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.

* Sir David Brewster -- a short biography

* 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.

Sir David Manning, the former British ambassador to Washington, works as a part-time adviser to the princes.

On 12 March 1868, on his second visit to Sydney he was invited by Sir William Manning, President of the Sydney Sailors ' Home to picnic at the beachfront suburb of Clontarf to raise funds for the home.

* Sir William Henry Manning: October 1907 – 1 May 1908

* Sir William Henry Manning: 6 February 1911 – 23 September 1913

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.

Sir Alfred Sharpe took over as commissioner in 1896, serving until 1 April 1910, with Francis Barrow Pearce and William Henry Manning as acting commissioner for a period in 1907 and 1908.

For example, the former British Ambassador to the United States, Sir David Manning, was appointed a CMG when he worked for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ), and then after his appointment as British Ambassador to the US, he was promoted to a Knight Commander ( KCMG ).

Greenstock is Chairman of Gatehouse Advisory Partners, a Geopolitical consultancy he established with Sir David Manning in 2010.

Examples are the papers of Alfred Deakin, Sir John Latham, Sir Keith Murdoch, Sir Hans Heysen, Sir John Monash, Vance Palmer and Nettie Palmer, A. D. Hope, Manning Clark, David Williamson, W. M.

Sir James Albert Manning Aikins ( December 10, 1851 – March 1, 1929 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

Sir David Geoffrey Manning,, ( born 5 December 1949 ) is a former British diplomat, who was the British Ambassador to the United States from 2003 to 2007.

The original Dereham station re-opened to passengers on Saturday 26 July 1997, with the first services being operated by 1890-built Manning Wardle 0-6-0T ' Sir Berkeley ', hired from the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

The first train from after preservation, running between Dereham and Yaxham, was hauled by Manning Wardle 0-6-0 tank locomotive " Sir Berkeley ", and the railway has always intended to operate both steam and diesel trains.

See H Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III., edited by GFR Barker ( 1894 ); Sir NW Wraxall, Historical and Posthumous Memoirs, edited by HB Wheatley ( 1884 ); and JA Manning, Lives of the Speakers ( 1850 ).

Returning to Australia aged 23, he briefly worked as a factory hand at Lever Brothers in Balmain, Sydney, before becoming Secretary to the Attorney-General of New South Wales, Sir Henry Manning.

He also drew or painted Queen Adelaide, Prince George ( now Duke ) of Cambridge, and the Prince of Wales, when a boy ; Lord Palmerston, Lord Aberdeen, the Duke of Newcastle, and Mr. Gladstone ; Cardinal Manning, Archbishop Tait, and Dean Stanley ; Sir Thomas Watson, Syme, Alison, and Sir James Paget ; Prescott, Mrs. Beecher-Stowe, Darwin, Owen, and Tyndall, and a host of others.

The Honourable Sir James Albert Manning Aikins

He attracted many acclaimed in their fields to work as masters at the school, including the historian Manning Clark, the musician Sir William McKie, and the artist Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack.

Several suites were added: Charles Melville Hays Suite, Deluxe Turret Room, Lois Hole Suite, King George VI Suite, Sir Winston Churchill Suite, Edward Prince of Wales Suite, the Aberhart, Manning, and Lougheed suites, and the Queen Elizabeth II Suite ( also known as the Royal Suite ) which was, over two floors, with two bedrooms and a dining room for eight.

After a lunch with Paul Wolfowitz, Sir Christopher Meyer wrote a private letter to Manning:

On leaving school his theatrical career started immediately, with an introduction to Sir Donald Wolfit by his French master.

One ancestor was a leading activist in the Irish National Land League of Mayo and the Irish Republican Brotherhood ; an uncle, Sir Paget John Bourke, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II after a career as a judge in the Colonial Service ; while another relative was a Roman Catholic nun.

In January 1906, he resumed his full-time naval career, first as an Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence at the Admiralty and, in August, as flag-captain to Rear-Admiral Sir George Egerton on.

Pitt and Henry Fox were considered the two favourites for the position, but Newcastle instead rejected them both and turned to the less well-known figure of Sir Thomas Robinson, a career diplomat, to fill the post.

Twenty years after he had received a similar windfall from the Marlborough legacy, Sir William Pynsent, a Somerset baronet to whom he was personally quite unknown, left him his entire estate, worth about three thousand a year, in testimony of approval of his political career.

His sponsor for the election ( besides his father ) was the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington, with whom Peel's political career would be entwined for the next 25 years.

* An overview of the career of Sir Robert Peel at www. victorianweb. org

Highlights of his career in modern theatre include the roles of Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons ( 1960 ), Charles Dyer in Dyer's play Staircase, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, the definitive Laurie in John Osborne's A Hotel in Amsterdam ( 1968 ), and Antonio Salieri in the original stage production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus ( 1979 ).

Sir Robert William " Bobby " Robson, CBE ( 18 February 1933 – 31 July 2009 ) was an English footballer and manager, who managed seven European clubs and the England national team during his career.

At the age of about 40, she reaches the zenith of her career when she is employed by the eminent British entrepreneur Sir Jack Pitman

During the latter part of his career, celebrated actor John Barrymore starred in a radio program, Streamlined Shakespeare, which featured him in a series of one-hour adaptations of Shakespeare plays, many of which Barrymore never appeared in either on stage or in films, such as Twelfth Night ( in which he played both Malvolio and Sir Toby Belch ), and Macbeth.

Initially, Woolley naively sees his job as the disinterested implementation of the Minister's policies, but gradually finds that this conflicts with his institutional duty to the department and sometimes ( since Sir Humphrey is responsible for formally assessing Woolley's performance ) his own potential career development.

While he is theoretically responsible to Hacker personally, it is Sir Humphrey who writes his performance reviews and influences Bernard's Civil Service career.

In a long and varied career, which began with an advert for Mackeson Stout and a bit part in Dad's Army, his most famous roles were as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary of the fictional Department of Administrative Affairs in the television series Yes Minister ( and Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister ), for which he won four BAFTA awards, and as King George III in Alan Bennett's stage play The Madness of George III ( Olivier Award ) and the film version entitled The Madness of King George, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

Between 1957 and 1992 the long-serving MP for Beckenham was Sir Philip Goodhart, who was soon discovered by Mrs Thatcher to be a ' wet ' and consequently his career as a junior minister came to a quick end early in her premiership.

Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury | Sir Horatio Vere was the commander of English troops in Holland during the Siege of Ostend, under whom Standish likely served. The circumstances of Standish's early military career in Holland ( the " low countries " to which Morton referred ) are vague at best.

Sir George Gilbert Scott ( 13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878 ) was an English Gothic revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches, and cathedrals, although he started his career as a leading designer of workhouses.

For example, Admiral Sir Charles Wager, a son and grandson of Kentish mariners, held the office of West Looe MP early ( 1713 – 1715 ) and at the end ( 1741 – 1743 ) of his political career.

Chill October ( Collection of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber ), was the first of the large-scale Scottish Landscapes Millais painted periodically throughout his later career.

At least one other recent Lincoln Rector, Sir Maurice Shock, enjoyed a prior career in British intelligence, although there is little evidence to substantiate the college's reputation as a recruiting ground for spies.

Two 20th-century Lord Chancellors, F. E. Smith ( Lord Birkenhead ) and John Simon, were undergraduates together in the 1890s, along with the sportsman C. B. Fry ; Sir Thomas Beecham was an undergraduate in 1897, though soon abandoning Oxford for his musical career.

* Sir James Marjoribanks, career diplomat who presented Britain's successful application to join the European Community in 1967

Four of Sir Charles Barry's five sons followed in his career footsteps.

Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson CBE, ( born 22 February 1928 ), commonly known as Bruce Forsyth, or Brucie, is an English TV host and entertainer whose career spans 72 years.