Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.

The Chester Beatty Library houses the famous collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and decorative arts assembled by American mining millionaire ( and honorary Irish citizen ) Sir Alfred Chester Beatty ( 1875 – 1968 ).

To A Friend and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a play The Foresters, or Robin Hood and Maid Marian, which was presented with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan in 1892.

Contrary to claims of homosexual terminology, Sir Donald Sinden, an actor who met two of the play's original cast ( Irene Vanbrugh, Gwendolen and Allan Aynesworth, Algernon ), and Lord Alfred Douglas, wrote to The Times to dispute suggestions that " Earnest " held any sexual connotations:

* January 24 – Sir Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder and philanthropist ( b. 1842 )

On January 8, 1910, Sikkim Political Officer and Tibetologist Sir Charles Alfred Bell engaged Bhutan and signed the Treaty of Punakha.

In 1895, a plan was hatched with the connivance of the Cape Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes, Johannesburg gold magnate Alfred Beit, and Sir Alfred Milner ( British High Commissioner for South Africa and Lieutenant Governor of the Cape ) to liberate Johannesburg from the control of the Transvaal government.

These figures included Cape Colony Governor Sir Alfred Milner, Cape Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes, British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, and mining syndicate owners or Randlords ( nicknamed the gold bugs ), such as Alfred Beit, Barney Barnato, and Lionel Phillips.

Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, with Introduction by Sir Ross David.

Sir Arthur Sullivan composed music for her arrival and Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote an ode in Alexandra's honour:

However, in 1936, thanks to a recommendation made by Sir Alfred Claud Hollis ( Governor of Trinidad and Tobago, 1930 – 36 ), the Leathersellers ' Company awarded him a £ 50 grant to continue his advanced research in history at Oxford.

In the England of the Aesthetic Movement, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings attested profound kinship with the figure ; Olive Custance ( who would marry Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ) published the poem " Pierrot " in 1897 ; and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play Pierrot of the Minute ( 1897, illustrated by Beardsley ), to which the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue ( 1908 ).

* Sir Alfred Sherman ( 1919 – 2006 ), British journalist

During this period Kitchener struggled against Sir Alfred Milner, the Governor of the Cape Colony, and the British government.

Furious at being scorned, she re-enters his life masquerading as the posh " Lady Eve Sidwich ", niece of Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith ( Eric Blore ), another con man who's been swindling the rich folk of Connecticut.

* Eric Blore as Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith

Forbes ( 1809 – 1868 ), A. T. Malkin ( 1803 – 1888 ), John Ball ( 1818 – 1889 ), and Sir Alfred Wills ( 1828 – 1912 ).

The government appointed Sir Alfred Milner to the posts of High Commissioner and Governor-General of the Cape in August 1897 to pursue the issue more decisively.

Alfred Beckley ( 1802 – 1888 ) said he gave Raleigh County its name in honor of Sir Walter Raleigh ( 1552 – 1618 ), the “ enterprising and far-seeing patron of the earliest attempts to colonize our old Mother State of Virginia ,” according to Raleigh County: West Virginia by Jim Wood.

The crematorium in Golders Green was designed by the architect Sir Ernest George and his partner Alfred Yeates.

British architects whose drawings, and in some cases models of their buildings, in the collection, include: Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, Nicholas Hawksmoor, William Kent, James Gibbs, Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, Henry Holland, John Nash, Sir John Soane, Sir Charles Barry, Charles Robert Cockerell, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Sir George Gilbert Scott, John Loughborough Pearson, George Edmund Street, Richard Norman Shaw, Alfred Waterhouse, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Holden, Frank Hoar, Lord Richard Rogers, Lord Norman Foster, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Zaha Hadid and Alick Horsnell.

* Lumsden Hare as Major General Sir Thomas Woodley

* Sister Morfudd married Sir Richard Croft of Croft Castle, in Herefordshire and, secondly, David ab Ednyfed Gam of Llys Pengwern.

* Janet, who married Sir John de Croft of Croft Castle, in Herefordshire.

and D. D and were the parents of Sir Herbert Croft, 1st Baronet see Croft baronets.

Knox sailed secretly to Lindisfarne, off the northeast coast of England at the end of July, to meet James Croft and Sir Henry Percy at Berwick upon Tweed.

The son of Sir George Croft of Crofts Limited, a competitor of Birling and Company, he is at the Birling residence to celebrate his recent engagement to Sheila Birling.

The princess's obstetrician, Sir Richard Croft, who later shot himself, was the half-brother of Lawrence's friend, Elizabeth Croft, and for her Lawrence drew a sketch of Croft in his coffin.

Elizabeth wrote to thank Sir Ralph Sadler and Sir James Croft, Captain of Berwick, personally for their good and diligent service in meeting Balnaves.

Notable past presidents include John Charles Fields ( 1919-1925 ),( founder of the Fields Medal ), William Edmond Logan, Sir Daniel Wilson, Sir John Henry Lefroy, Sir John Beverley Robinson, George William Allan, William Henry Draper, Sir Oliver Mowat and Henry Holmes Croft.

Arthur's body was taken from Ludlow Castle to Worcester Cathedral in a large cortege, accompanied by Sir William Uvedale and Sir Richard Croft.

Sir Herbert Croft wrote the life included in Johnson's Lives of the Poets, but the critical remarks are by Johnson.

On Lord Ripon ’ s request Sir Alfred Croft, the Director of Public Instruction, appointed Bose officiating professor of physics in Presidency College.

* Sir Richard Croft 1484-1488

It was created in 1940 for the Conservative politician Sir Henry Page Croft, 1st Baronet.

Croft was the grandson of Reverend Richard Croft, third son of Dr. Sir Richard Croft, 6th Baronet, of Croft Castle.

Sir Robert Peel, Bt., Prime Minister 1834 – 35, 1841 – 46

Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel passed over Disraeli when putting together his government in 1841 and Disraeli, hurt, gradually became a sharp critic of Peel's government, often deliberately adopting positions contrary to those of his nominal chief.

In 1841 the Liberals lost office to the Conservative Party under Sir Robert Peel, but their period in opposition was short, because the Conservatives split over the repeal of the Corn Laws, a free trade issue, and a faction known as the Peelites ( but not Peel himself, who died soon after ), defected to the Liberal side.

" In addition to the various works of Brewster already mentioned, the following may be added: Notes and Introduction to Carlyle's translation of Legendre's Elements of Geometry ( 1824 ); Treatise on Optics ( 1831 ); Letters on Natural Magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott ( 1832 ); The Martyrs of Science, or the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler ( 1841 ); More Worlds than One ( 1854 ).

He was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between 1834 and 1835 and again Foreign Secretary between 1841 and 1846 under Sir Robert Peel. It was during his second stint as Foreign Secretary that he settled two disagreements with the US – the Northeast Boundary dispute by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty ( 1842 ), and the Oregon dispute by the Oregon Treaty of 1846.

* 1785 – Sir David Wilkie, Scottish painter ( d. 1841 )

Herbert, Thomas Hood, Douglas William Jerrold ( 1841 – 1857 ), James Leavey, George du Maurier, George Melly, John McCrae, A. A. Milne, Anthony Powell, W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Henry Lucy, John Hollingshead, Artemus Ward, Somerset Maugham, P. G.

It was first introduced in 1841 by geologist Sir Roderick Murchison, and is named after the Perm Krai in Russia, where strata from the period were originally found.

The term " Permian " was introduced into geology in 1841 by Sir R. I. Murchison, president of the Geological Society of London, who identified typical strata in extensive Russian explorations undertaken with Edouard de Verneuil.

After the successful Conservative campaign of 1841, J. W. Croker said in a letter to Peel, " The elections are wonderful, and the curiosity is that all turns on the name of Sir Robert Peel.

In a process overseen by a Royal Fine Art Commission under the presidency of Prince Albert, a Select Committee which included Sir Robert Peel started to take witness accounts from experts in 1841.

According to Sir Henry Bartle Frere ( who sat on the Viceroy's Council ), there were an estimated 8 or 9 million slaves in India in 1841.

* Sir Benjamin Heywood, a prosperous banker, acted as President of the Mechanics ' Institute for the period 1824 – 1841 ; his son, Oliver subsequently became President.

* Stevenson, Joseph, ed., Documents Illustrative of Sir William Wallace, Maitland Club ( 1841 )

# Amelia Herschel ( 1841 – 1926 ) married Sir Thomas Francis Wade, diplomat and sinologist

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet ( 5 February 17882 July 1850 ) was a British Conservative statesman, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and again from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846.

This concession, together with the Whig Party's internal divisions and the difficulties faced by the nation's economy, allowed the Tories under Sir Robert Peel to make gains in the elections of 1835 and 1837, and to retake the House of Commons in 1841.

In 1841 James Sinclair, on orders from Sir George Simpson, guided nearly 200 settlers from the Red River Colony ( located at the junction of the Assiniboine River and Red River near present Winnipeg, Canada ) into the Oregon territory.

Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands ( 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904 ), was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone.

* Sir Henry Morton Stanley ( 1841 – 1904 ), Explorer and journalist Sitter associated with 27 portraits

* New Zealand-The only person to have held the rank of Lieutenant Governor of New Zealand was Royal Navy Captain William Hobson from 1839 – 1841 when New Zealand colony was a dependency of the colony of New South Wales, governed at that time by Sir George Gipps.

* Bill Scott – Jack Spigot ( 1821 ), Memnon ( 1825 ), The Colonel ( 1828 ), Rowton ( 1829 ), Don John ( 1838 ), Charles the Twelfth ( 1839 ), Launcelot ( 1840 ), Satirist ( 1841 ), Sir Tatton Sykes ( 1846 )

* Sir James Stuart, 1st Baronet, of Oxford, in the County of Oxford ( 1841 ), extinct 1915

During 1841 Sir Robert Peel became Conservative Prime Minister and Richard Cobden, a major proponent of free trade, was elected for the first time.

Camp Barriefield was named in honour of Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Barrie ( May 5, 1774 – June 7, 1841 ), a British naval officer noted for his service in the War of 1812.