Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

The leader of ELDR is Sir Graham Watson MEP.

Following his election, Sir Graham said: " I am honoured that ELDR has chosen me to lead our great party.

* Anthony Cave Brown, " C ": The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill, 1987, published by Macmillan, New York.

Many portraits were painted of Somerset Maugham, including that by Graham Sutherland in the Tate Gallery, and several by Sir Gerald Kelly.

* July 22 – Sir John de Graham, Scottish soldier at the Battle of Falkirk

The novel opens with the marriage of Lucy Graham, a beautiful, doll-like blonde who enchants almost all who meet her, to Sir Michael Audley, an old, rich, and kind widower, in June 1857.

Graham Lord, in NIV: The Authorized Biography of David Niven, suggested that Comyn-Platt and Mrs. Niven had been having an affair for some time before her husband's death, and that Sir Thomas may well have been David Niven's biological father, a supposition which has some support from her children.

In August 1436, James failed humiliatingly in his siege of Roxburgh Castle and then faced an ineffective attempt by Sir Robert Graham to arrest him at a general council.

The estates firmly resisted this and their opposition was articulated by their speaker Sir Robert Graham, a former Albany attendant and a servant of the king's uncle, Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.

The king's cousin Sir Robert Stewart, heir to his grandfather Walter, Earl of Atholl, was chamberlain of the royal household and used his privileged position to allow a small band of former Albany adherents led by Robert Graham to enter the building.

The action was brief and probably not very bloody, since the only casualty of any note was a minor Lothian knight, Sir Patrick Graham, though about 100 Scottish lords, knights and men-at-arms were taken prisoner.

* Chief Constable Sir Graham Shillington, from November 1970.

* Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, 1st Bt ( Architect and Royal Academician ) ( 1835 – 1924 )

Sir Elton John, who owned Watford during both of Graham Taylor's successful periods as manager, serves alongside Taylor as the club's joint Honorary Life President.

Other notable residents of Clapham Common were Palace of Westminster architect Sir Charles Barry, Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and 20th century novelist Graham Greene.

In 2002, The Van Riebeeck Society published Sir Graham Bower's Secret History of the Jameson Raid and the South African Crisis, 1895 – 1902 ( Edited by Deryck Schreuder and Jeffrey Butler, Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town, Second Series No. 33 ), adding to growing historical evidence that the imprisonment and judgement upon the Raiders at the time of their trial was unjust, in view of what has appeared, in later historical analysis, to have been the calculated political manoeuvres by Joseph Chamberlain and his staff to hide his own involvement and knowledge of the Raid.

In his review of Sir Graham Bower's account, Alan Cousins ( 2004 ) notes that, " A number of major themes and concerns emerge " from Bower's history, "... perhaps the most poignant being Bower ’ s accounts of his being made a scapegoat in the aftermath of the raid: ' since a scapegoat was wanted I was willing to serve my country in that capacity '.

* Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, architect

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.

Actors Lorne Greene and Lee Majors, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev, composer John Williams, author Graham Greene, and former Mauritian QC and Politician Sir Gaetan Duval ( 1930 – 1996 ), football player Johan Cruijff, drummer Charlie Watts, Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong, television host and comedian Jay Leno, Mike Hailwood and composer John Barry musician Carlos Santana, all owned SMs.

British troops soon afterwards arrived at Suakin, and Sir Gerald Graham took the offensive.

* Mary, Married 1st George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus ; Married 2nd Sir James Kennedy the Younger ; Bethrothed to Sir William Cunningham ; Married 3rd to Sir William Graham of Kincardine ; Married 4th Sir William Edmonstone of Duntreath ( Ancestors

* Margin Notes by G. E. Moore on The Works of Thomas Reid ( 1849: With Notes by Sir William Hamilton )

* Sir William Reid ( b. April 25, 1791, Kinglassie-d. October 31, 1858, London, England ), governor of Bermuda ( 1839 – 46 ), Barbados ( 1846 – 48 ), and Malta ( 1851 – 58 ); knighted 1851

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It is, indeed, the cardinal weakness of this form of intuitionism that no satisfactory list can be given and that no moral principles have the " constant and never-failing entity ," or the definiteness, of the concepts of geometry ( these attacks are not uncontested — see, for example, the " Common Sense " tradition from Thomas Reid to James McCosh and the Oxford Realists Harold Prichard and Sir William David Ross ).

* Sir Wemyss Reid ( ed.

Tony Rennell's book Last Days of Glory: The Death of Queen Victoria reveals that Victoria had entrusted detailed instructions about her burial to her doctor, Sir James Reid ( in lieu of Brown himself, who had died in 1883: the Queen's wish had been for him to attend to her ).

In 1953, Tate Director, Sir Norman Reid, attempted to have it replaced by Auguste Rodin's John the Baptist, and in 1962 again proposed its removal, calling its presence " positively harmful ".

Lady Godiva statue by Sir William Reid Dick unveiled at midday on 22 October 1949 in Broadgate, Coventry, a £ 20, 000 gift from Mr WH Bassett-Green, a Coventrian.

A portrait of the historian by George Reid ( Scottish artist ) | Sir George Reid, c. 1888.

* Sir George Reid ( Australian politician ) ( 1845 – 1918 ), Prime Minister of Australia

* Sir George Reid ( Scottish artist ) ( 1841 – 1913 )

* Sir George Reid ( RAF officer ) ( 1893 – 1991 ), World War I flying ace in No. 20 Squadron RAF

* Sir George Reid ( Scottish politician ) ( born 1939 ), Former Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament

* Sir G. Archdall Reid ( 1860 – 1929 ), Scottish physician and writer

* Reid Barbour and Claire Preston ( eds ), Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed ( Oxford, OUP, 2008 ).

The philosophy of Mansel, like that of Sir William Hamilton, was mainly due to Aristotle, Immanuel Kant and Thomas Reid.

Sir George Houstoun Reid, GCB, GCMG, KC ( 25 February 1845 – 12 September 1918 ) was an Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales and the fourth Prime Minister of Australia.

Ian Paisley, Andrew Gilligan, Ned Sherrin, Seventh Doctor & Sylvester McCoy, Sir Menzies Campbell, Ringo Starr, Nick Robinson, Sir Alex Ferguson, Alan Carr, John Reid, Stephen Fry

Sir Sam Fay, a railway official who worked at the War Office 1917-19, enjoyed cordial face-to-face relations with Wilson but wrote that he could argue with total conviction that a horse chestnut was the same thing as a chestnut horse, and that an unnamed senior general said he suffered a “ sexual disturbance ” whenever he came within a mile of a politician ( Fay recorded that the general had in fact used “ vulgar and obscene ” language-Walter Reid simply writes that exposure to politicians gave Wilson an erection ).

* Reid, Alfred S. Sir Thomas Overbury's Vision ( 1616 ) and Other English Sources of Nathaniel Hawthorne's ' The Scarlet Letter.

The party was centred on New South Wales, where its leaders were Sir Henry Parkes and Sir George Reid.

* Admiral Sir Peter Reid, 1956 – 1961