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unusual facts about patronage


Politics of Prince Edward Island

Patronage is a strong element of traditional Island politics, and has been a widely accepted practice for generations.


Adriano Ruchini

In 2005, he was the speaker, with Emilio Carelli, Nicola Piepoli and Magdi Allam, at convention “The future of Italy through the elimination of conflicts” held in Rome under the patronage of the President of the Italian Republic.

Albertus Morton

By this time under the patronage of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and before 26 July he was formally appointed to Paris.

Ancient Diocese of Sarlat

The Abbey of Saint-Sauveur of Sarlat, later placed under the patronage of St. Sacerdos, Bishop of Limoges, seems to have existed before the reigns of Pepin the Short and Charlemagne who came there in pilgrimage.

Andrew Mwenda

2005: With Roger Tangri: ‘Patronage Politics, Donor Reforms, and Regime Consolidation in Uganda’, African Affairs, 104, 416 (2005), 449-67.

Aubrey de Vere II

In addition to his patronage of Colne Priory, the new master chamberlain also founded a cell of the abbey St. Melanie in Rennes, Brittany, at Hatfield Broadoak or Hatfield Regis, Essex.

Balligavi

The Kedareshwara matha belonging to the Kalamukha Shaivas and the Kodiya matha was well known and had the patronage of the Hoysala emperors, marking the place as one of religious activity.

Bernd Stumpf

At the time Dynamo was under the patronage of the Stasi, East Germany's state secret police force headed by Erich Mielke, and since the late 70s had benefited from unfair player transfers and questionable officiating.

Bricstan

His story is chronicled by Bishop Hervey, the Bishop of Ely when Chatteris Abbey (which was dated around the year 980) was placed under the patronage of the Bishop of Ely by King Henry I in 1131.

Calheta de Nesquim

In 1948, new bells and a clock were added to the front facade, along with images of Santa Filomena and Santa Teresinha, due to the patronage of Lourenço Oliveira (a U.S. emigrant and former resident).

Changez Charity

In January 2011, Catherine Middleton (now The Duchess of Cambridge) expressed interest in possible patronage.

Consett A.F.C.

The town was dominated by the steelworks until 1980 and the club enjoyed their patronage.

Dosso Kingdom

The city of Dosso also retains an important place, with a large population of aristocratic class Djerma who rely on the patronage of the Zarmakoy, as the more traditional ruling class reject modern careers.

Fahd bin Sultan University

FBSU was established in Tabuk as a private college in 2003 under the patronage of Prince Fahd bin Sultan, governor of Tabuk Province.

Federico Baldeschi Colonna

With Panciroli's patronage he was appointed Governor first of Faenza, then of Sabina and then finally of Fabriano.

Ferdinand III of Castile

Places such as San Fernando, La Union, San Fernando, Pampanga, and the San Fernando de Dilao Church in Paco, Manila in the Philippines, and in California, San Fernando City and the San Fernando Valley, were named for him and placed under his patronage.

Georg Friedrich Zundel

Georg Friedrich Zundel (13 October 1875 in Iptingen, Wiernsheim - 7 June 1948 in Stuttgart) was a German painter, farmer and art patron.

George Dawe

He enjoyed the patronage of the Duke and Duchess of Kent and also that of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold.

George Garrard

In 1800 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and in the same year he published a folio volume with coloured plates, entitled "A Description of the different varieties of Oxen common in the British Isles, embellished with engravings; being an accompaniment to a set of models of the improved breeds of Cattle, executed by George Garrard, upon an exact scale from nature, under the patronage of the Board of Agriculture" (or "Prints of improved British Cattle").

Gesellschaft der Associierten

DeNora, Tia (1991) Musical Patronage and Social Change in Beethoven's Vienna.

Giacomo Castelvetro

In England he received the patronage of Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Francis Walsingham and Sir Christopher Hatton when he became interested in publishing Renaissance works.

He dedicated the work to Lucy, Countess of Bedford on the request of her brother John Harington and on the hope of acquiring future patronage but was unfortunate in this enterprise.

Girolamo Rainaldi

For Francesco d’Este, who, with the loss of the Este seat of Ferrara to the Papal States, concentrated his patronage in his Duchy of Modena, Rainaldi contributed to the construction of the Ducal Palace to supplant the ancient castello, and was in particular charged with the layout and elaborate hydraulics of its gardens, with giochi di acque and a theater clipped in green hedges, 1631-34 (Roganti).

Government College of Technology, Coimbatore

The Government College of Technology, Coimbatore was founded in 1945 as Arthur Hope College of Technology (named after Arthur Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour), under the patronage of the philanthropist Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu (G.D. Naidu).

Greco-Buddhist monasticism

The role of Greek Buddhist monks in the development of the Buddhist faith under the patronage of emperor Ashoka around 260 BCE, and then during the reign of Indo-Greek king Menander (r. 165/155–130 BCE) is described in the Mahavamsa, an important non-canonical Theravada Buddhist historical text compiled in Sri Lanka in the 6th century, in the Pali language.

Hülsta

In 2007 the initiative "Deutschland - Land der Ideen" (Germany – Country of Ideas) under the patronage of President of Germany Horst Köhler awarded Hülsta the "Ausgewählter Ort 2007" (Selected Site 2007).

Jeanne de la Font

They lived in the city of Bourges, which had become a cultural centre because of the patronage of Jeanne of France at the start of the century.

John Ella

In 1830 he seems to have given public concerts under the patronage of Augustus FitzGerald, 3rd Duke of Leinster.

Lewis Turco

Since 2012 he has been in the Honour Committee of Immagine & Poesia, the artistic literary movement founded in Turin, Italy, with the patronage of Aeronwy Thomas (Dylan Thomas's daughter).

Margaret Rolle, 15th Baroness Clinton

Apart from the many valuable manors inherited from her father she also inherited the patronage of the Rolle pocket borough of Callington in Cornwall, and nominated in 1761 as its MP her Devon agent Richard Stevens (1702-1776), of Winscott, in the parish of Peters Marland, adjacent to Petrockstowe, who was the brother-in-law of Margaret's distant, but locally resident, cousin Henry Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (1708-1750) of Stevenstone.

Paulines

Paulists, several Roman Catholic orders and congregations under the patronage of St Paul the Hermit and including the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit and the Minims

Pietro Cussida

It was through Cussida's patronage that Van Baburan painted the Entombment, Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and Christ on the Road to Calvary for the Chapel of the Pietà of the Church of San Pietro in Montorio.

Précieuses

The précieuses remembered through the filter of Molière's one-act satire of them in Les précieuses ridicules (1659), a bitter comedy of manners that brought Molière and his company to the attention of Parisians, after years of touring the provinces, and attracted the patronage of Louis XIV; it still plays well today.

Puy d'Arras

Other puys under her patronage were founded at Amiens, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Caen, Évreux, and Rouen.

Rikon im Tösstal

The monastic Tibet Institute Rikon was founded, according to the advice and under the patronage of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

Russian cruiser Moskva

The ship is currently held under the patronage of the city of Moscow.

Rydzyna Castle

Other artists under the artistic patronage of the Leszczyński family were three brothers Catenazzi from Morbio Inferiore in Mendrisiotto, (in Ticino, Switzerland).

Sandringham railway line

The Cain Labor government in the 1980s proposed rebuilding the line as a light rail line, but since then patronage has grown considerably and even with the 8-minute peak-period frequency, trains are heavily loaded.

Scouting on the Isle of Man

This was particularly the case under the patronage of Sir Charles Kerruish who facilitated the use of his own lands for Scout camping.

Singapore Dance Theatre

It made its debut in June 1988 at the Singapore Festival of The Arts and received its first arts patronage by the then-Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Ong Teng Cheong.

St. Patrick's College, Thurles

The College is a charitable institution operating under the patronage of the Dr. Patrick Everard, Archbishop of Cashel and Emly.

Strzegom

At the same time the building of the St. Peter and Paul parish church began, from 1203 under the patronage of the Order of Saint John.

The Cornish Trilogy

Their first essay into the world of humanist patronage is to support a precocious composer in completing an unfinished opera by E.T.A. Hoffmann entitled Arthur of Britain, or the Magnanimous Cuckold, and then bringing it to the stage at Stratford, Ontario.

The Tall Guy

In a 2003 mid-career retrospective about Richard Curtis, The Guardian described the film as being "patronised in one sense by critics while not patronised in the other by audiences.".

The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses

Daniel did well from the masque; he was made, firstly, a Groom of the Queen's Chamber and later a chamberlain; and the Queen gave him the job of licensing plays for the Children of the Chapel, the troupe of child actors that Anne had just taken into her patronage as the Children of the Queen's Revels.

Twyford, Hampshire

In Thomas Moule's English Counties 1837 edition, Twyford is referred to as: "on the river Itchin sic, 3 miles S. from the City of Winchester, contains 169 houses and 1048 inhabitants. The church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary,is a vicarage, value £12 12s. 8d., in the patronage of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In the chancel is a mural monument, with a bust, by Joseph Nollekens, in memory of Dr. Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St. Asaph, who died in the year 1788."

Tyrrelstown

Other local amenities include two national schools (one under the patronage of Educate Together and a second under the patronage of the Catholic Church ), a creche, a Lidl supermarket, a Superquinn supermarket, a newsagent, a pub, an off-licence, a restaurant, several fast food outlets, a pharmacy, two medical centres, a dental practice, a solicitor's office, a coffee shop, and a hairdresser and barber shop.

Verulam House, St Albans

The former stable area provided land for the building of an adjacent Roman Catholic church under the patronage of the local MP of that time, Alexander Raphael.

William Wilkie

On 17 May 1753 he was appointed, under the patronage of the Earl of Lauderdale, assistant to John Guthrie, parish minister of Ratho, Midlothian, on whose death in 1756 he became sole incumbent.


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