KENT, WILLIAM

1685–1748, English landscape gardener, architect, and painter. A minor painter, Kent made ceiling decorations for Kensington Palace. He greatly influenced landscape gardening by changing the prevailing artificial style to one based more closely on nature, as in the gardens at Rousham. As an architect, he followed Neo-Palladian tenets and adhered to strictly symmetrical planning, especially in his masterpiece, Holkham Hall, Norfolk (begun 1734). In London he planned the treasury building (1734) and the Horse Guards building (erected after his death, 1750–58).

See study by M. Jourdain (1948).

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Biography of Elisha Kent Kane
Book by William Elder; Childs & Peterson, 1858
Subjects: Kane, Elisha Kent--1820-1857
...and here to surrender to your watchful care and to your heartfelt reverence these, the earthly remains of Elisha Kent Kane. William Dennison, Esq. responded, on behalf of the Columbus Committee, in a very appropriate address. A detachment...
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Democracy in the Connecticut Frontier Town of Kent
Book by Charles S. Grant; AMS Press, 1970
Subjects: Kent (Conn.)--History
14. Kent, Land , I, 70. 15. 1750 Acts , p...colleague in Ellsworth Society northwest Kent and Sharon , Daniel Parker, was both minister...Delineated , p. 9. Bordwells successor in Kent, William Watson Andrews father of Charles McLean...
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Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity
Book by David Chapin; University of Massachusetts Press, 2004
Subjects: Explorers--United States--Biography, Fox, Margaret--1833-1893, Kane, Elisha Kent--1820-1857, Popular Culture--United States--History--19th Century, Spiritualists--United States--Biography, United States--Intellectual Life--19th Century
...Philadelphia Evening Journal, March 12, 1857. 62 Review of Elisha Kent Kane; A Biography by William Elder, in Philadelphia Press, January 14, 1858. 63 Corner...250 54. 4 Samuel M. Schmucker, The Life of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, and of Other
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The Unwritten Law: Criminal Justice in Victorian Kent
Book by Carolyn A. Conley; Oxford University Press, 1991
Subjects: Criminal Justice, Administration Of--England--Kent--History--19th Century
...The Domesday Book for the County of Kent . Lewes: Sussex Express Office, 1877. Blackstone William. Commentaries on the Laws of England...19th ed. London: H. Sweet, 1878. Kent Directory and Gazette . London: Melville...
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A Lawyer of Kent: Barzillai Slosson and His Account Books, 1794-1812
Book by Mabel Seymour, Elizabeth Forgeous; Published for the Yale Law Library by the Yale University Press, 1935
Subjects: Kent (Conn.)--Social life and customs, Lawyers--Connecticut, Slosson, Barzillai--1769-1813
...Poughkeepsie. Through his brother William, who was then practicing...Slosson was employed concerned Kent farms that had been of little...like Major Talman, Samuel William Johnson, and Colonel Tallmadge...first opened an office in Kent. In addition to that...
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Kent and Primogeniture in King Lear
Journal article by Ronald W. Cooley; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 48, 2008
Subjects: Kent, England--Portrayals, Kent, England--Social aspects, King Lear (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Primogeniture--Portrayals
...Shore: Ye men of Kent, tis Victory or Death! --William Wordsworth, "To...in works such as William Lambardes Perambulation of Kent (1576}. But when...144). (29) William Lambarde, A Perambulation of Kent: Conteining the...
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Philip Caputo. 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings
Journal article by Joshua D. Cochran; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 32, 2006
Subjects: 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder. Equally important...American public following the Kent State tragedy. To draw this...letters written to the parents of William Schroeder, which are housed at the Kent State University May 4 Resource...
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Recovering a "Lost" Story Using Oral History: The United States Supreme Court's Historic Green V. New Kent County, Virginia, Decision
Journal article by Jody Allen, Brian Daugherity; The Oral History Review, Vol. 33, 2006
Subjects: Boards of education--Cases, Green, Charles C.--Cases, New Kent County, Virginia--Cases, Racial integration--Cases, School boards--Cases
...at the College of William and Mary, contacted...worked with three New Kent High School students...Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, 1968 Calvin...had settled in New Kent County with his wife...School Board of New Kent County, Virginia...59) Justice William H. Rehnquist in...
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Kent Greenawalt's Elusive Constitution
Journal article by Steven D. Smith; Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 25, 2008
Subjects: Church and state--Laws, regulations and rules, Constitutional interpretation--Evaluation, Constitutional law--Evaluation, Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Greenawalt, Kent--Evaluation, Original intent (Law)--Laws, regulations and rules, Religion and the Constitution, vol. 2, Establishment and Fairness (Nonfiction work)--Evaluation
...Establishment and Fairness, (1) Kent Greenawalt makes claims...completes the project begun in KENT GREENAWALT, RELIGION AND THE...For a compilation, see WILLIAM J. FEDERER, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS...Barnettes Big Blunder, 78 CHI.-KENT L REV. 625, 653-58 (2003...
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A Slow and Painful Crawl: The Videos of Kent Anderson Butler
Journal article by Thomas Mcgovern; Afterimage, Vol. 38, 2010
Subjects: Artists--Works, Butler, Kent Andrew--Works, Video art--Criticism and interpretation
...Slow and Painful Crawl: The Videos of Kent Anderson Butler. by Thomas McGovern Video...ease of their creation and dissemination. Kent Anderson Butlers video work flaunts these...Anderson, Chris Burden, Bruce Nauman, and William Wegman are fascinating for their simplicity...
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Peter the Wild Boy: A Mysterious Child from Northern Germany, Portrayed by William Kent on the King's Grand Staircase, Became One of the Sensations of the Georgian Age
Magazine article by Roger Moorhouse; History Today, Vol. 60, April 2010
Subjects: British history--Personalities, Feral children, Peter the Wild Boy--Biography
Peter the Wild Boy: A Mysterious Child from Northern Germany, Portrayed by William Kent on the Kings Grand Staircase, Became One of the Sensations of the Georgian Age. by Roger Moorhouse ILLUSTRATION OMITTED In the...
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"I'm Not a Spy, I'm a Rabbi": Rabbi Brian Kent Went to Cuba with the Hope That He Could Minister to Cuban Jews. He Was Instead Subjected to a Harrowing Ordeal at the Hands of Castro's Agents
Magazine article by William F. Jasper; The New American, Vol. 17, December 31, 2001
Subjects: Crime, Cuba, Kent, Brian--Personal narratives, Rabbis--Personal narratives
...Im a Rabbi": Rabbi Brian Kent Went to Cuba with the Hope That...Hands of Castros Agents. by William F. Jasper As Hurricane Michelles...Havana apartment, Rabbi Brian Kent wondered what to expect next...wanted to help them," Rabbi Kent explained to THE NEW AMERICAN...
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Kent State Thirty Years Later
Magazine article by Mac Lojowsky; The Humanist, Vol. 60, July 2000
Subjects: Kent State University--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Peace movements--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
...wounded. Two weeks after the Kent State shootings, Mississippi...commemorated each year since at Kent State, bringing in speakers...Caldicott, Jane Fonda, and William Kuntzler; Peter, Paul, and...political theorist Noam Chomsky. Kent State graduate student Kabir...
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Penshurst Place, Kent
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 47, October 1997
Subjects: Historic buildings--England, Kent, England--Historic sites
Penshurst Place, Kent by Richard Cavendish The...VIII. The soldier Sir William Sidney (1482-1554...the Penshurst estate in Kent. Sir Williams son, Henry...dismay even the 6th baron, William Sidney (1909-91...Pensburst, Tonbridge, Kent TN11 8DG, phone 01892...
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Dance Alloy Recalls Kent State Massacre
Magazine article by Karen Dacko; Dance Magazine, Vol. 69, May 1995
Subjects: Dance production--Planning, Kent State University--History, Kent, Ohio--Massacres
...people to riot on the campus of Kent State University. The resulting military occupation of Kent, Ohio, culminated on May 4...Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder) died. Marking the...two ten-day residencies at Kent State in February and April...
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The WHODUNIT; KEY PLAYERS: The Kent Family Suspects Facing Detective Jack Whicher, Second Right, Included, from Left, Constance, Samuel, William and Mary
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 30, 2008
...WHODUNIT; KEY PLAYERS: The Kent Family Suspects Facing...Constance, Samuel, William and Mary. Byline: CRAIG...engraved: Francis Savill Kent, the dearly loved son...the boys father, Samuel Kent, a gruff 59-year...Constance, 16, and William, 14;a nursemaid, Elizabeth...
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The FIRST WHODUNNIT; Detective Jack Whicher, above, Correctly Named the Killer at Road Hill House as Unlikely Suspect Constance Kent, Left
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 17, 2008
Subjects: Kent, Constance
...being offered by Samuel Kent to anyone who found...begun two local men, William Nutt, a shoemaker...villagers described Kent as an arrogant, badtempered...Whicher dismissed Samuel Kent as a suspect. He also dismissed William Nutt, one of the two...
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New Light Shed on Kent State Killings; Shots Fired at Guard, Declassified Files Indicate
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), May 4, 2010
Subjects: Kent State University, Peace movements
...precursor to the killings at Kent State because it triggered...Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Knox Schroeder. A report...by Associated Press; Kent State students dive to...released. Photograph by Kent State University Archives...Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Knox Schroeder. Photograph...
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Jack Kent Cooke Dead at 84: Son John Expected to Lead His Team into 21st Century
Newspaper article by David Elfin; The Washington Times, April 7, 1997
Subjects: Cooke, Jack Kent, Redskins
...those experts and sent son John Kent Cooke as his representative...Hell be sorely missed." John Kent Cooke, who is as introverted...host at the new stadium. Jack Kent Cookes plan was to sell the...Virginia telecommunications mogul William Collins, who was unsuccessful...
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Where Sage Is All the Rage; Kent Nursery Has Incredible Collection of the Herb's Eye-Popping Relatives
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 1, 2010
Subjects: Flowers
...Where Sage Is All the Rage; Kent Nursery Has Incredible Collection...showy flowers? Visitors to William Dysons garden and specialist nursery in Kent are often astonished to find...part of the same clan, says William, 45, who grows around 200...
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encyclopedia articles on: Kent William  - 26 results

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Kent, William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KENT, WILLIAM 1685 1748, English landscape gardener, architect, and painter. A minor painter, Kent made ceiling decorations for Kensington Palace. He greatly influenced landscape...
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Kent, Rockwell
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KENT, ROCKWELL 1882 1971, American painter, muralist, wood engraver...book and magazine illustrator, and writer, b. Tarrytown, N.Y. Kent studied with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri . He lived in Labrador, Alaska, Greenland...
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Kent, James
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...terms in the New York legislature. In 1793, Kent moved to New York City, where his reputation...six editions. See Memoirs and Letters of James Kent by his great-grandson, William Kent (1898, repr. 1970); study by J. T. Horton...
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Claiborne, William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CLAIBORNE, WILLIAM kla b rn, c.1587 c.1677, Virginia colonist, b. Westmorland co...the head of Chesapeake Bay, and established a fort and settlement on Kent Island in the Chesapeake. He opposed the grant of Maryland to Lord Baltimore...
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Georgian Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Boyle, earl of Burlington, and his protege, William Kent, to return to a classicizing form of architecture...the treasury and Horse Guards buildings, by William Kent; Somerset House, by Sir William Chambers; the Bank of England, by Sir John...
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