* 1880 – Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and designer ( d. 1960 )

The Commons Chamber was rebuilt after the war under the architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, in a simplified version of the old chamber's style.

The galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963.

* The Reluctant Dragon: The Reluctant Dragon, Sir Giles, and the Boy.

The New Bodleian was designed by architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

* Battersea Power Station an iconic edifice designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, built between 1929 and 1939 ( featured, with flying pig, on the sleeve art of Pink Floyd's album Animals ).

The campus grew gradually, mainly consisting of detailed red brick buildings ( such as the Hartley library and West building of the Students ' Union ) designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, OM ( 9 November 1880 – 8 February 1960 ) was an English architect known for his work on such structures as Liverpool Cathedral, Waterloo Bridge and Battersea Power Station and designing the iconic red telephone box.

At the time of its opening in 1934, The Times commented that the building displayed " the same enjoyment of modelling in mass which is Sir Giles Scott's chief personal contribution to contemporary architecture.

The Roman Catholic Church of St Joseph, on Cromer Road was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.

In 1872 while exploring the area, Ernest Giles sighted Kata Tjuta from near Kings Canyon and called it Mount Olga, while the following year Gosse saw Uluru and named it Ayers Rock after Sir Henry Ayers, the Chief Secretary of South Australia.

The Hartland House, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, was the first purpose-built college building, finished in 1937 with an additional wing built in 1973.

Early in 1875 Giles prepared his diaries for publication under the title Geographic Travels in Central Australia, and on 13 March 1875, with the generous help of Sir Thomas Elder, he began his third expedition.

While exploring the area in 1872, Giles sighted Kata Tjuta from a location near Kings Canyon and called it Mount Olga, while the following year Gosse observed Uluru and named it Ayers Rock, in honor of the Chief Secretary of South Australia, Sir Henry Ayers.

Born in London and baptised on 24 January 1664, Vanbrugh was the fourth child ( of 19 ), and eldest surviving son, of Giles Vanbrugh, a London cloth-merchant of Flemish-Protestant background, and his wife Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Barker ( by whom Vanbrugh's mother had the first of her twenty children, Vanbrugh's elder half-sister, Elizabeth ), and daughter of Sir Dudley Carleton, of Imber Court, Thames Ditton, Surrey.

Sir Giles Guthrie, who took charge of BOAC in 1964, preferred Boeing aircraft for economic reasons, and indeed BOAC began turning a profit in the late 1960s.

He was educated at Balham Grammar School in London, Sir John Leman High School in Beccles, Suffolk, and Norwich High School for Boys, where it is said that his initials can still be seen carved into the brickwork on the side of the building in Upper St. Giles Street.

The red telephone box, a telephone kiosk for a public telephone designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, is a familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom, Malta, Bermuda and Gibraltar, and despite a reduction in their numbers in recent years, red boxes can still be seen in many places and in current or former British colonies around the world.

The impressive school buildings within the 200 acre estate include a chapel designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott ( designer of the British red telephone box ) to which have been added many new sporting and academic facilities.

Edmund Kean as Sir Giles Overreach in Philip Massinger | Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts, b. 1816

It was in the impersonation of the great creations of Shakespeare ’ s genius that the varied beauty and grandeur of the acting of Kean were displayed in their highest form, although probably his most powerful character was Sir Giles Overreach in Philip Massinger ’ s A New Way to Pay Old Debts, the effect of his first performance of which was such that the pit rose en masse, and even the actors and actresses themselves were overcome by the terrific dramatic illusion.

Sir Giles Overreach, in A New Way to Pay Old Debts, is a sort of commercial Richard III, a compound of the lion and the fox, and the part provides many opportunities for a great actor.

* George Chapman ( attributed to ) – Sir Giles Goosecap ( published )

Shaftesbury Avenue was built in the late 19th century ( 1877 – 86 ) by the architect George Vulliamy and the engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette to provide a north-south traffic artery through the crowded districts of St. Giles and Soho.

Its central chararacter, Sir Giles Overreach, became one of the more popular villains on English and American stages through the 19th century.

The play's dominating character, Sir Giles Overreach, is based on the real-life Sir Giles Mompesson.

The drama's class conflict can seem obscure to the modern reader, since Sir Giles Overreach appears as an upper-class, not a lower-class figure: he is a knight and a rich man with large country estates, who lives the lavish lifestyle of the landed gentry.

The conversations in the scene supply the play's backstory, indicating that Welborn and Allworth are both members of the local gentry who have fallen victim to the financial manipulations of Sir Giles Overreach.

Welborn seeks out Overreach, but Sir Giles refuses to speak with him ; Marall mocks his poverty.

Together, the young couple manage to fool Sir Giles into thinking that Lovell wants a reluctant Margaret to elope with him ; Overreach pressures his daughter to conform, and even sends hurried written instructions to a compliant clergyman at the village of Gotham, to marry his daughter to " this man.

" Yet critics have not been shy about finding faults ; one called Sir Giles Overreach " the character whom his author could not control.

The Amazing Career of Sir Giles Overreach: being the life and adventures of a nefarious scoundrel who for three centuries pursued his sinister designs in almost all the theatres of the British Isles and America, the whole comprising a history of the stage.

As Bill Sikes he was especially successful, and his Sir Giles Overreach, a role he played at Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre in 1869, and Brutus were also greatly admired.

In England, Charles was placed under the charge of Alletta ( Hogenhove ) Carey, the Dutch-born wife of courtier Sir Robert Carey, who taught him how to talk and insisted that he wear boots made of Spanish leather and brass to help strengthen his weak ankles.

Lincoln relayed this conversation to Sir John Peyton, Lieutenant of the Tower, who, knowing how physically and financially infirm Oxford was, refused to take Lincoln's report as a serious threat to King James ' accession.

... how early this basic truth was recognized by the sages of India, since it appears as the fundamental tenet of the Vedânta philosophy ascribed to Vyasa, is proved by Sir William Jones in the last of his essays: " On the Philosophy of the Asiatics " ( Asiatic Researches, vol.

Sir Harry Hinsley, official historian of British Intelligence in World War II, made a similar assessment about Ultra, saying that it shortened the war " by not less than two years and probably by four years "; and that, in the absence of Ultra, it is uncertain how the war would have ended.

How the Self Controls Its Brain is a book by Sir John Eccles, proposing a theory of philosophical dualism, and offering a justification of how there can be mind-brain action without violating the principle of the conservation of energy.

In The poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight a boar hunt is described, which depicts how dangerous the boar could be to the pack hounds, or raches, which hunted it.

The architectural historian Sir John Summerson asserts that the palace shows " the essence of Wolsey — the plain English churchman who nevertheless made his sovereign the arbiter of Europe and who built and furnished Hampton Court to show foreign embassies that Henry VIII's chief minister knew how to live as graciously as any cardinal in Rome.

… Sir, how pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves.

Some fans have had a rather negative response to Betancourt's writing style and lack of characterization, and consider his work to be more of fan fiction, but Betancourt states that one of his primary motivations for writing the new books was to keep Roger Zelazny's books and stories alive and in print and to prevent them from fading into obscurity, much like how other authors have extended the stories and ongoing popularity of Robert E. Howard's Conan, Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series.

The one exception to this neutrality occurs very briefly in " The National Education Service ", when Sir Humphrey explains to Bernard how the policy of comprehensive education is retained through successive governments, using different arguments according to which party is in power.

In contemporary New Zealand English, the word " mana ", taken from the Maori, refers to a person or organization of people of great personal prestige and character .. Sir Edmund Hillary, is considered to have great mana both because of his accomplishments and of how he gave his life to service.

A cautionary note was introduced by famed director Sir Tyrone Guthrie who said " the only way to learn how to direct a play, is ... to get a group of actors simple enough to allow you to let you direct them, and direct.

Lady Thorpe, wife of Sir Henry Thorpe, the local squire, dies next morning and Wimsey hears how the Thorpe family has been blighted for 20 years by the unsolved theft of jewels from a house-guest by the butler, Deacon, and an accomplice, Cranton.

Remember, therefore, all the fine things that your jurists and statesmen have said and written about the great palladium of British liberty and so forth: remember how the learned Sir William Blackstone hath delivered himself on this point ;— how that ' the founders of the English laws have with excellent forecast contrived that the truth of every accusation, whether preferred in the shape of indictment, information, or appeal, should be confirmed by the unanimous suffrage of twelve of his ( the accused person's ) equals and neighbours, indifferently chosen, and superior to all suspicion.

Shows how Galahad is depicted in William Morris ’ “ Sir Galahad, A Christmas Mystery ”.

The coin has the edge inscription taken from a letter by Sir Isaac Newton to Robert Hooke, in which he describes how his work was built on the knowledge of those that had gone before him.

Sir John Ainz, a pupil of Peacock's, published a notable paper in 1826 which showed how to apply Leibnizian calculus on various physical problems.

Sir James did not know how to defeat the Shadow Bane.

Today there is considerable confusion as how best to define Sir Thomas Browne's scientific methodology, described by E. J.

A friend found a story in Rolling Stone magazine that Sir Paul McCartney was going to open a unique performing arts school, LIPA ( Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts ), and gave Lynch information on how to apply.

" Were it not you ken Mr Dean extraordinarily well ," writes Sir L. Jenkins to J. Williamson in 1672, " it were impossible to imagine how assiduous and drudging he is about his press.

Sir Francis Bacon, " Scientia potentia est | Knowledge is Power " Note that " epistemology " is the study of knowledge and how it is acquired.

There are differing accounts, including different dragon slayers, however one popular account tells how Sir George Marney ( of Layer de la Haye ) killed the dragon with his lance.