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John Duckett (13 September 1580 – 27 October 1648) was an English gentleman and landowner who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1624. Duckett was the second son of Stephen Duckett, a Wiltshire gentleman and a member of the Company of Mercers. [1] He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, on 15 December 1592, aged 12.
John Duckett was born at Underwinder, in the parish of Sedbergh, in Yorkshire, in 1613, the son of James and Francis Duckett. He was a relative of James Duckett who had been executed at Tyburn on 19 April 1601 for printing Catholic books. [2] He was baptized on 24 February 1614 and educated at Sedbergh School.
Miranda in Milan is a 2019 fantasy novella, the debut novella by Katharine Duckett. It is a modern-day sequel to The Tempest by William Shakespeare, and imagines the events which occur after the end of the original play. It won the 2020 Golden Crown Literary Society award for Science Fiction/Fantasy.
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Jerry Stahl described it: "American Desperado is the first great crime book of the 21st century. Dangerous, darkly hilarious, hair-raising, and terrifically written, Wright's prose spills over with the kind of insane, brilliantly rendered detail and dialogue that make you want to call people at four in the morning and read out loud.
Sir Lionel Duckett (1511 – August 1587) was one of the merchant adventurers of the City of London. He was four times Master of the Mercers' Company , and Lord Mayor of London in 1572. He was born in 1511 to William Duckett of Flintham , Nottinghamshire and his wife Jane (née Redman), of Harwood Castle, Yorkshire.
Duckett taught at St. John's School in Houston, after graduate school, but he was unable to live off the money and therefore became an insurance salesman. When he heard there was a part-time History teaching job available at the Awty International School he immediately accepted.
1904 Collier's illustration by J. C. Leyendecker. A. J. Raffles is a British fictional character – a cricketer and gentleman thief – created by E. W. Hornung.Between 1898 and 1909, Hornung wrote a series of 26 short stories, two plays, and a novel about Raffles and his fictional chronicler, Harry "Bunny" Manders.