In the past, the duties of the state, as Sir Henry Maine noted long ago, were only two in number: internal order and external security.

Sir Henry Howorth, writing in 1898, put himself firmly in the Lappenburg-Kemble tradition by attacking the veracity of the West Saxon annals.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

In 1858, Sir Henry Bessemer developed a process of steel making by blowing hot air through liquid pig iron to reduce the carbon content.

Jacques-Louis David, Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Thomas Gainsborough, Antonio Canova, Arnold Bocklin

* Sir Samuel Henry Strong – September 30, 1875

But Sir Henry Harris said in 1998: " Without Fleming, no Chain ; without Chain, no Florey ; without Florey, no Heatley ; without Heatley, no penicillin.

Sir Henry Bessemer had invented the furnace which allowed the high carbon content of pig iron to be burnt away in a controlled and rapid way.

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.

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

* 1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Henry Montgomery, Vicar of St Mark's, Kennington, at that time, was the second son of the noted Indian administrator, Sir Robert Montgomery, who died a month after Bernard's birth.

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

Other possible ministers included Sir Robert Inglis, Henry Goulburn, John Charles Herries, and Lord Ellenborough.

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.

Replacing Harcourt as party leader was Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.

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.

* Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1899 – 1908

They and the Auxies became known as Tudor's Toughs after the police commander, Major-General Sir Henry Hugh Tudor.

Sir Henry Maine ( 1861 ) studied the ancient codes available in his day, and failed to find any criminal law in the " modern " sense of the word.

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.

* Stephen Cooper The Real Falstaff ( a biography of Sir John Fastolf ) ( Pen & Sword, 2010 )

# 1931 – 1952 Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper

Writing to his friend Sir George Cooper in August 1849, he stated:

This decree was issued by the new king and unanimously supported by the Dominion governments, The king's authority to withhold from the lawful wife of a prince the attribute thitherto accorded to the wives of other modern British princes was addressed by the Crown's legal authorities: On 14 April 1937, Attorney General Sir Donald Somervell submitted to Home Secretary Sir John Simon a memorandum summarising the views of Lord Advocate T. M. Cooper, Parliamentary Counsel Sir Granville Ram, and himself:

* Stephen Cooper, The Real Falstaff, Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years War, ( Pen & Sword 2010 )

He began reading Sir Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, and other modern writers of fiction and cultivated a lifelong love for Longfellow, whose verse he sometimes employed as a model for his own.

* Sir Daniel Cooper, 1st Baronet, of Woollahra, in New South Wales ( 1863 ), extant

The cemetery of St Mary Magdalen ’ s Roman Catholic Church Mortlake ‎ contains the tomb of Sir Richard Burton, and the ashes of comic-magician Tommy Cooper are interred at Mortlake Crematorium.

It has an art deco interior, designed by Sir Edwin Cooper and is a grade II listed building.

Artists who have taken part in the Llangollen Fringe include Sir Clement Freud, Lesley Garrett, Rhys Ifans, The Damned, Cerys Matthews, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Juan Martín, The Black Seeds, John Cooper Clarke, Will Self and Race Horses.

* Stephen Cooper, The Real Falstaff, Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years War, ( Pen & Sword, 2010 )

Lady Agnes married James Duff, 5th Earl Fife and among their children was Lady Agnes Duff, who married Sir Alfred Cooper.

However, a dispute between the two hospitals regarding the successor to Sir Astley Cooper resulted in Guy's Hospital establishing its own medical school in 1825.

* Sir Astley Cooper, discoverer of the Cooper's ligaments of the breasts

In 1930 Johnson played in Cynara with Sir Gerald Du Maurier and Gladys Cooper.

# English baronet Sir Neville Pearson ( 1927 – 1936 ); ( one daughter, Sally Pearson ( aka Sally Cooper ) who was married from 1961 to 1986 to the actor Robert Hardy ).

As a child, heavyweight boxer Sir Henry Cooper was evacuated from London to Lancing, along with identical twin brother George.

The programme, produced in association with ITN, featured appearances from Sir Ralph Richardson, Stanley Baker ( later a founder of TWW's successors, Harlech Television ), Naunton Wayne, Donald Sinden, Tessie O ' Shea, Donald Houston, Petula Clark, Tommy Cooper and Ralph Reader.

Sir Thomas Arundel of Wardour purchased the abbey and much of the town in 1540, but when he was later exiled for treason his lands were forfeit, and the lands passed to Pembroke then Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, and finally to the Grosvenors.

French was severely criticised by those close to Haig, including Edmonds in the “ Official History ” ( he called him “ only " un beau sabreur " of the old fashioned sort … a vain, ignorant and vindictive old man with an unsavoury society backing ” and claimed that French once borrowed Sir Edward Hamley ’ s “ Operations of War ” from the War Office library but could not understand it ) and Duff Cooper in Haig's Official Biography.

He married Harriet Webster, the daughter of Kentville's Dr. Isaac Webster in 1824, then went to London to study medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital under Sir Astley Paston Cooper, then surgery at Guy's Hospital under John Abernethy.

This same building had been converted into the first cottage hospital providing free medical services by Sir Astley Cooper in 1827.