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Lists of phenomena, from the contemplation of which " the savage " was led to believe in animism, have been given by Sir E. B. Tylor, Herbert Spencer, Andrew Lang, and others ; a controversy arose between the former as to the priority of their respective lists.
Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.
, the board is made up of members of the Clay family, whereas the advisory committee is composed of leading authorities in mathematics, namely Sir Andrew Wiles, Yum-Tong Siu, Richard Melrose, Gregory Margulis, James Carlson, and Simon Donaldson.
They are legislative and executive powers and functions conferred on the Governor-General, not by Royal authority, but by statutory authority ," a view held also by Andrew Inglis Clark, who assisted Sir Samuel Griffith with drafts of the constitution and later became Senior Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.
Despite victories at Dupplin Moor and Halidon Hill, in the face of tough Scottish resistance led by Sir Andrew Murray, the son of Wallace's comrade in arms, successive attempts to secure Balliol on the throne failed.
* Sir Andrew Smith
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
* 1953 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka ( king ) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
Prime Ministers from 1900 to 1945: Marquess of Salisbury, Arthur Balfour, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Herbert Henry Asquith, David Lloyd George, Andrew Bonar Law, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill.
Sir Humphry Davy and Andrew Crosse were among the first to develop large voltaic piles.
Fretwork has been most active in this regard, commissioning George Benjamin, Michael Nyman, Elvis Costello, Sir John Tavener, Orlando Gough, John Woolrich, Tan Dun, Alexander Goehr, Fabrice Fitch, Andrew Keeling, Thea Musgrave, Sally Beamish, Peter Sculthorpe, Gavin Bryars, Barrington Pheloung, Simon Bainbridge, Duncan Druce, Poul Ruders, Ivan Moody, and Barry Guy ; many of these compositions may be heard on their 1997 CD Sit Fast.
* Physiology or Medicine – Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley
* November 30 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka ( king ) of Buganda, is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
* Tonbridge School founded by Sir Andrew Judde under letters patent of Edward VI of England.
* Junep – Under the terms of the will of Sir John de Wingfield ( died 1361 ), the church of St Andrew and the college of priests are founded in Wingfield, Suffolk.
Many distinguished figures have taught, worked and studied at the University of Glasgow, including six Nobel laureates and two Prime Ministers, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Andrew Bonar Law.
** Sir Andrew Murray, Scottish soldier ( d. 1338 )
Following Edward's return to England, the remaining leaders of the Scots resistance chose Sir Andrew Murray as Guardian.
* Sir Andrew Murray — Guardian ( 1332, 1335 – 1338 )
Later, Sir Andrew Smith gave it Carcharodon as its generic name in 1833, and also in 1873.

Sir and Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.
Trevor Huddleston, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir Herbert Read, Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist ' Vicky ', Professor C. H. Waddington and Barbara Wootton.
Lorenz was also a friend and student of renowned biologist Sir Julian Huxley ( grandson of " Darwin's bulldog ", Thomas Henry Huxley ).
The International Humanist and Ethical Union was founded in 1952, when a gathering of world Humanists met under the leadership of Sir Julian Huxley.
* May 4 – Sir Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist ( d. 1895 )
" At various times the text refers to " Sir Roderick Murchison, Professor ( Richard ) Owen, Professor ( Thomas Henry ) Huxley, ( and ) Mr. Darwin ", and thus they become explicitly part of the story.
The first Director General of UNESCO ( Sir Julian Huxley ), wishing to give UNESCO a more scientific base, sponsored a congress to establish a new environmental institution to help serve this purpose.
* 1961: After more than a decade of funding difficulties, eminent science and business personalities ( including Sir Julian Huxley ) decide to set up a complementary fund ( the World Wildlife Fund ) to focus on fund raising, public relations, and increasing public support for nature conservation
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS ( 22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975 ) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist.
Huxley's major biographies were the three volumes of Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley and the two volumes of Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI.
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM, PRS ( 22 November 191730 May 2012 ) was a Nobel Prize-winning English physiologist and biophysicist.
In a letter to Nature, written to refute an article saying that the Draize test had not changed much since the 1940s, Professor Sir Andrew Huxley wrote: " A substance expected from its chemical nature to be seriously painful must not be tested in this way ; the test is permissible only if the substance has already been shown not to cause pain when applied to skin, and in vitro pre-screening tests are recommended, such as a test on an isolated and perfused eye.
Members included Tennyson, Gladstone, W. K. Clifford, W. G. Ward, John Morley, Cardinal Manning, Archbishop Thomson, T. H. Huxley, Arthur Balfour, Leslie Stephen, and Sir William Gull.
Other famous scientists, engineers, theorists and inventors from the UK include: Sir Francis Bacon, Richard Trevithick ( Train ), Thomas Henry Huxley, Francis Crick ( DNA ), Rosalind Franklin ( Photo 51 ), Robert Hooke, Humphry Davy, Robert Watson-Watt, J. J. Thomson ( discovered Electron ), James Chadwick ( discovered Neutron ), Frederick Soddy ( discovered Isotope ), John Cockcroft, Henry Bessemer, Edmond Halley, Sir William Herschel, Charles Parsons ( Steam turbine ), Alan Blumlein ( Stereo sound ), John Dalton ( Colour blindness ), James Dewar, Alexander Parkes ( celluloid ), Charles Macintosh, Ada Lovelace, Peter Durand, Alcock & Brown ( first non-stop transatlantic flight ), Henry Cavendish ( discovered Hydrogen ), Francis Galton, Sir Joseph Swan ( Incandescent light bulb ), Sir William Gull ( Anorexia nervosa ), Frank Pantridge, George Everest, Edward Whymper ( first ascent of Matterhorn ), Daniel Rutherford, Arthur Eddington ( luminosity of stars ), Lord Rayleigh ( why sky is blue ), Norman Lockyer ( discovered Helium ), Julian Huxley ( formed WWF ), Adam Smith ( pioneer of modern economics and capitalism ), John Herschel, Bertrand Russell ( analytic philosophy pioneer ), Jim Marshall ( guitar amplification pioneer ), Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Joseph Priestly and others.

Sir and obituary
The controversial tiered concrete New Court ( often dubbed " the Typewriter ") was designed in the Modernist style by Sir Denys Lasdun in 1966-70, and was described as " superb " in Lasdun's obituary in the Guardian.
* Sir Edward Peck – Daily Telegraph obituary
* Sir David Lean – Daily Telegraph obituary
* Sir Miles Rivett-Carnac, Bt-Daily Telegraph obituary
* Sir Paul Getty-Daily Telegraph obituary
In his obituary of W. S. Millard, Sir Norman Kinnear made the following remarks about William:
Sir William Jardine c. 1870, an illustration accompanying his obituary in the Illustrated London News.
* Sir George Shearing obituary.
* Sir Eduardo Paolozzi-Daily Telegraph obituary
* BBC News obituary Sir Richard Doll: A life's research
An obituary illustration of Sir Graham Berry
* Sir John Cowperthwaite obituary from the Daily Telegraph
* Sir John Cowperthwaite obituary from The Guardian
* October 20, 1900 New York Times obituary for Sir Roderick Cameron
* Sir John Woolf obituary
* Sir Ludovic Kennedy-Daily Telegraph obituary
A spoof obituary for Sir Humphrey appears in Politico's Book of the Dead, written by his creators, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn.
These are the first instance of " mass-production " techniques being applied to marine engineering as the following quotation from the obituary from The Times of 24 January 1887 to Sir Joseph Whitworth ( 1803 – 1887 ) shows:
Sir Norman Kinnear described William as follows in the obituary of W S Millard:

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