Mynheer, Sir Francis, the valley society, the very smell of the river on his right purling along to the bay past fish weirs and rocks, and ahead the sleepy ribbon of moon-drenched road.

Instead of quelling the dissension, as many captains of the era would have done ( Sir Francis Drake lopped a man's head off under similar circumstances ), Hudson decided to be reasonable.

* 1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker ( d. 1810 )

* 1982 – 1990 Sir Francis Graham-Smith

He was then deluged with petitions urging him to call it together, and this agitation was opposed by Sir George Jeffreys and Francis Wythens, who presented addresses expressing abhorrence of the Petitioners, and thus initiated the movement of the abhorrers, who supported the action of the king.

Before he entered parliament, Disraeli was involved with several women, most notably Henrietta, Lady Sykes ( the wife of Sir Francis Sykes, 3rd Bt ), who served as the model for Henrietta Temple.

A Young Disraeli by Francis Grant ( artist ) | Sir Francis Grant, 1852

Of these only Henrietta Temple ( based on his affair with Henrietta Sykes, wife of Sir Francis William Sykes, 3rd Bt ) was a true success.

Similarly, the influences of philosophers such as Sir Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ) and René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), who demanded more rigor in mathematics and in removing bias from scientific observations, led to a scientific revolution.

The first recorded English visitor was Sir Francis Drake in 1586, who reported that the caymanas were edible, but it was the turtles which attracted ships in search of fresh meat for their crews.

Trevor Huddleston, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir Herbert Read, Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist ' Vicky ', Professor C. H. Waddington and Barbara Wootton.

In 1586, Sir Francis Drake captured the city of Santo Domingo, collecting a ransom for its return to Spanish rule.

The Neustra Señora del Rosario, the Spanish Armada's " payship " commanded by Admiral Pedro de Valdés, was captured along with all its crew by Sir Francis Drake.

* Piggott, Sir Francis.

* 1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.

The modern field and term were first formulated by Sir Francis Galton in 1883, drawing on the recent work of his half-cousin Charles Darwin.

Elizabeth's reign is known as the Elizabethan era, famous above all for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Sir Francis Drake.

Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State ( England ) | Principal Secretary 1573 – 1590.

Mary may not have been told of every Catholic plot to put her on the English throne, but from the Ridolfi Plot of 1571 ( which caused Mary's suitor, the Duke of Norfolk, to lose his head ) to the Babington Plot of 1586, Elizabeth's spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and the royal council keenly assembled a case against her.

Meanwhile, Sir Francis Drake had undertaken a major voyage against Spanish ports and ships to the Caribbean in 1585 and 1586, and in 1587 had made a successful raid on Cadiz, destroying the Spanish fleet of war ships intended for the Enterprise of England: Philip II had decided to take the war to England.

With the exception of Lord Burghley, the most important politicians had died around 1590: The Earl of Leicester in 1588, Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590, Sir Christopher Hatton in 1591.

Stein, as well as other contemporary explorers like Sven Hedin, Sir Francis Younghusband and Nikolai Przhevalsky, were active players in the British-Russian struggle for influence in Central Asia, the so-called Great Game.

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, KCSI, KCIE ( 31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942, Dorset ) was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer.

Younghusband, among other explorers such as Sven Hedin, Nikolai Przhevalsky, Chokan Valikhanov and Sir Aurel Stein, participated in earnest.

* Younghusband, Sir Francis The Epic of Mount Everest ( ISBN 0-330-48285-8, reprint 2001 ).

* Younghusband, Sir Francis Modern Mystics ( ISBN 1-4179-8003-6, reprint 2004 ).

The Muztagh Pass was crossed in 1887 by the expedition of Colonel Francis Younghusband and the valleys above the Hunza River were explored by General Sir George K. Cockerill in 1892.

British forces led by Sir Francis Younghusband invaded Tibet in 1904 and imposed a treaty on the Tibetans.

Hedin, in addition to Nikolai Przhevalsky and Sir Francis Younghusband, Sir Aurel Stein, were active players in the British-Russian struggle for influence in Central Asia, the Great Game.

Przhevalsky, as well as other contemporary explorers Sven Hedin, Sir Francis Younghusband, Sir Aurel Stein, were active players in the British-Russian struggle for influence in Central Asia, the Great Game.

Shuttleworth reported his suspicions to Sir Francis Younghusband, and these suspicions about the two Japanese eventually made its way to Lord Morley, Secretary of State for India.

Important areas of wetland remain including the lakes and lagoons around the Murray Mouth, where the huge Murray River, by now reduced by draining off into the dry plains of Australia, finally meets the ocean between the Younghusband and the Sir Richard Peninsulas via a series of shallow lagoons including the Coorong, Lake Albert, Lake Alexandrina and Bool Lagoon.

After the British expedition to Tibet by Sir Francis Younghusband in early 1904, Dorzhiev convinced the Dalai Lama to flee to Urga in Mongolia, almost to the northeast of Lhasa, a journey which took four months.

Towards the end of his trip, he travelled north to Indore where he stayed with Sir Francis Younghusband.

Spearhead General: The Epic Story of General Sir Frank Messervy and his Men in Eritrea, North Africa and Burma.

Apparently thinking he made a new discovery, he named the island " Sir Thomas Smith's Island " and the volcano " Mount Hakluyt ".

Hitler's British guests were a mélange of aristocratic Germanophiles such as Lord Londonderry, professional pacifists such as George Lansbury and Lord Allen, retired politicians, ex-generals, fascists such as Admiral Barry Domvile and Sir Oswald Mosley, journalists such as Lord Lothian and G. Ward Price, academics such as the historian Philip Conwell-Evans, and various businessmen like the newspaper magnate Lord Rothermere and the merchant banker Lord Mount Temple.

In 1985, Sir Edmund Hillary ( the first man to stand on the summit of Mount Everest ) and Neil Armstrong ( the first man to stand on the moon ) landed at the North Pole in a small twin-engined ski plane.

* July 20 – Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, conqueror of Mount Everest ( d. 2008 )

* May 29 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Lady Fanny Parkes, the wife of British ambassador Sir Harry Parkes, was the first non-Japanese woman to ascend Mount Fuji in 1869.

In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reported seeing large footprints while scaling Mount Everest.

* Sir George Stephen, 1st Baronet, of Montreal, in the Dominion of Canada ( 1886 )-also created Baron Mount Stephen ( 1891 ), extinct 1921

Mount Clare ( grade I ) built in 1772 for George Clive, cousin of Lord Clive, which forms part of the University of Roehampton, along with Grove House ( grade II *), built originally for Sir Joshua Vanneck in 1777 ( also now owned by the University ).

In 1872 while exploring the area, Ernest Giles sighted Kata Tjuta from near Kings Canyon and called it Mount Olga, while the following year Gosse saw Uluru and named it Ayers Rock after Sir Henry Ayers, the Chief Secretary of South Australia.

While exploring the area in 1872, Giles sighted Kata Tjuta from a location near Kings Canyon and called it Mount Olga, while the following year Gosse observed Uluru and named it Ayers Rock, in honor of the Chief Secretary of South Australia, Sir Henry Ayers.

A plaque marking the location of Sir Redmond Barry's residence is located near the corner of Josephine Avenue and High Street Road in Mount Waverley.

Mount Erebus was discovered on January 27, 1841 ( and observed to be in eruption ) by polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross who named it Mount Erebus after his ships, Erebus and Terror ( which were also used by Sir John Franklin on his disastrous Arctic expedition ).

Mount Erebus was first climbed ( to the rim ) by members of Sir Ernest Shackleton's party in 1908.

Memorial to Sir William Wilde and his wife located in Mount Jerome Cemetery, DublinSir William Robert Wills Wilde MD, FRCSI, ( March 1815 – 19 April 1876 ) was an Irish eye and ear surgeon, as well as an author of significant works on medicine, archaeology and folklore, particularly concerning his native Ireland.

Monument to Sir George-Étienne Cartier in front of Mount Royal during winter in Montreal

* Sir Edmund Percival Hillary ( 1919 – 2008 ) – New Zealand explorer, together with Tenzing Norgay, the first to climb Mount Everest on May 29, 1953.

In 1981 he attempted to climb Mount Everest from the Tibetan side with Sir Edmund Hillary.

In 1953, he and Sir Edmund Hillary became the first people known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.

Seven years later, on April 1, 1925, the Hebrew University campus on Mount Scopus was opened at a gala ceremony attended by the leaders of the Jewish world, distinguished scholars and public figures, and British dignitaries, including the Earl of Balfour, Viscount Allenby and Sir Herbert Samuel.