The encounter between Hernando Cortes and Montezuma II Product:Postcard 'Carry On' actor and star

'Carry On' actor and star of the Thames television situation comedy show Bless This House pictured ahead of his visit to Australia where he will star in a stage farce called 'Marriage Fever'

Plate 25 from Bright's Medical Reports: Diseases of the brain and Nervous System part 2 by Richard Bright (London

he had been dubbed the 'Grand Old Man' by Henry Labouchere in 1881

Rutherford grew up in rural New Zealand

The encounter between Hernando Cortes and Montezuma II Product:Postcard 'Carry On' actor and starThe encounter between Hernando Cortes and Montezuma II, Mexico, 1519 (c1820 1839). Cortes (1485 1547) was the Spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico and overthrew the Aztec Empire ruled by Montezuma. Landing in Mexico in 1519, with a force of only some 600 men, Cortes succeeded in overthrowing the empire of the Aztecs, a civilization numbering 5 million. He was able to achieve this partly due to the natives being terrified of the Europeans' horses