River Division of the Corps was tasked with completing a water-resources survey, as part of the Johnson Administration's War on Poverty.

John C. Lee

He marched under Schenck to the relief of Milroy at McDowell in May, 1862.

John D. Lee

Former Solicitor General Rex E. Lee is a direct descendant of John Lee as are his sons Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Utah Supreme Court Justice Thomas R. Lee.

Jon Gries

In the historical Western film September Dawn, he played executed murderer John D. Lee, in a performance praised by critics who otherwise panned the film.

Jonathan Tropper

How to Talk to a Widower was a 2007 selection for The Richard and Judy Show in the United Kingdom.

Joshua Lee

Joshua B. Lee, United States Representative and Senator from Oklahoma

K. W. Lee

In 1992, he was presented the John Anson Ford Award by the Human Relations Commission of L.A. County.

Kate Ferguson

She was born Catherine Sarah Lee, to the southern poet Eleanor Percy Lee and William Henry Lee, cousin of General Robert E. Lee.

Little Round Top

At around 4 p.m. on July 2, 1863, Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's First Corps began an attack ordered by General Robert E. Lee that was intended to drive northeast up the Emmitsburg Road in the direction of Cemetery Hill, rolling up the Union left flank.

Lloyd Pye

Pye also gave lectures and made television appearances in support of his ideas on The Learning Channel, National Geographic Channel, Extra, Animal Planet, and Richard & Judy in the United Kingdom.

Louis K. Liggett Co. v. Lee

In the course of his opinion Justice Brandeis agreed with the race to the bottom theory of corporate law, proposed by Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means in The Modern Corporation and Private Property (1932).

Mark C. Lee

Lee also initiated a unique distinction with STS-47: his wife at that time, N. Jan Davis, was a mission specialist on the flight, making Lee and Davis the first married couple to be in space at the same time.

This mission involved the launch of the Magellan probe, a Venus-exploration spacecraft and experiments involving life sciences and crystals.

Martin A. Lee

He has been a guest teacher-in-residence at the University of Illinois, and has lectured at many colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, and the American University of Paris.

Michelle K. Lee

Michelle K. Lee is the head of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), as of 2014.

Mirage Publishing

The biggest accolade to be achieved by Mirage Publishing was to see its book Burnt (ISBN 1-902578-28-7), by Scottish author Ian Colquhoun, being held aloft by Richard Madeley on Richard & Judy on UK TV.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

Tanner remained in this position for the presidency of Joseph Fielding Smith (1970–1972), and then became first counselor to Smith's successor Harold B. Lee, remaining first counselor to Lee and Spencer W. Kimball until his own death.

Nicci Jolly

Though much of her work is sport-related, Jolly has also presented a segment on the Beslan crisis for Richard & Judy, appeared as a guest presenter on This Week, and was a contestant on Celebrity Fear Factor.

Nikki S. Lee

After earning B.F.A. at Chung-Ang University in South Korea in 1993, she moved to New York in 1994 to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Two monographs on Lee's work have been published: Nikki S. Lee: Parts. by RoseLee Goldberg and Nikki S. Lee: Projects. essays by Russell Ferguson and Gilbert Vicario .

Parachute Battalion

The founder of the American parachute troops General William C. Lee doubled for Robert Preston in some scenes.

Partisan Ranger Act

On February 17, 1864 the Partisan Ranger Act was repealed after pressure from Robert E. Lee and other Confederate regulars persuaded Congress to repeal the act.

Port Royal, Pennsylvania

From the PRR station during the Gettysburg Campaign of the Civil War, Union scout Stephen W. Pomeroy telegraphed the vital news to Governor Andrew Curtin that Robert E. Lee was concentrating the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg.

Proctor, Kentucky

Lee County may have been named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee, but many early settlers came from Lee County, Virginia and the name may have derived therefrom.

R. N. Baskin

According to an article appearing in the Deseret News on August 26, 1918, "he did much to develop Utah mines, prosecuted John D. Lee, wrote his Reminiscences, exposed Mormon Apostle Orson F. Whitney, and was active in politics, especially against polygamy.

Rachel Zadok

In 2004, Zadok entered the ‘How to Get Published’ competition on Channel 4’s Richard & Judy Show, reaching the final five of 46,000 entrants.

Raoul of Goldenlake

His nickname, "Giantkiller," comes from his having killed one giant single-handedly before the beginning of the series and another in the 3rd installment, Squire.

Rex Lee

Rex E. Lee, US Solicitor General under President Reagan and later president of Brigham Young University

Richard R. Lee

Currently, Lee is a senior production member, on-air programmer, and webmaster for KCRT-TV, a Richmond, California TV station.

Lee is also a director for various TV programs, including Comcast Game of The Weeks High School Basketball and Football games, Contra Costa Television's Ask The Doctor and The Languages of Sound and Movement.

Lee has worked at a number of San Francisco Bay Area television stations, including KTVU, KRCB, and KFCB.

Robert C. Lee

On 1918-06-15, he married Elsie Francis Calder, daughter of Senator William M. Calder.

Robert H. Foglesong

Foglesong was the second retired general to hold the office of president at the university; Confederate lieutenant general Stephen D. Lee was the first.

Robert H. Lee

He is also a trustee of the Bank of British Columbia, a directorship of the Real Estate Institute of Canada, Vancouver Foundation, B.C. Paraplegic Foundation and of the Port Authority of Vancouver.

He also is a member of YMCA Vancouver and serves as a director of Crown Life Insurance, Canadian National Railway and Wall Financial Corporation.

Robert Lee Russell

He was named in honor of Confederate Army General, Robert E. Lee.

Robert V. Lee

He earned his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and continued graduate studies in journalism at the University of Georgia.

Dr. Lee began talks with Hellen Wangusa, Anglican Observer at the United Nations; and Olara Otunnu, president of the LBL Foundation for Children, winner of the German Africa Prize in 2002 and the Sydney Peace Prize in 2005, and 2011 Uganda presidential candidate, about creating a Global Action Partnership (GAP) that would address all of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals at once, the first program of its kind.

Sean Lee

Sean is also a grandson of Federal Judge Donald J. Lee of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Sharpsburg, Maryland

Sharpsburg gained national recognition during the American Civil War, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee invaded Maryland with his Army of Northern Virginia in the summer of 1862 and was intercepted near the city by Union General George B. McClellan with the Army of the Potomac.

Sheldon Datz

He did early work inventing the molecular beam technique with Dr. Ellison Taylor which later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee and John Charles Polanyi.

Terry Brighton

According to the author’s website this makes good a promise made to Richard Madely on the British TV chat show Richard & Judy that he would “write the novel” of the Charge of the Light Brigade.

The Beast Reawakens

The Beast Reawakens is a book by investigative journalist Martin A. Lee.

The Jane Austen Book Club

It was also recommended as the sixth best book of 2005 on the television show Richard & Judy

Throckmorton County, Texas

Captain Robert E. Lee served as commander of the camp from April 9, 1856, to July 22, 1857.

United States Penitentiary, Lee

He remains a fugitive and has been profiled on the television program America's Most Wanted.

Virgil City, Missouri

Virgil City has been the home of two members of the United States House of Representatives: Charles Germman Burton (a Republican) and Frank H. Lee (a Democrat).

Virginia Field

Her mother was a cousin of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and her aunt was British stage actress and director Auriol Lee.

Walter C. Lee

Auditors allege that from 2009 through 2012, then Superintendent Lee double-billed expenses to both the DeSoto Parish School Board and the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, of which he remains an elected member, subject to removal only on conviction of a felony.

Warren I. Lee

Lee was elected as a Republican to the 67th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1923.

Wells–Bennett–Grant family

He married seven wives: Eliza Rebecca Robison; Louisa Free, former wife of John D. Lee; Martha Givens Harris; Lydia Ann Alley; Susan Hannah Alley, sister of Lydia; Hannah Corrilla Free, sister of Louisa; and Emmeline Blanche Woodward

William C. Lee

Although airborne units were not popular with U.S. Army commanders, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sponsored the concept, and Lee was authorized to form the first paratroop platoon.

Winston v. Lee

Winston v. Lee, 470 U.S. 753 (1985), was a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that a compelled surgical intrusion into an individual's body for evidence implicates expectations of privacy and security of such magnitude that the intrusion would be "unreasonable" under the Fourth Amendment, even if likely to produce evidence of a crime.


Attempts to make the Potomac River navigable

There was a large conflict with Virginia Governor Henry Lee (father of Robert E. Lee), who purchased 500 acres of land around Great Falls (he named it “Matildaville” after his wife) to build a warehouse for goods being transported down the Potomac (predicting the route would quickly become profitable after the project’s completion).

Battle of Hanover

Stuart was forced to continue north and east to get around the Union cavalry, further delaying his attempt to rejoin Robert E. Lee's army, which was then concentrating at Cashtown Gap west of Gettysburg.

Bockleton

The parish church of St Michael has an 1867 monument, in white marble, by Pre-Raphaelite sculptor Thomas Woolner to William Prescott, a local squire who died from an infection caught after tending his sick gamekeeper.

CHOMBEC

In 2008 archives for Edgar Hunt, Sir Michael Tippett, a combined archive for Frank Merrick and Evelyn Hope Squire, and one for John Raynor were all acquired by the university.

Conspiracy and siege of the Mountain Meadows massacre

He met with many of the eventual participants in the massacre, including William H. Dame, Isaac C. Haight, and John D. Lee.

Crest Castle

Agrippa d'Aubigné, a nobleman, a reformed French Huguenot squire of Henry IV, who was expelled from France as result of his participation in the conspiracy against Duke of Luynes acquired the rights to the ruins of the chateau.

David Bull

David Richard Bull (born 9 May 1969) is an English doctor, author, and host and commentator on a variety of British and US television programmes, such as Sugar Dome,the BBC's Watchdog, Watchdog Healthcheck,Newsround, Living TV's Most Haunted Live!, Channel 4's Richard & Judy, Tomorrow's World, and Sky's The Breathing Life Awards.

Dennis Hart Mahan

Mahan also founded the Napoleon Seminar at West Point, where advanced under-graduates and senior officers including Lee, Reynolds, Thomas and McClellan, studied and discussed the great European wars, Napoleon and Frederick the Great.

Dorothee Metlitzki

She published several academic books dealing with her interests including Celestial Origin of Elpheta and Algarsyf in Chaucer's "Squire's Tale," Melville's "Orienda" and The Matter of Araby in Medieval England.

Gaudete

Chris Squire and a choir recorded a rock version on the 2007 Christmas album Chris Squire's Swiss Choir.

Heck Thomas

On September 1, 1862, Union General Philip Kearny was killed at the Battle of Chantilly, Young "Heck" was entrusted with the general's horse and equipment and was ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee to take them through the lines to General Kearny's widow.

Infiltration Art

Artists whose work incorporates elements of infiltration include Banksy, Christian Cummings, Nikki S. Lee, Taryn Simon, Jeffrey Vallance, David Hildebrand Wilson, Fred Wilson.

Ismail Abdul Rahman

When the British High Commissioner Donald MacGillivray met with the Tunku, Ismail, and the MCA's representative of H. S. Lee, he accused them of playing into the hands of the Malayan Communist Party, which was waging an armed insurgency against the British.

James A. Roberts

In 1864, he enlisted as a private in the 7th Maine Battery, and fought at the Siege of Petersburg, and later participated in the campaign ending with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House.

Jan Kochanowski

In 1574, following the decampment of Poland's recently elected King Henry of Valois (whose candidacy to the Polish throne Kochanowski had supported), Kochanowski settled on a family estate at Czarnolas ("Blackwood") to lead the life of a country squire.

Jaques De Lavardin

Jacques de Lavardin, was a lord in Plessis-Bourrot, squire and noble of the king of France, known for the translation of two works in French: the Celestine from Fernando de Rojas and of the Historia de vita et rebus gestis Scanderbegi, a chronic of the Kingdom of Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg from Marin Barleti.

Judy Finnigan

The TV show also launched two very successful "clubs", the Richard & Judy Book Club and the Richard & Judy Wine Club, both of which are similar in style to those used by Oprah Winfrey.

Kurt Squire

Squire has written over 30 articles and book chapters, and is credited on various games such as Sid Meier's Civilization IV.

London Mercury

J.C. Squire served as editor from November 1919 to September 1934; Rolfe Arnold Scott-James succeeded Squire as editor from October 1934 to April 1939.

Miles Gerard

Descended perhaps from the Gerards of Ince, he was, about 1576, tutor to the children of Squire Edward Tyldesley, at Morleys Hall, near Astley, Lancashire.

Milt G. Barlow

He would later serve with several Virginia cavalry companies before surrendering at Appomattox Court House in April 1865 along with the remnants of General Robert E. Lee’s army.

Newport Bridge, Newport

In 1994 John Squire, guitarist of The Stone Roses designed the cover of their hit single Love Spreads based on a photograph of a stone cherub on Newport Bridge.

Snowsquall warning

These will reduce visibilities to less than 1 km and produce large accumulations of snow on the ground along narrow corridors in lee of the waters.

Squire Boone

The tenth of eleven children, Squire Boone was born to Squire Boone Sr. and his wife Sarah (Morgan) Boone in Berks County, Pennsylvania at the Daniel Boone Homestead.

That Was Only Yesterday – The Last EP

In late 1983 Richard Manners (Blue Mountain Music) asked Richard "Digby" Smith (Rough Diamond, Free, Sammy Hagar, Mott the Hoople) to put together a band and cut some tracks with David.

The Cloven Viscount

The Viscount Medardo of Terralba, and his squire Kurt, ride across the plague-ravaged plain of Bohemia en route to join the Christian army in the Turkish wars of the seventeenth century.

The Mallens

This forces him to move to a small cottage along with his nieces Barbara (Pippa Guard) and Constance (Julia Chambers) and their Governess Anna Brigmore (Caroline Blakiston), who starts a relationship with the now bankrupt Squire.

The Vals

To celebrate the release of their debut single 'Yesterday Today', the band played a special show in Belfast with Chris Helme of John Squire’s post-Stone Roses band The Seahorses.

Tommy Laurendine

Tommy Laurendine (born c. 1968) is the head coach of the Sewanee: The University of the South (Sewanee) college football team in Sewanee, Tennessee, and previously served as an offensive coordinator at Washington & Lee, West Alabama, Southern Arkansas, Lenoir–Rhyne and The Citadel.

Woodside Morris Men

In March 1965, Woodside Squire, Graham Wild, wrote a letter to all members of the team to inform them that, for one week only, the side would be meeting at the Railway Club, Watford, for practice, but not to worry, as practice would return to Finchley as soon as possible.