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Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 3858 English: habitational name from the county of Essex, whose name is from Old English ēast ‘east’ + Seaxe ‘Saxons’. In England, the surname is now particularly common in...
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain
... 1881: 957; widespread in central and S England: especially Warwicks. English: locative name from the county of Essex...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... Essex girl A materialistic, intellectually vapid notional resident of Essex. Despite the apparent link, the Essex girl is not a true counterpart to essex man , but a simple regional stereotype without political significance. Her supposed promiscuity and tarty appearance (short skirt, clunking gold jewellery, white stiletto heels) made her the butt of a variety of sneering jokes during the 1980s (example: ‘How does an Essex girl turn the light on after sex?’ ‘She kicks the car door open’). See also sharon ; tracy . Essex lion A 17th- to 19th-century...
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The Oxford Companion to Chaucer
... , the English county (between Suffolk and the Thames). Chaucer's family had been merchants in Ipswich nearby, but he mentions the county only once (III.218), in connection with the town Dunmowe...
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The Kings and Queens of Britain (2 ed.)
... Essex, the kingdom of the East Saxons, was settled in the fifth century, the dynasty tracing its pedigree back to Seaxnet, a Saxon deity. There were a number of sub-groups, such as the Brahhingas (people of Braughing) or the Rodingas (people of the river Roding). Overshadowed by its northern neighbour, East Anglia, its future depended mainly on the possession of London. At times the kingdom stretched into Middlesex and Surrey, and the diocese of London, founded in 604 , was specifically for the people of Essex. But the rulers of Kent wielded much power in...
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Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope
... , favourite hunting county for Trollope but scarce in fictional locations. George Bertram , senior, lives at Hadley about a mile from Barnet ( B ). The Shands live at Pollington ( JC ). MRS Monika Rydygier...
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Place Names (6 ed.)
...Essex , Canada, UK, USA UK (England): one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and previously East Seaxe and Exsessa; a county named after the East Saxons from the Old English Seaxe ‘Saxons’ who may have taken their name from seax ‘knife’ or ‘dagger’, possibly their favourite weapon....
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
... (East Saxons) An AS kingdom supposedly founded by Æscwin in 527 ; the region was settled from the early 6th century. By about 600 , the East Saxons had absorbed the Middle Saxon kingdom including *London . In 604 , St Mellitus , first bishop of London and third archbishop of *Canterbury , converted King Sæbert , and *Æthelbert of Kent built the church of St Paul in *London ; Essex had close ties with *Kent , and Sæbert was Æthelbert ’s sister’s son. After Æthelbert ’s and Sæbert ’s deaths in 616 , Essex reverted to paganism until...
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World Encyclopedia
... County in se England; the county town is Chelmsford. Colonized by the Romans at Colchester , the Anglo-Saxons invaded it in the 5th century, and later came under Danish control. Low lying on the e coast, the land rises to the nw , providing pasture for dairy and sheep farming. Wheat, barley, and sugar beet are grown. Industries: machinery, electrical goods. Area: 3674sq km (1419sq mi). Pop. ( 2001 )...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
... (earldom) Title granted to Geoffrey de *Mandeville (d. 1144 ) in 1140 . The earldom and vast Mandeville inheritance came through marriage into the possession of the FitzPeters, the Bohun earls of *Hereford , Thomas of Woodstock ( 1355–97 ), and the Bourchiers, few of whom were as influential as the first four earls. RáGena C. DeAragon The Complete Peerage of Britain … , ed. G. E. Cokayne , 13 vols in 14 (1887), vol....
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J. A. Cannon
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
...while Epping, Braintree, and Chelmsford became commuter towns, disgorging into Liverpool Street. By 1991 , Essex, with a population of 1,400,000, was third only to Hampshire and Kent among counties. In the 1980s the concept of ‘Essex man’, upwardly mobile, fast-driving, Tory-minded, brought the shire back into national consciousness. The recommendations of the Banham commission report on local government ( 1994 ) were implemented, Essex retaining county status, and Southend constituting a unitary authority. J. A....
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A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
...perhaps because it was more central. For centuries Essex remained something of a backwater. Colchester was a sizeable town, the centre for a vigorous cloth trade, but most of the other towns—Saffron Walden, Thaxted, Braintree, Romford, Waltham Abbey, Dunmow, Halstead, and Ongar—were of only local importance. The shire provided London with fresh vegetables, but for many years the marshes remained a barrier to urban expansion. As late as 1907 , the Victoria County History could write that Essex was ‘one of the purely agricultural counties of England,...
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A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.)
..., Lady ( Britten : Gloriana ). Mez. Frances, Countess of Essex. Her husband is a favourite of the Queen, who is jealous of Frances. At a dance in the Palace of Whitehall, the Queen orders all the ladies to change their clothes. Lady Essex's beautiful gown disappears. It has been taken by the Queen, who appears in it looking ridiculous as it fits very badly. Lady Essex's humiliation is equally matched by the Queen's. Created ( 1953 ) by Monica Sinclair...
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The Oxford Companion to German Literature (3 ed.)
...Essex , a five-act tragedy by H. Laube , first performed at the Burgtheater, Vienna, in February 1856 , and published in that year. It is chiefly in blank verse with some humorous scenes in prose. Remarkably competent, though uninspired, it treats the well-known story of the rebellion of the Earl of Essex, and of the opportunity to save him by the ring entrusted to Lady Nottingham. Laube's Essex is not the victim of the rancour of a spurned woman; he refuses to send the ring to Elizabeth because it is the pledge of an impure love. The Nottinghams and Cecil...
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Moira Goff
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
..., John (born c. 1680 , died February 1744 ), English dancer, writer, and dancing master. Nothing is known of Essex's early life and training, but in the early 1700s he was appearing as a dancer at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and probably teaching dancing and music as well. In 1703 Christopher Rich , the owner of the Drury Lane, dropped him as a dancer after a dispute involving an appeal to the lord chamberlain. Essex then retired from the stage and concentrated on writing and establishing his fashionable practice as a dancing master. Essex's work...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
..., James ( 1722–84 ) English architect , one of the best of the early Gothic Revivalists . He designed many works in a Classical style in Cambridge, but is important as among the very first to understand the structural properties of Gothic , publishing several pioneering papers on medieval buildings in the Journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and writing an (unpublished) history of Gothic architecture in England. He designed the Beauclerk Tower and Gothic Gate at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Mddx. ( 1776 ), for Walpole , and carried out...
Hemphill, Essex (b. 16 April 1957) Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present
...Essex ( b. 16 April 1957 ; d. 4 November 1995 ), poet , activist , essayist , and social critic. Essex C. Hemphill was born into a working-class family in Chicago. The second oldest of five children, he grew up in Anderson, Indiana; Columbia, South Carolina; and the southeast region of Washington, D.C. Hemphill began writing at the age of fourteen. After graduating from Washington, D.C.'s Ballou High School he studied English and journalism at the University of Maryland, completing his degree at the University of the District of Columbia. Even though...
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Anne Button
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
..., Earl of . He presents the Bastard and Falconbridge to John, King John 1.1. Anne...
Essex–Lopresti injury Reference library
A-Z of Plastic Surgery
...–Lopresti injury Longitudinal radioulnar instability with: • Displaced fracture of the radial head. • Disruption of the interosseous membrane and distal radioulnar ligament. • Proximal migration of the radius. See Ulnocarpal impaction syndrome...
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A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.)
..., Earl of 1 ( Britten : Gloriana ). Ten. Robert Devereux, husband of Frances and brother of Penelope, Lady Rich. Essex is a favourite courtier of Queen Elizabeth I and entreats her to make him viceroy of Ireland. After the Queen has attempted to humiliate his wife (but only succeeded in making herself look a fool), she appoints Essex to the Irish post he has coveted. He fails in his campaign there and, arriving back in London, bursts in on the Queen when she is only partly dressed and without her wig. Essex tries to incite the Londoners to rebellion and is...
