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    William Bickerstaff or Bickerstaffe (bapt. 18 August 1728 – 26 January 1789) was an English antiquarian, curate and schoolmaster. He was a well known...
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  • Isaac Bickerstaffe or Bickerstaff (26 September 1733 – after 1808) was an Irish playwright and librettist. Isaac John Bickerstaff was born in Dublin, on...
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    January 1711. In 1753–4, several issues by "William Bickerstaffe, nephew of the late Isaac Bickerstaffe" were published. James Watson, who had previously...
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    family, in 1485. Lord Derby's subsidiary titles are Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe in the County Palatine of Lancaster (created 1832), and Baron Stanley...
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  • Philip Bickerstaffe (1639–1714) was an English merchant and the owner of Amble Works. He was M.P. for Berwick-upon-Tweed 1685; and for Northumberland 1689-1698...
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    of the Mill by Isaac Bickerstaffe (1782) Osric in Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1783) Freeman in The Metamorphosis by William Jackson (1783) Connal...
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    Gilmorton Avenue estate. In 1786 the assistant curate of St Andrew's, William Bickerstaffe, and 58 householders petitioned the 4th Duke of Rutland to establish...
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    bowdlerised versions, such as an adaptation of The Plain Dealer by Isaac Bickerstaffe and a version of The Country Girl by David Garrick.[citation needed]...
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    October 2020. William Arthur Shaw, The Knights of England, Vol.1, p.130 (London, 1906) Jenkins, Robin P. (2004). "Bickerstaffe, William". Oxford Dictionary...
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    brother of the 2nd Earl of Derby, had been made Baronets Stanley of Bickerstaffe in 1623. This line still holds the Derby earldom, with the incumbent...
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    of his father, Sir William Fenwick. A supporter of the Jacobite cause, Fenwick was involved in a conspiracy to assassinate William III of England, and...
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    residential properties in the rural parishes of Knowsley, Eccleston, Rainford, Bickerstaffe and Ormskirk. It also offers commercial properties as part of the Stanley...
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  • The Plain Dealer (play) (category Plays by William Wycherley)
    eighteenth century it was performed in a bowdlerised version by Isaac Bickerstaffe. The title character is Captain Manly, a sailor who doubts the motives...
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    Methodist Church Holliday Bickerstaffe Kendall (1919). History of the Primitive Methodist Church. DNB article [9] Life of Sir William Hartley Peake, Arthur...
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    Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (category Peers of the United Kingdom created by William IV)
    Lancashire (styled Lord Stanley from 1776 to 1832, known as Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe from 1832-4), was a politician, peer, landowner, builder, farmer, art...
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    with the intention of building a replica Eiffel Tower on the site. John Bickerstaffe, a former mayor of Blackpool, was asked to become chairman of the new...
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    1841. In 1844 he was summoned to the House of Lords as Lord Stanley of Bickerstaffe in his father's Barony of Stanley by a Writ of acceleration. He broke...
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    Winstanley, Richard Goodgroome, Thomas Starre, William Hoggrill, Robert Sawyer, Thomas Eder, Henry Bickerstaffe, John Taylor, &c. (20 April 1649) A DECLARATION...
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  • 1357-1420) of Atherton. Other titles; Nicholas de Atherton, Lord of Bickerstaffe. English politician and Member of parliament (MP) of the Parliament of...
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    writ in acceleration in respect of his father's title, Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe. On appointment to office a ministerial by-election was triggered in...
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