* 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.

* 1797 – Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in America.

* Payne-Gallwey, Ralph, Sir, The Crossbow: Mediaeval and Modern, Military and Sporting ; its Construction, History & Management with a Treatise on the Balista and Catapult of the Ancients and An Appendix on the Catapult, Balista & the Turkish Bow, New York: Bramhall House, 1958.

* The Crossbow by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, BT

* Sir John in Love, 1924 – 1928, an opera by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.

* 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.

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.

It opened at the Queen's Theatre with Sir Ralph Richardson, Coral Browne, Stanley Baxter, and Hayward Morse.

Famed psycho-anatomist Ralph Greenson and Sir Peter Scott were good friends.

Sir Ralph Abercromby ( sometimes spelt Abercrombie ) ( 7 October 1734 – 28 March 1801 ) was a Scottish soldier and politician.

Sir Ralph Abercromby, Commander of the British forces that captured Trinidad and Tobago.

After holding for a short period the office of commander-in-chief in Scotland, Sir Ralph, when the enterprise against the Dutch Batavian Republic was resolved upon in 1799, was again called to command under the Duke of York.

Death of Gen Sir Ralph Abercrombie by Sir Robert Ker Porter.

A public house in central Manchester, the ' Sir Ralph Abercrombie ', is named after him.

* Encyclopaedia Britannica, Sir Ralph Abercromby

Spanish rule over the island, which nominally began in 1498, ended when the final Spanish Royal Governor, Don José Maria Chacón surrendered the island to a British fleet of 18 warships under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby on 18 February 1797.

He once recalled that when Sir Ralph Richardson " wanted the low-down on Pozzo, his home address and curriculum vitae, and seemed to make the forthcoming of this and similar information the condition of his condescending to illustrate the part of Vladimir ...

He was head of the Durham Militia band 1760 – 61 and visited the home of Sir Ralph Milbanke at Halnaby Hall in 1760, where he wrote two symphonies, as well as giving performances himself.

* March 21 – Second Battle of Abukir in Egypt: British troops defeat the French, but the British commander, Sir Ralph Abercromby, dies later of a wound received in the action.

* February 18 – Spanish Governor José Maria Chacón peacefully surrenders the colony of Trinidad to a British naval force commanded by Sir Ralph Abercromby.

* April 17 – Sir Ralph Abercromby unsuccessfully invades San Juan, Puerto Rico in what will be one of the largest British attacks on Spanish territories in the western hemisphere, and one of the worst defeats of the English navy for years to come.

* Peace – Sir Norman Angell ( Ralph Lane )

Writers such as James Boswell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Kenneth Grahame, Muriel Spark and Sir Walter Scott all lived and worked in Edinburgh.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

* Sir Hugh Stevenson, 1960 – 63

* Stevenson, Joseph, ed., Documents Illustrative of Sir William Wallace, Maitland Club ( 1841 )

According to author William Stevenson in A Man called Intrepid, his biography of Sir William Samuel Stephenson ( no relation ), the senior representative of British Intelligence for the western hemisphere during the Second World War, Stephenson postulated that the Germans knew about Howard's mission and ordered the aircraft shot down.

It was originally intended to demolish the stadium at the end of the Exhibition, but it was saved at the suggestion of Sir James Stevenson, a Scot who was chairman of the organising committee for the Empire Exhibition.

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 ).

Subsequently a stream of famous visitors came to view Staffa's wonders including Robert Adam, Sir Walter Scott ( 1810 ), John Keats ( 1818 ), J. M. W. Turner, whose 1830 visit yielded an oil painting exhibited in 1832, William Wordsworth ( 1833 ), Jules Verne ( 1839 ), Alice Liddell ( the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland ) in 1878, David Livingstone ( 1864 ), Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1870 ) and Mendelssohn himself in 1829.

* Stevenson, Robert Louis ; Colvin, Sidney, Sir.

** Sir William Stevenson, English poet ( born 1530 )

On 22 April 2006, a memorial stone to Lady Dunnett was laid by her grandchildren, Hal and Bella Dunnett, alongside those for Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott in the Makars ' Court in Lady Stair's Close on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.

* "( Believe Me, if All ) Those Endearing Young Charms " by Thomas Moore and Sir John Stevenson

Porges read the works of such authors as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, O. Henry, Thomas Henry Huxley, Samuel Johnson, G. K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens and Edgar Wallace.

His great uncle Sir Alexander Stevenson was Chairman of the Forth Road Bridge Campaign Committee in the 1930s.

* Sir Alexander Stewart Stevenson ( 1860 – 1936 ) Edinburgh Lord Provost-Great Uncle

The involvement of John Rennie as a consulting engineer in the project led to some contention for the credit upon the successful completion of the project ; particularly between Alan Stevenson, Robert's son, and Sir John Rennie, son of the consulting engineer

Chief Constable, Hampshire Constabulary, Sir Douglas Osmond emphasised the peaceful nature of the event in his evidence given to the Stevenson Report, 1971, ( submitted to parliament as evidence in favour of future Isle of Festivals ) "... By the end of the festival the press representatives became almost desperate for material and they seemed a little disappointed that the patrons had been so well behaved.

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 ).

Stevenson sold the estate in 1849 to Sir Percy Florence Shelley who bought the Boscombe property mainly with the intention of it becoming a home for his mother Mary Shelley, but she died in London on 1 February 1851.

Sir John Stevenson set the poem to its widely-known melody, and this was published in a collection of Moore's work called Irish Melodies ( 1807 – 34 ).

Other contributors have included Anthony Trollope, Frederick Engels, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Spencer Walpole, Arthur Patchett Martin, and Jamaican-born writer E. S. Dallas.

* 1953-1963 Sir William Stevenson