In 1985, Sir Edmund Hillary ( the first man to stand on the summit of Mount Everest ) and Neil Armstrong ( the first man to stand on the moon ) landed at the North Pole in a small twin-engined ski plane.

Bruce, with a small following of his most faithful men, including Sir James Douglas and Gilbert Hay, Bruce's brothers Thomas, Alexander and Edward, as well as Sir Neil Campbell and the Earl of Lennox fled.

* July 29 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British WWII general ( d. 1983 )

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

* Sir Neil Shields

The current Warden is Sir Neil Chalmers, formerly Director of the Natural History Museum in London.

* Sir William Neil McKie

* Sir Neil Cossons ( Chairman of English Heritage ) grew up in Beeston, attending Church Street School, where his father was the headmaster.

Since then it has been endowed with papers from other political figures including former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, as well as former Leader of the Opposition Neil Kinnock, alongside those of eminent scientists and engineers, including Reginald Victor Jones, Rosalind Franklin and Sir Frank Whittle.

The road is featured briefly in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Harry and his friends were escaping from Death Eaters, by J. K. Rowling ; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ; Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady ; Saturday and Atonement by Ian McEwan ; several Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; the Saki story Reginald on Christmas Presents ; several stories by John Collier ; A Room with a View by E. M. Forster ; The London Eye Mystery, The Late Mr Elvesham by Herbert G. Wells by Siobhan Dowd ; The Wish House by Celia Rees ; a The Matrix-based story, Goliath by Neil Gaiman ; features often in novels by Mark Billingham and The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon.

* Sir Neil Cossons OBE FSA FMA ( 1986 – 2000 )

Her late husband was former Chief of New Zealand Defence Staff Vice-Admiral Sir Neil Dudley Anderson.

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Page, who suffered from kidney disease, died of a heart attack in 1987 during a run on Broadway in Sir Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit at the Neil Simon Theatre.

** A Danish contingent known as the Royal Danish Auxiliary Corps commanded by General Prince Frederik of Hesse and a Hanseatic contingent ( from the free cities of Bremen, Lubeck and Hamburg ) commanded by the British Colonel Sir Neil Campbell, were on their way to join Wellington ; both however, joined the army in July having missed the conflict.

* Air Marshal Sir Neil Wheeler ( 11 February 1969 — 1 October 1970 )

At the next Prime Minister's Questions, Neil Kinnock reveals plans ( stolen by Alan from Sir Greville's red box while he was busy having an assignation with Sarah ) for the Government to abolish the poll tax and replace it with a value added tax on mortgage payments.

Humphries ' other satirical characters include the " priapic and inebriated cultural attaché " Sir Les Patterson, who has " continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture, while contributing as much to the Australian vernacular as he has borrowed from it ", gentle, grandfatherly " returned gentleman " Sandy Stone, iconoclastic 1960s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa, Paddington socialist academic Neil Singleton, sleazy trade union official Lance Boyle, high-pressure art salesman Morrie O ' Connor and failed tycoon Owen Steele.

* Patrons: Sir John Major, Nicholas Bourne AM, David Curry, Stephen Dorrell MP, Charles Hendry MP, Lord Heseltine, Lord Hunt, Lord Hurd, Michael Howard, Steven Norris, Lord Patten, Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP, Sir Timothy Sainsbury, Ian Taylor, Lord Trimble, Lady Verma, Sir George Young MP, Richard Fuller MP, Neil Carmichael MP.

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

By 1931, much of Mohenjo-Daro had been excavated, but excavations continued, such as that led by Sir Mortimer Wheeler, director of the Archaeological Survey of India in 1944.

Following the Partition of India, the bulk of the archaeological finds were inherited by Pakistan where most of the IVC was based, and excavations from this time include those led by Sir Mortimer Wheeler in 1949, archaeological adviser to the Government of Pakistan.

Brigadier Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH, CIE, MC, FBA, FSA ( 10 September 1890 – 22 July 1976 ), was one of the best-known British archaeologists of the twentieth century.

* Wheeler, Sir Mortimer Still Digging ( Michael Joseph Ltd., 1955 ; re-published, slightly abridged by the author, by Pan Books Ltd., London, 1958, book number GP 94 )

* Clark, Ronald William Sir Mortimer Wheeler ( Roy Publishers, New York, 1960 )

* Wheeler, Sir Mortimer The Indus Civilization ( Cambridge, 1962 )

* Sir Mortimer Wheeler

In 1950, Sir Mortimer Wheeler identified one large building in Mohenjo-daro as a " Great Granary ".

The complex was archeologically excavated in the 1920s by Sir Mortimer Wheeler, who established that it was built some time after AD 364, with occupation continuing well into the 5th century.

Various types of stringed instruments and drums have been recovered from Harrappa and Mohenjo Daro by excavations carried out by Sir Mortimer Wheeler.

* General Sir Roger Wheeler, former Chief of the General Staff

In the 1920s Sir Mortimer Wheeler partially excavated a Roman dwelling or villa at Wolfscastle ( work restarted in 2002 by Professor Merroney ).

This appointment was through his first wife, Elizabeth Wheeler, who was a niece of Sir Patrick Wemyss, the first cousin of Elizabeth Preston, Duchess of Ormonde.

Among notable people who have chosen to retire to or have second homes in Bury St Edmunds are former members of parliament and government ministers Lord Tebbit, Sir John Wheeler, Sir Eldon Griffiths, and former senior Royal Air Force commander Air Marshall Sir Reginald Harland.

Sir Mortimer Wheeler, the director general of archaeology in India from 1944 to 1948, wrote, " The high quality of the sanitary arrangements could well be envied in many parts of the world today.

Sir Frederic Kenyon ’ s slim but useful volume of 37 pages covers the years up to 1951 ; Sir Mortimer Wheeler ’ s characteristically incisive, amusing and informative volume covers the years 1949 to 1968.

* Sir R. E. Mortimer Wheeler CH, CIE, MC ( 1949 – 1968 )

Subsequently, Sir Frederick Wheeler, Secretary of the Treasury ( the head of Cairns ' department ) and other members of staff communicated to Cairns that Khemlani was of questionable character.

* Sir Charles Wheeler ( journalist ) ( 1923 – 2008 ), British journalist and broadcaster

* Sir John Wheeler ( politician ) ( born 1940 ), British politician and Northern Ireland Office minister

He became a general staff officer with IX Corps, part of General Sir Herbert Plumer's Second Army, in July 1917.

Hussein learned of the agreement when it was leaked by the new Russian government in December 1917, but was satisfied by two disingenuous telegrams from Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner of Egypt, assuring him that the British government's commitments to the Arabs were still valid and that the Sykes-Picot Agreement was not a formal treaty.

* 1917 – Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English writer ( d. 2008 )

* 1823 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell, fifth Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Canadian politician ( b. 1823 )

* 1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a " temporary " measure ( lowest bracket is 4 % and highest is 25 %).

On Christmas Eve 1917, Admiral Jellicoe was rather abruptly dismissed as First Sea Lord by the new First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, and was succeeded by Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss.

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In 1917 Canada was in crisis ; King supported Liberal leader Sir Wilfrid Laurier in his opposition to conscription, which was violently opposed in the province of Quebec.

The photograph shows him before the procedure ( left ) and after ( right ) receiving a skin flap ( surgery ) | flap performed by Sir Harold Gillies in 1917.

Gough planned an offensive based on the GHQ 1917 plan and the instructions he had received from Sir Douglas Haig.

* July 1917 – Sir Edward Carson enters the War Cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio

* Sir Edward Carson, and then ( from 1917 ) Sir Eric Geddes – First Lord of the Admiralty

* Neville Chamberlain, and then ( from 1917 ) Sir Auckland Geddes – Director of National Service

David's mother Henrietta then married Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt in London in 1917.

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ( 17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917 ) was an English actor and theatre manager.

* Sir Joseph Wesley Flavelle, 1st Baronet, of Toronto, in the Dominion of Canada ( 1917 ), extinct 1985

* Sir Leander Starr Jameson, 1st Baronet, of Down Street, in London ( 1911 ), extinct 1917

* Sir Sothern Holland, 1st Baronet, of Westwell Manor, in the County of Oxford ( 1917 ), extinct 1997

In 1917, in the Dictionary of National Biography, Sir Sidney Lee wrote that Marlowe was killed in a drunken fight.

Eventually, Sir Wilfrid Laurier was able to lead the Liberals back to a competitive position in English Canada, but by the time of the First World War, and the Conscription Crisis of 1917, Laurier again found himself in charge of a Liberal Party limited to Quebec and a few other pockets.

* Michael Redgrave as Sir Henry Wilson ( incorrectly shown as a full General, a rank he did not achieve until late 1917 )

On 27 February 1917 Sir Alfred Mond, an MP and First Commissioner of Works, wrote to the Prime Minister David Lloyd George to propose the establishment of a National War Museum.

** 1 July 1920 – 1925 Sir Herbert Louis Samuel ( 1879 – 1963 ), until the 1922 establishment of the mandate actually the first civilian who took over, already as High Commissioner, from the three consecutive military administrators since the 1917 conquest by British forces