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* Sir Roger Penrose ( 1931 – ), mathematical physicist and philosopher
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Nine years earlier, Robert Hardy had played Donald's father, Sir Malcolm Campbell, in the BBC2 Playhouse television drama " Speed King "-both were written by Roger Milner and produced by Innes Lloyd.
He was posted to the battleship HMS Centurion in the Reserve Fleet in 1926 and became Assistant Fleet Wireless and Signals Officer of the Mediterranean Fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Roger Keyes in January 1927.
Sir Roger Casement was tried in London for high treason and hanged at Pentonville Prison on 3 August.
Weapons for the IRB were supplied by Germany under the auspices of a leading human rights campaigner, Sir Roger Casement ; the shipment included over 20, 000 rifles, as well as 10 machine guns.
* 1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
These include the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Classical Players under the direction of Sir Roger Norrington and the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood, among others.
Anecdotes remained popular in Europe well into the 18th century, when the fictional anecdotal letters of Sir Roger de Coverley were published.
* Vinaver, Eugène, " Sir Thomas Malory " in Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, Loomis, Roger S.
However, there were international protests particularly in Britain and the United States in 1903-04 spearheaded mainly by Edmund Dene Morel and British diplomat / Irish patriot Roger Casement, whose 1904 report on the Congo condemned the practice, as well as famous writers such as Mark Twain ( who wrote King Leopold's Soliloquy ) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Earl of Arundel, Sir Edmund Fitz Alan, an old enemy of Roger Mortimer, was beheaded on 17 November, together with two of the earl's retainers, John Daniel and Thomas de Micheldever.
After the Battle of Mortimer's Cross in 1461, during the Wars of the Roses, the defeated Lancastrian leader Owen Tudor ( grandfather of the future Henry VII of England ) was taken to Hereford by Sir Roger Vaughan and executed in High Town.
After this he studied law at the Middle Temple in London and became a clerk to Sir Roger Manwood, Kt., who was then the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
* Sir Roger Clarendon ( 1345 / 60-executed 1402 ); he married Margaret ( d. 1382 ), a daughter of John Fleming, Baron de la Roche.
His daughter Elizabeth de Badlesmere ( 1313 – 8 June 1356 ), was married firstly ( 27 June 1316 ) to Sir Edmund Mortimer ( 1302 – 17 December 1331 ), eldest son of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March and Joan de Geneville, Baroness Geneville.
He died young about 1526, having married the heiress of Sir Roger Lewknor ; the Countess and her son Henry pressed his widow to a vow of perpetual chastity to preserve her inheritance for her Pole children.
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The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics is a 1989 book by mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose.
* Academics including Professor Sir Michael Atiyah OM FRS, Dr Susan Blackmore, Professor Colin Blakemore FRS, Dr Helena Cronin, Professor Sir Anthony Epstein CBE FRS, Professor Frank Furedi, Professor Robert A Hinde CBE FRS, Professor Sir Harry Kroto FRS, Professor Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS, Professor Steven Rose, Professor Laurie Taylor
Past lecturers have included: Sir Roger Penrose, Leonard Susskind, Seth Lloyd, Freeman Dyson, Gerard ‘ t Hooft, Jay Melosh, Jay Ingram, Anton Zeilinger, Michael Peskin, and Frank Wilczek.
* Sir Roger, born 1931, mathematical physicist ( with whom Lionel co-authored papers on the Penrose triangle )
Penrose ' Father was James Doyle Penrose, and his brother was Sir Roland Penrose, both British artists.
Orch-OR ( Orchestrated Objective Reduction ) is a theory of consciousness, which is the joint work of theoretical physicist, Sir Roger Penrose, and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff.
In 1957 he married ( Cecily ) Josephine Gordon-Cumming ( born 11 December 1925 ), the elder daughter of Major Sir Alexander Penrose Gordon-Cumming, 5th Baronet.
Sir Roland Algernon Penrose CBE ( 14 October 1900 – 23 April 1984 ) was an English artist, historian and poet.
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* 1931 – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish fencer, landowner and survivor of RMS Titanic ( b. 1862 )
In 1931 the art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen offered funds to build a gallery for the Parthenon sculptures.
All the governors-general until 1965 were British, except Sir Issac Isaacs ( 1931 – 36 ) and Sir William McKell ( 1947 – 53 ).
* 1862 – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish fencer and landowner, survivor of RMS Titanic ( d. 1931 )
Credit for invention of the steam turbine is given both to the British engineer Sir Charles Parsons ( 1854 – 1931 ), for invention of the reaction turbine and to Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval ( 1845 – 1913 ), for invention of the impulse turbine.
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.
The concept that insulin resistance may be the underlying cause of diabetes mellitus type 2 was first advanced by Prof. Wilhelm Falta and published in Vienna in 1931, and confirmed as contributary by Sir Harold Percival Himsworth of the University College Hospital Medical Centre in London in 1936.
In 1931 Williams-Ellis bought from his uncle, Sir Osmund Williams, Bt, the Victorian crenellated mansion Castell Deudraeth with the intention of incorporating it into the Portmeirion hotel complex, but the intervention of the war and other problems prevented this.
Actor Sir Ian Holm was born at Goodmayes Hospital on 12 September, 1931, to Scottish parents, Jean Wilson Holm and James Harvey Cuthbert.
Tea magnate Sir Thomas Lipton came to Southgate from Muswell Hill in 1892, and lived in a house called Osidge until his death in 1931.
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General Sir John Monash GCMG, KCB, VD ( 27 June 1865 – 8 October 1931 ) was a civil engineer who became the Australian military commander in the First World War.
In 1931, Sir Thomas Beecham was approached by the rising young conductor Malcolm Sargent with a proposal to set up a permanent, salaried orchestra with a subsidy guaranteed by Sargent's patrons, the Courtauld family.
Sir Ian Holm, CBE ( born 12 September 1931 ) is an English actor known for his stage work and many film roles.
In 1931 the governor, Sir John Burdon, rejected proposals to legalise trade unions and to introduce a minimum wage and sickness insurance.
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