Catesby
Americannoun
noun
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As Catesby remarks in Shakespeare's "Richard III": "'tis a vile thing to die... When men are unprepared and look not for it."
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2022
Matthew Duckett, who plays Catesby, one of Richard's acolytes, is also disabled.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2022
You will remember that last year Kit Harington starred in Gunpowder, a BBC One period drama about his distant ancestor Robert Catesby.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2018
Kit Harington, the British actor best known as the moody Snow in HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” is a descendant of Robert Catesby, the leader of the Gunpowder Plot.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2017
The plot, however, could not have been occasioned by these measures, for it had been already conceived in the mind of Robert Catesby.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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