Following Sir Leslie Stephen's English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, most commentators agree that two features constituted the core of deism:

* A History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Sir Leslie Stephen, 2 volumes ( 1876, 3rd ed.

De Camp and Ley also claim that Sir John Leslie expanded on Euler's idea, suggesting two central suns named Pluto and Proserpine ( this was unrelated to the dwarf planet Pluto, which was discovered and named some time later ).

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" Edgar and Lucie at Mermaiden's well " by Charles Robert Leslie ( 1886 ), after Sir Walter Scott's Bride of Lammermoor.

* Stephen, Sir Leslie and Sir Sidney Lee ( editors ).

* Sir Leslie Fielding, Vice-Chancellor from 1987 to 1992 of the University of Sussex

* 1804 – Sir John Leslie observes that a matte black surface radiates heat more effectively than a polished surface, suggesting the importance of black body radiation

* 1810 – Sir John Leslie freezes water to ice artificially

* Sir Leslie Stephen, critic, first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell

* Sir John Leslie ( 1766 – 1832 ) mathematician, physicist, investigator of heat ( thermodynamics )

Sir Joseph Barnby, caricature by " Leslie Ward | Spy " Sir Joseph Barnby ( 12 August 1838 – 28 January 1896 ), English musical composer and conductor, son of Thomas Barnby, an organist, was born at York.

Well-known Australian classical performers include: sopranos Dame Joan Sutherland, Dame Joan Hammond, Joan Carden, Yvonne Kenny, Sara Macliver and Emma Matthews ; pianists Roger Woodward, Eileen Joyce, Michael Kieran Harvey, Geoffrey Tozer, Geoffrey Douglas Madge, Leslie Howard and Ian Munro ; guitarists John Williams and Slava Grigoryan ; horn player Barry Tuckwell ; oboist Diana Doherty ; violinists Richard Tognetti and Elizabeth Wallfisch ; cellists John Addison and David Pereira ; organist Christopher Wrench ; orchestras like the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra ; and conductors Sir Bernard Heinze, Sir Charles Mackerras, Richard Bonynge, Simone Young and Geoffrey Simon.

* Stephen, Sir Leslie & Sir Sidney Lee.

( see Sir Leslie Stephen, English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, x.

A biographical introduction to The Backwater of Life was furnished by Sir Leslie Stephen.

Under Sullivan, a reluctant and ineffectual principal, the NTSM failed to provide a satisfactory alternative to the Royal Academy, and by 1880 a committee of examiners comprising Charles Hallé, Sir Julius Benedict, Sir Michael Costa, Henry Leslie and Otto Goldschmidt reported that the school lacked " executive cohesion ".

He was granted a state funeral on 14 September, which was attended by over 1, 000 mourners including Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Premier Neville Wran, Mervyn Wood, Justice Lionel Murphy and former NSW Labor Premier and former Governor-General Sir William McKell.

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.

Leading Australian performers in these fields have included the opera Dames Nellie Melba and Joan Sutherland, dancers Edouard Borovansky and Sir Robert Helpmann, and choreographer / dancers such as Graeme Murphy and Meryl Tankard.

The first two Secretaries of State for External Affairs, from 1909 until 1912, ( Charles Murphy under Sir Wilfrid Laurier and William James Roche under Sir Robert Borden ) concurrently served as Secretary of State for Canada.

Living composers include Sir George Martin, John Tavener, Harrison Birtwistle, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Oliver Knussen, Harry Gregson Williams, Mike Oldfield, John Rutter, James MacMillan, Joby Talbot, John Powell, David Arnold, Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, John Murphy, Brian Eno, Clint Mansell, Craig Armstrong and Michael Nyman.

* The Hon Sir Francis Murphy, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly

Previous presidents have been Sir Norman Price ( 1977, United Kingdom ), Michael Murphy ( 1977, Ireland ), Pierre Lelong ( 1981, France ), Marcel Mart ( 1984, Luxembourg ), Aldo Angioi ( 1990, Italy ), André Middlehoek ( 1992, Netherlands ), Bernhard Friedmann ( 1996, Germany ), Jan O. Karlsson ( 1999, Sweden ), Juan Manuel Fabra Vallés ( 2002, Spain ) and Hubert Weber ( 2006, Austria ).

At the Battle of Bemis Heights ( Second Battle of Saratoga ) on October 7, 1777, Murphy is reputed to have shot and killed Sir Francis Clerke and General Simon Fraser.

Glenys Kinnock MEP, The Rt Hon Neil Kinnock, Jan Morris CBE, Dr Alex Moulton CBE RDI FREng, Dervla Murphy, Steven Norris, Jeremy Paxman, Jonathon Porritt CBE, Claire Rayner OBE, Richard Rogers, Bettina Selby, Jon Snow, The Rt Hon the Lord Waldegrave of North Hill, The Rt Hon Sir George Young MP.

The position of Secretary of State for Canada had no relation to that of Secretary of State for External Affairs except for the period from 1909 until 1912 when the Secretary of State for Canada ( Charles Murphy under Sir Wilfrid Laurier and William James Roche under Sir Robert Borden ) was responsible for the newly created Department of External Affairs.

In 1973 Sir Tony O ' Reilly acquired 100 % of the " A " shares of the company from the Murphy and Chance families, and was later forced to bid for the " B " ( non-voting ) shares.

The last Labour-appointed chairman of the NEB was Sir Leslie Murphy, who resigned with his entire board when Sir Keith Joseph ( the new industry minister ) decided to remove its responsibility for the government's holding in Rolls-Royce.

By 1891, Murphy had moved on his own to a cottage on the Blackwell Grange estate, outside Darlington ( owned by a benefactor, Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, another Victoria Cross recipient ).

After the death of Anthony's wife the home was purchased in the early fifties by Sir Daniel J. and Countess Bernardine Murphy Donohue.

William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland as painted by John Murphy, after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1796.

Residents of Streatham Park, or " Streathamites " have included many famous 18th century individuals: Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Arthur Murphy, Joshua Reynolds, William Seward, James Boswell, Oliver Goldsmith, Giuseppe Marc ' Antonio Baretti, Edmund Burke, Edwin Sandys, William Henry Lyttelton, Sir Robert Chambers, Charles Burney and Frances Burney, along with James and Hester Thrale.

In part through the efforts of Sir Benjamin Hammett, who took the execution of Murphy as an example when he criticised this form of punishment, burning as a method of execution was abolished the next year, by the Treason Act 1790.

Beginning in April 1915, Herbert ordered his subordinates cease calling him " Sir ", and to address him only by the pseudonym " Captain William McBride.

* 1915 – 27 November 1916: Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty, KCB, KCVO, DSO

* 1837 – Sir James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist ( d. 1915 )

The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was under the general direction of Sir Lawrence Bragg, who had won the Nobel Prize in 1915 at the age of 25.

# 1914 – 1915 Sir Thomas Skinner

* 1827 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer ; introduced Universal Standard Time ( d. 1915 )

* 1915 – Sir Charles Groves, English conductor ( d. 1992 )

* 1915 – Sir Terry Frost, English artist ( d. 2003 )

Sir Douglas Haig succeeded Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the BEF on 19 December 1915.

* Sir Albert Charles Seward ( 1915 – 1936 )

* Sir James Murray ( lexicographer ) ( 1837 – 1915 ), Scottish lexicographer who was the most famous editor of the Oxford English Dictionary

Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling, DSO, OBE ( 15 November 1915 – 4 November 1990 ) was a Scottish laird, mountaineer, World War II British Army officer, and the founder of the Special Air Service.

By 19 December 1915, General Sir Douglas Haig had replaced General Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ).

In 1915, Sir Hugh Lane bequeathed his collection of European modern art to Dublin, but controversially this went to the Tate, which expanded its collection to include foreign art and continued to acquire contemporary art.

In January 1915 Field Marshal Sir John French, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force, with the concurrence of other senior commanders ( e. g. General Sir Douglas Haig ), wanted the New Armies incorporated into existing divisions as battalions rather than sent out as entire divisions.

) That failure, combined with the Shell Crisis of 1915 – amidst press publicity engineered by Sir John French – dealt Kitchener's political reputation a heavy blow ; Kitchener was popular with the public, so Asquith retained him in office in the new coalition government, but responsibility for munitions was moved to a new ministry headed by David Lloyd George.

* Sir James Stuart, 1st Baronet, of Oxford, in the County of Oxford ( 1841 ), extinct 1915

* Sir George Farrar, 1st Baronet, of Chicheley Hall, in Buckinghamshire ( 1911 ), extinct 1915

* The astronomers Sir William Huggins and his wife Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins, had a home and observatory known as Huggins ' Observatory from about 1850 until 1915 at 90 Upper Tulse Hill.

* Sir Lawrence Bragg ( Physics, 1915 )

* Sir William Thomas Williams ( UK politician ) ( 1915 – 1986 ), British Member of Parliament for Warrington