Coventry Sentence Examples

He was educated in Coventry, became a successful merchant, traveled widely throughout Europe and for several years was the financial agent of Charles I.

At the age of eighteen, on the 25th of February 1639, he married Margaret, daughter of Lord Coventry, with whom he and his wife lived at Durham House in the Strand, and at Canonbury House in Islington.

On the death of Southampton, Ashley was placed on the commission of the treasury, Clifford and William Coventry being his principal colleagues.

In 1854 he was chosen M.P. for Coventry, which he continued to represent in the Liberal interest till his death at Sydenham on the 8th of June 1865.

In November 1605 the Gunpowder Plot conspirators formed a plan to seize her person and proclaim her queen after the explosion, in consequence of which she was removed by Lord Harington to Coventry.

There are extensive coal-mines in the neighbouring district, as at Moira, whence the Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal runs south to the Coventry canal.

He returned to England in 1836, and, after another visit to Australia, settled in England in 1841, taking charge of the Roman Catholic mission at Coventry.

On the outbreak of hostilities he took arms immediately, commanded a troop of horse in the army of Lord Essex, was present at the relief of Coventry in August, and at the fight at Worcester in September, where he distinguished himself, and subsequently at Edgehill.

By extraordinary good chance it had been overlooked by the landlady, and Coventry Patmore was able to recover it.

Subsequently he held charges at Coventry (1784-1803) and at Fetter Lane, London (1803-1832).

He opposed the execution of Charles I., lived quietly under the Commonwealth, and was assiduous in promoting the king's return; for this he was afterwards offered the bishopric of Coventry and Lichfield, but declined it, it is said, on his wife's persuasion.

A tramway connects with Coventry, and the Coventry canal passes through.

Similar industries are pursued in the populous district (including the villages of Exhall and Foleshill) which extends southward towards Coventry.

Her dress was of Spitalfields silk; her veil of Honiton lace; her ribbons came from Coventry; even her gloves had been made in London of English kid - a novel thing in days when the French had a monopoly in the finer kinds of gloves.

He unsuccessfully contested Coventry in 1863; in 1865 he was elected in the liberal interest for Warwick, for which he sat until his elevation to the peerage.

The chief chronicles for the reign are Gervase of Canterbury's Gesta regum, Ralf of Coggeshall's Chronicon, Walter of Coventry's Memoriale, Roger of Wendover's Flores historiarum, the Annals of Burton, Dunstaple and Margan - all these in the Rolls Series.

One day, approaching Coventry, "the Lord opened to him" that none were true believers but such as were born of God and had passed from death unto life; and this was soon followed by other "openings" to the effect that "being bred at Oxford or Cambridge was not enough to fit and qualify men to be ministers of Christ," and that "God who made the world did not dwell in temples made with hands."

In 1840 he became pattern-designer to a ribbon manufacturer at Coventry; but weary of ill-paid exile he returned the same year to Boulogne, and in 1841 took his degree at Douai.

He declined offers which would have led him into the Anglican ministry or The Bar, and in 1719 entered the very liberal academy for dissenters at Kibworth in Leicestershire, taught at that time by the Rev. John Jennings, whom Doddridge succeeded in the ministry at that place in 1723, declining overtures from Coventry, Pershore and London (Haberdashers' Hall).

He therefore removed to Gloucester, and afterwards (1643-1645) settled in Coventry, where he preached regularly both to the garrison and the citizens.

It lies in the upper valley of the Anker, under well-wooded hills to the west, and is on the Roman Watling Street, and the Coventry canal.

He became bishop of Lichfield and Coventry in 1774, and two years later was selected to be tutor to the prince of Wales and the duke of York.

On his return his father contemplated the publication of some of these youthful poems; but in the meanwhile Coventry had evinced a passion for science and the poetry was set aside.

Wood was attacked by Bishop Burnet in a Letter to the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry (1693, 4to), and defended by his nephew Dr Thomas Wood, in a Vindication of the Historiographer, to which is added the Historiographer's Answer (1693), 4to, reproduced in the subsequent editions of the Athenae.

Abraham Bright was a Wiltshire yeoman, who, early in the 18th century, removed to Coventry, where his descendants remained, and where, in 1775, Jacob Bright was born.

The story is that she was the beautiful wife of Leofric, earl of Mercia and lord of Coventry.

The oldest form of the legend makes Godiva pass through Coventry market from one end to the other when the people were assembled, attended only by two soldiers, her long hair down so that none saw her, " apparentibus cruribus tamen candidissimis."

In 1043 she persuaded her husband to build and endow a Benedictine monastery at Coventry.

Dugdale (1656) says that a window, with representations of Leofric and Godiva, was placed in Trinity Church, Coventry, about the time of Richard II.

The Godiva procession, a commemoration of the legendary ride instituted on the 31st of May 1678 as part of Coventry fair, was celebrated at intervals until 1826.

The wooden effigy of Peeping Tom which, since 1812, has looked out on the world from a house at the north-west corner of Hertford Street, Coventry, represents a man in armour, and was probably an image of St George.

He was the direct author of the attack in December 1670 on Sir John Coventry, and only a few months later received the royal pardon for his share in the wanton murder of a street watchman.

It was successively located at East Moulsey (Surrey), Fawsley (Northampton), Coventry and other places in Warwickshire, and finally at Manchester, where it was seized in August 1589.

It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford and the Central Vermont railways, and by electric lines to Baltic, Norwich and New London, and to South Coventry.

In 1898 he married Lady Anne Coventry, youngest daughter of the earl of Coventry.

Thence she passed through Leicester, Coventry and Warwick, finally entering Oxford, where she met Prince George, in triumph, escorted by a large company.

Educated at Tiverton and Winchester, he graduated at Oxford (Christ Church) in 1821, and after holding an incumbency in Coventry, 1829-1837, and in Leeds, 1837-1859, was nominated dean of Chichester by Lord Derby.

Finally, at Coventry, in October, the Yorkist officials were displaced.

Stubbs's preface to the second volume of Walter of Coventry (" Rolls" ed.), which devotes special attention to Langton.

Returning from Rome he purchased at Pavia a relic said to be an arm of St Augustine of Hippo, for a hundred talents of silver and one of gold, and presented it to the abbey of Coventry.

All the while she was organizing her party; and ultimately, in October 1456 at Coventry, procured some change in the government.

After the Yorkist failure at Ludlow in 1459, it was Margaret's vindictiveness that embittered the struggle by, a wholesale proscription of her opponents in the parliament at Coventry.

The manufacture of woollen and leather goods is a natural result of the raising of live stock; Leicester, Coventry and Nottingham are manufacturing towns of the region.

Birmingham and Coventry may be specially mentioned as centres of the motor and cycle building industry.

For Richard and John the chronicles of Roger of Hoveden, Ralph de IDiceto (Diss), Gervase of Canterbury, Ralph of Coggeshall, and a later continuation of Hoveden, known under the name of Walter of Coventry, are the best narrative authorities.

He was ordained in 1622 and was appointed chaplain to Thomas Lord Coventry (1578-1640).

He was educated at Coventry and later at Christ Church, Oxford, under Richard Busby.

In 1663 he was prebendary of Ripon, in 1667 prebendary of Salisbury, in 1668 archdeacon of Merioneth, in 1672 dean of Bangor and prebendary of St Paul's, London, in 1680 bishop of St Asaph, in 1689 lord-almoner, in 1692 bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, and in 1699 bishop of Worcester.

The first big air raid was carried by the Germans on Coventry on the Thursday night - Good Friday morning 1940.

Coventry City manager Micky Adams has received the backing of Paul Fletcher.

Unfortunately, Coventry has just returned home after an all-night bender at the local watering hole.

The campaign included billboards in Birmingham, Coventry and Dudley as well as posters in local newspapers.

By the end of 1769 the first boatloads of coal were passing through Hawkesbury between Bedworth and Coventry's Bishop Street Canal Basin.

In the mid-1980s three large centrifuges were installed by Paxman for sewage treatment at the Coventry works of the Severn Trent Water Authority.

The only solace for the Coventry supporters was seeing the cheerleaders trying to find a way to dance to the Great Escape.

Gerz, who is a Senior Research Fellow at Coventry University, will be hosting a colloquium on Friday 23 May at 13.30.

Coventry City Ladies hit rock bottom with a 7-1 home drubbing by Blackburn Rovers.

The Coventry music fanzine Martin published between 1979 to 1981.

They could have rearranged the fixture with Coventry but decided early in the week to go ahead and play.

Tongan international flanker Johnny Tuamoheloa is now at Worcester and fly half Dave Harvey has returned to Australia after a spell with Coventry.

The Park, comprising 8.1 hectares of land, is situated within one mile of Coventry City Center.

Trailing by 7 at the half, Coventry's spirited squad took the game by five points at the final hooter.

Coventry rapidly became a center of the engineering industry following the Industrial Revolution.

Coventry streetcars, and subsequently busses, were painted maroon and cream with variations in shade and layout for many years.

The Coventry Environment Network quickly metamorphosed into the The Coventry Community Network.

The league newcomers are by no means strangers to the Coventry crowd.

Yesterday he scored an absolute peach against Coventry where young Welshman Richard Duffy is currently spending his time.

Engraving of Thomas first Lord Coventry; Lord keeper dated to plate 1818 from ' Portraits Of illustrious personages Of Great Britain.

Tell that to the Jaguar workers in Coventry who are being thrown on the scrapheap by multinational profiteer Ford.

The 10 th Earl had removed the roof in 1746, allowing the property to become ruinous (Coventry, 2001 ).

Coventry's post-war rebuilding had led to a ' concrete jungle ' of geometric shapes, which found their way into his work.

Virgin Trains said a signalman had made a mistake in routing the 9.40am service via Coventry, 110 miles from its intended destination.

To my left, a german skinhead wore a Hackett shirt with a Coventry City sticker stuck proudly across the middle.

Coventry Rugby Club have applied for planning permission to build a dual purpose greyhound racing stadium, which is owned by Coventry City Council.

Mr Cairns is a full time shop steward within Coventry City on behalf of the TGWU.

Pete Waterman The pop Svengali was born in Coventry in 1947 but now lives in Warrington.

No doubt people will recount the tale for as long as Coventry exists.

Coventry airport would reach a maximum throughput of 0.25 million tons by 2030 under the SEC scenario.

Dennis Wise has just moved to Coventry City and they have just thumped Derby County 6-1.

Coventry would also benefit from the overspill of freight traffic from the South East.

Coventry & District tramways Act, 1880, provides powers for steam tramway operation.

Craig Reid, an apprentice engineer from Coventry, completes the trio going to the World Final.

To use the vernacular, he was " sent to Coventry " .

Coventry eased off the intensity at the same time allowing the visitors back into the game.

Meanwhile Waynflete himself had been advanced to the highest office in the state, the chancellorship, the seals being delivered to him by the king in the priory of Coventry in the presence of the duke of York, apparently as a person acceptable to both parties.

Waynflete presided as chancellor at the parliament at Coventry in November 1459, which, after the Yorkist catastrophe at Ludlow, attainted the Yorkist leaders.

He was educated in Coventry, became a successful merchant, travelled widely throughout Europe, and for several years was the financial agent of Charles I.

Penry's press, now removed to Fawsley, near Northampton, produced a second tract by Martin, the Epitome, which contains more serious argument than the Epistle but is otherwise similar, and shortly afterwards, at Coventry, Martin's reply to the Admonition, entitled Hay any Worke for Cooper (March 1589).

Meanwhile, in July 1589, Penry's press, now at Wolston, near Coventry, produced two tracts purporting to be by "sons" of Martin, but probably by Martin himself, namely, Theses Martinianae by Martin Junior, and The Just Censure of Martin Junior by Martin Senior.

On the 26th of January 1569 she had been removed from Bolton Castle to Tutbury in Staffordshire, where proposals were conveyed to her, at the instigation of Leicester, for a marriage with the duke of Norfolk, to which she gave a graciously conditional assent; but the discovery of these proposals consigned Norfolk to the Tower, and on the outbreak of an insurrection in the north Mary, by Lord Hunsdon's advice, was again removed to Coventry, when a body of her intending deliverers was within a day's ride of Tutbury.

In 1685 many French refugees settled in Coventry after the religious intolerance associated with the revocation of the edict of Nantes.

A man was robbed at knifepoint as he was sitting in his car at traffic lights in Coventry yesterday.

Crusaders would also develop a training academy at the former Butts Stadium alongside an arena for Coventry rugger club.

The 10 th Earl had removed the roof in 1746, allowing the property to become ruinous (Coventry, 2001).

The Deanery of Coventry and Litchfield was subsequently offered him, which from scruples of conscience, he refused.

You scored a typical DC short-handed goal when you came back to Coventry, that must have been fun?

The occasion saw the home side close out the year with an entertaining festival of showtime basketball which resulted in a win for Coventry.

To my left, a German skinhead wore a Hackett shirt with a Coventry City sticker stuck proudly across the middle.

Pete Waterman The pop svengali was born in Coventry in 1947 but now lives in Warrington.

Coventry City have won 4 of their last 5 away league matches including a 6 - 1 thrashing of local rivals Walsall.

Coventry & District Tramways Act, 1880, provides powers for steam tramway operation.

To use the vernacular, he was " sent to Coventry ".

Clive Owen was born on October 3, 1964, in Coventry, Warwickshire, England.

The Christmas Guitar Chord Songbook - Over 40 songs are available in this publication including Auld Lang Sine, Deck the Halls and Coventry Carol.

The Triumph Motorcycle Company was started at the end of the 19th Century, in Coventry, a town in the center of England.

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Coventry also offers health insurance plans for individuals who quality for Medicare.

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If an employee is injured, Coventry Workers' Comp Services works with both the small business and the employee to help identify cost savings throughout the employee's recovery and to improve the return-to-work rates of injured employees.

Online quote request forms are available on the Coventry website.

In 1640 Lord Coventry died, and Cooper then lived with his brother-in-law at Dorchester House in Covent Garden.

He succeeded Sir William Coventry as commissioner for the state treasury in 1669, and in 1673 was appointed a commissioner for the admiralty.

Two years later he was consecrated bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, and resigned his presidentship. Parliament declared his estates forfeited for treason in 1652, and Cromwell afterwards set a price on his head.

The dispute was to have been decided in the lists at Coventry in September; but at the last moment Richard intervened and banished them both.

King Henry was at Coventry when the news of the landing reached him, and immediately marched to Nottingham, where his army was strengthened by the addition of 6000 men.

His theological sensitiveness appears in his refusal of a preferment offered to him in 1635 by Sir Thomas Coventry, lord keeper of the great seal.