Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

Gladstone finally retired in 1894, and his ineffectual successor, Lord Rosebery, led the party to another heavy defeat in the 1895 general election.

West African affairs, however, by no means exhausted Lord Aberdare's energies, and it was principally through his efforts that a charter was in 1894 obtained for the Cardiff University.

* 1894 – Del Lord, American director ( d. 1970 )

On the evening of 19 April 1894 Ramsay attended a lecture given by Lord Rayleigh.

With his party divided, Gladstone prepared to dissolve Parliament on the issue of the House of Lords ' veto, but was compelled to resign in March 1894 by his colleagues, being replaced by Lord Rosebery.

An abbreviation of this work, which as a book of travel is even more delightful than its predecessors, was published in 1894, shortly after the author's death, with a brief introductory notice by Lord Aberdare.

See also F Hardy, Memoirs of Lord Charlemont ( London, 1812 ); Warden Flood, Memoirs of Henry Flood ( London, 1838 ); Francis Plowden, Historical Review of the State of Ireland ( London, 1803 ); Alfred Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography ( Dublin, 1878 ); Sir Jonah Barrington, Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation ( London, 1833 ); WJ O ' Neill Daunt, Ireland and her Agitators ; Lord Mountmorres, History of the Irish Parliament ( 2 vole., London, 1792 ); Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III ( 4 vols., London, 1845 and 1894 ); Lord Stanhope, Life of William Pitt ( 4 vols., London, 1861 ); Thomas Davis, Life of JP Curran ( Dublin, 1846 ) this contains a memoir of Grattan by DO Madden, and Grattan's reply to Lord Clare on the question of the Union ; Charles Phillips, Recollections of Curran and some of his Contemporaries ( London, 1822 ); JA Froude, The English in Ireland ( London, 1881 ); JG McCarthy, Henry Grattan: an Historical Study ( London, 1886 ); Lord Mahon's History of England, vol.

FitzAlan was elected Member of Parliament for Chichester in 1894, a seat he held until 1921, and served briefly under Arthur Balfour as a Lord of the Treasury in 1905 and under H. H. Asquith and later David Lloyd George as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from 1915 to 1921 ( jointly from December 1916 onwards ).

** Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley ( 1894 – 1938 ), son of 17th Earl and father of 18th Earl.

* The Green Carnation ( 1894 ) by Robert Hichens is based on the relationship between Oscar Wilde and his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas.

Of Balfour's appointment to Asquith's cabinet in 1916, Lord Rosebery, who had been Prime Minister in 1894 – 95, said that having an ex-premier in the cabinet was " a fleeting and dangerous luxury ".

* Del Lord ( 1894 – 1970 ), comedy director

* The Lord Tweedmouth ( 1894 – 1895 )

* William Grosvenor, 3rd Duke of Westminster ( 1894 – 1963 ), only son of Lord Henry Grosvenor, himself third son of the 1st Duke, died unmarried

:* Robert Charles John Manners, Lord Manners ( 1885 – 1894 ), elder son of the 8th Duke, died young

* Salomé, play by Oscar Wilde, French ( 1894 ), translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas, 1895.

In 1894 he was appointed President of the Board of Trade in the new cabinet of Lord Rosebery, but had to leave this office with that whole Liberal cabinet as soon as 1895.

Lord Lansdowne was appointed Viceroy of India in the same year he left Canada, finally returning to England in 1894.

Sir George William Hervey ( 1845 – 1915 ), Comptroller-General and Secretary of the National Debt from 1894 to 1910, was the son of Lord William Hervey ( 1805 – 1850 ), third son of the first Marquess.

The technique of pi – theorem ’ s usage (`` the method of dimensions ’’) became widely known due to the works of Rayleigh ( the first application of the pi – theorem in the general case to the dependence of pressure drop in a pipe upon governing parameters probably dates back to 1892, a heuristic proof with the use of series expansion, to 1894 ).

* William Ewart Gladstone 1880 – 1894

* Sir William Vernon Harcourt 1894 – 1898

* Simon Collier and William F. Sater, A History of Chile, 1808 – 1894, Cambridge University Press, 1996

* 1894 – Warren William, American Broadway and film actor ( d. 1948 )

When the railway opened to Fort William on 7 August 1894, the station was given prime position at the south end of the town.

Towards the end of the century Prime Ministers of Scottish descent included the Tory, Peelite and Liberal William E. Gladstone, who held the office four times between 1868 and 1894.

* 1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.

* Ducher, William ( 1894 ): The Labrador Duck – another specimen, with additional data respecting extant specimens.

Edward William Barton-Wright, a railway engineer who had studied jujitsu while working in Japan between 1894 – 97, was the first man known to have taught Asian martial arts in Europe.

* 1819 – William McMurdo, English army officer ( d. 1894 )

* 1894 – William George Barker, Canadian First World War fighter ace ( d. 1930 )

The two haploid and diploid terms were borrowed from German through William Henry Lang's 1908 translation of a 1894 textbook by Eduard Strasburger and colleagues.

In 1894, with the help of William Pickering, Percival Lowell, a wealthy Bostonian, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.

In his Course in General Linguistics, Saussure himself credits the American linguist William Dwight Whitney ( 1827 – 1894 ) with insisting on the arbitrary nature of the sign.

The Democratic Party, led by William Jennings Bryan, advocated the income tax law passed in 1894, and proposed an income tax in its 1908 platform.

A few days after he relinquished the premiership, Gladstone wrote to George William Erskine Russell on 6 March 1894:

* September 24 – Warren William, American actor ( b. 1894 )

When Gladstone retired after the defeat of the second Home Rule Bill in 1894, the Welsh Liberal members chose him to serve on a deputation to William Harcourt to press for specific assurances on Welsh issues ; when those were not provided, they resolved to take independent action if the government did not bring a bill for disestablishment.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Abelle, Victor: " Pierrot and Pierrette " ( 1906 ; piano ); Foote, Arthur: " Pierrot " and " Pierrette ", from Five Bagatelles ( c. 1894 ; piano ); Hoiby, Lee: " Pierrot " ( 1950 ; # 2 of Night Songs for voice and piano ; text by Adelaide Crapsey above under # Poetry | Poetry ); Neidlinger, William Harold: Piano Sketches ( 1905 ; # 5: " Pierrot "; # 7: " Columbine "); Oehmler, Leo: " Pierrot and Pierrette – Petite Gavotte " ( 1905 ; violin and piano ).

* William Ehrlich, bank clerk, born 8 August 1894.

* William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom four times between 1868 and 1894

Image from the Dickson Experimental Sound Film ( 1894 or 1895 ), produced by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson | W. K. L.

* William George ' Billy ' Barker, VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Two Bars ( 1894 – 1930 ), LCOL, 201 Squadron, RAF.