Shēr Shah's son, Islam, or Salīm Shah, was a man of ability and maintained Afghan rule despite dissensions.
Brittan's daughter's biographer (Rosamund Rolleston, his great-granddaughter) described him as "a man of ability and a polished speaker [his] biting, sarcastic manner made him both feared and disliked", and as "quarrelsome and uncompromising".
Bligh's later official account to the Admiralty lists Heywood with Christian, Edward Young and George Stewart as the mutiny's leaders, describing Heywood as a young man of abilities for whom he had felt a particular regard.
The former, which made clear the relative stations of court officials by giving them caps of different colours, aimed to encourage the appointment of men of ability and give the court a proper organization and etiquette of its own.
Great men of ability started out as idiots before they learned, practiced, and became great.
Theobald's household included many young men of ability, including his successor Thomas Becket.
To remedy these ills, a new Batavian constitution on the political principles of the Consulate (union, authority, political office for men of ability and social station) was needed.
St Paul's, commonly known as the Actors Churchh, was designed by Inigo Jones as part of a commission by Francis Russell in 1631 to create "houses and buildings fitt for the habitacons of Gentlemen and men of ability".
Two generations later President Kennedy became the first Irish Catholic, and the first Catholic, to head the nation; but how many men of ability had, before 1961, been denied the opportunity to contribute to the nation's progress because they were Catholic or because they were of Irish extraction?
Gleason was a man of immense ability, but one of those abilities was not memorizing a script.
Washington felt, "Aides de camp are persons in whom entire confidence must be placed and it requires men of abilities to execute the duties with propriety and dispatch".
