The French army also comprised a contingent of Scots commanded by Sir William Douglas.

Groups inspired by this include Sir Douglas Quintet, Thee Midniters, Los Lobos, War, Tierra, and El Chicano, and, of course, the Chicano Blues Man himself, the late Randy Garribay.

The former HBC Fort Dallas at Camchin, the confluence of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers, was renamed in his honour by Governor Sir James Douglas in 1858 as Lytton, British Columbia.

Aberdeen's second son was General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ; his third son was the Reverend Douglas Hamilton-Gordon ; and his youngest son Arthur Gordon was created Baron Stanmore in 1893.

Despite the excommunication of Bruce and his followers by Pope Clement V, his support slowly strengthened ; and by 1314 with the help of leading nobles such as Sir James Douglas and Thomas Randolph only the castles at Bothwell and Stirling remained under English control.

The cable was completed on 6 June 1929 and the first call between the Isle of Man and the outside world was made on 28 June 1929 by Lieutenant Governor Sir Claude Hill in Douglas to the Postmaster General in Liverpool.

Sahm's father was the legendary fiddler-singer-songwriter Doug Sahm of The Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados.

Herbert, Thomas Hood, Douglas William Jerrold ( 1841 – 1857 ), James Leavey, George du Maurier, George Melly, John McCrae, A. A. Milne, Anthony Powell, W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Henry Lucy, John Hollingshead, Artemus Ward, Somerset Maugham, P. G.

Bruce's lieutenant and friend Sir James Douglas agreed to take the late King's embalmed heart on crusade to the Holy Land, but he only reached Moorish Granada.

Bruce, with a small following of his most faithful men, including Sir James Douglas and Gilbert Hay, Bruce's brothers Thomas, Alexander and Edward, as well as Sir Neil Campbell and the Earl of Lennox fled.

Sir James Douglas was allotted the task.

But this legend appears for the first time in only a much later account, " Tales of a Grandfather " by Sir Walter Scott, and may have originally been told about his companion-in-arms Sir James Douglas ( the " Black Douglas "), who had spent time hiding out in caves within his manor of Lintalee, which was then occupied by the English.

Contrary to claims of homosexual terminology, Sir Donald Sinden, an actor who met two of the play's original cast ( Irene Vanbrugh, Gwendolen and Allan Aynesworth, Algernon ), and Lord Alfred Douglas, wrote to The Times to dispute suggestions that " Earnest " held any sexual connotations:

The Fredericton campus features two sites of national historic importance, both designated as National Historic Sites of Canada: the 1827 Sir Howard Douglas Hall ( Arts Building ) and the 1851 William Brydone Jack Observatory.

Sir Howard Douglas Hall.

** Sir Douglas Nicholls appointed 28th Governor of South Australia, the first Australian Aboriginal appointed to vice-regal office.

* Physiology or Medicine – Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Edgar Douglas Adrian

* September 14 – Battle of Homildon Hill: Northern English nobles led by Sir Henry " Hotspur " Percy defeat a Scottish raiding army under the Earl of Douglas.

* July 19 – Battle of Halidon Hill: Edward III defeats Sir Archibald Douglas, during the last of the Wars of Scottish Independence.

** Sir Archibald Douglas

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

* 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.

Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS ( Eng ) ( 6 August 188111 March 1955 ) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.

The Sir Alexander Fleming Building on the South Kensington campus was opened in 1998 and is now one of the main preclinical teaching sites of the Imperial College School of Medicine.

* The Life Of Sir Alexander Fleming, Jonathan Cape, 1959.

Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

In 1613, Virginian raiders captured Port Royale, and in 1621 Acadia was ceded to Scotland's Sir William Alexander who renamed it Nova Scotia.

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

Other notable figures in the movement include Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan ( who together initiated the Great Books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland ), Mark Van Doren, Alexander Meiklejohn, and Sir Richard Livingstone, an English classicist with an American following.

Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ( 1817 – 1890 ), eldest son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was a General in the Army and sat as Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire East.

His eldest son, Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon was also a General in the Army.

She married Sir Alexander Seton ( d. 1438 ) and was the mother of Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly ( ancestor of the Marquesses of Huntly ).

* 1926 – Sir Alexander Gibson, Scottish conductor ( d. 1995 )

They decided to replace Auchinleck, appointing XIII Corps commander William Gott to the Eighth Army command and General Sir Harold Alexander as C-in-C Middle East Command.

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

Sir John Alexander Macdonald, ( 11 January 1815 – 6 June 1891 ), was the first Prime Minister of Canada.

* Sir Alexander Hamilton ( d. bef.

In 1789 Sir Alexander Mackenzie followed the river named after him to the Arctic Ocean.

* 1838 – Sir Henry Irving, British actor ( d. 1905 )

* Laocoon, translated by Sir Robert Phillimore, London, G. Routledge & sons, 1905.

In 1905 Sir Frederick Treves wrote that the village " straggles down hill like a small mountain stream.

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 ).

King led the effort to raise a memorial to Harper, which resulted in the erection of the Sir Galahad statue on Parliament Hill in 1905.

Sir Robert Jardine ( 1825 – 1905 ) is the ancestor of the Buchanan-Jardine branch of the family.

Sir William Henry Hadow's multi-volume Oxford History of Music had appeared between 1901 and 1905.

It is at the Castellania that physician and archaeologist Sir Themistocles Zammit discovered the Mediterranean strain of brucellosis in 1905.

* Sir Julius Wernher, 1st Baronet, of Luton Hoo Park, in the Parish of Luton and County of Bedford ( 1905 ), extinct 1973

After the Conservative government of Arthur Balfour fell in December 1905 there was some speculation that Asquith and his allies Richard Haldane and Sir Edward Grey would refuse to serve unless Campbell-Bannerman accepted a peerage, which would have left Asquith as the real leader in the House of Commons.

" He was appointed to the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1904, and early in 1905 went to Panama as a member of the committee of engineers which subsequently reported in favor of a sea-level canal ... In 1904 Parsons was also appointed, together with the famous British engineers Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Wolfe-Barry, to membership on a board to pass on the plans of the Royal Commission on London Traffic.

* 1956 – 1965: Sir Roger Hollis ( from 1960, Sir Roger Hollis ) ( b. 1905 – d.

Some weeks later he named the peak after his brother, Sir Augustus Charles Gregory ( 1819 – 1905 ).

* Life of Sir Thomas Browne ( 1905 )

In 1905, the Japanese government conferred the Grand Cordon, Order of the Rising Sun, and Sir Edmund was granted permission to retain and wear the insignia.

Sir William McDougall PC CB ( January 25, 1822 – May 29, 1905 ) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation.

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE ( 2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998 ) was an English composer.

The orchestra made its first British tour in 1905, conducted by Sir Edward Elgar.

His wife, Cecil Mary Nowell Dering Tupper ( Viscountess Craigavon ; died 1960 ), whom he married on 22 March 1905 after a very brief courtship, was English, the daughter of Sir Daniel Tupper, assistant comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's department of the king's household.

Arthur Balfour's refusal to recommend an earldom for Curzon in 1905 was repeated by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Liberal Prime Minister, who formed his government the day after Curzon returned to England.

Sir Louis Hypolite Lafontaine, Bart., then Chief Justice of Lower Canada then married Montreal, January 3oth, 1861, the widowed Jane Élisabeth Geneviève Morrison, ( 1822 – 1905 ) daughter of Charles Morrison, on January 30, 1861.

* Balfour Paul, Sir James, Lord Lyon King of Arms, editor, The Scots Peerage, Edinburgh, 1905, under ' Lauderdale '.