The first syllable of the term bretwalda may be related to ' Briton ' or ' Britain ' and would thus mean ' sovereign of Britain ' or ' wielder of Britain '.

The latter etymology was first suggested by John Mitchell Kemble who alluded that " of six manuscripts in which this passage occurs, one only reads Bretwalda: of the remaining five, four have Bryten-walda or-wealda, and one Breten-anweald, which is precisely synonymous with Brytenwealda "; that Æthelstan was called brytenwealda ealles ðyses ealondes, which Kemble translates as " ruler of all these islands "; and that bryten-is a common prefix to words meaning ' wide or general dispersion ' and that the similarity to the word bretwealh (' Briton ') is " merely accidental ".

She plays a central role in the first part of G. A. Henty's novel Beric the Briton and in a children's novel by Henry Treece.

* 1995 – Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.

Sir Harry, the first Briton to win the chemistry prize in over ten years, received the prize in 1996 for the discovery of a new class of carbon compounds known as the fullerenes.

The first Briton to set his foot on Zambian soil was David Livingstone.

* February 9 – STS-63: Dr. Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale became the first African American and Briton, respectively, to walk in space.

The first Women's Elite Race was won by Briton Joyce Smith in 2: 29: 57.

He was the first Briton to be killed in a flying accident, when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display near Bournemouth, England.

He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident with a powered aircraft, and the eleventh internationally.

It satisfied European expectations that the earliest humans would be found in Eurasia, and the British, it has been claimed, also wanted a first Briton to set against fossil hominids found elsewhere in Europe, including France and Germany.

One of Richardson's first major printing contracts came in June 1723 when he began to print the bi-weekly The True Briton for Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton.

In 1991, British chemist Helen Sharman was selected from a pool of 13, 000 applicants to be the first Briton in space.

* When Briton Maurice Micklewhite first became an actor, he adopted the stage name " Michael Scott ".

" Chapter X Sir Thomas Staines " pp. 366-367 In November 2009 a logbook kept by midshipman J. B. Hoodthorp of HMS Briton detailing the first contact with the mutineers was auctioned for over £ 40, 000 by Cheffin's Auction House in Cambridge.

Despite a legend assigning its foundation to an alleged Briton king, St. Lucius, the first known bishop is one Asinio in 451 AD.

The museum was founded by two antique collectors, an American, Dallas Pratt ( August 21, 1914 – May 20, 1994 ) and a Briton, John Judkyn ( 1913 – July 27, 1963 ) and opened to the public for the first time on July 1, 1961.

He was the first Briton to serve in this capacity.

Thus Barry would be the first female assigned at birth Briton to become a qualified medical doctor.

Despite a legend assigning its foundation to an alleged Briton king, St. Lucius, the first known bishop is one Asinio in 451 AD.

At Hotchkiss, he first met Briton Hadden, who would become a lifelong partner.

Grenville's first act was to prosecute John Wilkes for publishing in The North Briton newspaper an article deriding King ' George III's speech made on 23 April 1763.

* Film trailer of A Dream of Flight a documentary that celebrates the centenary of the first powered flight by a Briton in Britain, JTC Moore Brabazon, in 1909 on The Isle of Sheppey.

There is, however, only one known account from a native Briton who lived at this time in the mid 5th Century A. D., ( Gildas ), and his description is of a forced takeover: For the fire ... spread from sea to sea, fed by the hands of our foes in the east, and did not cease, until, destroying the neighbouring towns and lands, it reached the other side of the island, and dipped its red and savage tongue in the western ocean.

For never Briton more disdain ’ d a Slave: Peace to the gentle Shade, and endless Rest, Blest in thy Genius, in thy love too blest ; And blest, that timely from Our Scene remov ’ d Thy Soul enjoys that Liberty it lov ’ d.

For 1987, Ford had planned to introduce an " Evolution " variant of the RS200, featuring a development of the BDT engine ( called BDT-E ) displacing 2137 cc, developed by Briton Brian Hart.

For 2008, they enter the British Touring Car Championship, running Alfa Romeos for white Jamaican Matthew Gore and 18-year-old black Briton Darelle Wilson.

For many golf fans he is best known for the bunker shot at the 18th hole in the final round of the Masters in 1988 when he became the first Briton to wear the green jacket.

In 2008, Paul Gibbs, a Briton from Leeds, UK was attacked by three men.

He was Peruvian Briton as a result of his father's nationality.

Tradition holds that Ninian was a Briton who had studied in Rome, that he established an episcopal see at the Candida Casa in Whithorn, that he named the see for Saint Martin of Tours, that he converted the southern Picts to Christianity, and that he is buried at Whithorn.

Bede says that Ninian was a Briton who had been instructed in Rome ; that he made his church of stone, which was unusual among the Britons ; that his episcopal see was named after Saint Martin of Tours ; that he preached to and converted the southern Picts ; that his base was at " hwit ærn ", which was in the province of the Bernicians ; and that he was buried there, along with many other saints.

Then there was the attempted arrest of John Wilkes for seditious libel against the King in the notorious issue No. 45 of his The North Briton in early 1763.

* " Caractacus Seagoon " was the name given to Harry Secombe's Ancient Briton character (" He's up early.

Some modern scholars suggest that Gildas ' text implies that Aurelius Ambrosius was the Briton leader at Badon.

This may indicate that Cerdic was a native Briton, and that his dynasty became Anglicised over time.

Briton Kevin Finnegan was stopped in 8.

This story is repeated uncritically in some later histories, and subsequently " Malgo the Briton " is mentioned in Thomas Stephens ' notes on an 1888 publication of Y Gododdin, with the stated suggestion that Maelgwn was an ally of " Aeddan " against the Pictish king Bridei.

The Christiansens are inspired by samples of the " Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Brick ", a design patented by the Briton Mr. Harry Fisher Page.

The novel Coalescent by Stephen Baxter depicts Aurelianus as a general to Artorius, Briton and basis for the legend of King Arthur.

This battle is of interest because it is surprising that an area so far east should still be in Briton hands this late: there is ample archaeological evidence of early Saxon and Anglian presence in the Midlands, and historians generally have interpreted Gildas's De Excidio as implying that the Britons had lost control of this area by the mid-sixth century.

TfL's Tube map and " roundel " logo are instantly recognisable by any Londoner, almost any Briton and many people around the world.

* St. David the Briton, in St. Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury Or the Apostolic Church of Britain by Lionel Smithett Lewis, page 198

* In a 2006 poll by BBC History magazine for " worst Briton " of the previous millennium, Becket came second behind Jack the Ripper.

Following the fire the government prohibited quick rebuilding, so it could implement the new redesign of the city according to the European-style urban plan prepared by a group of architects, including the Briton Thomas Mawson, and headed by French architect Ernest Hébrard.

The most common of these is Snowflex, manufactured near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire in England by Briton Engineering Developments Limited.

* Caractacus is the subject of a Victorian poem called Caractacus the Briton by William Stewart Ross, published 1881 in a collection titled Lays of Romance and Chivalry, and distinguished by the refrain, " Caractacus the Briton, the bravest of the brave!

Some elements may have been introduced to Ireland by the Briton St. Patrick, later others spread from Ireland to Britain with the Irish mission system of Saint Columba.

Nikolai Tolstoy describes Efnisien as " the gallant if peevish Briton who selflessly sacrifices himself for his comrades ", while he is characterised by Proinsias Mac Cana as a force of " irrational malice and hate ".

It is said that the highway that connects Angleton and West Columbia ( and also runs through Bailey's Prairie ) is haunted by the ghost of one James Briton Bailey-for whom the area was named.

In 2005 he was selected by the BBC History Magazine as the 18th century's worst Briton.