In 1939, Australian scientist Howard Florey ( later Baron Florey ) and a team of researchers ( Ernst Boris Chain, Arthur Duncan Gardner, Norman Heatley, M. Jennings, J. Orr-Ewing and G. Sanders ) at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford made significant progress in showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.

Fretwork has been most active in this regard, commissioning George Benjamin, Michael Nyman, Elvis Costello, Sir John Tavener, Orlando Gough, John Woolrich, Tan Dun, Alexander Goehr, Fabrice Fitch, Andrew Keeling, Thea Musgrave, Sally Beamish, Peter Sculthorpe, Gavin Bryars, Barrington Pheloung, Simon Bainbridge, Duncan Druce, Poul Ruders, Ivan Moody, and Barry Guy ; many of these compositions may be heard on their 1997 CD Sit Fast.

* 1821-A. Duncan A Short Account of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks ( University of Edinburgh, UK )

* Accounts of the Comptroller, Sir Duncan Forestar, 1495 – 1499, Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, vol.

Also in 1642 Covenanter Campbell soldiers of the Argyll's Foot were encouraged by their commanding officer Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchinbreck to kill the local Catholic MacDonalds, near relatives of their arch Clan enemy in the Scottish Highlands Clan MacDonald.

A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.

Because it is quiet and secluded, Alderney has attracted some famous residents, including authors T. H. White ( The Once and Future King ) and Elisabeth Beresford ( The Wombles ), cricket commentator John Arlott, cricketer Sir Ian Botham, Beatles producer Sir George Martin, actress Dame Julie Andrews, and Olympic swimmer Duncan Goodhew.

* Tony Greaves, ‘ Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman ’, in Duncan Brack ( ed.

Governor Grey persuaded the Colonial Office in London to send a this number of Imperial troops to New Zealand and General Sir Duncan Cameron was appointed to lead the campaign.

Following extensive fundraising, a £ 57 million new university library ( the Sir Duncan Rice Library ) opened in autumn 2011 at the Kings College campus to replace the outgrown Queen Mother Library and was officially opened by the Queen in September 2012.

Atrium of the main Sir Duncan Rice Library at Kings College campus, looking upThe most recent building on campus is the Sir Duncan Rice Library, completed in 2011 and designed by Danish architects schmidt hammer lassen.

The Government's war policy was opposed by the British commander, General Duncan Cameron, who clashed with Governor Sir George Grey and offered his resignation in February 1865.

General Sir Duncan Cameron. In January 1865 General Cameron took the field in the Wanganui district, under instructions by Governor Grey to secure " sufficient possession " of land between Wanganui and the Patea River to provide access to Waitotara.

* Sir Robert Chiltern in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband with Kate O ' Mara, Carol Royle, Robert Duncan, Fenella Fielding, and Tony Britton, tour of Britain ( 2008 )

* The Mid-Guard: Earl of Menteith, Seneschal of Scotland ; Sir James his uncle ; William Douglas ; David de Lyndseye ; Hugh Fleming ; William de Keith ; Duncan Campbell ; James Steward of Caldru ; Alan Stewart ; William du Jardyn ; William de Abirnethy ; William de Brene de Eldyngton ; John le Fitzwilliam ; Adam More ; Walter FitzGilbert ; John de Chryghton ; all barons with their followers.

General Sir Duncan Cameron was appointed to lead the campaign.

Several Members of Parliament, mostly from the Conservative Party joined the group including Sir Peter Agnew, 1st Baronet, Ernest Bennett, Sir Robert Bird, 2nd Baronet, Robert Tatton Bower, Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, the Marquess of Clydesdale, Robert Vaughan Gower, Thomas " Loel " Guinness, Norman Hulbert, Archibald James, Alfred Knox, John Macnamara, Sir Thomas Moore, 1st Baronet, Assheton Pownall, Frank Sanderson, Duncan Sandys, Admiral Murray Sueter, Charles Taylor and Ronald Tree.

In 1445 James II of Scotland raised Sir Colin's descendant Sir Duncan to the peerage to become Duncan Campbell of Lochow, Lord of Argyll, Knight, 1st Lord Campbell.

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

* Sir David Wallace

Sir William Wallace ( Medieval Gaelic: Uilliam Uallas ; modern Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas ; Norman French: William le Waleys ; ; died 23 August 1305 ) was a Scottish knight and landowner who became one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence.

He is the protagonist of the 15th-century epic poem The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, by Blind Harry.

Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir Walter Scott and Jane Porter and of the highly fictionalized Academy Award-winning epic film Braveheart.

Some accounts have uncritically copied elements from the epic poem, The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, written around 1470 by Blind Harry the minstrel.

" Sir William Wallace ignited a flame.

* Stevenson, Joseph, ed., Documents Illustrative of Sir William Wallace, Maitland Club ( 1841 )

* The Life of Sir William Wallace, by John D. Carryck ( btm format )

Blind Harry was active some two hundred years after the events described in his The Acts and Deeds of the Illustrious and Valiant Champion Sir William Wallace, c. 1470.

The two first books I ever read in private, and which gave me more pleasure than any two books I ever read again, were The Life of Hannibal and The History of Sir William Wallace modernised version of Blind Harry by William Hamilton of Gilbertfield.

A great propaganda victory was achieved in 1305 when Wallace was betrayed by Sir John de Menteith and turned over to the English, who had him taken to London where he was publicly executed.

At the celebration of the centenary of gas lighting in 1892, a bust of Murdoch was unveiled by Lord Kelvin in the Wallace Monument, Stirling, and there is also a bust of him by Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey at St. Mary's Church.

Bust of Sir Edmund Barton by sculptor Wallace Anderson located in the Prime Ministers Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens

* Sir Wallace ( Bill ) Rowling-former Prime Minister of New Zealand

* Sir David Wallace ( Master 2006-present ), previously Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University and is now also Director of the Newton Institute.

An example of which was Sir William Wallace, who, centuries after his execution by the English, is still a symbol of Scottish nationalism.

* Sir W. Wallace, in his report to the Colonial Office on Northern Nigeria for 1906-1907, deals with Senussiism in that country.

His son Sir Thomas joined William Wallace to fight for the freedom of Scotland.

* William Hamilton-The Life and Heroick Actions of the Renoun'd Sir William Wallace

* Air Chief Marshal Sir Wallace Kyle 1968 – 1968

His only child was his illegitimate son, Sir Richard Wallace, to whom he left as much of his property as he could.

Hill, Pee Wee Crayton, Harry Choates, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Gatemouth Brown, Leadbelly, Big Mama Thorton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sippie Wallace, Victoria Spivey, Mance Lipscomb, Scott Joplin, Hot Lips Page, Gene Ramey, Jack Teagarden, Teddy Wilson, Kenny Dorham, Ella Mae Morse, Charles Brown, Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Leon Payne, Tex Ritter, Roger Miller, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Johnny Horton, George Strait, Jim Reeves, Waylon Jennings, Buck Owens, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Ray Price, Doug Sahm / Sir Douglas Quintet / Texas Tornados, Clifton Chenier, T-Bone Burnett, Edgar Winter, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Taylor, Lydia Mendoza, Flaco Jimenez, Santiago Jimenez Sr., Beto Villa, Narcisco Martinez, Archie Bell & the Drells, Dustin Adams, Johnny Guitar Watson, Yolanda Adams, Ornette Coleman, King Curtis, Mickey Newbury, Phil Ochs, Townes Van Zandt, Selena Quintanilla, Pantera, Steve Miller Band, Boz Scaggs, Charlie Sexton, Janis Joplin, ZZ Top, Eric Johnson and many others.

One, during the American Revolution, was a desultory bombardment by Sir James Wallace in the frigate HMS Rose on August 30, 1775.