* Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, earlier ennobled by the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's notorious Lavender List ( 1976 ), was convicted of fraud ( 1980 )

In 1929, George Lawson Johnston was recognised by the British Government and monarchy and was ennobled as Lord Luke of Pavenham in the county of Bedford.

He certainly returned to Lisbon by the beginning of April 1484, when John II ennobled him, made him a cavaleiro ( knight ) of his household ( he was already an escudeiro or esquire in the same ), and granted him an annuity and a coat of arms ( April 8, 1484 and April 14, 1484 ).

After he was ennobled by the Kaiser in 1895, he adopted the name August Kekule von Stradonitz, without the French acute accent over the second " e ".

He dismissed the idea of a Welsh identity, saying that " between the mid-sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century Wales had practically no history at all, and even before that it was the history of rural brigands who have been ennobled by being called princes ".

He was born to a recently ennobled family of Venice, received a Jesuit education in Bologna and became a Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere in 1737.

In 1804, he had moved from the University of Kiel to the University of Landshut, but, on being commanded by King Maximilian Joseph to draft a penal code for Bavaria ( Strafgesetzbuch für das Königreich Bayern ), in 1805 he moved to Munich where he was given a high appointment in the Ministry of Justice and was ennobled in 1808.

Until the mid-1930s, the Prime Minister of Japan was normally granted a title in the peerage ( kazoku ) usually just prior to entering office if he had not already been ennobled.

Philip Fabricius was later ennobled by the emperor and granted the title Baron von Hohenfall ( literally " Baron of Highfall ").

In 1845, attainment of the 5th rank in the Table of Ranks ( out of 14 ) was require to be ennobled, previously it had been the 8th rank.

Michael Maier was ennobled with the title Pfalzgraf ( Count Palatine ) by Rudolph II, Emperor and King of Hungary and King of Bohemia.

For his work, Haussmann received many honours ( see below ), he was however never formally ennobled.

Following his industrial career, he was ennobled in 1888, becoming Werner von Siemens.

In these remonstrances, the Parlement, which was made up of privileged aristocrats and ennobled commoners, proclaimed itself the " natural defender of the fundamental laws of the kingdom " against the arbitrariness of the monarchy.

In the interim, the Berings enjoyed their new-found status and wealth: there was a new house and a new social circle for the newly ennobled Berings.

Joseph Fraunhofer, ennobled in 1824 as Ritter von Fraunhofer ( 6 March 1787 – 7 June 1826 ) was a German optician.

In 1824, he was awarded the Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown ( through he was ennobled ), and made an honorary citizen of Munich.

His great-grandfather, Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal, from whom his family inherited the noble title " Edler von Hofmannsthal ," was a Jewish merchant ennobled by the Austrian emperor.

In recognition of his contributions to music and the arts, Segovia was ennobled on 24 June 1981 by King Juan Carlos I, who gave Segovia the hereditary title of Marqués de Salobreña ( English: Marquis of Salobreña ) in the nobility of Spain.

On 24 June 1981, he was ennobled by King Juan Carlos I, who gave Segovia the hereditary title of Marqués de Salobreña ( English: Marquis of Salobreña ) in the nobility of Spain in recognition of his contributions to music and the arts.

Large fees which he received for these opinions and the great popularity of his lectures made him rich, and he was able to buy several estates ; from one of which, Lingenthal, he took his title when, in 1842, he was ennobled by the grand-duke.

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.

The automatic flour mill built by Oliver Evans in 1785 was called the beginning of modern bulk material handling by Roe ( 1916 ).

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

However, even with Mozart and Salieri being rivals for certain jobs, there is very little evidence that the relationship between the two composers was at all acrimonious beyond this, especially after 1785 or so when Mozart had become established in Vienna.

It was written in 1785 and first published the following year in the poet's own literary journal, Thalia.

The first outside the English Midlands was established in Leeds in 1785.

In 1785, Russia and the eastern Georgian kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti ( which was devastated by Turkish and Persian invasions ) signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, according to which Kartl-Kakheti received protection from Russia.

Thomas Bell patented the technique of printing by copper rollers in 1783, and the first machine was set up by Livesey, Hargreaves & Co near Preston in 1785.

The use of D. purpurea extract containing cardiac glycosides for the treatment of heart conditions was first described in the English-speaking medical literature by William Withering, in 1785, which is considered the beginning of modern therapeutics. It is used to increase cardiac contractility ( it is a positive inotrope ) and as an antiarrhythmic agent to control the heart rate, particularly in the irregular ( and often fast ) atrial fibrillation.

Until Joseph Bramah patented the beer engine in 1785, beer was served directly from the barrel and carried to the customer.

In these years he recovered the manuscript that he and Thomas Young had worked in his youth from Young's widow, who was living in Albany, and began to develop it into the work that was published in 1785 as Reason: the Only Oracle of Man.

He also served from 1783 to September 1785 and was married in 1786 to Ann Thompson, the daughter of a wealthy New York merchant, 21 years his junior.

The understanding of friction was further developed by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb ( 1785 ).

The shape of the Milky Way as deduced from star counts by William Herschel in 1785 ; the solar system was assumed to be near the center.

The first attempt to describe the shape of the Milky Way and the position of the Sun in it was carried out by William Herschel in 1785 by carefully counting the number of stars in different regions of the sky.

Social reformer Jeremy Bentham wrote the first known argument for homosexual law reform in England around 1785, at a time when the legal penalty for buggery was death by hanging.

The Harmony Society was a Christian theosophy and pietist society founded in Iptingen, Germany, in 1785.

As their numbers increased, Rapp ’ s group officially split with the Lutheran Church in 1785 and was banned from meeting.

From 1785, perhaps because the improved version of potting and stamping was about to come out of patent, a great expansion in the output of the British iron industry began.

After some 25 years of work, his Theory of the Earth ; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe was read to meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in two parts, the first by his friend Joseph Black on 7 March 1785, and the second by himself on 4 April 1785.