Pirbright is a village in Surrey, England. Pirbright is in the borough of Guildford and has a civil parish council covering the traditional boundaries of the area. Pirbright contains one buffered sub-locality, Stanford Common near the nation's farm animal disease research institute. The village's grade II* listed medieval church has a large Boulder grave for explorer Henry Morton Stanley. The nearby section of Hodge Brook is also known as the Congo Stream, between Ruwenzori Hills and Stanley Pool.
John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly PC, known as Sir John Romilly between 1848 and 1866, was an English Whig politician and judge. He served in Lord John Russell's first administration as Solicitor-General from 1848 to 1850 and as Attorney-General from 1850 and 1851. The latter year he was appointed Master of the Rolls, a post he held until 1873. Knighted in 1848, he was ennobled as Baron Romilly in 1866.
Sir Samuel Romilly was a British lawyer, Whig politician, abolitionist and legal reformer. Born in London of French Huguenot descent, he was largely self-educated and escaped poverty through a fortuitous inheritance that allowed travel. From a background in the commercial world, Romilly became well-connected, and rose to public office as Solicitor-General for England and Wales (1806–1807) and a prominent position in Parliament, where he sat for Horsham (1807–1808), Wareham (1808–1812), Arundel (1812–1818), and finally Westminster.
William II de Croÿ, Lord of Chièvres was the chief tutor and First Chamberlain to Charles V. He was from the House of Croÿ.
The House of Dalberg is the name of an ancient and distinguished German noble family, derived from the hamlet and castle of Dalberg or Dalburg, near Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate. They were the ruling family of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt.
Jacqueline Worms de Romilly was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. She was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Académie française.
Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright PC, DL, JP, FRS, known before his elevation to the peerage in 1895 as Baron Henry de Worms, was a British Conservative politician.
Baron Romilly, of Barry in the County of Glamorgan, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 3 January 1866 for Sir John Romilly, the Master of the Rolls and former Solicitor General and Attorney General. He was the second son of the legal reformer Sir Samuel Romilly. The Romilly family were of French Huguenot descent.
Prince Hubertus zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg was a German historian and political figure who was an early opponent of Adolf Hitler. He fled Germany and helped to promote anti-Nazism in the United States. He was a former member of Parliament, and was the author of over 40 books. He was the head of the Free German Authors Association, and was decorated by Pope John XXIII for work toward reconciliation between the Roman Catholic and the Greek Orthodox church.
Baron Charles George Maurice de Worms was an English chemist and lepidopterist.
William Otter was the first Principal of King's College, London, who later served as Bishop of Chichester.
The Rothschild family is a European family of German Jewish origin that established European banking and finance houses from the late eighteenth century.
Aaron ben Moses Teomim, was a Czech-Polish rabbinical scholar. While a preacher at Prague, he was called as rabbi to Worms in 1670, later holding the rabbinical seat of Cracow (Kraków), Poland. Soon after taking up the Cracow post, a politically- or financially-motivated order for his arrest was made: His death occurred as a result of mistreatment during his transfer to prison. Works published during his lifetime included scriptural discourse and commentary; his work on the Haggadah was reprinted several times in the decades after his death. Later, his approach to textual analysis and discussion, pilpulism, fell into disfavour.
The 1895 Liverpool East Toxteth by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 29 November 1895 for the British House of Commons constituency of Liverpool East Toxteth.
George de Worms, 2nd Baron de Worms (1829–1912) was an Austrian aristocrat, and an English public official and banker.
Baron Anthony Denis Maurice George de Worms was an Austrian aristocrat and an English philatelist.
Baron Solomon Benedict de Worms was an Austrian aristocrat, plantation owner in Ceylon, and stockbroker in London.
Maurice Benedict de Worms (1805–1867) was an Austrian plantation owner in Ceylon.
Worm, Worms or de Worms is a surname. People with the surname include:
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Jacobs, Joseph (1906). "Worms". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia . Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 565.