John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh | Lord Rayleigh's method for the isolation of argon, based on an experiment of Henry Cavendish's.

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.

Analytic theorists like Henry Home, Lord Kames, William Hogarth, and Edmund Burke hoped to reduce beauty to some list of attributes.

When it fell to the British Raj, the fort was dismantled on the orders of Lord William Bentinck and was converted into a sanatorium for the British troops stationed at the garrison town of Nasirabad.

* Lord Abergavenny is a character in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII.

The office of Lord High Admiral passed a number of times in and out of commission until 1709, after which the office was almost permanently in commission ( the last Lord High Admiral being the future King William IV in the early 19th century ).

The Christian hymn " The Lord is in His Holy Temple ", written in 1900 by William J. Kirkpatrick, is based on verse 2: 20.

The 1890s were marred by infighting between the three principal successors to Gladstone, party leader William Harcourt, former Prime Minister Lord Rosebery, and Gladstone's personal secretary, John Morley.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

Attlee's short list of Resignation Honours announced in November 1951 included an Earldom for William Jowitt, Lord Chancellor.

The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.

Some, such as Lord Herbert of Cherbury and William Wollaston, held that souls exist, survive death, and in the afterlife are rewarded or punished by God for their behavior in life.

William Thomson ( Lord Kelvin ) amalgamated all of these laws into the laws of thermodynamics, which aided in the rapid development of explanations of chemical processes by Rudolf Clausius, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and Walther Nernst.

Alberic, or Aubrey de Vere, sided with William the Conqueror, and after 1066 was rewarded with many estates, as well as being made hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, one of the six Great Officers of State.

He had two elder brothers, William Earle Lytton Bulwer ( 1799 – 1877 ) and Henry ( 1801 – 1872 ), later Lord Dalling and Bulwer.

William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham may have become aware of the offensive representation after a public performance ; he may also have learned of it while it was being prepared for a court performance ( Cobham was at that time Lord Chamberlain ).

William Fairfax, Lawrence's father-in-law and cousin of Virginia's largest landowner, Thomas, Lord Fairfax, was also a formative influence.

Sketch of Whirlpool Galaxy | Messier 51 by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse | Lord Rosse in 1845, later known as the Whirlpool Galaxy

Sir William McKell ( 1947 – 53 ) was knighted during his term of office, but all the other governors-general until 1989 were already either peers or knights ; the only Australian peer was Lord Casey ( 1965 – 69 ).

Lord Dunrossil ( as William Morrison ) was Speaker of the UK House of Commons.

More recent Governors-General in this category include Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck, Sir John Kerr, Sir Ninian Stephen, Bill Hayden and Sir William Deane.

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

In Canada, a similar situation took place in 1925 wherein Governor General Lord Byng of Vimy appointed Arthur Meighen after William Lyon Mackenzie King refused to resign the premiership ( known as the King-Byng Affair ).

Scholars have often speculated that Hamlet < nowiki ></ nowiki >' s Polonius might have been inspired by William Cecil ( Lord Burghley )— Lord High Treasurer and chief counsellor to Queen Elizabeth I. E. K. Chambers suggested Polonius's advice to Laertes may have echoed Burghley's to his son Robert Cecil.

British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

He became embroiled in a lively bisexual love-triangle with the politician John Hervey, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .< ref > Rictor Norton, " John, Lord Hervey: The Third Sex ", The Great Queens of History.

It reviews his own literary career and includes the famous portraits of Lord Hervey (" Sporus ") and Addison (" Atticus ").

Courtier Lord Hervey called Walpole " the Queen's minister " in recognition of their close relationship.

The memoirist and gossip, John, Lord Hervey, for example, described the newly built Villa as ' Too small to live in, and too big to hang to a watch '.

Left to right ; Christoper Arkell & Lord Nicholas Hervey ( standing ) Gregory Lauder-Frost ( speaking to Arkell ), Countess Georgina Tolstoy, Count Nikolai Tolstoy ( seated under picture ), unknown man, Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley | Lord Sudeley and John P Bullen Stean ( with glasses ) at a dinner on 12 March 1990, at London's United Oxford & Cambridge Club

In February 1979 Lord Nicholas Hervey was elected as President of the International Youth Association of the League, and contributed in the July 1981 edition of The Monarchist an article entitled " The Youth Association Spreading its Wings ".

Lord Nicholas Hervey remained active in the league until 1992 when he retired due to ill health.

However, the Monarchist League remained in close contact with the Canadian group, and on 11 March 1989, Lord Nicholas Hervey had a long meeting at London's Savoy Hotel with Mr John Aimers, then Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada, in order to examine ways in which the two groups could co-operate more closely.

* The Lord Hervey ( 1740 – 1742 )

Lord Hervey published an attack on the Craftsman, and Pulteney, either openly or behind the person of Amhurst, its editor, replied to the attack.

For his " Proper reply to a late scurrilous libel " ( Craftsman, 1731 ), an answer to " Sedition and defamation displayed ," he was challenged to a duel by Lord Hervey ; for another, " An answer to one part of an infamous libel entitled remarks on the Craftsman's indication of his two honourable patrons ," he was in July 1731 struck off the roll of privy councillors and dismissed from the commission of the peace in several counties.

Her older half-brothers were the 7th Marquess of Bristol and Lord Nicholas Hervey, both deceased.

His second son, John Augustus Hervey, Lord Hervey, was a Captain in the Royal Navy and also served as ambassador to Florence.

The 3rd Marquess died without male issue and was succeeded in turn by two of his nephews, the sons of Lord Augustus Hervey, second son of the 2nd Marquess.

The 6th Marquess's only child from his second marriage, Lord Nicholas Hervey, died by his own hand at the age of 36 in 1998.

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 Right Reverend Lord Arthur Hervey, fourth son of the first Marquess, was Bishop of Bath and Wells between 1869 and 1894.

Lord Alfred Hervey, sixth son of the first Marquess, was a Conservative politician.

Lord Augustus Hervey, second son of the second Marquess, sat as Member of Parliament for West Suffolk.

Lord Francis Hervey, fourth son of the second Marquess, represented the family seat in parliament and also served as First Civil Service Commissioner from 1907 to 1909.