* Sir Maurice de Bunsen ( 1852 – 1932 ), British diplomat

The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

* The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer by Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler and Stanley Gill, Addison – Wesley, Edition 1, 1951.

He also had some public support for his staying on in the War Cabinet for the duration, which was strongly backed by Sir Maurice Hankey, former WW1 Colonel and member of both WW1 & WW2 War Cabinets.

During the early 1950s, while Watson and Crick were determining the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ), they made use of unpublished X-ray diffraction images taken by Rosalind Franklin, shown at meetings and shared with them by Maurice Wilkins, and of Franklin's preliminary account of her detailed analysis of the X-ray images included in an unpublished 1952 progress report for the King's College laboratory of Sir John Randall.

Edward's finances had been ably managed by Sir Dighton Probyn, Comptroller of the Household, and had benefited from advice from Edward's Jewish financier friends, such as Ernest Cassel, Maurice de Hirsch and the Rothschild family.

The committee's secretary was Sir Maurice Hankey.

These untruths were exposed by General Sir Frederick Maurice in a letter to the press-Lloyd George survived the Commons Debate ( the first occasion on which the Liberal Party openly split ) but years later admitted that he had " misinformed the House ".

It met almost daily, with Sir Maurice Hankey as secretary, and made all major political, military, economic and diplomatic decisions.

" These were a force of Welsh spearmen who were kept together by their commander, Sir Maurice de Berkeley, and the majority of them reached Carlisle.

Sir Michael Caine, CBE ( born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite on 14 March 1933 ) is a British actor and author.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours, and in the 2000 New Year Honours he was knighted as Sir Maurice Micklewhite CBE.

He claimed the title of Baron Botetourt as the lineal descendant of Maurice de Berkeley ( d. 1361 ) and his wife Catherine de Botetourt, sister & co-heir of John Botetourt, son and heir of Sir John de Botetourt ( d. 1324 ), baron by writ 1309-15.

At least one other recent Lincoln Rector, Sir Maurice Shock, enjoyed a prior career in British intelligence, although there is little evidence to substantiate the college's reputation as a recruiting ground for spies.

Sir Maurice Bowra, scholar and wit, was Warden between 1938 and 1970.

At the end of the sixties, the Warden, Sir Maurice Bowra, President of the British academy and one of the first co-founders of the British Institute of Persian Studies ( BIPS ) welcomed a donation to construct the building of the New Library in Wadham, where the emphasis would be given to Persian Studies and the post in Persian.

The Maurice Bowra | Bowra Building by Richard MacCormac | Sir Richard MacCormac of MJP Architects

In 1960, Trevor-Roper waged a successful campaign against the candidacy of Sir Oliver Franks who was backed by the heads of houses marshalled by Maurice Bowra, for the Chancellorship of the University of Oxford, and had his old friend and publisher the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan elected instead.

* 1640-1649: Sir Maurice Eustace

* 1977 Maurice Ravel: Boléro – Kenneth Wilkinson, engineer ; Sir Georg Solti, conductor ( London )

* Sir Maurice Alan Mawby – metallurgist & initiator with Albert Morris of ' the green belt ' to regenerate flora and fauna around the mines

Elizabeth married Sir Maurice Berkeley, while Frances married John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck.

* 1973 – 1978: Sir Maurice Oldfield, GCMG, CBE

Ralph Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes was born in Ipswich on 22 December 1962, the eldest child of Mark Fiennes ( 1933 – 2004 ), a farmer and photographer whose father was industrialist Sir Maurice Fiennes ( 1907 – 1994 ), and Jennifer Lash ( 1938 – 1993 ), a writer of English and Irish descent.

File: Sir Theodore Mayerne drawing by Peter Paul Rubens. jpg | Rubens-Sir Théodore de Mayerne, a portrait drawing ( c. 1630 )

) The Declaration was then taken to the papal court at Avignon by Bishop Kininmund, Sir Adam Gordon and Sir Odard de Maubuisson.

The Neustra Señora del Rosario, the Spanish Armada's " payship " commanded by Admiral Pedro de Valdés, was captured along with all its crew by Sir Francis Drake.

* 1429 – English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and Sir John Stewart of Darnley in the Battle of Rouvray ( also known as the Battle of the Herrings ).

He left one daughter and sole-heiress Grace de Tracy who married John de Sudeley, They had two children: Ralph de Sudeley ( d. 1192 ), the eldest, who became his father's heir, and Sir William II " de Tracy " ( d. post 1172 ), who inherited his mother's barony of Bradninch and assumed her family name in lieu of his patronymic.

* 1982: Ivanhoe, a television movie starring Anthony Andrews as Ivanhoe, Michael Hordern as his Cedric, Sam Neill as Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert, Olivia Hussey as Rebecca, James Mason as Isaac, Lysette Anthony as Rowena, Julian Glover as King Richard, and David Robb as Robin Hood.

Abbadie had also written, at the request of the king, Histoire de la dernière Conspiration d ' Angleterre, 1696, a history of the conspiracy of 1696, which was reprinted in Holland and translated into English, and for which the Earl of Portland and Secretary Sir William Trumbull placed original documents at the author's disposal.

While chivalric romances abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.

Heinrich A. Rommen remarked upon " the tenacity with which the spirit of the English common law retained the conceptions of natural law and equity which it had assimilated during the Catholic Middle Ages, thanks especially to the influence of Henry de Bracton ( d. 1268 ) and Sir John Fortescue ( d. cir.

* Janet, who married Sir John de Croft of Croft Castle, in Herefordshire.

He also claims that the alleged encryptions settle the question of the identity of " the Fair Youth " as Henry Wriothesley and contain striking references to the sonnets themselves and de Vere's relationship to Sir Philip Sidney and Ben Jonson.

The term " Permian " was introduced into geology in 1841 by Sir R. I. Murchison, president of the Geological Society of London, who identified typical strata in extensive Russian explorations undertaken with Edouard de Verneuil.

Those experts included Sir Martin Archer Shee, P. R. A., and Charles Lock Eastlake, painter and acknowledged authority on art history, soon to be first director of the National Gallery and de facto administrator of the whole Westminster decoration project.

Sir Roger de Coverly, mentioned by Charles Dickens, is the ancestor of America's Virginia Reel.

" In his review of Benaud's autobiography Anything But, Sri Lankan cricket writer Harold de Andrado wrote: " Richie Benaud possibly next to Sir Don Bradman has been one of the greatest cricketing personalities as player, researcher, writer, critic, author, organiser, adviser and student of the game.

The following year, Bruce finally resigned as joint Guardian and was replaced by Sir Gilbert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus.

In May 1301, Umfraville, Comyn and Lamberton also resigned as joint Guardians and were replaced by Sir John de Soules as sole Guardian.

Anecdotes remained popular in Europe well into the 18th century, when the fictional anecdotal letters of Sir Roger de Coverley were published.