The colony was called " Lygonia " after Cecily Lygon, mother of New England Council president Sir Ferdinando Gorges.

* At the behest of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Dr. Richard Vines, a physician, passes the winter of 1616 — 17 at Biddeford, Maine, at the mouth of the Saco River, that he calls Winter Harbor.

* 23 July-After a court battle, King Charles I handed over title to the North American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, one of the founders of Plymouth Council for New England.

First settled as early as 1623, the southern part of Kittery was once called Champernowne's after Sir Francis Champernowne, a prominent merchant adventurer and cousin of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the prime mover behind settlement north of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

In 1908, York Harbor proposed secession from York, first as a new town called Yorktown, then as Gorges after Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the early proprietor of Maine.

* Sir Ferdinando Tuchet K. B., who married widow of Sir John Rodney.

They are much incensed and provoked against the English, and about eight months ago slew three Englishmen, and two more hardly escaped by flight to Monchiggon ; they were Sir Ferdinando Gorges his men, as this savage told us, as he did likewise of the huggery, that is, fight, that our discoverers had with the Nausets, and of our tools that were taken out of the woods, which we willed him should be brought again, otherwise, we would right ourselves.

Sir Ferdinando Gorges ( 1565 – 1647 ), the " Father of English Colonization in North America ", was an early English colonial entrepreneur and founder of the Province of Maine in 1622, although Gorges himself never set foot in the New World.

Other financiers included Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the military governor of Plymouth ; much of the information about the events in the colony comes from his letters and memoirs.

He married Frances Dudley, 6th Baroness Dudley, daughter of Sir Ferdinando Dudley, eldest son of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley ( see the Baron Dudley for earlier history of the Sutton family ).

Permanent English settlement began after land grants were issued in 1622 to John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges for the territory between the Merrimack and Sagadahoc ( Kennebec ) rivers, roughly encompassing present-day New Hampshire and western Maine.

After the success of the Plymouth settlement, much of the rest of the company's territory was given away in further grants to other colonial ventures, notably: the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1628, and the Province of Maine to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason in 1622.

His colleague John Whitson wrote in October 1621 on the " business of Sir Ferdinando Gorges ' referring to the restraint of trade with New England as a result of articles and orders of the president and council for New England, which the merchants " in noe sorte did like ".

In 1622, Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges received a patent from the Council for New England for all the territory lying between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers.

The colony came under legal threat in 1632, when Sir Ferdinando Gorges, attempting to revive an earlier claim to the territory, raised issues of the colony's charter and governance with the Privy Council of King Charles I.

The colony angered the king by purchasing the claims of Sir Ferdinando Gorges to portions of Maine in 1677, a territory Charles had intended to acquire for his son, the Duke of Monmouth.

Ever stoic, Popham replied that at his age, death would be “ but cutting off a few years .” However, he was rescued and rowed to safety by Sir Ferdinando Gorges ( 1565 – 1647 ).

The colony had previously governed this territory ( roughly the land between the Piscataqua and Kennebec Rivers in what is now southwestern Maine ), but its right to do so had been stripped by King Charles after protests by the heirs of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, who had long-standing claims to the area.

Theobald Russell " Gorges " thus established a new line of Gorges at Wraxall, where the family became well established ( see Sir Ferdinando Gorges ).

* Proprietors of Maine: John Mason, 1622 to 1635 ; Sir Ferdinando Gorges, incumbent

* Proprietor of New Somersetshire: Sir Ferdinando Gorges, 1635 – 1647

They were authorized to acquire land claims from the heirs of Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason that conflicted with some Massachusetts land claims in present-day Maine.

* Anne Howard, married Sir Edmund Gorges ( d. 1512 ) of Wraxall by whom she had issue.

Haselrig was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Hesilrige, 1st Baronet ( alternative spellings " Heselrig " and " Haselrigge "), of Noseley Hall, Noseley, Leicestershire, and of Frances Gorges, daughter of Sir William Gorges, of Alderton, Northamptonshire.

They were given a grant by Sir Robert Gorges, with whom they had settled at Wessagusset ( Weymouth ) in September 1623.

Fourthly, at Wraxall in 1629, Elizabeth Lady Smyth, daughter of Sir Thomas Gorges and the Marchioness of Northampton, and widow of Sir Hugh Smyth of Ashton Court.

* Sir Theobald Russell, 1303-1349, married Eleanor de Gorges, daughter of Ralph III, 1st Baron Gorges

* Sir John Brown ( industrialist ) ( 1816 – 1896 ), UK inventor of a process for rolling armor-plate and founder of the Atlas steelworks, Sheffield Towers

The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada ( GSC ).

* 1854 – Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys ' Brigade ( d. 1914 )

Other Unitarians include Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Lancelot Ware, founder of Mensa, Sir Adrian Boult, the conductor, and C. Killick Millard, founder of the Euthanasia Society.

* Prof. Sir Lloyd Geering, cleric and founder of the Religious Studies department

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

* April 28 – Sir Samuel Cunard, Canadian business man & founder of the Cunard Line ( b. 1787 )

* March 27 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian university founder ( b. 1817 )

* June 5, 1823 – Raffles Institution, then the Singapore Institution, was founded by the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles.

* June 5 – Raffles Institution established as the Singapore Institution by the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles.

In 1926, the education program was re-organized as Sir George Williams College, named after George Williams, founder of the YMCA.

He was a founder of the Royal Society ( president 1680 – 82 ), and his scientific work was highly regarded by Sir Isaac Newton and Blaise Pascal.

In the mid-18th century, Sir William Johnson, founder of Fort Johnson in Montgomery County and of Johnstown, arrived in the area that would become Fulton County.

Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling, DSO, OBE ( 15 November 1915 – 4 November 1990 ) was a Scottish laird, mountaineer, World War II British Army officer, and the founder of the Special Air Service.

His acting talents were recognised by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Although organic farming is prehistoric in the widest sense, Sir Albert Howard is widely considered to be the " father of organic farming " in the sense that he was a key founder of the post-industrial-revolution organic movement.

* Sir Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Bt ( founder of the world Scouting movement ) ( 1857 – 1941 )

* Sir Henry Royce, 1st Bt ( engineer and founder Rolls-Royce )

* The original nine League or founder members who formed the party on August 2, 1792: Sir Andrew Ffoulkes ( second in command ), Lord Anthony Dewhurst, Lord Timothy Hastings, Lord John Bathurst, Lord Stowmarries, Sir Edward Mackenzie, Sir Philip Glynde, Lord Saint Denys, Sir Richard Galveston