Sir Henry Wotton (/ˈwʊtən/; 30 March 1568 – December 1639) was an English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1625...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (redirect from Lord Henry Wotton)
artist infatuated with Dorian's beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton and is soon enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that...
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Henry Wotton or Wooton was the son of John Wotton of North Tudenham and Margaret Brampton. He was the brother of John Wotton of Tudenham, Norfolk, whose...
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Wotton may refer to: Wotton, Barbados Wotton, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England Wotton, Quebec, Canada Wotton, Surrey, England Wotton House, Surrey...
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screenplay by Rowland Talbot Starring Henry Victor as Dorian Gray; Sydney Bland as Basil Hallward; Jack Jordan as Henry Wotton; Pat O'Malley as Sibyl Vane Das...
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film was directed by Albert Lewin, and stars George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton and Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray. Shot primarily in black-and-white,...
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Dorian Gray begins on a summer day in Victorian England, where Lord Henry Wotton, an opinionated man, is observing the sensitive artist Basil Hallward...
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his life, Walton published biographies of subjects including Donne and Henry Wotton. These were later collected as Walton's Lives. Walton's literary admirers...
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George Sanders (redirect from George Henry Sanders)
(1945) as Dr. Allan Middleton The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) as Lord Henry Wotton The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) as Harry Melville Quincey A...
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parallels with the character of Mephistopheles and the character Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Although Mephistopheles...
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deaths of Crashaw and of another member of Donne's literary circle, Henry Wotton. Here, however, though Cowley acknowledges Crashaw briefly as a writer...
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whirlwind by the charismatic Lord Henry "Harry" Wotton, who introduces Gray to the hedonistic pleasures of the city. Henry's friend, society artist Basil Hallward...
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(2007) – Henry Wotton The Cry (2007) – Detective Scott National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) – John Wilkes Booth Henry May Long (2008) – Henry May Dexter...
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Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). pp. 722–724. see footnote 2 = The Life, by Sir Henry Wotton, gives August 20th as the most likely date of his birth..... Gregg, Pauline...
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his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), when the character Lord Henry Wotton remarks: "It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely...
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Palace of Westminster. In 1578, her brother-in-law, Henry Wotton (not to be confused with Sir Henry Wotton), the brother of her late second husband, published...
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Winterbottom 2009 A Christmas Carol Fred Robert Zemeckis Dorian Gray Lord Henry Wotton Oliver Parker A Single Man George Falconer Tom Ford St Trinian's 2: The...
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Malherbe, Kent, England. It is the historic home of the Wotton family and birthplace of Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639), ambassador to Venice under James I. A...
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in As You Like It and the fool in King Lear. In 1613, Sir Henry Wotton recorded that Henry VIII "was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of...
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Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton (1548–1626) was an English diplomat and administrator. From 1612 to 1613, he served as a Lord of the Treasury. Wotton was...
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the equivalent of George Nicolson in Edinburgh. The English diplomat Henry Wotton later gave an anecdote that Elizabeth had once noticed mail arriving...
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first translator of the ancient Welsh laws. William Wotton was the second son of the Rev. Henry Wotton, rector of Wrentham, Suffolk. He was a child prodigy...
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Shirley – Sir John Suckling – Henry Vaughan – Edmund Waller – John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester – George Wither – Sir Henry Wotton Anna Laetitia Barbauld – William...
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film) as Rosso Count Dracula (1970) as Van Helsing Dorian Gray (1970) as Henry Wotton Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) as René Marot Hawaii Five-O ("Highest...
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immoral, having been influenced by the hedonistic outlook on life of Lord Henry Wotton. Jeet Thayil's debut novel, Narcopolis (2012), is largely set in an opium...
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Basil Hallward Herbert Lom as Henry Wotton Marie Liljedahl as Sibyl Vane / Gladys Monmouth Margaret Lee as Gwendolyn Wotton Maria Rohm as Alice Campbell...
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Major's 2nd ed., 1824) Walton, Izaak. The Lives of – John Donne – Sir Henry Wotton – Richard Hooker – George Herbert & Robert Sanderson Woolf, Virginia...
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around £6,000. He was a nephew of Francis Bacon and a friend of Sir Henry Wotton with whom he would often talk about his uncle's scientific experiments...
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Raych Seldon in Apple TV+ science fiction series Foundation, and Harry Wotton in a 2021 adaption of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Enoch returned to the...
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poem in praise of Elizabeth was written by the courtier and poet Sir Henry Wotton The Winter Queen plays a seminal role in Neal Stephenson's The Baroque...
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