The information was passed to the Under-Secretary for Ireland, Sir Matthew Nathan, on 17 April, but without revealing its source, and Nathan was doubtful about its accuracy.

The Under-secretary, Sir Matthew Nathan, was alerted by the shots and helped close the castle gates.

The Commission heard evidence from Sir Matthew Nathan, Augustine Birrell, Lord Wimborne, Sir Neville Chamberlain ( Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary ), General Lovick Friend, Major Ivor Price of Military Intelligence and others.

As late as the eighteenth-century some juries still declared the law rather than the fact, but already before the end of the seventeenth century Sir Matthew Hale explained modern common law adjudication procedure and acknowledged Bacon as the inventor of the process of discovering unwritten laws from the evidences of their applications.

* Dr Matthew Palmer, former Dean of Law School, son of Sir Geoffrey Palmer above

* April 15 – Battle of Formigny: French troops under the Comte de Clermont defeat an English army under Sir Thomas Kyriel and Sir Matthew Gough which was attempting to relieve Caen.

* Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Bt ( J M Barrie, Scottish author, creator of Peter Pan ) ( 1860 – 1937 )

Contemporary residents include the actor Sir Ian McKellen, Matthew Parris, and comedy actress Cleo Rocos, actor Steven Berkoff, comedian Lee Hurst, as well as politician Lord David Owen .< ref >< cite > David Owen biography accessed 28 March 2007 </ ref > Limehouse was also the home of the late film director Sir David Lean.

The major excavations of the British Egyptologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, conducted from 1907 to 1912, uncovered the majority of the ruins as seen today.

Designers and artists whose work is on display in the galleries include Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Grinling Gibbons, Daniel Marot, Louis Laguerre, Antonio Verrio, Sir James Thornhill, William Kent, Robert Adam, Josiah Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton, Canova, Thomas Chippendale, Pugin, William Morris.

* Sir Matthew Pinsent ( born 1970 ), Olympic gold medallist in rowing

* Sir Matthew Pinsent – Quadruple Olympic gold medallist in rowing.

In country house building, major commissions for Kent were designing the interiors of Houghton Hall ( c. 1725 – 35 ), recently built by Colen Campbell for Sir Robert Walpole, but at Holkham Hall the most complete embodiment of Palladian ideals is still to be found ; there Kent collaborated with Thomas Coke, the other " architect earl ", and had for an assistant Matthew Brettingham, whose own architecture would carry Palladian ideals into the next generation.

A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.

Sir Matthew Hale SL ( 1 November 1609 — 25 December 1676 ) was an influential English barrister, judge and lawyer most noted for his treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ, or The History of the Pleas of the Crown.

William Blackstone later wrote that " if judgment of death be given by a judge not authorized by lawful commission, and execution is done accordingly, the judge is guilty of murder ; and upon this argument Sir Matthew Hale himself, though he accepted the place of a judge of the Common Pleas under Cromwell's government, yet declined to sit on the crown side at the assizes, and try prisoners, having very strong objections to the legality of the usurper's commission ".

An inscription under the image reads " Sir Matthew Hale ; Chief Justice of the King's Bench ; Born in Alderley.

William Blackstone, when writing his Commentaries on the Laws of England, noted in his preface that " of all the earlier schemes for digesting the Laws of England the most natural and scientific, as well as the most comprehensive, appeared to be that of Sir Matthew Hale in his posthumous Analysis of the Law ".

In the 19th century, Andrew Amos wrote a critique of the Historia titled Ruins of Time exemplified in Sir Matthew Hale's History of the Pleas of the Crown, which both criticised and praised Hale's work while directing the main criticism at the judges and lawyers who cited the Historia without considering that it was dated.

Books were acquired by collectors including Sir William Cecil, William, Lord Paget, John Dee and Archbishop Matthew Parker.

Yorkshire and England cricketers Sir Len Hutton, Herbert Sutcliffe, Ray Illingworth and Matthew Hoggard all learned to play in Pudsey.

The complete Bible was put out under the pseudonym of Thomas Matthew in 1537 ; it was printed in Paris and Antwerp by Adriana's uncle, Sir Jacobus van Meteren.

In 1936, he studied under Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher and Jerzy Neyman at University College, London, England.

* Sir Fenton Aylmer, 13th Baronet, British soldier, VC winner

* Sir Felix Aylmer, ( 1889 – 1979 ), actor, lived at Painshill House, Cobham in the 1970s.

* General Sir James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane ( 1862-1950 )

VI Corps: Commanded by Sir Aylmer Haldane

By October 1920 the local British commander Sir Aylmer Haldane managed to restore order but on 10 December Wilson minuted his agreement to an appraisal by the Director of Military Operations that “ we ran things too fine and that a great disaster was only narrowly avoided ”.

* 1535 Sir Gerald Aylmer, from the Exchequer

* 23 March / 24: Joined 6 Corps ( Lt-General Sir Aylmer Haldane ) in Third Army, initially in reserve, then at Ervillers, to defend the line against the German Seventeenth Army ( General Otto von Below ) on the right ( i. e. north ) wing of the " Michael 1 " German Spring Offensive ( Kaiserschlacht ) in the First Battle of the Somme ( 1918 ).

Uncle Fred has just arrived at Ashenden Manor, home of Sir Aylmer Bostock, Pongo's future father-in-law.

Sally tries to replace the bust with another of Sir Aylmer she sculpted ( but had had returned to her, after an unfortunate incident relating to her brother Otis ' publication of Sir Aylmer's memoirs ), but this comes to naught, and both busts end up in Sir Aylmer's collection room.

Having met Bill Oakshott ( the nominal owner of Ashenden Manor, but under the thumb of his uncle Sir Aylmer ) on the train, he contrives to get invited to the house — under the name of Major Brabazon-Plank.

Uncle Fred's tasks before him are to snatch the bust for Sally Painter ; get Sir Aylmer to drop his suit against Otis, so Sally will not lose the money she invested in his firm ; convince Pongo to turn down Hermione Bostock and marry Sally instead ; restore Bill Oakshott to his place as head of his family home ; and convince Constable Potter not only to not arrest him, but indeed to quit the force so he and Elsie Bean may live happily ever after.

He was the second son of Sir Christopher Aylmer, 1st Baronet, of Balrath ( see below ).

* Sir Christopher Aylmer, 1st Baronet ( c. 1620 – 1671 )

* Sir Gerald Aylmer, 2nd Baronet ( c 1640 – 1702 )

* Sir John Aylmer, 3rd Baronet ( died 1714 )

* Sir Andrew Aylmer, 4th Baronet ( died 1740 )

* Sir Gerald Aylmer, 5th Baronet ( died 1745 )

* Sir Henry Aylmer, 7th Baronet ( died 1785 ) ( had succeeded as Baron Aylmer in 1766 )

* Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher

* 1915-18 Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston