Определение frederick henry в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
Dutch Frederik Hendrik born Jan. 29, 1584, Delft, Holland died March 14, 1647, The Hague Third hereditary stadtholder (1625-47) of the Dutch Republic. He succeeded his half brother, Maurice of Nassau, as prince of Orange and count of Nassau. Like his father, William I, Frederick Henry continued the war of independence against Spain. By establishing hereditary succession to the stadtholdership for the house of Orange, he exercised semimonarchical powers. A successful strategist, he was responsible for the United Provinces' foreign policy, beginning negotiations that led to a favourable treaty with Spain in 1648
born June 26, 1853, London, Eng. died June 24, 1943, London British photographer. He first attracted attention as a popular London bookseller and champion of the work of George Bernard Shaw and Aubrey Beardsley. Around 1890 he began to photograph English and French cathedrals, and from 1898 he devoted himself exclusively to photography. His belief that only static views of idealized beauty were worth photographing clashed with the early 20th-century tendency to photograph fleeting images, but his architectural photographs are considered among the world's finest
{i} Sir Henry Royce, Henry Royce (1863-1933), English car manufacturer who was the cofounder of the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing company (together with Charles Stewart Rolls)