Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

George Stubbs, William Blake, John Martin, Francisco Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, Eugène Delacroix, Sir Edwin landseer, Caspar David Friedrich, JMW Turner

* Sir William Buell Richards ( Chief Justice ) – September 30, 1875

* Sir William Johnstone Ritchie – September 30, 1875

After his arrival, Hasan Ali Shah wrote to Sir William Macnaghten, discussing his plans to seize and govern Herat on behalf of the British.

* 1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield in London.

* 1881 – 1910 Sir William Christie

* 1661 – Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician ( b. 1604 )

Of these only Henrietta Temple ( based on his affair with Henrietta Sykes, wife of Sir Francis William Sykes, 3rd Bt ) was a true success.

After defeating the Army of Sir William Waller at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, King Charles marched west in pursuit of the Parliamentarian army of the Earl of Essex, who was invading the Royalist stronghold of Cornwall.

Under Sir William Balfour, they broke through the Royalist lines on the night of 31 August, eventually reaching Plymouth 30 miles to the east.

Sir William Harcourt, a prominent Liberal politician in the Victorian era, said this about liberalism in 1872:

* Sir William Vernon Harcourt 1894 – 1898

The French army also comprised a contingent of Scots commanded by Sir William Douglas.

Striking southwards in the hope of collecting information about French movements, Nelson's ships stopped at Elba and Naples, where the British ambassador Sir William Hamilton reported that the French fleet had passed Sicily in the direction of Malta.

On his return to Naples, Nelson was greeted with a triumphal procession led by King Ferdinand IV and Sir William Hamilton and was introduced for only the third time to Sir William's wife Emma, Lady Hamilton, who fainted violently at the meeting, and apparently took several weeks to recover from her injuries.

A house at Balmoral was built by Sir William Drummond in 1390.

The predominance of natural history, books and manuscripts began to lessen when in 1772 the Museum acquired its first antiquities of note ; Sir William Hamilton's collection of Greek vases.

The museum ’ s first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton ( 1730 – 1803 ), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.

The earliest Mesopotamian objects to enter the collection were purchased by the British Museum in 1772 from Sir William Hamilton.

Beginning in April 1915, Herbert ordered his subordinates cease calling him " Sir ", and to address him only by the pseudonym " Captain William McBride.

The other judges were John Toohey QC, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia who had worked on Aboriginal issues ( he replaced New Zealander Sir Edward Somers QC, who retired from the Inquiry in 2000 for personal reasons ), and Mr Justice William Hoyt QC, former Chief Justice of New Brunswick and a member of the Canadian Judicial Council.

The first use of the expression ' Satanic Verses ' is attributed to Sir William Muir ( 1858 ).

Famous residents have included Mary, Queen of Scots ; King James VI of Scotland ; Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman ; documentary film pioneer John Grierson ; film music composer Muir Mathieson ; animation pioneer Norman McLaren ; TV presenter Kirsty Young ; and footballers Billy Bremner ( captain of Leeds United and Scotland ) and Frank Beattie ( captain of Kilmarnock ).

Many outstanding engineers trained in his workshop, including Richard Roberts, David Napier, Joseph Clement, Sir Joseph Whitworth, James Nasmyth ( inventor of the steam hammer ), Joshua Field and William Muir.

Some, like Sir Denis Bray, find the repetition of the words and rhymes to be a " serious technical blemish ", while others, like Kenneth Muir, think " the double use of ' state ' as a rhyme may be justified, in order to bring out the stark contrast between the Poet's apparently outcast state and the state of joy described in the third quatrain.

Other notable early shows included We Have Ways of Making You Laugh ( a sketch show starring Frank Muir which was due to be the first programme scheduled to be aired on LWT, but industrial action blacked it out early in the first show ); the children's fantasy Catweazle ; and several sitcoms, including No, Honestly, On the Buses, Please Sir !, Me and My Girl and Mind Your Language.

In 1996, the UK National Screening Committee had been established by Sir Kenneth Calman and Muir Gray ( now Sir Muir Gray ) by the Policy Team led by Dr Tim Riley and latterly Sir Charles Nightingale for the Department of Health.

She married Richard Muir ( possibly ' Sir ' Richard ), the presumed 4th Bt., in August 1975.

Sir Thomas Muir FRS ( 25 August 1844 – 21 March 1934 ) was a Scottish mathematician, remembered as an authority on determinants.

Sir William Muir, KCSI ( 27 April 1819 – 11 July 1905 ) was a Scottish Orientalist and colonial administrator.

Sir William Muir was an Orientalist specialising in the history of the time of Muhammad and the early caliphate.

J. Murray Mitchell and Sir William Muir.

*( 1889-1892 ) Sir John Muir, Bt.

Governor of North-Western Provinces, Sir William Muir in 1876, who suggested the idea of a Central University at Allahabad, which later evolved to the present university.

The college was named after Sir William Muir, Lt.

Its graduates included two future Commissioners, Sir Joseph Simpson and Sir John Waldron ( both 1934 – 1935 ), three Deputy Commissioners, Sir Ranulph Bacon ( 1934 – 1935 ), Douglas Webb ( 1935 – 1936 ) and Sir John Hill ( who later also became HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary ; 1938 – 1939 ), and two Assistant Commissioners, Tom Mahir and Andrew Way ( both 1935 – 1936 ), as well as a number of Chief Constables of provincial forces, including Sir Edward Dodd ( 1934 – 1935 ) of Birmingham, Sir Eric St Johnston ( 1935 – 1936 ) of Oxfordshire, Durham, and Lancashire, and Sir John McKay ( 1937 – 1939 ) of Manchester, all three later HM Chief Inspectors of Constabulary, Bernard Bebbington ( 1935 – 1936 ) of Cambridge and John Gaskain ( 1936 – 1937 ) of Cumberland and Westmorland, both later HM Inspectors of Constabulary, Alec Muir ( 1934 – 1935 ) of Durham, Albert Wilcox ( 1934 – 1935 ) of Hertfordshire, Sir Douglas Osmond ( 1935 – 1936 ) of Shropshire and Hampshire, Sir Derrick Capper ( 1937 – 1939 ) of Birmingham and the West Midlands, John Gott ( 1937 – 1939 ) of Northamptonshire, Thomas Williams ( 1938 – 1939 ) of Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely, West Sussex, and Sussex, and David Holdsworth ( 1939 ) of Oxfordshire and Thames Valley.

* Muir, William, Annals of the Early Caliphate: From Original Sources, Smith, Elder & co., London, 1883

In contrast to the conservationist approach the ecocentric view, associated with John Muir, Henry David Thoreau and William Wordworth sometimes referred to as the preservationist movement.

Most Muslim scholars have regarded the story as historically implausible, while opinion is divided among western scholars such as Leone Caetani and John Burton, who argue against, and William Muir and William Montgomery Watt, who argue for its plausibility.

Other writers that emerged in this period, and are often treated as part of the movement, include the poets Edwin Muir and William Soutar, the novelists Neil Gunn, George Blake, Nan Shepherd, A J Cronin, Naomi Mitchison, Eric Linklater and Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and the playwright James Bridie.

Since William Muir the historicity of this episode has been largely accepted by orientalists.

Bury, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Muir, Peter Kropotkin, T. H. Huxley and William Michael Rossetti.

Actors known for their early support of SAG ( besides the founders ) include Edward Arnold, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey, Jean Hersholt, Russell Hicks, Murray Kinnell, Gene Lockhart, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, Chester Morris, Jean Muir, George Murphy, Erin O ' Brien-Moore, Irving Pichel, Dick Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Edwin Stanley, Gloria Stuart, Lyle Talbot, Franchot Tone, Warren William, and Robert Young.

* William Muir Williams, judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri in 1898

William Schutz ( December 19, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois-November 9, 2002 in Muir Beach, California ) was an American psychologist.

* " Play That Barbershop Chord " w. Ballard MacDonald & William Tracey m. Lewis F. Muir

* Incorporated in 1979 in Brentwood, CA by Dr. Jack E. Shemer, Dr. Philip M. Neches, Walter E. Muir, Jerold R. Modes, William P. Worth, and Carroll Reed.

William Edward Colby, the first secretary of the Sierra Club, called the finished trail " a most appropriate memorial to John Muir, who spent many of the best years of his life exploring the region which it will make accessible.

According to author William Anderson, Muir exemplified " the archetype of our oneness with the earth ", while biographer Donald Worster says he believed his mission was "... saving the American soul from total surrender to materialism.

At one meeting in the fall of 1895 that included Muir, Joseph LeConte, and William R. Dudley discussed the idea of establishing ' national forest reservations ', which were later called National Forests.

John Muir: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth ; My First Summer in the Sierra ; The Mountains of California ; Stickeen ; Essays ( Library of America ) edited by William Cronon ( 1997 ) excerpt and text search

Other writers that emerged in this period, and are often treated as part of the movement, include the poets Edwin Muir and William Soutar, the novelists Neil Gunn, George Blake, Nan Shepherd, A J Cronin, Naomi Mitchison, Eric Linklater and Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and the playwright James Bridie.

* John William Muir

Muir and attorney William Edward Colby began a national campaign against the dam, attracting the support of many eastern conservationists.

* William Muir

However Muir broke with Roosevelt and especially President William Howard Taft on the Hetch Hetchy dam, which was built in the Yosemite National Park to supply water to San Francisco.

( Front row, L – R ): Muir Edwards, daughter-in-law of Henrietta Edwards | Henrietta Muir Edwards ; J. C. Kenwood, daughter of Judge Emily Murphy ; William Lyon Mackenzie King | Mackenzie King ; Nellie McClung.