* 1907 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.

* Charles Dickens used Selkirk as a simile in Chapter Two of The Pickwick Papers: " Colonel Builder and Sir Thomas Clubber exchanged snuff – boxes, and looked very much like a pair of Alexander Selkirks — ' Monarchs of all they surveyed.

Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS ( Eng ) ( 6 August 188111 March 1955 ) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.

The Sir Alexander Fleming Building on the South Kensington campus was opened in 1998 and is now one of the main preclinical teaching sites of the Imperial College School of Medicine.

* The Life Of Sir Alexander Fleming, Jonathan Cape, 1959.

Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

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.

In 1613, Virginian raiders captured Port Royale, and in 1621 Acadia was ceded to Scotland's Sir William Alexander who renamed it Nova Scotia.

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

Other notable figures in the movement include Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan ( who together initiated the Great Books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland ), Mark Van Doren, Alexander Meiklejohn, and Sir Richard Livingstone, an English classicist with an American following.

Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ( 1817 – 1890 ), eldest son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was a General in the Army and sat as Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire East.

His eldest son, Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon was also a General in the Army.

She married Sir Alexander Seton ( d. 1438 ) and was the mother of Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly ( ancestor of the Marquesses of Huntly ).

* 1926 – Sir Alexander Gibson, Scottish conductor ( d. 1995 )

They decided to replace Auchinleck, appointing XIII Corps commander William Gott to the Eighth Army command and General Sir Harold Alexander as C-in-C Middle East Command.

Aberdeen's second son was General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ; his third son was the Reverend Douglas Hamilton-Gordon ; and his youngest son Arthur Gordon was created Baron Stanmore in 1893.

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

Sir John Alexander Macdonald, ( 11 January 1815 – 6 June 1891 ), was the first Prime Minister of Canada.

* Sir Alexander Hamilton ( d. bef.

In 1789 Sir Alexander Mackenzie followed the river named after him to the Arctic Ocean.

* Sir Nicolas Scrymseor, 2nd Constable ( d. 1324 )

* Sir John Scrymseor, 3rd Constable ( d. 1332 )

* Sir James Scrymseor, 5th Constable ( d. 1411 )

* Sir John Scrymseor, 6th Constable ( d. 1465 )

* Sir James Scrymseor, 9th Constable ( d. 1546 )

* 1685 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, English cavalry officer ( d. 1768 )

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' before falling have been that during the battle Richard was abandoned by Baron Stanley ( made Earl of Derby in October ), Sir William Stanley, and Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland.

In the new Walpole Ministry, Sir William Strickland, 4th Baronet, becomes Secretary at War, and Henry Pelham is Paymaster of the Forces.

* July 3 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer ( d. 1768 )

* date unknown – Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet, politician ( d. 1708 )

* November 26 – Sir James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, British economist ( b. 1712 )

* February 1 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer ( b. 1685 )

* April 9 – Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet, English politician ( d. 1804 )

* October 21 – Sir James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet, British economist ( d. 1780 )

* February 12 – battle of Rouvray ( or " of the Herrings "): English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army of William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk at Orléans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and John Stewart.

They are named after Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet ( 1856 – 1919 ), who produced the first list of such hills, known as Munros Tables, in 1891.

On 11 March 1630 Essex married Elizabeth Pawlett, daughter of Sir William Pawlett, of Edington, Wiltshire, past High Sheriff of Wiltshire and cousin of William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester.

* Sir Nicholas L ' Estrange, 4th Bt ( 1661-1724 )

* John Standing, otherwise Sir John Leon, 4th Bt

The Premier Baronetcy of Ireland was created for Sir Dominic Sarsfield in 1619, and was held by his successors until the attainder of the 4th Viscount Sarsfield in 1691.

Davina married firstly Sir Richard Boughey 10th Bt, and secondly Spencer Loch, 4th Baron Loch.

* Sir Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet, British barrister-at-law.

* Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet ( 1761 – 1832 ) geologist, geophysicist

Cecily was the daughter of Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston, Sussex. They had four surviving children: Henry West, 4th Baron De La Warr, Robert, Lucy, who married Sir Robert Byron, and Cecily, who married John Byron, 1st Baron Byron.

The house was rebuilt by Sir John Harpur, 4th baronet ( 1680-1741 ) between 1701 and 1704.

* Sir William Douglas, 4th Baronet of Kelhead, MP for Dumfries Burghs

* Mary, Married 1st George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus ; Married 2nd Sir James Kennedy the Younger ; Bethrothed to Sir William Cunningham ; Married 3rd to Sir William Graham of Kincardine ; Married 4th Sir William Edmonstone of Duntreath ( Ancestors