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Vandyke, Sir Anthony

(Encyclopedia)Vandyke, Sir Anthony: see Van Dyck, Sir Anthony. ...

Sherley, Sir Anthony

(Encyclopedia)Sherley, Sir Anthony: see Shirley, Sir Anthony. ...

Shirley, Sir Anthony

(Encyclopedia)Shirley or Sherley, Sir Anthony, 1565–1636?, English adventurer. He fought in the Netherlands (1586) under the earl of Leicester and in France (1591) under the earl of Essex, who became his patron. ...

Quitman, John Anthony

(Encyclopedia)Quitman, John Anthony, 1798–1858, American general and politician, b. Rhinebeck, N.Y. He settled in Natchez, Miss., where he practiced law and held a series of political offices, serving in the stat...

Kavanaugh, Brett Michael

(Encyclopedia)Kavanaugh, Brett Michael, 1965–, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2018–), b. Washington, D.C., grad. Yale (B.A. 1987, J.D. 1990). He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy a...

Lancaster House conference

(Encyclopedia)Lancaster House conference, series of three meetings (1960, 1962, 1963) in which Kenya's constitutional framework and independence were negotiated. In 1960 lack of agreement led Colonial Secretary McL...

Dyck, Sir Anthony van

(Encyclopedia)Dyck, Sir Anthony van: see Van Dyck, Sir Anthony. ...

Alito, Samuel Anthony, Jr.

(Encyclopedia)Alito, Samuel Anthony, Jr. əlēˈtō [key], 1950–, U.S. government official and judge, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2006–), b. Trenton, N.J., grad. Pr...

Hawkins, Sir Anthony Hope

(Encyclopedia)Hawkins, Sir Anthony Hope: see Hope, Anthony. ...