Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.

# 1869 – 1874 Sir Stafford Henry Northcote

Prime Minister Winston Churchill dispatched Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of the war Cabinet who was known to be politically close to Nehru and also knew Jinnah, with proposals for a settlement of the constitutional problem.

In 1580 Dowland went to Paris, where he was in service to Sir Henry Cobham, the ambassador to the French court, and his successor, Sir Edward Stafford.

Lord Stafford had told the King, " Sir, you have done your duty, and your subjects have failed in theirs ; and therefore you are absolved from the rules of government, and may supply yourself by extraordinary ways ; you have an army in Ireland, with which you may reduce the kingdom.

* 1946 – The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.

He is under a sacred obligation with regard to all that he consents to spend ... I am bound to say hardly ever in the six years that Sir Stafford Northcote has been in office have I heard him speak a resolute word on behalf of economy.

* 19 September 1990 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England.

* September 19 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England.

Neville was one of fifteen children born to Richard Neville, Lord Latimer and Anne Stafford, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford.

Interestingly, this event was for precisely the opposite reason — at the time, Number 10 was the more spacious apartment and Sir Stafford had a larger family.

The young Prince of Wales had with him the Earl of Warwick, and Earl of Oxford, Sir Godfrey de Harcourt, the Lord Raynold Cobham, Lord Thomas Holland, Lord Stafford, Lord Mauley, the Lord Delaware, Sir John Chandos, Lord Bartholomew Burgherst, Lord Robert Neville, Lord Thomas Clifford, the Lord Bourchier, the Lord Latimer.

Patel engaged the British envoys Sir Stafford Cripps and Lord Pethick-Lawrence and obtained an assurance that the " grouping " clause would not be given practical force, Patel converted Nehru, Rajendra Prasad and Rajagopalachari to accept the plan.

To Stalin's amazement, the British Labour government and its pro-Soviet Minister of Trade, Sir Stafford Cripps were willing to provide technical information and a licence to manufacture the Rolls-Royce Nene centrifugal-flow jet engine.

In 1385, Sir John Holland, an adult son of her first marriage, was campaigning with the King in the Kingdom of Scotland, when a quarrel broke out between him and Ralph Stafford, son of the 2nd Earl of Stafford, a favourite of the new Queen Anne of Bohemia.

Northcote was named for Sir Henry Stafford Northcote, an English Statesman and financier who had financial interests in James J. Hill's projects.

On 1 November 1950, he was unexpectedly selected to succeed Sir Stafford Cripps as the Labour candidate for Bristol South East, after Cripps stood down because of ill-health.

From 1956 until their divorce in 1977, she was married to Sir Hugh Fraser ( 1918 – 1984 ), a descendant of Scottish aristocracy 14 years her senior and a Roman Catholic Conservative Unionist MP in the House of Commons ( sitting for Stafford ), who was a friend of the American Kennedy family.

This quartet became known as the " Fourth Party " and gained notoriety for leader Lord Randolph Churchill's free criticism of Sir Stafford Northcote, Lord Cross and other prominent members of the " old gang ".

* Sir Humphrey Stafford – military commander

* William Stafford – Sir Humphrey's brother

It is named after its benefactor, Sir Humphrey Cripps ( see Sir Humphrey Cripps ).

Charles Thomson's painting, Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision, as Charlotte Cripps of The Independent wrote is one of the best known paintings to come out of the Stuckist movement, and as Jane Morris wrote in The Guardian it's a likely " signature piece " for the movement, standing for its opposition to conceptual art.

Rowse became a supporter of calls made by the likes of Sir Stafford Cripps for a ' Popular Front ' whereby Labour and Liberals should unite at election time to defeat the National Government.

While Cripps was expelled for his views, Rowse worked on getting ' local arrangements ' agreed by Labour and Liberal parties in Devon and Cornwall, making a common cause with the Liberal MP Sir Richard Acland.

The counter-trial received much media attention, and Sir Stafford Cripps delivered the opening speech.

* Sir Stafford Cripps and the German Admiral's Orgy An article about the scandalous nature of Gustav Siegfried Eins broadcasts and the complaint by British Labour politician Sir Stafford Cripps.

* 1945-Sir Stafford Cripps, the President of the Board of Trade appointed a Committee, under the chairmanship of Sir Cive Baillieu ( President of the Federation of British Industries-the forerunner of the CBS ) to formulate detailed proposals for the establishment of a central institution for all aspects related to management.

It was the birthplace of Sir Stafford Cripps, the post-war Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Sir Richard Stafford Cripps ( 24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952 ) was a British Labour politician of the first half of the 20th century.

This post was customarily accompanied by a knighthood, making him Sir Stafford Cripps.

* Sir John Stafford Cripps ( 1912 – 1993 ) whose only son is married, and has issue.

* Sir Edward Travis ( February 1942 – 1952 )

In September 1942, coal miners in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire in Great Britain led by Sir Barnett Stross MP founded the organisation Lidice Shall Live to raise funds for the rebuilding of the village after the war.

* 1942 – 1943: Sir Edward Crowe

* Sir Edmund Charles Smith Richards: Mar 1935-Aug 1942

* Sir John Stanley ( born 1942 ) — MP for Tonbridge and Malling

A long-serving mayor of the town, Sir Frank Gibson ( 1919 – 1923 and 1926 – 1952 ), was also a Liberal parliamentarian from 1942 to 1956.

Sir John Barbirolli was offered the position of Music Director after his contract with the New York Philharmonic expired in 1942 ; however, he declined the offer and chose to return to England instead.

The first was his mentor and collaborator, Sir Alexander Korda in 1942, who had also been closely involved in the production of some of Reed's most admired films.

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, KCSI, KCIE ( 31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942, Dorset ) was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer.

As a solid, reliable and popular veteran officer, Wilson was Winston Churchill's choice to succeed General Sir Claude Auchinleck as commander of the Eighth Army in August 1942.

However, what did alter matters was the appointment of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Bomber Command in early 1942.

* Sir Henry C. D. Cleveland Mackenzie-Kennedy: 20 March 1939 – 8 August 1942

* Sir Edmund Charles Smith Richards: 8 August 1942 – 27 March 1947

Following a ministerial crisis in February 1942, the British government, through its ambassador in Egypt, Sir Miles Lampson, pressed Farouk to have a Wafd or Wafd-coalition government replace Hussein Sirri Pasha's government.

Until 6 August 1942, when he was sacked, Dorman-Smith, a full colonel but holding the acting rank of major-general, served as chief of staff to Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief Middle East and later Field-Marshal.

Uphill, “ A Bibliography of Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie ( 1853 – 1942 )," Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 1972 Vol.

In December 1942, the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services was published, known commonly as the Beveridge Report after its chairman, Sir William Beveridge, proposing a series of measures to aid those who were in need of help, or in poverty.

* Sir William Jowitt 1942

* 1941 – 1942: Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO **

* 1942 – 1945: Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO **

The GC was awarded to the island of Malta in a letter dated 15 April 1942 from King George VI to the island's Governor Lieutenant-General Sir William Dobbie:

He is the son of journalist Mazhar Ali Khan and activist mother Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan ( daughter of Sir Sikandar Hyat Khan who led the Unionist Muslim League and was later Prime Minister of the Punjab from 1937 – 1942 ).

Sir Richard Brook Sykes, DSc, FRS, FMedSci, FKC ( born 7 August 1942 ) is a biochemist and former executive in a number of pharmaceuticals, most notably GlaxoSmithKline.

* Sir Henry Mather-Jackson, 3rd Baronet ( 1855 – 1942 ), Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire