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* Sir Edgeworth David FRS, Welsh-born Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer who led the first expedition to reach the Magnetic South Pole.
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Through this and other works, Edgeworth is credited with serving the political, national interests of Ireland and the United Kingdom the way Sir Walter Scott did for Scotland.
* F. Y. Edgeworth, ‘ Sir Robert Giffen ’, Economic Journal, 20, ( 1910 ) pp. 318 – 321.
Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Edgeworth Morgan KCB ( 5 February 1894 – 19 March 1967 ) was a British Army officer who fought in both world wars.
Her parents, Sir Tannatt Edgeworth David, a geologist and Antarctic explorer, and Caroline Martha David, a teacher, had moved to Australia in 1882.
Edgeworth was born in Pierrepont Street, Bath, England, grandson of Sir Salathiel Lovell through his daughter, Jane Lovell.
* By his third wife Elizabeth Sneyd, he had five sons and four daughters, of whom Charles Sneyd ( d. 1864 ) succeeded his brother Lovell, and Honora married Sir Francis Beaufort ; William Edgeworth was known as an engineer.
Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David ( commonly known as Edgeworth David ) KBE, DSO, FRS, ( 28 January 1858 – 28 August 1934 ) was a Welsh Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer.
* David, Mary Edgeworth, Professor David: The Life of Sir Edgeworth David, KBE DSO FRS MA DSC LLD, London, Edward Arnold, 1937.
* T. G. Vallance, D. F. Branagan, ' David, Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth ( 1858 – 1934 )', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, MUP, 1981, pp 218 – 221.
A number of writers of the 19th century were interested in specific dialects of their native region, the Scottish for Sir Walter Scott, the Irish for Maria Edgeworth.
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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.
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Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS ( Eng ) ( 6 August 188111 March 1955 ) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.
Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS ( 14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875 ) was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day.
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA FGS ( 17 December 177829 May 1829 ) was a British chemist and inventor.
Sir Harold ( Harry ) Walter Kroto, FRS ( born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner ), is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA ( 16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792 ) was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the " Grand Style " in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect.
Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS ( 29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945 ) was an English electrical engineer and physicist.
Sir John Carew Eccles, AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS ( 27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997 ) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse.
Sir John Anthony Pople, KBE, FRS, ( October 31, 1925 – March 15, 2004 ) was a Nobel-Prize winning theoretical chemist.
Sir Robert Menzies, KT, CH, FAA, FRS, QC, MP ( 1965 – 1966 )
Sir Robert Menzies, KT, CH, FAA, FRS, QC ( 1966 – 1976 )
Sir Robert Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FAA, FRS, QC ( 1976 – 15 May 1978 )
Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS ( 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919 ) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscopy.
* Arthur Eddington OM ( Sir ) FRS: cremated
* James Frazer OM, FRS, FBA ( Sir )
* Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM, FRS, ( Sir )
* Horace Lamb ( Sir ) FRS
Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS ( Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel ; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822 ) was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer.
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, KCB, FRS, FRAeS ( 13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973 ) is considered by many to be the " inventor of radar ".
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, OM, FRS ( 24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968 ) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin.
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet, KH, FRS ( 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871 )
Sir Arthur John Evans FRS ( 8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941 ) was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout the eastern Mediterranean.
Sir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS ( born 9 January 1950 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England ) is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science to assist police detective work, and also to resolve paternity and immigration disputes.
Sir Francis Galton FRS (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911 ), cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician.
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