Sir Thomas Butler

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Irish Baronetcies - Cloghgrenan - Butler Baronets, of Cloughgrenan (1628)
... Sir Thomas Butler, 1st Baronet (died c. 1640) Sir Edmund Butler, 2nd Baronet (died c. 1650) Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet (died 1703) Sir Pierce Butler, 4th Baronet (1670-1732) Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet (1699-1771) Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet (1735-1772) Sir Richard Butler, 7th Baronet ...
Thomas Kyd
... Thomas Kyd (baptised 6 November 1558 buried 15 August 1594) was an English dramatist, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama ... Although well known in his own time, Kyd fell into obscurity until 1773 when Thomas Hawkins (an early editor of The Spanish Tragedy) discovered that Kyd was named as its author by Thomas ...
The Star Beast - Editions
... In this chapter, John Thomas rereads the entries in his great-grandfather's diary of how Lummox was found ... John Thomas knew why.. ... The rest of the page summarizes John Thomas' grandfather's family history, discussing the first John Thomas Stuart, who had retired as a sea captain ...
Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet
... Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet (1735 – 7 October 1772) was an Irish politician and baronet ... He was the eldest son of Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet and his wife Henrietta Percy, daughter of Henry Percy ... Butler sat for Carlow County in the Irish House of Commons from 1761 to 1768, the same constituency several members of his family had represented before ...
Thomas The Rhymer - Ballads
... Musicologists have traced the ballad, "Thomas the Rhymer", back at least as far as the 13th century ... Several different variants of the ballad of Thomas the Rhymer exist, most having the same basic theme ... They tell how Thomas either kissed, had sex, or slept with the Queen of Elfland and rode with her or was otherwise transported to Fairyland ...

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