** Sir Ralph Sadler, English statesman ( d. 1587 )

In 1538, this estate, including other fields lying along the brook, passed to the Tudor diplomat Sir Ralph Sadler.

Elizabeth wrote to thank Sir Ralph Sadler and Sir James Croft, Captain of Berwick, personally for their good and diligent service in meeting Balnaves.

Mason, author of The Four Feathers ; Arthur Quiller-Couch, a literary critic ; Gilbert Murray, a classical scholar and intellectual ; Sir Michael Sadler, an historian and educationalist ;

The felony of buggery ( sodomy ), like all other felonies, carried a sentence of capital punishment by hanging, but Udall wrote an impassioned plea to his old friends from Cromwell's household Thomas Wriothesley and Sir Ralph Sadler ; then joint principal secretaries of state, and his sentence was reduced to just under a year in the Marshalsea prison.

In 1585 Chapman was approached in a friendly fashion by John Wolfall, Sr., who offered to supply a bond of surety for a loan to furnish Chapman money " for his proper use in Attendance upon the then Right Honorable Sir Rafe Sadler Knight.

After leaving Sheffield, Mary was taken to Wingfield Manor in Derbyshire by her new gaoler, Sir Ralph Sadler, and then to Tutbury.

Notable figures included John Sadler ( 1820-1910 ) (' the Grand Old Man of Oldbury ') and Sir Samuel Alexander Sadler.

Having been on errands abroad, he was made one of the king's principal secretaries in 1540 ( a position he held jointly with Sir Ralph Sadler ), and was knighted in the same year ; in spite of the fall of his patron, Thomas Cromwell, he rose higher and higher in the royal favour, and in 1542 it was said that he governed almost everything in England.

The earliest building on the site probably dated back to 1530 and had been a religious institution belonging to Westbury College in Bristol but it had been confiscated as a result of The Reformation and handed to Sir Ralph Sadler, Secretary of State to KIng Henry VIII, in 1536.

Sir Ralph Sadler, ( also Sadleir, Sadlier ) PC, Knight banneret ( 1507 – 30 March 1587 ) was an English statesman of the 16th century, and served as a Secretary of State for King Henry VIII.

* The State Papers and Letters of Sir Ralph Sadler, ed.

* A. J. Slavin ' Politics and profit, Sir Ralph Sadler 1507-1547 ' Cambridge University Press 1965 / 2008 ISBN 978-0-521-08933-3

* National Register of Archives, holdings indexed as relating to Sir Ralph Sadler

A fanatical Puritan with a harsh character, Paulet was appointed gaoler of Mary, Queen of Scots, by Elizabeth in January 1585, replacing the more tolerant Sir Ralph Sadler.

On 18 March 1543, Sir George Douglas of Pittendreich, brother of the Earl of Angus told the English ambassador, Ralph Sadler that ;" if there be any motion now to take the Governor from his state, and to bring the government of this realm to the king of England, I assure you it is impossible to be done at this time.

In January 1559 Arran was leading the war in Fife, writing reports to Ralph Sadler and Sir James Croft from Dysart, Wemyss, Cupar and Aberdour.

Sir Ralph Sadler suspected his intentions, and on 15 November 1571 Percy was arrested while in London and sent to the Tower of London.

During the winter 1571-2 the earl was in London, the queen during his absence being left in charge of Sir Ralph Sadler.

Slackstead, however, had been purchased recently, as it had been granted, as part of the possessions of Hyde Abbey, to Sir Ralph Sadler in 1547.

Lord Aston married Gertrude, only daughter of Sir Thomas Sadler of Standon.

Westmorland found protection and concealment for a long time at Fernyhurst Castle, Lord Kerr's house in Roxburghshire, but meanwhile the Earl's cousin Robert Constable, was hired by Sir Ralph Sadler to endeavor to track the unfortunate nobleman, and, under the guise of friendship, to betray him.

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).

* July 7 – Raid of the Redeswire: Sir John Carmichael defeats Sir John Forster.

It is usually attributed to renowned orientalist and author Sir Richard Francis Burton, but the chief work was done by the pioneering Indian archaeologist, Bhagwanlal Indraji, under the guidance of Burton's friend, the Indian civil servant Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, and with the assistance of a student, Shivaram Parshuram Bhide.

From his London years, Forster was in contact with Sir Joseph Banks, the initiator of the Bounty expedition and a participant in Cook's first journey.

Dr Badham's classical attainments were recognized by the most famous European critics, such as CG Cobet, Ludwig Preller, W Dindorf, FW Schneidewin, JAF Meineke, A Ritschl and Tischendorf ; and in Australia, Sir James Martin, William Forster and Sir William Macleay.

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.

Early medical and sanitary engineering reformers included Henry Austin, Joseph Bazalgette, Edwin Chadwick, Frank Forster, Thomas Hawksley, William Haywood, Henry Letheby, Robert Rawlinson, Sir John Simon and Thomas Wicksteed.

* Sir John Forster FitzGerald ( 1784 – 1877 ), Irish soldier, officer in British Army during the Napoleonic wars and Liberal MP

In 1649, he married Mary, Lady Mainwaring ( daughter of Sir William Forster of Aldermaston ), a wealthy thrice-widowed woman twenty years his senior.

Local officers such as Sir John Forster, who was Warden of the Middle March for almost 35 years, became quite as well known for venality as his most notorious Scottish counterparts.

* Barnett, Kennet Bruce Handbook on Military Sanitation for Regimental Officers ... With an introduction by Lt .- General Sir Horace L. Smith-Dorrien Forster Groom & Co. London, 1912

* The Life of Sir J. Eliot, by J. Forster ( 1864 )

The Forster family of Northumberland provided the Crown with twelve successive governors of the castle for some 400 years until the Crown granted ownership to Sir John Forster.

The family retained ownership until Sir William Forster ( d. 1700 ) was posthumously declared bankrupt, and his estates, including the castle, were sold to Lord Crew, Bishop of Durham ( husband of his sister Dorothy ) under an Act of Parliament to settle the debts.

Its obvious similarities with the fossils described by Owen were formally confirmed in a 1932 paper by Sir Clive Forster Cooper.

This is a portrait of Sir Isaac Brock by J. C. H Forster, who has been dead more than seventy years.

File: Sir Sandford Fleming. jpg | Sir Sandford Fleming ( 1892 ) by John Wycliffe Lowes Forster

The only person to hold the office of Chief Judge, which was created in 1975, was Sir William Forster who held the position from 1977-1979.

It was first discovered in the Baluchistan province of Pakistan, hence the name, by Sir Clive Forster Cooper.

* Sir Richard Forster ( Museum Director )