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.

In 1973 the collection was increased further by the acquisition of part of the Sir Henry Wellcome Collection, and by the bequest of Colonel J. R. Danson in 1976, which included more material from Amarna and from Garstang ’ s excavations at Abydos.

Pioneers of aerial archaeology include Roger Agache in Northern France, Antoine Poidebard in Syria, L W B Rees in Jordan O. G. S. Crawford in England and c1913, Sir Henry Wellcome in the Sudan.

* Sir Henry Wellcome

The Trust was established to administer the fortune of the American-born pharmaceutical magnate Sir Henry Wellcome.

The models were sold off by the patent office in 1925 and were purchased by Sir Henry Wellcome, the founder of the Burroughs-Wellcome Company ( now part of GlaxoSmithKline ).

In 2005, Sir William Castell, CEO of GE Healthcare and former CEO of Amersham plc stepped down as CEO to become Chairman of the Wellcome Trust -- a charity that fosters and promotes human and animal research — in the United Kingdom.

Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome ( August 21, 1853 – July 25, 1936 ) FRS was an American-British pharmaceutical entrepreneur.

In 2009, An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World, written by Frances Larson, was published by Oxford University Press.

* An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World, Frances Larson, OUP Oxford, 2009

In 2005, Sir Walter Bodmer was appointed to lead a £ 2. 3 million project ( roughly 4. 5 million USD ) by the Wellcome Trust at Oxford University to examine the genetic makeup of the United Kingdom-the People of the British Isles project.

Professor Sir Walter Bodmer was joined by Oxford Professor Peter Donnelly ( a population genetics and statistics expert ) and the Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow Professor Lon Cardon.

The Wellcome Library is founded on the collection formed by Sir Henry Wellcome ( 1853 – 1936 ), whose personal wealth allowed him to create one of the most ambitious collections of the 20th century.

The first equipped laboratory for bacteriological analysis was added in 1905, with donations from Sir Henry Wellcome, an American-British pharmaceutical entrepreneur and archaeologist.

Nothing else was released by them, however, until early 2004 with the release of the critically acclaimed double album Wellcome ( the title inspired by the work of Sir Henry Wellcome ).

Among some seventy major groups of material the Institute holds the papers of Sir Alan H. Gardiner, Battiscombe Gunn and Jaroslav Černý, records made by Howard Carter during his discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, as well as the documentation from the Nubian expeditions of Griffith and Sir Henry Wellcome.

For example, in 2001, Sir David Howard was created a Grand Cordon, First Class, of the Order of Independence of Jordan following the state visit of King Abdullah II.

Mountain Class ' Hercules ' hauled the inaugural train from Hythe to New Romney with guests including the mayors of the two towns, and General Sir Ivor Maxse.

Draper ”, SR King Arthur No. 777 “ Sir Lamiel ”, BR Class 33 D6535 “ Hertfordshire Railtours ”, BR Standard 7P6F No. 70013 “ Oliver Cromwell ”, and BR Class 45 " Leicestershire And Derbyshire Yeomanry " Peak D123.

Sir Ian McKellen has portrayed Magneto through the X-Men film series, while Michael Fassbender plays a younger version of the character in the film X-Men: First Class.

In 2008, a special commemorative model of LNER Class A4 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley was produced, in period packaging, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of this introduction.

* Madge Wildfire, the name of one of the LNER Peppercorn Class A1 locomotives ( after the character in Sir Walter Scott ’ s novel )

* SR Bulleid Rebuilt Battle of Britain Class 4-6-2 34059 Sir Archibald Sinclair

* SR Bulleid Rebuilt Battle of Britain Class 4-6-2 34058 Sir Frederick Pile

* BR Class 73 Bo-Bo electro-diesel Sir Herbert Walker No E6003.

* Queen / Sir Alexander Class 2-2-2

* Sir Daniel Class 2-2-2

* LNER Class P2, a locomotive designed by Sir Nigel Gresley

Some ex-LNER locomotives have numbers based on their LNER pre-1946 numbers, these being Class A3 Flying Scotsman ( 4472 ), Class A4s Mallard ( 4468 ) and Sir Nigel Gresley ( 4498 ), LNER Class J36 Maude ( NBR 673, LNER pre-1946 9673 ) and Class V2 Green Arrow ( 4771 ).

The line features in two notable poems: Adlestrop by Edward Thomas and Pershore Station, or A Liverish Journey First Class by Sir John Betjeman.

* Sir Henry Class

The Great Western Railway Sir Watkin Class were 0-6-0T broad gauge steam locomotives with side tanks.

* Sir Francis Drake was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.

The London and North Eastern Railway ( LNER ) Class V2 2-6-2 steam locomotives were designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for express mixed traffic work, and built between 1936 – 1944.

* Gen Sir Dighton Probyn ( 1833 – 1924 ), VC, GCB – invested at GC / 1st Class ( India / GB )

* Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe of Great Britain ( 1859 – 1935 ), awarded the Order, 2nd Class, with swords, for actions in China during the Boxer Rebellion, where he served as a captain.