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* 2005 Mary Hayley Bell, English dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills ( b. 1911 )
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 hand, its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as evincing Design, by Sir Charles Bell.
On January 8, 1910, Sikkim Political Officer and Tibetologist Sir Charles Alfred Bell engaged Bhutan and signed the Treaty of Punakha.
In November 1696, a subsequent claim was made to the island by Sir Peter van Bell, the agent of Sir Joseph Shepheard, a Rotterdam merchant, who claimed to have purchased Tortola on 21 June 1695, for 3, 500 guilders.
Following the Assize held at Oxford in 1577, later deemed the Black Assize, over 300 died from Epidemic typhus, including Sir Robert Bell Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
This lesion was described by Sir Charles Bell, a Scottish surgeon.
Former mayors include Gary Baildon, Lex Bell, Ray Stevens, Ern Harley and Sir Bruce Small, who was responsible for the development of many of the canal estates that are now home to thousands of Gold Coast residents.
* Sir Leslie Stephen, critic, first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
Based on testimonials of German civilians and military, as well as many interviews with British and American politicians and diplomats who participated at the Potsdam Conference, including Robert Murphy, the political adviser of General Eisenhower, Sir Geoffrey Harrison ( drafter of article XIII of the Potsdam Protocol concerning population transfers ), and Sir Denis Allen ( drafter of article IX on the provisional post-war borders ), the book also describes the crimes committed by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia, at the end of World War II, and cites the condemnation of the expulsions by Bertrand Russell, Victor Gollancz, Bishop Bell of Chichester and other contemporary intellectuals.
* Baldry, A. L. Sir John Everett Millais ( London, G. Bell & Sons, 1908 ).
The Colonial Secretary, the Colonial Treasurer, Charles Davidson Bell, the Surveyor-General and Sir Thomas Maclear, her Majesty ’ s astronomer at the Cape, were among the pallbearers.
The Lord Chief Justice married Dorothy, the daughter of Sir Robert Bell of Beaupre Hall, Outwell / Upwell, Norfolk, Speaker of the House of Commons 1572 1576.
He, however, died within two months of work beginning, and was succeeded by his son, John, later Sir John Rennie, who had as his resident engineer a fellow Scot, the seasoned marine builder, David Logan, who had assisted Robert Stevenson at the Bell Rock Lighthouse ( 1807 1810 ).
A few months after Sir John's death, Mary Hayley Bell ( Lady Mills ) died on 1 December 2005.
* January 22-Mary Hayley Bell, actress, writer and dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills ( d 2005 )
Sir Stuart Bell ( born 16 May 1938 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Middlesbrough since 1983.
* Sir Stuart Bell MP official site
On 26 June 1799 Nelson changed his attitude and authorised Sir William Hamilton, the British minister, to inform the cardinal that he ( Nelson ) would do nothing to break the armistice ; while Captains Bell and Troubridge wrote that they had Nelson ’ s authority to state that the latter would not oppose the embarcation of the Republicans.
At his request, Gertrude Bell, Sir Percy Cox, T. E. Lawrence, Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, Sir Arnold T. Wilson, Iraqi minister of war Jaʿfar alAskari, Iraqi minister of finance Sasun Effendi ( Sasson Heskayl ), and others gathered in Cairo, Egypt.
* Learn more about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dr. Joseph Bell

Sir and 1946
In 1946 Sir Winston Churchill, who had spoken often of European union during the war, advocated the formation of `` a kind of United States of Europe ''.
As early as 1946 the Attorney-General Sir Hartley Shawcross attacked " the campaign of calumny and misrepresentation which the Tory Party and the Tory stooge press has directed at the Labour government.
However in 1946, when Sir Miles Clifford arrived as governor, there were no air services, no roads outside Stanley and an indifferent sea service.
Sir John Northcott, the first Australian-born person appointed as Governor ( 1946 1957 ). The governor is required by the Constitution Act, 1902.
Coincidentally the first Australian-born Governor, Sir John Northcott on 1 August 1946, was also the first Australian-born Governor of any state.
Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 1999 ).
* 1946 The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
* Robertson, Sir Charles Grant Chatham and the British Empire Yourself History Series, ( London: The English Universities Press, Ltd., 1946, 1959 ).
Sir Walter Winterbottom CBE ( 31 January 1913 16 February 2002 ) was the first manager of the England football team, serving from 1946 until 1962.
* 1941 1946: Sir David Petrie ( b. 1879 d.
* 1946 1953: Sir Percy Sillitoe ( b. 1888 d.
It was founded in 1946 by the ornithologist and artist Sir Peter Scott, initially as the Severn Wildfowl Trust.
The reserve was the first WWT centre to be opened, on 10 November 1946, thanks to the vision of artist and naturalist Sir Peter Scott.
Sir Fred Allen captained all of his 21 matches for New Zealand, including six Tests, between 1946 and 1949.
Sir Paul Smith, CBE, RDI, ( born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire on 5 July 1946 ) is an English fashion designer, whose business and reputation is founded upon his menswear.
* Prof. Sir Kenneth Clark KCB ( 1946 49 )
The British Hit Singles & Albums noted that it was " formed in 1946 by Sir Thomas Beecham, who wanted a first rate ensemble that would attract the country's top musicians.
In 1946, Sir Thomas Beecham founded the RPO, which played its first concert in Croydon on 15 September of that year.
On 13 March 1946, Lindsay wrote to Sir Walter Moberly, chair of the University Grants Committee ( UGC ), suggesting the establishment of a college “ on new lines ”.
* 1945 1946: Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO ***
* 1946 1951: Lieutenant-General His Excellency Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC, GCMG, KCB, KBE, DSO ***
Dorothy Dunnett was married in 1946 to Sir Alastair Dunnett, editor of The Scotsman newspaper, and appears in his autobiography, Among Friends, 1984.
Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh ( born 17 October 1946 ) is a British theatrical producer notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals.
* Sir J. H. Clapham 1940 1946

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