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.

Jacques-Louis David, Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Thomas Gainsborough, Antonio Canova, Arnold Bocklin

George Stubbs, William Blake, John Martin, Francisco Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, Eugène Delacroix, Sir Edwin landseer, Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner

In 1947, David Brown Limited bought the company under the leadership of managing director Sir David Brown — its " post-war saviour ".

Although he presided over a large majority, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was overshadowed by his ministers, most notably Herbert Henry Asquith at the Exchequer, Edward Grey at the Foreign Office, Richard Burdon Haldane at the War Office and David Lloyd George at the Board of Trade.

Among her portraits which followed from that association are those of Georges Clemenceau ; First Lady Edith Roosevelt and her daughter ; and Admiral Sir David Beatty.

* 1781 – Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist ( d. 1868 )

Sir David Brewster ( 11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868 ) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.

* 19 June – September 1914: Rear-Admiral Sir David Beatty, KCB, MVO, DSO

Vice-Admiral ) Sir David Beatty, KCB, MVO, DSO

* 1915 – 27 November 1916: Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty, KCB, KCVO, DSO

Admiral ) Sir David Beatty, KCB, KCVO, DSO

Admiral ) Sir David Beatty, GCB, KCVO, DSO

Admiral ) Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

* 1 January – 1 May 1919: Admiral Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

* 1 May – 3 June 1919: Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, GCB, GCVO, DSO

* 3 June – 18 October 1919: Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO

Famous city artists include the portrait painters Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir David Wilkie and Allan Ramsay.

British MP and lawyer Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, the Chair of the Assembly's Committee on Legal and Administrative Questions, guided the drafting of the Convention.

Its first meeting was held at York in 1831 ; and Brewster, along with Babbage and Sir John F. W. Herschel, had the chief part in shaping its constitution.

" 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 ).

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.

Coined in 1817 by Scottish inventor Sir David Brewster, " kaleidoscope " is derived from the Ancient Greek καλός ( kalos ), " beautiful, beauty ", εἶδος ( eidos ), " that which is seen: form, shape " and σκοπέω ( skopeō ), " to look to, to examine ", hence " observer of beautiful forms.

Sir David Brewster began work leading towards invention of the kaleidoscope in 1815 when he was conducting experiments on light polarization but it was not patented until two years later.

* Mirrors are employed in kaleidoscopes, personal entertainment devices invented in Scotland by Sir David Brewster.

This special angle of incidence is named after the Scottish physicist Sir David Brewster ( 1781 – 1868 ).

Scottish physicist Sir David Brewster is credited with convincing the United Kingdom to adopt these lenses in their lighthouses.

It was not until 1850 AD that a Scottish scientist by the name of Sir David Brewster actually took the first photograph with a pinhole camera.

** Brewster, Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton, ii.

In 1824 Sir David Brewster gave the effect the name it has today.

It was not until 1815 that Sir David Brewster was able to experiment with higher quality glasses and correctly formulate what is known as Brewster's law.

Herapathite's dichroic properties came to the attention of Sir David Brewster, and were later used by Land in 1929 to construct the first type of Polaroid sheet polarizer.

The story of " Newtons Mischief " has been reproduced over the centuries as early as 1833 in " The Life of Sir Isaac Newton " by David Brewster and later in St. Nicholas Magazine.

A year later he was appointed professor of natural philosophy in Edinburgh University, in succession to Sir John Leslie and in competition with Sir David Brewster, and during his tenure of that office, which he did not give up till 1860, he not only proved himself an active and efficient teacher, but also did much to improve the internal conditions of the university.

" Sir Shridath confirmed that in the face of collapse of Agreement talks and with the potential for reversion to civil war, ' he secretly contacted the US ambassador in London, Kingman Brewster, and asked him to get the then US President, Jimmy Carter, to promise money to pay white farmers for their land '.

The prime mover ( who is regarded as the founder ) was Reverend William Vernon Harcourt, following a suggestion by Sir David Brewster, who was disillusioned with the elitist and conservative attitude of the Royal Society.

* Sir David Brewster ( 1781-1868 ) discovers stress birefringence.

In 1819, with Sir David Brewster ( 1781 – 1868 ), Jameson started the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal and became its sole editor in 1824.

By the 1850s, Jameson and his partner Sir David Brewster lost their influence and the society once again could unify its membership under one journal.

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 1831 he published a short popular account of the philosopher's life in Murray's Family Library ; but it was not until 1855 that he was able to issue the much fuller Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, a work which embodied the results of more than 20 years ' investigation of original manuscripts and other available sources.

The Adventure of the Red-Headed League, an early Sherlock Holmes short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, centers around a London pawnbroker and his somewhat shifty young clerk.

After holding for a short period the office of commander-in-chief in Scotland, Sir Ralph, when the enterprise against the Dutch Batavian Republic was resolved upon in 1799, was again called to command under the Duke of York.

In the James Bond novels and short stories by Ian Fleming and others, Assistant Commissioner Sir Ronald Vallance is a recurring fictional character who works for Scotland Yard.

Great novelists like Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens also wrote some short stories.

On 30 August 1889, Stoddart dined with Wilde and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Langham Hotel, and commissioned short novels from both men.

* May 4 – Professor James Moriarty, fictional criminal mastermind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short story The Final Problem ( b. unknown )

In the 17th century the English physician Sir Thomas Browne wrote a short tract upon the interpretation of dreams.

* Report and Resolutions of a Public Meeting, Held at Glasgow, on Friday, March 20 1846, in Support of Sir Robert Peel's Suggestions in Reference to Railways – Peel had commented upon the impolity and danger of allowing too much capital to be invested in railways in too short a period.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story about his celebrated sleuth Sherlock Holmes which features a fingerprint: The Norwood Builder is a 1903 Sherlock Holmes short story set in 1894 and involves the discovery of a bloody fingerprint which helps Holmes to expose the real criminal and free his client.

Buchan's 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories, and biographies of Sir Walter Scott, Caesar Augustus, and Oliver Cromwell.

In short his numerous Publick Works at Oxford, perfected in his lifetime, and the design and model of Dr. Ratcliff's Library there, his design of a new Parliament-House, after the thought of Sir Christopher Wren ; and, to mention no more, his noble Design for repairing the West-End of Westminster-Abbey, will all stand monuments to his great capacity, inexhaustible fancy, and solid judgement.

The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope, or Trinity College for short, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

Elements of the same incident are suggested by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes short story The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans.

To this place Sir Robert returned within half an hour ; and, as he left, so he found Mr. Donne alone ; but, in such ecstasy, and so altered as to his looks, as amazed Sir Robert to behold him in so much that he earnestly desired Mr. Donne to declare befallen him in the short time of his absence?

In 1927, deputising at short notice for Sir Thomas Beecham, he conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Elgar's Symphony No. 2, winning the thanks of the composer.

It was reported, Sir Edward " aunswered him somewhat short, that Sir Thomas needed not to trouble himself so much about it, for that he belonged to neither universitie.

The encyclopaedist and author Sir Thomas Browne wrote a short essay upon Athenaeus which reflects a revived interest in the Banquet of the Learned amongst scholars during the 17th century following its publication in 1612 by the Classical scholar Isaac Casaubon.

* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859 – 1930 ), the author of the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories, whose statue stands in the town centre

Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, KBE ( 11 August 191331 May 1991 ) was an English novelist and short story writer.