The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court is a covered square at the centre of the British Museum designed by the engineers Buro Happold and the architects Foster and Partners.

From the mid-1760s a range of Neoclassical modes were fashionable, associated with the British architects Robert Adam, James Gibbs, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, George Dance the Younger, Henry Holland and Sir John Soane.

Landscape architects in Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta must complete the specified components of L. A. R. E ( Landscape Architecture Registration Examination ) as a prerequisite to full professional standing.

The purposed-built building was designed by group of architects, including prominent British " Arts and Crafts " architect James Leonard Williams ( d. 1926 ), who designed All Saints church in Oxted ( 1914-28 ) and St George ’ s in Sudbury, Middlesex ( 1926-27 ).

Unlike the more traditional British architects who came before him, he was both inspired by and incorporated various features from the local and traditional Indian archtecture — something most clearly seen in the great drum-mounted Buddhist dome of the Viceroy's House, now Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Not only are all the major British architects of the last four hundred years represented, but many European ( especially Italian ) and American architects ' drawings are held in the collection.

British architects whose drawings, and in some cases models of their buildings, in the collection, include: Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, Nicholas Hawksmoor, William Kent, James Gibbs, Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, Henry Holland, John Nash, Sir John Soane, Sir Charles Barry, Charles Robert Cockerell, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Sir George Gilbert Scott, John Loughborough Pearson, George Edmund Street, Richard Norman Shaw, Alfred Waterhouse, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Holden, Frank Hoar, Lord Richard Rogers, Lord Norman Foster, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Zaha Hadid and Alick Horsnell.

This was certainly the position adopted by the two chief architects ( and enforcers ) of the Congress system, British foreign secretary Viscount Castlereagh and Austrian chancellor Prince von Metternich.

Unlike the Expo Line, the Millennium Line's stations were designed by British Columbia's top architects, resulting in dramatically different stations from those on the Expo Line.

The name evolved from the Revolutionary War British Fort Salonga, or Fort Slongo, ( named after one of the fort ’ s architects ) once located near the border of Huntington Township and The Town of Smithtown, overlooking the Long Island Sound.

* Sir H. Colvin, A biographical dictionary of British architects, 1600-1840, p. 1043

Latrobe was one of the first formally-trained, professional architects in the United States, drawing influences from his travels in Italy, as well as British and French Neoclassical architects such as Claude Nicolas Ledoux.

Other British architects, including John Soane and Henry Holland, also designed in the Neoclassical style while Latrobe was in London.

A number of British architects in the second half of the century took up the expressive challenge of the Doric from their aristocratic patrons, including Joseph Bonomi and John Soane, but it was to remain the private enthusiasm of connoisseurs up to the first decade of the 19th century.

The work of Future Systems can be classified within the British high-tech architects as either bionic architecture or amorphous, organic shapes sometimes referred to as " blobitecture ".

The Chakri Mahaprasat is the largest hall in the Grand Palace, built in 1882 by British architects, the architecture of which is fusion of Italian renaissance and Traditional Thai architecture.

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A member of the Whig Party, he backed significant reform of the British government and was among the primary architects of the Reform Act 1832.

During his life, Trenchard strongly argued that the bomber was the key weapon of an air force and he is recognized today as one of the early advocates of strategic bombing and one of the architects of the British policy on imperial policing through air control.

In this era of prosperity and development British architecture embraced many new methods of construction, but ironically in style, such architects as August Pugin ensured it remained firmly in the past.

The architects of Indian constitution were most heavily influenced by the British model of parliamentary democracy.

One of these was the British architect Josiah Conder who went on to train the first generation of Japanese architects that included Kingo Tatsuno and Tokuma Katayama.

She was to be followed by other major British and American recording stars including Wanda Jackson, Cliff Richard, Petula Clark, Brenda Lee, The Supremes, Peggy March, Pat Boone, Lesley Gore, The Beatles and even Johnny Cash, among many others.

Her portrayal of Brenda in Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ) won her a British Academy Film Award.

Thirsk is from New Westminster, British Columbia and is married to Brenda Biasutti of Montreal, Quebec.

Brenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, DBE, QC, PC, FBA ( Hon ) ( born 31 January 1945 ) is a British legal academic, barrister, judge and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Quatermass also featured many familiar faces from British television and film in supporting roles including Margaret Tyzack, Bruce Purchase, Brenda Fricker, David Yip, Kevin Stoney, Gretchen Franklin, Brian Croucher, and Chris Quinten as well as the singer ( and later television presenter ) Toyah Willcox.

Julie Fernandez ( born 20 April 1974 ) is a British actress, best known as Brenda, her award-winning role on the BBC comedy The Office.

Jay Warren was elected Mayor of the last remaining British dependency in Oceania in the general election held on 15 December 2004, defeating Brenda Christian, who had held the Mayoralty in an interim capacity following the dismissal from the post of her brother, Steve Christian, by the British authorities on 30 October 2004, following his rape convictions.

Also participating is 2002 Manitoba champion Jennifer Jones, 2001 Yukon / Northwest Territories champion Kerry Koe, 4-time Newfoundland champion Heather Strong, 2000 Nova Scotia champion ( and former third of Colleen Jones ) Kay Zinck, 3-time Prince Edward Island champion skip Rebecca Jean MacPhee, 1996 Quebec champion second Brenda Nicholls ( playing skip this time ), 1993 New Brunswick champion second Sandy Comeau ( playing skip this time ) as well as new-comers Kelly Scott of British Columbia, Jenn Hanna of Ontario and Stefanie Lawton of Saskatchewan.

Some of the first people to examine the event in detail were the British Ufologist Jenny Randles in her book " Sky Crash ", co-authored with local researchers, Brenda Butler and Dot Street, who were the first investigators to interview any witnesses and to visit both the site and airbase and Nick Redfern in his books " Cosmic Crashes " and " A Covert Agenda ".

Brenda Doreen Mingnon De Banzie ( 28 July 1909 – 5 March 1981 ) was a British actress of stage and screen.

She had by then ( on 12 November 1929 ) married her first husband, E A R Landon, and is therefore listed in the published volumes of Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-1970 ( 1973 – 82 ), and in The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940 ( 1976 )), under her married name of Brenda Landon.

* 1961 – Robert Carlyle, British actor

In the 2003 film Hitler: The Rise of Evil, British actor Robert Glenister plays Drexler, although Drexler is portrayed without his trademark spectacles and moustache.

In 1796, during the French Revolution and three years after the declaration of war between France and Great Britain, Étienne-Gaspard Robert met with the French government and proposed the use of mirrors to burn the invading ships of the British Royal Navy.

The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.

Charles Robert Malden ( 9 August 1797 – 23 May 1855 ), was a nineteenth century British naval officer, surveyor and educator.

Robert Adam's brother James was in Rome in 1762, drawing antiquities under the direction of Clérisseau ; he invented a British Order, of which his ink-and-wash rendering with red highlighting, is at the Avery Library, Columbia University.

Sir Robert Gordon, younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a diplomat and served as British Ambassador to Austria.

Volunteer Robert Holland for example remembered being abused by people he knew as he was being marched into captivity and said the British troops saved them from being manhandled by the crowds.

They had two children, Lady Emily Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton ( 1828 – 1848 ), and ( Edward ) Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ( 1831 – 1891 ) who became Governor-General and Viceroy of British India ( 1876 – 1880 ).

This enabled the development of imitations, such as the camera devised by British electrician and scientific instrument maker Robert W. Paul and his partner Birt Acres.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.

* 1857 – Robert Baden-Powell, British soldier, author, and Scout movement founder ( d. 1941 )

Among prominent Fifth Monarchists were Thomas Harrison, Christopher Feake, Vavasor Powell, John Carew, John Rogers and Robert Blackborne, Secretary of the Admiralty and later of the British East India Company.

Robcol — in line with normal British Army practice for ad hoc formations — was named after its commander, Brigadier Robert Waller, the Commander Royal Artillery of the 10th Indian Infantry Division.

The only writer to widely publish British grimoires in the early 19th century, Robert Cross Smith, released The Philosophical Merlin ( 1822 ) and The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century ( 1825 ), but neither sold well.

" Gardnerian " was originally a pejorative term coined by Gardner's initiate and contemporary Roy Bowers ( also known as Robert Cochrane ), a British cunning man.

The first operation was carried out on a 23 year-old British male, Robert Johnson, in early 2007.

The first operation was carried out on a 23 year-old British male, Robert Johnson, in early 2007.

In 1751, Robert Clive led a British armed force and captured Arcot to reinstate the incumbent Nawab.

Sir Harold ( Harry ) Walter Kroto, FRS ( born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner ), is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.

The British historian Joseph Needham and the American historian Robert Temple write that the practice of inoculation for smallpox began in China during the 10th century.