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- d. 1155
- Exeter, Exeter Cathedral
Bishop of Exeter (elected in 1137, consecrated in 1138), a nephew of his predecessor William (de) Warelwast and previously archdeacon of Exeter; educated at Laon.
Warelwast (William de) See: William Warelwast
- d. 1137
- Exeter, Exeter Cathedral, Ver-à-Val
Norman bishop of Exeter and clerk and diplomat in the service of King William II and later Henry I. His name Warelwast derives from Ver-à-Val, Normandy, but little is known of his early, continental career.
- s. xx–xxi
- d. c.1006?
- Ivrea cathedral
Bishop of Ivrea, probably consecrated in 966 and known for his conflicts with Arduin, margrave of Ivrea. He is associated with the production of several manuscripts, including an illuminated psalter (Ivrea, Biblioteca capitolare, MS 85) and sacramentary (MS 86).
- s. xx–xxi
- s. xx–xxi
- 1842–1930
- Oxford, St John's College
British clergyman (Church of England) and scholar.
- 1933–2013
American linguist, professor of Linguistics and the Classics at Harvard University.
- d. 2003
- d. 1942
- d. 1948
- 1926–2004
Scottish historian.
- 1899–1985
- s. xx–xxi
- s. xx–xxi
Originally the British Charity School in London, founded in 1718 by the ‘Most Honourable and Loyal Society of Antient Britons’, in some ways the precursor to the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. It housed a considerable collection of manuscripts, which were presented to the British Museum in the early 1840s. The school moved to Ashford in 1857, became a girls school in 1882 and was renamed to St David's School in 1967.
- s. xx–xxi
- s. xx–xxi
- 1805–1893
English archaeologist, art historian and entomologist.
