" In addition to the various works of Brewster already mentioned, the following may be added: Notes and Introduction to Carlyle's translation of Legendre's Elements of Geometry ( 1824 ); Treatise on Optics ( 1831 ); Letters on Natural Magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott ( 1832 ); The Martyrs of Science, or the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler ( 1841 ); More Worlds than One ( 1854 ).

Dr Login received a knighthood in 1854 from Queen Victoria and was known as Sir John Spencer Login ( he had added the ' r ' to his middle name to change it from Spence to Spencer ).

* 1941 – Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist ( b. 1854 )

* 1854 – Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys ' Brigade ( d. 1914 )

Credit for invention of the steam turbine is given both to the British engineer Sir Charles Parsons ( 1854 – 1931 ), for invention of the reaction turbine and to Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval ( 1845 – 1913 ), for invention of the impulse turbine.

* February 14 – Sir Thomas MacKenzie, New Zealand Prime Minister and High Commissioner ( b. 1854 )

* February 28 – Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence, English classical scholar, South African judge and a benefactor of the University of Cambridge ( b. 1854 )

Sir George Grey, the Governor of Cape Colony from 1854 to 1861, decided that unifying the states of southern Africa would be mutually beneficial.

Anthropologists, such as Sir James Frazer ( 1854 – 1938 ), have characterized the implementation of symbols into two primary categories: the " principle of similarity ", and the " principle of contagion.

Between 1854 and 1857, Sir Joseph Whitworth conducted a long series of rifle experiments, and proved, among other points, the advantages of a smaller bore and, in particular, of an elongated bullet.

* Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, 1st Baronet, of the City of Montreal, in the County of Montreal ( 1854 ), extinct 1867

* Sir John Beverley Robinson, 1st Baronet, of Toronto, in the Province of Canada ( 1854 ), extant

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer ( 1854 – 1941 ).

The manor then passed to Henry Tufnell ( d 1854 ), MP for Ipswich and Devonport, Liberal chief whip, Lord of the Treasury, m. Anne Augusta Wilmot-Horton ( daughter of the Governor of Ceylon d. 17 / 9 / 1843 ), m. 2 1844 Frances Byng ( daughter of Sir John Byng Earl of Staffford, d. 1846 ), m. 3.

* Sir William Alexander Smith ( Boys ' Brigade ) ( 1854 – 1914 ), founder of the Boys ' Brigade

His elder son James Erskine Wemyss ( 1789 – 1854 ) was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy and the grandfather of Admiral of the Fleet Rosslyn Erskine-Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss ( 12 April 1864 – 24 May 1933 ), known as Sir Rosslyn Wemyss between 1916 and 1919.

* Sir Robert Heron, 2nd Baronet ( 1765 – 1854 ), British Whig politician, Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Great Grimsby 1812 – 18 and Peterborough 1819 – 47

He organised the Governor, Sir Charles Hotham, to lay the foundation stones of University of Melbourne, Melbourne Public Library and Sunbury Industrial School Sunbury Lunatic Asylum in 1854 – all on the same day.

), Kt, QC ( 9 February 1854, Dublin, Ireland – 22 October 1935, Kent, England ), often known as Sir Edward Carson or Lord Carson, was an Irish barrister, judge and unionist politician.

( 1854 – 1858 ) by Sir William Hamilton and completed with a memoir by John Veitch.

Many of the burghers would have at this time welcomed union with the Transvaal, but learning from Sir George Grey that such a union would nullify the conventions of 1852 and 1854 and necessitate the reconsideration of Great Britain's policy towards the native tribes north of the Orange and Vaal rivers, the project dropped.

* Sir George Buchanan ( diplomat ) ( 1854 – 1924 ), British diplomat

However, he was not the first former MP to become a Governor of Hong Kong: that was Sir John Bowring ( Governor of Hong Kong 1854 – 1859 ).

Sir George Grey became governor of the Cape Colony in 1854, and the development of the colony owes much to his administration.

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

On 6 October 1854, Scottish miner James Scobie was murdered at the Eureka hotel.

Ten days later, on 17 October 1854, at the Eureka Hotel between 1, 000 and 10, 000 miners gathered to protest that James Bentley, the hotel proprietor and prime suspect in Scobie's murder, had been acquitted by a corrupt magistrate.

Despite clear priority of discovery, Gesner did not obtain his first kerosene patent until 1854, two years after James Young's US patent.

Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a FreesoilerAn 1854 cartoon depicts a giant Free Soil Party | free soiler being held down by James Buchanan and Lewis Cass standing on the Democratic Party ( United States ) | Democratic platform marked " Kansas ", " Cuba " and " Central America " ( referring to accusations that southerners wanted to annex areas in Latin America to expand slavery ).

William Crossing in his Guide to Dartmoor states that a well known Dartmoor guide ( James Perrott ) placed a bottle for visiting cards at Cranmere Pool on the northern moor in 1854.

In 1856, under the direction of Postmaster General James Campbell, Toppan and Carpenter, ( commissioned by the U. S. government to print U. S. postage stamps through the 1850s ) purchased a rotary machine designed to separate stamps, patented in England in 1854 by William and Henry Bemrose, who were printers in Derby, England.

* James M. Cook, New York State Comptroller 1854 – 1855

Château de Ferrières, the largest Chateau of the 19th century, was built in 1854 to house James Mayer de Rothschild, east of Paris.

The Times was founded in 1854 by James W. Sheahan, with the backing of Stephen Douglas, and was identified as a pro-slavery newspaper.

Henry James at eleven years old with his father, Henry James, Sr. — 1854 daguerreotype by Mathew Brady

* James Monmouth, 1854

* David H. Miller and Mark J. Stegmaier, James F. Milligan: His Journal of Fremont's Fifth Expedition, 1853 – 1854 ; His Adventurous Life on Land and Sea, Arthur H. Clark Co., 1988.

Fort Davis was established in 1854. The land was leased from Surveyor John James at $ 300 a year.

The Texas state legislature created the county in 1854, naming it after James Coryell.

Dwight was laid out on 30 January 1854 by Richard Price Morgan, Jr. ( 17 September 1828-20 May 1910 ), James C. Spencer ( 29 July 1828 – after 1990 ), and John Lathrop ( 6 March 1909 – May 1870 ), each of these three men took a quarter of the land.

James Gardiner, from Platte Co., MO, sojourned in Jefferson Co. from 1854 to 1855, and came to the Denison area in 1855, but removed in 1857 to Jefferson Co .; his son, John T. Gardiner, came in 1856 and spent most of the remainder of his life there.

* Coe is an unincorporated community in the township at Perry H. Estee made the first land entry in the area in 1854 and James Woolsey, Daniel Brickley, and John Steward with their families became the first settlers in that year.

James Fizsimmons first settled the township in 1854 on land which he later sold to George W. Miller.

His parents were Ivan John Harris ( b. 1896, son of Richard Harris, b. 1854, son of James Harris of St. Michael's, Limerick ) and Mildred Josephine ( Harty ) Harris ( b. 1898, daughter of James Harty, St. John's, Limerick, who owned a flour mill.