Meanings of noble patron in English

This place I named port Montague in honour of my noble patron.

Mr. Havisham preferred to express his noble patron's offer in smoother and more courteous language.

So I set off with my noble patron.

In regard to Essex, nobody can approve of the ingratitude which Bacon showed to his noble patron.

The noble patron replied by a refusal, advising the burial of the poet as a pauper at Northampton.

A light Bundle of lively Discourses, called Churchyard's Charge 1580, dedicated to his noble patron the Earl of Surry.

His noble patron, indeed, usually made these visits as disagreeable as it lay in his lordly power to make them.

My noble patron had already left the castle with a small retinue, and I was too late to meet him.

The first book (as we have it now) is dedicated to Varro, a noble patron of art and literature.

Surely, if adverse physical circumstances preclude profession in person, the next best thing is to become a noble patron of art.

Clare suffered much, but had not the courage to confess it to his noble patron, whose good intentions he fully understood.

I see by the same channel that the honoured REMAINS of my noble patron, are designed to be brought to the family burial-place.

I have gained for our undertaking the assistance and protection of a rich and noble patron, a true servant of the deceased king.

But Coalition failed, as coalitions always do, and Tifto had to report to his noble patron that they had not pulled off the event.

The retention of Joseph Werner was presumably due to the thoughtful kindness of his noble patron, but it was bound to lead to awkward situations.

Suppose for instance that some great lord, or other noble patron of the arts, should send thee a couple of years to Rome;-butI forget.