Old Adam, Robin's faithful servant, arrives and addresses Robin as Sir Ruthven ( pronounced " Rivven ") Murgatroyd.

Robin reveals that he is indeed Sir Ruthven, having fled his home twenty years previously to avoid inheriting the Baronetcy of Ruddigore and its attendant curse.

" Robin leaves to take up his rightful identity as Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd.

At Ruddigore Castle, Robin ( now Sir Ruthven ) tries to come to grips with being a bad baronet, a task at which he proves to be spectacularly lacking.

Henry Lytton as Sir Ruthven

" I once was as meek " ( Sir Ruthven and Adam )

" Painted emblems of a race " ( Sir Ruthven, Sir Roderic, and Chorus of Ancestors )

" My eyes are fully open " ( Margaret, Sir Ruthven, and Despard )

* Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd ( as Robin Oakapple ), Ruddigore

* Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, the living baronet, and Sir Despard Murgatroyd, his younger brother, who took the title believing him to be dead ; Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore

Elizabeth Ruthven, second daughter of first Lord, by her marriage with Sir Francis Ruthven, 1st Baronet, of Redcastle.

The Ruthven family descended from Sir William Ruthven, who was created Lord Ruthven in the Peerage of Scotland in 1488.

Sir John Ruthven, nephew of the Earl of Brentford, was a Major-General in the Swedish Army.

Pinafore, Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance ( a role that he gave up in 1969 ), Bunthorne in Patience, the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe, King Gama in Princess Ida, Ko-Ko in The Mikado, Robin Oakapple / Sir Ruthven in Ruddigore, Jack Point in The Yeomen of the Guard, the Duke of Plaza-Toro in The Gondoliers, and John Wellington Wells in The Sorcerer ( beginning with the 1971 revival ).

" Of his Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, it said, " Reed, in particular, chose understatement as his main weapon, and in his dryness, at once naive and sophisticated, produced a Murgatroyd very much in the authentic D ' Oyly Carte tradition.

A comical " Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd " is the main character of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore.

Sir James Stuart, 3rd Baronet, of Bute, created 1st Earl of Bute, MP, PC ( before 1666 – 4 June 1710 ), was the son of Sir Dugald Stuart, 2nd Baronet and Elizabeth Ruthven, daughter of Sir John Ruthven.

* Sir Despard Murgatroyd of Ruddigore, A Wicked Baronet ( bass-baritone or baritone )

* Sir Rupert Murgatroyd The First Baronet

* Sir Jasper Murgatroyd The Third Baronet

* Sir Lionel Murgatroyd The Sixth Baronet

* Sir Conrad Murgatroyd The Twelfth Baronet

* Sir Desmond Murgatroyd The Sixteenth Baronet

* Sir Gilbert Murgatroyd The Eighteenth Baronet

* Sir Mervyn Murgatroyd The Twentieth Baronet

* Sir Roderic Murgatroyd The Twenty-first Baronet ( bass-baritone )

Many years previously, she had been betrothed to " a god-like youth " who turned out to be Sir Roderic Murgatroyd, one of the bad baronets of Ruddigore.

Centuries ago, Sir Rupert Murgatroyd, the first Baronet of Ruddigore, had persecuted witches.

") Robin's uncle, the late Sir Roderic Murgatroyd, orders him to " carry off a lady " that day or perish in horrible agony.

" Sir Rupert Murgatroyd " ( Hannah and Chorus )

* The playoffs to Dame Hannah's Act I aria " Sir Rupert Murgatroyd " ( No. 2 ) and Rose's song " If somebody there chanced to be " ( No. 3 ) were shortened.

* Sir Despard Murgatroyd, Ruddigore

:* Sir Conrad Murgatroyd The Twelfth Baronet

:* Sir Desmond Murgatroyd The Sixteenth Baronet

* 1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.

* 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.

" Ultimately, King Arthur and Sir Robin ( who shows up with his own knights ) both say " it " several times in conversation ( unaware that " it " was the word that was causing the Knights ' pain.

The importance of the longbow in English culture can be seen both in the legends of Robin Hood, where he was increasingly depicted as a master archer, and also in the " Song of the Bow ", a poem from The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

* 1923 – Sir Robin Day OBE, British political broadcaster and commentator ( d. 2000 )

" Robin shoots with Sir Guy " by Louis Rhead

To A Friend and Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote a play The Foresters, or Robin Hood and Maid Marian, which was presented with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan in 1892.

The most notable contributions to this idea of Robin are Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry's ( 1825 ) and Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe ( 1819 ).

As noted above, Richard appears in connection with Robin Hood in Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe and the many works derived from the novel, and in numerous films about Robin Hood.

Famous alumni include Nobel Laureate in nuclear physics Sir John Cockcroft, aeroplane pioneer Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, and designer of the Lancaster bomber Roy Chadwick, while famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell, Hanna Neumann, Lewis Fry Richardson and Robin Bullough, and the physicist Henry Lipson.

** Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster ( d. 2000 )

Sir Robin Jacob

Sir Despard interrupts, revealing that Robin is his elder brother and must accept his rightful title as the Bad Baronet.

Sir Roderic duly appears, recognises his former love, and, angered that his former fiancée has been abducted, dismisses Robin.

* Errol Flynn as Sir Robin of Locksley, named Robin Hood

He frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Murdstone in David Copperfield ( 1935 ) and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ).