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* 1819 Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )
George Stubbs, William Blake, John Martin, Francisco Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, Eugène Delacroix, Sir Edwin landseer, Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner
Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F. B. A., F. R. S.
* 1835 1881 Sir George Biddell Airy
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.
Sir George Cayley was one of the most important people in the history of aeronautics.
In 1799 Sir George Cayley set forth the concept of the modern airplane as a fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion, and control.
* 1704 War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.
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.
A drawing of a glider by Sir George Cayley, one of the early attempts at creating an aerodynamic shape.
Sir George Cayley is credited as the first person to identify the four aerodynamic forces of flight — weight, lift, drag, and thrust — and the relationships between them.
Otto Lilienthal, following the work of Sir George Cayley, was the first person to become highly successful with glider flights.
* Extract on The Beltane Fires from Sir James George Frazer's book The Golden Bough-1922
Through the aegis of her scientific uncle, Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, a chemist and vice chancellor of the University of London, she consulted with botanists at Kew Gardens, convincing George Massee of her ability to germinate spores and her theory of hybridisation.
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.
The current Governor of the Bank of England is Sir Mervyn King, who took over on 30 June 2003 from Sir Edward George.
* Frazer, Sir James George, Myths of the Origin of Fire, London: Macmillan, 1930.
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.

Sir and Gordon
Sir Robert Gordon, a younger son of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen, acquired the lease in 1830 and made major alterations to the castle, with baronial-style extensions designed by John Smith of Aberdeen.
Sir Robert Gordon died in 1847, and the lease on Balmoral reverted to Lord Aberdeen.
One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term " culture " came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: “ Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society .” The term " civilization " later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.
) The Declaration was then taken to the papal court at Avignon by Bishop Kininmund, Sir Adam Gordon and Sir Odard de Maubuisson.
Sir Robert Gordon, younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a diplomat and served as British Ambassador to Austria.
Sir John Gordon ( d. c. 1395 ) of Strathbogie, ancestor of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, was the brother of Elizabeth Gordon.
She married Sir Alexander Seton ( d. 1438 ) and was the mother of Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly ( ancestor of the Marquesses of Huntly ).
* Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet ( 1610 1644 )
* Sir John Gordon, 2nd Baronet ( c. 1632 1665 )
However, as Northcott was born in Victoria, it was not until Sir Eric Woodward's appointment by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957 that the position was filled by a New South Wales-born individual ; this practice continued until 1996, when Queen Elizabeth II commissioned as her representative Gordon Samuels, a London-born immigrant to Australia.
George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen ( 6 October 1637 20 April 1720 ), Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, ( executed in 1644 ); by his wife, Mary Forbes.
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.
In recent history, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Edward Heath, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have not been elevated to the House of Lords.
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Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, ( 20 December 189415 May 1978 ) was an Australian politician and the 12th Prime Minister of Australia.
* Martin, Allan ( 2000 ), ' Sir Robert Gordon Menzies ,' in Grattan, Michelle, " Australian Prime Ministers ", New Holland Publishers, pages 174 205.

Sir and 3rd
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.
Of these only Henrietta Temple ( based on his affair with Henrietta Sykes, wife of Sir Francis William Sykes, 3rd Bt ) was a true success.
* A History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Sir Leslie Stephen, 2 volumes ( 1876, 3rd ed.
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* August 4 Sir George Acheson, 3rd Baronet, Irish nobleman ( d. 1685 )
In Ireland the great-great-grandson of the 3rd earl, Sir Piers Butler, contested the will and claimed the Earldom himself.
His eldest son Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet, served as Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1861 to 1865.
Upon the death of Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet in 1749, the wealth left by his grandfather, Sir George Downing, who served both Cromwell and Charles II and built 10 Downing Street ( a door formerly from Number 10 is in use in the college ), was applied by his will.
Sir George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland was a successful privateer against Spanish shipping in the Caribbean.
Lee was born in Cheshire, England, the son of General John Lee and Isabella Bunbury ( daughter of Sir Henry Bunbury, 3rd Baronet ).
At the age of 84, Spock came in 3rd ( out of a field of 8 ), rowing his dingy across the Sir Frances Drake Channel between Tortola and Norman Island, a distance of four miles.
Gort had ordered Sir Ronald Adam, 3rd Corps Commander, and French General Falgade, to prepare a perimeter defence of Dunkirk.
* Sir Nicholas L ' Estrange, 3rd Bt ( 1632-1669 )
* Sir Ranulph Fiennes, 3rd Bt ( explorer )
* Sir David Bartlett, 3rd Baronet, Won gold for Britan in the 1936 Olympics ( for fencing ).
* Sir Cornelis Speelman, 1st Baronet, of the Netherlands ( 1686 )-the 3rd Baronet also became Jonkheer in the Dutch nobility, extant
John Wright's son, Francis, married Selina, daughter of Sir Henry FitzHerbert, 3rd Baronet of Tissington Hall, Derbyshire and was a noted philanthropist ; he was Susan's great great grandfather.
He then worked for a time with Sir John Vanbrugh, helping him build Blenheim Palace for John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, where he took charge from 1705, after Vanbrugh's final break with the demanding Duchess of Marlborough, and Castle Howard for Charles Howard, later the 3rd Earl of Carlisle.
Both Sir William Cecil and Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex ( especially the latter ), eagerly support this marriage offer.
These members included: Arthur Greenwood ; Sir Archibald Southby, 1st Baronet ; Sir Alec Douglas-Home ; James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Ancaster and Victor Raikes.

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