Guy was an uncommon name in England, but may have been popular in York on account of a local notable, Sir Guy Fairfax of Steeton.

Guy Fawkes, an English soldier, along with other recusants or converts, including, among others, Sir Robert Catesby, Christopher Wright, John Wright and Thomas Percy, was arrested and charged with attempting to blow up Parliament on 5 November 1605.

" Robin shoots with Sir Guy " by Louis Rhead

* Sir Guy of Gisbourne

Fretwork has been most active in this regard, commissioning George Benjamin, Michael Nyman, Elvis Costello, Sir John Tavener, Orlando Gough, John Woolrich, Tan Dun, Alexander Goehr, Fabrice Fitch, Andrew Keeling, Thea Musgrave, Sally Beamish, Peter Sculthorpe, Gavin Bryars, Barrington Pheloung, Simon Bainbridge, Duncan Druce, Poul Ruders, Ivan Moody, and Barry Guy ; many of these compositions may be heard on their 1997 CD Sit Fast.

* September 1 – Sir Guy Standing, British actor ( d. 1937 )

* November 5 – Gunpowder Plot: A plot by to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building and orders a search of the area ( records show 36 barrels of gunpowder were found, and Fawkes was arrested for trying to kill King James I of England and the members who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day ).

Still another important chapter in the story of the Revolution was written on May 5, 1783, when General Washington received Sir Guy Carleton at the DeWint House, where they discussed the terms of the peace treaty.

Two days later Washington visited Sir Guy aboard a British war vessel.

* Guy Standing as Colonel Tom Stone ( as Sir Guy Standing )

He acquires a loyal follower when he saves Much from being arrested by Sir Guy of Gisbourne for poaching one of the king's deer.

* Basil Rathbone as Sir Guy of Gisbourne

Sir William Johnson, his son John Johnson and son-in-law Guy Johnson and Brant used all their influence to engage the Iroquois to fight for the British cause.

He frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Murdstone in David Copperfield ( 1935 ) and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ).

Huxley's internationalist and conservation interests also led him, with Victor Stolan, Sir Peter Scott, Max Nicholson and Guy Mountfort, to set up the WWF ( World Wide Fund for Nature under its former name of the World Wildlife Fund ).

In 1783, at Dobbs Ferry, Clinton and Washington negotiated with General Sir Guy Carleton for the evacuation of the British troops from their remaining posts in the United States.

Taking its name from the Township of Guysborough, which was named in honour of Sir Guy Carleton, Guysborough County was created when Sydney County ( Antigonish County ) was divided in 1836.

Sir Thomas Guy, a governor of St Thomas ', founded Guy's Hospital in 1721 as a place to treat ' incurables ' discharged from St Thomas '.

* A RECORD OF EUROPEAN ARMOUR AND ARMS THROUGH SEVEN CENTURIES by Sir Guy Francis Laking ( 1919 )

* Guy Middleton as Sir William Robertson

Laden with furs, Henry returned to Montreal and gave the governor, Sir Guy Carleton, a large map of the western region through which he had travelled.

He added the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors to his portfolio in January 1927, succeeding Sir Guy Granet.

Prominent politicians and public figures also lived there such as Sir Keith Holyoake, and Sir Guy Powles.

Sir Guy Powles, the last governor of Samoa, served as the first Ombudsman.

* Sir Guy Powles, ONZ KBE ED ( Official title was simply " Ombudsman " until 1975 )-1962-1977

Dumbleton and Sir Guy Richardson Powles, and published on 30 June 1969.

* Sir Michael Hardie Boys, ( BA, LLB ) former Governor-General of New Zealand

* Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, ( LLB ) former Chief Justice of New Zealand

* Sir Michael Fay, ( LLB ) merchant banker, third-richest person in New Zealand

Sir Doug Kidd, ( LLB ) former Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives

* Sir George Laking, ( LLB ) New Zealand diplomat, public servant

* Sir Jack Marshall, ( BA, LLB ) former Prime Minister

New machinery of coordination should not be our primary objective in the foreseeable future -- though perhaps the `` political general staff '' of Western leaders proposed by Sir Anthony Eden would serve a useful purpose.

That, Sir, shows the real political position of New Zealand.

At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.

Forgotten for many years, the grave was discovered in 1897 and the Premier of New South Wales, Sir Henry Parkes, had it restored.

After the death of Sir Robert Montgomery, Henry inherited the Montgomery ancestral estate of New Park at Moville in northern County Donegal.

This setback for Parliament in Cornwall, and the last major victory for the Royalists, was reversed by Sir Thomas Fairfax leading the New Model Army at or near Tresillian Bridge, close to Truro on 12 March 1645.

The other judges were John Toohey QC, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia who had worked on Aboriginal issues ( he replaced New Zealander Sir Edward Somers QC, who retired from the Inquiry in 2000 for personal reasons ), and Mr Justice William Hoyt QC, former Chief Justice of New Brunswick and a member of the Canadian Judicial Council.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

* Payne-Gallwey, Ralph, Sir, The Crossbow: Mediaeval and Modern, Military and Sporting ; its Construction, History & Management with a Treatise on the Balista and Catapult of the Ancients and An Appendix on the Catapult, Balista & the Turkish Bow, New York: Bramhall House, 1958.

After the fall of James II of England, in 1688, Mather was among the leaders of the successful revolt against James's governor of the consolidated Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros.

The first recorded Diprotodon remains were discovered in a cave near Wellington in New South Wales in the early 1830s by Major Thomas Mitchell who sent them to England for study by Sir Richard Owen.

* 1904 – Sir Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand ( d. 1983 )

Although much of his legal reform proposals were not established in his life time, his legal legacy was considered by the magazine New Scientist, in a publication of 1961, as having influenced the drafting of the Code Napoleon, and the law reforms introduced by Sir Robert Peel.

At age 23, Drake made his first voyage to the New World, sailing with his second cousin, Sir John Hawkins, on one of a fleet of ships owned by his relatives, the Hawkins family of Plymouth.

Sir William McKell was Premier of New South Wales.

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

Sir Charles FitzRoy ( Governor of New South Wales from 1846 – 1855 ) and Sir William Denison ( Governor of New South Wales from 1855 – 1861 ) also carried the additional title of Governor-General because their jurisdiction extended to other colonies in Australia.