** Sir Chris Hoy, Scottish cyclist

Recent lecturers include Michael Sandel, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Sir Ken Robinson, Don Tapscott, Alain de Botton, Al Gore, Anthony Grayling, Zarine Kharas ( founder of Justgiving ), Amir Aczel, Daniel Pink and Chris Anderson.

* Sir Samuel Cunard Biography at Chris ' Cunard Page

The vice presidents are Sir David Attenborough, Prof. Chris Baines, Prof. David MacDonald, Julian Pettifer, Prof. Robert Worcester, Chris Packham, Nick Baker, Bill Oddie and Bill Bolsover.

Other notable alumni include writers ( including Lord Byron, Sir Terence Rattigan and Richard Curtis ), numerous aristocrats ( including the current richest British subject, the Duke of Westminster and the prominent reformist Lord Shaftesbury ) and business people ( including DeBeers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer, Pret a Manger founder Julian Metcalfe ) and the big game hunter and artist General Douglas Hamilton, as well as Island Records founder Chris Blackwell.

He was the first British athlete to have won five Olympic gold medals, a feat surpassed only by Sir Chris Hoy at the London 2012 Olympic Games, and is the third most decorated British Olympian with six medals, after the seven of Hoy and the seven of cyclist Bradley Wiggins.

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* Sir Chris Woodhead, 1994 – 2000

In his submission to Sir John May's Inquiry into the Guildford and Woolwich bombings in 1989 Labour MP Chris Mullin's cast doubt on Havers ’ s integrity in the matter:

* Board of Trustees ( appointed 16 May 2011 ): Prof. Chris Bishop, Howard Covington, Hugh Harper, Prof. Sir Peter Knight, Prof. Sir David Wallace, Prof. Julia Buckingham, Prof. Alan Davies, Dr Martin Knight, Rod McGregor, Lord Robert Winston.

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* September 16, 2012: Sir Chris Hoy received the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh in honour of his services to cycling.

One was held in Edinburgh where Hughes stressed his human rights and Green friendly background ; another in Manchester, where Chris Huhne rebutted criticism from Sir Menzies Campbell that his call for a rise in petrol duty would harm people living in rural areas dependent on using their cars.

Past LBC presenters include: Adrian Allen ; Carol Allen ; Dominic Allen ; Mike Allen ; Toby Anstis ; Dickie Arbiter ; Tre Azam ; Phillip Bacon ; Bill Bailey ; David Bassett ; * Jeni Barnett ; Simon Bates ; Jeremy Beadle ; Alison Bell ; Bill Bingham ; Therese Birch ; Frank Bough ; Tommy Boyd ; Gyles Brandreth ; Bill Buckley ; Paul Callan ; Douglas Cameron ; Mike Carlton ; Mike Carson ; Clare Catford ; Marcus Churchill ; Nick Conrad ; Andy Crane ; Jamie Crick ; Jono Coleman ; Steve Crozier ; Tim Crook ; Gino D ' Acampo ; Dan Damon ; Peter Deeley ; Anne Diamond ; Mike Dickin ; Richard Dallyn ; Jenny Eclair ; Richard Fairbrass ; Caroline Feraday ; John_Forrest_ ( Producer-Director ); Mariella Frostrup ; George Gale ; Krishnan Guru-Murthy ; Boy George ; Charlie Gibson ; Charles Golding ; Angie Greaves ; Eric Hall ; Bob Harris ; Brian Hayes ; Chris Hawkins ; Phillip Hodson ; Bob Holness ; Eamonn Holmes ; Jon Holmes ; Fred Housego ; Rufus Hound ; Howard Hughes ; Sue Jameson ; Bob Johnson ; Bryn Jones ; Steve Jones ; Barry Jordan ; Charlie Jordan ; Lesley Judd ; Henry Kelly ; Allan King ; Gary King ; Jenny Lacey ; Iain Lee ; Richard Littlejohn ; Wendy Lloyd ; Sir Nicholas Lloyd ; Adrian Love ; Dave Luddy ; Kelvin MacKenzie ; Richard Mackney ; Mike Mendoza ; Daisy McAndrew ; Rod Lucas ; Carol McGiffin ; Monty Modlin ; Nathan Morley ; Douglas Moffatt ; Bel Mooney ; Jane Moore ; Elliot Moss ; Pete Murray ; Paddy O ' Connell ; Rod Lucas ; Tom Parker-Bowles ; Michael Parkinson ; Frank Partridge ; John Perkins ; David Prever ; Martin Popplewell ; Gill Pyrah ; Anna Raeburn ; Angela Rippon ; Rowland Rivron ; Richard Robbins ; Paul Ross ; Kenny Sansom ; Adrian Scott ; Valerie Singleton ; Penny Smith ; Jon Snow ; Julia Somerville ; Laurence Spicer ; Dr Pam Spurr ; Janet Street-Porter ; Peter Stringfellow ; Carol Thatcher ; Sandi Toksvig ; Petroc Trelawny ; Michael Van Straten ; Robbie Vincent ; Becky Walsh ; Sandy Warr ; Brian Widlake ; James Williams, Matthew Wright, and Martin Young ;.

Other famous people who lived in Bromley include Alex Clare, Charles Darwin, David Bowie, Richmal Crompton, Pixie Lott, Starsmith, Christopher Tennant, Peter Frampton, Aleister Crowley, Siouxsie Sioux, Gary Rhodes, Billy Idol, Billy Jenkins, cricketer Jill Cruwys, the anarchist Peter Kropotkin, the former Clash drummer Topper Headon, historian Richard Jefferis, illustrator Charles Keeping, Formula 1 test driver Gary Paffett, children's writer Andrew Murray, actor Michael York who attended Bromley Grammar School for Boys, clarinetist Chris Craker, Don Perrin, Canadian author who attended Burnt Ash School in Bromley, and Sir Thomas James Harper, an officer decorated in the Crimean war.

Famous wearers today include astronomer Sir Patrick Moore, and former boxer Chris Eubank Abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman wore a monocle mainly for getting a closer look at artworks.

Sir Marcus lost his seat in the general election in 1997 to Chris Leslie.

More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

Punch had a poem containing the words “ When Ivo comes back with the urn ” and when Ivo Bligh wiped out the defeat Lady Clarke, wife of Sir W. J. Clarke, who entertained the English so lavishly, found a little wooden urn, burnt a bail, put the ashes in the urn, and wrapping it in a red velvet bag, put it into her husband ’ s ( Ivo Bligh ’ s ) hands.

* 1917 – Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English writer ( d. 2008 )

In 1819 Edward D. Clarke and in 1822 René Juste Haüy described fluorescence in fluorites, Sir David Brewster described the phenomenon for chlorophyll in 1833 and Sir John Herschel did the same for quinine in 1845.

* Since 2006 it helped establish the Sir Arthur Clarke Award, the most prodigious award given in the United Kingdom for contribution in all field of space research and exploration.

* – An interview with Sir Arthur C. Clarke on Sputnik

On 1 August 1976, the country became a republic, and the last Governor-General, Sir Ellis Clarke, became the first President.

By 1776, the position of the British Secretary at War was a sophisticated managerial role, but the duties in 1661 to 1666 of England's first Secretary at War, Sir William Clarke, were more basic ones of literally handling the secretarial duties of managing official correspondence, memoranda, military orders, and financial accounts.

The members with this length of service are: Sir Gerald Kaufman, Kenneth Clarke, Michael Meacher and Dennis Skinner ( listed according to the order in which they took the oath after the 1970 election ).

In London in 1906, Sir George Sydenham Clarke wrote, " The battle of Tsu-shima is by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar "; decades later, historian Edmund Morris maintained that it remained the greatest naval battle since Trafalgar.

B. Lindsay ; Preface by Sir George Sydenham Clarke, G. C. M. G., F. R. S., John Murray, London, second edition 1907.

* Clarke, Sir Richard.

The General Medical Council appealed to the Court of Appeal and in October 2006 by a majority decision, with the Master of the Rolls, Sir Anthony Clarke, dissenting, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the High Court in part, ruling that Meadow's misconduct was not sufficiently serious to merit the punishment which he had received.

* Sir William Clarke, 1st Baronet, of Rupertswood, in the Colony of Victoria ( 1882 ), extant

He did design the Clarendon Building at Oxford ; the Codrington Library and new buildings at All Souls College, Oxford ; parts of Worcester College, Oxford with Sir George Clarke ; the High Street screen at The Queen's College, Oxford and six new churches in London.

However, he was accused by Norman Tebbit of being " lazy " whilst leadership rival Sir Malcolm Rifkind claimed that Clarke's pro-European views could have divided the Conservative Party if Clarke had won.

On hearing this, Clarke sent a facetious letter to NASA's chief administrator: " Dear Sir, on checking my records, I see that I have never received payment for this work.

In 1736, Clarke ( later Sir George ) generously left to the College his great collection of books and manuscripts.

A production of Twelfth Night was directed by Patrick Garland in the gardens with Oz Clarke as Sir Toby Belch and Francis Matthews.

Artists who have taken part in the Llangollen Fringe include Sir Clement Freud, Lesley Garrett, Rhys Ifans, The Damned, Cerys Matthews, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Juan Martín, The Black Seeds, John Cooper Clarke, Will Self and Race Horses.

Humphreys applied for a warrant for Queensberry's arrest and approached Sir Edward Clarke and Charles Willie Mathews to represent Wilde.

Notable inhabitants of these properties were the Markwicks ( builders and carpenters, from 1700 ) at Coppinghall and Milton Cottage ( Interestingly, the current generation of notable Markwicks in Uckfield run the local picture house ), Edward Kenward ( 19th century maltster ) at the Malt House, Thomas Pentecost ( a Victorian leather cutter and local poet ) in a cottage near the Grammar School and General Sir George Calvert Clarke ( commander of the Royal Scots Greys at Balaclava ) at Church House.

* 1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.

* 1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )

* Sir William Buell Richards ( Chief Justice ) – September 30, 1875

* Sir William Johnstone Ritchie – September 30, 1875

* Sir Samuel Henry Strong – September 30, 1875

* Sir Henri Elzear Taschereau – October 7, 1878

* 1599 – Nine Years ' War: Battle of Curlew Pass – Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O ' Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.

* 1963 – Sir Mix-a-Lot, American rapper and producer

Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III GCSI GCMG GCIE GCVO PC ( November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957 ) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.

* 1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield in London.

* 1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.

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

* 1585 – The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island ( now in North Carolina ) to establish the Roanoke Colony.

* 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.

* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.

* 1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.

* 1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker ( d. 1810 )

* 1904 – Sir John Gielgud, English actor ( d. 2000 )

* 1835 – 1881 Sir George Biddell Airy

* 1881 – 1910 Sir William Christie

* 1910 – 1933 Sir Frank Dyson

* 1933 – 1955 Sir Harold Spencer Jones

* 1972 – 1982 Sir Martin Ryle