They often carried the title of master builder, or surveyor, after serving a number of years as an apprentice ( such as Sir Christopher Wren ).

: Sir Christopher Wren

Elizabeth's reign is known as the Elizabethan era, famous above all for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Sir Francis Drake.

With the exception of Lord Burghley, the most important politicians had died around 1590: The Earl of Leicester in 1588, Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590, Sir Christopher Hatton in 1591.

The work consists of four ‘ books ’, the first addressed to the Queen, the second to Leicester, the third to Lord Burghley, and the fourth to Oxford, Sir Christopher Hatton, and Leicester's nephew Philip Sidney, with whom he would famously quarrel.

He appealed to Burghley to intervene with the Queen on his behalf, but his father-in-law repeatedly put the matter in the hands of Sir Christopher Hatton.

Another of Oxford's men was slain that month, and in March Burghley wrote to Sir Christopher Hatton about the death of one of Knyvet's men, thanking Hatton for his efforts " to bring some good end to these troublesome matters betwixt my Lord and Oxford and Mr Thomas Knyvet ".

He pushed onwards in his lone flagship, now renamed the Golden Hind in honour of Sir Christopher Hatton ( after his coat of arms ).

Georgian succeeded the English Baroque of Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, Thomas Archer, William Talman, and Nicholas Hawksmoor.

The devastating effects of the fire converted the development of insurance " from a matter of convenience into one of urgency, a change of opinion reflected in Sir Christopher Wren's inclusion of a site for ' the Insurance Office ' in his new plan for London in 1667.

* 1660 – At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.

These include the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Classical Players under the direction of Sir Roger Norrington and the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood, among others.

The Trumpington Street Façade with the College Chapel on the right, the first building to be built by Sir Christopher Wren

Pembroke College is home to the first chapel designed by Sir Christopher Wren and is also one of the Cambridge colleges to have educated a British prime minister, William Pitt the Younger.

Guy Fawkes, an English soldier, along with other recusants or converts, including, among others, Sir Robert Catesby, Christopher Wright, John Wright and Thomas Percy, was arrested and charged with attempting to blow up Parliament on 5 November 1605.

* Colonel Christopher Brandon — a close friend of Sir John Middleton.

Along with the inventor and microscopist Robert Hooke ( 1635 – 1703 ), Sir Christopher Wren ( 1632 – 1723 ) and Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ), English scientist and astronomer Edmond Halley ( 1656 – 1742 ) was trying to develop a mechanical explanation for planetary motion.

Nevile ’ s Court was completed in the late 17th century when the Wren Library, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, was built.

** Sir Christopher Lee, English actor

* October 20 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician ( d. 1723 )

* February 25 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician ( b. 1632 )

* November 28 – At Gresham College in London, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray meet after a lecture by Wren and decide to found " a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning " ( later known as the Royal Society ).

According to biographer Sir Christopher Frayling, Leone was deeply hurt by the studio-imposed editing and poor commercial reception of Once Upon a Time in America in North America.

Commentary is also provided by film experts and historians such as John Carpenter, John Milius, Alex Cox, film historian and Leone biographer Sir Christopher Frayling, Dr. Sheldon Hall, as well as actors Claudia Cardinale and Gabriele Ferzetti, and director Bernardo Bertolucci, a co-writer of the film.

British critic Sir Christopher Frayling identifies three principal sources for A Fistful of Dollars: " Partly derived from Kurosawa's samurai film Yojimbo, partly from Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest ( 1929 ), but most of all from Carlo Goldoni's eighteenth-century play Servant of Two Masters.

* Sir Christopher Frayling, Rector, The Royal College of Art

Signatories included Karsten Schubert, Maureen Paley, Michael Craig-Martin, Angela and Matthew Flowers, Professor Christopher Frayling, Rene Gimpel, Susan Hiller, John Hoyland, Sarah Kent, Nicholas Logsdail, George Melly, Sandy Nairne, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Bridget Riley, Michelle Roberts, Richard Shone, Marina Warner, Natalie Wheen, and Rachel Whiteread.

A statue to Sir George Rooke was erected in 2004 as part of the tercentenery celebrations.

* Martin Postle, ‘ Reynolds, Sir Joshua ( 1723 – 1792 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, Oct 2009.

Sir John Anthony Pople, KBE, FRS, ( October 31, 1925 – March 15, 2004 ) was a Nobel-Prize winning theoretical chemist.

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

The most recent premier to die was Sir Angus Bethune ( 1969 – 72 ), on 27 August 2004.

In 2004 polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes published a biography which was a strong defence of Scott and an equally forthright rebuttal of Huntford ; the book is dedicated " To the Families of the Defamed Dead ".

", written by Jim Poyser and broadcast in June 2004 had aimless aristocrat Viscount Belport ( Paul Rider ) and his servant Ned ( Jason Done ) joining the police force under Sir Robert Peel and encountering demon barber Sweeney Todd ( Jonathan Keeble ) on their first case.

* May 6 – Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji ( d. 2004 )

* ( 2004 ) In Neal Stephenson's The System Of The World, a fictionalized Sir Isaac Newton dies of " gaol fever " before being resurrected by Daniel Waterhouse.

The Rt Hon Sir Angus Ogilvy, who died in 2004, was the husband of Princess Alexandra, The Hon Lady Ogilvy and a first-cousin-in law of The Queen.

However since the release of Antonia Fraser The Wives of Henry VIII in 1994, and David Starkey's 2004 book on the six wives, Catherine's first husband has been identified as Sir Edward Borough.

( 2004 ) The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327 – 1330.

In the early 17th century the Gospels were owned by Sir Robert Cotton ( 1571 – 1631 ) and in 1753 became part of the founding collections of the British Museum in 1753 ( Chilvers 2004 ).

* Complete variation performed by the LSO conducted by Sir Colin Davis in 2004

In his review of Sir Graham Bower's account, Alan Cousins ( 2004 ) notes that, " A number of major themes and concerns emerge " from Bower's history, "... perhaps the most poignant being Bower ’ s accounts of his being made a scapegoat in the aftermath of the raid: ' since a scapegoat was wanted I was willing to serve my country in that capacity '.

Billy Barry, the fictional hero in Horace Porter's Young Aeroplane Scouts novel series of 1916 – 19, is also from Bangor, as is Edward Wozny, the protagonist in Lew Grossman's 2004 novel Codex, and Sir Kevin Dean de Courtney MacNair in Hayford Peirce's time-travel novel Napoleon Disentimed.

The present library building ( by Sir Denys Lasdun ) was added in 1973, the Brunei Gallery in 1995, and an extension to the library building opened in 2004 ( the second phase of this expansion was completed in 2006 ).

In 2004, he toured Australia with the Carl Rosa Opera Company as Director of the production of HMS Pinafore, also singing the role of Sir Joseph Porter.

On 6 May 2004 it was announced that Sir Richard Dearlove was to be replaced as head of the SIS by John Scarlett, former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.

* 1999 – 2004: Sir Richard Dearlove, KCMG, OBE

* 2004 – 2009: Sir John Scarlett, KCMG, OBE

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE ( or ; 16 April 192128 March 2004 ) was an English actor, writer and dramatist.

Ralph Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes was born in Ipswich on 22 December 1962, the eldest child of Mark Fiennes ( 1933 – 2004 ), a farmer and photographer whose father was industrialist Sir Maurice Fiennes ( 1907 – 1994 ), and Jennifer Lash ( 1938 – 1993 ), a writer of English and Irish descent.

A new station was officially opened by Lt .- General Sir John Foley, the Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, on 20 October 2004.

The Leatherhead Drama Festival began in 2004 and is the UK's largest drama festival of its type, in which schools and drama groups from around Surrey and beyond compete each year for the Sir Michael Caine Drama Awards, the Richard Houghton Awards and New Writing Awards.