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    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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    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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    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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    (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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Thomas Wotton (1521–1587), was a sheriff of Kent, the son of Sir Edward Wotton and father of Edward Wotton, the 1st Baron Wotton. He was the brother of...
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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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    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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