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Sir John Meres FRS (c.1660 – 15 February 1736) of Kirby Bellars, Leicestershire was an English knight and the director of a number of companies in the early 18th century, including the Charitable Corporation, the York Buildings Company, and Company of Mineral and Battery Works. He was also one of the Six Clerks in Chancery (a sinecure).

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Chancery (a sinecure). John Meres was the second son (but main devisee – his elder brother Thomas was disinherited) of Sir Thomas Meres, a Lincolnshire gentleman...

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John Mere

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John Mere is the second recorded Registrary of the University of Cambridge. Mere was born in Mayfield, East Sussex, went to school at Eton and entered...

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critical account of poems and plays by Shakespeare. Francis Meres was born in 1565 at Kirton Meres in the parish of Kirton, Lincolnshire. He was educated at...

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London Evening Post

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as mayor of Perth Amboy, before dying in 1764). John Meres (1698–1761, grandson of Sir Thomas Meres) took over management of the paper in 1737, first...

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Thomas Newcomen

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Invention for Raising Water by Fire'. Its secretary and treasurer was John Meres, clerk to the Society of Apothecaries in London. That society formed a...

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Stourhead

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Stourhead estate for 500 years until they sold it to Sir Thomas Meres in 1714. His son, John Meres, sold it in 1717 to Henry Hoare, son of wealthy banker Sir...

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Thomas Meres

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particularly during the reign of Charles II. Meres was baptised on 17 September 1634, the eldest son of Robert Meres, DD, of Kirton, Lincolnshire, chancellor...

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Charitable Corporation

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Sutton, Sir John Meres, Sir Fisher Tench, Dennis Bond, Archibald Grant (later Bt), and others. They proceeded to appoint officers, including John Thomson...

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Skipsea meres

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The Skipsea meres were three lakes in and around the village of Skipsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The meres that are known to have existed...

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Palladis Tamia

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English poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Meres' own day, and compares each with a classical author. While Meres is considerably indebted to George Puttenham's...

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John Adams

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List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1724

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Joseph-Nicolas de Lisle (1688–1768), French astronomer and cartographer John Meres (died 1726), apothecary. Clerk to Society of Apothecaries Robert Ord (1700–1778)...

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Anthony Valentine

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an English actor best known for his television roles: the ruthless Toby Meres in Callan (1967–72), the sadistic Major Horst Mohn in Colditz (1972–74)...

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those who seek peace and human love". Far from being a mere "stopgap" pope, to great excitement, John XXIII called for an ecumenical council fewer than ninety...

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List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1719

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(1698–1746) John Meres (d. 1736) Isaac Rand (1674–1743) Albert Henri de Salengre (1694?–1723) Robert Smith (1689–1768) George Stanley (d. 1734) John Strachey...

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Gospel of John

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The Gospel of John (Ancient Greek: Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Ἰωάννην, romanized: Euangélion katà Iōánnēn) is the fourth of the New Testament's four canonical gospels...

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Company of Mineral and Battery Works

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£18,000 of the £40,000 actually advanced by the company was from Sir John Meres in the form of shares in the Charitable Corporation, another company soon...

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